To Tell the Truth - An Entire Game Has Been Wiped!! (1972)
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2011
- Here's an amazing clip of To Tell the Truth that was taped on February, 1972. The entire first game is accidentally wiped due to an error in the control room, so Garry Moore has to cover and has to improvise something for the entire first game segment!!
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Gary Moore did so well with a very difficult situation.
Leave it to Bill Cullen to inject the humor into a glitch like that.
I find it hilarious that Gene Rayburn happened to be on the panel when this happened... because the exact same thing happened a decade later, when he and Wink Martindale were the celebrity guests on a week of Tom Kennedy's tenure of Password Plus... the episode of which is also available on RUclips.
Quick wit and energy was Moores specialty.
Bill Cullen's banter during this segment is priceless!
That was a great inside joke by Gary Moore. Evidently, this syndicated version of the show was taped at NBC … Robert Sarnoff was the Chairman of the RCA, parent company of NBC. His father, David was the (in)famous chairman of the RCA for most of it's history. Robert tried to turn it into a conglomerate. The joke was that RCA stood for "Rugs, Chickens, and Automobiles" (They bought companies that made carpets, sold chickens, and rented cars). It was not successful and the RCA was bought out by GE in 1985 and ceased to exist except as a ghost brand.
Gene Rayburn and Bill Cullen were my favorite panelists on To Tell The Truth.
That's one way to keep your audience invested. "We can't play this game and I dare ya to stay tuned and find out why."
No one could forget to start the tape machine today because they don't use tape machines today.
Excellent. Glad to see many more episodes of the syndicated TTTT out here since it is likely it will never be seen again on television.
To explain the joke at
Probably what happened was that they performed the entire first segment all the while assuming that it was being recorded. Then before setting up for the next segment, the tape editor would be asked to spot check the videotape to make sure there was no problem with the recording. But when the director was informed that a recording did not occur, since everyone was still in the studio, they decided to replicate the segment based on their memory, so the questioning was left out.
They must have used a Watergate tape machine.
Gary Moore did a great job with this. A real expert in handling a tricky situation.
I saw this clip a while ago, but had to find it and watch it again. Little did everyone know in 1972, that this little mistake would make it to RUclips. A similar error is probably less likely to happen today, but if somehow it did, there's probably a couple rouge people in the studio audience who sneeked a recording on their smart phones. That will be the backup. :/
Love Gary Moore!
Thankfully this and the syndicated WML both survive as they were not erased like most network programs of the time. I miss TTTT and WML. Both were fine shows. This must be from early 1972 as Johnny Olson would be in Los Angeles that fall for TPIR..
That's why Bill's unoffical ttle given by guests on his WNBC radio show was "The King of Quip." You should have seen him in action over his 9 years as host of "The Price is Right." Starting with a nighttime show in 1961, he would bring the most ridiculous wind-up toys that went into action during address plugs for the Showcases or tickets. He carried that on to "Eye Guess" until the glum new NBC daytime programming chief wanted the shows to display less spontanaiety in their humor..
Something similar to this happened on the Washington, D.C. high school quiz "It's Academic" recently. According to the show's Facebook page, a game featuring Woodgrove, Quince Orchard, and Stone Ridge high schools was not recorded properly, and thus, unfortunately, did not air. (It was to have aired on January 28 at 10:30 A.M., Eastern time, on WRC-NBC 4 in Washington.)
"The panel will question who is Miss Chinatown...Surprise! We already did it!"