{"id":22495,"date":"2015-02-02T05:29:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T10:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22495"},"modified":"2024-01-31T17:16:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T22:16:18","slug":"february-2-1950-whats-my-line-debuts-on-cbs-65-years-ago-today-wml-bega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22495","title":{"rendered":"February 2, 1950&#8230;&#8221;What&#8217;s My Line&#8221; Debuts on CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/February-2-1950...Whats-My-Line-Debuts-on-CBS-65-years-ago-today-WML-bega.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>February 2, 1950&#8230;&#8221;What&#8217;s My Line&#8221; Debuts on CBS <\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1950, WML began a 17 year run which reportedly makes it the longest running prime time network game show ever. <\/p>\n<p>Produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the show was initially called &#8220;Occupation Unknown&#8221; but the day before air, the name was changed. The show debuted on Thursday, February 2, 1950 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. It originally aired alternate Thursdays, the alternate Wednesdays till October 1, 1950 when it settled into its weekly Sunday 10:30 p.m. ET slot where it would remain until the end of its network run on September 3, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the debut episode and it&#8217;s a good thing they made a lot of changes to the show, and quickly. Dorothy Kilgallen was the only original panel member to survive the line up shifts until her death in 1965. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee   <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1950 What&amp;apos;s My Line Debut First Aired Episode! | BUZZR\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uHcSRClAg8Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/792396814131203\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2, 1950&#8230;&#8221;What&#8217;s My Line&#8221; Debuts on CBS On this day in 1950, WML began a 17 year run which reportedly makes it the longest running prime time network game show ever. Produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the show was initially called &#8220;Occupation Unknown&#8221; but the day before air, the name was changed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[783,787,806],"class_list":["post-22495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs","tag-net","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80870,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22495\/revisions\/80870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}