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Post by ostrichfarm on Apr 27, 2020 20:10:16 GMT -5
With BUZZR no longer showing "new" episodes of most of the shows we follow, my wife and I have been watching various series with only a few episodes available, and happened upon It's News To Me. For those who don't know, It's News To Me was basically Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, done in the style of What's My Line. (Maybe a dash of Hollywood Squares in there too, in that the celebs make stuff up when they don't know the answer.) It initially ran from 1951-1953, with John Daly as host, and then was revived for 9 weeks in the summer of 1954 with Walter Cronkite hosting. Between what's on YouTube, and this episode guide, we're aware of the following episodes: 1951-05-11 (pilot) 1952-07-20 1952-07-27 1952-08-03 1952-08-10 1954-07-16 Is this all that survives of this series, or is there known to be more in the vaults and/or on the collectors' circuit? EDIT: Found an additional, undated episode from 1952: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbdkniejQ18We watched it tonight and, based on events mentioned in the episode, it appears to be from 1952-08-10. We've also watched a Cronkite episode from 1954-07-16 that didn't come up in my previous search for whatever reason (YouTube gets weird sometimes...). This episode is the source of the brief clip used in the "Mark Did It!" birthday video for Mark Goodson, and also the clip of baseball player Bob Turley that's been excerpted elsewhere on YouTube.
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Post by ostrichfarm on Apr 30, 2020 17:47:56 GMT -5
Updated. Now that we've watched everything and gotten the details nailed down, it appears that a total of six episodes survive, at minimum (there may be more, but that's all I've been able to find so far).
And as I mentioned above, it's very interesting that 4 of 6 of those episodes are all from consecutive weeks in the summer of 1952. But it's probably not a coincidence that the junking of What's My Line stopped in July 1952 -- starting with the 1952-07-20 episode, which is the very same date as the first surviving non-pilot episode of It's News to Me.
After that point, the episode survival rate is close to 100%. So maybe everything from 1952-07-20 onward is in the archives for It's News to Me as well?
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