What's My Line?
1950–1975CBSDocumentary
Blindfolded panellists guessing a stranger's occupation, in evening dress, for seventeen years on network television.
One opening sequence is catalogued for What's My Line?, covering season 1.
It arrived on CBS in 1950, when Candid Camera, Truth or Consequences and The Ed Sullivan Show were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
No usable clip kept. The available uploads run the opening and closing together, and have been colourised.
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