Peter Marshall (Ralph Pierre LaCock) was the original host of the
NBC-TV game show ‘Hollywood Squares’ from 1966 to 1981.

Hugh Malcolm Downs is perhaps best known for his role as co-host
of the NBC News program Today from 1962 to 1971, host of the game
show Concentration from 1958 to 1969, and anchor of the ABC News
magazine 20/20 from 1978 to 1999. Downs was the announcer and
sidekick on NBC’s Tonight Starring Jack Paar.

Show host Hugh Downs

Art Linkletter

House Party premiered on CBS Radio January 15, 1945, and ran
weekdays at 4 p.m., three days a week, through January 10, 1947. On 
December 31, 1948 the show switched to ABC Radio where it ran till
December 30, 1949. It returned to CBS Radio days later, making it’s
longest continued run from January 2, 1950 to October 13, 1967. The
audience participation show was hosted Art Linkletter. The Sponsors
included General Electric, Pillsbury, and Lever Brothers.

To Tell The Truth, a Goodson-Todman Production, premiered on CBS in
prime time as Nothing But The Truth, but the program title was changed,
To Tell The Truth, during the following week and aired in various forms
until March 15, 2002. 

Bud Collyer was the show’s first host with early regular panelists that
included Johnny Carson, Polly Bergen, Jayne Meadows, Don Ameche,
Dick Van Dyke, and Ralph Bellamy. Collyer’s announcer on Beat the
Clock, Bern Bennett, was the original announcer for To Tell The
Truth in the 1950s.

Bern Bennett

Christmas Eve, 1957