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8 unusual facts about To Tell the Truth


Cecil H. Underwood

He was also the first guest on the television game show To Tell the Truth.

Jean Béliveau

In 1957, Beliveau appeared in full uniform on the American game show To Tell the Truth.

Joe Garagiola, Jr.

In 1973 Garagiola, along with Chris Hart, appeared on the game show To Tell the Truth as impostors pretending to be police detective Richard Buggy.

Mark Dundas, 4th Marquess of Zetland

Lord Zetland has also appeared as a contestant on the August 4, 1959 episode of To Tell the Truth.

Orville Redenbacher

In an episode of the game show, To Tell the Truth, he stumped the panelists (Kitty Carlisle Hart, Bill Cullen, Joe Garagiola, and Peggy Cass), all of whom were shown enjoying samples of Redenbacher's then-new novelty popping corn flavors, including chili and curry.

Richard Fulton

This interest landed him a slot as a contestant on the To Tell the Truth game show as the song-writing Congressman.

Rick Dudley

He also played for the 1974 Rochester Golden Griffins of the National Lacrosse League in the off season, and it was as a professional playing two sports that he was once featured on the television game show, To Tell the Truth.

Sahara Sunday Spain

Spain was featured in a variety of international news media including: The Early Show with Bryant Gumble, The PBS affiliate KQED's Spark, To Tell the Truth, and the French station TF1, Drôle de petits champions.


Bern Bennett

In the 1940s and 1950s, he was closely associated with Bud Collyer, as announcer on three Collyer-hosted game shows, Winner Take All, Beat the Clock, and To Tell the Truth, all produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman.

Bob Cobert

His most notable themes in that genre include the themes for To Tell the Truth (1961-1967 theme), Password (1963-1967 theme), Blockbusters (1980-1982 theme), The $25,000 Pyramid (1982 update), Your Number's Up (1985 theme) and Chain Reaction (1980, 1986-1991 theme, itself a remake of the theme from Supertrain).

Peter Donald

Donald was the host of two early television series, The Ad-Libbers (1951) and Masquerade Party (1954-1956), and he made numerous TV guest appearances as a comedian (The Colgate Comedy Hour, The NBC Comedy Hour) and panelist (Pantomime Quiz, What's My Line?, To Tell the Truth).

Sissy Biggers

Her career began as a contestant on To Tell the Truth at age 16, then in roles behind the scenes, including as an executive in charge of Saturday Night Live and the Late Show with David Letterman.


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MTV's The 70s House

During the "To Tell the Truth" elimination segment, actor Christopher Atkins was brought in as a 1970s star and stated that The Blue Lagoon was released in 1979.