To Tell the Truth was one of the most durable and popular panel quiz shows ever to appear on television, having a run of more than twenty years in both network and syndicated form. Along with What's My Line? and I've Got a Secret, To Tell the Truth was one of three similar shows introduced by Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions in the 1950s. These shows were designed to appeal to a relatively upscale television audience and to counter the effects of widely publicized quiz show payola scams. In the original version of To Tell the Truth, which ran from 1956 to 1968 on CBS, Bud Collyer was host (he also hosted Beat the Clock), moderating a group of celebrity panelists that included Orson Bean, Polly Bergen, Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass, and Tom Poston. The show ran on prime time from 1956 to 1967 and in the...