As we mentioned not long ago, the Game Show Network is shuffling its Black-and-White Overnight bloc. The only dangling mystery from that report was what would replace the reruns of What's My Line? that they've now been through at least twice.
'Tis a mystery no longer. The replacement for What's My Line? will be…What's My Line? Reruns of Play Your Hunch will be in that slot for a week or two, then GSN will start running What's My Line? again, starting with the very first episode from February of 1950.
That takes care of the second half of the Black-and-White Overnight hour. In the first half, reruns of Password are currently airing weekdays with the world's worst game show, Beat the Clock, airing on weekends. On September 27, Password gets replaced by The Name's the Same, which was a not-bad show that originally aired from 1951 to 1955. It's often a good deal of fun, especially during the period Carl Reiner was on the panel, but it often suffered from very blatant "gambitting." That was the practice on some game shows of the period of setting up the panelists with questions that seemed innocent but were riotously funny if you knew the secret they were trying to guess. Like if they had to guess that the contestant's product was steer manure, the producers would not tell the panelists the answer but they'd have one of them ask, "Is this something I might have all over my living room?" It often got pretty obvious but the shows are worth watching, nonetheless. We're hoping they can dig up some from the season when it was hosted by Bob and Ray.