This is for those of you who tape or TiVo the Black and White Overnight bloc on Game Show Network. This morning, they bumped their usual parlay of To Tell the Truth and What's My Line? for a one-night Frank Gorshin tribute, consisting of one Password and one I've Got a Secret. Tomorrow, I am told, they go back to To Tell the Truth and What's My Line?
However, for some reason, most of the online guides have Password and Secret replacing those two shows for the whole week, or even for two weeks. My TiVo's program listings have Password and Secret every night and I think that's wrong. So I've set it to record whatever's on in that time slot.
GSN has an odd policy on preemptions. They've been running the primetime What's My Line? in sequence but Saturday, they dropped in an episode of the syndicated What's My Line? as a part of a rather limp "Salute to Star Wars." (The mystery guest was James Earl Jones.) You would assume that the next day, they would run the primetime episode they otherwise would have run on Saturday but no. They just skipped it. They're presumably skipping another rerun (an episode with Charlton Heston) to run the Frank Gorshin tribute. This means that the early Wednesday morning rerun should be one with Bea Lillie, and the Thursday A.M. entry will still be the one with Jerry Lewis and Walt Disney. I don't understand why they do this but they do this.