I got behind on previewing the GSN late night black-and-white reruns. As a result, I didn't alert you to the What's My Line? with Buster Keaton as the Mystery Guest or the reairing of a To Tell the Truth with Jack Bothwell. As explained in this piece I wrote, Mr. Bothwell once made the rounds of talk shows and game shows, claiming to have once played the role of "Freckles" in the Our Gang comedies. This is not so. There was no such character in those films and there's no record of Bothwell ever having worked for the Hal Roach Studios which made the films.
(The other point of note about that To Tell the Truth was that one of the impostors was a New York cop named Barney Martin who had then turned to show business, working on the Jan Murray game show, Treasure Hunt. Mr. Martin, who passed away last March, went on to a very fine acting career, including a stint as Jerry Seinfeld's father on Seinfeld. Here's an obit that I should have linked to three months ago.)
I don't know of anything outstanding on the upcoming To Tell the Truth reruns so I'll just run through what's looming on the What's My Line? airings. Tomorrow morning's has Doris Day and Robert Young as Mystery Guests. Friday morning, the big Mystery Guest is George Sanders, but you might be more interested in the first guest, Erle Stanley Gardner, the author-creator of Perry Mason. Saturday morn, it's Patti Page. Sunday morning is an unusual episode that has Bennett Cerf filling in as host. The Mystery Guests are Julie London and industrialist Henry Kaiser, and I think this is the show where guest panelist Ernie Kovacs got an enormous laugh, which I'll go ahead and blow for you here by quoting. The interrogators had established that the Mystery Guest (Mr. Kaiser) was an automotive magnate and that there was a car that had been named for him. So Kovacs asked, "Is it Abraham Lincoln?"