We are unsurprised but saddened still that GSN has finally decided to chuck the nightly reruns of old episodes of What's My Line? They go away later this month, only to be replaced by — insult to injury time — reruns of The Amazing Race. And we'd like to suggest loudly and with great outrage in our voice that low ratings on What's My Line? may have been caused by GSN leading into it with reruns of Beat the Clock, the stupidest and crappiest game show ever produced.
The lone remnant of the network's long experiment with hoary black-and-white reruns will be a bone they'll be tossing us once a week, late on Sunday nights…or, more correctly, early on Monday mornings. There, commencing August 27/28, they will run sixty minutes of old Goodson-Todman classics or semi-classics. They'll start with two shows, one being Get the Message, a 1964 series hosted by Frank Buxton and later by Robert Q. Lewis. The other, which they've run before, is What's Going On?, a short-lived 1954 disaster of a game show, produced by the star of several recent video links on this site, Allan Sherman.
ATTENTION, FRANK BUXTON: I expect you to send me juicy anecdotes I can post here about Get the Message. Never mind spending the lavish residuals you will doubtlessly receive for these airings. Please share with us whatever you remember. I promise not to run out on you the next time we have lunch together.