Al Lohman and Roger Barkley were the dominant comedy team on Los Angeles radio for many years. I was a fan of the guys (and wrote briefly for them) and I discussed them here.
As I mentioned there, they tried all sorts of ventures into television. None of them clicked…not even a brilliant (I use that term purposefully) late night comedy show they did for certain NBC stations around 1974. It was more or less replaced by Saturday Night Live. It seems to have disappeared from this planet and isn't even listed in most databases of TV programming. The only remnant I've found is one YouTube excerpt that isn't a particuarly good demonstration of the series. I recall it trying all sorts of bizarre stunts and storylines, some of which worked and some of which didn't…but even the failures were interesting. If anyone knows where whole episodes can be found, I'll be your B.F.F.
One of their many short-lived TV efforts was the game show, Lohman and Barkley's Namedroppers, which ran on NBC daytime from September of '69 until early '70. Here's how it worked. Each week, they'd have three celebrities and 20 contestants. Two games were played per show. In each, a person would be introduced who had some relationship (usually not familial) to one of the celebrities. This person was the "Namedropper." Each celebrity would tell a story of how the Namedropper was related to them. The 20 contestants would vote on which tale they believed and two of those contestants would also play for lovely prizes. Whichever contestants were right would get money and the two playing for prizes could also win the prizes. Whatever the contestants didn't win went to the Namedropper.
This rare video excerpt shows you how it worked. Lohman is the fellow with the light hair who's talking to the contestants. Barkley is the one with the dark hair talking to the celebrities. The format didn't give them much chance to be funny…as you'll see…