Monday, March 4, 2024

A contestant reunion, and a self-appointed media nanny on the same show? Yep. (To Tell The Truth, 1990)

 It was a sweeps stunt for the ages in November 1990.

NBC & Mark Goodson decided to bring back a trio of now-adult challengers who had appeared on the syndicated To Tell The Truth in 1972. The common link? Panelist Kitty Carlisle.  

John Cher appeared as a youth in 1972, and would fulfill his dream of being a fashion designer by the time he and his imposters returned to Truth 18 years later. Carlisle is joined by baseball player-turned-cable personality Jay Johnstone, Vicki Lawrence-Schultz (as she was known back then), and another old school Truth regular, Orson Bean.

In game 2, Terry Rakolta, who launched a one woman crusade against Fox's Married...With Children a year earlier, is the subject.

Lynn Swann is the moderator.


Rating: A.

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