Season 1

From the desk

How this season is filed

Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report

Seventeen years of Sunday-night guessing: occupations as social theater, mystery guests as proto-paparazzi, and a panel that treated celebrity like a cocktail it could interrogate.

TV Flash files Season 1 of What's My Line? (1950–1967) on CBS as the first listed season of 18 — 15 listed hours, 1950-02-02–1950-08-30 from “Phil Rizzuto” (S01E01) to “EPISODE #15” (S01E15). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

1. S01E01 Phil Rizzuto

   Rizzuto opens the format: a baseball name as enough fame to invent a Sunday.