Season 5

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 5 of What's My Line? (1950–1967) on CBS as a mid listed season (5; 5 of 18) — 52 listed hours, 1953-09-06–1954-08-29 from “Roy Campanella” (S05E01) to “Debbie Reynolds” (S05E52). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

1. S05E07 Eleanor Roosevelt

   Eleanor Roosevelt: civic fame walking into a parlor game and still making it appointment TV.

2. S05E25 Lucille Ball

   Lucille Ball, solo heat — sitcom empress as the guest the living room already thought it owned.