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Jim, Kermit, and host Larry Blyden
Caroll after the game.
What's My Line? was a game show which ran from 1950 to 1975 in which contestants would ask "yes" or "no" questions of a contestant in order to guess their occupation. After the second contestant in each program, a "mystery guest" would be featured in which the panel was blindfolded and the object was to identify the guest. Bennett Cerf, father of Christopher Cerf, was a regular panelist.
Caroll Spinney played the game in a 1972 episode dressed as Big Bird, then talked with the panel out of costume at the end.
Jim Henson appeared on an episode that aired November 16, 1974. Panelists included Arlene Francis, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Jack Cassidy and Soupy Sales. The following mystery guest was Dick Cavett.
Appearances
- Jim Henson and Kermit
- Caroll Spinney and Big Bird
References
The series was also spoofed on Sesame Street with a sketch called "What's My Part?"
Connections
The Muppets and What's My Line? operated in similar early-70s show-biz circles, so it's not surprising that they shared many of the same guest stars.
What's My Line? panelists and guests included the following people who also have connections to the Muppets:
Panelists
- Steve Allen (1953-1967)
- Harry Belafonte (1958-1966)
- Milton Berle (1956-1965)
- Victor Borge (1952-1965)
- Johnny Carson (1956-1963)
- Dick Cavett (1966-1967)
- Carol Channing (1962-1966)
- Dick Clark (1958)
- Merv Griffin (1962-1963)
- Buddy Hackett (1957-1966)
- Vincent Price (1956-1959)
- Tony Randall (1956-1967)
- Peter Ustinov (1957-1966)
- Jonathan Winters (1958-1964)
Mystery Guests
- Pearl Bailey (1955-1966)
- Anne Bancroft (1962-1964)
- Edgar Bergen (1954-1965)
- Carol Burnett (1961-1966)
- George Burns (1954-1964)
- Art Carney (1954-1966)
- Imogene Coca (1956-1958)
- Joan Collins (1959-1965)
- Phyllis Diller (1963-1964)
- Henry Fonda (1961-1966)
- Arthur Godfrey (1963-1966)
- Geoffrey Holder
- Bob Hope (1954-1963)
- Lena Horne (1953-1958)
- Danny Kaye (1960-1966)
- Gene Kelly (1957-1964)
- Liberace (1956-1964)
- Ethel Merman (1963-1965)
- Roy Rogers (1954-1958)
- Dinah Shore (1959-1966)
- Nancy Sinatra (1965-1966)