Series · CBS · 1950
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What's My Line?
44Leave it.
Sunday manners and a job to guess, and that really is the whole evening.
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The review
Sunday night, for years, was a panel trying to name what a stranger did for a living. The stakes are small on purpose. They ask, the guest answers yes or no, and for the mystery guest the panel is blindfolded and still supposed to have manners. I watched it the way you watch company that knows how to sit in a chair.
Almost nothing in it to hand a child except how adults used to share a room. The manners are the show, and the show outlasted the decade. I won't call that empty. I also won't pretend a paycheck riddle teaches anyone the job. Put it on if you want the room quieter. Don't wait around for a story.
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The glance
Household and Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 7Industry
Naming a stranger's real job is the entire game.
- 2Household
No marriage or child is lived here, only adults seated.
- 3Piety
Good manners stand in, and nothing harder is asked.
- 2Courage
A blindfold on a famous face is the largest risk in the room.
- 4Republic
A Sunday habit of courtesy, not a debt to a neighbor or a law.
- 6Temperance
The stakes stay small, so the hour does not train a bigger want.
- 6Truth
It ends when someone finally names the true occupation.
- 5Stewardship
Left in the house is a picture of adults who can sit still.
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