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Masquerade Party was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 game show
Game show

A game show is a type of television program in which members of the public or celebrity, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving problems for money and/or prizes....
. During its original run from 1952-1960, the show appeared at various times on three of the four major networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) and even aired on all three at 2:00 PM on September 26, 1954.

A panel of celebrities met with another celebrity that was in heavy make-up and/or costume; this disguise would always provide clues to the celebrity's actual identity.






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Masquerade Party was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 game show
Game show

A game show is a type of television program in which members of the public or celebrity, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving problems for money and/or prizes....
. During its original run from 1952-1960, the show appeared at various times on three of the four major networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) and even aired on all three at 2:00 PM on September 26, 1954.

A panel of celebrities met with another celebrity that was in heavy make-up and/or costume; this disguise would always provide clues to the celebrity's actual identity. For example, actor Gary Burghoff
Gary Burghoff

Gary Richard Burghoff is an American actor, best known for playing the character Corporal Radar O'Reilly in the M*A*S*H series and Charlie Brown in the 1967 off-Broadway Musical theater You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown....
 appeared in 1974 as a robot with radar
Radar

Radar is a system that uses electromagnetic radiation waves to identify the range, altitude, direction, or speed of both moving and fixed objects such as aircraft, ships, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain....
, alluding to his role as Radar O'Reilly
Radar O'Reilly

Corporal ?Radar? O?Reilly is a fictional character in the M*A*S*H M*A*S*H , the MASH , the M*A*S*H , the television movie, W*A*L*T*E*R, and two episodes of the series, After MASH....
 on M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H (TV series)

M*A*S*H is an United States television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 in film feature film MASH . The series is a medical drama/black comedy that was produced by 20th Television Fox for CBS....
. The panel asked yes-or-no questions to the celebrity, and then received another clue about the celebrity's identity at the end of the round. After the clue, the panel had one last chance to guess the identity, followed by the celebrity revealing their true identity.

1952-1960

The original show had several well-known celebrities on its panel including Pat Carroll
Pat Carroll (actress)

Patricia Ann ?Pat? Carroll is an Emmy Award-winning United States actress. She has performed in numerous stage productions, but is best known for her role as "Bunny Halper" on The Danny Thomas Show and as Shirley Feeney's mother on Laverne and Shirley....
, Sam Levenson
Sam Levenson

Sam Levenson was an United States humorist, writer, television host and journalist....
, Audrey Meadows
Audrey Meadows

Audrey Meadows was an United States actress best known for her role as the deadpan housewife Alice Kramden on the 1950s American television comedy The Honeymooners....
, Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash

Frederic Ogden Nash was an United Statesn poet well known for his Light poetry. At the time of his death in 1971, the The New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry"....
, Betsy Palmer
Betsy Palmer

Betsy Palmer is an United States actress probably best known for her role as a panelist on the original run of the game show I've Got A Secret, and later for playing the part of madman Jason Voorhees's mother Pamela Voorhees in the horror film Friday the 13th ....
, and Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Harshman Winters III is an United States comedian, actor, and former United States Marine Corps drill instructor....
.

Comedian
Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laughter. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy....
 Allan Sherman
Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman was a Jewish United States musician, parody, satire and television producer....
 was the producer
Television producer

The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking....
, and Stefan Hatos was executive producer
Executive producer

The title of executive producer , or executive in charge of production, typically describes a film producer, television producer, radio producer, record producer, or similar Stakeholder who doesn't participate in the technical operations of the production process, but who is still responsible for the success of a project....
; The show's theme music was "The Comedians", an orchestral composition by Dmitri Kabalevsky.

This incarnation was ranked #8 on TV Guide
TV Guide

TV Guide is the name of a North American weekly magazine about Broadcast programming.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews....
's 2001 list of "The 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time".

Episode status

Five episodes exist. Three exist among traders and are from 1955, 1957, and 1959 (Donald, Bracken, and Parks respectively), with the 1955 episode featuring George DeWitt (then hosting Name That Tune
Name That Tune

Name That Tune was a television game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of songs.Premiering in the United States in the early 1950s, the show was created and produced by Harry Salter and his wife, Roberta Semple Salter....
) as a guest.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive holds episodes dated October 6, 1954 and 1955 - the latter being a different episode than the DeWitt appearance above.

1974-1975


A syndicated
Television syndication

In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network....
 revival was produced by Stefan Hatos and Monty Hall
Monty Hall

Maurice Halperin, Order of Canada , better known by the stage name Monty Hall , is a Canada-born emcee, Television producer, actor, singer and sportscaster, best known as host of the long-running television game show Let's Make a Deal....
 in 1974, hosted by Richard Dawson
Richard Dawson

Richard Dawson aka 'The Kissing Bandit' is a United Kingdom-United States actor, comedian, game show panelist and host. He is best known for his role as Bob Crane's British non-commissioned officer, Corporal Peter Newkirk, on the World War II situation comedy Hogan's Heroes, and as the original host of the Family Feud game show from 1...
 and announced by Jay Stewart
Jay Stewart

Jay Fix , known professionally as Jay Stewart, was an United States television and radio announcer known primarily for his work on game shows....
. The basic premise was the same as the original show. Bill Bixby
Bill Bixby

Bill Bixby, born Wilfred Bailey Bixby, was an American film and television actor, television director and frequent game show panelist.His career spanned over three decades, appearing on stage, in motion pictures and starring in five TV series, such as My Favorite Martian and The Incredible Hulk ....
, Lee Meriweather, and Nipsey Russell
Nipsey Russell

Julius "Nipsey" Russell was an United States comedian, best known today for his appearances as a guest panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, especially Match Game, Password , Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth and Pyramid ....
 were regular panelists. Col. Harland Sanders
Colonel Sanders

Harland David Sanders, better known as Colonel Sanders , was an American entrepreneur who founded KFC . His image is omnipresent in the chain's advertising and packaging, and his name is sometimes used as a synonym for the KFC product or restaurant itself....
 of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame made an appearance as a celebrity guest.

This version was aired mainly in evening time slots across the nation and failed to attract decent ratings. It was canceled within a year as host Richard Dawson was hired as the first emcee of Family Feud
Family Feud

Family Feud is a U.S. television game show that pits two families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question posed to 100 people....
 (which debuted in 1976).

Episode status

One episode is known to exist - a studio master taped July 10, 1974 featuring Allen Ludden
Allen Ludden

Allen Ludden was an United States television presenter and game show host. He was born Allen Packard Ellsworth in Mineral Point, Wisconsin....
 as a guest.

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