I stumbled onto this show last night on BZZR which in my area (Tampa) is not yet on my cable system but is on the air using a TV antenna. I only caught the two episodes but I would have stayed around if they played more that night, BZZR shows Press Your Luck after Tattle Tales and while thats a great game show I've watched out of it for now having watched it hundreds of times. This was the first time I watched this show, when it originally aired on TV I was a teen in school and so missed most of it's airings, but I remember the times I caught it I usually switched the channel quickly, as a teen it's not an interesting show. Now in my middle age, I found it laugh out loud funny! The guests they had on was the reason why I stayed at first, to watch Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara who were a big comedy team in the 60's and 70's and Jerry later doing Seinfeld and King Of Queens, and parents of Ben Stiller. They were really good but surprisingly the other couple of Dick Gautier (Hymie the Robot on Get Smart) and Barbara Stuart were really outrageous! The third couple was interesting to me in that it was Greg Morris and his wife Leona Keyes since I am a Mission Impossible fan they had a few moments too! I'm guessing that the show is staged as the answers given were just to funny, although it's played so quick with the final product that it comes across as unrehearsed. Bert Convy really clicked here feeding some risqué moments and he's the perfect host for this one. I read that Gene Rayburn was the host for the pilot but by the time the show was picked up he was already doing Match Game which was my favorite game show back in the day (being a teen and them using the word "boobies" all the time, lol). Tattle Tales I can see as great entertainment to watch with your spouse or partner. The questions are personal and not tied to the time frame the show was made so it's still fresh. Check it out if you are a old time game show fan, 9 out of 10!
Review of Tattletales
