Editing Allen Funt (section)

==''Candid Camera''==
''Candid Camera'' was broadcast on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]], and [[Columbia Broadcasting System|CBS]] from 1948 to 1953, but only became a household word when CBS programmed a new version in 1960, on Sunday nights at 10 p.m. Eastern time, as a lead-in for the popular ''[[What's My Line?]]'' at 10:30. There the program found its all-time biggest audience. But CBS executives felt that Funt could not carry the program alone. They installed various [[master of ceremonies|masters of ceremonies]] to formally host the program and introduce the films. Funt was acknowledged as the program's creator and offered [[color commentary]] on the action. The first emcee was the familiar and folksy [[Arthur Godfrey]] during the 1960–1961 season. He was succeeded by TV host and announcer [[Durward Kirby]] (1961–1966), with former ''[[Your Hit Parade]]'' vocalist [[Dorothy Collins]] on hand when a woman was needed to pull off a stunt (as when she tried to convince service-station employees that her car wasn't working, when the entire engine under the hood was missing). Kirby was succeeded by game-show favorite [[Bess Myerson]] (1966–1967).

The show occasionally enlisted guest stars to participate in the stunts. Comedian [[Wally Cox]], in character as a mild-mannered fussbudget, was shown earnestly trying to convince longshoremen to give up their hearty meat-and-potatoes dinners, and had them taste wheat germ and other health foods instead. Silent-era comedian [[Buster Keaton]], always fond of practical jokes, made multiple appearances in the ''Candid Camera'' films of the early 1960s. He even supplied the show's famous tagline at the end of the broadcast: he stared at the camera and said with a deadpan expression, "Smile. You're on ''Candid Camera''." 

Funt became so synonymous with ''Candid Camera'' that whenever he appeared on other TV shows, his own show was always referenced. In 1964, he appeared as himself in an episode of the [[situation comedy]] ''[[The New Phil Silvers Show]]''.<ref>[http://ctva.biz/US/Comedy/PhilSilversShow_New.htm Classic TV Archive The New Phil Silvers Show (1963-64)]</ref>

CBS canceled both ''Candid Camera'' and ''What's My Line?'' in September 1967, although it did show ''Candid Camera'' reruns as a daytime show from 1966 to 1968.<ref>Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory of TV shows, 1946-Present'', Ballantine Books, New York, 1979, p. 128.</ref>