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You’re In The Picture

ArmedGeek — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:39:20 +0000

Now, I’m sure some of you have heard of You’re In The Picture. It was a failed gameshow hosted by Jackie Gleason.

A four-member celebrity panel would stick their heads into a life-sized illustration of a famous scene or song lyric and then take turns asking yes/no questions to Gleason to try to figure out what scene they were a part of. If they were able to figure out the scene, 100 CARE Packages were donated in their name; if they were stumped, the packages were donated in Gleason’s name. Live music was provided by a Dixieland band (supposedly arranged by Gleason himself) under the direction of Norman Leyden.

It was bad. It was really bad. It was so bad that the night the second episode was supposed to air people saw this instead …

Jackie Gleason : "You're in the Picture" by werquin

I had always heard/read the story of this but I’d never seen it. I thought it might interest some of y’all as well.