What's My Line?

What's My Line? ran on CBS for a total of 25 seasons and 876 episodes

from 1950 - 1967. While I always love seeing the surprise celebrity guests

from across the entertainment and news-making spectrum, I always got a kick

out of the "every day folks" whose professions the panel of notable guests 

would have to guess by asking a series of questions. These professions, of course, 

were shown on the screen for the television viewers and this text overlapping 

the contestants' faces often provided an intriguing, if not humorous, graphic.

Hundreds of episodes of the show are available to watch on YouTube,

 many of them having been broken down into season by season playlists

 and arranged in their original televised running order. They're worth a look.

Stickermania: Three's Company (1978)

Excerpts from yet another sticker set from the 1970s.

This one is for the wildly campy sitcom Three's Company.

I find this piece of merchandising as odd as I found the trading card

  and sticker set for the film Saturday Night Fever, mainly because both 

pieces of filmed entertainment were geared toward adults and contained 

a great deal of sexual humor. This doesn't match the target market for 

stickers, whose collectors (at that time) seemed to be pre-teens and teens.

Regardless, based on the much higher number of cards depicting Chrissy than 

there are depicting Janet, it's safe to say that Suzanne Sommers was not only

the "jewel in the crown" star of the TV show, but also the star of the sticker set.

Bob-A-Loop. Beat The Clock. Ball & Jacks

Three cool vintage items from my collection, courtesy of the 1950s and 60s.

Electric Teens, Archies & Slam-O-Matics

Three board games in my collection from the mid to late 1960s: Hullabaloo, Archie and Hands Down. One is electric, one involves human leverage and another only needs a roll of the dice.