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Okay, we've talked about Carl Reiner as a producer, a director, a writer, a performer and a talk show guest. Here he is as a game show host on The Celebrity Game, which was on CBS's prime time lineup from April of 1964 until September of that year. One might note that during that time, Mr. Reiner was also producing and doing some writing and performing on The Dick Van Dyke Show, which would have made for a very busy schedule.

The time period might also have overlapped with his work as a writer and actor for The Art of Love, the movie I mentioned back in this post. It came out in July of 1965.

The Celebrity Game was produced by Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley and was very similar to an earlier quiz program of theirs called People Will Talk. A few years later, the format would get stuffed into a big tic-tac-toe board and be called The Hollywood Squares, also from Heatter-Quigley. All three shows — People Will Talk, The Celebrity Game and the original Hollywood Squares — had Kenny Williams as the usual announcer.

This is one of the few episodes that have survived to this day. It's most interesting because Oscar Levant is on the panel…