As we all know, Carl Reiner created, produced, wrote and sometimes appeared on The Dick Van Dyke Show which debuted on October 3, 1961. It was on five seasons on CBS and the first run of its final episode aired on June 1, 1966. That series was enough to keep Mr. Reiner occupied throughout those five years…but it was hardly the only thing he did. He wrote and appeared in the movies The Thrill of It All and The Art of Love and did a cameo in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. He also starred in the movie, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, did voices on the Linus the Lionhearted cartoon show and guest-starred on a lot of other TV programs.
And, like that wasn't enough to keep a man busy, he had another TV series in addition to The Dick Van Dyke Show. Back in this post, we showed you a sample of The Celebrity Game, a weekly prime-time game show which bounced around the CBS schedule from April of '69 to September '65. It was used as times as a filler to replace some canceled show and was on and off the schedule at different times. CBS also did this with another prime-time game show, Stump the Stars.
Here's another episode. It's from 1965 and someone has colorized it. If it reminds you of the original Hollywood Squares, that may have a lot of do with it coming from the same producers and employing a lot of the same behind-the-camera people. Enjoy…