To Tell the Truth - William M Gaines

[CCROGGY]

Thumbs up if they should bring this show back and have "The Real Slim Shady" please stand up XD

[jmen4ever]

From 1970, as shown in the copyright at the very end!

[jfilesbooks]

The guy on the far left is Mr Gaines

[A01002401]

I wonder why Gaines didn't mention any of the EC horror comics in his letter. Hmmm. I guess the memory was a little too painful.

[5inthehole]

Doesn't it figure? The man who gave millions gut splitting laughter and its anticedent, happiness, does get a vote. Ah, such is life...

[remdog1138]

Dick before his fantastic Mustache.

[ImaginedWhimsy]

Number 3 looks and acts a little like Christopher Walken. :)

[cdgrnr]

I'm 13 and I love this show.

[cochranexyz]

I grew up reading Mad. It greatly influenced me.

[5inthehole]

It figures that Bill Gains wouldn't get a vote.Now that's integrity! Thanks for the laughs and rest in peace.

[roddiero]

Neat show! Too bad that wouldn't work these days.

[mapflu]

@roddiero You must see the episode where Rosa Parks is featured. The results is surprising.

[djsmeg]

I guess it says something about me but I just can't fathom NOT knowing who Gaines was...

[GameShowManOne]

God, this set was hideous.

[RyoSanadaOfWildfire]

At 5:36 he said his father changed it. Didn't William change it entertainment?

[See918]

#3 said Doug Berg, he meant Dave Berg, who did The Lighter Side Of... He's dead.

[quizmaster85]

Me worry?

[venuecam]

Both William Gaines and Larry Flint were similar kinds of publishers. They used comical satire that featured racy subject matter. They refused to follow the status quo. They were both extremely stubborn publishers. They went to extra-ordinary lengths to keep people reading their publications.

Btw. Is that Larry King @ 4:00? Wtf.

[storrs19]

Thanks a bunch for sharing this. GSN no longer owns the rights to it and didn't show TTTT even when they did. These shows are likely to never be seen again. You are lucky to have them on tape.

[Geostrum2]

They're all dead!

[jackdeath]

@Geostrum2 Not True! You can see a 24 year old Dick DeBartolo at 9:33

He worked for both Goodson-Todman game shows and MAD Magazine.

[IMakeOrWatchVideos]

im not sure how this game works

[AdamNedeff]

Three people claim to be the same person. One IS that person and must give truthful answers. The other two are imposters and they can lie all they want. Panel has to grill all three of them with questions and vote on who the real person is.

[haharleyman]

William M Gaines ~~ Him and his staff were truly genuises!! ever since he passed the magazine hasnt been the same, Rest in Peace my friend and thanjs for all the great laighs you published!!! (and yes I still have most of my collection)

[LitCrit101]

Well number one looked like a MADman! The others looked too conservative. And number two repeated questions before answering them - dead giveaway that he was buying time to formulate answers.

[SidNightWalker]

Gaines was always unorthodox, that's why they couldn't pick him out.

[proken58]

Gaines always liked to be the target of his own magazines' barbs. One "article" was on how fathers explain their jobs to small children. The examples: "Daddy is a doctor, I treat sick people.....Daddy is a cop, I catch bad people....Daddy is a crook, I publish MAD magazine."

[proken58]

Kitty had it right with MAD's target demographic - upper high school. In the late 60's/early 70's college kids abandoned MAD for National Lampoon.

[PatrioticPirate]

This is my VERY first time seeing a show with "The Mod Set..." The damn thing looks like an acid trip! But I used to LOVE this show when I was a kid!

[LeothePatrioticLion]

When I saw this, I knew who it was all the time.

[CosmoShidan]

Bill Gains had a great sense of humor.

[joelkazoo]

Been wanting to see this since I read about it in "Good Days and MAD". Thanks for posting!

(I would of guessed Gaines, if only because #2 flubbed up Alfred's catchphrase, and #3 didn't know Gaines' Dad was dead.)

[RSG2006]

Did you know that even now, 38 years after this was taped, Dick DeBartolo *still* maintains that uninterrupted streak Gaines mentions of never missing inclusion in an issue?

[brianpadraic]

Dick is amazing! God bless Gaines even though he was an atheist. Gaines was unpartial when it came to poltics: he attacked phoniness.

[frankd1965]

was this taped around 1969 or 1970?

[taffysaur]

Pffft. Doug Berg, negro please.

[Warners30]

Doug Berg HAHAHAHAHAHA It's Dave...

[JoyGrenade]

I've been a huge, lifelong EC fan, and this video tickles me to no end. Thanks for posting it!

[vpdisco]

The guy on the far right looks like somthing out of an old issue of MAD

[GMSpectre]

@vpdisco An extra from the Mort Drucker drawn parody in the beginning of the issue :).

[Independantfellow]

@vpdisco I want to pull that rug off his head.

[vpdisco]

Yep, no ads and strictly B/W under gains.

[HunterMann]

Great film clip! I love how they gave each contestant a wig at the end and a ride in a cool chevy!

[JeffW77]

WAY COOL to see the great William M. Gaines on TV!!! Viva MAD!

[marceloyanez111]

9:37 look at dick de he was so young!! I met him

[LeanaJo76]

This show really showed people that you can't judge someone of what they do for a living just by the way they dress or look. I love this show!

[5inthehole]

Thx for the many laugh's Mr. Gaines. Not only for the chuckles, but for the many Dads and sons you brought closer together with that "piece of trash" (LOL) you sent out monthly. Let it be known, he's God's punchline man now!

[artytoons]

Comic abook fans and Mad Magazine fans will know who Bill Gaines is but the fun is seeing if celebrities (society lady Kitty Carlisle, game show hosts Bill Cullen and Gene Rayburn, and actress Peggy Cass) can find out who he is. That is the appeal of To Tell The Truth...to see if the stars know stuff the common guy knows.

[amadoff]

Gaines was a distant cousin of mine. As a boy I was a huge MAD fan. My grandpa told me Gaines was related. I sent Gaines a letter noting the family relationship. 2 YEARS later I received a letter on MAD stationary. Gaines wrote something like: "Your aunt Baska couldn't possibly be Meyer's second cousin because Baska's sister Mussya was Meyer's mom..which would make them sibblings and aunt/neice..which is impossible AND illegal..But one thing is sure:We are related! Madly Yours -Bill Gaines.

[trifektaproductions]

@amadoff My dear friend is William Gaines nephew. His mother was Williams sister

[vpdisco]

The late great Bill Gains. This is awsome. Mad Magazine has not been nearly as funny as it has been since his passing.

[AnotherGoddess]

WONDERFUL. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS. I thought it was number one immediately because of the way he looked. What fun watching this show again. Thanks.

[hansamurai]

Great video, anyone know what the card says that they're holding over Dick's chest at the end?

[AdamNedeff]

It didn't show up well after I compressed it. Gene drew an arrow and wrote "DeBartolo - Writer"

[davemock]

If I remember my history, he wrote for "The Match Game" during its 60s and 70s runs and even injected a little humor into the more staid NBC version, gaining it a renewal when NBC was about to cancel it.

[Thompsonnw]

@AdamNedeff Gene Rayburn?

[willyumsstudio]

Having followed the blog of one of their cartoonists(Tom Richmond, who linked to this), I knew very well which one was correct. It was hilarious finding out what #3 does for a living, after the panelists' opinions.

If I was one of the liars, I'd have worn one of my Hawaiian shirts and a tie.

[Counterrestrial]

this was so fuckin easy, those contestants were stupid.

Of course the publisher of MAD would be a little outre.