Masquerade Party
| Masquerade Party | |
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Panelist Ogden Nash and Dagmar, 1955
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| Presented by |
Bud Collyer (1952) Douglas Edwards (1953) Peter Donald (1954–1956) Eddie Bracken (1957) Robert Q. Lewis (1958) Bert Parks (Fall 1958–1960) Richard Dawson (1974-75) |
| Narrated by |
Johnny Olson Jay Stewart |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 22–25 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Wolf Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC (1952, 1957, 1958–1959, 1960) CBS (1953, 1954, 1958, 1959–1960) ABC (1954–1956) |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | July 14, 1952 – September 23, 1960 |
| Masquerade Party | |
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| Created by | Stefan Hatos Monty Hall |
| Presented by | Richard Dawson |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 39 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Stefan Hatos-Monty Hall Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | Syndicated (weekly) |
| Original release | September 9, 1974 – September 1975 |
Masquerade Party is an American television game show. During its original run from 1952–1960, the show appeared at various times on all three major networks except DuMont (ABC, NBC, and CBS). A syndicated revival was produced for one season in 1974-75.
A panel of celebrities met with another celebrity who was in heavy make-up and/or costume; this disguise would always provide clues to the celebrity's actual identity. For example, actor Gary Burghoff appeared in 1974 as a robot with radar, alluding to his role as Radar O'Reilly on M*A*S*H. The panel asked yes-or-no questions to the celebrity, and then received another clue about the celebrity's identity at the end of the round. After the clue, the panel had one last chance to guess the identity, followed by the celebrity revealing their true identity.
The original show had several well-known celebrities on its panel including Pat Carroll, Buff Cobb, Sam Levenson, Audrey Meadows, Ogden Nash, Betsy Palmer, and Jonathan Winters.
Comedian Allan Sherman was the producer, and Stefan Hatos was executive producer; The show's theme music was "The Comedians," an orchestral composition by Dmitri Kabalevsky. The oversensitivity of the show towards advertisers and political correctness complaints, made it fall into a hoax of the satirical magazine The Realist, in 1960.
This incarnation was ranked eighth on TV Guide's 2001 list of "The 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time."
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