What's My Line?

American panel game show
TVSeries television_series Q660263
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What's My Line?

Summary

What's My Line? is a television series[1]. What's My Line? ranks in the top 7% of television_series entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (801 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What's My Line?'s instance of is recorded as television series[3].
  • What's My Line? was directed by Paul Alter[4].
  • What's My Line?'s genre is panel game[5].
  • A cast member of What's My Line? was Arlene Francis[6].
  • A cast member of What's My Line? was Dorothy Kilgallen[7].
  • What's My Line?'s production company is recorded as Fremantle[8].
  • The original language of What's My Line? was English[9].
  • What's My Line?'s presenter is recorded as John Charles Daly[10].
  • What's My Line?'s Commons category is recorded as What's My Line?[11].
  • What's My Line?'s original broadcaster is recorded as CBS[12].
  • What's My Line?'s color is recorded as black-and-white[13].
  • What's My Line?'s country of origin is recorded as United States[14].
  • What's My Line? began on February 2, 1950[15].
  • What's My Line? ended on September 3, 1975[16].
  • What's My Line?'s distributed by is recorded as CBS Media Ventures[17].
  • What's My Line?'s number of episodes is recorded as {'amount': '+2196'}[18].
  • What's My Line?'s different from is recorded as Was bin ich?[19].
  • What's My Line?'s number of seasons is recorded as {'amount': '+25'}[20].

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Authorship and Creation

What's My Line? was directed by Paul Alter[4]. Cast members include Arlene Francis[6] and Dorothy Kilgallen[7].

Publication

The original language of What's My Line? was English[9]. What's My Line?'s genre is panel game[5].

Why It Matters

What's My Line? ranks in the top 7% of television_series entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (801 views/month).[2] What's My Line? has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] What's My Line? is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . dbpedia.org. Retrieved . dbpedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 25d ago · Zestier · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Color black-and-white
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    Original broadcaster CBS
    Production company Fremantle
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