The episode that aired live on November 4, 1956 included "television critic" Jack O'Brian as a contestant. The vibes between him and everyone else were friendly and cheerful, but less than three years later he asserted in his column, which ran in the same New York City newspaper as Dorothy Kilgallen's column, that various panelists on What's My Line, whom he did not name, had been supplied with information so they would appear on-camera "as exceptionally funny and smart people." O'Brian apparently had learned that several years earlier, producers had cued Steve Allen to follow a particular line of questioning to make the audience laugh, but the tip did not help him identify a contestant's line. Producers discontinued this practice long before O'Brian's appearance in their studio on November 4, 1956. In 1959, he distorted his scoop to insinuate that all the panelists were deceitfully identifying contestants' lines with assistance from the producers. A furious Dorothy Kilgallen devoted a large portion of her column to defending Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, John Daly, the producers and herself against O'Brian's accusations. Obviously, O'Brian never appeared on the show after he made the accusations. He was a close friend of Walter Winchell, who was a mystery guest in 1952 but not again.
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