Please help me ID this old TV show

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It was on late at night. I believe the host was Alan Ludden, butI’m not sure about that.

The premise was this: There were four celebrity panel members, and two contestants. They would bring out some weird-looking object, and then the four panel members would each give different convincing explanations of what the object was. Three of them would be lying, and one telling the truth. The contest, then, was in picking the explanation that you thought was the truth.

I loved it! What was it called?

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Moved to Cafe Society.

Colibri
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Liar’s Club

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Oh, thank you, Fishtar! I am happily watching old episodes on YouTube! I didn’t know it had three incarnations until I was able to look it up on wikipedia, thanks to you. But I like the ones with Alan Luddin and Betty White best.

This board rocks!

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I’m too late, but I knew it as soon as I read your description. I remember coming home from morning kindergarten in the 70s and Liar’s Club would be on. I can’t remember now if it was originals or reruns, though. I can still picture Larry Hovis on the panel in my head.

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I knew it right away as well… David Letterman used to be on it often. I haven’t seen it in years but remember it was a lot of fun.

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Great show! My sister and I used to pretend to play and make up crazy stories about shit. Fun times.

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One of the This Old House series had a weekly what-is-it? segment, with a couple of bluff answers about some weird specialty tool.

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Allen Ludden was the second host of The Liar’s Club. Bill Armstrong (who was also the announcer on Celebrity Sweepstakes) was the first.

The one major difference I remember between the two hosts’ versions; on the Armstrong shows, the last round was always, “What is the name of this (usually recognizable) painting?”; on the Ludden ones, each celebrity had a different item, and either only one of them was lying or only one told the truth (the show switched from one to the other, but I can’t remember which was first).

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Rod Serling was the first host.

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that would be

Ask This Old House

still as corny fake outs