Keep Talking (TV series)

Keep Talking
From top: Host Merv Griffin and panelists Morey Amsterdam, Audrey Meadows and Danny Dayton.
Genre	Panel/Game show
Created by	Herb Wolf
Written by	Herb Wolf
Directed by	Lloyd Gross
Presented by	Monty Hall Carl Reiner Merv Griffin
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	2
Production
Producer(s)	Wolf Productions
Location(s)	Studio 51 (CBS) ABC Studios
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	CBS ABC
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monoaural
Original release	July 15, 1958 – May 3, 1960

Keep Talking is an American game show broadcast on CBS and ABC from the summer of 1958 to the spring of 1960. The show was hosted by Monty Hall, Carl Reiner and Merv Griffin.

The show was a hosted panelist/game show produced by Wolf Productions and broadcast in the United States the summer of 1958, and in both the 1958-59 and the 1959-60 primetime television seasons, though on different days, times, and networks each season.

CBS broadcast the show on three different days in various timeslots:

During this CBS run, other celebrities, such as Vincent Price, filled in as host when needed. These shows were filmed at CBS' Studio 51 in New York City.

The show moved to ABC for the 1959-60 season, filmed in the ABC Studios in California with Merv Griffin as host — the show was broadcast back on Tuesday again, but at a later time, 10:30-11 pm (EST). The last show was broadcast May 3, 1960.

Six celebrity panelists, divided into two teams, would try to guess a secret word given to one player on each team. These two players would then proceed to tell a story to their team involving that word, yet not using that word. Narration of the story would jump from team-mate to team-mate, often leaving the new narrator at a loss as to how to continue the story. Little attention was paid to scoring and points—the point was for the panelists to build their ad-lib story seamlessly and entertainingly.

Among the panelists who appeared during the run of the show were: