Panelists question a lab mice breeder, an 85-year-old flagpoles' painter and blindfolded, try to identify the week's celebrity "mystery guest", an actress and singer, known primarily for her powerful voice and roles in musical theatre.
Ethel Merman shows up as the weeks mystery challenger. Panelists Dorothy Kilgallen, Allen Ludden, Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf begin the show by guessing the lines of a woman from North Carolina who raises mice for research. As well as, an 85 year old man from New Jersey who paints flagpoles. Finally, the panelists try to identify the weeks celebrity mystery challenger, Ethel Merman.—brtndr