Helen Beardsley appears as a challenger on To Tell the Truth. The author of Who Gets the Drumstick?, she simultaneously raised twenty children and step-children and was portrayed by Lucille Ball in Yours, Mine, and Ours, a fictionalized biography of the Beardsley familyThis episode was originally telecast by CBS on October 11, 1965. The host is Bud Collyer and the panelists are Orson Bean, Peggy Cass, Kitty Carlisle, and Tom Poston. Beardsley’s segment of the show starts at 8:54:
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