Your First Impression is a NBC

NBC

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 daytime game show which aired from January 2, 1962, to June 26, 1964. A panel of three celebrities tried to guess the identity of mystery guests from clues supplied by the host. Bill Leyden

Bill Leyden

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 was the MC

Master of Ceremonies

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 of the program, with Dennis James

Dennis James

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 as a regular panelist or alternating host. Filmed in Burbank

Burbank, California

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, California

California

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, Your First Impression was a Monty Hall

Monty Hall

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-Art Stark Production. Hall was the series executive producer

Executive producer

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. The program aired at Noon Eastern time and followed another quiz program, Concentration

Concentration (game show)

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, then hosted by Hugh Downs

Hugh Downs

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.

Celebrities who appeared on the series included Pat Carroll

Pat Carroll (actress)

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, Bob Crane

Bob Crane

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, Nina Foch

Nina Foch

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, Ross Martin

Ross Martin

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, Dean Miller

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, Leslie Nielsen

Leslie Nielsen

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, Inger Stevens

Inger Stevens

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, Elena Verdugo

Elena Verdugo

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, Betty White

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, and Paul Winchell

Paul Winchell

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. Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford

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was a mystery guest. Richard Nixon appeared as a mystery guest after his losses to John F. Kennedy for President and Edmund G. (Pat) Brown for governor of California. He got a laugh when he was asked to fill in the blank: "I wish that I __________," and he answered, "had been a PT-boat captain."
(This was a reference to JFK's World War II heroics as captain of PT-109.)