CBS Television City: ‘Kids Say The Darnedest Things’

This segment of the Art Linkletter House Party is the most famous of all. Linkletter interviewed schoolchildren between the ages of five and ten. During the segment’s 27-year run, Linkletter interviewed an estimated 23,000 children. The popularity of the segment led to a TV series with the same title hosted by Bill Cosby on CBS-TV from January 1998 to June 2000.

‘Art Linkletter’s House Party’ premiered on CBS television on September 1, 1952 and had become television’s longest-running daytime variety show by the time it completed its run on September 5, 1969. It ran first at 2:45 p.m. EST for only fifteen minutes, but by February 1953 it aired from 2:30 p.m. to 3:00 pm, remaining in that time slot for 15 years. It became a morning show titled The Linkletter Show from 1968 to 1969.

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