Tool Time before it was cool: Wally's Workshop (1972)

 Wally Bruner had made enough money hosting What's My Line? for four years to finance and produce his own show. Except that it wasn't a game show.

Wally's Workshop spent 13 seasons in syndication (1972-85), with Goodson-Todman's #1 announcer, Johnny Olson, filling that role, one of a handful of non-game shows that Olson announced, the others being The Jackie Gleason Show, up until its end in 1970, and The Clifton Davis-Melba Moore Show, a CBS summer replacement series, also in 1972.

Locally, WRGB used Workshop as a lead-in to TV Tournament Time. Unfortunately, the station decided not to renew its contract for the show after a couple of years, as memory serves.

This sample clip was first posted to The Land of Whatever in 2015.

Funny how no one thought of bringing this show back to local channels once Bob Vila became a big star for PBS in the 80's.

Rating: A.