Last week some 6,000,000 British fans welcomed back the BBC's most popular TV show, the parlor-game What's My Line? Though very similar, the British version differs in a few respects from the U.S. What's My Line? (Sun. 10:30 p.m., CBS-TV).
Sparked by a bad-tempered, red-faced, 45-year-old bachelor named Gilbert Harding, the BBC's What's My Line?, like its U.S. counterpart, has four sharp-witted panelists. These regulars ask pointed questions of each guest in an effort to find out his occupation. On both the U.S. and British shows, the early questions sound alike. Is your work essential? Do you control a staff? Can you...
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