In 1961 "You Bet Your Life" ended its 11 season run on NBC. In 1962 Groucho returned to network TV-now on CBS-with "Tell It to Groucho", done by the same production company that had done YBYL. TITG was similar in format, but with several key differences. As Groucho himself explained "We've discarded the secret word, the quiz, the duck, Grant's Tomb, and Fenneman". Replacing the quiz was a game where the contestants had to identify a picture that appear on screen for a very short time. The game show element was reduced to an afterthought, and the program came off as another talk show. And whereas YBYL had George Fenneman as the perfect straight man to Groucho, TITG had Joy Harmon (called Patty on the show) who was what Jane Russell would call a "full-figured gal" who said very little. Viewers in 1962 who wanted to see Groucho had a choice between TITG, or syndicated reruns of YBYL (retitled "The Best of Groucho"). They preferred the reruns, and TITG was off the air after 5 months.
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