Betty White Once Hosted a Game Show Called 'Just Men!'
Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast
H Alan Scott, Kerri Doherty
4.5 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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H. Alan Scott/Sadie Pines and Kerri Doherty are breaking down the 1983 short-lived game show "Just Men" hosted by the fabulous Betty White! They discuss the weak gameplay mechanics, the sexiness of Steve Sax, and whether the word "cock" was said on daytime network television.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture at Los Angeles, 26. Welcome to Out on the Lanai, the only Golden Girls |
| 0:16.0 | podcast you're ever going to need to listen to. I am H. Allen Scott slash Sadie Pine. I'm Carrie Dordy, |
| 0:24.1 | and today we're doing a Beyond Golden Girls episode where we cover the many film and TV projects |
| 0:28.5 | that the women did outside of the Golden Girls during the course of their illustrious careers. |
| 0:32.2 | And today we are breaking down the short-lived game show Just Men, which Betty White hosted on ABC in 1983. |
| 0:40.1 | Thank you, Trey, for recommending this over at the GGVIP Club on Patreon. |
| 0:45.3 | Trey, this was a trip. |
| 0:50.1 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:51.2 | This was such a trip. |
| 0:52.9 | Like, on a level that I didn't know I didn't know what to expect going in. |
| 0:58.0 | I knew it expected, I expected game show host Betty White, which is like a little sticky, a little schmaltzy, a little, you know, all of the things. |
| 1:05.6 | But wow, we got some things in this. |
| 1:08.7 | We, this, oh, I'm like, what do I even start with this game show? |
| 1:13.5 | Like, I understand why it only lasted for like 13 episodes or however long it did. |
| 1:19.4 | It wasn't very good. |
| 1:20.8 | It wasn't very good. |
| 1:22.0 | Of course, Betty was, I think, the reason why it didn't get canceled after one episode. |
| 1:26.7 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:37.0 | Everything is wrong about this to the point where like there can be episodes where no one wins, which in a game show, someone should be able to win something. |
| 1:44.2 | Even if it's like on the price is right, you know, even if someone's going to win the showcase, even if someone doesn't win their game, |
| 1:49.3 | they won by guessing the correct thing and they still won like a silverware set before they go play the big game. You have to win something on a game show. And this is a game show where |
| 1:53.9 | it's not strategy. It's purely luck. There's like a one in six or one in eight chance. You'll |
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