Technically, the show could be said to have run for two episodes, since the following Friday, Gleason appeared at the same time, but in a studio "stripped to the brick walls" and using the time to give what "Time" magazine called an "inspiring "post-mortem"", asking rhetorically "how it was possible for a group of trained people to put on so big a flop." "Time" later cited "You're in the Picture" as one piece of evidence that the 1960-61 TV season was the "worst in the 13-year history of U.S. network television."