What a delightful TV show; educational, full of class, tact, and respect for everyone! I am so very grateful for those who upload these videos to TH-cam.
“You have a wonderful career stretching ahead of you”. Never a truer word spoken. Loved him in the Big Bang Theory and he was so good I almost believed there really was an Arthur Jeffries, or “Dr. Proton”.
WHOEVER posted all these episodes Thank you you did a excellent job I put it on my desk and listen to it through out the day I never knew this show existed so every episode is new to me ,
I see all these greats and have a hard time acknowledging that they are all gone and that so few people know who they are. To learn from those these greats...what a gift.
Bob Newhart was (and is) a very funny man. He had a unique, low-key style that was very witty and clever. I've always found it ironic that his best friend was the late comedian Don Rickles... certainly a man with a VERY different style.
Newhart was preeminent in being able to get Rickles to laugh to the point of cracking up. And according to everything I've seen, heard or read, their wives got along very well. The two couples even vacationed together. Neither man started out in the roles they were successful with. Newhart was originally an accountant. Rickles wanted to be a serious actor and when that wasn't going very far, tried a more traditional stand up routine. He stumbled upon the insult routine when he was getting more laughs with his comebacks at hecklers than with his prepared material. My gut feeling is that insult comedy didn't represent Rickles' real life personality. One thing that impressed me about him was that when he would roast someone, he would change tone at the end and say nice things about the guest of honor. And this would be the Don Rickles that Newhart was best friends with.
I like Dorothy’s dress. This is a good episode. Always loved BoB Newhart. Also, this is a panel I like, but I like the one’s with Dorothy, Steve Allen, Arlene and Bennett best.
I don't think I've ever thanked Gary adequately, (nor do I think I could), but cheers mate all the same...I love these shows, and all the good manners, mutual respect and old-fashioned style that went with them Thanks again Dave PS I've worked (so far) nearly 40 years in the bus industry, and can testify to the accuracy (back in the day) of at least one of Bob's famous skits...
+What's My Line? I am grateful to reminded periodically to thank you for all the work you did to compile these videos, edit them where they needed upgrades, post them, moderate the comments posted and deal with all the You Tube and Google Plus nonsense. I haven't seen you comment recently. Hopefully you have moved on to other good things in life.
I was mar. in 1949, had my 1st child in 1950, and didn't have a TV for another 4 yrs. Don't remember watching this show then, but some of the early panelists would not have drawn me to the show. I'm enjoying it more now as it's a great way to relax before falling asleep.
@1928gerry. I agree. It's relaxing to watch at bedtime 🛌. I watched one of the episodes of WML from 1952 on yt. It definitely wasn't anywhere near as good as the episodes in the middle to late 1950s and in the 1960s.
+Paula Snow The movie is "Hell Is For Heroes" - but I do agree with you that that scene is outstanding, and so is the rest of his performance, and so is everybody else's performance in said film.
Susquehanna80 - Newhart was also brilliant as Major Major in "Catch 22." I believe his album "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart" came out around 1960 and was a revelation to the long-playing record industry because it sold in truck loads and made him famous almost overnight. It remains just hilarious.
This was another really good show. It was awesome seeing Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the producers of WML as well as many other shows on this show. That was really nice that they showed up for WML's 12th anniversary. Of course, Mark Goodson's daughter Marjorie Goodson was the model in the game show "Classic Concentration" in the 1980s. At that time, Alex Trebek hosted that show. She had a good sense of humor when she was modeling on that show. She married Tim Cutt. They had one daughter, Hannah. Later on, Marjorie and Tim got divorced. I think that Marjorie was born on October 2, 1962.
Dixie Cline writes with her right-hand, but her signature is at least partially slanted to the left. The way she made her slant mark to complete the letter "x" in her name particularly caught my attention. I have read that when a naturally left-handed person is forced to learn to write right-handed, it still tends to look more like the way a left-handed person writes.
I'm ambidextrous when I write. When I write right-handed, it looks like it's right-handed. When I write left-handed, it looks like it's right-handed. But, when I cross the ts in my first name, I start on the right and I go to the Left. Yt forced me to capitalize the word "left." When I write right-handed, I do the opposite. Also, I don't hold my pen or pencil the same way that most left-handers do. I hold it the way that a right-hander does. When I was a child, I loved to draw pictures with both hands quite often.
bob newhart doesn't get enough credit for changing the face of comedy, he brought an urbane intellectual wit to comedy, at the time comedians still followed a vaudevillian style of zany humor, he also opened the door for topical and political comedians, yes there was will rogers but he was generally a humorist who steered clear of anything controversial, newhart opened that door with "implied" humor generally left to a silence you had to answer for yourself.
Can you imagine his income (and all the expenses he deducted for his taxes!?) and what the costs are to take soooo much time off, travel all over the world, for extended periods. Did he take Phyllis, or leave her behind? I wonder if he was faithful. I just get a vibe that he's sort of creeping on the women.
Lars Rye Jeppesen - Bennett was the head of Random House and had long ago won one of the most important Supreme Court cases of the 20th Century over the First Amendment in regard to James Joyce's "Ulysses." He was only on vacation when they mentioned that he was going with his wife and two sons on vacation. The rest of the time he was going to public libraries and prep schools and colleges promoting reading and the books that Random House could offer. So, he was on business all these times and it was tax deductible under the firm as a cost of doing business. He and his wife had two sons, so during work trips she was home with them and she did publishing work for Random House as well. She wrote a book with another woman who was on this show with her as a mystery guest. And she was the founder of the Landmark series for children that Random House established. He'd had a terrible first marriage and was happy with Phyllis, yet with Dorothy's show-biz gossip and Ginger Rogers as an in-law, he might not have gotten away too smoothly with cheating, assuming he was hetero. I do not think he was a dishonorable man, but people often do what they can get away with. He was really in the post-WWII take-off, as it were, of the commercial aviation business for vacationers and businessmen. What stuns me is that these planes were largely the old prop planes that flew relatively low by jet standards and he went to a lot of small cities and towns where a jet could not have landed anyway. But, he loved his work and words, written or spoken, and wanted Americans to read and learn and share in the wealth of our civilization.
Awesome Trivia: The same year this episode aired, Bob Newhart won a Golden Globe for a variety series. The award was actually a tie and Bob ended up sharing that award with.....John Daly!
I'm watching this as I am up trying to nurse the flu. This is the standard for which all game shows should be measured. Love them all and their ability to calm down contestants and give a great chuckle. RIP to all these precious people.
Love watching these episodes again! It is bittersweet to think of how few of these wonderful people are still with us. Luckily Mr. Newhart is still around and working. His recurring role on Bing Bang is hilarious. Thank you for posting these!
1928gerry It’s funny that you should mention similarities in people of they same sign. I too put no credence in the signs themselves I have noticed that personality traits between me and others of the same sign do seem to exist if only in some ways. I have no explanation for it. But some traits do seem to overlap
Twenty years from now will not have to look up if any of guests or panel members are still living. For the most part, already not with us. Just shows how relatively new television still is. Will be whole different perspective centuries from now. Eventuality will have documentaries on centuries rather than decades.Bob Newhart still with us!
I've been looking for someone to mention Ernie Kovacs since he was killed in a car accident 3 weeks previously. At 10:21 Bennett kinda mentions it, very much in passing, when he says, "Arlene and the late Ernie Kovacs drove me crazy that night", talking about when he emceed the show in John Daly's absence. This wasn't much of a mention.
Sorry, Buddy at 19:44. There was no way that Sinatra would have appeared on WML so long as Dorothy Kilgallen was a panelist. He did not appear until after her death.
@@kristabrewer9363 Strong mutual personal dislike. She reported often about gossip about him, which he did not like, and he retaliated by calling her the Chinless Wonder. Not everyone liked Dorothy or thought she was a good reporter and her three biggest feuds were with Sinatra, Lauren Bacall because of her reporting on Bogart, and Jack Paar.
@@preppysocks209 She also got on Patsy Clines bad side, when in 1961, a group of Grand Ole Opry stars played Carnegie hall. Kilgallen wrote something like " Run for the hills, the hillbillies are coming" and she also complained about country music being played at such a prestigious venue. Patsy took offence, and addressed Kilgallens article on stage. In the end, the concert was a big success, I'm sure much to Dorothys chagrin.
…and when describing why the show was so popular: "One of the most important reasons - I think that the people […] accept these people not merely as entertainers, but as friends in their home." That friendliness is also a large reason why it's enjoyable to watch half a century later.
Around 15:00 >> Buddy Hackett, who is very funny and one of the best guest panelists of WML, asks the contestant if she might be a forest ranger. Two years later, in another of his WML appearances, Hackett spontaneously worked in forest ranger comedy into the two games. It was all so funny that mystery guest Steve Allen signed in as "Forest Ranger" as a laugh. Apparently all this distracted John Daly, who said after question one "Mr. Allen" instead of "Mr. Cerf." Allen managed to make John's biggest goof even more funny in their post-game conversation. Hackett, who was never at a loss for a good line, said of Allen at that time, "Steve is one of the most cleaver men in our business. Let him come out again as someone else." [;^>) Maybe as a forest ranger.
I was 4 days old when this aired. For me i wasn't even aware of who Bob Newhart was, of course now i've lived through 3 Bob Newhart shows. Love his humor.
Well, congratulations to all involved at What's My Line on twelve years. 12 years! I, for one, have enjoyed every episode. May you have.. five more years on television!
This show aired in February 1962. Bob Newhart married in January 1963. Buddy Hackett introduced Newhart to the future Virginia Newhart. I wonder if that introduction occurred before or after the taping of this show. Newhart is a treasure, but I sometimes wonder how lonely he is as he sees his friends passing away.
Bob Newhart is a national treasure ... all three of his comedy shows were great -- my favorite character actors on his third show were Larry, Darryl and Darryl !
So, that was a toupee Mark Goodson was wearing, in his appearances, on the Bob Barker incarnation, of "The Price Is Right? Hey, Mark Goodson did this same talk, for the twentieth anniversary, of "The Price Is Right!!"
Did someone shout "Bob!" at 18:54 when Newhart starts signing in? (Not that the panelists heard it necessarily, as the acoustics were so notoriously bad in that studio...)
I always liked Bob Newhart and his 2 hit TV shows.I never knew of any show he had before the one where he was a psychiatrist.The 1980's show, he had the Vermont inn.Hackett was funny, and really clever.Why do some of those people act like they don't know about their own job? That animal doctor woman acted as if in a daze and kept looking at the host for answers.
Michelle Post - The great comedian with the button down mind had a TV variety type show when he first hit it big, then he had the one where he was a psychologist in his hometown of Chicago in the 70s and was the writer living in his Vermont Inn in the 80s program and he had another one for a couple of years in the 90s that was quite funny and called just "Bob." I have read several books about this panel and the making of the show "WML?" and there are 2 answers, I think, to your question. Perhaps 3 even: 1 being that people often clam up when they get in front of a TV camera. But the others are that sometimes the questions are posed in such a roundabout way to try to get at a positive response that the contestant is referring to John to be sure they are giving the correct answer based upon how the question was posed. The other is that for much of their run they were shooting the show in the upper floor of a train station and later an ill-equipped area in corporate buildings. So they had horrible acoustics and no one could hear virtually anyone else much of the time even with microphones and even sitting quite near the speaker. You will note they all ask for repeats of both questions and answers an awful lot. And they also fairly frequently mention noise they are hearing that is distracting them from offstage, which was other sounds within the building. A fair number of panelists and contestants even cup their ears because the flow of sound was so atrocious around both areas they had made into cheapo studios to film the show. Sometimes, too, with someone like an animal doctor I suspect the contestant is not sure when the panel asks about their clients if the panel is asking about the owners who are human and paying the bill or the animal that is the actual payment. Thus they are not sure how to respond and refer again to Daly. That's a legitimate quandary because I suppose we would define the client as the party paying their fee while others would consider any health issue to more involve the patient. Too, there are perfectly bright individuals who, even if an animal doctor requiring formal education at a high level, would not consider themselves or their practice profit-making because they are getting by, but not getting rich and tend to think of profits as something IBM makes and not that which independent contractors make after their bills are paid.
I suspect that many contestants were very nervous about appearing on national TV. A lot of people are nervous speaking up at a local PTA meeting, and this was a thousand times bigger: cameras, celebrities across the stage, and the one time in their life that they would ever be on television. There was also a "terms of reference" issue. Contestants who had watched the show before had seen John correct people's answers because of the show's terms of reference. I think that even a minimally nervous person could feel compelled to check with John to make sure that their intended answer wouldn't be overruled.
Right away Daly gives clue that mystery guests are not “celebrities.” Therefore, narrows down to someone(s) a member(s) know personally. He often gives away huge clues.
Whenever there is more than one contestant at the time, I keep asking myself why they didn't use a second chair ? I can understand it would give a clue to the panel in the "celebrity guest" part of the show, but even then, they could have brought the extra chair while the guests were writing their names.
Believe it or not, they did this on purpose. There was a "specially made" chair that could (awkwardly) seat two contestants tightly next to each other, designed by the director, because it insured that the two people could always be framed in a closeup. I completely agree that it looks really awkward, though. Director's tunnel vision, I guess, more concerned with the shot composition than with how uncomfortable this arrangement was for the guests!
Let's see, they would have to deal with this for five or ten minutes and were being paid. I can recall being crammed next to the window on an overheated commuter bus for about an hour in the middle of winter wearing a heavy coat sitting next to a man who took up all of his seat and some of my seat. Furthermore, the air inside the bus was about 80% carbon monoxide because it was idling indoors for at least 15 minutes next to a platform at the Port Authority Bus Terminal (41st Street) at rush hour among at least 100 other buses doing the same thing. Not only was I not paid for this experience, I had to pay for the ride. Many was the night I welcomed that first gulp of frigid fresh air and the half mile walk home to clear my head. Of course this pleasure trip topped off a day of hard work at low pay, followed by a half mile walk from the corner of 6th Avenue and 45th Street and through the hordes of commuters mingling with the wonderful denizens of the Times Square area before it was "cleaned up". You think it was demeaning for a woman to be whistled at? Imagine being concerned about standing in one spot too long lest someone think you were there "looking for a good time." This was the mid to late 1970's when comedians loved to lampoon NYC for calling itself "Fun City".
Hello There - I do not recall from reading the autobiographies of both Arlene and Bennett if they even mentioned Buddy as accepted or not. I know Hal never fit in earlier on. But the Buddy you see there is his comic persona which he kept up for the laughs and the panel would have known that was his comedic shtick. He actually had a rather gentle nature.
@@philippapay4352 . I like the way you describe Buddy Hackett as having a gentle nature, that is one reason why I always liked Buddy. I also liked about him that he could always crack Carson up!
@@williamlynnroden I'm glad you saw that in him. One cannot be a wilting lily and go onstage and in this show the panel is on camera and displaying their public persona to delight the TV and studio audiences.
@@williamlynnroden P.S. Carson had comics on frequently whom he found funny. David Brenner was on hundreds of times and Carson always made him do a monologue because he made him laugh so. And Carson loved Tony Randall, Phyllis Newman, Suzanne Pleshette and some others because they were genuinely funny folks with great wit.
Did Arlene have different versions of her heart shaped necklace? In this episode, it almost seems like there's a sapphire in the middle of the heart shape.
B Hackett was the original middle square on 'Hollywood Squares' and he was annoying, always breaking in on other people's answers with dumb comments, trying to dominate the show. . Paul Lynde sat on his right and I don't think that 'Squares' could have been such a big hit if they hadn't put Lynde into the middle and had Hackett on as occasional player.
Bob Newhart had a show before "The Bob Newhart Show"?! I know that he followed that up with "Newhart" and, finally, "Bob". But what show did he have in '62?
Yeah, he had a variety show in 1961-2 also called the "Bob Newhart Show," it didn't do too well, and it's overshadowed by the 1972-8 sitcom of the same name.
Bob Newhart had a variety show in the 1961-62 season, imaginatively titled The Bob Newhart Show. Later, in the 1964-65 season, he was one of three rotating hosts (with Carol Burnett and Caterina Valente) on The Entertainers. Some time in the Sixties he also made an (unsold) pilot for an hour-long show called Hobson's Choice, whose gimmick was that the audience was asked to choose between two alternate endings.
Interestingly enough, "The Bob Newhart Show" that only lasted one season on NBC won the Emmy for "Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Humor" that is now known as "Outstanding Comedy Series". It was Bob's first and so-far ONLY time a series of his won that award.
Actually it was almost 900 broadcasts by the time the show left the air. The four episodes John did miss were due to his work - he never once missed due to illness or family situation, even though there were nights that he obviously wasn't feeling well.
Bob Newhart and his wife Virginia are apparently still living (9-4-2021). Buddy Hackett introduced Bob to Ginny, daughter of character actor Bill Quinn, and they were married in January, the year after this episode. They have four children and ten grandchildren.
I can't place my finger on it, but on this show, Bob Newhart look very similar to a young man who was a contestant around this time (I think) who I believe was a preacher or something. Anyone see this? I've been watching to much "Line"!
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What a delightful TV show; educational, full of class, tact, and respect for everyone! I am so very grateful for those who upload these videos to TH-cam.
Bob Newhart. Salute to the man who made millions laugh from the 1960s to this day. Still every bit a a star on TH-cam.
24:06 "I know you've got a wonderful career stretching ahead of you, Bob." Mr. Daly was certainly correct in his prediction!
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He is the only surviving celebrity from this episode, as of 2024.
The chemistry of the panel is timeless!
I say this is THE GREATEST GAME SHOW EVER. PERIOD.
It was both the concept and, of course, the panelists.
I really enjoyed listening to them talk about how long 12 years was while watching it 58 years later. :)
“You have a wonderful career stretching ahead of you”. Never a truer word spoken. Loved him in the Big Bang Theory and he was so good I almost believed there really was an Arthur Jeffries, or “Dr. Proton”.
"I have a thing on my wrist that tells me where I live!!"
“What’s My Line” is sort of a show business history lesson.
I’ve got a theory that this is the peak of the American empire we are watching. America the bold and brave at play.
Very much so.
WHOEVER posted all these episodes Thank you you did a excellent job I put it on my desk and listen to it through out the day I never knew this show existed so every episode is new to me ,
I see all these greats and have a hard time acknowledging that they are all gone and that so few people know who they are. To learn from those these greats...what a gift.
Bob Newhart is alive as of June 2021..
I know. Sad.
@@hizgrase the fact Bob Newhart is still alive and kicking makes you sad?
@@godetonter4764 I’m sure he was referring to the other ones.
I know what you mean, it's so sad that these clever and witty people will now never meet up again and provide such amazing entertainment.
Goodson and Todman, 2 powerful and wealthy executives,sharing a chair. Guess one thing that didn't change was the budget !
Bob Newhart was (and is) a very funny man. He had a unique, low-key style that was very witty and clever. I've always found it ironic that his best friend was the late comedian Don Rickles... certainly a man with a VERY different style.
Newhart was preeminent in being able to get Rickles to laugh to the point of cracking up. And according to everything I've seen, heard or read, their wives got along very well. The two couples even vacationed together.
Neither man started out in the roles they were successful with. Newhart was originally an accountant. Rickles wanted to be a serious actor and when that wasn't going very far, tried a more traditional stand up routine. He stumbled upon the insult routine when he was getting more laughs with his comebacks at hecklers than with his prepared material.
My gut feeling is that insult comedy didn't represent Rickles' real life personality. One thing that impressed me about him was that when he would roast someone, he would change tone at the end and say nice things about the guest of honor. And this would be the Don Rickles that Newhart was best friends with.
Even more ironic is that his favorite comedian was Richard Pryor, who had a REALLY DIFFERENT style.
No disrespect intended but Buddy Hackett was one irritating individual
Bob Newhart probably wasn't as well known back then as he is now though
I didn’t know that he and Don were best friends. You’re so right about their different styles!
"Professionally...."
Spontaneous, and he got two big laughs out of it. That's what makes Newhart a great comedian.
I like Dorothy’s dress. This is a good episode. Always loved BoB Newhart. Also, this is a panel I like, but I like the one’s with Dorothy, Steve Allen, Arlene and Bennett best.
The best guest panelist in order are 1) Steve Allen, 2) Fred Allen and 3) Tony Randall.
@@johngreen3543 … Everybody seems to have different choices for their favorite panelists.
I don't think I've ever thanked Gary adequately, (nor do I think I could), but cheers mate all the same...I love these shows, and all the good manners, mutual respect and old-fashioned style that went with them
Thanks again
Dave
PS I've worked (so far) nearly 40 years in the bus industry, and can testify to the accuracy (back in the day) of at least one of Bob's famous skits...
cogidubnus1953 Thanks for the comment, Dave. :)
+What's My Line?
I am grateful to reminded periodically to thank you for all the work you did to compile these videos, edit them where they needed upgrades, post them, moderate the comments posted and deal with all the You Tube and Google Plus nonsense. I haven't seen you comment recently. Hopefully you have moved on to other good things in life.
salve, Cogidubne, rex Brittanice!
It wasn’t part of the problem but I want to commend you on it….you blocked both lanes that time
I was mar. in 1949, had my 1st child in 1950, and didn't have a TV for another 4 yrs. Don't remember watching this show then, but some of the early panelists would not have drawn me to the show. I'm enjoying it more now as it's a great way to relax before falling asleep.
@1928gerry. I agree. It's relaxing to watch at bedtime 🛌. I watched one of the episodes of WML from 1952 on yt. It definitely wasn't anywhere near as good as the episodes in the middle to late 1950s and in the 1960s.
Never realized Bob Newhart was famous even back in the early 60s.. luv him
+Susquehanna80 watch his monologue in the movie Hell is for Angels - super funny
+Paula Snow The movie is "Hell Is For Heroes" - but I do agree with you that that scene is outstanding, and so is the rest of his performance, and so is everybody else's performance in said film.
You're right about the movie. Newhart has a wonderful slow wit style. Thanks for the posting.
Susquehanna80 - Newhart was also brilliant as Major Major in "Catch 22." I believe his album "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart" came out around 1960 and was a revelation to the long-playing record industry because it sold in truck loads and made him famous almost overnight. It remains just hilarious.
@Mary C I had his records and would laugh hysterically at his routines. Very dry sense of humour.
Bob Newhart is timeless, stutter and all. Loved him in Newhart and the Bob Newhart show.
This was another really good show. It was awesome seeing Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the producers of WML as well as many other shows on this show. That was really nice that they showed up for WML's 12th anniversary. Of course, Mark Goodson's daughter Marjorie Goodson was the model in the game show "Classic Concentration" in the 1980s. At that time, Alex Trebek hosted that show. She had a good sense of humor when she was modeling on that show. She married Tim Cutt. They had one daughter, Hannah. Later on, Marjorie and Tim got divorced. I think that Marjorie was born on October 2, 1962.
Dixie Cline writes with her right-hand, but her signature is at least partially slanted to the left. The way she made her slant mark to complete the letter "x" in her name particularly caught my attention. I have read that when a naturally left-handed person is forced to learn to write right-handed, it still tends to look more like the way a left-handed person writes.
I'm ambidextrous when I write. When I write right-handed, it looks like it's right-handed. When I write left-handed, it looks like it's right-handed. But, when I cross the ts in my first name, I start on the right and I go to the Left. Yt forced me to capitalize the word "left." When I write right-handed, I do the opposite. Also, I don't hold my pen or pencil the same way that most left-handers do. I hold it the way that a right-hander does. When I was a child, I loved to draw pictures with both hands quite often.
bob newhart doesn't get enough credit for changing the face of comedy, he brought an urbane intellectual wit to comedy, at the time comedians still followed a vaudevillian style of zany humor, he also opened the door for topical and political comedians, yes there was will rogers but he was generally a humorist who steered clear of anything controversial, newhart opened that door with "implied" humor generally left to a silence you had to answer for yourself.
+tomitstube I would put a few guys in that team picture: Jack Benny, of course, but also Wally Cox, Johnny Carson, and Bob Elliott.
Also, wasn't he the creator of deadpan comedy?
@@erichanson426 newhart didn't "create" deadpan but he took it to a new level.
Tomitstube, beautifully said!
Bob Newhart was good at making everyone around him funny
The travels of Bennet is impressive, even for 2018 standards... for 1962 must have been quite insane to regular folks...
Can you imagine his income (and all the expenses he deducted for his taxes!?) and what the costs are to take soooo much time off, travel all over the world, for extended periods. Did he take Phyllis, or leave her behind? I wonder if he was faithful. I just get a vibe that he's sort of creeping on the women.
Lars Rye Jeppesen - Bennett was the head of Random House and had long ago won one of the most important Supreme Court cases of the 20th Century over the First Amendment in regard to James Joyce's "Ulysses." He was only on vacation when they mentioned that he was going with his wife and two sons on vacation. The rest of the time he was going to public libraries and prep schools and colleges promoting reading and the books that Random House could offer. So, he was on business all these times and it was tax deductible under the firm as a cost of doing business. He and his wife had two sons, so during work trips she was home with them and she did publishing work for Random House as well. She wrote a book with another woman who was on this show with her as a mystery guest. And she was the founder of the Landmark series for children that Random House established. He'd had a terrible first marriage and was happy with Phyllis, yet with Dorothy's show-biz gossip and Ginger Rogers as an in-law, he might not have gotten away too smoothly with cheating, assuming he was hetero. I do not think he was a dishonorable man, but people often do what they can get away with. He was really in the post-WWII take-off, as it were, of the commercial aviation business for vacationers and businessmen. What stuns me is that these planes were largely the old prop planes that flew relatively low by jet standards and he went to a lot of small cities and towns where a jet could not have landed anyway. But, he loved his work and words, written or spoken, and wanted Americans to read and learn and share in the wealth of our civilization.
Awesome Trivia: The same year this episode aired, Bob Newhart won a Golden Globe for a variety series. The award was actually a tie and Bob ended up sharing that award with.....John Daly!
How amazing - this was the year before I was born and here I am still watching Bob Newhart.
This aired the day I was born!
Bod is my favorite comedian of all time. I loved him on the Ed Sullivan Show and then "The Bob Newhart Show" he was just the best! :)
I'm watching this as I am up trying to nurse the flu. This is the standard for which all game shows should be measured. Love them all and their ability to calm down contestants and give a great chuckle. RIP to all these precious people.
This is a delight!
Love watching these episodes again! It is bittersweet to think of how few of these wonderful people are still with us. Luckily Mr. Newhart is still around and working. His recurring role on Bing Bang is hilarious.
Thank you for posting these!
The ladies and gentlemen looked so polished and well dressed.
They dress for a Sunday night on the town, being a live show in New York City.
Bob Newhart-one of the best comics ever-and he never used filthy language to get laughs.
He's a Virgo like myself and I can see similarities, even tho' I don't believe in signs. But, we're definitely Virgos.
1928gerry It’s funny that you should mention similarities in people of they same sign. I too put no credence in the signs themselves I have noticed that personality traits between me and others of the same sign do seem to exist if only in some ways. I have no explanation for it. But some traits do seem to overlap
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You see them because you're looking for them.
Funkenstein That is a definite possibility. Any co-incidentence can be explained in this way if you look hard enough
He was a sincere, low=key practicing Catholic all his life married to one woman. His best lifelong friend for most of his life was....DON RICKLES!
Twenty years from now will not have to look up if any of guests or panel members are still living. For the most part, already not with us. Just shows how relatively new television still is. Will be whole different perspective centuries from now. Eventuality will have documentaries on centuries rather than decades.Bob Newhart still with us!
I had to warch this. It was on the day I was born. Also my brother's 13th birthday. Makes me feel really old!
i found the one for dec 20, 1953...my dob :D
This was the day before I was born!
Mark Goodson and Bill Todman seemed like such gentlemen; true mensches.❤
Why did the veterinarian say that she “sometimes”works with animals? 🤔
@leannsherman6723 She also works for people (the animals' owners).
I've been looking for someone to mention Ernie Kovacs since he was killed in a car accident 3 weeks previously. At 10:21 Bennett kinda mentions it, very much in passing, when he says, "Arlene and the late Ernie Kovacs drove me crazy that night", talking about when he emceed the show in John Daly's absence. This wasn't much of a mention.
I love Bob Newhart....
Goodson and Todman were TV game-show pioneers.
Bob Newhart seemed like a very modest, humble gentleman.
Sorry, Buddy at 19:44. There was no way that Sinatra would have appeared on WML so long as Dorothy Kilgallen was a panelist. He did not appear until after her death.
Why would Sinatra not appear on What's My Line with Dorothy?
@@kristabrewer9363 Strong mutual personal dislike. She reported often about gossip about him, which he did not like, and he retaliated by calling her the Chinless Wonder. Not everyone liked Dorothy or thought she was a good reporter and her three biggest feuds were with Sinatra, Lauren Bacall because of her reporting on Bogart, and Jack Paar.
@@preppysocks209 She also got on Patsy Clines bad side, when in 1961, a group of Grand Ole Opry stars played Carnegie hall. Kilgallen wrote something like " Run for the hills, the hillbillies are coming" and she also complained about country music being played at such a prestigious venue. Patsy took offence, and addressed Kilgallens article on stage. In the end, the concert was a big success, I'm sure much to Dorothys chagrin.
Frankly I would rather have Dorothy on the panel than Frank Sinatra.
What a way to begin the 13th year!
…and when describing why the show was so popular: "One of the most important reasons - I think that the people […] accept these people not merely as entertainers, but as friends in their home." That friendliness is also a large reason why it's enjoyable to watch half a century later.
Around 15:00 >> Buddy Hackett, who is very funny and one of the best guest panelists of WML, asks the contestant if she might be a forest ranger. Two years later, in another of his WML appearances, Hackett spontaneously worked in forest ranger comedy into the two games. It was all so funny that mystery guest Steve Allen signed in as "Forest Ranger" as a laugh. Apparently all this distracted John Daly, who said after question one "Mr. Allen" instead of "Mr. Cerf." Allen managed to make John's biggest goof even more funny in their post-game conversation. Hackett, who was never at a loss for a good line, said of Allen at that time, "Steve is one of the most cleaver men in our business. Let him come out again as someone else." [;^>) Maybe as a forest ranger.
On that album may be the the skit, “The Driving Instructor,” it is so funny I remember it from over 50 years ago.
“Newly seeded?”
Goodman & Todman produced several game shows over the decades.
That”s like saying Babe Ruth hit a few home runs during his career
Cerf knows who’s signin’ them checks!
I was 4 days old when this aired. For me i wasn't even aware of who Bob Newhart was, of course now i've lived through 3 Bob Newhart shows. Love his humor.
Bob had 5 shows of his own. His first was a variety show, which they discuss here.
It's fun to see the producers of 'The Price Is Right' that is still popular even today
Well, congratulations to all involved at What's My Line on twelve years. 12 years!
I, for one, have enjoyed every episode.
May you have.. five more years on television!
This show aired in February 1962. Bob Newhart married in January 1963. Buddy Hackett introduced Newhart to the future Virginia Newhart. I wonder if that introduction occurred before or after the taping of this show. Newhart is a treasure, but I sometimes wonder how lonely he is as he sees his friends passing away.
I liked mark's comment : let's not get technical
Does anyone else think that Arlene looks younger than she did in the 50s?
Notable examples are a line from USA today
She looks pretty good ...
I actually prefer her with the 1950s hairstyles.
I do.
Better make-up and hair.
Bob Newhart is a national treasure ... all three of his comedy shows were great -- my favorite character actors on his third show were Larry, Darryl and Darryl !
Hackett was Genius.
I didn't know Bob Newhart had a show during the 60s.
It was a varierty show, not a situation comedy.
I love Buddy Hackett's introduction of Arlene. It was fantastic and funny! Lol.
Bob takes a page from the Wally Cox handbook in his responses!
Bob Newhart in CBS version of the Bob Newhart show came out in 1972
So, that was a toupee Mark Goodson was wearing, in his appearances, on the Bob Barker incarnation, of "The Price Is Right? Hey, Mark Goodson did this same talk, for the twentieth anniversary, of "The Price Is Right!!"
Can't go wrong with class. Something sadly in short supply in this day and age.
If you listen closely during Goodson and Todman's segment, Arlene mentions that she hosted an episode. Gary, do you happen to know which one that is?
Did someone shout "Bob!" at 18:54 when Newhart starts signing in? (Not that the panelists heard it necessarily, as the acoustics were so notoriously bad in that studio...)
Yes. I heard it
Happy birthday today Bob Newhart
I always liked Bob Newhart and his 2 hit TV shows.I never knew of any show he had before the one where he was a psychiatrist.The 1980's show, he had the Vermont inn.Hackett was funny, and really clever.Why do some of those people act like they don't know about their own job? That animal doctor woman acted as if in a daze and kept looking at the host for answers.
Michelle Post - The great comedian with the button down mind had a TV variety type show when he first hit it big, then he had the one where he was a psychologist in his hometown of Chicago in the 70s and was the writer living in his Vermont Inn in the 80s program and he had another one for a couple of years in the 90s that was quite funny and called just "Bob." I have read several books about this panel and the making of the show "WML?" and there are 2 answers, I think, to your question. Perhaps 3 even: 1 being that people often clam up when they get in front of a TV camera. But the others are that sometimes the questions are posed in such a roundabout way to try to get at a positive response that the contestant is referring to John to be sure they are giving the correct answer based upon how the question was posed. The other is that for much of their run they were shooting the show in the upper floor of a train station and later an ill-equipped area in corporate buildings. So they had horrible acoustics and no one could hear virtually anyone else much of the time even with microphones and even sitting quite near the speaker. You will note they all ask for repeats of both questions and answers an awful lot. And they also fairly frequently mention noise they are hearing that is distracting them from offstage, which was other sounds within the building. A fair number of panelists and contestants even cup their ears because the flow of sound was so atrocious around both areas they had made into cheapo studios to film the show. Sometimes, too, with someone like an animal doctor I suspect the contestant is not sure when the panel asks about their clients if the panel is asking about the owners who are human and paying the bill or the animal that is the actual payment. Thus they are not sure how to respond and refer again to Daly. That's a legitimate quandary because I suppose we would define the client as the party paying their fee while others would consider any health issue to more involve the patient. Too, there are perfectly bright individuals who, even if an animal doctor requiring formal education at a high level, would not consider themselves or their practice profit-making because they are getting by, but not getting rich and tend to think of profits as something IBM makes and not that which independent contractors make after their bills are paid.
I suspect that many contestants were very nervous about appearing on national TV. A lot of people are nervous speaking up at a local PTA meeting, and this was a thousand times bigger: cameras, celebrities across the stage, and the one time in their life that they would ever be on television.
There was also a "terms of reference" issue. Contestants who had watched the show before had seen John correct people's answers because of the show's terms of reference. I think that even a minimally nervous person could feel compelled to check with John to make sure that their intended answer wouldn't be overruled.
WOW, 12 years later and NONE of them have changed their looks!
Right away Daly gives clue that mystery guests are not “celebrities.” Therefore, narrows down to someone(s) a member(s) know personally. He often gives away huge clues.
I Find His Indecision (Rather) Relaxing..
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Whenever there is more than one contestant at the time, I keep asking myself why they didn't use a second chair ? I can understand it would give a clue to the panel in the "celebrity guest" part of the show, but even then, they could have brought the extra chair while the guests were writing their names.
Believe it or not, they did this on purpose. There was a "specially made" chair that could (awkwardly) seat two contestants tightly next to each other, designed by the director, because it insured that the two people could always be framed in a closeup. I completely agree that it looks really awkward, though. Director's tunnel vision, I guess, more concerned with the shot composition than with how uncomfortable this arrangement was for the guests!
Well then, the directors had a taste of their own medicine that particular night :)
Thanks for your answer.
Let's see, they would have to deal with this for five or ten minutes and were being paid. I can recall being crammed next to the window on an overheated commuter bus for about an hour in the middle of winter wearing a heavy coat sitting next to a man who took up all of his seat and some of my seat. Furthermore, the air inside the bus was about 80% carbon monoxide because it was idling indoors for at least 15 minutes next to a platform at the Port Authority Bus Terminal (41st Street) at rush hour among at least 100 other buses doing the same thing. Not only was I not paid for this experience, I had to pay for the ride. Many was the night I welcomed that first gulp of frigid fresh air and the half mile walk home to clear my head.
Of course this pleasure trip topped off a day of hard work at low pay, followed by a half mile walk from the corner of 6th Avenue and 45th Street and through the hordes of commuters mingling with the wonderful denizens of the Times Square area before it was "cleaned up". You think it was demeaning for a woman to be whistled at? Imagine being concerned about standing in one spot too long lest someone think you were there "looking for a good time." This was the mid to late 1970's when comedians loved to lampoon NYC for calling itself "Fun City".
I was born that year, 6 months later, so I'm a tiger!
Bob was so young
I would have picked up on Newharts voice instantly.
Bob Newhart still amongst us.
The vet was pretty cute!
Buddy's accent is such a contrast to the trained Mid-Atlantic accents of the others.
It is a BROOKLYN accent.
Buddy Hackett makes it a very happy show.
he seems obnoxious and abrasive...panel didn't accept him
Hello There - I do not recall from reading the autobiographies of both Arlene and Bennett if they even mentioned Buddy as accepted or not. I know Hal never fit in earlier on. But the Buddy you see there is his comic persona which he kept up for the laughs and the panel would have known that was his comedic shtick. He actually had a rather gentle nature.
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I like the way you describe Buddy Hackett as having a gentle nature, that is one reason why I always liked Buddy.
I also liked about him that he could always crack Carson up!
@@williamlynnroden I'm glad you saw that in him. One cannot be a wilting lily and go onstage and in this show the panel is on camera and displaying their public persona to delight the TV and studio audiences.
@@williamlynnroden P.S. Carson had comics on frequently whom he found funny. David Brenner was on hundreds of times and Carson always made him do a monologue because he made him laugh so. And Carson loved Tony Randall, Phyllis Newman, Suzanne Pleshette and some others because they were genuinely funny folks with great wit.
Bob Newhart sounds like he was channeling Jack Kerouac.
The odd thing about this is that Bob has no TV show listed on IMDB during this period. But they said he was a regular on Wednesday nights on a show.
And Peter Gabel just recently passed.
Did Arlene have different versions of her heart shaped necklace? In this episode, it almost seems like there's a sapphire in the middle of the heart shape.
@Mary C ... That's so sad!! Ppl are such jerks!!! 😔😥😨😰
Newhart’s voice is a give away.
I got the impression that Dorothy and Arlene were not very impressed by Bob Newhart - -probably not the big showbiz'y name yet.
Did I hear Arlene say "Cups" (as in Dixie Cups) at 11:35? For some reason that made me crack up laughing. :)
R.D. Dragon - And I whispered "chicks!"
Bob Newhart and Buddy Hackett were really funny in this episode. Great comedians
Bob Newhart remains
A little Buddy Hackett goes a very, very far way.
Buddy was actually one of the sweetest and nicest of men.
ccbsnyc Is always was very ON on WML.
B Hackett was the original middle square on 'Hollywood Squares' and he was annoying, always breaking in on other people's answers with dumb comments, trying to dominate the show. . Paul Lynde sat on his right and I don't think that 'Squares' could have been such a big hit if they hadn't put Lynde into the middle and had Hackett on as occasional player.
I agree, and feel the same way about Jerry Lewis.
I wish they'd both gone a lot further away...
How could Hacket not have known his voice???
Its wonderful to see men being gentlemen with manners when they stand for ladies.
With the veterinarian guest, one question got a "yes" but what part of her vet services would be performed on children? Did they mean done BY her?
Children own animals, right?
the days when 12 years on tv was a major long time. now a days 12 years means nothing
Back in the days of
"Family TV"!
Bob Newhart had a show before "The Bob Newhart Show"?!
I know that he followed that up with "Newhart" and, finally, "Bob". But what show did he have in '62?
Yeah, he had a variety show in 1961-2 also called the "Bob Newhart Show," it didn't do too well, and it's overshadowed by the 1972-8 sitcom of the same name.
Bob Newhart had a variety show in the 1961-62 season, imaginatively titled The Bob Newhart Show. Later, in the 1964-65 season, he was one of three rotating hosts (with Carol Burnett and Caterina Valente) on The Entertainers. Some time in the Sixties he also made an (unsold) pilot for an hour-long show called Hobson's Choice, whose gimmick was that the audience was asked to choose between two alternate endings.
Interestingly enough, "The Bob Newhart Show" that only lasted one season on NBC won the Emmy for "Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Humor" that is now known as "Outstanding Comedy Series". It was Bob's first and so-far ONLY time a series of his won that award.
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I have seen an interview of Newhart where he said that just about every show that won an Emmy that particular year had been cancelled.
It was nice that Arlene, Bennett, Dorothy, John, and Bob Newhart made the time to appear on this episode of The Buddy Hackett Show
Dixie Cline's biography would come out less than 4 years after this episode.
The "year of the Tiger"..
Ernie Kovacs had died in an auto accident on January 13th.
Bennett Cerf sure got around.
I like Special K .
Newhart' s show was in trouble ratings - wise at this time. It was cancelled shortly after this broadcast .
John Daly only misses 4 in 600 broadcasts. Today people might miss 4 days of work in a month.
Actually it was almost 900 broadcasts by the time the show left the air. The four episodes John did miss were due to his work - he never once missed due to illness or family situation, even though there were nights that he obviously wasn't feeling well.
The button-down mind of Bob Newhart. Erstwhile accountant.
CPA, not an ordinary accountant.
14:46 - :47
- Her Look
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Bob Newhart and his wife Virginia are apparently still living (9-4-2021). Buddy Hackett introduced Bob to Ginny, daughter of character actor Bill Quinn, and they were married in January, the year after this episode. They have four children and ten grandchildren.
*_GOODSON AND TODMAN_*
*_VETERINARIAN_*
I can't place my finger on it, but on this show, Bob Newhart look very similar to a young man who was a contestant around this time (I think) who I believe was a preacher or something.
Anyone see this? I've been watching to much "Line"!