Such a talented performer (see the 1957 film “A Face in the Crowd”, in addition to all his other body of work). He seemed like a down-to-earth and generous person to me.
Andy was the best grew up with him and will never forget all the great life lessons that helped shape me as a young and now a older man. Thank you andy
i don’t believe he was at all underrated, especially in the business. just look at the movies he’s made - great acting. and everyone loved “The Andy Griffith Show”. the actress playing Aunt Bea was such a lovely woman the character was wonderful. it was very well written - had both heartfelt family and friendships, as well as comedy - Don Knotts. incredible comedy actor. 🌼🌾🌻
@@feralbluee The actress who played Aunt Bea wasn't so lovely during that time, she did not like Andy including the actor that played Ernest T who also directed a lot of the shows. During the whole time she was on the show she gave him a hard time. But later in life he said that she called him and apologized to him. They were all talking about it on an anniversary special of the show. But it was lovely of her to call Mr Griffith and apologize for her bad behavior back then.
@@joeybonin7691 that's depressing and a good chance it's true to. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed the difference between today and yesteryear.
That was fun to watch. So much has changed in such a short time. The way the ladies and gentlemen are dressed, the jokes, the gentlemen standing when shaking hands...
@@ryanforresterrenaissancesa4204 People weren't that sensitive back then. You must have had a course in political correctness. That offends me. If you look close enough you can see he laughed at it too. Then John Daley came back at Bennet with Shakespeare. All three white guys, Ha Ha!
Just amazing that at the same time this was being aired, Hendrix was recording Purple Haze in the studio and Jerry & The Dead were jamming in San Francisco. Two totally different worlds in the 1960's.
Yes, the world was rapidly changing outside the studio doors and that fact was never exposed inside this studio. Except for clothes and hairstyles, it could be 1950 or 1967.
@@thunderridge4830 That is true. In those days it was rare to wear the team uniform to the game. But many of the games were played during the game, people dressed up more for work, and they left work early sometimes, so attended the games better dressed than today.
I love Andy and have watched The Andy Griffith series start to finish I don’t know how many times. I know almost every line of every part by heart and yet I still never get tired of watching it. I wish we had more shows like that still today, but this is a totally different world now than it was then. RIP AG!
It's not 'like' a completely different time, it WAS a completely different time. However, consider this. Human beings haven't changed as such....media and technology has. If only people spent less time gazing screens and ranting on social media, people would converse and behave in a more eloquent and civilised way.
Andy Griffith (and Barney, Opie, and Aunt Bea!) will live on in our hearts forever. The show embodied everything right about America, then and now. Believe it or not, here on the eve of the year 2019, there are still pockets of Americana still around - mostly in the South, and I’ve lived in one of them.for almost 40 years.
Man such simple television, yet so much more entertaining and interesting than this modern-day mess were force fed nowadays. The times and the people were so much more respectable of each other back in this era. Great video and stroll down memory lane. Thanks!
I CAN'T AND DON'T WATCH WHAT U REFERRED 2 BUT DO WATCH THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW 24-7 AND IT'S STILL SOOOOOO MUCH BETTER THAN ANYTHING IMPERSONATING A COMEDY IN THIS DAY AND AGE !!
My Generations Z and Alpha children adore the Andy Griffith Show. The man is an absolute classic and timeless on top of being wholesome. I wish the show were still on Netflix.
about Bong Way Wong, there is a children’s illustrated book called El Chino by Allen Say that tells mr wong’s journey to becoming the first matador of chinese descent.
But I don't like the Spanish bull fighting where the bull is killed. I like the American rodeo bullfighting with the rodeo clowns where the bull perform time and time again.
People had some dirty minds back then too. One where a guy fits corsets, a question was if he does a service for men (which is yes) the audience was giggling like a bunch of middle school boys.
This episode had me weeping. Love, love, love the Andy Griffith Show and I long for the all American days of old. We are now living in a crumbling dystopian world and I love to escape to this wonderful show of manners and good clean fun.
I have watched WML many times back when they were on TV. right now is a stressful time in my life so I'm going through all the episodes again as a form of therapy and it works!!
Shoot! To the question of whether or not Andy Griffith was a singer, a qualified yes should have been the order of the day. He was accomplished in folk and Christian music singing and well known for it.
At the time recorded, Andy was titled star of a comedy TV show. being a singer was rejected because the previous two questions had specifically stated MOST KNOWN, he had "no time for sargents" but not stage or film, and his records he was most know for WERE ALL SPOKEN WORD / COMEDY ALBUMS. so while he probably had already recorded "Fishin' Hole" and a Christmas Album he is just as much a professional singer as you are a professional racer by hitting the gas at a yellow light plus, i think ALL his religious albums (save an already mentioned Christmas album) were recorded AFTER 1967 well he had *Shouts the Blues and Old Timey Songs (1959)* and a Broadway score album. (i never heard of either, can you claim otherwise?) also had an album *Songs, Themes and Laughs from the Andy Griffith Show (1961)* which sounds less singing and more clips of funny bits ... but nothing else listed on Wikipedia until 1971 and later. In order to include singing he would have to have been at least a double-threat man (compared with a triple threat as defined by Arlene Francis on other WML shows as _Acting, Dancing and Singing_ ) no way you can say his singing career was even close to his Television Career at the date of recording
Back then bigger was better. Before the big-do faze crashed they were like walking satellite dishes. And she was oh so proud of it,you could tell--just drink me up..
No click-bate here. You delivered what your title promised. This brought back good memories for an old man who was a kid back then growing up with TV still in it's infancy.
I grew up in Upstate New York in a little town called Sherrill N.Y. (although officially it is a city) pop 3000. My family and I used to love watching The Andy Griffith Show and we could relate to a lot of the small town shenanigans in the show. We were sort of a Mayberry north without the southern accents. I admired Andy Griffith quite a lot. He was the real deal.
His brother was also on TV. Kind of a strange looking kid. He played in a number of roles including the weird alien on the original Star Trek series who look like a weird little adult kid .
Andy Griffith was a TV actor, motion picture actor, recording artist, stand-up comedian, director....he could do it all. Still to this day one of the funniest things i have ever heard is "What it was, was football"
Ahhh...the good old days when people were actually polite!! We were a polite society back in those days! Mutual kindness it's gone and will never be back!
Andy Griffith was the best. just loved his work. my favorite - he sings a song called “Sawlty Dowg”. i just loved it. he’s a great actor!! watch the movie he made early in his career. :) 🐕 🎸
Sure they were household names. The Andy Griffith show was on for 7 years when this episode was made and it never placed lower than 7th in the Nielsen ratings.
Definitely a regular member of the comedy crew on The Steve Allen Show (along with Louie Nye, Tom Poston, Bill Dana, Dayton Allen ...). But hard to characterize him as sophisticated. As I recall from my early childhood, he was playing his usual nervous Nellie character most of the time.
@@loissimmons6558 Knotts also played the Man on the Street, along with Louie Nye. Both characters were clutzy fumbling bumbling and downright hilarious! They always managed to get Steve laughing that hysterically contagious laugh of his. Sometimes they could barely finish the sketch.
@@glenncalzada1707 Louis Nye usually played the sophisticated Gordon Hathaway who would greet Allen with the catchphrase "Ho ho Steverino". Tom Poston, who could never remember his name was the other bumbler. Here's a sketch from the old Steve Allen Show with Nye, Knotts and Poston. th-cam.com/video/54wdCLdrfVk/w-d-xo.html
@@Koji-888 Now Koji....Joe Black could be any age with severe social issues. Our millennials are our future, they should not be blamed just for having possible members like JB..........
I was happy to hear that John wasnt an afficionado of bull fighting. This was the first time Id heard him say that. Yet he was nice to the guest and didnt put him down because of the profession.
One year later, The Andy Griffith Show would end its run. As of 2022, TAGS remains one of only three TV shows to end as the #1 TV show in the ratings, as reported by Neilsen. The other two being I Love Lucy and (exactly 30 years and two months later) Seinfeld.
How different TV is today! These people on this show were smart, urbane, witty, and not vulgar. They had respect and the moderator was an example of good behavior. Yes, there's a place for dark,, cursing humor, but this show is what the fifties were about: white bread. And I still like it.
Oh this is neat: Mrs. Benner, McKeon Products Company, and Mack's earplugs have done fantastically well. The company is still around. They had the first silicone-based ear-plug. I remember as a pharmacy technician circa 1999, I sold the product. It still exists basically unchanged, and it honestly works very well. They even link to this episode on the "about us" page of the Mack's Earplugs website. Apparently, she even did the show twice.
My favorite Andy Griffith roles; apart from his most frequently mentioned series was as a junkman turned astronaut in an interesting short lived show called Salvage One (1979), His historian novelist in the last segment of a mini-series(1978-1979) about the founding of a fictional town called Centennial, and one (1974)TV movie where he played the villain called Savages; opposite Sam Buttons. Now that was fun.
the panel was so fun to hear and andy was always a handsome man and his hair was always so pretty and a toothy smile. I was blown away about his english accent that he used on the show to stump the panel that was cool. I never knew he could change his voice that way. He is always missed but I never miss the AG show.
Clear and simple shows for those who wish to think simply, (like me), forgetting the world around us now, going back to when I was 7-8 and black and white TV was the only TV around.
13:26 "Bennet's been trying that one for _seventeen years_!" I really love this show. You watch enough episodes of this thing, they really start to feel like your friends. Why doesn't TV do this anymore?
Because major broadcast television companies, don't care about the viewers like they did back in the day, they air anything and "everything" that makes the quickest buck possible, and if it flops, they move as fast as they can to throw something else at you. Thank God for Netflix, it's bringing back real TV again, people want to create great programming, that want the viewers to like what they produce! Cancel the cable, the direct TV, and any major network television! It's all garbage!
Because today we have realistic TV programs like Jerry Springer and Mauri what's his name. And let's not forget the so-called Judges who decide cases in 10 minutes
Because people have turned into mean-spirited self-absorbed techno-droids that could care less about anything unless it affects them personally or it has the appearance, to the rest of the world, that it's a noble gesture of compassion and gross sentimentality as to be maudlin. People eat this shit up. America loves fake shit, it thrives on fake...It is.......................................................
Game shows tend to come back into favor in waves. It was just about the time I noticed we hadn't had any game shows for several years that Howie Mandel's show with the suitecases and who wants to be a millionaire came on. There's no reason why they can't remake a show like this again today.
+snippy whapper He wasn't famous for singing. He didn't do concerts or release records (except spoken comedy records), so in professional context, he was not really a singer.
+netram28 Andy Griffith did release an album of his singing during his run on this show. It included country and gospel songs and also included him singing the theme song to The Andy Griffith Show (yes, there were words to that song). I would think that his singing in the movies and on his TV show along with releasing this album would qualify him as a singer. Just my two cents worth.
They had asked if he was "primarily" known for movies and the same question for the Broadway stage. But "primarily" was omitted when it came to the question about singing. The "no" answer was given as if the primary area of notoriety was still being asked. Andy is indeed a singer at this time. He sang often on "The Andy Griffith Show". And he sang to open his upcoming special that he plugged.
@@loissimmons6558 On youtube, you can see the opening clip to the Andy Griffith Uptown Downtown Special. Andy sings with TN Ernie Ford and even Don Knotts for a bit. There is bevy of blonde dancers surrounding them. One is a very young Goldie Hawn.
Actually, even WML was broadcasting in color for its final season, 1966-67. The color videotapes weren't preserved; what we have today are the B&W kinescope films.
The broadcasts may have been in color, but my old man wouldn’t buy a color set. I remember going to a friend’s house (who had a color TV) and finding out that Dudley Do-Rights uniform was RED.
My ol man built a heathkit color tv in 1969. Was a big deal going from black and white to color. Prior to that we had two tv’s one had sound but no picture and the other had a picture and no sound .... one sat on top of the other and we watched tv that way till the heathkit was finished. Remember coming home from school and smelling the soldering iron. The good old days!
Funny they mention Ms. Denner, the ear-plug maker, was a musician (along with her husband). Ear plugs can come in handy in an orchestral setting, when one has the brass section blaring behind them.
+0413dec Absolutely true. I'm a violist who's played in an orchestra where I was blasted by the brass section. The worst experience, though, was one night when we were on a particularly small stage. A slide trombonist was positioned behind me and I watched the slide go past the right side of my face repeatedly. I wondered if I moved at the wrong time if I I'd get hit in the back of the head. And Mr. Wong thought he was in a dangerous profession. LOL!
In Spain, the matadors kill the bulls. The matadors are fully trained for years and are assisted by others in the "fighting" of the bulls. Sadly, the bulls are in the arena for the first and only time.
The ear plugs were in fact, Mack’s. Cecilia Benner was the guest. In 1962 she and her husband, Ray purchased McLeon Products, manufacturers of Mack’s Earplugs, which were made of a moldable clay mixture. Mack was the name of the previous owner and presumably the inventor of the earplugs.
Interesting that a show from 1967 was still in Black and White. From Wikipedia " Broadcast format From 1950 to 1966, the game show was broadcast in black-and-white, as was typical of most game shows at the time. But by 1966, all three networks were broadcasting their prime-time schedules entirely in color, including What's My Line? After the show ended in 1967, CBS replaced the color videotapes with the kinescope versions instead for syndication. As a result of this change, the 1966-1967 episodes of What's My Line? were only shown in black-and-white after the show ended.
That is so strange. I noticed that the Andy Griffith Show was in color for a few seasons when this aired. I assume the vast majority of people still had a B&W set in 67 though.
@@jarst50 Your assumption is correct. Andy Griffith started in color in the Fall season of 1965. "The number of color television sets sold in the US did not exceed black-and-white sales until 1972, which was also the first year that more than fifty percent of television households in the US had a color set." 1972, coincidentally, was the year our family got our first color TV. But the writing was on the wall in the mid 60s. I remember an early episode of "Adam-12"--"The Color TV Bandit" in 1968. Color TV was on most people's wish list by then.
SPOILER ALERT: Although Bennett Cerf does eventually guess the mystery guest as Andy Griffith, Griffith plays the game perfectly. For the most part, he only says "yes" and "no." Too many mystery guests make the mistake of talking too much, and he didn't -- which is why he almost fooled the panel (and DID fool the panel in 1965).
For all those people who are wondering why Don Knotts wasn't considered a household name co-star by Andy Griffith, it should be remembered that Knotts had left the show a few years earlier as a co-star and was appearing only a couple of times a year when the episode's plot either brought him back to Mayberry for a visit or Griffith went on a trip to Raleigh. As far as why Ronny Howard wasn't accorded that status (and Ronny actually had higher billing than Knotts on the year's when Knotts was a regular on the show) I can only assume that it's an indication that no matter how good Ronny was, as a child actor he didn't have the gravitas to get that consideration. It's usually dangerous to try and read someone's mind as to why they said something, but my guess is that a child actor would have to reach the level of a Shirley Temple and be #1 in the box office to be acknowledged in that way by Andy. Andy was the star, Ronny was the protege.
Tv was pretty sanitized back then, very strong censors would review scripts of shows before they would air. That's why you always see husbands and wives sleeping in separate beds in TV shows of this era. In real life married people didn't sleep in seperate beds.
We have seen the loss of civility in our time. People were more respectful back then, generally speaking. We now have road rage and random shootings. @@latsnojokelee6434
Bennett Cerf carried it to the hoop, even if he didn’t put it though the net . It’s difficult these days to understand what a dazzling display of intellect is demonstrated here.
Andy was correct, there were no household names staring on the Andy Griffith show during the time of this taping. Don Knotts left the show in 1965; this episode of “ what’s my line” was taped in 1967.
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Andy Griffith. Just seeing his face can make a person feel good.
That's probably the very best compliment you could ever give anyone regardless of being in entertainment or any other field.
Such a talented performer (see the 1957 film “A Face in the Crowd”, in addition to all his other body of work). He seemed like a down-to-earth and generous person to me.
@The Mermaid’s Tale Sadly, I heard Andy was a jerk in real life.
Andy was the best grew up with him and will never forget all the great life lessons that helped shape me as a young and now a older man. Thank you andy
I knew it was coming and still smiled like a child on Christmas. Haha
griffith was so underrated, he played the simple country boy but so intelligent and so talented
He was on Broadway very successfully before his big movies, A Face in the Crowd and No Time for Sergeants, both wonderful.
i don’t believe he was at all underrated, especially in the business. just look at the movies he’s made - great acting. and everyone loved “The Andy Griffith Show”. the actress playing Aunt Bea was such a lovely woman the character was wonderful. it was very well written - had both heartfelt family and friendships, as well as comedy - Don Knotts. incredible comedy actor. 🌼🌾🌻
@@feralbluee The actress who played Aunt Bea wasn't so lovely during that time, she did not like Andy including the actor that played Ernest T who also directed a lot of the shows. During the whole time she was on the show she gave him a hard time. But later in life he said that she called him and apologized to him. They were all talking about it on an anniversary special of the show. But it was lovely of her to call Mr Griffith and apologize for her bad behavior back then.
@@MissyA1966 The actress's name was Frances Bavier. She apologized to Andy Griffith shortly before she died.
@@robertcarran9585 me Too! GREAT MOVIE!
I'm blown away by how cordial people are back then. Manners and respectful too unlike today I miss that.
I do, too. It's the loss of civility, the beginning of the end of it all.
@@joeybonin7691 that's depressing and a good chance it's true to. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed the difference between today and yesteryear.
Arlene Francis was such a classy lady. Even her smile was elegant.
I've never seen anyone whose eyes smiled as warmly and broadly as his/her mouth as did those belonging to the lovely Arlene Francis!
@@benlujan288 I feel the same way. Arlene just seems so classy, in her looks and the way she acts.
Arlene is a so gorgeous charming and beauty stuning lady.
She looks like a little as Helen Mirren!
@Jeff Whitman She was a well thought of gracious woman who traveled
the world. What's your claim to nothing?
Love Andy Griffin... Bennett was the only one I felt like actually recognize his talent ...the others seemed a little snobby
I really loved Andy Griffith, I still watch that show every morning. Just makes me smile.
Love Andy. Watch the reruns every day. Need the comic relief these days. Don was so great too.
Where do you watch reruns ? I can't find them
@@kristabrewer6736 on my Optimum ch 34. Usually for 3 or 4hrs everyday.
I love anything and everything Andy Griffith is involved in.
A proud North Carolinian right here to see Andy Griffith!
The accent makes me think he had a much bigger range than we ever saw.
Watch “A Face in the Crowd” 1957 movie, if you can find it.
The Mermaid's Tale Its readily available on DVD and Criterion Blu-ray.
@@themermaidstale5008 Yes, stunning film that had Andy far away from Mayberry, to say the least.
He had an amazing range well known at the time from films.
Andy Griffith is such a sweet and genuine person in so many ways. After he was gone the mold was broken.
Thomas Fitzgerald a true southern icon
Don's gone, I don't think Andy, too ! ?
@@Trojanny Andy passed away in 2012.
@@Trojanny BOTH R GONE , UNFORTUNATELY BUT THEY'LL ALWAYS B CELLULOID HEROS !!
Andy Griffith was not Andy Taylor. Read the book "Andy and Don" and find out what he was really like.
That was fun to watch. So much has changed in such a short time. The way the ladies and gentlemen are dressed, the jokes, the gentlemen standing when shaking hands...
I don't believe a lot has changed per se, surely the style but shaking hands - one still stands up, it's normal, isn't it?
Kamran Jafarli but the women did not
We didn't need to use profanity to be funny. I can't stand today's comedy and don't watch it.
@@GGE47 But it was plenty okay for all three white guys to make fun of the Asian guy's name.
@@ryanforresterrenaissancesa4204 People weren't that sensitive back then. You must have had a course in political correctness. That offends me. If you look close enough you can see he laughed at it too. Then John Daley came back at Bennet with Shakespeare. All three white guys, Ha Ha!
Andy and Barney were my all time favorites!
Just amazing that at the same time this was being aired, Hendrix was recording Purple Haze in the studio and Jerry & The Dead were jamming in San Francisco. Two totally different worlds in the 1960's.
Good point. Jerry and the boys were in LA recording their debut album @ Warner Bros.
Big deadhead here and Andy Griffith Show head as well. 😉
Yes, the world was rapidly changing outside the studio doors and that fact was never exposed inside this studio. Except for clothes and hairstyles, it could be 1950 or 1967.
I love the classy way they dressed.
I love how they dressed in formal wear for a TV game show.
Back then, people used to get dressed up to go to the movies.
@@thetroublewithtrebles1362 And ballgames.
Qq
@@thunderridge4830 That is true. In those days it was rare to wear the team uniform to the game. But many of the games were played during the game, people dressed up more for work, and they left work early sometimes, so attended the games better dressed than today.
its a SHAME on us these days isnt it
I love Andy and have watched The Andy Griffith series start to finish I don’t know how many times. I know almost every line of every part by heart and yet I still never get tired of watching it. I wish we had more shows like that still today, but this is a totally different world now than it was then. RIP AG!
Such a handsome, classic gentleman. He was one of a kind!
Everyone seems so fond of this time. I was born in 94.
This was like a completely different time man...in it's own bubble
"Everyone seems so fond of this time."
except the kids dying in Vietnam and the blacks
It's not 'like' a completely different time, it WAS a completely different time. However, consider this. Human beings haven't changed as such....media and technology has. If only people spent less time gazing screens and ranting on social media, people would converse and behave in a more eloquent and civilised way.
Try : it was my childhood!hah
@@davidsanderson5918 so right!!!
It was my lifetime. My childhood. Before all the technology.
Steve Allen can be just brilliant as a comedian. No doubt. He gets three big laughs from his breaking a tux button.
My father was his doppelgänger he looked exactly like Andy Griffith... loveD watching this... love you Dad RIP
Andy Griffith (and Barney, Opie, and Aunt Bea!) will live on in our hearts forever. The show embodied everything right about America, then and now. Believe it or not, here on the eve of the year 2019, there are still pockets of Americana still around - mostly in the South, and I’ve lived in one of them.for almost 40 years.
Man such simple television, yet so much more entertaining and interesting than this modern-day mess were force fed nowadays. The times and the people were so much more respectable of each other back in this era. Great video and stroll down memory lane. Thanks!
I CAN'T AND DON'T WATCH WHAT U REFERRED 2 BUT DO WATCH THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW 24-7 AND IT'S STILL SOOOOOO MUCH BETTER THAN ANYTHING IMPERSONATING A COMEDY IN THIS DAY AND AGE !!
I agree with everything you said except for the part about being force fed. I just ignore this modern day mess.
@@harleykingman I like Andy Griffith, too, but what's with the ALL CAPS b.s.?
Christ, that's annoying!
Damn...
I guess Bennett Cerf's racist comment went right over your head.
@@1962pjh
You take it as racist That's your opinion not an actual fact
If only Dorothy could have still been alive to see the show this far through
Thank the left for her demise
@@dinahbrown902 I’m curious. What did the left do to cause her demise?
She was a feature reporter that got too close to the truth. Her death was supposedly caused by a drug overdose.@@josephbrown9685
@@josephbrown9685 You mean what did the conservatives do to cause her demise?
Andy was so loved....
He was so adorable! Such a down to earth guy. Ron Howard said Andy was wonderful to work with. Lifelong friends.
I just love this program- better entertainment than anything on today. Andy Griffith was in a league of his own.
Andy Griffith was wonderful
My Generations Z and Alpha children adore the Andy Griffith Show. The man is an absolute classic and timeless on top of being wholesome. I wish the show were still on Netflix.
about Bong Way Wong, there is a children’s illustrated book called El Chino by Allen Say that tells mr wong’s journey to becoming the first matador of chinese descent.
Wow had no idea
But I don't like the Spanish bull fighting where the bull is killed. I like the American rodeo bullfighting with the rodeo clowns where the bull perform time and time again.
There is a kickstarter, somebody wants to make a movie about it.
4:33
"Two Wong's don't make a white"
Interesting! Thank you for sharing, Alondra.
The good Ole days, when shows was clean with humor. Ty!!!!
People had some dirty minds back then too. One where a guy fits corsets, a question was if he does a service for men (which is yes) the audience was giggling like a bunch of middle school boys.
Wonderful! Great fun. Ahhh, the old days of TV. Back in a civilized day! Thanks for posting.
This episode had me weeping. Love, love, love the Andy Griffith Show and I long for the all American days of old. We are now living in a crumbling dystopian world and I love to escape to this wonderful show of manners and good clean fun.
I have watched WML many times back when they were on TV. right now is a stressful time in my life so I'm going through all the episodes again as a form of therapy and it works!!
I Love Andy Griffith!! 💞 I Love Barney, Opie, Aunt Bee & All The Cast on The Show & Miss Them Dearly!! 💗
Television shows back then had so much more class than what we have on tv today!
Shoot! To the question of whether or not Andy Griffith was a singer, a qualified yes should have been the order of the day. He was accomplished in folk and Christian music singing and well known for it.
Absolutely. Not that it would have helped the totally clueless panel in this case!
What's My Line? Hi Gary of 2015!
Hi Joe of April 2016!
Andy is in contention for worst handwritten signature ever. Who was worse?
At the time recorded, Andy was titled star of a comedy TV show. being a singer was rejected because the previous two questions had specifically stated MOST KNOWN, he had "no time for sargents" but not stage or film, and his records he was most know for WERE ALL SPOKEN WORD / COMEDY ALBUMS. so while he probably had already recorded "Fishin' Hole" and a Christmas Album he is just as much a professional singer as you are a professional racer by hitting the gas at a yellow light
plus, i think ALL his religious albums (save an already mentioned Christmas album) were recorded AFTER 1967
well he had *Shouts the Blues and Old Timey Songs (1959)* and a Broadway score album. (i never heard of either, can you claim otherwise?) also had an album *Songs, Themes and Laughs from the Andy Griffith Show (1961)* which sounds less singing and more clips of funny bits ... but nothing else listed on Wikipedia until 1971 and later.
In order to include singing he would have to have been at least a double-threat man (compared with a triple threat as defined by Arlene Francis on other WML shows as _Acting, Dancing and Singing_ ) no way you can say his singing career was even close to his Television Career at the date of recording
This is when television was good!
I wish they would come out with this game show again!
Yes, it would teach people how to listen and learn. It would be nice.
Me too!
tony tony Absolutely correct, tony tony. 👍🏻👍🏻 If it was to be only as the Original- Than that would be great.
The liberals would never allow it to happen again. Way to much morals for our society today. What a shame
they Kinda do... it's called "To Tell The Truth"
Suzy Knickerbocker, which was her nom de plume, died in 2016 at age 98. The New York Times, in its obituary, described her as "Gossip's Grande Dame."
Knickerbocker's hair helmet is an amazing work of art.
Back then bigger was better. Before the big-do faze crashed they were like walking satellite dishes. And she was oh so proud of it,you could tell--just drink me up..
Men got concussions kissing.
But probably the only panelist they ever had whose last name wouldn't fit on the desk.
...that took a whole can of Aquanet
@bones heff Hair pieces. Probably several were used for that effect.
No click-bate here. You delivered what your title promised. This brought back good memories for an old man who was a kid back then growing up with TV still in it's infancy.
God Bless Andy Griffith & may he R.I.P
If only they knew how far Andy would go at that time. Loved his shows and still do.
I grew up in Upstate New York in a little town called Sherrill N.Y. (although officially it is a city) pop 3000. My family and I used to love watching The Andy Griffith Show and we could relate to a lot of the small town shenanigans in the show. We were sort of a Mayberry north without the southern accents. I admired Andy Griffith quite a lot. He was the real deal.
Isn't that near Syracuse?
Not right next to it, but in that general area of the state.
Mayberry North in Upstate NY? Wow!!!
Who knew that Ron Howard would be a famous Hollywood producer, when he played the son Opi on the Andy Griffith show at 8 years old?
also a director and screenwriter for both movies and TV. He was only six when he started with Andy.
His father was in the Biz, but Ron on his own was an awesome talented childhood actor.
His brother was also on TV. Kind of a strange looking kid. He played in a number of roles including the weird alien on the original Star Trek series who look like a weird little adult kid .
RIP Andy Griffith. Overdue condolences to the family for your loss 😔💐
Bro, I'm 31 years old man from México and I obsessed with this show. Thank you for uploading.
Andy Griffith. Such a class act
Andy Griffith was a pleasure to see! Nice smile!!
These shows bring a smile to my face and make me laugh!
ALWAYS I will enjoy watching The Andy Griffith Show!
True stars. Such a pleasure to watch the shows. The so called stars of today could learn a lot.
16 years old and that's what family TV was back then...today kids would think this is actually dumb,but it was fun to watch,no violence
Andy Griffith was a TV actor, motion picture actor, recording artist, stand-up comedian, director....he could do it all. Still to this day one of the funniest things i have ever heard is "What it was, was football"
You forget he was in theater before tv
Thanks for that memory. His shtick on football was immortal.
Ahhh...the good old days when people were actually polite!! We were a polite society back in those days! Mutual kindness it's gone and will never be back!
This show is priceless
Andy Griffith was the best. just loved his work. my favorite - he sings a song called “Sawlty Dowg”. i just loved it. he’s a great actor!! watch the movie he made early in his career. :) 🐕 🎸
Check out the Morris Brothers' version sometime. They wrote and performed it back in the 30s.
It's weird to think that back then Don Knotts and Ron Howard weren't household names.
I was 7 back then, they were in my world.
Yes they were pretty much household names by virtue of the show being so huge. Especially Don Knotts
Sure they were household names. The Andy Griffith show was on for 7 years when this episode was made and it never placed lower than 7th in the Nielsen ratings.
I think they were implying that he was Desi Arnaz.
Ron Howard wasn't a household name till the late 1970s when Happy Days came to the UK.
Meanwhile I'd never heard of Don Knotts till just now.
Don Knotts was was once a sophisticated NY comedian on the early Steve Allen Tonighte Show! Hard to imagine.
Don Knotts was from West Virginia.
Definitely a regular member of the comedy crew on The Steve Allen Show (along with Louie Nye, Tom Poston, Bill Dana, Dayton Allen ...). But hard to characterize him as sophisticated. As I recall from my early childhood, he was playing his usual nervous Nellie character most of the time.
@@loissimmons6558 Knotts also played the Man on the Street, along with Louie Nye. Both characters were clutzy fumbling bumbling and downright hilarious! They always managed to get Steve laughing that hysterically contagious laugh of his.
Sometimes they could barely finish the sketch.
@@glenncalzada1707 Louis Nye usually played the sophisticated Gordon Hathaway who would greet Allen with the catchphrase "Ho ho Steverino". Tom Poston, who could never remember his name was the other bumbler.
Here's a sketch from the old Steve Allen Show with Nye, Knotts and Poston.
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@@loissimmons6558 Thanks for sharing. Your memory is better than mine. The 50's were a long time ago!😂
Steve Allen has got to be the most amusing panelists of all time on What's My Line?
He was my favorite!
he should be....he invented the Tonight Show...........and it was great.......
@@Koji-888 Now Koji....Joe Black could be any age with severe social issues. Our millennials are our future, they should not be blamed just for having possible members like JB..........
Sorry dee, Jack Paar!
Joe + I agree... But he was a helluva musician...even some asshole have redeeming qualities...lol
Absolutely LOVE Andy.. This show aired just 7 months before I was born 😊
I have been in The States many times. I wish I would had been in Andy Griffith's story times, when humor was clean and people could be trust.
Thank you for uploading these shows Emily 45 so I wasn’t around when it was on well not the beginning I’m enjoying this this is awesome
True legend... I love Andy
I was happy to hear that John wasnt an afficionado of bull fighting. This was the first time Id heard him say that. Yet he was nice to the guest and didnt put him down because of the profession.
It's an absolutely cruel sport.
Arlene Francis was such a glamorous and beautiful lady
Amen.
A real babe, especially in the early years of the show. Still great looking as ever!
And not a hint of vocal fry. Young ladies, take note.
DWSeattle -- for real??? Never heard about this. If true, what happened to Arlene as a result of the killing?
@@jillcampbell8019 The maid did it. Propped the weight to hold open the window. A million dollar apartment with cheap-ass windows.
One year later, The Andy Griffith Show would end its run. As of 2022, TAGS remains one of only three TV shows to end as the #1 TV show in the ratings, as reported by Neilsen. The other two being I Love Lucy and (exactly 30 years and two months later) Seinfeld.
at the time he was already on a tv series for 7 years. the people on the panel were morons. one of the greatest sitcoms of all time.
Mary Tyler Moore was highly rated when it ended its seven year run back in the seventies.
Man this was cool to watch , thanks. 😎👏
❤ Oh Andy, what a great fellow !
Nice way to break the stereotype. Bravo, Mr. Wong.
I'm going out on a limb and say there are not too many bull fighters of Asian heritage!
hopefully there's not many bullfighters anymore at all, it's a pretty cruel 'sport'.
Bravo killing 20 odd animals your time will come
Yes @lumenxi22. Love it at 3:33 when John Daly asks him where he's from and he says "Arizona." Hahaha. Good job.
Shame about the poor bulls, though.
How different TV is today! These people on this show were smart, urbane, witty, and not vulgar. They had respect and the moderator was an example of good behavior. Yes, there's a place for dark,, cursing humor, but this show is what the fifties were about: white bread. And I still like it.
Oh this is neat: Mrs. Benner, McKeon Products Company, and Mack's earplugs have done fantastically well. The company is still around. They had the first silicone-based ear-plug. I remember as a pharmacy technician circa 1999, I sold the product. It still exists basically unchanged, and it honestly works very well. They even link to this episode on the "about us" page of the Mack's Earplugs website. Apparently, she even did the show twice.
WML gave a plug to ear plugs!
Thank you for uploading!
You can tell they were debating between the Dick Van Dyke Show, My Three Sons, and The Rifleman lol
My favorite Andy Griffith roles; apart from his most frequently mentioned series was as a junkman turned astronaut in an interesting short lived show called Salvage One (1979), His historian novelist in the last segment of a mini-series(1978-1979) about the founding of a fictional town called Centennial, and one (1974)TV movie where he played the villain called Savages; opposite Sam Buttons. Now that was fun.
The Andy Griffith show was my entire childhood (even though I'm 23) and it's so fun seeing him in an entirely different kind of show!
23, and you can't remember your real full adult name?
Andy Griffith always reminded me of my Daddy - in younger days, and old. Miss them both..
Mine too
I've used Mack's earplugs. They are very good..
I totally agree. The best ever and such a surprise to see the person who invented. :)
the panel was so fun to hear and andy was always a handsome man and his hair was always so pretty and a toothy smile. I was blown away about his english accent that he used on the show to stump the panel that was cool. I never knew he could change his voice that way. He is always missed but I never miss the AG show.
Andy Griffith was a class act
Clear and simple shows for those who wish to think simply, (like me), forgetting the world around us now, going back to when I was 7-8 and black and white TV was the only TV around.
Love how each introduced the next.
I had forgotten about the big hair! Accomplished beauties. This is a lot of fun.
Thanks
13:26 "Bennet's been trying that one for _seventeen years_!" I really love this show. You watch enough episodes of this thing, they really start to feel like your friends. Why doesn't TV do this anymore?
Because major broadcast television companies, don't care about the viewers like they did back in the day, they air anything and "everything" that makes the quickest buck possible, and if it flops, they move as fast as they can to throw something else at you. Thank God for Netflix, it's bringing back real TV again, people want to create great programming, that want the viewers to like what they produce!
Cancel the cable, the direct TV, and any major network television! It's all garbage!
Radio does. Listen to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" on NPR. ;-)
Because today we have realistic TV programs like Jerry Springer and Mauri what's his name. And let's not forget the so-called Judges who decide cases in 10 minutes
Because people have turned into mean-spirited self-absorbed techno-droids that could care less about anything unless it affects them personally or it has the appearance, to the rest of the world, that it's a noble gesture of compassion and gross sentimentality as to be maudlin. People eat this shit up. America loves fake shit, it thrives on fake...It is.......................................................
Game shows tend to come back into favor in waves. It was just about the time I noticed we hadn't had any game shows for several years that Howie Mandel's show with the suitecases and who wants to be a millionaire came on. There's no reason why they can't remake a show like this again today.
Steve Allen was the funniest ad-libber ever to appear on WML.
He WAS a singer and a good one! It may not have been his main "area of recognition," but John shouldn't have let him get away with saying "no."
+snippy whapper He wasn't famous for singing. He didn't do concerts or release records (except spoken comedy records), so in professional context, he was not really a singer.
+netram28 Andy Griffith did release an album of his singing during his run on this show. It included country and gospel songs and also included him singing the theme song to The Andy Griffith Show (yes, there were words to that song). I would think that his singing in the movies and on his TV show along with releasing this album would qualify him as a singer. Just my two cents worth.
I completely agree. Of course he was a singer!!!! John goofed there.
They had asked if he was "primarily" known for movies and the same question for the Broadway stage. But "primarily" was omitted when it came to the question about singing. The "no" answer was given as if the primary area of notoriety was still being asked.
Andy is indeed a singer at this time. He sang often on "The Andy Griffith Show". And he sang to open his upcoming special that he plugged.
@@loissimmons6558 On youtube, you can see the opening clip to the Andy Griffith Uptown Downtown Special. Andy sings with TN Ernie Ford and even Don Knotts for a bit. There is bevy of blonde dancers surrounding them. One is a very young Goldie Hawn.
I find it amazing that shows were still broadcasting in black & white in 1967! I thought most shows switched to color around 64-65.
Actually, even WML was broadcasting in color for its final season, 1966-67. The color videotapes weren't preserved; what we have today are the B&W kinescope films.
The broadcasts may have been in color, but my old man wouldn’t buy a color set. I remember going to a friend’s house (who had a color TV) and finding out that Dudley Do-Rights uniform was RED.
Expensive back then.
My ol man built a heathkit color tv in 1969. Was a big deal going from black and white to color. Prior to that we had two tv’s one had sound but no picture and the other had a picture and no sound .... one sat on top of the other and we watched tv that way till the heathkit was finished. Remember coming home from school and smelling the soldering iron. The good old days!
@@goodcitizen If you got frustrated putting the electronic together, it was referred to as "grief kit".
Funny they mention Ms. Denner, the ear-plug maker, was a musician (along with her husband). Ear plugs can come in handy in an orchestral setting, when one has the brass section blaring behind them.
And 1967 would have been just the very wee beginning of the era of awareness of and sensitivity to medical issues in music. Good for her!
I wear earplugs when I practice the violin because I have sensitive hearing.
+0413dec Absolutely true. I'm a violist who's played in an orchestra where I was blasted by the brass section. The worst experience, though, was one night when we were on a particularly small stage. A slide trombonist was positioned behind me and I watched the slide go past the right side of my face repeatedly. I wondered if I moved at the wrong time if I I'd get hit in the back of the head. And Mr. Wong thought he was in a dangerous profession. LOL!
8:39 "So it says here on your resume; 'Big hair.'"
In Spain, the matadors kill the bulls. The matadors are fully trained for years and are assisted by others in the "fighting" of the bulls. Sadly, the bulls are in the arena for the first and only time.
Steve Allen was always funny and witty...
I find this interesting because I wear MAXX earplugs everyday at work.
The ear plugs were in fact, Mack’s. Cecilia Benner was the guest. In 1962 she and her husband, Ray purchased McLeon Products, manufacturers of Mack’s Earplugs, which were made of a moldable clay mixture. Mack was the name of the previous owner and presumably the inventor of the earplugs.
Dern, Suzy looks amazing. Love that Big Hair!!
Interesting that a show from 1967 was still in Black and White. From Wikipedia "
Broadcast format
From 1950 to 1966, the game show was broadcast in black-and-white, as was typical of most game shows at the time. But by 1966, all three networks were broadcasting their prime-time schedules entirely in color, including What's My Line? After the show ended in 1967, CBS replaced the color videotapes with the kinescope versions instead for syndication. As a result of this change, the 1966-1967 episodes of What's My Line? were only shown in black-and-white after the show ended.
That is so strange. I noticed that the Andy Griffith Show was in color for a few seasons when this aired. I assume the vast majority of people still had a B&W set in 67 though.
@@jarst50 Your assumption is correct. Andy Griffith started in color in the Fall season of 1965. "The number of color television sets sold in the US did not exceed black-and-white sales until 1972, which was also the first year that more than fifty percent of television households in the US had a color set." 1972, coincidentally, was the year our family got our first color TV. But the writing was on the wall in the mid 60s. I remember an early episode of "Adam-12"--"The Color TV Bandit" in 1968. Color TV was on most people's wish list by then.
Thanks for your reply back take care Gunnison
SPOILER ALERT: Although Bennett Cerf does eventually guess the mystery guest as Andy Griffith, Griffith plays the game perfectly. For the most part, he only says "yes" and "no." Too many mystery guests make the mistake of talking too much, and he didn't -- which is why he almost fooled the panel (and DID fool the panel in 1965).
There was one time that he said "sometimes" and I thought he gave his voice away then.
For all those people who are wondering why Don Knotts wasn't considered a household name co-star by Andy Griffith, it should be remembered that Knotts had left the show a few years earlier as a co-star and was appearing only a couple of times a year when the episode's plot either brought him back to Mayberry for a visit or Griffith went on a trip to Raleigh.
As far as why Ronny Howard wasn't accorded that status (and Ronny actually had higher billing than Knotts on the year's when Knotts was a regular on the show) I can only assume that it's an indication that no matter how good Ronny was, as a child actor he didn't have the gravitas to get that consideration. It's usually dangerous to try and read someone's mind as to why they said something, but my guess is that a child actor would have to reach the level of a Shirley Temple and be #1 in the box office to be acknowledged in that way by Andy. Andy was the star, Ronny was the protege.
Back when people were polite and respectful - I miss those days
Kass Arthur No....people were just as polite or impolite in those days too. Television, on the other hand....
Tv was pretty sanitized back then, very strong censors would review scripts of shows before they would air. That's why you always see husbands and wives sleeping in separate beds in TV shows of this era. In real life married people didn't sleep in seperate beds.
We have seen the loss of civility in our time. People were more respectful back then, generally speaking. We now have road rage and random shootings. @@latsnojokelee6434
Bennett Cerf carried it to the hoop, even if he didn’t put it though the net . It’s difficult these days to understand what a dazzling display of intellect is demonstrated here.
Smart, but not pretentious.
Suzy's hair looks like it's trying to eat her head.
So that's where the B-52s got their hairstyle from!
Hahaha
@@TheKitchenerLeslie Bouffant or Bee-hive?
Andy was correct, there were no household names staring on the Andy Griffith show during the time of this taping. Don Knotts left the show in 1965; this episode of “ what’s my line” was taped in 1967.