Marlo and Phil are the model couple. No marriage is/was perfect, and I'm sure theirs wasn't, but you can just see the chemistry, respect, and love they had for each other. Awesome.
Phil Donahue was a professional but also a kind and gentle man which anyone can see and Marlo was fortunate to meet and eventually fall in love with as he did with her. What a wonderful couple they are together. I am so proud that she came from a wonderful background where her father is Danny Thomas a talented comedian and a great humanitarian that never forgot his promise to St. Jude and his Charity Hospital came about helping the children with cancer and other illness. So proud of Danny legacy.
Well, what I remember is Marlo Thomas on the failed sitcom with Jean Smart calling Asian men 'China-men' because they preferred to be called Asian Americans at the time. Interesting how racism works.
Living in California, it was a privilege to come home every day to see The Phil Donahue Show. It was a very informative program presented by an intelligent and open-minded man. Thank you.
I'm sad I was so young when Mr. Donahue's show was on the air but so grateful for youtube. Very intriguing, interesting, thought-provoking shows. Definitely a legendary way maker.
Those individuals captured, and detained in those 'encampments' were subjected to situations were more than difficult. It is important to recall all that occurred. My respect is given to all that endured such anguish.
Phil. I am a trans female and it is because of your show that I learned that trans people are people and not just sexual freaks as much of the media had portrayed us in the 1980s. I was in college and I would skip class to watch if I saw that you had a transgender guest. Your interviews with Tula and Kate Bornstein were life-changing for me. Thank you.
My great uncle Jacob was with the U.S. embassy in Germany during the 1930s. Yes, he talked to Hitler on a few occasions. Fast forward to 1966: My father was working for the ABC-TV network. One evening he brought home the 'pilot' episode of (drum roll, please)-'That Girl'. I'm gonna have to watch that one of these days; Phil Donahue's interview with Albert Speer..
Bobby Kennedy said Freedom either applies to everyone or it applies to no one. And I remember watching the show, seeing evil is much different than reading it in a book.
I ATTENDED TWO OF PHILS SHOWS BACK IN THE 90'S, HE REMAINED WITH THE AUDIANCE THRU BREAKS, AND WHENT AROUND GREETING US, AT THE END OF THE SHOW HE STOOD AT THE DOOR AS WE WHENT OUT AND SPOKE TO BEACH MEMBER. PHIL HAD CLASS AND WAS JUST AS HE APPEARED ON HIS SHOW. ONE OF THE SHOWS WAS VERY,VERY SERIOUS ABOUT A MISSING CHILD, OF COURSE THAT SHOW HAD NO LEVITY AND WAS QUITE SAD. THE OTHER SHOW WAS ABOUT MALE RUNWAY MODLES AND ASPIRING ACTORS, AND WAS A FUN SHOW. WHEN YOU WERE AT THE SHOW THE STUDIO AUDIANCE WAS ALL INCLUSIVE AND A BIG PART OF THE SHOW. PHIL PUT YOU AT EASE KNOWING YOU WOULD BE NERVOUS IF WERE TO GET UP AND TALK. HE ALWAYS PUT THE AUDIANCE FIRST, AS DID ALL HIS PRODUCERS AND STAFF. I GUESS YOU CAN SEE FROM MY TESTIMONIAL THAT I SEE PHIL AS A TOP CLASS GUY.
Interesting comment. I never saw Phils show live, but growing up in LA, I attended about every talk, veriety, and game show from mid 60's to mid 80's Even East coast shows would do a "special" west coast tapeing from time to time. All this to say 90% of the host didn't care about their audiance off camera. The major exception was Steve Allen, now he went out of his way to show kindness and respect to the people who came to watch the show.
You know...aside from the Botox, etc. If you put a brown wig on Marlo and a set of false lashes, she could still pass for That Girl. Of course, a little older That Girl. Phil looks great....my god, the number of hours I watched his show and couldn't wait for the next. So educational as well as extremely interesting.
Where's the forgotten episode of Phil Donahue where they showed a televised live childbirth from the lady's house? That's one episode I'll never forget and it was way back in the 70's.
At the same time, how do you raise your kids in Kenilworth/Hubbard Woods? Maybe I'm incorrect but if you had lived in Glencoe, etc, they'd still have been in the New Trier district. Just wondering....
In college, I had a professor who used to be a producer on his show and she used to talk about how he hated it when he had to do a show on dwarf tossing. He said something to the effect that, he's much rather interview the president of a country, than talk to a bunch of little people who like to get thrown around for money. She said he thought a lot of the show topics were stupid and he only did them because he had to, for ratings and what the management wanted, etc.
That may sound like a positive but sounds like elitism. If your a little person getting tossed for money then its likely you need to do that to eat. Those are real people trying to make ends meet. A president of any country is likely to be the least informed interview you will ever hear.
@@mikearchibald744 I think the thing is, he didn't feel like doing the trashy topics for ratings was helping society or educating anyone and that's what he really wanted to do. He wanted to do serios topics, not turn into what Jerry Springer ultimately did. (Springer actually started out being a serious talk show in the beginning, btw.) When it comes to talk shows, I actually think Oprah had the best of both worlds when it came to that. She was so good at interviewing any type of person and she could cover any topic she wanted and still managed to maintain ratings for 25 years. My professor said the reason that people liked Oprah, when they tested her show in focus groups, was because they would say that she seems like a regular person, someone you want to invite over to your house for afternoon tea, etc. And interesting story about my professor who worked for Donahue - She was actually responsible for a lawsuit against him over his theme music. She had a friend from high school who was a musician. He asked her if she could have the producers listen to his stuff to see if it could be any good for a talk show theme song. A few years later Donahue changed his theme music. The guy came out of the woodwork and claimed that they stole his composition. They actually compared his song to the show song, note by note in court, to prove that it was not the same melody. She says the case became kind of well known and made it into law journals and you could find it online, but I couldn't find anything.
@@Melissa0774 Yeah, I figured that was your point, I just wanted to make a point off it. That would be a civil suit so would probably be pretty hard to find in law journals simply because there are SO many of them. People get sued for practically anything. That kind of thing happens a lot, broke people are hoping they'll just settle out of court for a certain amount and say "hey, that 'sort of' sounds like my melody. Isn't that what happened with the Ghostbusters song that Huey Lewis said was ripped off one of his songs-but I remember listening and thinking 'that doesn't sound ANYTHING like it'. But that could have been the case that set a precedence for the 'seventh'. I think that the legal bar now is that the melody has to have seven notes that sound similar in order to be 'stolen', although if somebody admits "I lstened to this and then wrote this.." that would help. Just as a similar aside, I'm trying to remember the producer but in the seventies I think it was he said the practice of reading scripts from just anybody stopped because a sent in script that was rejected could have an ambulance in it, and if you did a show that had an ambulance then that person would sue for stealing their idea. I think it was Vanilla Ice that tried to pretend his bass line that was virtually identical to Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie was 'substancially different' because it had a minor note at the end. Basically those talk shows were on in the background when I was in college, I think the only time I paid attention was when they had hookers or porn stars on them, so I guess I was part of the problem. I think Phil predated Oprah, or at least here in Canada there were more channels with Phil because I don't think I've ever even seen an Oprah show.
That Black Muslim dude that wanted to lift up the Pope's dress seemed like it was a pretty tense program ... but it was very educational and important to hear that. But even now, I just watched it on another channel and it was hard to watch, very sad and scary. There is a lot of hate out there.
Started out liking Phil and then his ego and personal politics just got in the way and frankly....I really can't handle him anymore at all and glad he no longer is on the air.
Interesting Phil mostly had serious guests on, then Oprah was a combination of serious and light hearted guests. Sadly in today's talk show Ellen it's all fun, that's where we are at in our modern world !
I have long admired Phil and Marlo, and wow do they seem to have the ideal marriage. However, I believe Phil let the right wing pressure him excessively. In his memoirs he said Nicolas Johnson was blocked as a guest during Phil’s early years because advertisers feared his message that the airwaves should be less dominated by commercials. Phil caved in. Ayn Rand, by contrast, was on Donahue twice with her pro-profit messages. These examples display how cancel culture is practiced by conservatives with ease, then we hear howling from the right about that issue.
All interviewers are biased . I don't agree with most of his views but Phil was great because his show talked about interesting issues facing society. Unfortunately we don't have shows like that anymore
wanderer1955 that is the most ignorant and disgusting thing I've heard. Let me buy you a one way ticket to Auschwitz or Dachau where someone can treat you the way those prisoners were treated! If you decide to go , please remember how many did not return. You are either completely ignorant or a bot.
Condolences - thanks for all you do Marko and team!
Marlo and Phil are the model couple. No marriage is/was perfect, and I'm sure theirs wasn't, but you can just see the chemistry, respect, and love they had for each other. Awesome.
Phil Donahue was a professional but also a kind and gentle man which anyone can see and Marlo was fortunate to meet and eventually fall in love with as he did with her. What a wonderful couple they are together. I am so proud that she came from a wonderful background where her father is Danny Thomas a talented comedian and a great humanitarian that never forgot his promise to St. Jude and his Charity Hospital came about helping the children with cancer and other illness. So proud of Danny legacy.
Yes, Phil. You DID raise the level of conversation. THAT's why you're not on the air and that's why you are sorely missed!
So very true
so true .... Phil was the best.
I always loved Phil Donahue, he was a very genuine man.
Me too! That show was waaaay ahead of its time! My Mom always had it on.
He paved the way for Oprah even based in Chicago. The first audience participation show!
Well, what I remember is Marlo Thomas on the failed sitcom with Jean Smart calling Asian men 'China-men' because they preferred to be called Asian Americans at the time. Interesting how racism works.
I'd love to see Phil and Marlo do a weekly tv show. Both are class acts.
Living in California, it was a privilege to come home every day to see The Phil Donahue Show. It was a very informative program presented by an intelligent and open-minded man. Thank you.
@castroy64 - And you are an asshole for attacking Mr. Hernandez for his point of view! Shame on you!
And now look at the crap we have on TV these days.... smh.
Aww, look at Phil and Marlo...they look awesome!
Love these two and glad they are still together :)
You're not alone!
There aren’t people like Phil Donahue and I do miss his show.
I'm sad I was so young when Mr. Donahue's show was on the air but so grateful for youtube. Very intriguing, interesting, thought-provoking shows. Definitely a legendary way maker.
I love you Marlo and Phil!!!
Phil I have always loved your show! Stay safe and well!
Those individuals captured, and detained in those 'encampments' were subjected to situations were more than difficult. It is important to recall all that occurred. My respect is given to all that endured such anguish.
Haha he still sounds JUST THE SAME. Love it.
I grew up watching him! Learned alot from him!/
Mr. Donahue, You are a Godsend!
Love him so much, wish we saw more of him these days
love phil and you Marlo!
Phil. I am a trans female and it is because of your show that I learned that trans people are people and not just sexual freaks as much of the media had portrayed us in the 1980s. I was in college and I would skip class to watch if I saw that you had a transgender guest. Your interviews with Tula and Kate Bornstein were life-changing for me. Thank you.
you go girl❤❤❤
Terrific
Still love Phil.He's looks damn good here at 77 or so.
I love him so much. LOL. Phil was the greatest in Daytime Television when it was BIG.
I'm glad to see Phil stand up for the 1A, is he still standing up for it today?
I remember when he interviewed Kate Hepburn and he said to her "you have no idea who I am?" And she replied ... "absolutely no idea." LOL.
My great uncle Jacob was with the U.S. embassy in Germany during the 1930s. Yes, he talked to Hitler on a few occasions. Fast forward to 1966: My father was working for the ABC-TV network. One evening he brought home the 'pilot' episode of (drum roll, please)-'That Girl'. I'm gonna have to watch that one of these days; Phil Donahue's interview with Albert Speer..
Bobby Kennedy said Freedom either applies to everyone or it applies to no one. And I remember watching the show, seeing evil is much different than reading it in a book.
Phil was awesome.
Marlo, you look AMAZING.
I ATTENDED TWO OF PHILS SHOWS BACK IN THE 90'S, HE REMAINED WITH THE AUDIANCE THRU BREAKS, AND WHENT AROUND GREETING US, AT THE END OF THE SHOW HE STOOD AT THE DOOR AS WE WHENT OUT AND SPOKE TO BEACH MEMBER. PHIL HAD CLASS AND WAS JUST AS HE APPEARED ON HIS SHOW. ONE OF THE SHOWS WAS VERY,VERY SERIOUS ABOUT A MISSING CHILD, OF COURSE THAT SHOW HAD NO LEVITY AND WAS QUITE SAD. THE OTHER SHOW WAS ABOUT MALE RUNWAY MODLES AND ASPIRING ACTORS, AND WAS A FUN SHOW. WHEN YOU WERE AT THE SHOW THE STUDIO AUDIANCE WAS ALL INCLUSIVE AND A BIG PART OF THE SHOW. PHIL PUT YOU AT EASE KNOWING YOU WOULD BE NERVOUS IF WERE TO GET UP AND TALK. HE ALWAYS PUT THE AUDIANCE FIRST, AS DID ALL HIS PRODUCERS AND STAFF. I GUESS YOU CAN SEE FROM MY TESTIMONIAL THAT I SEE PHIL AS A TOP CLASS GUY.
Interesting comment. I never saw Phils show live, but growing up in LA, I attended about every talk, veriety, and game show from mid 60's to mid 80's Even East coast shows would do a "special" west coast tapeing from time to time. All this to say 90% of the host didn't care about their audiance off camera. The major exception was Steve Allen, now he went out of his way to show kindness and respect to the people who came to watch the show.
Hurrah for the first amendment 👏
Best episode ever I married a werewolf lol
I would love to meet him...
You know...aside from the Botox, etc. If you put a brown wig on Marlo and a set of false lashes, she could still pass for That Girl. Of course, a little older That Girl. Phil looks great....my god, the number of hours I watched his show and couldn't wait for the next. So educational as well as extremely interesting.
Where's the forgotten episode of Phil Donahue where they showed a televised live childbirth from the lady's house?
That's one episode I'll never forget and it was way back in the 70's.
At the same time, how do you raise your kids in Kenilworth/Hubbard Woods? Maybe I'm incorrect but if you had lived in Glencoe, etc, they'd still have been in the New Trier district. Just wondering....
i miss phil
Philmwas waaaay ahead of his time!
I thought he was going to mention David Duke
Still has beautiful blue eyes.
I agree SimpleSadie!
They certainly don't do shows today like Mr. Donahue did. Today's shows are all politics.
In college, I had a professor who used to be a producer on his show and she used to talk about how he hated it when he had to do a show on dwarf tossing. He said something to the effect that, he's much rather interview the president of a country, than talk to a bunch of little people who like to get thrown around for money. She said he thought a lot of the show topics were stupid and he only did them because he had to, for ratings and what the management wanted, etc.
That may sound like a positive but sounds like elitism. If your a little person getting tossed for money then its likely you need to do that to eat. Those are real people trying to make ends meet. A president of any country is likely to be the least informed interview you will ever hear.
@@mikearchibald744 I think the thing is, he didn't feel like doing the trashy topics for ratings was helping society or educating anyone and that's what he really wanted to do. He wanted to do serios topics, not turn into what Jerry Springer ultimately did. (Springer actually started out being a serious talk show in the beginning, btw.) When it comes to talk shows, I actually think Oprah had the best of both worlds when it came to that. She was so good at interviewing any type of person and she could cover any topic she wanted and still managed to maintain ratings for 25 years. My professor said the reason that people liked Oprah, when they tested her show in focus groups, was because they would say that she seems like a regular person, someone you want to invite over to your house for afternoon tea, etc. And interesting story about my professor who worked for Donahue - She was actually responsible for a lawsuit against him over his theme music. She had a friend from high school who was a musician. He asked her if she could have the producers listen to his stuff to see if it could be any good for a talk show theme song. A few years later Donahue changed his theme music. The guy came out of the woodwork and claimed that they stole his composition. They actually compared his song to the show song, note by note in court, to prove that it was not the same melody. She says the case became kind of well known and made it into law journals and you could find it online, but I couldn't find anything.
@@Melissa0774 Yeah, I figured that was your point, I just wanted to make a point off it. That would be a civil suit so would probably be pretty hard to find in law journals simply because there are SO many of them. People get sued for practically anything.
That kind of thing happens a lot, broke people are hoping they'll just settle out of court for a certain amount and say "hey, that 'sort of' sounds like my melody. Isn't that what happened with the Ghostbusters song that Huey Lewis said was ripped off one of his songs-but I remember listening and thinking 'that doesn't sound ANYTHING like it'.
But that could have been the case that set a precedence for the 'seventh'. I think that the legal bar now is that the melody has to have seven notes that sound similar in order to be 'stolen', although if somebody admits "I lstened to this and then wrote this.." that would help.
Just as a similar aside, I'm trying to remember the producer but in the seventies I think it was he said the practice of reading scripts from just anybody stopped because a sent in script that was rejected could have an ambulance in it, and if you did a show that had an ambulance then that person would sue for stealing their idea.
I think it was Vanilla Ice that tried to pretend his bass line that was virtually identical to Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie was 'substancially different' because it had a minor note at the end.
Basically those talk shows were on in the background when I was in college, I think the only time I paid attention was when they had hookers or porn stars on them, so I guess I was part of the problem. I think Phil predated Oprah, or at least here in Canada there were more channels with Phil because I don't think I've ever even seen an Oprah show.
That Black Muslim dude that wanted to lift up the Pope's dress seemed like it was a pretty tense program ... but it was very educational and important to hear that. But even now, I just watched it on another channel and it was hard to watch, very sad and scary. There is a lot of hate out there.
30 second ad for 1:30 video...I think not!
Free speech, think about that.
Started out liking Phil and then his ego and personal politics just got in the way and frankly....I really can't handle him anymore at all and glad he no longer is on the air.
That show wouldn't be broadcast on MSM today. There was more free speech back then.
My favorite Donahue show was when he had Alice Cooper on
Interesting Phil mostly had serious guests on, then Oprah was a combination of serious and light hearted guests. Sadly in today's talk show Ellen it's all fun, that's where we are at in our modern world !
Madeline Murray Ohaire was the devils child
Looking for Gerald ZARRELLA ALIENATION OF alienation
Marlo needs to stop with the surgery.
search vivian maier
I MISS PHIL DONAHUE AND JOHNNY CARSON and the TV of that era. Everything is so trashy these days.
What in the world has Marlo Thomas done to her lips? Why do people want to plump up their lips like that? It looks horrible!
I have long admired Phil and Marlo, and wow do they seem to have the ideal marriage. However, I believe Phil let the right wing pressure him excessively. In his memoirs he said Nicolas Johnson was blocked as a guest during Phil’s early years because advertisers feared his message that the airwaves should be less dominated by commercials. Phil caved in. Ayn Rand, by contrast, was on Donahue twice with her pro-profit messages. These examples display how cancel culture is practiced by conservatives with ease, then we hear howling from the right about that issue.
do you have the show from 1993 of men falsely accused and thrown in prison for rape? some men spent decades that were on the show
Anything for a buck?! In the name of free speech?! Who do you think you're kidding?! Opportunistic!!!
never like phil donahue because it was obvious he was a biased interviewer
All interviewers are biased . I don't agree with most of his views but Phil was great because his show talked about interesting issues facing society. Unfortunately we don't have shows like that anymore
Compared to what? Bill O'Reilly?
Phil Donahue is a cruel heartless white supremacist .. proudly showing off a Nazi proves that
its called plastic surgery my child. check out her nose. phil deserves better
The tatooed numbers were their mobile phone numbers. They were getting on a bit. Hard to remember your phone number when your getting old.
wanderer1955 that is the most ignorant and disgusting thing I've heard. Let me buy you a one way ticket to Auschwitz or Dachau where someone can treat you the way those prisoners were treated! If you decide to go , please remember how many did not return. You are either completely ignorant or a bot.