What's My Line? - Final CBS Show; PANEL: Martin Gabel, Steve Allen (Sep 3, 1967) [W/ COMMERCIALS]
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- MYSTERY GUEST: John Daly
PANEL: Final CBS show; Martin Gabel, Arlene Francis, Steve Allen, Bennett Cerf
NOTE: This video combines two sources in order to include material from an edited version in higher quality.
Many thanks to epaddon for providing his copy of this historic episode with the original commercials, and to Steve M. Russo for providing the bulk of the episode in much higher quality than the version I had previously. Folks interested in high quality, well packaged, well-edited DVDs of WML (and other game shows) can contact him directly for more information at RetroTVFestival@comcast.net.
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John Daly was such a class act.
John Daly was the news anchor of ABC News from 1953 to 1960. This was when ABC News was a distant third in the ratings. ABC News broadcast the Army McCarthy hearings. At the time, ABC had no daytime programming. The broadcasts were highly successful. The hearings helped bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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@@mikewrasman5103 I grew up watching Mr. Daly broadcast the news. (Don't figure out my age, LOLOLOLOLOL, but have a Happy Thanksgiving.)
The host or the mystery guest? 😂
Yes, the last days of class , then the hippie movement took off and ushered in slob mania . It has not stopped to this day , tattoos , piercings and so much more ugly .
I'm not sure why I've never bothered to comment before, but I just want to say THANK YOU!!!! Thank you so much for all the hard work that you have put into this channel, thank you for taking time to edit the videos and for adding the commercials. All your hard work is greatly appreciated. I will miss having a new episode to look forward to everyday, it was the highlight of my day. I've been watching the postings since around 1962, I plan to go back to the beginning and watch them all. I have been fascinated with old TV shows for a long time, some of my friends might think I'm slightly weird. When I discovered WML I immediately fell in love with it. Watching this final episode I'm getting really sentimental, it really is a bittersweet day. I'm gonna miss John, Bennett, and especially Arlene, even though I know they'll still be here thanks to you. So thank you, thank you, thank you. This is the best channel on TH-cam hands down.
I missed Dorothy Kilgallen it's sad she is gone.
A lovely Classy Lady she was, We will miss all of them may the RIP.
amber!....we can now watch WML FOREVER...aint it sweet?
The internet wasn’t around in 1962
You're not weird at all, dear. You simply have very good taste.
Beautiful people, fabulously well mannered and kind, well spoken, classy, oozing charm that was not fake....you can't find a program today like this. Arlene Francis, one of those women who will always be of the type called lovely. Wish we had even one show today like WML!!
I wish they could have known how the show would live again on TH-cam. I LOVE this show and the fashion and manners of the day. Wish we could be more like that.
I would like to add my thanks to Gary for all the hard work and uncounted hours he has spent on his preservation of this show. More than any other, WML is a picture of the cultural and language of the US during this era. As one interested in the progression of the English language, this preservation is especially valuable. Unlike other kinds of programs which are scripted and polished, the language of WML (and other game shows) is the common tongue without the fine tuning of professional writers. For that alone, this collection is an extremely valuable source, as it represents language and accents from across the US, and other parts of the English speaking world during an important era of history. As time goes on, language scholars, especially grammarians and linguists, will undoubtedly find this archive invaluable. Thanks again, Gary.
Very well-articulated by one so articulate. :)
The cultural preservation aspect impresses me greatly. We have an episode from Feb of '64, just an hour or so after the Beatles made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. Thanks to John Daly's day job, we have fresh first hand commentary on JFKs election and meetings like the one between Nixon and Krushchev. Plus we have the preserved words and images of hundreds of famous people who have since died - all speaking with their own words. It blows my mind!
D Jensen my thoughts exactly. I was 10 years old when this last show aired and was one week from h.s. graduation when the 25th year special with Arlene and John Daly aired in May ‘75. Well put.
@@d.jensen5153 so true; keen insight.
I wasn’t sure who preserved all these episodes but thank you Gary I wasn’t born till 1963 so I missed this whole era and then glad you preserved it so I could see it you did a phenomenal job!😁
Born in 57 I grew up with this and all the other shows of the time. Looking back it's sad that the etiquette and style of the time are so long gone. I truly miss those days. But thank you for showing these so a new generation can see what it was like to have lived
during that time.
I was also born in 1957. The show reminds me of a time long past, when my grandfather would take me out to lunch at a fancy restaurant and I would wear a dress, a hat, and white gloves. I can remember wanting a hot dog for lunch, and the restaurant did not serve hot dogs. Since it was my 5th birthday, my grandfather slipped the waiter some money and sent them to the grocery store to buy hot dogs and buns so that I could have what I wished for on my birthday.
52 years ago this week the greatest game show of all time came to a close in a grand style
And there it went...50 years ago on this day and date, Sunday September 3rd, 1967. Sunday nights were never the same again. Thanks to Gary Wetstein for all the good work he has done over the years to bring this wonderful piece of American culture back to us.
Bravo!
Thank you Gary! You made millions of American lives wittier and more fun!
This is the second of only two times Dorothy Kilgallen received a mention on WML after her death in November 1965
The theory is her death was mysterious and those who knew her were terrified to talk about her.
@@libertyann439 This theory is false.
preppy socks why do you think it is false? It seemed highly suspicious to me.
@@libertyann439 - Very sad, considering how many years she was with the show. It seems her alleged "suicide" was very suspicious. Knowing who might be the suspected perpetrators, it would be understandable that the rest of the panel and host were terrified into near-silence about a lovely, bright, wonderful lady and journalist who accomplished so much in her short life.
@@preppysocks209 how so?
That’s great that John Daly was the mystery guest... hilarious!
F A N T A S T I C S H O W.
Wonderful seeing this again, John Daly as the last Mystery Guest..... Always loved watching the show, there was always lots of laughs along the way in each show.... Of all the Mystery Guests over those wonderful years the late and great Audie Murphy still remains my personal all time favourite, he was such a humble young man and I just loved his wonderful laugh and smile..... This last show had a wonderful ending to it's great run, but a sad night all the same..... Watching this again brings back all those many wonderful memories..... Thanks for this posting it has been much appreciated, well done.
Poof...there goes What's My Line!
A classy end to a remarkable show that brought together dignity and wit. And now (or technically, tomorrow), all existing programs are right here on TH-cam, for all the world to see. Three cheers!
dizzyology Nice tribute to the Stopette ads that ran during the early years of WML. :)
Hip hip!!
I was ten days old the night of the first show, February 2, 1950! I enjoyed watching this great show with my parents and siblings as we grew up during the 1950s and 60s! In my opinion, nothing has been better than WML for good family entertainment! TV may have been in its infancy back then, but the entertainment value was light years ahead of its present state! Thanks for helping rekindle so many wonderful memories!
On your mark, get set, yawn.
This episode really made me sad. Sorry to see this end. As someone who was just a small child when the show ended its run - I'm just so glad we can enjoy the series over and over again in today's online world. And a special thanks to Gary for making this all possible. I really appreciate your hard work in making these episodes as enjoyable as if we were watching them live decades ago.
Galileocan g You were one of the earliest people to start adding comments to the videos-- thanks for your longstanding support of the channel!
Here in November 2022, I am once again watching the collection of WML. This collection of the show on TH-cam is a treasure and I so appreciate the work done to present this to everyone who comes across it.
I have come to miss the panel of wonderful celebrities and most especially, the ones who passed away. Like many others who have posted their thoughts, the differences in today's celebrities and those of the WML era is monumental. I prefer those of the past.
Also, I have read many of the comments and I find well written, articulate thoughts. I think that those of us who enjoy WML are educated people who belong to a group of thinkers who like watching these shows that actually meant something. So thank you to those who shared their thoughts.
I hope no one will take offense to this, but if Dorothy kilgallen was still alive and she was there to try to guess the 1st 3 guests that appeared on the 1st episode she would get them all because she was on the very 1st episode of what's my line. miss her very much.
I wasn’t aware of Dorothy until three years ago when I started watching this on TH-cam I read both books and found out what an amazing woman she really was.It really is too bad we don’t have that integrity today in broadcasting.
Sadly this show will be remembered for strange death of dot kill
I got a bit choked up watching this, even knowing my quest to watch all the shows on this channel is still back before Fred Allen joined the panel.
Thanks, Gary, for bringing us this wonderful bit of entertainment.
I always missed Fred Allan ... someone different sat in his place each ... no replacing him.
Hear, hear. I am also grateful to whoever did this tremendous job of uploading all these episodes. He did us all a tremendous service. Thanks.
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It's almost ridiculous. I've been watching this show from the beginning for the past several months. Maybe a year, I've forgotten when I started. Now I have reached the end, and the water works won't stop. Of course I could always start over and rewatch from the beginning, but it's not the same as this first time. Such emotion for a television show that ended before I was even born. I couldn't choose whether it's Match Game or The Price Is Right as my favorite game show, then here comes What's My Line to make the choice harder.
23:53 The most perfect WML moment ever, as Bennett Cerf asks host/mystery guest John Daly if he is impersonating himself. :)
This episode made me so sad in previous watchings that I forgot to comment. Let me rectify that.
Thanks for changing my life in a small but significant way, G. Such a good time.
Thank you for posting all of these. Appeals very much to those of us who appreciate great wit, civility, good manners and good clean fun.
Agree fully. The panel were of their time.
I agree thanks for this.
Totally true.
The only bad review I heard of WML came from a great good clean fun comic: Stan Laurel (of Laurel & Hardy), according to Dick Cavett (who at the time was writing for Carson and also an occasional panelist on WML).
@@ChristopherUSSmith: What did Stan Laurel have to say about WML? (Yes, I can look it up, but I want it here for the record.)
At the risk of sounding melodramatic.... words can not express how grateful i am to you for uploading these videos. it has absolutely opened up another world for me. I feel like such a nerd because I cried like a baby when I saw the mystery guest for this episode, but once again thank you thank you thank you so much for maintaining such a great channel. Having said all that do you have any plans to include the 72-75 episodes?
Was it w the same or any of the same people? Never heard of that! Shame on me!
I'm glad I was not the only one that cried, I am old sentimental fool. WML reminds me of my grandparents, where I spent a lot of time watching Game Shows and they, enjoying their "highballs".😥
I use to take my mother to work, near UCLA, during the late 1980's. We had to pass-by the famous Beverly Hills Hotel, on Sunset Bl. Almost every weekday morning we'd see Mark Goodson coming down the big hotel driveway (he lived in the hotel while on the "coast") in a yellow Rolls-Royce convertible,top-down, license plate: MG NY LA. He was a small, dapper man, tanned and silver-haired. We always waved at him, at the stop-light and he always waved back and smiled. Both my mom and Mr. Goodson are gone now, but I'm sure are playing WML, up there, with those other wonderful panel members,
I was 7 years old when this program went off the air. It was a different time and we shall never live it again except through the magic of You tube. I was sad to see this show end when I was a kid and this video brought back those memories that we all shared at that time once again. It was a different time and thinking back in the "old days"... Society was changing and some not for the good. A classic TV program forever in our hearts to be shared with our children's children and beyond. Thank you for posting these great shows of the past!
Watching this episode has me now completing my first watching of all the episodes chronologically. It has been a familiar part of my routine in the evening, something I looked forward to after work. I'm not sure if I'll ever watch it through chronologically, but maybe watch episodes occasionally...it provides a comfort, an escape, that I rarely have found in a show.
To the individual who created this channel and uploaded the episides....my IMMENSE THANKS!!!!!
When I was young I so looked forward to watching it and Bennett Cerf's puns. I loved his wit and smile.
Arlene was amazing. Look at her on an early show compared to this. She aged well. In fact she looked better in 67 than in 50. Surprisingly, John's hairline was about the same.
rick charles • Bennett Cerf looked remarkably the same!
i have a crush on arlene rick
In 1950 Arlene was still sporting a 1940s hairdo.
@@mjsmcd We all do, lol
Nick, I absolutely agree. Arlene looked better as she aged.
Watching at 3 a day while in lockdown at home during the Covid-19 pandemic.
It is such comfort to know that it is always there. And as fresh today as it was over 50 years ago.
And much thanks to our leader, Gary!
I may always be upset at the loss of over 100 episodes of the show, but I am really glad that at least the first three episodes exist, as well as a few more from the first couple of years.
One of my favorite episodes from 1950 is the last one of that calendar year - which happened to be New Years' Eve. Garry Moore and Betty Furness were guest panelists that evening, along with regulars Arlene Francis and Louis Untermeyer. That was the one with the beautiful (and demure) young lingerie model (the first time for that "line" on the show, but not the last), and the Mystery Guest was Guy Lombardo. Garry Moore is very funny and very entertaining on that episode (I think that was his first appearance on the show, too).
Thank you so much for all of your hard work and time preserving this wonderful show, Gary! :) i used to stsy up snd watch this at 3 am on GSN, then the few episodes around Christmas that would air. This has been my nightly spot for WML for years. I always looked forward to it. Thank you kindly!
My goodness. The world may as well have been another planet in 1950. Thank you so much for posting these. Coming form the UK the panel were completely unknown to me but I feel I have come to know them, a gay company of friends. I have enjoyed their gentle wit, bonhomie and manners from another time. One is missing as we're all aware. It's churlish to single out anyone but I've enjoyed especially the warmth between Mr Daly and Mr Cerf. All gone now as all of us must. Sad? Just a little.
WML is a program that never old. We watch the episodes on TH-cam over and over again. The program idea is great. The panelists are smart and witty.
thanks so much for doing this. it amazes me how I can feel a sense of closeness with a bunch of people who haven't been on in 50 years and have all passed away. thank you
So well said!!
I can't stop crying. So sad that all of them are gone now.
Rest in Peace, my friends. 🌹
Gary, thank you so much! I stumbled across your WML postings a few months back and there are only a few I haven't watched yet. As an aside, I especially enjoyed seeing the changing fashions and hair styles worn by the female panelists and guests over the years. (Fortunately, I never fell prey to the beehive-bouffant hairstyles of the early '60's). Arlene and Dorothy--my style gurus! Also enjoyed the many informative comments posted by WML devotees. Looking forward to your future posts!
17.5 years thanks for the memories
Can't wait to watch to tell the truth videos now! Very sad this show had to end. Wish they would make more shows like this.
I remember this show before I was able to understand it. It's always been such a class act. So very sad that Dorothy didn't make it to the end. She was a class act all by herself. Someday I hope the mystery surrounding her death will come to light and she gets the justice that she deserves.
This should be done again. I love the format, the simplicity of it and how it's just about having a nice time. It reminds me of what Tig Notaro is doing now on Prime where she has to guess what celebrity she is interviewing.
Saeshmea...I could not agree more.
On this very first show, Dorthy Killgallin actually made an initial first guess, about the profession of the then Hatcheck Girl, to be a drama student. As the young woman explained on this last show, she had since become a successful actress!! Dorthy WAS amazing!!
John gave it away when he cleared his throat after going from a high voice to his normal voice.
OMG!!! I LOVE the mystery guest. I wasn’t expecting that at all.
A great show i just watched from start to finish(The whole series) Thank you again for putting this out to all of us on the internet.
WML was a little before my time chronologically, but definitely not spiritually. I had never before seen the show, and I came to see the episode with Carol Burnett. Just ONE episode, and now I've seen dozens. I am hopelessly, blissfully hooked.
I do wish we could go back to a time when people dressed and acted as if they cared about how they appeared. It isn't about money or even education. It is about common human decency. I still see it, but it is so rare, I tend to find it remarkable rather than pedestrian.
Thank you so much for making these available. I treasure them.
Pat Finch appeared three times on WML through the years. She was the first contestant of the first broadcast. Here she for the last broadcast. She appeared sometime in 1955 when she was a chorus girl in the Broadway show "Fanny."
soulierinvestments
This was great 😊
Thanks. I didn’t see this at the time.
I was busy being a teenager. 💁🏼♂️
The show was great too. Especially in its time.
If only we could have them back again.
we can through youtube
@@maraflore ...IT'S NOT REALLY THE SAME(!)
@@daleburrell6273 But it's the best we can do. Who would be on the panel today? Who could be the host?
My wife, who is French, and I, a Canadian, have been watching this wonderful show for the last three months every evening after finishing our supper. WML came into existence only five years after the end of the most destructive era in human history. This means that nearly everyone, panelist and guests, passed through that period, often in uniform. This is what marked the fifties in television, a chance to turn away from so much tragedy to celebrating our finer, human qualities. These people were elegant, witty, joyous interesting and deeply respectful. Through the magic of video recording, we are looking forward to seeing the remaining 750 shows not yet seen. With our deepest gratitude, God bless all of you.
It was a time of great creativity We still had problems, but the culture that came out of mid-century America is a testament to the human spirit. This show is a fine example of that culture.
I remember watching the finale live - I was 16 and old enough to stay up 'till 11pm on a school night. I didn't see it in color - it was 18 months before my father bought our first color TV.
Even better, for those of us in the U.S. it wasn't a school night because the next day was Labor Day. And even if it wasn't a holiday, a lot of schools hadn't started their fall classes yet.
Color Television still wasn't cheap in those days. You can definitely get more bang for your buck nowadays with a 2020 4K TV w/HDR.
@@Qboro66 As I recall, the Magnavox 23-incher cost $329 in 1969 - or $2,563 today - maybe ten times a 43" model such as you describe. Or put another way, if we could shoot that HDTV back to 1969, it would sell for $43.
27:38 When Arlene says, "Very good luck to our replacement", that brings to mind the question of what "new" show was it that took over _WML?'s_ timeslot? The answer, it turns out, is that it was _not_ a new show - _Mission: Impossible_ was moved to Sunday nights at 10pm for its _second_ season. Thus, the question of which show that _WAS_ new on CBS in 1967 was _WML?_ "sacrificed" to make room for really can't be pinned down.
This show needs to make a return! :)
it did
(although I never watched it, cause I never liked it)
Could never be duplicated.
I was only 13 days old when this aired. For years I'd see bits and pieces. It was nice being able to see so many here and thanks to the person who made it possible.
I LOVED the final mystery guest!!! Absolutely wonderful.
I bet John waited 17 years to be the MG! :)
He said on the 25th tv special they saved himself incase special guest didn’t show.
17.5 years! :)
David White As he also stated in this program, several "close shaves" but never got to do it until the end.
From what I gather, the mystery guest responsible for the closest of close shaves was Judy Garland. She arrived in plenty of time but was extremely nasty and belligerent toward the WML crew who were just trying to do their jobs. They didn't know if she was going to pull herself together in time to be a well-behaved mystery guest--but she pulled it off like a pro.
@@Lava1964 Source for that?
Many thanks for not only getting me through this nasty New England winter, but entertaining and enlightening me every day with this classic panel show. It was not only enjoyable but educational. I was a little young to stay up late when these shows ran and only remember the syndicated edition. It's very sad to know that literate, respectable shows like this are gone forever. Again, my thanks for the best Daly treat I've had in years!
Sad End to a great Show Growing up to, They do not make TV Panel Shows like this any More, A Sad ending etc At this Writing mostly all of them have passed on , May the all RIP & Are Sadly missed by all who loved them gone, But not Forgotten, thanks to TH-cam, We can still enjoy them & our Children can watch them alsp etc.
I often watched the show with my grand parents growing up in the 1950's. Great to see my "friends" again. Thanks.
loved the show. I would love to see a 2017 version with the same concept of the classic version of WML
*The show has always been excellent. I still miss Dorothy's voice here.*
Miss them all.
The high quality & standards of WML show including the dignified, talented great host & awesome intelligent celebrity panel are outstanding even more so this day!! Included are all behind the scenes staff to put a show of this high caliber n TV for 17 years!
Indeed it was more "The Normal" back then of a more dignified, courteous time that is NOT existing sadly now!
In case you didn't notice...Johnny Olson's arrival on stage at the end only shows him shaking hands with Bill Toddman and John Daly. Mark Goodson did NOT LIKE Johnny Olson because the audience seemed to like him more than Goodson. There was some unusual bad blood between them. Yet Goodson knew he needed Johnny as his announcer for his game shows because of the audience appeal he added to them. Tough luck to Mark Goodson. RIP Johnny O!
shamrock1961 G-T kept Johnny O well employed up until his death.
Interesting shamrock 1961 since I remember Johnny Olson from The Price is Right and G/T created/produced that show also
I was born in 1955.
My parents watched the show. I remember looking forward to each show. I appreciate being able to see these here❤
John Daly's falsetto on the Mystery Guest segment was hilarious! (He sounded like Mickey Mouse.) It was also great to see Mark Goodson, Bill Todman and Johnny Olson.
I first came across this show maybe 3 months ago if that. I fell in love and watch it everyday....I have enjoyed the panelists so much and have laughed out loud at some their antics. A great bunch who were sorely missed I'm sure. It was before my time but I am so glad I found it. My fav was Arlene. She was such a dear...Thank you to whoever uploaded these videos...
Watching this show makes you realize how much life itself has changed. Have you realized how many of the jobs featured in the show are nowadays long gone?
The Cascade Diaper Service is still in operation, googled it out of curiosity. Even through Covid, they are still around in the NW.
No way to ever EVER end this show any better than was for John Daly to be the final mystery guest!!
I've spent a good deal of this Covid summer binge watching this show. I find I've developed a hopeless crush on John Charles Daly. Sure, Bennett's charm, wit, and occupation was distracting, but the cultured tones of Mr. Daly's Mid-Atlantic accent, his great good humor, and the curtious dignity with which he treated all contestants delights me. And don't get me started on his brilliant encyclopaedic dissemination " clarifications"! Yep. I'm thoroughly enamoured. Thank you for posting these treasures.
On the British WML, Eamonn Andrews was an Emergency Mystery Guest once, as well as 1st Syndicated era host, Wally Bruner, in December 1969.
Of all the WML episodes, this was the one that I knew the most about beforehand. And yet that didn't ruin any of the specialness for me. It didn't make me sad. I didn't cry. I can tell that it was bittersweet for John and the four who were on the panel that night, ironically one of the rare times when it wasn't 50-50 male/female. I think they made the right choices of who to include with Arlene and Bennett.
Over the past 2 years that I've been watching all these episodes in chronological order, I have enjoyed reading your many comments, Lois, even the baseball ones. In fact, I would often go looking for them. I felt like you were part of the experience, and I thank you for that. If you ever visit here again, say hi! I may be back someday, myself.
@@bluecamus5162 HI!
A great, and classy final segment with Mark Goodson & Bill Todman.
I also laughed at the Twiggy comment.
Oh boy, who can watch this and not start to cry ! Very nice show..
This was the second time that a TV monitor with a rerun was placed on the WML stage. The first incidence was in February 1965 for the 15th anniversary show [with Gloria Swanson and the panel's spouses.}
soulierinvestments
Could John actually have forgotten that they'd done it before when he said, at around 11:45, that it was the first time?
You would think SOMEBODY on the show -- producer, writers, director -- would have remembered it or recorded it in production notes. They were all there, after all.
soulierinvestments SaveThe TPC Yes, this definitely surprised me too. It was only a couple of years earlier, after all, and SUCH a huge departure from the norm, it seems impossible to me that they would have all forgotten about it. Maybe John just misspoke? It's odd, all right.
I remember watching this final episode of What's My Line in 1967, and seeing it again now, at age 67, I feel the same sense of loss that I remember feeling then. Our family missed it greatly when it went off the air. People today could take a less in civility and good mannners from this panel show.
I miss What's My Line so very much !! I wish they will produce a new version? 😃
Would not be the same. Today’s version would be a sarcastic, bleep filled “show.”
@@jeffzest8393
Hard to think that ! Why do you concur they would be a "sarcastic bleep show?"
@@SweetChicagoGator Just need to look at today’s programming; e.g., Carson, Leno, and Leno not bleeped in 100 years….today Corden bleeped eight times in one night. Or look at reality tv. Bleeps frequently.
@@jeffzest8393
Reality TV is not What's My Line or to tell the truth and I am not familiar with Cordon? I absolutely agree that older talk show hosts were real gentlemen. Johnny, Dick Cavett, Mike Douglas, & Jay Leno. Currently Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel are pretty good too, and don't bleep ! 😜
@@SweetChicagoGator Kimmel bleeps a lot. Watch the new versions of games shows from the past. Look at American Idol. Just watch TV for a couple hours on just about any channel. Corden is late night host. Myers gets bleeps several times nightly. Kimmel nit so sure, but his band leader gets bleeped frequently in the monologue.
What is really sad is that Dorthy couldn't be a part of the last show.
I'm a bit too young to remember these shows but I do remember them being on and all these years later I must say what gentlemen and ladies they had on their panel...our current iteration of America could learn much from them....unfortunately a bygone era that ain't coming back.
Thank you for putting these together. I truly enjoyed this show.
I discovered this show about 30 years ago at my grandparents house when I spent the summers there. I was 15 years old and instantly fell in love with the show, even though they were reruns. I will watch these episodes on TH-cam and lose track of the time. I enjoy how everyone interacts with one another. I’m sad Dorothy wasn’t around for this episode. The celebrities we have today pale in comparison to these folks. And I felt the sadness in all of their voices
Brilliant show ! Pity we have nothing like this these days (May 2019) !
There is a feeling I get of how life felt in those days. I could even remember how some commercials went on.
This was a classy game show!
Bennett Cerf was smart as a whip! He guessed the most mystery guests, and was always the first one to figure out if there was something smoky going on.
Elise Curran Between him and Dorothy Kilgallen. :)
Because I watched a show I promised myself I would read books by Bennett Cerf and I actually did pretty funny writer. I don't know if you can find anything on him these days but I also enjoy this show and others that were on like to tell the truth I missed a sort of shows today
Arlene was smarter IMO
Catelyn Stark Arlene was highly intelligent no doubt, but Bennett Cerf was a genius level intellectual.
Cant help not thinking about Dorothy, very beautiful, intelligent, a wonderful dresser, she would be the girl that a lot of us guys would fall in ❤️ love with🥲
When there could be a moment of polite, well mannered people who were always welcome in everyone's home.
TV has forgotten how to entertain it's audience in this way. Sad.
We need more programs like this one.
Man I cried like a baby towards the end!!! Absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking all at once 😭😭😭
i discovered this show a few months ago, it was really great😊
Well I’ve just watched the last episode of What’s my line. I started watching during lockdown in 2020. It was something i came across almost by accident i am watching from the uk i was always aware of the uk version both from the 1960 s with Eamon Andrews made by the bbc and then the 1980 s version on itv. So great though to find the original US version. I have watched one or two episodes a night for the past three years and it feels quite sad to have come to an end but i have also got to know about password I’ve got a secret to tell the truth and the syndicated version of WML still with Arlene . Thanks so much for uploading all of these it must have taken ages and so interesting to read all the comments. Now to continue with password and syndicated version of WML which i have already seen a. Number of episodes of. I have learned so much about American game shows and the wonderful people who made this show what it was, john Daley as host, Bennett , Dorothy, Arlene and Steve Allen who were my favourite panel but all the others as wel. The original WML certainly spoke of a very different era but one that has been preserved. Though you tube. Ian
This is like watching the last episode of The tonight show with Johnny Carson sad.but at least they still had Johnny we don't have anybody worth a darn.
A time and place that we can never go back to . They spoke beautifully , they dressed beautifully and they were classy.
Not me crying over a show that has been finished for almost 60years.When John said last words i sobbed immediately
"70 million children have been born from first show until last show". Yep, and those born around the first show (1950) turn 65 this year.
+raleighman3000-Thats one of me-Paul was here-04-13-16-I loved this show growing up...
All WML Babys!
Wowsers.Who the phuck is pale face?
Franklin Heller was my Uncle.When visiting. I was also thrilled to have been invited into the control room. Meeting many of the guest..
I was 13 years old when this show aired, 10:30 pm Sunday night was too late in my house to stay up because of school. I really enjoy these shows, Imagine John Daly being a network news anchor and game show host at the same time...... John Daly was a brilliant man and a beautifully eloquent linguist!
this made me sad even though im only 15 and started watching this show episodes few days ago
The best part of the show was to see the old clips and the panel's reactions to it. :)
Especially Arlene. I remember her doing a lot of tv/ game shows. Wish I could have seen her on the stage. The difference in 17 years was amazing to say the least. I always thought she was attractive and very classy.
Steve had a hard time looking at his 1951 self and the audience reaction showed they recognized the dramatic changes.
One of my favorite mystery guests for this Lovely show
Thanks for posting these videos. I watched them all. The historical value alone is tremendous. It's great to see the beginnings and development of things I have always taken for granted as a part of American culture.
Classic show -Thank you for doing this
This was final episode for CBS in 1967, but it never returned until 1968 when this show went to syndication and brought Wally Bruner as the show, and brought Arlene Francis back as a regular and added Soupy Sales as another regular to the show's panel, and the theme song has changed the following year where new theme song sounded a lot catchy than this one, because of a Tijuana style beat.
Such a wonderful show. I watched it as reruns but enjoyed it very much!