Notice the class and civility with which the panel and host interact with the guests and each other? I'm afraid those days are gone forever. I am so enjoying these episodes!
Can you imagine this show today? Occupations: sex toy tester, TH-cam “personality”, etc. Mystery Guest: a Kardashian, some star of a failing network sitcom
I also find enjoyment viewing the aforementioned presentation and herewith find a high degree of fascination with Mr. Daly's precise elucidations in his responses to the questions made to him in his capacity as the show's moderator.
On May 24, 1962, Scott Carpenter was the pilot for the fourth manned spaceflight of Project Mercury. Deke Slayton was originally scheduled to be the pilot, but when cardiac arrhythmia was discovered during his mission preparations, Carpenter (who was the backup for John Glenn) was substituted as the best prepared astronaut of the Project Mercury team. At 6:54, Johnny Carson guesses of the challengers "Are you the ones who said he missed." Carpenter's flight missed the landing target location by far more than any other Mercury flight (248 miles compared to 46 miles for John Glenn's mission; the rest all landed within 6 miles of their target). Flight Director Chris Kraft was unhappy with Carpenter's performance related to the landing procedures and scrubbed him from future missions. Carpenter left the space program in 1964 and participated in the Navy's SEALAB program.
Most classy, witty and attractive lady as an ordinary mystery guest- and Betty's outfit and smile were marvelous !!!! Not to mention her occupation as a safari guide in Africa. I wish I had been in John Daly's shoes that night back in 1962... Goodness me...it had been even before my beloved parents started planning my conceiving !!!! Great show anyway ! Thank you for uploading the whole series of episodes. Cheers !!!
Finally!! A guest who has a connection to something I got to do. In the middle 80"s I got to go on Safari in Kenya and Tanzania. Furthermore, it was the roughly the same area that her safaris went on. To say that it was the trip of a lifetime, is an understatement. A wonderful vacation. If you ever have a chance to go, take it you will never regret going.
I support your observation about kindness. As a child growing up in the 1950s, when it came to addressing our friends' parents, or my parents' friends, it was always Mr. and Mrs., so never by a first name.
The commercials are getting out of line. Literally bleeping out curse words to pitch hot sauce and vaccination/shots. Smh. Not cute and I am far from being a pearl clutching prude
John mentions that Betty Bruce and her husband did safaris in Tanganyika, which existed as a separate country only from 1961-1964. Before then, it was a British protectorate. In 1963, the archipelago of Zanzibar also gained its independence and the following year the two new nations joined to form current day Tanzania. Another bit of trivia: the singer Freddie Mercury was from Zanzibar. His birth name was Farrokh Bulsara.
Scott Carpenter's space flight occurred 3 days before this episode. The flight was memorable because a mechanical failure caused Carpenter to overshoot his splashdown point by 250 miles. There was much concern that he had not survived re-entry until the P2V aircraft piloted by the two contestants spotted him. His dramatic rescue explains the reaction of the panel and the audience to the pilot contestants.
Although she was best known on Broadway and in television, Shirley Booth was one of the earliest actresses to win a Tony, an Oscar, and an Emmy. Her involvement with "Hazel" -- sometimes best described as a sitcom without laugh track -- began the year before, its only black and white season.
Johnny Carson look so young and handsome back in his day. I like how everybody was so respectful to each other and to the guest. That was a different era.
Great episode! I enjoyed this one a lot. This was Johnny Carson's next-to-last appearance on WHAT'S MY LINE?, by the way. He is a guest panelist on the 24 March 1963 episode, as is Mrs. Adolph Green. Between 1956 and 1963, he appeared on 9 WML? episodes: 8 as a guest panelist and 1 (earlier in 1962) as Mystery Guest. (7 of those 9 episodes were in 1961 and 1962.)
Not really but her hair is less severe than usual, which suits her (like most people) better. But when I say she doesn’t look pretty, I also don’t think it’s important to look pretty. Her intelligence was far more important.
I love how John dissects Bennett's line of questioning at 12:25 when he disputes the answer! Although, unlike Arlene who can smell a "no" answer a mile away and will readjust her intention to get a yes, I think Bennett genuinely meant what he said but phrased it too indirectly, especially for a question he's asked hundreds of guests before!
To me Shirley Booth has the same strange eye set as Karen Black and Virginia Mayo. They almost look cross eyed. But they all have fascinating eyes. Kind of deep set and intense. Unusual.
I wasn’t born when this aired, and I never was able to see the show Hazel when it was on. My mother said she remembered it. I think Shirley Booth was a wonderful actress!
@@daler.steffy1047: Yes, it was. The family were the Baxters, because actress Whitney Blake's married name was Baxter. Hence her daughter, Meredith Baxter.
I find her performance in "The Matchmaker" film much more compelling and touching -- as well as funnier -- than any of the Dolly Levis that I've seen in the musical "Hello Dolly" either on stage or film. Some plays are so well-written that adding music dilutes their impact, no matter how clever the songs themselves are by themselves, and I'd put "The Matchmaker" in that class along with "Blithe Spirit."
Betty Bruce, the African safari guide, is in my opinion one of the two most beautiful contestants ever on WML. The other - Nicole Germain from Canada ( see Jan. 23, 1955 episode ).
I agree! And she seemed intelligent and warm and vivacious and approachable. Here was a woman of great beauty--and the humility in which to express it.
"What's My Line" was done in a Broadway Theater and was called CBS Studio 52. In the 1970s it became the infamous disco called Studio 54. It is still called Studio 54 today and hosts plays and other theatrical events. I was in Studio 54 in 2009 for Carrie Fisher's one woman show "Wishful Drinking".
On the episode from 11/13/55, Albert "Happy" Chandler (former Major League Baseball Commissioner and Governor-elect of Kentucky) and his wife, Mildred, were introduced to take a bow from the audience. There may have been one or two other times that the audience was shown, but it definitely was rare, at least through the episodes I have watched from the beginning to May 1962.
I love the classy way the lovely guest Betty Bruce dressed, the shawl was so pretty and classy. She was sexy without showing too much skin...very classy.
"Safari, so goody", yet another wonderful quip by the rapscallion Bennet. He may have trouble with some pronunciations, but the man definitely had a sharp wit.
Being originally from Michigan, I was a very little girl but always got a kick out of shows being sponsored back in the day by Kelloggs who added the tagline, "Of Battle Creek."
What a performance! Shirley Booth just grabs the viewer into her character with every move, every word. She was amazing, and the script seemed just made for her.
The star role in "Come Back Little Sheba' was going to go to Bette Davis but she refused it flat out and said she simply could not do the 'vague gorgeousness' the author described and that Shirley Booth alone managed to capture.
You can blindfold the panel, but you can't disguise Shirley Booth's voice! (And you have to admire John Daly for acknowledging that "Hazel" was on another network--and still plugging that it was on Thursday nights!)
staytunedfor No complaints here. I'm more disappointed over the original videotaped versions of the 1959-1967 episodes no longer existing, than I am over the quality of this copy. But I guess kinescopes will have to do it seems.
Johnny Carson appeared both as a guest and panelists in different episodes. His career as host of the iconic, “The Tonight Show“, was just beginning. Back then it originated from NYC, later moved to LA. Many wondered how Johnny would do having previousely hosted an afternoon game show, “Who Do You Trust?“; a completely different genre. Yet, his work on “The Tonight Show“ was a TV juggernaut lasting 30 years!! Too terrific for a kid from a tiny mid-west town.
Love the penmanship of people like Betty Bruce, as cursive writing died back about 1970. Suggestive remarks like Johnny's were allowed back in those days as you can see when you watch these shows. Being 90 now, I don't remember anyone being offended by them as they were taken with good humour. Women's lib has made that kind of easy interaction between males and females dangerous territory today. Everyone seems to be looking for offense which is sad.
@gcjerryusc As a transplant into Virginia, I am quite accustomed to y'all. At the same time, having grown up in Western Pennsylvania, I was early on exposed to a construction that seems to be confined to that section of the country: y'ins. It's short for "you ones" and serves the same purpose as y'all. It just sounds stranger.
1928gerry - But these days men act so brazenly with their expectations and don't just smile and leave. Sure, I enjoy harmless banter but these days that is dangerous.
I never watched Hazel and never really cared for Shirley Booth until I happened to see a little film titled "About Mrs. Leslie." Shirley Booth just stole my heart as did her co-star...a man who one would never think could steal anyone's heart because of the roles he so wonderfully portrayed...Robert Ryan! It's a "B" movie from beginning to end but she was brilliant as she portrayed a woman for whom love & happiness seemed to bypass.
am wondering if arlene asked if the 2 pilots were athletes because she was a big baseball fan. there was an outfielder on the NY Mets in its inaugural season named Jim Hickman who had one all star year later on with the Cubs in 1970. The ball player was from Henning Tenn. She probably thought maybe Hickman, the pilot, and the other guy were teammates with the Mets.
Check out the ears on Johnny Carson! I wonder if he had an operation to pin them back because I don't remember those ears being like that when I would watch him on the Tonight Show in the 1980s
If you don't care for how today's audiences react, no one is forcing you to watch them. Don't like something? Don't watch it. It's called "freedom of choice".
Johnny needed a shave! And he looks a bit tired too. Also the week of July 16th-20th Arlene would host the Tonight Show. This was 2 1/2 months before Johnny would take over on October 1st! Shirley Booth sure looked different on videotape than she did on film, even the black and white film of the first season of "Hazel"
In 1959 the show started using videotape to record the show, and to air those relatively few episodes that did not air *live*, but none of those videotapes survived. All we are able to see now are the B&W film kinescopes which also continued to be recorded until the last show in 1967. When you mentioned videotape I took it to mean that you were thinking that this posted video came from a videotape. Perhaps I was in error. I'm also presuming that the show was recorded on videotape for posterity even when the show aired *live*, even though those tapes (as far as anyone knows) ended up getting lost or recorded over for something else. I hope someday they show up, especially those episodes for the last 12 months which were produced in color. But I'm not holding my breath! LOL
What's My Line? I wonder if there are any color photos of Daly WML during the tapings of the 1967 episodes? Of course, I don't mean the special color episode from 9/19/54 (which no longer exists).
In the category of "the name's the same", in 1962 the Mets had a rookie outfielder by the name of Jim Hickman (same as one of the first two challengers during the first segment of this episode). Hickman had been selected from the Cardinals organization in the expansion draft that helped stock the original Mets team. He was a fair defensive outfielder who often played center field and a power hitter who was long on promise but struck out a lot (for that time) and never quite delivered while with the Mets. He broke his wrist diving for a ball in 1966, and missed three months of that season. He seemed okay during the last two months of the season, but with Cleon Jones and Ron Swoboda coming up from the minors, Hickman who was nearing age 30 and considered damaged goods was traded to the Dodgers with Ron Hunt for Tommy Davis and Derrell Griffith after the end of the season. The Dodgers were desperate for hitting in 1967 and Hickman was part of the problem, batting only .163 in limited action. He was sent down to the minors during the season with the Dodgers hoping to take his strong arm and convert him to a pitcher. At the end of the season, he appeared in one game for the Dodgers as a pitcher. But in one of the worst trades the Dodgers ever made, early in the 1968 season they traded him to the Cubs with relief pitcher Phil "The Vulture" Regan for outfielder Ted Savage (a highly touted prospect years earlier who was much less successful than Hickman in the majors) and pitcher Jim Ellis (who only pitched 10 games in the majors, none with the Dodgers, although they were able to traded him to the Cardinals for a good reliever, Pete Mikkelsen). With the Cubs, Hickman's career revived. Splitting time between outfield and first base, he was NL Comeback Player of the Year in 1970 and made his only All Star team. In fact, he played five innings in left field and three at first base in that extra inning game and became the answer to a trivia question: who drove in the winning run of the 1970 All-Star Game on the play when Pete Rose bowled over Ray Fosse (injuring Fosse and probably shortening his career). As an original Met, Hickman was also the answer to some trivia questions related to that organization. He was the first Met to hit for the cycle (one of the few natural cycles in history, hitting single, double, triple and home run in that order), he hit the last home run at the Polo Grounds during the last game played at that stadium, he was the first Met to hit three home runs in a game (all off of future Met Ray Sadecki) and he was the last original Met to play for the Mets when he pinch hit and stayed in the game at first base during the first game of a double header against Houston on the final day of the 1966 regular season. A bit of irony is that Hickman batted for Ed Kranepool. Some people consider Kranepool to be the last original Met to play for the team as he came up at the tail end of the Mets inaugural 1962 season as a 17 year old, playing in three games at first base (one start) and getting a hit (a double) in six at bats. Kranepool spent his entire career in the Mets organization, becoming their starting first baseman as a 19 year old in 1964 and finishing his career with them in 1979. But he was still in high school when the Mets played their first regular season game (although he was in the Mets box in their inaugural home game as the Mets were wooing him to sign with them once he graduated; these being the days before the free agent amateur draft). So there is disagreement as to whether or not Kranepool was an original Met. When the Jim Hickman on this episode of WML signed in, I thought it might be the Mets outfielder, either a gamble that the panel wouldn't know him or that he had another career besides baseball. (As it turns out, the Mets played in San Francisco that day, but I hadn't looked it up when I was watching.) When Bob Goldner also signed in, I had never heard of anyone by that name in baseball so I was leaning towards the "other career" theory. But when I heard this Jim Hickman announce that he was from Dallas, I knew it wasn't the baseball player. He was from Henning, Tennessee (the same hometown as Alex Haley) and lived there most of his life.
Flattop haircuts when the military was at its height of prestige, I was a kid and had one, just a year later came the Beatles and changed that, awful looking in retrospect.
Thank you to all military women & men for your service (past or present). The world is much safer because of your bravery and sacrifices. To the military families who lost loved ones, my sincere condolences for your loss. 🪖🎖🇺🇸😔 Дякуємо всім військовим жінкам і чоловікам за вашу службу (минулу чи нинішню). Світ набагато безпечніший завдяки вашій хоробрості та жертвам. Родинам військових, які втратили близьких, щирі співчуття з приводу вашої втрати. 🪖🎖🇺🇦😔
My idea: What's My Line should have been on at 10 o'clock so that it could be followed by a live interview by John Daly with the mystery guest. Shirley Booth was on for all of about 4 minutes. What a waste. I know some of the MG would not have done it, but I'll bet most would have, and what a great show that would have been!
Oh May twenty fourth, nineteen sixty two. Malcolm Scott Carpenter was the fourth American astronaut to travel into space, making the fourth manned Project Mercury flight. Carpenter was the best prepared Project Mercury astronaut at that time.
On May twenty fourth, nineteen sixty two, Malcolm Scott Carpenter was the fourth American astronaut to travel into space, making the fourth manned Project Mercury flight. Carpenter was the best prepared NASA astronaut at that time.
Why don't the bring back " What's My Line?"? It was so good ! 😊. And great to see film stars/ celebrities speaking for themselves : very nice. The current 2021 tv shows are mostly a bit lame.... 😊🌎🌷🌿💕🇬🇧😊
If this were a soccer match, Bennett Cerf would get a yellow card for challenging the referee's decision. He asked if the safari guide came into direct contact with people. She answered yes, meaning I assume that she met them face to face. Mr Cerf followed up with 'Do you touch them?' and was annoyed when he got a no, which was a fair answer. I find his teasing of John Daly rather boring because it's always the same and rarely funny. Mr Daly is very good at the deadpan response - he reminds me of Stan Laurel or Jack Benny when he does the straight-to-camera look of exasperation. For myself, I would send him off and bring in someone younger to refresh the show.
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Notice the class and civility with which the panel and host interact with the guests and each other? I'm afraid those days are gone forever. I am so enjoying these episodes!
edjucat, The question is *why* has class and civility gone?
Roger White Declining moral and education, in my humble opinion.
Can you imagine this show today? Occupations: sex toy tester, TH-cam “personality”, etc. Mystery Guest: a Kardashian, some star of a failing network sitcom
Rowan Smith Sadly, you've described exactly what it would be like!
Gone forever? F#@k You! I’m f#@ken civil, I bloody well have class & so has the tattoo of my penis on my forehead
I love watching these gracious, witty and intelligent shows. Thank you for posting.
Me too!
I also find enjoyment viewing the aforementioned presentation and herewith find a high degree of fascination with Mr. Daly's precise elucidations in his responses to the questions made to him in his capacity as the show's moderator.
A rare shot of the audience! Incidentally, the studio where WML was taped was later converted into the legendary nightclub Studio 54.
How sad.
Interesting tidbits are not sad.
@@Yowza78 i agree!
Wow! I didn’t know that!
I danced there in 1980. And, I watched WML as a kid.
Timeless class. Love watching these episodes of an era long gone.
Shirley Booth was always such a class act.
I heartily concur !
WHATS MY LINE thanks so much for posting these shows. This is indeed the best program on television
It was no "My Mother the Car", but this long running program did indeed have its moments.
@@jubalcalif9100 :D
On May 24, 1962, Scott Carpenter was the pilot for the fourth manned spaceflight of Project Mercury. Deke Slayton was originally scheduled to be the pilot, but when cardiac arrhythmia was discovered during his mission preparations, Carpenter (who was the backup for John Glenn) was substituted as the best prepared astronaut of the Project Mercury team.
At 6:54, Johnny Carson guesses of the challengers "Are you the ones who said he missed." Carpenter's flight missed the landing target location by far more than any other Mercury flight (248 miles compared to 46 miles for John Glenn's mission; the rest all landed within 6 miles of their target).
Flight Director Chris Kraft was unhappy with Carpenter's performance related to the landing procedures and scrubbed him from future missions. Carpenter left the space program in 1964 and participated in the Navy's SEALAB program.
Thanks for that. I was wondering what Carpenter's story was about.
I'd also like to say that I appreciate the stark lack of laser lights and buzzers and dumbed-down production tactics. It's so refreshing.
Yes!! I so agree.
Most classy, witty and attractive lady as an ordinary mystery guest- and Betty's outfit and smile were marvelous !!!! Not to mention her occupation as a safari guide in Africa. I wish I had been in John Daly's shoes that night back in 1962... Goodness me...it had been even before my beloved parents started planning my conceiving !!!! Great show anyway ! Thank you for uploading the whole series of episodes. Cheers !!!
Finally!! A guest who has a connection to something I got to do. In the middle 80"s I got to go on Safari in Kenya and Tanzania. Furthermore, it was the roughly the same area that her safaris went on. To say that it was the trip of a lifetime, is an understatement. A wonderful vacation. If you ever have a chance to go, take it you will never regret going.
Outstanding show from a bygone era . Many of the stars who appeared were humble and gracious .Nothing like today
There are still some humble & gracious people in this world.
I love watching the reruns of this show the cast always looks like their going to a cocktail party.
In fact, they had a party for everyone after each show.
Party on!
People were actually kind towards each other. Must have been nice.
I support your observation about kindness. As a child growing up in the 1950s, when it came to addressing our friends' parents, or my parents' friends, it was always Mr. and Mrs., so never by a first name.
There are still kind people in the world.
I loved Hazel growing up…need more family oriented shows without vulgar commercials 🥰
The commercials are getting out of line. Literally bleeping out curse words to pitch hot sauce and vaccination/shots. Smh. Not cute and I am far from being a pearl clutching prude
No one is forcing you to watch shows or ads you find "vulgar". It's called freedom of choice. Watch something else.
John mentions that Betty Bruce and her husband did safaris in Tanganyika, which existed as a separate country only from 1961-1964. Before then, it was a British protectorate. In 1963, the archipelago of Zanzibar also gained its independence and the following year the two new nations joined to form current day Tanzania.
Another bit of trivia: the singer Freddie Mercury was from Zanzibar. His birth name was Farrokh Bulsara.
Scott Carpenter's space flight occurred 3 days before this episode. The flight was memorable because a mechanical failure caused Carpenter to overshoot his splashdown point by 250 miles. There was much concern that he had not survived re-entry until the P2V aircraft piloted by the two contestants spotted him. His dramatic rescue explains the reaction of the panel and the audience to the pilot contestants.
Although she was best known on Broadway and in television, Shirley Booth was one of the earliest actresses to win a Tony, an Oscar, and an Emmy. Her involvement with "Hazel" -- sometimes best described as a sitcom without laugh track -- began the year before, its only black and white season.
soulierinvestments indeed. It’s a very rare feat to win a Tony, an Oscar, and an Emmy. Shirley Booth was a very smart and talented lady.
Don't forget she won the Oscar and Tony in the same year.
Johnny Carson look so young and handsome back in his day. I like how everybody was so respectful to each other and to the guest. That was a different era.
catholics4unity those days are gone. Society has no respect for anyoneits a shame
I think Johnny got better looking as he got older!!
Johnny Carson was always hilarious when on the panel. A great guest panelist 👍
He was brilliant, too bad cigarettes took him out. I'm sure he's in Heaven, he gave $$ to charities. RIP Mr Carson for all the laughs you gave us.
I wish he had been on more, honestly.
@Mark Richardson *sigh* shows
John Daly's explanations vs. Johnny Carson's comebacks. The highest level of competition.
So sweet of Shirley to give Arlene her kudos. And I don't blame Johnny one bit! The lady was gorgeous!
She really is!
Great episode! I enjoyed this one a lot.
This was Johnny Carson's next-to-last appearance on WHAT'S MY LINE?, by the way. He is a guest panelist on the 24 March 1963 episode, as is Mrs. Adolph Green. Between 1956 and 1963, he appeared on 9 WML? episodes: 8 as a guest panelist and 1 (earlier in 1962) as Mystery Guest. (7 of those 9 episodes were in 1961 and 1962.)
Do you mean Phyllis Newman?
Love the way John Daly plays up his “conferences” to the audience, raising his eyebrows and giving out a cheeky grin 😝
It's so rare to get a glimpse of the audience. I always enjoy when they do.
As Snagglepuss would say, "Indubitably!"
Mrs. Bruce was a beautiful lady!
She was no Hope Emerson (hubba hubba!) but Mrs Bruce was indeed one fetching lass.
Dorothy looks very pretty here.
Not really but her hair is less severe than usual, which suits her (like most people) better. But when I say she doesn’t look pretty, I also don’t think it’s important to look pretty. Her intelligence was far more important.
Nothing pretty about Dorothy.
I wish I had known her when she was alive.
@@ericstuart7748 Maybe not conventionally pretty. But pretty, nonetheless.
She's no Marie Dressler (be still my heart!) but Dorothy was alluring in her own special way!
I love how John dissects Bennett's line of questioning at 12:25 when he disputes the answer! Although, unlike Arlene who can smell a "no" answer a mile away and will readjust her intention to get a yes, I think Bennett genuinely meant what he said but phrased it too indirectly, especially for a question he's asked hundreds of guests before!
To me Shirley Booth has the same strange eye set as Karen Black and Virginia Mayo. They almost look cross eyed. But they all have fascinating eyes. Kind of deep set and intense. Unusual.
That's for sharing! L0ve these old shows!
My sentiments exactly !
I was one month old when this aired. I adored Shirly Booth.
I was about 18 MTS old.
I wasn’t born when this aired, and I never was able to see the show Hazel when it was on. My mother said she remembered it. I think Shirley Booth was a wonderful actress!
So do you remember anything from when it was aired?
I was just teasing you. My mother loved Shirley Booth and enjoyed watching the sitcom that she starred in, which I think was called "Hazel."
@@daler.steffy1047: Yes, it was. The family were the Baxters, because actress Whitney Blake's married name was Baxter. Hence her daughter, Meredith Baxter.
I'll be watching One, Two, Three this afternoon. I love these old movies from a time before I was born.
love the bantering between Daly and Cerf
Shirley Booth played Dolly Levi in the (non-musical) movie version of "Hello Dolly" in the 50's called "The Matchmaker".
Shirley Booth + Rankin-Bass = inseparable. 🎅🔥❄🎶
I find her performance in "The Matchmaker" film much more compelling and touching -- as well as funnier -- than any of the Dolly Levis that I've seen in the musical "Hello Dolly" either on stage or film. Some plays are so well-written that adding music dilutes their impact, no matter how clever the songs themselves are by themselves, and I'd put "The Matchmaker" in that class along with "Blithe Spirit."
Of course that's the original version, by Thornton Wilder.
Betty Bruce, the African safari guide, is in my opinion one of the two most beautiful contestants ever on WML. The other - Nicole Germain from Canada ( see Jan. 23, 1955 episode ).
I agree! And she seemed intelligent and warm and vivacious and approachable. Here was a woman of great beauty--and the humility in which to express it.
Nice to know that back then they were actually safaris that did not involve hunting.
This episode is the only one I know of that shows the studio audience, however briefly.
"What's My Line" was done in a Broadway Theater and was called CBS Studio 52. In the 1970s it became the infamous disco called Studio 54. It is still called Studio 54 today and hosts plays and other theatrical events. I was in Studio 54 in 2009 for Carrie Fisher's one woman show "Wishful Drinking".
On the episode from 11/13/55, Albert "Happy" Chandler (former Major League Baseball Commissioner and Governor-elect of Kentucky) and his wife, Mildred, were introduced to take a bow from the audience. There may have been one or two other times that the audience was shown, but it definitely was rare, at least through the episodes I have watched from the beginning to May 1962.
It was super rare, but I have seen it a couple times.
Rare camera shot of the studio audience!
Yep. Very cool.
maynardsmoreland Interesting to see how well dressed they were. Now days the audience is in tank tops, flip flops and pajamas.
maynardsmoreland , yup audience shown at about 8:20
I love the classy way the lovely guest Betty Bruce dressed, the shawl was so pretty and classy. She was sexy without showing too much skin...very classy.
Yes I was always wondering how the studio the studio looks like, seems a bit cramped maybe fitting around 50 people or so
Oh wow, this is classic Daly. :)
"Safari, so goody", yet another wonderful quip by the rapscallion Bennet. He may have trouble with some pronunciations, but the man definitely had a sharp wit.
Bennett was funny only insafari as within the context of "What's My Line?" :-)
@@loissimmons6558 Yes Lois! His puns are all what we call "groaners", and your wordplay here is brilliant!
Miss Bruce..very cute..and what a phenomenal job
This show was packed full of history for sure
This time Arlene guessed her. Last time it was Dorothy.
Even the cameramen were good. They always managed to focus in on each panelist and their expression when they find out the line.
Hazel Burke r.i.p Shirley Booth.
She also played the role of Lola Delaney (for which she won a Tony on Broadway and an Oscar for playing her on the screen).
Being originally from Michigan, I was a very little girl but always got a kick out of shows being sponsored back in the day by Kelloggs who added the tagline, "Of Battle Creek."
I was in Michigan recently and wanted to go on the cereal factory tour. Missed it by 31 years.
@@sarasmith5110 Yeah, I took my kids to the museum, but no more factory tour. :(
Shirley is precious to me. Love her.
You clearly have excellent taste !
Shirley Booth... OSCAR, EMMY, TONY winner
True. A very versatile & talented actress. Talk about a class act!
She was brilliant in "Come Back, Little Sheba," for which she won the Oscar.
I love Come Back Little Sheba i cried first time I saw it.
What a performance! Shirley Booth just grabs the viewer into her character with every move, every word. She was amazing, and the script seemed just made for her.
@@rmelin13231 William Inge is one of my favorite playwrights.
The star role in "Come Back Little Sheba' was going to go to Bette Davis but she refused it flat out and said she simply could not do the 'vague gorgeousness' the author described and that Shirley Booth alone managed to capture.
You can blindfold the panel, but you can't disguise Shirley Booth's voice! (And you have to admire John Daly for acknowledging that "Hazel" was on another network--and still plugging that it was on Thursday nights!)
This is fun. Refreshing from most of todays shows
No one is forcing you to watch today's shows. Don't like something....don't watch it.
I LOVED her in About Mrs. Leslie
Indeed! That's a 50s movie drama that should be better known. She & Robert Ryan give wonderful performances.
Awesome! An old-school GSN airing!
Also lower video quality, but I scrounge whatever copies I can find. . .
staytunedfor No complaints here. I'm more disappointed over the original videotaped versions of the 1959-1967 episodes no longer existing, than I am over the quality of this copy.
But I guess kinescopes will have to do it seems.
staytunedfor No one's complained, I just wanted to note I was aware of the video quality But I appreciate the sentiment.
A terrific actress and class act!
Johnny Carson appeared both as a guest and panelists in different episodes. His career as host of the iconic, “The Tonight Show“, was just beginning. Back then it originated from NYC, later moved to LA. Many wondered how Johnny would do having previousely hosted an afternoon game show, “Who Do You Trust?“; a completely different genre. Yet, his work on “The Tonight Show“ was a TV juggernaut lasting 30 years!! Too terrific for a kid from a tiny mid-west town.
This episode aired on May 27, 1962 BUT he did not start on The Tonight Show until October 1, 1962.
We get a very rare camera angle showing part of the WML audience, at 8:17.
I love how the women carry their purses around with them.
We still do.....☺️🙏🏻♥️🇺🇸
Most of the woman I see today in public are still carrying purses.
Love the penmanship of people like Betty Bruce, as cursive writing died back about 1970. Suggestive remarks like Johnny's were allowed back in those days as you can see when you watch these shows. Being 90 now, I don't remember anyone being offended by them as they were taken with good humour. Women's lib has made that kind of easy interaction between males and females dangerous territory today. Everyone seems to be looking for offense which is sad.
@gcjerryusc As a transplant into Virginia, I am quite accustomed to y'all. At the same time, having grown up in Western Pennsylvania, I was early on exposed to a construction that seems to be confined to that section of the country: y'ins. It's short for "you ones" and serves the same purpose as y'all. It just sounds stranger.
1928gerry - But these days men act so brazenly with their expectations and don't just smile and leave. Sure, I enjoy harmless banter but these days that is dangerous.
Cursive writing did not die out around 1970, if it was still being taught in schools then, as in my case - and I still use in the present day.
@1928gerry.
So you are 92 now (or will be soon) if you are still with us, if you are, I wish you a Happy Birthday.
I never watched Hazel and never really cared for Shirley Booth until I happened to see a little film titled "About Mrs. Leslie." Shirley Booth just stole my heart as did her co-star...a man who one would never think could steal anyone's heart because of the roles he so wonderfully portrayed...Robert Ryan! It's a "B" movie from beginning to end but she was brilliant as she portrayed a woman for whom love & happiness seemed to bypass.
I don't think "About Mrs Leslie" is a B picture at all. It was a major production produced by a major studio.
Wow, Betty Bruce was gorgeous!
She was no Esther Howard, but she was indeed quite a lovely lass.
Met Shirley Booth in Watson's in Orleans on Cape Cod.
And what happened?
@@jubalcalif9100 Lori said, "I wish you were Marie Dressler!" :D
am wondering if arlene asked if the 2 pilots were athletes because she was a big baseball fan. there was an outfielder on the NY Mets in its inaugural season named Jim Hickman who had one all star year later on with the Cubs in 1970. The ball player was from Henning Tenn. She probably thought maybe Hickman, the pilot, and the other guy were teammates with the Mets.
I loved Shirley Booth,miss seeing her.
Shirley Booth at age 63.
My, my, my what a time of life! ❤
A 35-year-old Johnny Carson! Nice!
Check out the ears on Johnny Carson! I wonder if he had an operation to pin them back because I don't remember those ears being like that when I would watch him on the Tonight Show in the 1980s
So nice to hear an audience applaud without screaming like morons.
If you don't care for how today's audiences react, no one is forcing you to watch them. Don't like something? Don't watch it. It's called "freedom of choice".
Johnny needed a shave! And he looks a bit tired too. Also the week of July 16th-20th Arlene would host the Tonight Show. This was 2 1/2 months before Johnny would take over on October 1st! Shirley Booth sure looked different on videotape than she did on film, even the black and white film of the first season of "Hazel"
In 1959 the show started using videotape to record the show, and to air those relatively few episodes that did not air *live*, but none of those videotapes survived. All we are able to see now are the B&W film kinescopes which also continued to be recorded until the last show in 1967. When you mentioned videotape I took it to mean that you were thinking that this posted video came from a videotape. Perhaps I was in error. I'm also presuming that the show was recorded on videotape for posterity even when the show aired *live*, even though those tapes (as far as anyone knows) ended up getting lost or recorded over for something else. I hope someday they show up, especially those episodes for the last 12 months which were produced in color. But I'm not holding my breath! LOL
49yt Rumor has it that the final episode of the original series exists in its original color videotape form.
***** Presumably, then, in the hands of a private collector who won't let anyone else see it.
What's My Line?
that is just so weird.
What's My Line? I wonder if there are any color photos of Daly WML during the tapings of the 1967 episodes? Of course, I don't mean the special color episode from 9/19/54 (which no longer exists).
Loved watching prissy Bennett get schooled at 13:00!
So did I, and perfectly delivered by Mr. Daly.
Interesting question Bennet asked "Is there always snow on top of Mt. Kilimanjaro?" The answer in 1962 was YES, but now in 2023, the answer is NO.
In 2024, there was no snow on the top of Mt Fuji in Japan.
Hazel is still a great t. Series
Arlene nailed Shirley Booth....
What a world then compared to the insanity today. More civility and manners then.
There are still people today who are civil and well mannered. Not having met everyone in the world, how can you judge them?
The best prepared
American astronaut in
May nineteen sixty two,
Malcolm Scott Carpenter never flew in space again.
Does anyone else think that Shirley kind of resembles Jessica Lange?
Marilyn Monroe turns age 36 on June 1, in 5 days following this episode on May 27, 1962. Her final b'day, dying on Aug. 4, 1962.
What does Marilyn Monroe have to do with this episode of WML ?
That's cheerful!
John seemed to be in an unusually irritated mood that night! 😊
Maybe he was constipated.
@@jubalcalif9100 :D
Betty Bruce became a conservationist and helped save an endangered giraffe population. She died in 2005.
Tilton High School song? I know the Tilden High School song from 1965 - 1965 when I was a student.
Random House gets so much (I assume) free publicity on this show.
In the category of "the name's the same", in 1962 the Mets had a rookie outfielder by the name of Jim Hickman (same as one of the first two challengers during the first segment of this episode). Hickman had been selected from the Cardinals organization in the expansion draft that helped stock the original Mets team. He was a fair defensive outfielder who often played center field and a power hitter who was long on promise but struck out a lot (for that time) and never quite delivered while with the Mets. He broke his wrist diving for a ball in 1966, and missed three months of that season. He seemed okay during the last two months of the season, but with Cleon Jones and Ron Swoboda coming up from the minors, Hickman who was nearing age 30 and considered damaged goods was traded to the Dodgers with Ron Hunt for Tommy Davis and Derrell Griffith after the end of the season.
The Dodgers were desperate for hitting in 1967 and Hickman was part of the problem, batting only .163 in limited action. He was sent down to the minors during the season with the Dodgers hoping to take his strong arm and convert him to a pitcher. At the end of the season, he appeared in one game for the Dodgers as a pitcher. But in one of the worst trades the Dodgers ever made, early in the 1968 season they traded him to the Cubs with relief pitcher Phil "The Vulture" Regan for outfielder Ted Savage (a highly touted prospect years earlier who was much less successful than Hickman in the majors) and pitcher Jim Ellis (who only pitched 10 games in the majors, none with the Dodgers, although they were able to traded him to the Cardinals for a good reliever, Pete Mikkelsen).
With the Cubs, Hickman's career revived. Splitting time between outfield and first base, he was NL Comeback Player of the Year in 1970 and made his only All Star team. In fact, he played five innings in left field and three at first base in that extra inning game and became the answer to a trivia question: who drove in the winning run of the 1970 All-Star Game on the play when Pete Rose bowled over Ray Fosse (injuring Fosse and probably shortening his career).
As an original Met, Hickman was also the answer to some trivia questions related to that organization. He was the first Met to hit for the cycle (one of the few natural cycles in history, hitting single, double, triple and home run in that order), he hit the last home run at the Polo Grounds during the last game played at that stadium, he was the first Met to hit three home runs in a game (all off of future Met Ray Sadecki) and he was the last original Met to play for the Mets when he pinch hit and stayed in the game at first base during the first game of a double header against Houston on the final day of the 1966 regular season. A bit of irony is that Hickman batted for Ed Kranepool. Some people consider Kranepool to be the last original Met to play for the team as he came up at the tail end of the Mets inaugural 1962 season as a 17 year old, playing in three games at first base (one start) and getting a hit (a double) in six at bats. Kranepool spent his entire career in the Mets organization, becoming their starting first baseman as a 19 year old in 1964 and finishing his career with them in 1979. But he was still in high school when the Mets played their first regular season game (although he was in the Mets box in their inaugural home game as the Mets were wooing him to sign with them once he graduated; these being the days before the free agent amateur draft). So there is disagreement as to whether or not Kranepool was an original Met.
When the Jim Hickman on this episode of WML signed in, I thought it might be the Mets outfielder, either a gamble that the panel wouldn't know him or that he had another career besides baseball. (As it turns out, the Mets played in San Francisco that day, but I hadn't looked it up when I was watching.) When Bob Goldner also signed in, I had never heard of anyone by that name in baseball so I was leaning towards the "other career" theory. But when I heard this Jim Hickman announce that he was from Dallas, I knew it wasn't the baseball player. He was from Henning, Tennessee (the same hometown as Alex Haley) and lived there most of his life.
Sightseeing Safari! Great!
Come back little Shirley!
Second contestant was very pretty ❤
Flattop haircuts when the military was at its height of prestige, I was a kid and had one, just a year later came the Beatles and changed that, awful looking in retrospect.
i remberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....
As soon as they signed in, I thaught navy
Good to see a safari guide who's not about the hunting. Sightseeing is obviously becoming g more popular.
Johnny Carson would do something to his ears cause they stuck out so much! I would have noticed this
I thought the same thing. He must have had them pinned back.
I think he grew into them, he is quite young here.
She was almost going to walk like HAZEL when she got up LOL 😂
I didn’t know her real natural voice is different from HAZEL 😂
RIP SHIRLEY ❤
I'd follow Mrs. Bruce anywhere...
All the ladies are attractive.
Thank you to all military women & men for your service (past or present). The world is much safer because of your bravery and sacrifices. To the military families who lost loved ones, my sincere condolences for your loss. 🪖🎖🇺🇸😔
Дякуємо всім військовим жінкам і чоловікам за вашу службу (минулу чи нинішню). Світ набагато безпечніший завдяки вашій хоробрості та жертвам. Родинам військових, які втратили близьких, щирі співчуття з приводу вашої втрати. 🪖🎖🇺🇦😔
The lady panelists wear beautiful clothes
My idea: What's My Line should have been on at 10 o'clock so that it could be followed by a live interview by John Daly with the mystery guest.
Shirley Booth was on for all of about 4 minutes. What a waste. I know some of the MG would not have done it, but I'll bet most would have, and what a great show that would have been!
Oh
May twenty fourth, nineteen sixty two.
Malcolm Scott Carpenter was the fourth
American astronaut to travel into space, making the fourth manned
Project
Mercury flight.
Carpenter was the best prepared
Project
Mercury astronaut at that time.
On
May twenty fourth, nineteen sixty two,
Malcolm Scott Carpenter was the fourth
American astronaut to travel into space, making the fourth manned
Project
Mercury flight.
Carpenter was the best prepared
NASA astronaut at that time.
Why don't the bring back " What's My Line?"?
It was so good ! 😊.
And great to see film stars/ celebrities speaking for themselves : very nice.
The current 2021 tv shows are mostly a bit lame....
😊🌎🌷🌿💕🇬🇧😊
If you don't like today's programs, no one is forcing you to watch them. It's called "freedom of choice".
I’ve often heard of but never seen Johnny Carson before. Odd-looking!
😮
WHAT?
Scott Carpenter was the best prepared
NASA astronaut on
May twenty fourth nineteen sixty two.
I think your needle is stuck.
How can people in the Navy have nothing to do with a ship?!
They must at least sometimes have gone to one as part of their work.
Navy pilots stationed on a Naval Air Station have nothing to do with ships.
If this were a soccer match, Bennett Cerf would get a yellow card for challenging the referee's decision. He asked if the safari guide came into direct contact with people. She answered yes, meaning I assume that she met them face to face. Mr Cerf followed up with 'Do you touch them?' and was annoyed when he got a no, which was a fair answer. I find his teasing of John Daly rather boring because it's always the same and rarely funny. Mr Daly is very good at the deadpan response - he reminds me of Stan Laurel or Jack Benny when he does the straight-to-camera look of exasperation. For myself, I would send him off and bring in someone younger to refresh the show.
John Gee - No, I liked them all: each had a place in this show.
What verbosity! A level of which is rarely experienced in today’s “entertainment.”
*_NAVY PILOTS (FIRST TO FIND ASTRONAUT CARPENTER)_*
*_AFRICAN SAFARI GUIDE_*