I had the honor and privilege of meeting Muhammad Ali more than once, and every single time he took the time to shake my hand and spend a minute or two with me. Keep in mind these weren't media events or anything like that, just him going about his day. He absolutely didn't have to do that, but he was always a class act.
I met Ali when he came to my high school and held a lecture for students. I was amazed how quiet he was in person. Even more astonished how big his fists were when he shook my hand. From that day on I became an Ali fan.
Elise M The point was, Elise, that it's easier to name people in a long list of people (those who WERE on WML) than it is to name people in a very short list of people (those who WEREN'T).
What I like about this show is that John Daly is compassionate and shows good empathy to all kinds of vocations or "line of work". Whether the guest is a doorman, sewage cleaner or whatever, he is not haughty and just leans right in for a "conference". Good man, and a good host!
I'll say. A very Democratic Dude. Having ordinary people from a variety of walks of life combined with the glam & fam personalities of the day with an intellectually distinguished and highly professional panel made it very interesting to watch most of the time indeed. Although this was before my time, it almost makes me sigh for the return of better times gone by and lost forever to forgotten yesterdays. Well, Time Marches On....but where to now???? Oh Lord!!! Hope I'm DEAD before it gets there, Yikes!!!! Todays' scene looks not all that pretty, not all that promising.
In every television appearance or interview you always see Muhammad Ali enjoying himself, living life to the fullest. He was almost appeared as a child here playing the game. Thank you for posting this!
Muhammad Ali was an incredibly charismatic man! Like he used to say, "I'm pretty. I'm a bad man. I'm champion of the world!" ...and he was, always in our hearts truly THE GREATEST!
You and millions of others who were not old enough to see any of these shows at the broadcast were deprived of some of the best entertainment, at $0 cost (except for the electricity used by the tv), before cable, with WML? prime: 1953-67.
I was 12 years old when that show aired, but 10 years later I had the occasion to meet Muhammad Ali when his limo driver was lost and I gave him an official U.S. Secret Service escort to his destination in Wash.D.C. where I was on patrol doing counter terrorist work and protecting the White House in 1975. I shook the hand of Muhammad Ali and he was very nice. I too am an athlete and had to be in great shape to do the job in law enforcement that I had for many years. I am sorry to see Muhammad Ali has passed away just a few years ago. He was a great man and he did a lot for all people. I used to watch What's My Line when I was very young and I am still amazed at some of the guests. Great stuff! Keep it up!
I love it when the commercials are left in! However, it's sad watching and knowing that in a couple of months from this air date, Dorothy Kilgallen would be dead.
Now that is a saddening fact, however, I thank you for the information as I remember watching this show as a child but didn't remember when and how she passed.
@@richcarrCCC There's a great deal of speculation re. her death- she died of a drug overdose, shortly after announcing the fact that she knew who killed JFK. Interesting timing.
I loved this show. Racism was very much in "vogue" when Ali was on the show, and it didn't keep the producers of the show from bringing him on the show. Good for them! Racism was for tool long in evidence on TV shows, so God bless "WML" for not being so.
Not to mention booking a man that had converted to a religion most of America had very little knowledge about at the time. Took some coverage to have him on, despite being world heavyweight champion.
Racism is always in vogue but TV producers know good TV and he is good TV. Also great fighters give people the warm and fuzzies and he had an entertaining personality. He enjoyed it, they enjoyed him. The way I see it you can almost always overcome some good old racism if you demonstrate the exception to the stereotypes and play it cool. Who hates Cassius Clay? No one.
Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Hattie McDaniel, Lena Horne, Rochester, Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, Willy Mays, Frank Yerbvy, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Eubie Blake, -- every one of them reviled, persecuted, spat on,, tormented, run out of town. after gtown, and lynched. SHEEEEEEEEEESH! For CHRISSAKES, GET OVER IT!
10years ago i discovered Whats my line was on YT, but i remember seeing a rereun on TV on vacation with my family in NYC in 2009 from France and i just love it. So classy and a great Time capsule of those days they litterally had all the big stars of that era were on there. Beautiful
There always is a spike in viewership of shows featuring a particular celebrity when they pass away. I like to think it's a result of people wanting to remember them at their peak, rather than just wallow in the sad news.
this was about a year or so after ali had changed his name from cassius clay, by this time a very controversial figure, much of white america had reservations about this confident and unapologetic black man. wml was ahead of it's time, love these shows, wml is a great time stamp of that era.
Ali- Truly "The Greatest"! Not only a peerless boxer in his prime- that Ali wit and ability to speak well put him in a place all alone both before and after his reign in the ring. Name one heavyweight champ since him who could make you laugh while verbally jousting with an opponent or a reporter who would then enter the ring and float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. I enjoyed this. I wouldn't mind seeing this show revived, but I feel the lights in our entertainment firmament are pretty dim compared to the ones in this show's heyday.
I'm a life-long boxing fan. My dad took me to see the second Ali vs Frazier bout at Madison Sq. Garden. It was memorable, electric! And, you're right. There hasn't been a fighter since Ali that can touch him, in boxing prowess, personality, originality, and none even come close to being as entertaining. Yeah, we're lucky to have had him. He is irreplaceable.
You shot down your own argument, and I thank you for doing so! "I feel the lights in our entertainment firmament are pretty dim compared to the ones in this show's heyday." You understated the case, if possible. The "lights" today are darker than going out at 3am!
If you've ever heard of - either the book, or term 'Medium Cool', it boils down to TV - being in one's home, is intimate, and is - as opposed to going to see a movie, or a theatre, a 'cool' medium' (in other words, rather than a performer needing to be/perform 'over-the-top', as in theatre - esp. when theatres were un -mic'ed, a TV performer needs to underplay). I say this because one gauge of a show, or performers success potential (in TV) is if they're able to make the viewer feel like a 'friend' - Johnny Carson was a natural at this, and it's not something one can 'learn' how to do - it'll 'read' as fake'. A person either has it or doesn't. It's rare. The fact that the panellists on WML have it, is terrific, and rarer still - in fact, in an episode, I watched last night (I've been 'bingeing' on them), Mr Daly was talking about this 'friend' we 'invite into our homes' quality, and he mentioned that he'd heard people say the panellists on WML are just like friends we invite in. A lovely feeling, and, I guess that's why - having been watching one-after-another of these, since yesterday, I feel like I'm listening to a funny, clever conversation in my home, and it draws one in.
Good episode! I love how Mohammed Ali had fun keeping the panel in the dark as long as possible, but then I always like seeing other people have a good time. I have never heard anything bad about him, and he always made a good impression on me everytime I saw him on TV. The other segments of the show were also entertaining.
Mr. Garagiola Was such a class act. He special to me because his book “baseball is a funny game” what is the first book I ever read in English from cover to cover
The same two women have been on this show for at least twelve years, they've met a lot of famous people. A long running series when you think about it.
RIP Champ and Dorothy too. It is mind boggling and sad that less than 2 months after this Dorothy would be gone. But you still are in our hearts forever.
Thanks for posting! I've seen close to 100 of these now and a general observation is that at the beginning, circa 1950-52, regular non-performing folks seemed nearly shocked or cowed by appearing before a TV camera and by 1959-65, they are much more at ease, if still a little shy.
Wow, Mr AlI did a terrific job (I was in another room when I heard him give his first answer, and I had no clue who it was). Ms Francis is - as always - so good at figuring out who, what the person is, celebrity, or otherwise.
Absolutely loved this one! I miss him. I was a child when he was in his prime, but wow - he affected everyone around him. I miss him also, repeating myself on purpose.
Wow, lol I just went from watching a 1954 episode to watching this, a 1965 episode. It's very weird to see Dorothy age like that in a matter of seconds.
@@roberthockett270 Can't recall the Author's name, but I can recommend the book 'The Reporter Who Knew Too Much'. It's fairly clear from revisiting the original evidence that Dorothy Kilgallen's death was highly suspicious. The author, a lawyer and journalist, puts forward a few possible theories of who might've been involved and why.
I love coming to these partly to see people with really iconic voices like Louis Armstrong and Walt Disney having to do daft voices. This is the best one, Ali knocks it out of the park. A guy with a million talents, he was great at them all. Although the fact they ask whether he's Cassius Clay pisses me off slightly.
Does it help if you know that he had only the year before changed his name? At least she said his correct name first. Also, I'm not sure how accustomed people were to somebody changing their name like that after they were already famous. I don't mean that people didn't owe it to him to use the correct name, but I don't think it was one of those things where people had the hang of it.
She first asked if he were the name of the man to whom the mountain was brought (if you’re familiar with that; surely you are), then she gave his birth name. Everyone knew him more by his birth name at the time. Even the black people had trouble with his name change at first. They too were what you likely feel is ‘old school.’
@@mynamedoesntmatter8652 - the original comment has validity, from the fact that there was still a concerted effort by several in the mainstream media to refuse to acknowledge Ali's name change 1, 2, 3, 4, or even 5 years after he made it. Don't think that was the case here with Arlene, but it was an issue in general, in and out of the media. Case in point...the next opponent Ali discusses in this appearance, Floyd Patterson, had bragged about refusing to acknowledge Ali's changed name; Patterson got beat severely in the ring for his attitude, as Ali demanded with each blow Patterson "say my name."
Muhammad Ali was such a great entertainer. He made such an amazing commitment to making the networks bring in so many ratings. He did for the networks what no other boxer has ever done for them. He never changed his view points and way of charm and conversation for the camera.
The only time I have ever got an impression of Muhammad Ali’s great size is when he gets up to go and towers over the panel! I am slowly working my way through all his fights and as a bizarre coincidence I have just got to 1965. An amazing athlete, a great champion and a true gentleman.
I have recently come to love the show at 55 years old. And while this may not have been the best episode, it was certainly my favorite episode because it had Muhammad Ali in it. Growing up in the 70s I’ll Lee was my hero and now in my 50s he’s still my hero even as a dead guy. He’s one of the greatest men who ever walked on this planet and everyone knows about it.
Yes the women got whistles, but as stated before, they were dressed up and on national t.v. so that is understandable. Ali usually challanges the norms and race but here he was respectful as well, i think this show just had an aura of high quality guests. Now days we have had decades if moral degradation, sex, violence, drugs leaking into homes from every media outlet until society has ultimately changed. You can even go as far and say its a satanic agenda that has worked by infesting their beliefs widespread. Its obvious when you look at it long term like this, that we have evolved for the worse
@@manuelmartinezz I am an extremely stubborn skeptic by nature, and even I have to allow for the possibility that there was more to her death than the record states. It will require more research on my part before I can comfortably take a side in the situation. Most discomforting details for me are: 1.) how and where her body was found, 2.) the comparison to Monroe's death, and 3.) the almost immediate death of her friend and confidant, to whom she had just recently given some of her JFK notes for safekeeping.
What a delightful fellow the Champ was, in every setting. Still can't believe the government in the '60s chose to mess with him rather than celebrate him. It's a testament to our 'greatness' that such a fellow could have emerged among us, and a testament to our narrowness that he didn't get his full due till the '70s.
She looks especially fantastic in these recent episodes! And speaking of fashion, is Arlene's gown this evening actually a pantsuit?? I can't tell if it's just an illusion created by the way the chiffon-like material flows when in motion.
Joe Garagiola was a boyhood friend of Yogi Berra -- they lived across the street from each other. One time, Joe was telling another sportscaster that there was a plaque on Yogi's old house saying "Yogi Berra grew up here". The other guy asked Joe if there was a plaque on his old house. Joe said "Yeah. It says 'Yogi Berra grew up across the street from here'".
I've never been a boxing fan, but if I'd sat on the WML panel, my greatest thrill would have been to shake Muhammad Ali's hand, above that of all other MG's. I actually felt a twinge of wistful envy when the panelists got to shake the hand of that larger-than-life legend.
@@amyanderson4099 most people know if they are attractive or not. I think a lot of his was posturing for the cameras. He was always a gentleman and very nice to anyone he met. Real narcissistic personalities aren't.
@@stevedavis8329 Parkinson's is genetic, not induced by blows to the head, something Ali took few of compared to other boxers. If he was a dancer or movie star, he would also have it
I love the voice that Muhammad Ali put on. It was such fun watching his videos with Howard Cosell and the video of Billy Crystal doing it impersonation of him. He and Crystal were friends as were he and Cosell. Ali had a sense of humor too comment he made about John Charles Daly.😂❤
Back in the 60s I worked the Front Door of the Fountainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. One the hotel bellhops, Levi, was Ali's sparring partner at the 5th Street gym. When Ali pulled up to the hotel, Levi came out and the two of them put on a simulated sparring exhibition for everyone. Shuttle buses pulling up and folks in the buses couldn't believe what they were seeing!
Everybody??? I don't think so. The people who were regularly on "What's My Line" evidently were from high class backgrounds. They were exceptions, not the rule, believe me. Joe Garagiola talked like a regular guy. How could "everyone" have spoken "high class" back then? And what do you mean by high class, anyway. My father is from the Bronx and has a heavy Bronx accent and spoke the same way in 1965 that he does today, and he's a college graduate. People speak how they speak; it's not a matter of "back then." Now if you're saying that people were less rude back then, I'll agree with you on THAT.
I agree. Maybe not "high class" in the sense of proper grammar etc. But, certainly, they acted classier than "celebrities" do now. If this program were brought back today, the panel would grin and ask about sex lives etc. and try to push the envelope.
@@900milesfromnormal3 I really doubt that. Maybe you would see more sex jokes on the whole but that's less to do with pushing the envelope and more to do with how humor has evolved culturally
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I had the honor and privilege of meeting Muhammad Ali more than once, and every single time he took the time to shake my hand and spend a minute or two with me. Keep in mind these weren't media events or anything like that, just him going about his day. He absolutely didn't have to do that, but he was always a class act.
I met Ali when he came to my high school and held a lecture for students. I was amazed how quiet he was in person. Even more astonished how big his fists were when he shook my hand. From that day on I became an Ali fan.
I could see why this show was so popular. I'm highly entertained by it 57 years later.
Are you a boxer? Yes.
Arlene: Boy, that sure isn't the voice for it.
She would have been astounded by Mike Tyson's voice
I was waiting for someone to say something like it is if you took a lot of low blows. But the look on his face when she said boxer was great
Haha
My thoughts as soon as she said it.
Tyson defeated every opponent he came across except the letter S
Arlene: Did you ever bite anyone's ear off?
Mike Tyson: Yeth.
I cannot believe this show had pretty much every sport, music, television, motion picture, and politician on the show for the era it ran. Incredible!
It really did. It's harder to make a list of the famous people who were never on the show than it is to name people who were!
What's My Line? I'd say it's easier to make a list of people who weren't on the show, since there are too few. Marilyn Monroe probably the most known.
Elise M The point was, Elise, that it's easier to name people in a long list of people (those who WERE on WML) than it is to name people in a very short list of people (those who WEREN'T).
They should bring this show back.:)
What's My Line? Hi
What I like about this show is that John Daly is compassionate and shows good empathy to all kinds of vocations or "line of work". Whether the guest is a doorman, sewage cleaner or whatever, he is not haughty and just leans right in for a "conference". Good man, and a good host!
I'll say. A very Democratic Dude.
Having ordinary people from a variety of walks of life combined with the glam & fam personalities of the day with an intellectually distinguished and highly professional panel made it very interesting to watch most of the time indeed. Although this was before my time, it almost makes me sigh for the return of better times gone by and lost forever to forgotten yesterdays.
Well, Time Marches On....but where to now???? Oh Lord!!! Hope I'm DEAD before it gets there, Yikes!!!! Todays' scene looks not all that pretty, not all that promising.
Yes, he was a respectful, articulate and versatile host.
You mean he was a normal human being? Yeah. pretty odd.
@@Kinkle_Z it is quite odd for a person with such influence and fame. It always has been...
JOHN DALY WAS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CLASS
Incredible man, Mohamed Ali was more than a boxer. He was the voice of reason in a terrible era. He suffered for so many and a champion of the people!
He was a good man. Stood up for peoples rights, and his own, but had flaws like the rest of us. Greatest boxer I have ever seen.
@@tryingtobefairandobjective3480 Didn't he get licked out of boxing?
Yep he had his title taken away due to his opposition to the Vietnam War
@@fremontpathfinder8463 Yep and not showing up.
Yes. He put himself on the line standing up to a bad war
Don't you just love the frantic urgency of 1960's commercials?
It's great seeing something that I watched, but can't recall??!!!
MY HAIR WON'T COMB
I didn't catch the hairspray witch's name
+Emma Nation
That's Wanda the Witch.
That bitch was high on Amonia they kept saying how much Amonia was in it. Like that's not a hardcore carcinogen
Ali really enjoyed it and his reaction when she discovered him is priceless 😂
Ali is such a sweetheart. We will miss you x
The Greatest of all time!
One of my heroes. Always. The GREATEST
In every television appearance or interview you always see Muhammad Ali enjoying himself, living life to the fullest. He was almost appeared as a child here playing the game. Thank you for posting this!
He was such a charismatic guy! Could have easily been a movie star.
He was inherently childlike, which accounted for his easy charm, even when he was acting mean.
an incredible man Muhammed Ali
Sad he was taken in by the Nation of Islam.
His reaction when they said boxer was brilliant, he'd put so much effort into disguising his voice bless him hahaha
I really like this show. Binge watching!
Ali was always the showman. RIP the greatest
It's so cute the way the panel practically drool and fan- girl/fan- boy over the athletes. They get just as excited over the sports heros as I do.
Muhammad Ali was an incredibly charismatic man! Like he used to say, "I'm pretty. I'm a bad man. I'm champion of the world!" ...and he was, always in our hearts truly THE GREATEST!
Greatest known coward is how vets see him.
He flutters like a butterfly, he stings like a bee. Muhammad Ali is THE GREATEST!
R.I.P. Muhammad Ali 🥊🥊
@@amyrosethehedgehog6155 Clay
@@amyrosethehedgehog6155 Clay you mean..
@@GeorgecortCortina Grow up, boy.
Wasn't born til '73 but just recently discovered this show & love it! Seems like the best era for tv😊
You and millions of others who were not old enough to see any of these shows at the broadcast were deprived of some of the best entertainment, at $0 cost (except for the electricity used by the tv), before cable, with WML? prime: 1953-67.
Same here understandable.
It was my friend !!!!
As a kid in the '50s, Sunday was the only night I was allowed to stay up late, just to watch WML. What an education, and what fun!
I was 12 years old when that show aired, but 10 years later I had the occasion to meet Muhammad Ali when his limo driver was lost and I gave him an official U.S. Secret Service escort to his destination in Wash.D.C. where I was on patrol doing counter terrorist work and protecting the White House in 1975. I shook the hand of Muhammad Ali and he was very nice. I too am an athlete and had to be in great shape to do the job in law enforcement that I had for many years. I am sorry to see Muhammad Ali has passed away just a few years ago. He was a great man and he did a lot for all people. I used to watch What's My Line when I was very young and I am still amazed at some of the guests. Great stuff! Keep it up!
I love it when the commercials are left in! However, it's sad watching and knowing that in a couple of months from this air date, Dorothy Kilgallen would be dead.
Now that is a saddening fact, however, I thank you for the information as I remember watching this show as a child but didn't remember when and how she passed.
Thanks, Debbie Downer
@@burns1210 Lol
@@richcarrCCC There's a great deal of speculation re. her death- she died of a drug overdose, shortly after announcing the fact that she knew who killed JFK. Interesting timing.
I loved this show. Racism was very much in "vogue" when Ali was on the show, and it didn't keep the producers of the show from bringing him on the show. Good for them! Racism was for tool long in evidence on TV shows, so God bless "WML" for not being so.
Not to mention booking a man that had converted to a religion most of America had very little knowledge about at the time. Took some coverage to have him on, despite being world heavyweight champion.
Racism is always in vogue but TV producers know good TV and he is good TV. Also great fighters give people the warm and fuzzies and he had an entertaining personality. He enjoyed it, they enjoyed him. The way I see it you can almost always overcome some good old racism if you demonstrate the exception to the stereotypes and play it cool. Who hates Cassius Clay? No one.
Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Hattie McDaniel, Lena Horne, Rochester, Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, Willy Mays, Frank Yerbvy, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Eubie Blake, -- every one of them reviled, persecuted, spat on,, tormented, run out of town. after gtown, and lynched. SHEEEEEEEEEESH! For CHRISSAKES, GET OVER IT!
They also had the great Louis Armstrong on the show.
@@whateverittakes1673 In Vogue must mean something different to you than to me. Racism is ugly.
10years ago i discovered Whats my line was on YT, but i remember seeing a rereun on TV on vacation with my family in NYC in 2009 from France and i just love it. So classy and a great Time capsule of those days they litterally had all the big stars of that era were on there. Beautiful
Arlene is always a delight and mr daly as well! Ali is wonderful! Full of joy and almost child like banter here. Rest in peace champ
I think Ali is my all time favorite boxer, such a funny guy who made boxing fun. Love you Ali..
to bad he turned out to be a coward
@@GeorgecortCortina Bs! What he did took bravery. Esp in those days!
@@GeorgecortCortina Just the opposite.
he is classic ... THE GREATEST
Tom Post What tosh thee duth talk. It takes as much courage to stand for your principles as it does to fight a war.
I had a feeling that some of us will go back watching this episode. Rest in peace CHAMP.
There always is a spike in viewership of shows featuring a particular celebrity when they pass away. I like to think it's a result of people wanting to remember them at their peak, rather than just wallow in the sad news.
Silly Ali! Enjoyed the humor and game. Wonderful to view after all of these years.
some people should live forever...Ali was one of those people
I love seeing the episodes with the old commercials. Makes me giggle
Muhammad !❤
this was about a year or so after ali had changed his name from cassius clay, by this time a very controversial figure, much of white america had reservations about this confident and unapologetic black man. wml was ahead of it's time, love these shows, wml is a great time stamp of that era.
Exactly. Notice Arlene first said Muhammad and then Cassius Clay?
@@michaelgasiciel9317 I noticed that John Daly managed to avoid saying Ali's name at all.
The greatest of all time!
22:00 to 26:09 for ali. played it like 10 times in a row after i first saw it. cant stop smiling for the whole time.
Tnx
Thank you.
I can never forget saying hello to him while walking in Park Lane London in the ‘60’s - great personality, mighty impressive.
I literally ran into him at the Philadelphia Airport in 1988. He just smiled.
I am constantly amazed at how smart Dorothy Kilgallen was.
She died only 2 months later
Cassius clay was caught out super quick😂I didn’t think they would get it so fast but then again back then he was massive!
Old Ali was such a good guy--I think----he had class----good looking---and a great personality!!!
Johnny Wewoka
Yeah, and young Ali was a world class ass hole, lol.
Hardly. You're projecting.
+Despite All My Rage YOU BITCH!!!
He was always funny. The 🐐
Despite All My Rage and you're a world class troll
Ali- Truly "The Greatest"! Not only a peerless boxer in his prime- that Ali wit and ability to speak well put him in a place all alone both before and after his reign in the ring. Name one heavyweight champ since him who could make you laugh while verbally jousting with an opponent or a reporter who would then enter the ring and float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.
I enjoyed this. I wouldn't mind seeing this show revived, but I feel the lights in our entertainment firmament are pretty dim compared to the ones in this show's heyday.
I'm a life-long boxing fan. My dad took me to see the second Ali vs Frazier bout at Madison Sq. Garden. It was memorable, electric!
And, you're right. There hasn't been a fighter since Ali that can touch him, in boxing prowess, personality, originality, and none even come close to being as entertaining. Yeah, we're lucky to have had him. He is irreplaceable.
Oh, and that's a very cool John Lennon pic! Another irreplaceable icon. 😎
You shot down your own argument, and I thank you for doing so!
"I feel the lights in our entertainment firmament are pretty dim compared to the ones in this show's heyday." You understated the case, if possible. The "lights" today are darker than going out at 3am!
The Greatest. RIP Muhammad Ali.
I just can’t help but smile watching these episodes. Nostalgic for a time I never experienced.
Their lives are over. Here they are all alive and captured in the moment living. As we are living now in the moment and will be dead in the future.
It's a game show my dude. Lighten up a bit.
The reality though is they ARE ALL dead. And it is sad as we watch these all and feel we are part of the WML family.
+Brooke Hanley: I don't find it sad at all. I accept their deaths. No nostalgia here!
If you've ever heard of - either the book, or term 'Medium Cool', it boils down to TV - being in one's home, is intimate, and is - as opposed to going to see a movie, or a theatre, a 'cool' medium' (in other words, rather than a performer needing to be/perform 'over-the-top', as in theatre - esp. when theatres were un -mic'ed, a TV performer needs to underplay).
I say this because one gauge of a show, or performers success potential (in TV) is if they're able to make the viewer feel like a 'friend' - Johnny Carson was a natural at this, and it's not something one can 'learn' how to do - it'll 'read' as fake'. A person either has it or doesn't. It's rare. The fact that the panellists on WML have it, is terrific, and rarer still - in fact, in an episode, I watched last night (I've been 'bingeing' on them), Mr Daly was talking about this 'friend' we 'invite into our homes' quality, and he mentioned that he'd heard people say the panellists on WML are just like friends we invite in. A lovely feeling, and, I guess that's why - having been watching one-after-another of these, since yesterday, I feel like I'm listening to a funny, clever conversation in my home, and it draws one in.
I look at this at a moment in time we have an opportunity to experience if we lived it or not. That sounds enjoyable to me.
Ali brought grace and wit to a brutal, barbaric 'sport' like no other boxer (or athlete) in history.
Good episode! I love how Mohammed Ali had fun keeping the panel in the dark as long as possible, but then I always like seeing other people have a good time. I have never heard anything bad about him, and he always made a good impression on me everytime I saw him on TV.
The other segments of the show were also entertaining.
Muhammad Ali....what a figure to have on back then! The greatest ever!!!
I miss him so much!!! What a wonderful guy!
I just wish to go back in time and live in those times for a while
The 60's were a crazy, wild, volatile decade
Obviously you are white.
25:49 Daly was 51 years old in this episode when Ali said that.
That is not old really.
Mr. Garagiola Was such a class act. He special to me because his book “baseball is a funny game” what is the first book I ever read in English from cover to cover
He had a great smile and personality too.
The same two women have been on this show for at least twelve years, they've met a lot of famous people. A long running series when you think about it.
RIP Champ and Dorothy too. It is mind boggling and sad that less than 2 months after this Dorothy would be gone. But you still are in our hearts forever.
Thanks for posting! I've seen close to 100 of these now and a general observation is that at the beginning, circa 1950-52, regular non-performing folks seemed nearly shocked or cowed by appearing before a TV camera and by 1959-65, they are much more at ease, if still a little shy.
Wow, Mr AlI did a terrific job (I was in another room when I heard him give his first answer, and I had no clue who it was). Ms Francis is - as always - so good at figuring out who, what the person is, celebrity, or otherwise.
Absolutely loved this one! I miss him. I was a child when he was in his prime, but wow - he affected everyone around him. I miss him also, repeating myself on purpose.
yes muhammad what a great character.. rip
Love the included commercials
Wow, lol I just went from watching a 1954 episode to watching this, a 1965 episode. It's very weird to see Dorothy age like that in a matter of seconds.
I did the same thing. Watching a 1955 episode and thinking about her death shortly after this show.
@@michaelgasiciel9317 And under mysterious circumstances, just before finishing a book on JFK's death.
@@roberthockett270 Can't recall the Author's name, but I can recommend the book 'The Reporter Who Knew Too Much'. It's fairly clear from revisiting the original evidence that Dorothy Kilgallen's death was highly suspicious. The author, a lawyer and journalist, puts forward a few possible theories of who might've been involved and why.
They ALL aged.....?
@@gailsirois7175 As we all have.!!!
RIP Joe Garagiola
Awesome, and watching the commercials!!!!!
Even in a suit, Ali not only looked intimidating but graceful as he moved. Truly The Greatest.
What a youthful and charismatic man Ali was!
I love coming to these partly to see people with really iconic voices like Louis Armstrong and Walt Disney having to do daft voices. This is the best one, Ali knocks it out of the park. A guy with a million talents, he was great at them all.
Although the fact they ask whether he's Cassius Clay pisses me off slightly.
Does it help if you know that he had only the year before changed his name? At least she said his correct name first. Also, I'm not sure how accustomed people were to somebody changing their name like that after they were already famous. I don't mean that people didn't owe it to him to use the correct name, but I don't think it was one of those things where people had the hang of it.
She first asked if he were the name of the man to whom the mountain was brought (if you’re familiar with that; surely you are), then she gave his birth name. Everyone knew him more by his birth name at the time. Even the black people had trouble with his name change at first. They too were what you likely feel is ‘old school.’
@@mynamedoesntmatter8652 - the original comment has validity, from the fact that there was still a concerted effort by several in the mainstream media to refuse to acknowledge Ali's name change 1, 2, 3, 4, or even 5 years after he made it. Don't think that was the case here with Arlene, but it was an issue in general, in and out of the media. Case in point...the next opponent Ali discusses in this appearance, Floyd Patterson, had bragged about refusing to acknowledge Ali's changed name; Patterson got beat severely in the ring for his attitude, as Ali demanded with each blow Patterson "say my name."
Love that little moment when Ali knows he's largely been found out. :)
Muhammad Ali was such a great entertainer. He made such an amazing commitment to making the networks bring in so many ratings. He did for the networks what no other boxer has ever done for them. He never changed his view points and way of charm and conversation for the camera.
Oh my god that hairspray commercial
Muhammad Ali, the greatest❤🤲
The only time I have ever got an impression of Muhammad Ali’s great size is when he gets up to go and towers over the panel!
I am slowly working my way through all his fights and as a bizarre coincidence I have just got to 1965.
An amazing athlete, a great champion and a true gentleman.
I have recently come to love the show at 55 years old. And while this may not have been the best episode, it was certainly my favorite episode because it had Muhammad Ali in it. Growing up in the 70s I’ll Lee was my hero and now in my 50s he’s still my hero even as a dead guy. He’s one of the greatest men who ever walked on this planet and everyone knows about it.
Ali was so awesome. So handsome. So funny. RIP. Glad 2016 is over.
You will be remembered
forever!
I didn’t think I’d ever see a man who could rival Sydney Poitier in beauty but Muhammad did! He was a beautiful man!
we miss you champ!
We've really lowered the "bar". Everyone on these shows are dressed to the 9s, very polite, and respectful to each other. There is no foul language.
Congrats Sir Perhaps Our New Year We Can Improve ourselves and perhaps others !😇🤩
something to be thoughtful about. From good manners, politeness, to good penmanship. very different norms of good social interactions than today.
So respectful indeed that all of the women get catcalled by male audience members. History is not as black and white as it may seem.
Yes the women got whistles, but as stated before, they were dressed up and on national t.v. so that is understandable. Ali usually challanges the norms and race but here he was respectful as well, i think this show just had an aura of high quality guests. Now days we have had decades if moral degradation, sex, violence, drugs leaking into homes from every media outlet until society has ultimately changed. You can even go as far and say its a satanic agenda that has worked by infesting their beliefs widespread. Its obvious when you look at it long term like this, that we have evolved for the worse
Sadly what you said is true. !!!!
It is heartbreaking that Dorothy Kilgallen died 2 months after this episode. (On Nov 8, 1965)
She was murdered....smart lady...but talked too much...JFK conspiracy caught up with her!!
Emre So sad.
Jfk conspirancy??, very interesting
@@manuelmartinezz I am an extremely stubborn skeptic by nature, and even I have to allow for the possibility that there was more to her death than the record states. It will require more research on my part before I can comfortably take a side in the situation.
Most discomforting details for me are: 1.) how and where her body was found, 2.) the comparison to Monroe's death, and 3.) the almost immediate death of her friend and confidant, to whom she had just recently given some of her JFK notes for safekeeping.
She was killed she got to close to the JFK killers
Arlene wasn't referred to as "delightful" in the introduction. The sky opened up and down came the rain!
Even entertaining using a little girls voice. Love the man, RIP.
Right
I've been looking for this ever since I saw it in the "I Am Ali" doc.. thanks!
Where is match game
Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee! I am the greatest! Rest in peace, dear Mr. Ali!
What a delightful fellow the Champ was, in every setting. Still can't believe the government in the '60s chose to mess with him rather than celebrate him. It's a testament to our 'greatness' that such a fellow could have emerged among us, and a testament to our narrowness that he didn't get his full due till the '70s.
R I P, great one.
Dorothy Kilgallen now at the zenith of her big-haired sophisticated Woman of the World period. And looking fine, too.
She looks especially fantastic in these recent episodes! And speaking of fashion, is Arlene's gown this evening actually a pantsuit?? I can't tell if it's just an illusion created by the way the chiffon-like material flows when in motion.
Arlene does wear very fancy culottes, all right, in this broadcast. . What Carol Channing hath wrought.
My Favorite Boxer, Before Iron Mike, Took over Mohammed was a great Human Being also May he RIP & is Sadly missed, By all of his Fans etc.
Joe Garagiola 1926-2016
Wow...same as Ali
Steve Byrd ^Both died in Scottsdale Arizona.
Joe Garagiola was a boyhood friend of Yogi Berra -- they lived across the street from each other. One time, Joe was telling another sportscaster that there was a plaque on Yogi's old house saying "Yogi Berra grew up here". The other guy asked Joe if there was a plaque on his old house. Joe said "Yeah. It says 'Yogi Berra grew up across the street from here'".
I've never been a boxing fan, but if I'd sat on the WML panel, my greatest thrill would have been to shake Muhammad Ali's hand, above that of all other MG's. I actually felt a twinge of wistful envy when the panelists got to shake the hand of that larger-than-life legend.
I Love seeing the old commercials
What a great great champ....we miss him..
Ali was so compelling to watch. He just owns the camera.
Thank You! I love WML with the original commercials too!
Ali was handsome.
he boxed about 5 years too long. If he'd retired when he should have, he might have avoided parkinsons.
He thought so too 😀
@@amyanderson4099 most people know if they are attractive or not. I think a lot of his was posturing for the cameras.
He was always a gentleman and very nice to anyone he met. Real narcissistic personalities aren't.
@@stevedavis8329 Parkinson's is genetic, not induced by blows to the head, something Ali took few of compared to other boxers. If he was a dancer or movie star, he would also have it
and young and fast and pretty and can’t possibly be beat
This is hugely entertaining. Such great talent and personalities back then.
I love the voice that Muhammad Ali put on. It was such fun watching his videos with Howard Cosell and the video of Billy Crystal doing it impersonation of him. He and Crystal were friends as were he and Cosell.
Ali had a sense of humor too comment he made about John Charles Daly.😂❤
Procter & Gamble marketed "Hidden Magic" for several years (and used "Wanda the Witch" in their commercials at the time).
I love you Muhammad Ali
Love this programme.RIP Mr Clay.M ALI.
Back in the 60s I worked the Front Door of the Fountainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. One the hotel bellhops, Levi, was Ali's sparring partner at the 5th Street gym. When Ali pulled up to the hotel, Levi came out and the two of them put on a simulated sparring exhibition for everyone. Shuttle buses pulling up and folks in the buses couldn't believe what they were seeing!
Dorothy Kilgalen was so beautiful and polite😁♥️
OMG Dorothy didn't even live a month after this airing.
That's really sad, God bless her... I'm glad that she got to be a part of this episode, and meet Muhammad Ali!
Chris M. She looks healthy, scary how suddenly one can go.
@@Inconsistent-Dogwash she was murdered. Look into the reason. It is terrible.
Brings back memories….thank you
I like the commercials included, they're most amusing. :-)
I'm surprised at how well Ali disguised his voice. You could tell he really wanted to stump them.
The Greatest, cheered everyone up, in and out of the ring!
What a classy lot. All of them.
Muhammad Ali, somethin' about that man!
I was born in 1954 and got to watch him rise...and then rise again...and then again. What a hero!
Everybody spoke so high class back then.
Everybody??? I don't think so. The people who were regularly on "What's My Line" evidently were from high class backgrounds. They were exceptions, not the rule, believe me. Joe Garagiola talked like a regular guy. How could "everyone" have spoken "high class" back then? And what do you mean by high class, anyway. My father is from the Bronx and has a heavy Bronx accent and spoke the same way in 1965 that he does today, and he's a college graduate. People speak how they speak; it's not a matter of "back then." Now if you're saying that people were less rude back then, I'll agree with you on THAT.
I agree. Maybe not "high class" in the sense of proper grammar etc. But, certainly, they acted classier than "celebrities" do now. If this program were brought back today, the panel would grin and ask about sex lives etc. and try to push the envelope.
C’mon this is just regular speech
@@900milesfromnormal3 I really doubt that. Maybe you would see more sex jokes on the whole but that's less to do with pushing the envelope and more to do with how humor has evolved culturally