What's My Line? - Hugh O' Brian; PANEL: Gene Rayburn, Phyllis Newman (Aug 27, 1967)

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  • MYSTERY GUEST: Hugh O' Brian
    PANEL: Arlene Francis, Gene Rayburn, Phyllis Newman, Bennett Cerf
    Many thanks to Steve M. Russo for providing this 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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  • @princeharming8963
    @princeharming8963 Před 3 lety +31

    For every person who has offered a heartfelt thanks for your incredible efforts in getting these episodes uploaded.. I'm sure there must be thousands more who've enjoyed them as well.
    For myself, I can say that over the past ten years this has been an immensely effective medicine for the soul at the end of some rather hectic days. And I Thank you for all your hard work.

  • @donnacook8994
    @donnacook8994 Před 11 měsíci +6

    Mrs Bryan was a beautiful, gracious, and wellspoken guest. I'm sure that she was an amazing and professional interpreter for Jamaica at the United Nations.

  • @no_handle_required
    @no_handle_required Před rokem +9

    TV gold. Never since, and never again.

  • @moonlightray8493
    @moonlightray8493 Před rokem +6

    Hugh O'Brian was a great Mystery Guest. His little finger guns at the audience after signing in, his assortment of voices to stump the panel, and his articulate response about being in the marines... what a class act!

  • @ToddSF
    @ToddSF Před 9 lety +80

    Gary -- on the eve of the last episode, I just wanted to say thank you for all your good efforts and hard work in getting the CZcams What's My Line? channel up and running and populated with episodes. I can't believe how many of them you've uploaded and I know, in many cases you not only had to track them down, but you've spent a lot of time splicing some of them together to come up with a better-quality or more-intact version than any single one already available. Certainly all that work has been of great enjoyment to a great many people, including me. Your work -- and you yourself -- are much appreciated. Thank you kindly.

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 9 lety +22

      It's been a true pleasure for me. Thanks for the words of appreciation. :)

    • @jimsteele9261
      @jimsteele9261 Před 7 lety +9

      I'm just finishing up a run through of the series. I add my thanks as well.

    • @vickimanager
      @vickimanager Před 6 lety +6

      We just watched the final episode again tonight. From 2017.. we send thanks again to you Gary.

    • @alexhu7939
      @alexhu7939 Před 3 lety +7

      Gary, Thank you so much! I watched on the average 15 episodes a day.....

    • @debbigray1752
      @debbigray1752 Před 3 lety +5

      Yes. Thank you so for your many hours of work and great gift in putting these on line. I've watched the 17 years through twice during the pandemic and it has been such a joy.

  • @dariawells7438
    @dariawells7438 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Love love LOVE Phyllis' dress in this ep! I would wear this any day!

  • @kimfuhrmann7700
    @kimfuhrmann7700 Před 7 lety +36

    I want to thank you, Gary, for all the time and energy and heart you put into this project. I started watching What’s My Line in 2014 when I was sick with a virus. I began by Googling Soupy Sales. I loved the episode so I started watching more, choosing by familiarity with the stars. I kept a list of what I watched so I wouldn’t watch the same ones again. After I had watched about fifty, I realized I could watch them in order by using your channel . I threw away the list and started watching from the beginning.
    At first, I didn’t like Dorothy Kilgallen, thinking she was arrogant. But she soon won me over with her intelligence, wry wit, giggle, and ferocious game playing. I was familiar with Bennett Cerf’s name-we had some of his joke books in our house. I didn’t know the others, but I soon learned to love them: Arlene for her warmth and bawdy laugh, Bennett for his puns and unabashed adoration of women, Fred for his genuine humility. Oh, how I dreaded the day that Dorothy would die!
    I cringed at the “walk of shame” and was glad at each format change. I was sad when Fred died, sad to see Steve Allen go. After Dorothy died, the show lost a little of its edge, but I was relieved to find all of the new guest panelists engaging. I especially liked Tony Randall, Martin Gabel, Joey Bishop and Phyllis Newman. I, too, would like to know who the heck Sue Oakland was.
    I started doing hula hoop for exercise, and I exercised three times a week while watching What’s My Line. I read Bennett’s book “At Random” and loved it. I had our library search far and wide for Gil Fates book. It was falling apart. After each episode, I looked forward to reading the comments, enjoying the small scuffles, the erudite comments and the humor. I felt like I got to know each of the regulars. I wish I could have joined in, but I was reading them sometimes years later. I will miss you!
    I worried when Freemantle wanted to shut down the channel. I’m so glad you prevailed!
    My friends got tired of hearing me talk about What’s My Line. I learned a lot (I never knew cranberries were grown in a bog). It was fun seeing how much Americans loved baseball, how much they adored astronauts, and how polite and gracious they were. It was fun witnessing the excitement when Hawaii became a state. Each episode had something to impart, even if it was just a witty remark, an interesting occupation, or a chance to roll my eyes at John Daly’s long explanations while at the same time admiring his volubility.
    For three years, What’s My Line has been a delightful part of my life, a small world in itself. It has enriched my days and provided me with some excellent entertainment. I’m so glad you took on this project! I know you worked hard. Thank you!

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 6 lety +2

      A belated thank you for the very kind comment, Kim! I didn't see it till now because CZcams, in its algorithm's infinite wisdom, decided to mark it as spam, along with several hundred other comments this month that all have to be approved ONE BY ONE. They make nothing easy for channel owners!

    • @kimfuhrmann7700
      @kimfuhrmann7700 Před 6 lety +1

      You're very welcome!
      I just now thought to look to see if anyone ever responded, so your reply seems right on time to me!

    • @margaretklos8937
      @margaretklos8937 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@WhatsMyLine, were Arlene Francis & Bennett Cerf the only 2 panelists throughout the entire run ?

    • @DukeEdwards29
      @DukeEdwards29 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@margaretklos8937Arlene was the only one there for the entire run. She joined after the first couple of episodes. Bennett joined the show after its first year, replacing Louis Untermeyer.

  • @loissimmons6558
    @loissimmons6558 Před 5 lety +21

    There was always something about Gene Rayburn that I liked. I would have enjoyed seeing him as a regular panelist on WML. A shame we had to wait until the next to last episode aired when the death rattle of the original WML was already being heard.

    • @dinahbrown902
      @dinahbrown902 Před rokem +1

      Gene was the reason I watched match game. Just something 😊

    • @glennstevens4259
      @glennstevens4259 Před 10 měsíci +3

      Imagine that. Arlene Francis and Gene Rayburn together on WML. Two of my very favorites. Gene is my all-time favorite game show MC!

  • @VahanNisanian
    @VahanNisanian Před 9 lety +25

    Well, nothing left for me to add, but this:
    That's 875 episodes down, and 1 more episode to go!

  • @leannsherman6723
    @leannsherman6723 Před rokem +6

    Hugh O’Brian was so handsome and great with that high-pitched ;and low-pitched) voice.
    Nice that he went to Vietnam. He was so refined and polished and obviously good hearted. ❤

  • @nancybrewster9137
    @nancybrewster9137 Před 8 lety +11

    I just love watching these shows, it brings back good memories.

  • @jmccracken1963
    @jmccracken1963 Před 8 lety +10

    Both the introductions and the "good night"s on this show definitely sound valedictory. Most certainly, Arlene Francis and Phyllis Newman are crying at the end - and Bennett Cerf comes close to tears, too.
    Concerning the national tour of Abe Burrows' play CACTUS FLOWER, in which Hugh O'Brian starred: In Chicago, the play did run at the Blackstone Theatre, 60 E. Balbo Drive (which is now the Merle Reskin Theatre, owned and operated by the Theatre School of De Paul University). Hugh O'Brian and Elizabeth Allen co-starred, and the cast also featured Ethelynne Dunfee, Gene Lindsey, Kenneth Kimmins, Arthur Anderson, Barbara Louis and Gay Edmond. Abe Burrows, who had been both a panelist and a Mystery Guest on WHAT'S MY LINE? over the years, directed his play; sets were designed by Oliver Smith, and costumes were designed by Theoni V. Aldredge (who would later design the costumes for quite a few Woody Allen movies). And the show was produced by recent WML? Mystery Guest David Merrick.
    By the way: Not only was there a slip in chronology at the beginning of the show, with John Daly's mention of Gene Rayburn's participation in the 16 July 1967 episode, but there may have been another at the end of Hugh O'Brian's segment. If one counts the weeks, one would assume that CACTUS FLOWER would open in Chicago in early September, right after Labor Day - so, when this show aired, the play would already be in the midst of its national tour (probably in Washington, DC in late August).
    Hugh O'Brian's movie debut was in an uncredited bit part in the 1948 film "Kidnapped," but his next movie role was a very good credited part, as Len Randall, a cripple, in Ida Lupino's 1949 film "Never Fear," in which he co-stars with Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Eve Miller, and Lawrence Dobkin. Three other "off the beaten path" films in which Hugh O'Brian is one of the stars that I highly recommend are the 1952 Universal-International comedy "Sally and St. Anne," the 1953 Universal-International musical/drama "Meet Me At The Fair," and the 1958 Twentieth Century-Fox film "The Fiend Who Walked The West," which is a very creepy remake of "Kiss of Death" set in the West. I've seen all four; two of them may still be on CZcams!
    Great job by panelists, contestants, crew, staff, and panel moderator on the next-to-last show! Truly, they're going out with heads held high. Gene Rayburn does a nice job as a guest panelist. And good for Phyllis Newman for politely but firmly stopping Bennett Cerf from "pawing" her, however inadvertently.

  • @johnmoreland6089
    @johnmoreland6089 Před 2 lety +5

    Hugh O’Brian: “I didn’t know there was any other way to get her?” 😂

  • @debhayes2822
    @debhayes2822 Před 4 lety +14

    Hugh O'Brian was very handsome.

    • @donnacook8994
      @donnacook8994 Před 11 měsíci

      Loved his wink! He was so hilarious! 🤣 And yes, very handsome!

  • @Brian-uy2tj
    @Brian-uy2tj Před rokem +6

    Just a side note, Hugh O'Brian played Arnold Schwarzenegger's biological father in the movie Twins. It was a small role but he was good and it was a funny moment in the movie.

  • @rah62
    @rah62 Před 7 lety +14

    RIP Hugh O'Brian

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE Před 9 lety +17

    Well, the show ended in good spirit when Gene suggested that "if you have an interesting occupation, DON'T write to us - Start your own show!" :-) 24:10

  • @glennstevens4259
    @glennstevens4259 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Hugh O'Brian. Excellent actor! Nice person.

  • @marilyncocozzatrillo1534

    Hugh was a wonderful and humble person!

  • @maynardsmoreland
    @maynardsmoreland Před 9 lety +8

    This is one episode I wish were still in color. I'd love to see Phyllis' outfit in its colorful, shiny natural way!

  • @karlakor
    @karlakor Před 3 lety +7

    What's My Line was always a must-see show at our house, and even though this episode was broadcast more than 53 years ago, I still felt a pang of sadness when Bennett said, "next week's the last, John, and I'm going to miss you." People today could take a lesson in civility from this show, and I enjoy watching these episodes on CZcams as a way of escaping the hateful, upside down world of today.

  • @lukeswall5999
    @lukeswall5999 Před 4 lety +5

    RIP Phyllis Newman (1933 - 2019)

  • @saran3214
    @saran3214 Před rokem +5

    Love the Jamaican lady's dress, her whole look. We need to dress better, look like these people did.

  • @paulmcmurray3491
    @paulmcmurray3491 Před 9 lety +10

    Thank You once again, for posting The WML stuff.

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 9 lety +6

      My pleasure-- glad you enjoy the shows. :)

  • @ChadQuick270W
    @ChadQuick270W Před 9 lety +10

    I'd sure like to have seen this final season in color as it was broadcast but still I'm really enjoying all these episodes you've taken the time to upload and share with us. WML? has always been one of my favorite panel shows

  • @rctodd3
    @rctodd3 Před 9 lety +4

    I CANT WAIT FOR THE TO TELL THE TRUTH CHANNEL TO COME OUT. IM GLAD WE CAN WATCH WHATS MY LINE ANYTIME WE WISH,EVEN ON OIUR MOBILE DEVICES

  • @bygodsgracejourneytohealin8368
    @bygodsgracejourneytohealin8368 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Very handsome indeed and charismatic! ❤

  • @alskndlaskndal
    @alskndlaskndal Před 9 lety +8

    I liked tonight's lineup. I think the show could have lasted several more years with Phyllis and Gene in the lineup. But it was not to be.

  • @galileocan
    @galileocan Před 9 lety +10

    Dear Bennett - even if you ask Miss Bryan a fifth time, it won't change the fact that English is the only language spoken in Jamaica

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 Před 5 lety +5

      +Galileocan g
      Except for the fact that Bennett was right. There is a form of Creole spoken in Jamaica that is known as Jamaican Patois or simply Patois.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_Patois

    • @saran3214
      @saran3214 Před rokem +2

      Dear @galileocan - Jamaican Patois, also known as Patwa and Jamaican Creole, is the most widely spoken language in the country. I don't know why that lady did not say this. Bennett was very widely traveled and worldly.

  • @kristabrewer6736
    @kristabrewer6736 Před 2 lety +2

    Outside of a few episodes back when Gene and Allen and Bud Colley was on as mystery guests , this is the first Gene's been on here

  • @Walterwhiterocks
    @Walterwhiterocks Před 6 lety +13

    There was one thing strangely different about this show. There were absolutely no whistles or cat calls from the audience when the three very attractive girls (the worm counters and then the interpreter) entered and signed in. Also, I'm wondering if Phyllis, either prior or subsequently to this show, ever appeared on stage with Hugh O'Brian in any production.

    • @dinahbrown902
      @dinahbrown902 Před rokem

      Yeah ain’t it a shame. Probably woman’s lib

    • @LightningSt0rm
      @LightningSt0rm Před rokem +3

      I know this post is 5 years old, but the lack of cat calls can be easily explained here. The worm counters were children so even in 1967 that would have been disgusting. And for the interpreter, again I must point out the year 1967. She is a black woman and while beautiful, back then with a white audience, this doesn't surprise me.

    • @richatlarge462
      @richatlarge462 Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@LightningSt0rmI think you are correct on both counts.

  • @VahanNisanian
    @VahanNisanian Před 9 lety +4

    Before there was Rod Roddy's "If you would like to be a contestant on "Hit Man... FORGET IT!" (from the 1983 short-lived but fun NBC game show "Hit Man"), there was Gene Rayburn's "If you have any interesting occupations, don't send them in!".

  • @paullad3919
    @paullad3919 Před 2 lety +1

    I used to watch the original Match Game when I came home from school in 3rd & 4th grade.
    It is too bad that only 4 episodes are known to exist.

  • @freddyfurrah3789
    @freddyfurrah3789 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Hugh O'Brien got married, for the first and only time when he was 81. There is still hope for me. 😅

  • @b1i2l336
    @b1i2l336 Před 3 lety +6

    Anybody else bothered by the terrible situation where the panelists can't hear or understand what the guests are saying? This seemed to be a chronic problem with this great show.

  • @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath
    @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Před rokem +3

    Bennett Cerf, “adorable”? Who wrote the introductions?

  • @poetcomic1
    @poetcomic1 Před 3 lety +5

    This show is a reminder of how HOT O'Brian was considered back then. Att Bennett's question of him being a 'leading man of the George Hamilton type' Hugh smirked - Hamilton looks like a scrawny 'pretty-boy' next to the rough, masculine O'Brian. For all his Wyatt Earp toughness however, O'Brian had those ladykiller dimples when he smiled, something brought upby a rapturous Arlene on another of his mystery guest appearances.

  • @ghshinn
    @ghshinn Před 9 lety +12

    Miss Newman was sharp tonight. She got the worms (though not the counting) and the translator.

    • @savethetpc6406
      @savethetpc6406 Před 9 lety +7

      ghshinn
      The U.N. makes a very careful distinction between interpreters and translators. The technology has probably changed since then, but in 1967 those who did "simultaneous interpretation," as Miss Bryan did, sat in a booth above the General Assembly room. As people were speaking in the General Assembly session, each interpreter would orally translate what was being said into whichever language was his/her specialty. Listeners in the General Assembly Room all had headphones attached to their seats that they could put on to hear the translation/interpretation. There was some kind of a dial, also attached to the seat, which listeners could adjust to choose which language they wanted to hear.
      During this time period (1962-1986), my father worked for the United Nations English Translation Service. People who heard about his job frequently assumed that the type of work he did was what Miss Bryan did, but he was always careful to correct them. He was not a U.N. interpreter but worked strictly with written translations, as did all of the translators in the Translation Services. He always says that simultaneous interpretation would have been far too difficult for him, but he was (and still is) very good at translating written work. During his tenure with the U.N. he translated *written documents into English* from over 30 languages!

    • @ghshinn
      @ghshinn Před 9 lety +5

      SaveThe TPC I am familiar with the distinction, since I am a translator of written material, as well as an interpreter of that material. An oral interpreter, specifically a simultaneous interpreter, is a highly specialized ability. However, I knew a man in San Francisco who worked for their local UN office who called himself a "simultaneous translator." When I asked him if he meant interpreter, he said, "that too." This was 1970, and he was a transplanted Israeli, who translated from Hebrew into English.

    • @savethetpc6406
      @savethetpc6406 Před 9 lety +3

      ghshinn
      What languages do you translate? My father translates written material from various languages into English, but the only languages he feels competent to work with as an interpreter are his native Hungarian into English, and vice versa.

    • @ghshinn
      @ghshinn Před 9 lety +3

      SaveThe TPC I have a doctoral degree in two dead languages: Koine Attic Greek, and Classical Hebrew. I'm currently translating portions of the New Testament and some of the Greek Church fathers. I have also translated several portions of the Hebrew Scriptures.

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 9 lety +4

      ghshinn Wow. I'm very impressed. I wish it were more apparent that I'm not being sarcastic without my having to say "I'm not being sarcastic", but it's probably not, so for the record, I'm not being sarcastic.

  • @soulierinvestments
    @soulierinvestments Před 9 lety +15

    John with Hugh demonstrates that John could do a great interview when he had the time and inclination.

  • @soulierinvestments
    @soulierinvestments Před 9 lety +7

    Freeze at 4:10 -- to paraphrase Dorothy Parker: " men always make passes / at girls who wear glasses" especially if the girl is Phyllis Newman.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 Před 5 lety +1

      This woman found it to be true for her as well.
      czcams.com/video/2sk1xIeKPPA/video.html

  • @VahanNisanian
    @VahanNisanian Před 9 lety +7

    Recorded on July 23, 1967. When John says to Gene something about "last Sunday night", he was referring to the Mystery Guest segment with the Goodson-Todman hosts.
    Also, this was the same panel lineup as on that episode, and this was the 77th and final pre-taped episode.

    • @savethetpc6406
      @savethetpc6406 Před 9 lety +6

      *****
      They had several "flies in the ointment" of their attempts to present this show as if it were airing live. John's goof about Gene's appearance "last Sunday night" is one of them, and the references to when Hugh O'Brien would be (or had already) been going on tour with "Cactus Flower" was another. It actually makes me feel a bit better when such references to the fact that this show was prerecorded become somewhat obvious. As I've said before, I wish they would have just come right out and explained when this episode was recorded, for the benefit of the TV audience, instead of trying to maintain the pretense of a live broadcast.

    • @dizzyology7514
      @dizzyology7514 Před 9 lety +7

      SaveThe TPC
      Yes, from our perspective just admitting upfront that the show was prerecorded makes a lot of sense. But we take taping for granted these days. Back in the 1960s, with taping still a new technology (and after having done live shows year around for almost a dozen years) the WML team seemed to have a subtle feeling that broadcasting a taped show was cheating the audience. They had to formally acknowledge it during Johnny Olson's announcements at the end, but they seem to have tried to allow the audience at home to maintain the illusion that this was live TV if they wanted to.

    • @savethetpc6406
      @savethetpc6406 Před 9 lety +4

      dizzyology
      Interesting point, and most likely valid, but the dishonesty of it still bothers me.

    • @dizzyology7514
      @dizzyology7514 Před 9 lety +4

      SaveThe TPC
      Well, that seems like a strong word, but I understand how you feel. I suppose that regular reading of the political news of the present day has shifted my definition of "dishonesty" to where what WML was doing in the 60s feels quite benign -- almost sweet.

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 9 lety +7

      dizzyology Just be happy Joe Postove is probably asleep now. He had much stronger words many times for this practice. I don't find it troublesome at all. It's just a game show, not a news program, so I don't see what's wrong with trying to preserve the atmosphere of a live broadcast. They did tape the shows as if they were live, without stopping and without retakes. If they were trying to pass off a show with post-production editing as a live broadcast it would perhaps bother me a tiny bit, but otherwise, I don't really see what's wrong with it. The shows *were* clearly identified as pre-recorded at the end as dizzyology said. No one was really "lying" in my view, they were just trying to keep the feel of the pre-recorded shows consistent with the live ones. It bugs me more that they often did such a poor job of keeping the relative dates straight and avoiding references to the prior week and such.

  • @VahanNisanian
    @VahanNisanian Před 9 lety +8

    Now depending on which order of "What's My Line" you go by, the last legitimate mystery guest was different.
    If you go by airing order, the last legitimate mystery guest was Hugh O'Brian.
    But if you go by production order, the last legitimate mystery guest was Lauren Bacall.

    • @richatlarge462
      @richatlarge462 Před 9 měsíci

      I think the production order would be more valid. Yet since the episode with Lauren Bacall is no longer with us, I will count this episode instead as the final one with a "real" mystery guest.

  • @TheJMascis666
    @TheJMascis666 Před 6 lety +6

    Aired on the same day of President Johnson's birthday and the death of Beatles manager Brian Epstein.

  • @soulierinvestments
    @soulierinvestments Před 9 lety +4

    Some person with foresight at G-T should have sprung for color videotape to preserve this second to last show -- what with the gowns and the last Sunday night WML appearance of Phyllis Newman. [eventually she was one of the first panelists of Syndicated WML] Phyllis's mini-skirt probably sent flashes of spectrum color into the color cameras.

    • @savethetpc6406
      @savethetpc6406 Před 9 lety +3

      soulierinvestments
      Phyllis did *not* think Bennett was so "adorable" at around 2:00, when his attempt to show one of the "discs" on her dress brought his hand a bit too close for comfort to a certain part of her body! Perhaps that's why she also literally gagged at his next pun. Rudeness begets rudeness, I suppose...

    • @SuperWinterborn
      @SuperWinterborn Před 9 lety +1

      SaveThe TPC Or clumsiness begets annoyance? ;)

  • @jimsteele9261
    @jimsteele9261 Před 7 lety +7

    Re John's joke at 14:27 I heard that same probably apocryphal story about early attempts at computer translation. It was between English and Russian this time. The English sentence "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" was translated into Russian as "The vodka is strong, but the meat is rotten".

    • @Merrida100
      @Merrida100 Před 6 lety +1

      Oooohhh. That's what it was about. I couldn't tell until I actually saw this written out. It wasn't making sense.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 Před 5 lety +1

      In his fumbling, John reversed the order so they didn't properly correspond.

    • @petemarshall8094
      @petemarshall8094 Před 2 lety +3

      Over 17 years I don’t believe Mr. Daly ever told a joke properly. Like Mr. Cerf, he had a great understanding of the humor, but neither of them could properly deliver a punchline. Close proximity to the world’s greatest masters of timing and delivery: Jack Benny, George Burns, Groucho, Johnny Carson, et al, seemed to teach them nothing. More painful to see than an awkward, sozzled old uncle trying to make a speech at his niece’s wedding. I guess Henry Morgan finally just couldn’t take it anymore..

    • @rmelin13231
      @rmelin13231 Před rokem +1

      @@petemarshall8094 I agree with you that neither Bennett nor John were good at delivering humor, but I am not convinced that is something that can be "learned". Yes there is timing involved, but so many other elements contribute to the success of verbal (and physical) humor. Some are born with them, some aren't. That's my take (following some years of research).

  • @jec1ny
    @jec1ny Před 9 lety +5

    I can't believe that they cancelled this show.

    • @lukeswall5999
      @lukeswall5999 Před 3 lety +3

      Television was changing. Class was quickly leaving the television landscape as early as 1964, and after almost eighteen years Mr. Daly probably wanted to peruse something new.

    • @davidsanderson5918
      @davidsanderson5918 Před 3 lety +2

      Luke’s Wall That wasn't the reason for cancelling the show and secondly it stabds to reason that Daly would'vd found a new project to follow WML only after hearing the show was to be cancelled....not before.

    • @lukeswall5999
      @lukeswall5999 Před 3 lety +2

      No.. this show was still very much mid 50s.

    • @rsprockets7846
      @rsprockets7846 Před rokem +1

      18 yrs on tv was forst show when tv was started

  • @gabesmith1933
    @gabesmith1933 Před 4 lety +4

    4 years to the day of Bennett's death.

  • @mehboobkm3728
    @mehboobkm3728 Před rokem +4

    I still can't get it out of my mind, but how did Phyllis Newman narrow down the "line" of second contestant to "interpreter in United Nations??"

    • @user-ne8lh2vr2t
      @user-ne8lh2vr2t Před rokem +2

      She listened carefully to all the questions and answers from the rest of the panel which I must say zeroed in on it.

  • @leannsherman6723
    @leannsherman6723 Před rokem +6

    Phyllis Newman was very good at this game. She sounded a little ditzy, but she really wasn’t.

    • @rmelin13231
      @rmelin13231 Před rokem +2

      She did come off as ditzy, but I enjoyed her as a panelist. A few episodes back she actually asked rhetorically "how many legs do rabbits have?".

    • @freddyfurrah3789
      @freddyfurrah3789 Před 7 měsíci +1

      All women are DITZY. 😅

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE Před 9 lety +9

    The two girls who were worm counters wore ordinary plain dresses and had no big hairdos. Nice to see that not every girl back then looked like go-go dancers. 3:34

    • @jmccracken1963
      @jmccracken1963 Před 8 lety +4

      Brenda Bertke and Judy Choate were also much younger: 15 years old. (I assume so, since John Daly does say that they are entering their sophomore year of high school.) They do, indeed, wear age-appropriate clothing and sport age-appropriate haircuts - and they do comport themselves like two nice young ladies.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 Před 5 lety +2

      They were also country girls. In those days, it took a little longer for fashion and cultural trends to reach rural areas.
      The population of Brooklyn (MI) was about 1,000 people. It was mostly a summer resort town until the 1950's when I-94 was completed. The Michigan International Speedway four miles south of the village was about a year away.

    • @robbob1234
      @robbob1234 Před 3 lety +2

      And yet John would have been quite happy to take them home as pets. Haha, we know what he meant, but the thought of someone saying that on TV today!

  • @b1i2l336
    @b1i2l336 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Phyllis Newman is so intelligent.

  • @kamillgran9408
    @kamillgran9408 Před rokem +4

    This is back when men looked like men and didn’t dress like a 12year old.

  • @TheJonaco
    @TheJonaco Před 9 lety +11

    I think Bennett had Barbados, not Jamaica, in mind with the interpreter. "Bajan" is short for "Barbadian".

    • @MatthewTheMattam
      @MatthewTheMattam Před 5 lety +3

      Yeah, he was thinking of the Jamaican Creole also called Patois, also spelled Patwa or Patwah.

    • @gailsirois7175
      @gailsirois7175 Před 2 lety +1

      He's an idiot....had no idea WHAT he was thinking..or meaning

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE Před 9 lety +4

    Hugh O'Brian will be 90 on April 19, 2015. Before Bennett mentioned George Hamilton, I actually thought Hugh looked a little bit like him. :) 17:52

  • @yawlltube
    @yawlltube Před 5 lety +3

    "The Jamaican language". LMAO!

  • @lilybean835
    @lilybean835 Před 5 lety +6

    God Phillis Newman has the most shrill cackle I've ever heard. I always dread watching an episode where she makes an appearance. She's fine if she just doesn't open her mouth.

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE Před 9 lety +4

    John: "Will you sign in after you have come through the door (?) and moved up to the board and entered, please!" 8:11

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 9 lety +5

      It just gets more and more ridiculous. :)

    • @savethetpc6406
      @savethetpc6406 Před 9 lety +1

      What's My Line?
      Aristophanes! :D

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 9 lety +2

      SaveThe TPC HA!!! :)

    • @RikardPeterson
      @RikardPeterson Před 6 lety +2

      It made me wonder if he was being weird on purpose.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 Před 5 lety +3

      If indeed the impetus to change his invitation to sign in came from Gil Fates, good for John to sock it to them. He knew he had Fates by the short hairs. He had a contract, a new job lined up and how successful would they be getting someone to host the last few episodes of a dying show. And how could anyone but John host the finale.

  • @1jamyc
    @1jamyc Před 2 měsíci

    17:39 Phyllis "Do you get the girl in the end?".
    Hugh "I didn't know there was any other way to get 'er"
    LOL!!!

  • @stevekirsch6803
    @stevekirsch6803 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Phyllis Newman was hot stuff!

  • @jayrice5156
    @jayrice5156 Před 5 lety +2

    Phyllis dress!!! Wish I had it!

  • @galileocan
    @galileocan Před 9 lety +9

    So would it be correct that Hugh O'Brien would truly be WML's last "external" Mystery Guest?

    • @jmccracken1963
      @jmccracken1963 Před 8 lety +5

      Well, he is the last "external" Mystery Guest in terms of when the show aired. But the last external Mystery Guest in terms of when the show was made is really Lauren Bacall, on the final episode aired live, which was 23 July 1967. This episode was videotaped on Sunday, 23 July 1967, right before that live episode - and the panelists are the same for both episodes. (Sadly, that 23 July 1967 episode is one of several episodes from 1967 for which no kinescope is known to exist.)

  • @rsprockets7846
    @rsprockets7846 Před rokem +1

    holy shoot miniskirts

  • @soulierinvestments
    @soulierinvestments Před 9 lety +12

    24:10 -- Rayburn could be funny spontaneously, but that observation has a tinge of irony and sadness to it as well.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 Před 5 lety +2

      Arlene is almost giddy in her reaction to it. It was the kind of joke that was a tension breaker.

  • @hopelewis5650
    @hopelewis5650 Před rokem +2

    Isn't this the second set of worm counters?

  • @caroler01
    @caroler01 Před 3 měsíci

    The trumpet up wars since.

  • @franklesser5655
    @franklesser5655 Před rokem +2

    Hugh O'Brian was sort of nice looking.

  • @519djw6
    @519djw6 Před 9 lety +15

    Although I found Bennet Cerf abrasive--and sometimes just plain silly--at times, I already miss the kind of "game show" in which someone could make a jocular reference to "The Diet of Worms," and expect that some of the viewers would actually understand the historical event he was alluding to. Requiescat in pace, Bennet Cerf.

  • @danielfronc4304
    @danielfronc4304 Před 6 lety +2

    "Hugh O'Brian" was born Hugh Charles Krampe, 50% German. Not a lick of Irish in him.

  • @RichardHannay
    @RichardHannay Před 2 lety +3

    Who was Hugh O’Brian’s last leading lady?! 😱

  • @disvids8754
    @disvids8754 Před 6 lety +2

    Again, I see the mystery guest in "Up next' - a little more than 1 1/2 years before. Maybe the show really had run its course if it couldn't bring in any fresh faces.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 Před 5 lety

      It also looked like Goodson-Todman were signing celebrities to package deals. Many of the people I am seeing as celebrity contestants on Password in the summer of 1967 were also appearing on WML or another G-T show (for example, Betsy Palmer).

  • @kenp3L
    @kenp3L Před 8 lety +4

    Why did JCD give the bum's rush to the worm girls -- and to a lesser extent, the UN interpreter -- only to spend 15 minutes with Hugh What's-his-name?

    • @petemarshall8094
      @petemarshall8094 Před 2 lety +2

      Because they weren’t a fraction as interesting as a top-billed ex-Marine actor who had just returned from the Vietnam war zone visiting our soldiers. But by all means do suggest stretching out the interview with two shy teenagers on the proper methodology of worm counting, or quiz the interpreter on grammatical differences between French and English. Like with news “if it bleeds, it leads.”

    • @dinahbrown902
      @dinahbrown902 Před rokem +1

      Wyatt Earp

  • @paullad3919
    @paullad3919 Před 2 lety +2

    Is Bennett trying to think of "Patois"?

  • @randylovering24
    @randylovering24 Před 8 lety +2

    875th show

  • @vintagetvandexciting
    @vintagetvandexciting Před 9 lety +3

    tomorrow's the big day!! :D

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 9 lety +3

      Jeff A I'm posting the finale with the original commercials, though. You've never seen the unedited broadcast. :)

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 9 lety +2

      Jeff A "Argggh"? Why are you saying "argggh" to me? If you don't want to watch the commercials, then skip them. Nice of you to complain about something that takes a lot of extra work for me to provide. A lot of other people appreciate seeing the commercials. It's fine if you don't, but I don't get why you'd make a special point of it to me.
      There's no promo for WML's replacement. There are no network promos at all.

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 9 lety +3

      Jeff A Hitchcock's jokes about commercials were a touch more elaborate and identifiable as jokes than simply exclaiming "argggh". I'm glad you were only joking, though. People DO complain to me about the commercials sometimes and it really aggravates me. I apologize for misinterpreting.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 Před 5 lety

      +What's My Line?
      And on an episode where one of the challengers worked as an interpreter! :-)

  • @tomitstube
    @tomitstube Před 8 lety +2

    too bad most of the original matchgame in the 60's is lost.

  • @VahanNisanian
    @VahanNisanian Před 9 lety +4

    And both Hugh O'Brian and Lauren Bacall starred in "Cactus Flower". In 1967, O'Brian replaced Barry Nelson, and Bacall was replaced by Elizabeth Allen.
    So the choices for mystery guests could not have been anymore appropriate for the night of July 23, 1967.

  • @jeffmotsinger8203
    @jeffmotsinger8203 Před 10 měsíci +1

    17:25 OMG, how did that get past the censors?

  • @balconi89
    @balconi89 Před 7 lety +16

    Gene Rayburn did not look right wearing a bow tie. I can only imagine him in a tacky 70s suit.

  • @zenarcade64
    @zenarcade64 Před rokem +3

    19:00 I knew he was gonna say that! 22:49 "I don't care what anyone thinks of the war, I just hope to God we support 'em". This was when the anti-war movement was getting huge, as opposed to his previous appearance when he didn't feel the need to say this. But of course the best way to have supported the troops would be to bring them home. And I'm sure his tours didn't show any of the tons of atrocities committed against Vietnamese in their own country by foreigners, which they'd been fighting for literally a millenium; first the Chinese, then Japanese, then French, and finally Americans. Sick.

  • @lindaroper2654
    @lindaroper2654 Před 2 lety

    Newman shouldn't of said Hugh I Brian,it wasn't her turn.

  • @rsprockets7846
    @rsprockets7846 Před rokem

    still using the old Black and white equipment and studio from 1949 too cheeep to do color

    • @richatlarge462
      @richatlarge462 Před 9 měsíci

      The 1967 episodes were in color, but the source of the tapes that are available to this CZcams channel are in black and white.

  • @drumbum3.142
    @drumbum3.142 Před 3 měsíci

    Humm..
    ... Might an Interpreter, be considered a Teacher ,?.. 🤔🤔🤔

  • @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath
    @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Před rokem

    Sorry, but counting worms is not an occupation

    • @rmelin13231
      @rmelin13231 Před rokem +3

      Certainly was a line in 1967. Got paid to do it.

  • @JohnnylMr
    @JohnnylMr Před rokem +1

    Gene Rayburn is not nor has ever been funny.

    • @rmelin13231
      @rmelin13231 Před rokem +1

      But he did somewhat resemble a horse.

  • @rambleonfromhere8780
    @rambleonfromhere8780 Před 3 lety +5

    I find phylis Newman annoying. Just saying

  • @kenchristie9214
    @kenchristie9214 Před rokem +2

    I've heard Hugh sing Cool Water and he was almost as good as Marty Robbins.