www.GloucesterC... What's My Line was a very popular show back in the 50's and 60's. It was not unusual for guests to smoke on the program. In this one you see smoking on the actual set. en.wikipedia.or... To see banned list and reasons.
That's because the cigarette co.we're paying their salaries.until Yul brener,& John wyane,died from cancer and made the link to cigarette's got them out of the industry.when I was a kid even the Flintstones we're advertising it,& having the kids in commercial's getting the cigarette's for them all it took for a kid to buy them in the 60s was a note from their mother.so you know how that went.
@@jakesnake165 I actually remember a commercial that Yul Brenner made about smoking, he said it was too late for him because he already had the disease but dont let it be too late for you too, don't smoke.....I took it very seriously.
Lucy and desi landed in a helicopter on the football field behind Jamestown High School to meet the fans in her home town. Then there was a short parade to the Palace Theater (now fully restored) for the premier. I was there but don’t remember. My mother had to carry me at that age. Today the Lucy Desi Museum is just 2 blocks away from that theater. Edit. Oh my goodness the pilot on the show too!
Doctors regularly did cigarette commercials. Smoking was chic and very much accepted in all social circles. There were other episodes of WML where panelists as well as John Daley were smoking. When you walked through any store there would be cigarette butts on the floor. In those days nonsmokers were outnumbered by those who smoked.
Camel sponsored the NEWS. Ed Murrow smoked on air... made hkim look intelligent, they said so, he was a bastion of... WHAT? Having a wall between news and sponsorship? BULLSHIT!
Why would they have any reason to ban this episode? Smoking wasn't made illegal in public places (except for pubs/clubs and some cafes) until the 90's and the ban on smoking in pubs and clubs came in the late 2000's - around 2009. Smoking was allowed on public transport back then even on planes
Fred Allen was a well known as a radio and early TV comedian. He died from a heart attack in 1956 during a walk about 24 hours before he was to be on the panel for the Sunday episode of "What's My Line" and John Daly presented a special tribute message at the beginning of that episode. Although Allen was a jokester on the show, he was an extremely good player.
This show was originally aired February 5, 1956. Makes sense that the helicopter pilot was from Richland Hills, TX, since that was the HQ of Bell Helicopter. It's in the Mid-Cities, between Dallas and Fort Worth.
The show hasn't been banned anywhere, as far as I know. I've seen it twice on Game Show Network. This episode was, in fact, the first one that was put up on the internet, almost 15 years ago, on a site named AETV.
All the anti smoking NAZIS will lie about anything associated with smokers....exactly how HITLER was towards smoking. The NAZI anti smoking fascists go back centuries because the anti smoking NAZIS think it's not appropriate for a PURE RACE TO SMOKE...😮😮 It's not about health, it's about a pure race and discrimination of a group...it's no different from racism. It just flies under the guise of HEALTH.
This was never banned. People smoked anywhere and everywhere. There were no laws banning indoor smoking back then. Just watch "The Twilight Zone", 1959-1964. Rod Serling is smoking in almost every show intro and they still air these shows on SyFy.
Exactly! Carson told Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes that he started to hide it when it became passe and out of vogue. Before then you could watch Carson light up and puff away on camera.
Fact is, back then it was very common for people to smoke on TV shows, particularly if the show was sponsored by a cigarette co.. This was a time when the general public was in denial about all the seroius heath issues that resulted from smoking..
It was a period of great contrast. Good economy, great cars, low cost of living, great films...but Jim Crow, McCarthyism, oppression of gay citizens. So, yes grand and not so grand
Most of the drama shows had people smoking and drinking. Everybody was always offered a drink or two and/or cigarettes. Watching the old Alfred Hitchcock episodes, it seems to happen in every one and seems so odd today. The first thing when people came home, it appeared that they went straight to the booze!
3 interesting guests, and an interesting commercial. Who would ever think of using a computer to forecast the weather? (This is why we OF's like to see these things again. That, and to point out to our grandchildren what a hot ticket Kim Novak was. She was at least partly responsible for the later popularity of "Kim".)
I can find no evidence to support the claim by Thompsontech1 about this episode being "banned". Aside from the fact that tobacco companies were major sponsors of TV shows in this era, one must wonder - if this program was genuinely banned (not broadcast) - how Thompsontech1 got access to this content. This particular episode can be found fairly easily on the web with no mention of it being a "banned" episode.
+Briguy52748 Oh the people would be so outraged to know there was smoking on airplanes and in hospital beds and yes, on TV, well into the 80's. Even into the 90's. What a crazy world we live in now. Teenagers don't smoke - they're on meth or heroin. I say give them back their beer and cigarettes for their rebellious phase, they might have a greater chance at growing up.
He was going to see Bernard Baruch. Bernard Mannes Baruch (/bəˈruːk/; August 19, 1870 - June 20, 1965) was an American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant.
I've come away from this video with two interesting tidbits: 1. Nearly 20 minutes before the one commercial. Nowadays there would have been 4 by now. 2. the pilot was only the 3rd person to get a helicopter license.
I don't know why anyone would ban a historical program simply because someone in it was smoking. I can assure all the mums and dads out there that their child will not take up smoking simply because they saw someone doing so in a recording of an old show or maybe they saw the name of a cigarette brand on the side of a race car etc. I enjoyed the video.
After seeing the Remington Rand commercial and the technological capabilities America had during that era, I guess we would have had access to the internet and other forms of telecommunication as early as 60 years ago if they wanted to.
You needed to have home computers first. They were not available until 1981, when IBM came out with the first home PC. Electronic circuits had to be made more compact and economical before they were available for home use. The dawn of the MICROPROCESSOR made these things possible. Smart Phones took another 20 years to be developed and became less expensive. Now we can all have one in our pockets. Realize how far we have come in a few years. TV is now ALL digital! The Vacuum Tube is a relic of the past! The internet started as a communications network between Universities and Government agencies in the sixties. You needed a large system computer to do these communications with. I was there in those days. AND . . . A large system of interconnections had to be built so that the internet infrastructure could be made possible! People talk about "THE CLOUD" like it's some magical mystery place in the sky! Hell! it's miles and miles of underground (and underwater) vaults of massive cable conduits hooked up to many big routing computers controlled by circuits called ETHERNET! Ethernet (look it up on GOOGLE) is what takes your text, photos, videos, music, programs and splits them up into so many data packets. These packets are transmitted around the world, re-assembled and then presented at the other end with very few errors. All these hardware and software miracles took YEARS to be invented! You talk about THEY, as if they could just snap their fingers and make all these things appear like MAGIC! When the technology was invented, Then and only Then could we have the internet as we have it today. THEY wanted to do it for a long time. But could only do it when the technology made it possible. Think about it. The TRANSISTOR RADIO became a big fad when it was first invented. REALLY! My first transistor radio had 6 transistors! no more tube radios! Man! that was at the beginning of the '60's! When you could put thousands of transistors on a chip, that was the first computer on a chip! The MICROPROCESSOR!!! Then came solid state memories. My first computer kit I built had 4K memory! that's 4000 memory locations. It cost me $300 for the 32 chips to make that memory. The 6800 motorola microprocessor was $150! All together my small computer kit set me back over $1000. In 1974! All it could do was play a simple game of Tic-Tac-Toe! Now we talk about Megabytes of storage (1 million storage locations!) And Gigabytes of memory (1 Billion storage locations!) like they are nothing! Ha! Today (2019) microprocessors have billions of transistor elements in them. And smartphones have multiple billions of equivalent transistor junctions inside them. The Smart Phone you hold in your hand has 1000's of times the power that the Apollo astronauts had in their onboard minicomputer on the space craft that took them to the moon! SORRY to write you a book about all this. But I have 4 PHD's. I am a scientist, an engineer, a mathematician, a computer designer (hardware & software). I invented a lot of the things you use today. And NO, these things don't happen overnight! So patience please, it DOES take some time! You can't just wish them into existence. I only hope that these and future inventions don't cause harm to the world's people. REALLY! LOOK what global warming is doing! As an old man, I wish you good luck, and don't misuse the gifts that THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS HAVE GIVEN YOU! Use them to expand your knowledge, reach out to people, build a better world with these wonder tools that have been given you! PROFESSOR ALBERTO.
I remember bubblegum made like cigarettes. They were shaped like a cigarette,had a paper wrapper and when you puffed them a white powder came out one end to look like smoke.
In the 1960s we bought candy cigarettes, packaged just like the real thing~Pall Mall, Salem, Marlboro, and Winston, to name a few. I guess they were supposed to make us feel like grown-ups, many of whom smoked themselves to death.
Exactly what I thought. Even "Tin Tin" (2011) was "PG" for occasional smoking. I enjoy watching cigarette commercials on You Tube. I personally don't smoke, but those commercials bring back memories of the 1960's. There's also Johnny Smoke and other anti-smoking announcement I remember as well, which are on You Tube.
The note that this episode was ever banned is not true; and it’s what people generally call ‘clickbait’. It’s interesting to see a glimpse into another era. But there’s no need to hype this with an outright lie.
Oh, NO, they SMOKED on SET?????? You used to be able to smoke EVERYWHERE. Hospitals, restaurants, stores....everywhere. Desi smoked on I Love Lucy. It was unusual if someone WASN'T smoking on a show or movie. Fred and Wilma Flintstone did a commercial for Winstons. Grow up people.
The most interesting parts for me were the ads for UNIVAC. This was the very beginning of computers. Although the number of calculations today seem tiny (and I love the part about UNIVAC processing "numbers, letters, and punctuation marks"!) it was a huge step forward.
P.S.though-Desi Arnaz died of lung cancer (caused by smoking).Remember seeing him smoking cigarettes on "I Love Lucy"? (hey! I'm a smoker so have no room to talk)
This was fun. What I loved most was the long computer commercial. Imagine something like that being shown now ? All they advertise now is junk and lots of lawyer and doctor ads, which were not allowed back then . It was a different world and people were much more educated. But thats the past and this is what we have now. The New Dark Age is here.
You could never recreate this show today. The show depended on the panel. They were intelligent, personable, classy... What stars today could live up to that?
Mary Wilder There’s still free TV being broadcast. You have to get an HD antenna, then you will find the major networks, a worthless schedule and more South Pacific programming and shopping channels than you can imagine. Get the box style and mount it on the roof. The little flat panels you stick on the wall don’t get the signal as well.
I get 32 channels of TV for free right now with an antenna in my attic, there are more over air stations now than there were before cable TV. ABC, NBC, and CBS, PBS all have multiple stations, and there are new networks such as ION , of course many of these stations are Home shopping just like on Cable, and there are 3 religious channels from TCT. So there is still free TV if you want it and it has as much variety as it ever had.
James Sizemore Back in the 1950s a TV was about four $500 and you could only get three channels today you can buy a $500 4K TV smart TV with apps on it and a dozen way a lot and you could put it on our table and you can either watch free TV with an antenna or you could hooked up to our satellite or to a cable but today TVs are the best value compared to the 1950s
Boy, Desi introducing (as well as stuck next to) alkie Kilgallen. She and Hedda were NOT very kind to Lucy when there was that idiotic (and terrifying) 'red scare,' and, for those too young, NO, I'm NOT referring to Ms. Ball's hair colour).
There's lots of shows with someone smoking in them, and they didn't get banned. It's not like their smoke is going to come out of the screen, and harm anybody. Old shows are a piece of history. No matter where you go your going to see somebody smoking anyways. I don't smoke, but it don't bother me.
Dorene Mellene Currently, it is ADVERTISING cigarettes, or tobacco products that is banned. But far fewer programs today have actors smoking than in the past.
Click bait. Not only did everyone smoke on television at that time, but cartons of cigarettes were prizes on the game shows the tobacco companies sponsered.
I could not agree. When I see someone saying "banned" episode, it smacks of conspiracy theories. Smoking was an accepted part of society. It was everywhere. This is a record of the past, nothing else. Yes, let's not sucker-in people with misleading headlines.
Love Dorothy Kilgallen and her white gloves, so very proper. Her death was a tragedy, so very sad. This was a time when TV was entertaining, not pretending to be "reality."
I used to watch this on Sunday nights as a kid. This episode is great and interesting because of the Univac commercial mid-stream. But the payoff is a young Kim Novak as the last guest. I think I'll take a cold shower now.
What really bugs me about this video-- beyond the annoying 30 second intro-- is that the title is an outright LIE intended to troll for views. This episode was never banned. Whoever posted this made that up from whole cloth. Complete nonsense. It was rerun more than once on GSN. No episodes of WML were ever removed from the rerun lineup. Ever. I'd have thought this could possibly just have been a misunderstanding by the original poster here, but given how many people in the comments have already pointed out the "mistake", and that it's never been "corrected", I see no reason to doubt this was fully intentional.
+What's My Line? Yes. I watch WML,TTTT and IGAS every day and Garry Moore, in particular, smoked a lot. John Daly also smoked some but not as blatantly as GM. Love your page, WML!
J Dano Thanks! Yes, when you see John smoking in a few of the early WML shows, he appears to have been trying to conceal it from the camera. Garry Moore sure never cared. :) There WERE episodes of IGAS and TTTT pulled from reruns due to cigarette **sponsorship** logos being visible on set, but never was any episode of any series banned because a person was seen smoking on camera. It's ridiculous to even think it would be so. Then again, it's ridiculous that the other shows were pulled due to merely having a visible cigarette sponsor logo. so go figure. We're just very lucky that WML was never prominently sponsored by cigarettes or some of the shows might have actually been pulled along with those TTTT and IGAS shows. In any event, it's still wildly inaccurate to call any episode of any series "banned" just because one cable station caved to the complaints of a minority of cranky viewers and stopped rerunning it. Of course, the more comments I leave on this video, the more I'm actually helping its search rankings, so. . . maybe I'd better stop. :) I appreciate your support!
Scott Awaywithit I don't see what this has to do with "advocating smoking". This episode-- as well as many other shows from this and other series that show people smoking on camera-- are posted on various channels I run. I don't make a big issue of it in the video title, let alone outright LIE about the shows being banned so I can mislead hundreds of thousands of people to watch a video on a false pretense. I've yet to get a comment from anyone accusing me of "promoting" or "advocating" smoking by virtue of posting a show that shows someone smoking. The whole notion is, frankly, more than a little ridiculous to me. If the video were posted as a "banned episode" and the reason made up (from whole cloth) was something else, it would *still* be getting hundreds of thousands of views under false pretenses. "Smoking" isn't the issue. The fact that the video title and description are an outright and fully intentional LIE is the issue.
+What's My Line? Ignore it...as you pointed out earlier, responding to people who have their panties in a wad only adds more views and purported 'support' to this video. I suggest you don't bother responding to any more of these. You are right and there's no reason to further the discussion. Your WML page is the definitive one. Anybody who cares enough to watch WML need only go to your page for great WML shows without misleading statements.
Very early on, even Arlene can be seen with a cigarette. What's the big deal? Something like 60% of adults smoked then. Probably even a higher percentage among teens.
@@rmelin13231 The big deal? The number of friends and relatives my parents' age who died of lung cancer. And the pure disgust of the smell in people's home and in restaurants. You couldn't get away from it.
The panelists were all so smart and articulate. Couldn't believe Fred Allen guessed Churchill's identity almost "out of the blue". I could listen to Arlene Frances' voice all day.
@@largememberit ain't so. However, they got a lot of clues from the audience reactions compared to a normal 20 questions game. The world was a smaller place than and there were less people. The United States only had a population 1/8 the size what it is today. The panel also had several questions they usually asked at the beginning that enormously restricted the potential possibilities. And finally, people were usually on the show in connection with something new they were doing like a book or show or play or movie.
Winston Churchill would have been an awesome guest. If he had appeared on "What's My Line" it would have been the show's "finest hour" or half hour anyway.
@@eeddieedwards3890Churchill was Prime Minister again from 1951-55 and was in poor health during his eighties (he died at 90) so would not have been fit enough to appear on What's My Line either side of the Atlantic Randolph Churchill died in 1968.
27:15 In 5th grade my teacher asked, *"What do men do standing that women do sitting down?"* We all laughed because of course we thought he meant *"pee"* - but here we see the answer is *"shake hands!"*
There didn't used to be non-smoking areas; people smoked EVERYWHERE. Believe it or not, you could even smoke in a courtroom! - the judge, jury, attorneys, litigants, & witnesses (while on the stand no less) - I expect those in the galley as well. Watch an old episode of 'Perry Mason' or the movie, 'The Manchurian Candidate', or the like. It just blows my mind!
Try being in the concession stands during the intermission of a basketball or hockey game. Yikes…I was 11 yrs old and nearly lost my Dad in the thick second hand smoke cause you weren’t allowed to smoke in the arena when the game was on 😅
As someone "of a certain age" I can tell you that smoking was commonplace on TV in the 50s & 60s whether on dramatic, talk, or game shows. The tobacco industry was very powerful and they would be more likely to ban Fred Allen's joke about the American Tobacco Co.putting a filter on Old Smoky.
"Brylcreem - A Little Dab'll Do Ya! Brylcreem - You'll look so debonair. Brylcreem - The gals'll all pursue ya; they'll love to run their fingers through your hair!"
@@beerborn : Question - one hair product from the era employed 3 letters in its name. It went something like V is for vegetable A is for animal M is for mineral. But, I don't recall a product named VAM. Can anyone help?
Chet Huntley and David Brinkley had a cigarette spewing smoke off the side while they were reading the news. The program was sponsored by cigars and cigarettes.
It's amazing how computing has progressed in my lifetime. That room-sized Univac costing around $15,000,000 at today's values made 2000 calculations per second. In my home office I have a workstation that offers up to 50 billion calculations per second. I bought it used for under $300...
What a wonderful bunch of witty people. Witty panelists, witty host and interesting guests. What happened to TV? What happened to class? What happened to class on TV?
This show is hysterical. Great Panel and host. AND YOU HAVE INCLUDED THE ORIGINAL COMMERCIALS WHICH GIVES US, THE AUDIENCE, AN INTIMATE INSIGHT TO THE TIMES THEN. WONDERFUL!
I loved the commercial. I've bookmarked it to show my son. My Dad worked at what became called Univac (then Sperry I think) for decades. I believe he was working there at the time this was made. Our neighbor and my friend's Dad eventually became vice president of that company (in the 70s I think). I became a software developer and it's crazy how far the technology has come.
I've never really watched this show, but have been addicted to these videos for about three evenings now. So intelligent, and elegant in its simplicity. Also I loved the Univac commercial in this.
My late husband worked for Sperry Rand then Univac later Unisys from 1973 until the day before he died in 2013. He graduated from college and enlisted in the Army before he was drafted. Instead of going into officer's training school, he trained as a computer tech in the army and was hired by Sperry Rand when he got out. He loved it. He was there for 40 years.
One my favorite things about watching old game shows is the old commercials. I'm always disappointed when there are none. My favorite thing about watching "You Bet Your Life" starring Groucho Marx are the DeSoto commercials where one can see the amazing vehicles from the early to late 50's.
I live in Richland Hills, TX. My dad was an Quality Assurance Inspector for the Huey Helicopter (military) in the 1950's at Bell Helicopter in Ft. Worth, TX-. He also inspected the Titan I & Titan II missiles in Altas, Oklahoma.
@Real Dudes Party Nude Not everyone was an alcoholic; it was just that many enjoyed a drink, much the same way people offer coffee or tea today almost automatically to visitors. Few drank to excess on a regular basis during daytime hours. And surprisingly, just like today, some developed a tremendous tolerance to alcohol, drank all day, never slurred their words, never staggered, and drove quite well. Surprising to today's people who are taught that a single drink will make you falling down drunk. Many men in construction started drinking mid day and never screwed up their jobs, and that includes those working in high steel. Those that couldn't handle their alcohol, didn't drink it if they knew they were going to be doing something where their judgement was effected. This practice was quite widespread, a drink or two was very, very common among a widely diverse population of people. Today, while drinking or drugs are villianized by society, texting, talking on the phone, eating, putting on makeup, have all taken their place while driving, and just like back then, the people who do it truly believe that it won't affect their driving, at all. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
its absolutly crazy how far technology has come...to go from things like that that are that big to computers that fit in your hand that easily do 50 times more
Did you ever encounter something that you never noticed before; and then suddenly every where you look, there it is(or references to it)? I don't know if there is a name for that phenomenon, but that is what's been happening to me lately. The other week, I encountered a story about UNIVAC computers. Ever since, I've been seeing UNIVAC all over the place. Weird, huh?
Yes I can go all day and never know what time it is. Then I look and the time is 11:11 or 1:11. Last night I woke up because I was thirsty and I looked at the alarm clock ⏰ and it was 1:11am
@@billcoley8520 I tend to notice the time at 12:34 a lot. When it's 12:33 I notice and it's almost like a lost opportunity. Although I'm sure it happens often, I never find 12:35 remarkable.
I don't much care about the title. I just love that someone or someones have uploaded these. I watched it with my grandmother, absolutely hated it then. Makes me so happy now. Thank you very much!
I watched it specifically because it said it was banned and wanted to see why. I read all the $+up!d comments to see why it was banned because I saw nothing wrong with it. So I got trolled twice (sort of)
The show was almost banned when Desi Arnaz asked Kim Novak if she was a natural blonde. She said, "I'll let you know some other time." All that got cut out.
They were. Smoking was everywhere. As an adult, I have never understood why such a disgusting habit for no more than 35% of the population was accepted practice.
Working in a hospital in the 1980s. The Doctors did patient rounds smoking cigarettes. Patients smoked in bed with special long rubber tubes connected to a cigarette so they would not set their beds on fire. Nurses and and other staff smoked too.
It's very strange to think that there's probably more computing power in my ol' iPhone 6 (considered by some of my friends an "antique") than probably more than TWO of those Univac computers!
I've been saying recently, I and probably many other people are so tired of the whippy, loud, fast-edited stuff that plasters us all the time. Here was a simple show but all class. We need class again. I favor that one of the major networks bring this show back without any changes except for the people, of course, and it should be on Sundays at 10:30 like the original. Perfect time, end of weekend for most. Love the formal introductions, the formal good-nights and the formal attire. Let's write the networks. Bring back What's My Line?
I agree! I love watching the old stuff. Especially, the Match Game series' that ran in the early -> mid 70's! They tried to do it with alec baldwin...absolute waste of time, plain garbage and Z-ro chemistry.
Head to 19:28 and watch the advertisement for UNIVAC. Imagine how unfathomable it would have been for people watching this show in 1957(?) to envision the state of computers today.
When I went in the Navy in the late 70's I was a technician on a Sperry Univac 1219 Computer that was very similar to this one, it had 16K of Ram and was the size of a small refrigerator. It was hard even then to envision having a cell phone in my pocket with so many times more computing power.
@@donna30044 To bad it's no where near as useful or as revolutionary as the Univac. Considering the most taxing thing an iPhone might do, is playing a Video recording from sixty-three years ago. When Univacs were predicting presidential elections, the weather, and how nuclear bombs would explode. It feels like we lost something with the death of the 8-bit microcomputers of the 70s, and 80s. The point here being what good is having more power then X when you can never actually use it?
@@Ichijoe2112 Computers are still being used to predict presidential elections, the weather, and nuclear reactions. Their increased speed means that they can do the job much better. Weather prediction, including hurricane prediction, has gotten a lot better since 1957. Back then, a 5-day prediction would have been sheer guessing. Now it is routine and based on sophisticated models and vast numbers of calculations. Getting back to the iPhone, it would have been impossible in 1957 or for many years later to create a cell phone network. Cell phones depend on high-speed switching between cell towers to maintain continuous contact with the network.
