The hippo trainer was a brave man. It can be argued that the hippopotamus is the most dangerous animal on Earth. Arlene Francis always comes out with some funny statements. CNR before we really knew Charles Nelson Reilly from Match Game.
I appeared on I've Got A Secret in the early 1980s with Garry Moore hosting, pretending to be a young artist who painted imitation Norman Rockwell works. Never saw the broadcast but a friend did. Always dreamed of catching that show some day but guess it won't happen now. Thanks for posting all the WMLs,
@@LogoMan7777 According to imdb, there was a version in 1984 that ran for only two episodes. Doesn't say who the host was but Garry Moore lived until 1993. Perhaps OP was in one of those two episodes. Given the short run, he'll probably not find it online or anything. Pity. www.imdb.com/title/tt4586580/?ref_=fn_al_tt_7
I wondered how John had never heard of Thousand Oaks, since I have known about it most of my life, so I checked, and found that it was incorporated just a year before this show was filmed.
Having two people on from a small city 3 years apart from one another, will not guarantee a person will remember that remote town when a new guest appears from same city. You have to remember at this time New York was the hub for all shows and Hollywood CA was not the big TV show draw it is today. So, for him to remember Thousand Oaks would be amazing since he personally never been there.
In the mid-1960s, far fewer people jumped on an airplane and flew around so inexpensively as now. There were newspapers and a couple of hours of news programs scattered throughout the day. The United States, indeed the whole world, was a lot bigger back then.
Ms. Berlin is a babe and would've been so cool to take out on a date and chat with. A woman Fingerprint examiner in the 1960s, that sounds like it would make a super neat television show!!
Pale, pink lemonade trees glisten in the silvery moonlight. Prisoners of their own passion, they dance a silent waltz as the world turns around them. Brylcreem
Hank Kingsley Amen! We live in Western NY State where we have & want nothing to do with that disgusting mess. Never has the hideousness of that lifestyle been more obvious than it is today during the COVID19 crisis. People over here would love to see NYC secede from NYS. They send us their prisoners, their sewage, their garbage, & want us to generate power for them. They’re α malignant tumor on the rest of this beautiful state.
Very similar to The Tonight Show staring Johnny Carson when it was based in NYC. It was a showcase for all that glittered in New York with it's urbane guests and exciting nightlife. Great memories.
Hippopotamus, Hippo, Hippye, Hippa, Hippocampus, Hippos! Berlin fingers! Fingertips! Fingerprints! Evidence! Looks like my second grade teacher! Da! Da! Da! Da! This is a story in the Naked City! The McGuire Sisters! Sing it ladies sing it! Beautiful singers! Tellman don't get teed off! Charles Nelson Reilly was very good at golf!
you can tell johnny olson has a cold. trainer doesn't think hippopotami are all that smart. smart enough not to do your stupid human tricks. charles held his own, dorothy (especially in this episode), arlene, and bennett are so good it no doubt could be intimidating for someone new.
So many times they give wrong answers. Like the fingerprint woman: do people come to you for your services? I bet some Ontario police went to her for her services.
John Charles Daley was so ungracious when it came to Bennett Cerf. He must’ve been jealous of him. He just couldn’t help insulting him. He was so insecure and his insults were very unattractive and disturbing, to say the least.
+mobus1603 This man had an interesting career to be sure... Stage musicals and comedies on Broadway, kids morning TV shows, game shows among others. If you have ever seen Alec Baldwin's parody of CNR on Saturday Night Live, it was a classic! I laughed out loud, but was among younger folks who had no clue who he was or why I thought it was funny. ;-)
@@agathakilgallen8453 Brett was married to Jack Klugman (Quincy ME) and said that she loved getting out of the house and doing Match Game. It kept her marriage happy...lol
I am reading "The Reporter Who Knew Too Much," about the suspicious death of Dorothy Kilgallen. It's fantastic and motivated me to watch these episodes. It goes into amazing detail. Just the history of corruption in the New York Medical Examiner's office back in those days is shocking and irrefutable. Book is highly credible an impeccably researched.
This of course does not relate to “What’s My Line?” directly. But regarding the most unfortunate death of Dorothy Kilgallen, I recommend people read the pertinent chapter in Vincent Bugliosi’s Kennedy assassination book, “Reclaiming History,” before coming to any conclusions. The book itself was twenty years in the making and was written by one of America’s most highly regarded prosecutors. (Bugliosi was the prosecutor on the case of the Charles Manson murder of actress, Sharon Tate.) Mr. Bugliosi’s work on this magisterial volume is unquestionably of very high quality. I won’t speak directly to his conclusion about Miss Kilgallen’s alleged ties to President Kennedy, indeed a very serious matter. I will say that Mr. Bugliosi’s book concludes that beyond a reasonable doubt, Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and was the sole person firing a gun in Dealey Plaza on that fateful day. After reading numerous posts here putting forth conspiracy theories about the Presidential assassination, I felt it was time to present a different source of information; and it certainly is a most credible source.
“Hippopotamus,” like “octopus,” looks for all the world like Latin second declension, but in fact both are Greek. The English plurals are “hippopotamuses” and “octopuses.” If a person wanted to go all fancy-pants and use the Greek nominative plurals, those would be (if my nearly-forgotten college Greek doesn’t fail me) “hippopotamoi” and “octopodes.” A classical education has proved so unhelpful in life, I do like to be of whatever service I can be. You’re welcome. :-)
As a kid watching this show I was impressed by the "mid Atlantic" formality of the show. I always found the contrast with the more "American" and laid back I've Got a Secret so interesting.
LOL John Daly says the Hippo trainer doesn't think they are the brightest ever things that ever walked but it's the trainer that puts his head in their mouth!
Why did`nt Mr, Reilly want to shack Miss, Burlin`s hand? OOOHH!! NOW I GET IT!!! Finger-Prints,,.. lol!! R.I.P. Mr, Reilly,,.. You alway`s know how to make me smile..
CNR himself said he never hid anything. Someone asked him when he came out of the closet, and his reply was, "When was I in it?" People today don't seem to understand the concept of an "open secret', something that's known but not discussed. It's not completely different from discretion, and the basic good manners of keeping personal information personal.
I'm so tired of watching nonsense and listening to junk and sexual, immorality on my TV I'm very grateful and thankful but I'm able to see this show What's My Line you can compare how people talk now without morals and no respect for adults unfortunately this is the times we're living so sad. thanks again with this great history show I so enjoy it would love to see more of the commercial. love it 🤗
Rich Archer - I would love to see this program come back but could you suggest any known people who have the elegance, wit, humor or intelligence to participate on the panel or as the moderator?
It would be great to see this great show revived but who could be the moderator and panel is a big challenge to consider. No one can replace John Daly as moderator or Dorothy, Arlene, Bennett, or any of the other great panelists who made this show famous I think Jim Parsons would be good on a revival of WML.
Charles Nelson Reilly was a little less formal than the other members of the panel in calling the guests by their first names. I can't think of any other panelist who did that, with the exception of calling the mystery guest by his/her first name.
You could easily play a six degrees of separation game with Charles Nelson Reilly, because he appears on so many daytime talk shows, especially Match Game and a few Password episodes.
@@terryniblett9329 There is no evidence she was murdered. And while she was skeptical of the Warren commission’s report on the JFK assassination, she never said she had evidence to the contrary. Please do your research before posting conspiracy theories.
@@bob494949 Not true at all. I suggest YOU read the reportet who knew too much book. Further, there is STRONG evidence that she was in fact murdered. This is FACT, not a conspiracy theory. Dorothy WAS murdered
there is a "Saturday night live" sketch where Alec Baldwin plays Charles Nelson Reilly being interviewed on the show "inside the actors studio". try to find it -it is hilarious.
Damn! No fifty dollars for the McGuire sisters to split three ways. Guess they didn't eat that night. That Vermont golf tee maker was classic rural Vermont dour.
I had a suspicion during this episode that Dorothy's hair was so big and so static that it must be a wig, and Miss Berlin gave me the same idea. I remember my mother wearing a wig in the 1960s and, as a boy, I thought it very odd to put fake hair on top of real hair. Times have changed now and possibly more men than women wear a wig in the sense of a toupe or a hairpiece.
Hair spray back then helped create hairstyles that are impossible now. The stuff was a toxic chemical nightmare, but you could bounce rocks off many of those coiffures. The jokes about 'helmet hair" were serious.
I used to watch this show with my grandma when I was 9 or 10. I remember I was thrilled when the mystery guest was Sir Edmund Hillary because we had just talked about him in school.
This period in time was a time of innocents n it was coming rapidly to a close I was a kid n experienced it n really miss it the times we live in now is complete chaos LORD have mercy on us all in JESUS NAME AMEN
Charles Nelson Reilly was one of the survivors of the Hartford circus fire of 1944, when he was 13 years old. According to Wikipedia, it "was one of the worst fire disasters in United States history," and "he was afraid to sit in an audience ever again. Because of the event's trauma, he rarely attended theater, stating that the large crowds reminded him of what happened that day."
Oh, absolutely!!!! They knew it, and they made sure we knew it, too...so very prejudiced and self-involved; and so charming and suave and entertaining in their high-toned bias.
