One of the most cerebral, thoughtful and all around entertaining shows of all time. And having the legendary Dick Powell as the mystery guest was the proverbial icing on the cake. Sadly, he would be gone a little more than a year after this episode was filmed. But what an extraordinary legacy.
MikeBlitzMag Dick Powell is on the show at least twice as a mystery guest and then also as a panellist. June Allyson is on thr show every few weeks it feels like. :)
This is great! Dick Powell is one of my all-time favorites. I thought I had seen all of his appearances on "WML?" (and all the surviving shows of this series), but I'd managed to miss this one. I clapped myself when John Daly asked June Allyson to join her husband. In addition to his fine film work, Powell starred in one of my all-time favorite radio shows, "Richard Diamond: Private Detective." This was a nice treat tonight.
I flew from LA to New York in 1962 with June and her kids. Landing the youngest boy yelled out “we are falling” just as the landing gears lock in place. Since we were flying 1st class and we were facing his family (just his mother) We saw Dick at the gate.
Interesting that the M.D. guest (anesthesiologist), said she did NOT work for a profit making organization. I've seen that with other medical practitioners on the show before. So with all the arguing now a days about not wanting medicine to become "socialized" in America........was there a time when the medical industry was not for profit back then? This is amazing to me.
+Galileocan g Many hospitals (especially, but not limited to, religious-based hospitals, which I'm sure any hospital named "St. Luke's" is/was) are non-profit; so if she was on the hospital staff (as opposed to being self-employed), she indeed worked for a non-profit organization--at least according to the law and the IRS.
Sam Yorty had a colorful career. Here is just a bit from Wikipedia "After spending almost 40 percent of his time away from Los Angeles during the last half of 1971, Yorty announced on November 15 of that year that he was running for the Democratic nomination for President in 1972. Yorty had received strong support from influential New Hampshire publisher William Loeb, stating that President Nixon had “caved in” to anti-war senators and that he had never agreed with the government's policy on the war. In response to what he would do, he noted that Dwight Eisenhower had helped bring an end to the Korean War by threatening to use nuclear weapons. However, Yorty received just six percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary and was never able to gain any momentum in his bid for the nomination. He finally ended his bid shortly before the California primary in June 1972, asking voters to support Humphrey because of the “radical” nature of anti-Vietnam War candidate George McGovern. Yorty picked up the support of a young Louisiana delegate to the Democratic convention, Louis E. "Woody" Jenkins, who subsequently served for twenty-eight years in his state's legislature but lost three bids for the United States Senate, the last as a Republican. After McGovern won the Democratic nomination for President, Yorty began to support Republicans."
According to Wikipedia (and a 1962 article it references) the symptoms of the cancer which would ultimately kill Powell in April 1963, were first noticed while he was making guest appearances on the East coast promoting his show. So... potentially during this very episode.
Wilipedia says he passed in 1963 and the title on this video says it was from 1961, so if all info. is accurate he didn't pass until 2 years after this episode aired.
Crystal of Twin Flames Correct. Noticed symptoms and was eventually diagnosed in '61 (originally he thought it was an allergy), went public with the disease in '62 and died in April '63
They mention he sounds different and he says his voice sounds different because he had an operation. Coincidental foreshadowing or was he already undergoing tests?
The same time this ran on TV that night, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld, had been killed in a mysterious plane crash in Africa a few hours earlier, but right then nobody knew. 1961 was indeed a year of dramatic world events..!
@@Walterwhiterocks I'm not looking to pith you off, but I will point out that I wrote that comment (based on RU-vid's way of measuring time) between two and three years ago. My comments on personalities and historical comments can be lengthy. My puns, bon mots and repartee are much shorter as a rule. It's one of the keys to comedy. These shorter comments by me have been sprinkled throughout my postings. Now hopefully you and I can have a bit more comity?
@@loissimmons6558 Judging by your ill attempts at humor in some previous comments, both terse and lengthy, it's questionable that you have truly discovered any "keys to comedy." No offense intended, that's just my impression. :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Yorty Travelin' Sam was a colorful, interesting character. I'm glad someone on the production staff didn't get cute and call him "Mr. Y" instead of "Mr. X". It might have given it away.
Sounds like that to me. Networks were taking risks in those days allowing this bunch of wits and sophisticates to go out live, before the seven-second tape delay machines were in common use. Not that anyone who watched this show regularly would have been startled or offended! These folks lived in the real world of the time, and brought a real flavor of life as it was then, not as the "Standards and Practices" censorship department tried to portray it in scripted shows. Once again I have to praise our channel's host and uploader for his efforts in making these windows into the past available for all.
I heard him say "Oh, Dick!" There WAS, however, an episode where Bennett got a wrong answer and unmistakably said "oh, damn". John had a great comeback. :D
John says that Bennett having the anesthesiologist's services is "a consummation devoutly to be wished" -- a Shakespeare quote, from Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy. John is jesting that he'd like to see Bennett go under the ether.
Someone said they thought Dorothy had a snoot full. I think she was loaded much of the time. We now know she died of an overdose of alcohol and pills, sadly.
judy lutz .... It's more likely, I mean a very strong probability, that Dorothy was murdered. I assume you may know the details of the circumstances under which she was murdered,. (made to look like an accidental overdose) The mystery involved sure makes me curious as to the information she had on KENNEDY'S death.
Indeed, Dorothy used both alcohol and barbiturates, which were commonly prescribed as sleep aids back in those years. However, the autopsy showed she had 3 different barbies in her bloodstream, which is extremely odd. Other circumstances around her death were also suspicious. Nothing was ever proven.
Dorothy was murdered. She drank socially and did not abuse pills. She was fully aware of what she was doing and her career & family were very important to her. She had too much going for her to abuse either
The panel or some members of it doesn't know at all how to behave. Some members know, some members haven't slightest idea. Even this was a show, some standard should keep. In my opinion, some of those members or their questions insult the quest. She should have walk away from studio at once. All questions they made insult the quest more, than program should have been fun.
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