What's My Line? - Dorothy Kilgallen; PANEL: Martin Gabel, Deb Reynolds. Tony Perkins (Feb 5, 1961) 

This show is just lovely. The manners, the clothes and the genuine happiness showed.

Miss Dorothy Kilgallen truly made this episode!!! LOVE Her - RIP.

For those wondering about Mr Daly's admiring the audience's bravery for showing up; there had been a huge snowstorm in NYC that weekend.

was i the only one who got actually excited that Dorothy was the mystery guest? lol

It makes me so happy to see how genuinely thrilled Arlene seems with Dorothy's return.

I can't put into words how much enjoyment I receive from viewing these shows. Thank you so much!

the last person on earth i would have expected to wear cowboy boots, and they go so well with his bow tie-lol

That was so cute that Dorothy repeated the same line, "what do you want me to do darling, give it away?" which is what Debbie Reynolds said when she was a mystery guest. That was adorable.

What a treat to have Dorothy as a guest. Shame Bennett couldn't be there too. Would have been perfect with Anthony, Arlene, Bennett, and Martin.

How amazing it is that we're able to watch this show nearly six decades later, living in a world with technology none of them could have even begun to imagine.

love, Love, LOVE,,, the reception the audience gave Dorothy!

I love how Arlene says Dorothy's name.

I just love this show ! The camaraderie between Dorothy & Arlene was especially touching. They were all so refined, warm, witty & genuinely lovely people❤️

I've fallen in love with Arlene Francis... And, this show.

Dorothy Kilgallen...Surely one of the most beautiful and intelligent women ever in the media world...I'd have loved to have met her and moreover conversed with her...she was SO special....

Dorothy Kilgallen was very intelligent and a great journalist.

Such a lovely heartwarming episode with Dorothy as the mystery guest!!60 long years ago!!I love this show!❤

I love Dorothy Killgallin.

Dorothy finds out on this episode just how hard it is to disguise one's voice.

It showed that Dorothy and Arlene were very close friends. Bennett, Dorothy Arlene and John were the core of the show for almost two decades.

The poise and elegance of this show and it's cast is like no other.

Television in 1961 was somewhat still in infancy. Isn't it remarkable that WML is obviously better entertainment that what is currently available . This is truly wonderful television.

When signing, Dorothy makes the same type of dot above her "i" in her surname as her father (when he was on WML) :)

So Dorothy was a working Mom in the 1950s - how grand!!!!

It’s so sort of bittersweet when watch these shows and seeing how people used to generally treat one another with such dignity and kindness. It was just part of life. Not that everyone is rude today but we’ve certainly lost something as a society.

This edition shows how good Bennet Serf and Dorothy are at posing the right questions. It cannot be easy, as Debbie Reynolds clearly showed.

John is so formal and yet so self-effacing and humorous. Look at 10:59. Simply hysterical... and he knew it. But had he drawn attention to it, it wouldn't have come off nearly as well.

The whole Kilgallen family have been mystery guests on four separate shows. Her father, husband, children and now her.

Debbie Reynolds was lovely.

Dorothy was a true treasure! Beautiful, talented, personality, I mean this lady had it all! I’ve read so much about her! I truly believe the mystery around her death is legit! I know many talk of her being a heavy drinker, but I just find it hard to believe! Maybe one day the truth will come out!

I love this show with it's wonderful classy panelists. Wish TV was still this fabulous, no vulgarity, no nudity, and very entertaining.

Damn, Carrie Fisher's mom was beautiful, maybe even more so than Carrie.

Dorothy's falsetto vocal disguise in the Mystery Guest segment was hilarious! I was also tickled by the cowboy boots John wore due to the snowstorm.

When I was a kid in the 50's and 60's, I used to love the Kellogg's "Variety Pack", 10 small boxes of assorted cereals, each an individual serving. My brother and sister loved it too. Occasionally, my mom would indulge us by buying a Variety Pack, but very rarely -- it was a significantly more expensive way to buy cereal than getting a large box of a specific kind.

Arlene looks stunning.

I was very impressed with the perfect pronounciation of Mansukhani. For once, an Indian name not mispronounced by Americans.

The courtesy, the respect, the style and grace of these panellists and guests is, unfortunately, no longer present on modern reality shows.

R.I.P. Dorothy Kilgallen.

I'm an old guy, and was probably 7-8 years old when WML was on every Sunday. My bedtime was 7pm and sometimes my parents would let me stay up a half hour to watch this show. I loved panel including Arlene Francis and her husband Martin Gabel plus Debbie Reynolds who was one of my favorites many years ago when I lived in Las Vegas. I saw her and her daughter in a show which was announced as Debbies last before retirement. Carrie was there with her, with Tod and Carries daughter, Billie Lourde. It was about 2 years later when Carrie died on Sunday and Debbie followed her 48 hours later.

Can’t quit smiling. I Loved Dorothy so much!

8:47 The Commander inadvertently turns to stone for ten seconds.

My Dad introduced me to this wonderful show. It was one of the best around!

No disrespect but Debbie Reynolds was great as a mystery guest but not so hot as a panelist.

I've never seen anyone so happy describing what happens when a deterrent weapon is launched!

I love how proud John is of his cowboy boots :)

It would have been great to have Arlene as a Mystery Guest!

This is the real tribute to Dorothy she was the Mystery Guest.

The show's 11th anniversary, Johnny Olson (my FAVORITE of all the WML announcers) debuts, and Dorothy comes back in style. A great episode this was!

I think Debbie studied at the John Charles Daly School of Rambling.

Fabulous to see our Dorothy back. It's not the same without her, same goes for Bennett and Arlene. And I adore when Martin is on the panel. On a superficial note, Arlene is looking particularly fabulous. Wasn't digging the hair and makeup on the last few shows. And she's got it back together!

What is nice is that Arlene stood up for Dorothy and broke the WML tradition of women sitting down, when guests exit. I wonder what Arlene's thoughts are of Dorothy's death. Anyway, a great episode!

I've always Loved Both Dorothy Kilgallen & Arlene Francis! They were both so beautiful, and such CLASS ACTS!! Its a crying shame the way they KILLED DOROTHY KILGALLEN!!😢

Commander Osborn eventually became a Rear Admiral (in charge of some Vietnam aspects). Died in 2004. Is pretty famous, given the medals and so on. Miss Mansukhani (who was originally Pakistani) shows up in some research papers in the early 60s, and then doesn't. I think she married a gent named Menon, moved to New Delhi, and died in 2007. (They had a few kids.)

What great history and guests of every walk of life...especially Mystery Guests??? on this show!!!!😊especially the panel over the decades🙂

Once again, a guest panelist (Debbie Reynolds in this case) makes the silly assumption that if you're salaried, you can't be working for a non-profit organization, as if all NPO's use only volunteers to get the work done. I note that the U.S. government, any state, county or city government are not profit-making organizations that have salaried employees -- even the armed services pay officers and non-commissioned personnel, as well as civilian employees. Charitable organizations have to have people who run the organizations who are paid for their work. Among many other non-profit organizations that have salaried employees, I note that hospitals do and the vast majority of hospitals are are non-profit organizations.

Is it bad I’m binge watching these?

Tony Perkins was so soft spoken. It’s hard to believe it was the same actor who played in Psycho; that just shows what a great actor he was. I believe his wife was killed in one of the airplanes on 911.

Dorothy was a mystery guest?! WOOOW, never thought SHE'D ever be mystery guest!

I had a date with someone once who strongly resembled Anthony Perkins. Hot hot hot looking.

"That's because she's sitting next to you." THE LOOK ON JOHN'S FACE-

It was great to see Dorothy as a mystery guest. Does anyone know if Arlene appeared as a mystery guest?

Poor John Daly! He did not realize he had been gifted a pair of "trick" boots from his good pal Bennett Cerf! The boots are designed to hold his pants above the top of the boot whenever he sits down and keep the pant leg hiked up whenever he stands up. The boots were sent by Mr. Cerf due to a comment Mr. Daly made to Cerf about his legs after Mr. Cerf commented about mystery guest, Jayne Mansfield's legs.

Debbie isnt a good match for this show, I think.

Dorothy is so genteel, so graceful. Really enjoyed seeing her as the guest.

Love Mr. Daly's quote re: the Polaris missle as a deterrent: "We don't want trouble with anybody but if they want trouble with us man we'll give them something they haven't figured on".

Two things 1 I believe Debbie Reynolds peeked under her mask when she asked that last question. 2. Throughout the show Debbie appear to have been continuously caught off guard It just goes to show that being a panelist isn't easy, Arlene and Dorothy just make it look easy because they do their homework they research they practice, they listen to other panelists, and they actually take it seriously as they joke.

Dorothy Kilgallen is such a cute little muffin 😍 .... R.I.P. Dorothy 🌟🙏

Arlene was só happy to see Dorothy,

All those preconceived notions regarding the dentist...

Omg! Tony Perkins was so cute!

Debbie Reynolds was so beautiful, gentle and sweet. ❤ and she seemed as out of place on the panel, as Dorothy seemed as the mystery guest. They needed to swap seats, so they could be more comfortable, lol.

Debbie Reynolds and Anthony Perkins! 'Tony' didn't even seem creepy!

John P Craven was the Chief Scientist of the Polaris program, i got to be a student in his classes at SOEST at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the 1990s. He has several books that may be of interest.

To me it looked like Debbie Reynolds cheated a bit by lifting her head to look under the mask at Dorothy Kilgallen did anyone see that ?

Seems most people back then have huge respect for the military

Nice boots.

John mentioned Prrsident Kennedy and my heart broke. Oh to have a real president.

Bennett and Dorothy make this game look soooo easy!!

Debbie Reynolds could do everything, comedy, sing, dance, act.......

Quite possibly the most perfect and complete woman of her time. Murdered for finding the truth. Oh Dorothy

John Charles Daly's description of a submarine missile launch is like something straight out of Dr. Strangelove.

I can't imagine modern crowds not shouting mystery names

Dorothy Kilgallen, such a sweet woman, also Arlene Francis of the regular panel members.

At least one person belittled the "very courageous and brave" effort by the very full studio audience that night in the aftermath of a blizzard to get to the studio. If it *wasn't* such an ordeal for them, would John Daly have gone to the trouble to mention it on air? *I highly doubt it.*

Not sure if anyone happened to notice but Dorothy gave Arlene, Tony and Martin a friendly hug while leaving yet left Debbie with only a lukewarm handshake. Hmmm

It was a little painful watching Debbie Reynolds on the panel. She was beautiful and very talented, but she was out of her element on the panel. "I have no idea what you do." Duh, you're supposed to try to figure it out.

Such a pleasure to watch this show.

They asked Nirmala Mansukhani really silly and sexist questions. Very disappointing. if I saw a South Asian, I would have immediately asked if he/she were in the medical profession - and I'm South Asian!

This really puts the episode of Chris Rock being slapped by Will Smith during the Oscar to complete utter shame.

I find it amusing how the panel assumes that a woman from India must have a line that directly relates to India. As if there aren't any plumbers and doctors and lawyers and teachers and construction workers etc., in every country.

Those are some nice boots.

At 20:50. LOL! I'm just imagining a funny scenario: Dorothy Kilgallen: Do you feel queer on that side? Anthony Perkins: (facepalm) Love Perkins. He was a great actor!

NAVAL COMMANDER IN CHARGE OF LAUNCHING THE POLARIS MISSILE DENTIST (TEACHES AT DENTAL SCHOOL) 21:22 Dorothy was shaking because she needed some booze.

Lovely Indian dentist.

Well it was a Navy man who would be first American into space and because of that last chimp launch, the Russians beat us I to space first.

You can tell this guy is sheltered and probably not as educated as most of the other panelists. He sees an Indian woman and only thinks in terms of entertainment and stereotypes. 😢

I hope the Navy Commander is still with us he's probably 92 +

Watching in Australia 21st century amazing. Debbie Reynolds visited our country many times

Dedicated to Dorothy Kilgallen 1913-1965

Great fun to see Dorothy as the mystery guest. She doesn't look like she feels that well tho in this ep. Thanks for posting!