What's My Line? - G-T Game Show Hosts; PANEL: Sue Oakland, Mark Goodson (Jul 16, 1967) 

Wonderful to see Johnny Olsen acknowledged, as well!

What a Show! Enjoyed watching...All of these great personalities are sadly missed....

A major wave of nostalgia seeing all of those game show hosts -- this shows gave me literal years of wholesome and intelligent enjoyment, thank you

This was a very special occasion because I got to see them all in one place. Thank you for sharing I try to watch at least one show a day it brings me back to my childhood. And it's so much fun to watch also feels like I'm watching for the first time. Thanks again.

Mystery guest usually never makes it through all the questions. Great episode!

In my opinion, Arlene herself is the real Good Humor Girl of all time.

One thing I have to say about Bennett is that he was very worldly. Whenever he would learn of where a contestant came from, it would often cause him to ask a question about something specific to their home city or area. He was very knowledgeable about business and products and where they come from

I would have thought that signature laugh of Gene Rayburn & Ed McMahon wouldve given them away at 19:00

Johnny Olson also originated the famous "Come on down!"

It's really starting to feel like the end. I'm going to miss having a new WML waiting for me every day. I'm going to enjoy and appreciate every moment of the remaining shows.

Love these episodes! Always fun to watch WML before sleep. Thanks for uploading them!

As the years role on, you could see the panel's gradual discomfort with modern culture, from the introduction of "that Rock and Roll" to their clear discomfort with miniskirts. If anyone asks for a definition of the term "Generation Gap" they should be referred to this show.

LONGEST PRIME TIME GAME SHOW 1949 - 1967 WOW !

This is the first time Ive heard them say on air that it was finishing. Sad. At least well be able to go back and watch them again and again.

I was overseas 1967-9. Glad to see what I missed

Thank you for uploading this show. RIP everyone seen on camera.

One of my favorite game shows, ever!

I cannot stress enough how much I love Goodson-Todman Productions. Even when Mark Goodson was slowly winding down in the 80's (following Bill Todman's death), many of his games were still great, despite most of them being revivals. My favorites were "Body Language" (revival of "Showoffs"), "Super Password" (revival of "Password" and "Password Plus"), "Card Sharks" (w/Bob Eubanks on daytime and Bill Rafferty in Syndication), "The Price is Right" (Syndication w/Tom Kennedy), "Classic Concentration" (revival of "Concentration"), "Family Feud" (w/Ray Combs), and "To Tell The Truth" (Originally with Gordon Elliott, and then with Lynn Swann, and then eventually with Alex Trebek). "Blockbusters" (w/Bill Rafferty) was alright, but I didn't like how they got rid of the player vs. solo player gimmick.

Bud Collyer's ..TV Show was " Beat The Clock"..back in the early 1950's...I remember having the game as a kid..Good old days..

Although Bennet is old enough to be Great Grandfather he is my favorite.

I noticed how Johnny Olsen mentions that he couldn't announce on Password with Allen Ludden due to conflicting schedules with already being tied to the other three hosts' shows (Collyer on Truth, Rayburn on Match Game and Ed Mc Mahon on Snap Judgment). Although Johnny Olsen would finally get to work with Allen Ludden on a few weeks of Password Plus in 1979 and 1980, subbing for Gene Wood.

The Mystery Guest segment is a must see for any game show fan. The four top Game Show hosts on Goodson-Todman programs, outside of WML. Steve Allen isn't there, probably because "I've Got a Secret" had been cancelled.

For the first time since watching the last episodes in the 1967 season I realized that they knew the show would be ending soon. Yes, I'm going back to see the first few seasons again. Really miss Dorothy and her little weenies.

Sue oakland smokin!!!!

Ed has such a distinctive laugh. I thought they would get it when he did that.

If there was any doubt at all how Bennett and John really felt about Henry Morgan's outburst in the prior show, their exchange during the goodnights in this episode should settle any doubt.

Johnny Olson made one more cameo on the original WML on the series finale.

Loved the way Arlene made it clear she was reading a script when she introduced Cerf with her usual compliments

Years before, another resident of Victoria BC perplexed the panel. He was in his 80s and caddied at a golf course.

The Good Humor girl was a pre-Med student majoring economics. Two fields that don’t overlap.

at the time, colleyer reprised his role as superman in the cbs-tv saturday morning cartoon series "the new adventures of superman". He already voiced superman in the fleischer/famous stuidos series (1941-1943) and also on the radio

Interesting about the octopus' shell! I didn't know that their ancestors had shells, that they still have remnants of. I've learnt something today!

class and elegance- Arlene was a real lady

This is the first time Gene Rayburn, Ed McMahon, and Bud Collyer have been on this show. Gene Rayburn made two appearances on the panel, and was also seen frequently on the Syndicated era of WML, including the first taping day in July 1968, along with Soupy Sales, Arlene Francis, and Meredith MacRae.

What always made me laugh was that if there were two guests they had to share one chair

Bud Collier is the original Superman on radio.

That episode was great fun!!!

The second to last live broadcast of Sunday night WML. This accounts for Goodson''s appearance . The episodes of 23 July to last week of August were videotaped earlier in 1967.

I think Bud Collyer was the kindest man on tv. I always admired the way he had with the panelists and the guests. He was also a minister I think.

Bennett: "Could it be used by human beings? ... Might it also be used by children?"

One last item: "Snap Judgment," which was hosted by Ed McMahon (with Gene Rayburn as occasional substitute), was a new Goodson-Todman game show. It led off NBC's morning line-up of game shows for almost 2 years, airing at 9:00 CT/10:00 AM ET on NBC from 3 April 1967 to 28 March 1968, right after "The Today Show" and before "Concentration." The show ran only 25 minutes, because NBC had a regular 5-minute newscast beginning at 9:25 AM CT/10:25 AM ET during those years. "Password" would continue to run on CBS in daytime until 15 September 1967 - but the weekly prime-time show on CBS had already been cancelled (last aired on 22 May 1967). The original show ran almost 6 years in daytime (first aired on 2 October 1961) and had two separate stints in prime time (2 January 1962 to 9 September 1965 and 25 December 1966 to 22 May 1967) on CBS. "The Match Game" (which premiered on 31 December 1962; the first two celebrity contestants were Arlene Francis and Skitch Henderson) would continue to run in daytime on NBC (weekdays, beginning at 3:00 PM CT/4:00 PM ET) through 26 September 1969. It also ran only 25 minutes, because of - you guessed it! - another NBC 5-minute newscast. The prime time version of "To Tell The Truth" (which premiered on CBS on 18 December 1956) had already been cancelled; the last episode aired on 22 May 1967. The show continued its Monday-through-Friday daytime incarnation (which had premiered on CBS on 18 June 1962, and which aired at 2:00 PM CT/3:00 PM ET); its final daytime episode on CBS aired on 6 September 1968. (Gee: It was on right after "The Art Linkletter Show" and before "The Edge - of Night.")

So miss that era. When people actually cared for one another. And technology had not taken hold.

I recalled that before Allen Ludden became Password host,he moderated GE College Bowl and its radio forerunner,something that’ll turn 65 in October.

Almost as rare as "Snap Judgment" are the NYC-based episodes of McMahon's "Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson."

"Snap Judgment" is by far the rarest Goodson-Todman game. No tapes, or even kinescopes, exist of that. And virtually nobody remembers how the game was played. There are a few audio fragments, as well as tons of great pictures of it, but that's about it. This game felt like a variation of "Password", from what little known there is about it. markgoodson.wikia.com/wiki/Snap_Judgment

We know that Arlene was on the board of directors of Bonwit Teller, so it makes sense that she gets a plug in for the store during the closing credits; but I wonder what deal Sue Oakland had going on with Oscar de la Renta. I wonder if she got her gorgeous gowns discounted or gratis in exchange for the plug.

God, I love Sue's dress! Wish I had it!

After having seen many episodes of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, I thought that Ed McMahon's laugh at 18:54 and 18:58 would surely be recognized. I can only guess that in 1967, Johnny and Ed had not been on long enough for Ed's laugh to reach that iconic status.

After Marty McFly arrives in his time machine later this year, I'm going back to Jul 16, 1967 and hanging out in Lindenhurst, NY!! Good day for some ice cream...

Too bad Bennett didn't finish his joke about the nearsighted octopus who fell in love with a scotch bagpipe.... 11:23

A little background on the Goodson-Todman hosts after this episode: The original "Password" came to an end shortly after, but Allen Ludden went on to host other shows, including a 1971-1975 ABC revival, and "Password Plus" for NBC, from 1979 to 1980, when Tom Kennedy took over for him (Ludden died in 1981). Gene Rayburn hosted the original, simplistic "Match Game" for 2 more years on NBC. Then for 9 years, from 1973 to 1982, he hosted the better-known 70's era for CBS and Syndication. He didn't have much success after that, and he eventually retired. Rayburn died in 1999. Bud Collyer hosted "To Tell The Truth" on CBS for one more year, in which a brand new set was used. His final television appearance was on the Syndie WML in January 1969; Collyer died in September. Ed McMahon hosted the VERY rare "Snap Judgment" for 2 whole years from 1967 to 1969 on NBC. He briefly replaced Bob Clayton on "Concentration", but then Clayton returned; McMahon, perhaps better known as the host of "Star Search" in the 80's and 90's, died in 2009.

Watching old WML's today I came across this episode featuring Sue Oakland who I recognized immediately as Sue Cott who did editorials on WCBS-TV in the 70's. At the time, I thought she was one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen but wondered where the hell she came from!? Looked her up on IMDB today and found out a little more about her but no date of birth. She had a very superior attitude which I found incredibly sexy and actually looked forward to her editorials. It was like God gave her all the intelligence and youthful good looks and she knew it. She had five children with her first husband Mr. Cott who died and she married Mr. Wundermann who I would be willing to bet was the Wundermann of Wundermann, Ricotta and Klein a big advertising agency in New York.

When I was a teen in the late 70s, I started listening to old radio shows broadcast nightly on a local station. One of the first comedies I listened to was a 1946 ABC episode of The Henry Morgan Show. I enjoyed it very much...it offered a contrast to his WML behavior. He became widely known for jabs at sponsors...here are examples... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WJrf_Ai-Jr0.html

Was great to see all of them.

Wow. "Try and STop Me" in 600 newspapers. Boggles the mind what that did to humor and on such a big scale.

So... Only a couple episodes left and then what? Uploading old episodes? The revival? The end of uploading? I'm addicted I love seeing one new ep before go to bed :(

I have heard that octopi have a flexible internal chambered shell to protect their brain

I never knew some of these were in color. Strange why we are not seeing the last two years in color here.

By this point, one was able to just sense that the show was losing its steam and ending its run.

Omg! I wish I had Sue's DRESS!!!!

I hate seeing this all the time: NOTE: The following week's program is considered lost (Jul 23, 1967).

All 4 hosts would somehow appear as Mystery Guests on SYN WML.

This is the last appearance of Sue Oakland on the panel, though she would continue to appear on the Syndicated revival (just unfortunate we can't see her green dress here). I really liked Sue Oakland. And like I said, she was kinda cute.

I’ve always thought I heard a voice that sounds like Mark Goodson’s shouting a warning ‘John….’ after Bennett sets him up to burn Henry Morgan.

Only on what's my line is an octopus a "fish". As to a "shell", well, it doesn't have one. The only hard part of an octopus's body is its beak, made of chitin. A squid has an internal hard structure, known as a cuttlebone, but an octopus doesn't even have that. I think the panel was very much misled here and you'd think the two brothers who fish for octopi would know that it's not a "fish" and it has no shell of anykind. By the way, an octopus is a mollusk -- specifically a cephalopod mollusk.

Mark Goodson says that there are 8 more shows left. Of course, in terms of production order, there were really 3 more left. 2 on July 23 (the taped one aired on August 27), and 1 on September 3.

You would think G-T would have sprung for six color videotapes of 1967 WML episodes. This one has Mark Goodson, Johnny Olsen, and the last G-T game show moderators and hosts of that period. Arlene and Sue look luscious. You would think G-T would have preserved this in color because of the history of it.

Bud Collyer, I believe he was Superman on the radio in the 1940s?

Ed McMahon before Star Search!!!!

Ed and Gene were so young.

I always had the impression that Bud Collyer was a really nice guy. I'd be surprised if that had not been the case with him.

I wonder if it was a coincidence that Bud Collyer was the one to sit next to John Daly? Imo, Bud was the best host of them all (along with John, of course). PS - A little surprised that Garry Moore wasn't there, though. From that era, I think the Top 3 Goodson/Todman game shows were WML, TTTT, and IGAS.

i was hoping Mark Goodson was going to introduce Bill Todman.

Classic!

Fist time I've ever seen Bud Collyer and Gene Rayburn on here

I have never understood why, throughout the whole run of the show, when there were 2 contestants, they had to share one chair. I would have thought it would be simple for a stagehand to bring out another chair during the sign in procedure. Anybody have any idea why that was never done?

Very end. Yeah. Bad feelings between Henry Morgan, John Daly, and Bennett Cerf. Too bad those scenes never got recorded for posterity.

Didn't know who Sue Oakland was so I had to look her up - she passed away last March. RIP Sue.

Bud collier was a voice actor on radio and cartoon he was superman.

At first I thought mr daley said "Two .." 😄😂😂

I shake my head, where as usual, Bennett protests AFTER the octopus segment is over about the shell, since he's an expert in his mind on - everything. Amazing! Those two men were the experts. Here's the official Yes, they have a shell: "Its shell is inside of its body. Its shell has chambers and the shell has even evolved to protect its brain. That protection is an advantage. It's also an advantage for the octopus to have the shell inside of the body."

Cerf sure likes the word "aggregation."

24:10. Bennet and John are still angry about Henry Morgan who was on the previous week. Henry was rude to Bennet. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bw5pVjOf05g.html

The Ed McMahon laugh would have given it away for me.

They misled the panelists on the octopus. Per google, no shells per se. they can live in a shell.

There it is again. What is it with Mark Goodson's complexion?

Can someone explain that Henry Morgan comment in the end?

Oh God Bud collyer a God

Sounded like the game show hosts had the hiccups!

You almost get the feeling that John Daly would have happily forfeited the $50 from his own pocket, just to make sure that everyone walked away happy. In the comment section of another episode, someone had made reference to Sue Oakland and that no one had seen much of her before of since, and that she was quite possibly 'friendly' with a producer or someone of that nature. Then lo and behold, here she is sitting Right Next to Mr. Goodson... Perhaps a close friend trying to gain her a bit of exposure?

Notice how no one hardly ever touches anyone when saying hello or goodbye.

Why did it all end?

What specifically is the comment about Henry Morgan at end.

What Game Show did Ed host????

Oh, that snip at the end; there was an issue with Henry Morgan and it just wasn't il-timed humor last episode.

John Daly's remark at the end. Ouch !!

Why was Arlene counting to 10 at the end?

Since when do octopi have shells? The sole hard part is the sharp beak.

Why weren’t women ever hosts of game shows?

Sue who??