MYSTERY GUEST: Jonathan Winters PANEL: Arlene Francis, Arthur Godfrey, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf -------------------------------------- New group on Facebook for WML: / 728471287199862
I adore watching these episodes so much! It's a much needed breath of fresh air and fun in 2023. Thanks so much for airing these, a much needed blessing!
Jonathan Winters is pure genius of comedy......no bad language and just funny....... I have gone viral with my rooster story and it has opened up doors for me.....I hope to be half as funny as he was.... I am now studying his presentation and how he has captured his audience in every way imaginable..... God bless Mr Jonathan Winters....... sincerely James Nix the rooster man from Jacksonville Florida 😁😂🇺🇸👍🏼👍🏽🇺🇸
I wish (some of) the dresses from the early 50s would come back in style like the first lady's and I wish Johnathan winters was still alive I'm glad I got to shake his hand years ago.
As a kid when this was on, my bed time was when it aired. I'd lay in bed, listening, trying to guess what the guest's line was. And more than once I'd creep out of my room when ther celebrity guest was on, wanting to know who it was - only to be scolded and sent back to my room. Simple times. Sorely missed.
Absolutely relate to your comment. Many variety shows were after our bedtime, and we could hear our dad, in the living room below, often bellowing with laughter. It was frustrating but comforting to hear them, at the same time. What a classy show and group of professional entertainers.
Funny enough, about 22 years ago I was addicted to this show as as 12 year old kid for a couple of years on Game Show Network. On Sunday nights they’d play the B&W version with John Daly and during the week they’d play the syndicated version everyday at I believe 3:30. I think it followed To Tell The Truth. But the schedule was twice a day at like 9 pm am 1:30 am on Sunday and 3:30 pm and maybe 1:30 am on weekdays… there were shows I just couldn’t get enough of like anytime Martin and Peter Gabel were on because I was so enamored with her and their family dynamic… it was like I was studying it through the screen trying to understand the magic so one day I can have just as beautiful of a loving marriage and family while being a lovely lady myself also. Quite an inspiration she was… glad to have been alive while she was even if I never met her. I found out she was buried in Philadelphia (where I and Martin are both from originally). I’d be interested to visit her grave site and pay my respects and I don’t want to go back to Philly for much else. It’s crazy to think I thought this show was gonna be lost somehow after game show network… it took years for it to appear on the internet and I am so grateful to be able to watch it and travel back in time to my childhood where I already believed I was from the 60s… life is cool, man.
Lol forgot the part where I also snuck out of bed to watch the after midnight version especially if arlenes family was on. Got caught more than once. Good times.
John Charles Daly exhibits a kind of serious humility that we rarely see these days. I had just gotten married when this show aired in '64 but recall earlier years when his respectable character was always modestly apparent. I like how simple these shows were and you could sense the integrity of all who appeared. Nice visit back in time.
@@thejerseyj9422 My take exactly. "Refreshing" is the perfect description. I find myself constantly smiling while watching these. And that's a good thing.
So refreshing to see Ladies and Gentlemen on TV. The best part of this show is the interaction of the players, host and guests. We've lost so much in only 50 or 60 years.
i dont mean to be off topic but does someone know a way to get back into an Instagram account?? I was stupid lost the login password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me.
I remember the "Geritol" and "Serutan" TV ads. For "Serutan", they always ended the ad saying "Remember. When you read Serutan backwards, it spells Natures." Our family would be watching "What's My Line" when "Geritol" was the sponsor and at the end of the commercial I would speak up and say, "Remember. When you read Geritol backwards, it spells Lotireg.." My older brother thought that was hilarious, but he was easily amused.
Wow, what a talented group!! I loved the show and in 2022 it's a pleasant walk down memory lane. Thank you to all involved with show. Countless hours of family entertainment.
@@luissantiago8446 "Now what sort of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because the whole country is just full of people who when these thing happen, they say 'These things happen,' and THAT'S why they happen!"
@@erichvonmolder9310 Au container (?). John, Arlene and Bennett were obviously close friends, and Dorothy, too, except after she'd submarined one or more in a column.
@@erichvonmolder9310 Perhaps fake, but in this day and age we really learn to admire public civility. I always watch this before I go to sleep. I prefer to drift off to people behaving with class rather than the ugly behavior of today
@@erichvonmolder9310 Yes. Too bad they didn't have the moral, high standing, harmonious and decent world we inhabit today. People are so more real and happier these days!😞
@@luissantiago8446 , Everything is a process. Sometimes you go forward and sometimes you don't. We all just got to try to do the right things, hoping that means with integrity, empathy, non-violence and a sense of teamwork. Keep fighting the good fight.
I've always loved Jonathan. His comedic talent always brought me laughter along with all of his diverse characters. I know he is one of the big attractions in Heaven. RIP.🙏🕯️
I knew someone who was in his group therapy sessions. Like the other genius,Robin Williams, he had issues with depression. He was always a treat to watch. Heaven is a more charming place thanks to both of them.😂😂😇😇😇😇😇😇😇
Mystery guests who were talented for being able to do many voices were the toughest . Jonathan Winters was kind of an early day Robin Williams . My mom loved him 👍
Johnny Olson sure was the hallmark for announcing shows produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Toddman. He was probably one of the first voices I recognized growing up and playing on the family room floor while shows like this played on our black and white Zenith console TV. I look at the clothes now, watch the well mannered behavior, listen to the grammatically proper speech and wonder in despair: where where where did it all go? Now our culture more resembles the kind grown in a petri dish.
If not a test tube containing a substance scrapped from the sole of a shoe. Everything is now based on a sprinting race to see who gets to the bottom. And bottom feeding is what much of entertainment is these days.
He was the mystery guest on the show once and stumped the panel. He did all of these crazy voices. You can see that segment here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4NxJhvR_NiY.html
Jonathan Winters was such a gentleman,and so,so humble regarding being one of the ten actors being considered for the best supporting actor award for an Oscar.Mr.Winters had a beautiful signature.
they certainly do not make them like Jonathan anymore, class, wit, charm and he always manages to put a smile on my face. HIs place, no doubt, is with the Angels. God bless you Mr. Winters.
Some would say this Show was a "Joke", boring, dull and simple fare for someones Grandparents or "Old Maids"! Not so, this was quality and class and being altogether, another level of program viewing, these people had style and presented a Show, the likes of which, we will never see again. Just my opinion on times long gone...........
I love this show, which I remember from my childhood. I'm fascinated by the fact that virtually all the commenters remark upon the general good taste and manners of people then. Those of you who weren't alive do have a sense of what you missed. There is a Greek word for nostalgia for a time one never actually lived in, anemoia, and I know that that is what many of you have when you see these shows.
I was alive and grew up watching this show. I have a nostalgia for those times that is very real and not imaginary. The anemoia that some people feel is right on the money, regarding the world of 70 years ago.
Jonathon Winters was one of many stars in the film 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World", that was released a few months prior to this telecast. Great movie! I do not remember if Jonathan Winters got nominated or not, but regardless, his appearance on this show was Great!
My older sister Patty and a couple of my brothers drove from Bucklin, KS to Wichita just to watch the ITS AMAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD! Mr Winters is just a handful of great comedians!
@@donnawoodford6641 If you as a celebrity have moral fibre and fortitude,you are blacklisted, and if you have a family, are compelled to raise your children out of the LA tar pits.
We have been starved of civility and class Time to keep the Best and dispose of the Rest Our TV and Movie industry Falls Grossly short of these standards
When TV Game Shows were TV Game Shows. Thank you so very much for posting this wonderful Black & White episode of What's My Line with the late great Jonathan Winters as the mystery guest. I LOVE IT VERY MUCH.
Observe how polite and gentile and classy and well spoken Stars were in this day. What a different, polished and special time in America before the many horses running blindly 'out of the barn' contributed to the changes in our culture, our sensibilities and our collective values.
Those horses names are , "Blackie, "Big Girl," "Hippie," Civil Rights' Marcher," "Equal RIghts' Marcher," "Counter-culture," "Liberal," which gave birth to "Political-Correctness," which, in a yet later generation, "Libtard," "BLM," "Social Justice Warrior," and "Snowflake." .
guy.v gmail Well said guy. These days, I never know what in hell to expect when I turn on the tube. Most times it’s junk movies , dirty talk, and mindless late night hosts uttering BS, lies and political junk talk, because they think they’re “somebody”. They’re not. They’re fools who are not fooling anyone with that babble ! THAT we’re sure of !
But it was also completely diverting, carefully controlled, and, date I say, false. I find the mystery guest segments entertaining, especially if I like the guests. I also dislike it when self-styled liberals today dismiss entertainment from any era pre-2000 as somehow inherently backward. But let’s be honest about those times and not delude ourselves. People were protesting and things were changing for a reason. The society was phony. Sad thing is that it remains that way. It’s just that now liberals are part of the phoniness.
46 years ago, Mr Winters was amazingly kind and polite to me, on many occasions for several years. God bless his memory and marvelous gift of humor. Gregg Oreo long Beach Ca
This is such a great show. Always fun and with such good spirit. Jonathan Winters is one of my favorites...so funny. He was idolized by Robin Williams.
@@luissantiago8446 , yes, I'm probably being racist in not abasing myself to a gentleman named Luis Santiago, because I'm ancestrally British. But I don't doubt you will be kind enough to forgive me.
Most of the men back then had served in the military, and their posture reflects this. Veterans don’t tend to slouch. Also I remember from school back then that the girls I knew were forever balancing books on their head, trying to walk like Marilyn Monroe.
The best improv or any type of comedian EVER. You cannot look at this man and not piss yourself laughing. He was always a good sport, too. He was the same in life as on the TV. There will never be another Jonathan Winters. Robin Williams was a boring "wanna be" in my opinion.
I was a bit to young to have ever seen these shows when they were aired plus im sure the family had no tv at the time . I sure enjoy being able to got to youtube and finally get to see them ..Thanks to youtube and the contributors that make it all possible .
Mr Arthur Godfrey Former pilot for American Airlines and was one of the first airline pilots to officially report a UFO sighting that paste his passenger liner . Also famous storyteller and actor .
They are all polite, easy going, good humored, well-spoken, and intelligent. Plus well groomed and dressed. And the program is family-friendly and entertaining. In short: this program is 100% the opposite of "entertainment" and "pop culture" today. WHAT HAPPENED ????????
@@markfelstead4586 Nope. No such thing. And I'm a Marxist for 40+ yrs. What happened as mentioned here was the late 1960's. Things changed forever after then. For better and worse.
Anyone else see the similarity between Jonathan Winters and a young Burt Reynolds? I'm being serious something in the smile the dimples and the eyebrows. I'm hooked on watching all these reruns. I remember it from when I was a little girl. I was born in 1960 so it probably was reruns when I remembered seeing it on television. Because I remember Dorothy kilgallen but she passed away before I would remember, I would think. It kind of gave me chills when they mentioned the movie, 7 days in May.
The start of 1964. Jonatan Winters, already nominated for an Oscar for his role in "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World".,, here on What's My Line. ( See from 17:50 to 24:15 )
"When Gilbert was sworn in as a lawyer in 1957 in Wayne County, the requirement was to use her married name. But she was to have none of that. With her husband representing her in court, she sued to retain her maiden name, professionally. And, of course, prevailed." Retired in 2002. "Throughout her career, she presided over more than 110,000 cases."
ej flashfold Well, I guess that's a matter of debate. I was very young when I watched Mork & Mindy and I remember loving the hell out of it. Robin Williams was my manic comic god. But then all of a sudden there was Jonathan Winters Benjamin Buttoning his way through the show and ruining the entire experience for me.
***** ~> We wanted Elly Mae & Mark Templeton to get married but it never happened. We didn't want Mork & Mindy to have Jonathan Winters as their baby. That was just dumb! ♣
WytZox1 Robin Williams always said that his idol and the comedian he patterned himself after was Jonathan Winters. That's why Williams himself waned Winters on the show.
@@aliced7505 I understand that cursive writing is no longer being taught in school, and the up-coming generation can't read it. Alas, the secrets we have left in all of our old love letters are forever as safe from prying eyes as the Hieroglyphics prior to the Rosetta stone.
@@aliced7505 That's so sad to have missed out on love letters. I have a big bag of them--mostly between my husband me during our separation just after we were married and he was drafted into the Army due to the Korean conflict. We had to drag them out occasionally in later years to remind ourselves of the passion we felt back then, which we expressed rather graphically , considering the times and how properly we had both been raised. Letters are treasures.
@@slaytonp No, I was joking, pretending I was safe from prying eyes. The few that existed are long gone. Although you speak of fading passion, it sounds like your marriage was filled with devotion. It's something money surely can't buy. Thanks for the sweet story.
Must be the funniest movie one can watch with the best of commedians ever to perform in one show. They were all hilarious but his character and performance in it is absolutely the best of the best. And btw not a single profanity in the long movie; absolute perfection is It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Wish wonderful commedians today such as Larry David would take note and cease using the F bombs throughout their otherwise good comedy to get cheap laughs.
Wow! I never heard anyone before on the panel asking for the Mystery Guest to use their normal voice. That's the only way they were able to guess that it was Jonathan because he had them totally stumped.
Guests sometimes considered it a bit embarrassing not to be identified (despite it being considered a "win"). John could probably see they were lost at sea and wanted to give them a chance.
They asked when Burns and Allen were the mystery guest, and Gracie says "In her Gracie Allen character voice," "Don't do it George," and of course it was all over.
They asked Yul Brynner to use his normal voice (he was whistling yes & no) but before he responded in his normal voice, Arlene asked a funny question that made the audience & John Daly crack up.
I remember that episode when it aired on MeTV some months ago. I recognized Jack Klugman in the show, but did not know about Jonathan Winters. Hhmmmm, interesting!
There is in OTR a 1939 recording of an entire day in the life of a Washington DC radio station. I do not know if John Charles is in that recording, but Arthur Godfrey certainly is in that recording. In fact, he is the station's early morning personality and very potent he is, talking to the listeners one on one in that folksy style of his. "Talk about style," he says in an ad for George Cukor's new movie, "The Women," wait till you see the 250 dollar nightgown in the fashion show. Feature that," he says drily," spending 250 dollars on a nighty."
I agree with everyone, those were the golden days of sophistication even in a game show. The caliber of the panel was always top shelf, the manners, etiquette, and graciousness really are to be emulated. I would only add that it was also a reflection of the social conditioning of the times. The 50's and 60's were still very steeped in gender roles. I often wonder if the likes of Ms. Kilgallan for example, with her incredible journalist career being so respected (and so in depth that it got her killed), I wonder if she - like myself - cringe a bit every time the audience cat-whistles at an attractive contestant. I always have to remind myself of the social norms back then - but it always makes me wince whenever I hear that.
I was only saying to someone the other day that even things like the men standing when someone is exiting the room or to shake hands is etiquette that just isn't seen in normal society nowadays. The whistling is a symptom of the beginning of the decline of things. Unfortunately it has gone too far in the opposite way today, to the point where paying a lady a compliment is almost forbidden. The gender roles are so refreshing and show just how well society works when everyone "plays" their role imo
Dorothy Killgallin’s death was very suspicious and is the subject of a book titled, “The Reporter Who Knew Too Much”. She was a friend of President and Jackie Kennedy and had been doing extensive research into Jack Kennedy’s death. She was found in a bedroom where she did not normally sleep, wearing full make-up, her hairpiece, the jewelry she had worn that evening, wearing nightclothes that she never wore, with a book opened to a specific page like she was reading it yet she had finished reading the book several weeks before and the JFK file that she kept with her constantly was missing. She, like many others, suspected the mob of orchestrating Jack Kennedy’s death and some felt at the time that she was getting too close. So many suspicious deaths concerning the JFK event...too bad Dorothy Killgallin’s death was not looked into in greater depth but...money, or fear, are great motivators.
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