+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. ;-)
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.
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 🤗
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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!
@@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
“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. :-)
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.
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
So interesting that it seems like British TV stayed in this conversational parlor game mode, I wonder what the US would be like if we had followed suit? This reminds me of the BBC show Would I Lie to You? It’s a great modern counterpart
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
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..
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!!
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!
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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 can't believe Charles Nelson Riley. With some hair. When he was on Match Game. He must spent hundred thousand dollars. On toupee Years later he didn't wear on hair. He had a funny laught.
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.
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.
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.
![What's My Line? - Johnny Mercer; Jane Fonda; Bobby Darin [panel] (Feb 9, 1964) [W/ COMMERCIALS]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XkrPLWmmSHE/mqdefault.jpg)
I love the formality and gentility of the host , panel and guests .
Agreed; they were from a previous time where folks were actually literate.
This was during a time when people relied on great vocabularies and good grammar not curse words and sexual innuendos.
Indeed! It was a VERY classy show, with intelligent, tasteful information and humor!
Just try to get people to dress like that today.
I wouldn’t call John Charles Daly‘s dig at Bennet Cerf, especially in this episode as gentility.
I know this was posted years ago, but by God, what class.
Not only talent are these sisters, but have beautiful penmanship which is rare nowadays.
Miss you, Charles Nelson Reilly. Wish you could have let loose and shown your great talent and humor on this show.
+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. ;-)
Not in 1964….homophobia was everywhere
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.
Thank you for that. I was thinking about purchasing the book. Sounds like an amazing read.
I love Dorothy and am incredibly sad when I see her on this program but I refuse to see the episodes that were shown after she was murdered.
I am sad she was bumped off but more sad it was likely sanctioned
Bullshit. She became a junkie of her own prescription pills. You can see her decline for at least a year on TV.
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.
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 🤗
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.
How I love her....since I was 6 years old...." Broadway and 42nd is a jungle, John..." Arlene, Arlene, Arlene.....
I love how Charles Nelson Reilly hid his hands as he greeted the finger print examiner. He was so damned funny.
He was, indeed! :)
@@jimhanold9026 charles nelson reilly was my favorite "tonight show" guest. he never failed to make me laugh.
I would watch these reruns after school. THEY SHOULD BRING THIS GAME BACK.
I agree and they should do it in the same style they did it in those days... it is absoulutely entertaining. I am addicted.
They could ever replicate the class and intelligence today that this show had-or find intelligent panelists like the regulars.
- But who in the world could they get to be moderator or the panelists? Especially in this trump/Kardashian world?
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.
Very enjoyable! Thanks for sharing!
I loved Charles Nelson Reilly in The Ghost and Mrs Muir
That was my most favorite show!! I loved all of the actors in it. Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare, yum. I was a teen when that show was on.
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.
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.
What a super great program I watched as a very young teen in the mid-1960s(re-runs)!
Charles as a young man...before he had hair...
lol.
Or, while he still had hair ;-)
😝😜😀🎉
I see what you did there.
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,
That's impossible. I've Got a Secret wasn't on in the 80s.
@@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
The wiki has no mention of a 1984 revival. We've got a mystery here
Are you sure you aren't thinking of To Tell the Truth in the 1970s?
@@Cris43130 thanks for the correction.The only vote we got was from Kitty Carlisle, after I winked at her lol. I never saw it broadcast.
This same year, Reilly appeared in "Hello, Dolly!" w/ Carol Channing. It was his best-known role(Cornelius Hackl)
HENCE ARLENE'S INTRODUCTION.
Charles Nelson Riley...so missed 😥
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.
He already had on the show the Tiger lady trainer from Thousand Oaks from Jungleland, Mabel Stark.
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.
@@williammills5597 When my sister was little, one of the lions escaped from there and everyone in Thousand Oaks was afraid to go outside...lol
I think that this was filmed in or near New York so he may have not heard of it before.
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.
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.
Love it. Makes you think about nothing but relax with the panelists .
CNR was one of the funniest actor EVER!!!
Some early flashes of the CNR we knew and loved for so many years on MG! He also did daily WML at one point, too
Reilly looks exactly like the guy who used to be a regular on Match Game.
bohr was here that’s because he is the guy that used to be a regular on match game.
He was a regular usually next to Brett Summers (Sommers?)
@@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
This episode of What’s My Line was filmed probably 10-15 years before Match Game was filmed so he’s 10-15 years younger here
Uh, yeah, that be da same dude.
To see Mr Reilly so proper is very unusual
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!
Fingerprints were examined by hand. How times have changed.
Great minds think alike. Good to hear from you!
Luv him in Ghost an Mrs Muir. Best part of that show. Always makes me laugh.
I remember Charles on Lidsville. He was a riot
His giggle laugh on that was insane! Evil yet funny!
The greatest female vocal trio of all time.
I was expecting the Supremes.
They're literally river horses. Of course they prefer water. In their native habitat they use the water to keep cool
Are you referring to the McGuire Sisters?
As noticed before this educated and elegant panel severely lacks biological and most likely scientific knowledge.
It’s just not their world.
Ms. Kilgallin only had a few weeks to live after this. What a brilliant woman. Charles Nelson-Reilly was the absolute best.
Dorothy was murdered November 1965!!!! Said she was going to blow the lid off the Kennedy assassination!!!
@@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
I LOVE CNR.
CHRIS ARSENEAULT You're in good company. Many women, and men did too.
Dorothy got better looking as she aged.
She was killed that year. So she didn't age much.
So did Arlene. They had access to top stylists of all kinds plus they were generously compensated at $750 per show in the '50's!
Relative to what?
Dorothy's and Arlene's hairstyles got more becoming.
I always thought Dorothy was "cute" but her hairdresser never did her any favors.
“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. :-)
Goodness! Charles was so ... toned down! Still a bit of his mischievious smile came through and interesting to see a young CNR!
It was the mid 60s, recall, and WML demanded toned down behavior ( save when Groucho Marx appeared).
It was something about the way they asked the questions, I could think only of this, "And do these lions eat ants?"
This is May 3rd, 1965. Thank you.
I love the New York-centracism of WML. The world is divided into Manhattanites and everyone else.
And the world would be a better place if you nuke NYC from orbit
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.
@@njpete987 its
I live in South Florida and it's full of New York City-centrists unfortunately....
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
There never was an innocent time, just people being ignorant of the stuff going on.
I didn't know CNR appeared on the panel of this version. I know he appeared as a mystery guest a couple of times during the syndicated run though.
Dorothy McGuire passed away in 2012 but Christine and Phyllis are still alive (as of June 2012).
halewich Wrong. Dorothy McGuire has been gone since 2001.
@@ScorpioDreamer1984 Check again - she died in 2012.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_McGuire_Sisters They have all three died.
So interesting that it seems like British TV stayed in this conversational parlor game mode, I wonder what the US would be like if we had followed suit? This reminds me of the BBC show Would I Lie to You? It’s a great modern counterpart
The McGuire Sisters were gorgeous!
2:50 Hnnnh hu HNNNNNHHHH!! ( Muttered as Nelson Reilly )
The McGuire sisters - this is when Phyllis McGuire was seeing Outfit front man Sam Giancana.
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
Magnificent Failure - Uh Brylcrean?
Along this pass, go you will; very fast, whilst standing still - Burma Shave.
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..
A very young Charles Nelson Reilly.
Reilly was a regular on the Match Game!😌
Him ,Brett,and Richard Dawson were great!!!
Brenda Berlin was one of the best. Smart and pretty.
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!!
And they had two Toronto policewomen on the show as well.
Definitely a babe.
@@timothyhughes1904 didn’t you notice her vanity and coldness/ arrogance?
@@Celisar1 No. I don't see arrogance or vanity in her. She did seem reserved or somewhat aloof.
I notice that Dorothy wasn't wearing her usual blindfold.
A psychopath like many working for the police.indeed!
Wow, how on Earth did a hippo trainer not know that hippos much prefer water environments to land?
qc1okay 🤣🤣🤣🤣😳
Because he is hippo trainer not an actual hippo
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!
Charles Nelson Reilly had more women than you could shake a stick at. He had quite a reputation.
He was gay.
I’m pretty sure New Jersey Pete is trolling us - although he did have quite a number of solid friendships with women.
Baton Rouge! That's where I'm from :)
Amusing to see Charles Nelson Reilly subdued and a bit tense. He later seemed born and raised in front of a tv camera.
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.
juan monge Thanks, I will do that.
He sure does love to "throw all the cards over".
Possibly preferable to throwing hands ✋👌👋 👊
0 > 00:27 -- one of the last times this animated opening appeared. WML replaced it in February 1965.
Dave Thomas nailed Bennett Cerf in what's my shoe size
Dorothy died in November of 1965. This is from 1964.
Died? Don't you mean "was killed"? Look up her bio, very interesting connection to the Kennedy assassination!
CNR, way before the weirdness of Match Game. He was very subdued here.
well, I guess a golf tee could be found on the ground.. actually it is stick into it, ins't it?
Ulrich Lehnhardt Not in putt-putt golf!
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.
There was once a time when the word entertainment had meaning
There was also a time when the word meaning had entertainment.
charles nelson reilly was s panelist not a special guest
Charles did pretty good for his first time.
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."
Charles Nelson Reily was a great actor on the Broadway stage, so he was not afraid of large audiences.
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.
Do you really think MG gets $50? You are so naive.
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.
Oh wonderful. Another Canadian contestant.
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.
80s Aqua Net and Greenriver Dance.
I can't believe Charles Nelson Riley. With some hair. When he was on Match Game. He must spent hundred thousand dollars. On toupee Years later he didn't wear on hair. He had a funny laught.
Are fish not animals?
NO, they are fish
I have never seen Charles so conservative!
Well it was 1964
I enjoy Soupy Sales
Mr Reilly with his own hair.
Charles Nelson Reilly was fixing something on his back, you can see him scramble to shake her hand awkwardly after he fixes it.
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.
Hippo weighs a ton, John "that's about a 1,000lbs," That's not even 1/2 ton John.
+oldfart4751 1000 pounds is exactly 1/2 ton.
An imperial ton = 2,240 pounds. Anyway it's certainly not equal to 1,000 pounds as John suggest.
+HellBent If you're assuming a US ton, you are right! Otherwise, it's 1,120 pounds!
I replayed it because I thought I heard the same thing. The replay proved to me he said a "couple of thousand pounds".
An American ton is 2,000 pounds, British ton is 2,240 pounds, had to google that. So an Elephant entering the USA will suddenly weigh more. Lol!
ol'lord he had hair but guess what i am. starting to losses mine
Charles had to hide his homosexuality back in those days.
I wish people would hide it now!
He had class which is hard to find today
It was the mid-60s, necessary to keep your career going. Rock Hudson was the biggest example of this
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.
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.
Kilgallen already knew it was the Mcguire sisters.
Young CNR looks like Bill Murray
As an interesting bit of trivia, Phyllis McGuire was the girlfriend of Chicago Mob boss Sam "Momo" Giancana.
The McGuire Sisters retired from public appearances in 1968 so when this program was aired they were not the hottest group in town.
This aired in 64, so maybe!
It's refreshing to see Charles playing the STRAIGHT man, sort of. I was a little shocked to hear Charles say that the contestant had beautiful eyes
where did that cute little darthey leave her chin
CHARLES NELSON REILLY
IF YOU THINK HE'S COOL HERE.
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE HIM 20
YEARS LATER ON MATCH GAME...
( KNUCKLE 👊🏽 BUMP ) Chuck ! .....
10 years later
Charles Nelson Reilly- one of the few men who makes my skin crawl!
I thought CNR was going to kiss the trainer's hand
I haven't see this
You are totally right.
The ladies are wearing the latest fashion in draperies and shower curtains :D
Have you read any good palms lately? LOL
Reilly wasn't the special guest, it was the McGuire sisters...
The McGuire sisters were the MYSTERY GUEST, while Charles Nelson Reily was the SPECIAL GUEST on the panel.