I've just started watching...have been saturating myself with What's My Line? That's another treasure on RUclips...the episodes with Groucho are a hoot! The night he wore his wife's hat...🤣🤣🤣.
I am addicted to this program I can't stop watching every episode they should know they should but they can't be a new version this because Groucho is no longer with us rest in peace Groucho
"I think we all have misconceptions about other countries. I think that once we can eliminate that, we'll eliminate one of the chief causes of war." --Groucho Marx 1953 Beautiful...!
It's a nice sentiment, but wrong. Misconceptions don't cause wars... politicians and leaders do. Those who govern are the problem... it's never been what the governed think... in fact, no one ever even asks us.
@Oona Craig I don't think he was part of the problem, his sentiments were those of a man of the people, he was biased toward ordinary people because he enjoyed their company, he could not calculate that the misunderstandings are the mechanism by which people generally can pass all civil responsibilities to elites, the balance of power given to the State and therefore to the States disputes with other States.
A genuinely nice person and George genuinely likes Groucho and adds such a flavor to comic genius Im in tears laughing and wish more people today were like them
I am suffering from a dose of the flu and I was feeling pretty awful this morning. A good dose of Groucho, medicinally prescribed, and I'm feeling much better already. I'm a huge Groucho fan and I'm so grateful for the time and trouble you must go to to upload these immortal shows. Thank you. It really is appreciated from here in England. All good wishes :)
Ironically, the Macfadden guy on the show was anti-science and anti-medicine...many of his siblings died from lack of medical care, thanks to his whackjob old man Bernarr Macfadden.
What a show! Never know who will visit Groucho. Unbelievably accomplished artist Peterpaul Ott with celebrated works all the way to the Smithsonian...one of the eight children of the astounding Bernarr McFadden ...Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's relative. I learn so from Groucho bringing so many accomplished and intriguing people into my life. Thank you PF!
I want to add my thanks for these episodes.I have listened to all on OTR and thought I had seen everyone on youtube.I never tire of his wit and humour.
Thank you for the comment. :) As I've said elsewhere, this is an impossible show to keep track of without a good log, and there's only one, and it's never been published. It was compiled by a guy based on John Guedel's own notes (the producer of YBYL), I lucked into a copy, and if I hadn't, would never have been to identify the shows, let alone put together a half-decent collection. Still, I only have around 150 shows out of over 400 in the show's run. . .
Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life That was a quick reply.150 is still a lot of shows,interesting to watch some that I have listened to on OTR,where they have full listing of dates for the shows.I don't have the network but I wonder if GSN have ever shown YBYL.If not it would be a great way to expose Groucho to the younger generation and for his heirs to hopefully be compensated considering so many of their films are not owned by the Marx's estate.
No it was never rerun on GSN unfortunately, The last national syndication run was on the old cable channel CBN, in a block with Burns and Allen and Jack Benny. That ended in the early 1990s. It would have been a perfect fit for GSN, but my guess is that they would have paid much more for it than they did to air "What's My Line", "To Tell the Truth" and "I've Got A Secret", which are all preserved only on kinescopes that are usually dirt cheap to license (if they need to be licensed at all). YBYL was a filmed show and was sold into syndication for many years, so it's presumably a lot more expensive. That's my best guess, because you're right that it would have been a great addition to their channel.
thanks ,i always loved groucho,,i watched this show when i was a boy . I wish you luck in finding more shows,its a shame if there lost..He makes me laugh even today and its hard to find much humor ,the way the usa is today.Groucho drops lines all the time about the foolishness of war but we still havent got it. Rest in peace groucho.
The good news is that I seriously doubt the shows are lost. The family had their own prints, which Groucho's grandson Andy went through and organized for syndication. I presume that these copies still exist, even if NBC was too short sighted to save their own copies. But I think NBC does, in fact, have their own copies, because the Shout! Factory DVDs a decade ago had new NBC copyrights on the shows included. Although how or when these will ever see the light of day again, I don't know.
What started the "revival" in the '70s was that NBC was throwing out (or destroying) most of their films and kinescopes in their Ft. Lee warehouse in 1973. They contacted producer John Guedel, and asked if he'd like a set of film prints for his own collection. When he asked how many of the master negatives of "THE BEST OF GROUCHO" had been destroyed so far, they said "15 out of 250". "STOP!", he barked. "Send everything to me....right now!!!". They did....and Andy Marx helped assemble them in "broadcast order", and that's what was syndicated, beginning in 1974.
Barry I. Grauman I've been told, without any verification, that the episodes that were *not* in the "Best of Groucho" package and included in the Shout Factory DVD sets came from the Library of Congress, and that the new copyright notice is quite probably pure fiction. I'd very much like to know how many original films still survive. As it stand, I have about 140 of the "Best of Groucho" versions, so I'm missing quite a few of those, too. And those, I'm sure, still exist.
What I like about Groucho is that sometimes he gave the contestants a second or even a third chance to guess the right answer after they answered incorrectly, like couple #3.
Yes that was nice. He was great, almost a genius. But, a thing of the times, here he harped endlessly on whether women wanted to get married, or not. Even then I think I would have wearied of it.
@@g-r-a-e-m-e- Yes, Groucho, a product of the times, seemed to always ask the married women, "What does your husband do?" Unless it was edited out, I'm surprised more women never called him on it.
Well, I have been binge-watching over the weekend and this was the last episode that I needed to see; I think it took me about a week and a half to see them all on your channel. All I can say is, thank you very much for uploading these. It is a reminder of what rubbish is on television today. If they began to show these programs from the 50's and 60's, and even from the 70's and 80's, they would do well; or produce like-minded programs like this again. I think we are starved for quality programming. This was a re-introduction for me to the wit of Groucho Marx, and and has given me a new appreciation for their earlier films once again. Overall, you've uploaded a gold mine here, and has re-enforced my belief that I was born fifty years later than I should have been.
There are still around 20 more to go, but I've been very slow posting them because I'm so busy with hat's My Line. I will post them, though. Glad I had any part in your discovering this series. :)
The Fonz Well Groucho was sui generis. Google the Library of Congress and let locate the Dick Cavett-Groucho letters, which Mr.Marx donated to the Library. Groucho was extremely intelligent and nor only a brilliant and spontaneous wit, but an autodidact. Dick Cavett's relationship with him, and their literate correspondence makes for fascinating reading. Dick was a Yale-y, btw,and so let us conclude here with a hearty Boola, Boola.
While true, at this point in his career he had lost a step or three. Almost every joke he tells is recycled from earlier in his career. And Harriet there is the hottest Harriet to ever exist. 21?!?! Holy smokes ppl back then looked so much older than they were. Those two looked to be in their mid 30s with 3 kids.
@@KelticTim I understand Groucho's staff interviewed the contestants beforehand and arranged hidden cue cards for only Groucho to see. Most of the contestants look older likely because many smoked. You'll also notice many don't have the millennial/GEN Z teeth of today. Braces back then were very rare.
Whoever had the job of dropping the duck must have had amazing concentration. No way I could have remembered "light" while listening to these charming conversations.
Thank you so very much for the uploads ... it is greatly appreciated. I wish there would be a box set of the Complete set of episodes and not just a select group of shows. However you have a huge number of shows, more than anyone could hope for. I have several box sets such as "Jack Benny", 3 Stooges", "Twilight Zone", "The Munsters", "Humphrey Bogart", but my favorite would by far be the "You Bet Your Life" episodes.
When I was a teenager, I watched syndicated episodes of "You Bet Your Life" under the title of "The Best Of Groucho" on WKBF Channel 61, Cleveland, Ohio (which went off the air around the late-1970s), and WUAB Channel 43, Lorain-Cleveland, Ohio. This was back in the mid-1970s into the mid-1980s. "On "The Best Of Groucho", the show had different beginning and ending graphics, but the music was roughly the same as that of the late-1950s and early-1960s episodes of "You Bet Your Life". There were no original commercials aired, and no corporate product names or imagery were seen on the episodes used for "The Best Of Groucho", not even an NBC microphone.
It's always a kick to see comments from folks who are relatives of the contestants, which has happened a couple of times already on other videos. If Evelyn is still with us, does she have any interesting memories of being on the show?
“Ohhh! Did do you have a banjo on your knee?” (Groucho to contestant)... 🤣😂 that line so snappy right after the guy said he had come from Texas to California, and Groucho said that about the banjo .......it just made me LOL for a half hour !!!!😁🤣😂🤣🤣😁😆😆😆
What an amazing show!!! I reckon the first couple fell in love with each other right there. They looked good together. Surprising to hear the ancient Gods ate Ambrosia- tinned creamed rice pudding!
This show embodies classic entertainment. I miss the lost days of men dressing in suits on a daily basis, ladies wearing beautiful dresses, seamed stockings, high heels, gloves, hats, tasteful makeup, and class...
You can still participate Michael in wonderful past eras- Check out Vintage Dance :-) and travel from 1810 into the 1950s. However a lot of us like to hang out at the turn of the century into the 1920s:)
I try to look up the people on the show, so far I found Evelyn Hawks. Her husband died in 1961 in a car accident. She passed in 1962 from an illness at age 42 ( broken heart maybe? ) didnt find anything on Jack Macfadden but it is stated that his father buried around a million dollars in places all over the states. So far only one container has been found with 89000 dollars in it.
THERE IS NO JACK MACFADDEN..haha Hes a Fraud. 'Ft Worth...'? All of the kids from Bernnarr had names that STARTED with 'B'. Jack... or John..? nope. this guy is a imposter.
I like looking up the contestants, too. I actually have spoken to two of them who, by 2011, were still around. To my surprise, they both seemed to have a rather cynical or dismissive attitude about being on the show. No apparent sense that they were part of early TV history or how neat it must have been to be on the same stage as a legend, Groucho Marx.
Those were the 1954-'61 repeats NBC syndicated after 1961, Larry. The 1960-'61 theme music was used. and all sponsor billboards on the back wall were eliminated [sometimes by optically blowing up the film frame, so that everything looked "grainy" at times], and the "NBC" on Groucho's mike was either whited or blacked out. By 1956, the sponsor's logos were inserted optically, so they could be eliminated in future rebroadcasts, and Groucho was using an "unmarked" microphone during the last two years of the show.
STRATMAN firdaus You're very welcome. I only WISH I had every episode!!! I will be posting all the episodes I've managed to find, outside of 36 episodes that were released in 2 excellent commercial DVD sets by a company called Shout! Factory. These were uncut episodes, with tons of bonus features, one of the best DVD releases of a 1950s TV show ever (outside of the fact that it was just a small sample of the shows). I won't be posted any of those 36 shows, but I have around 120 from other sources. This is an exceptionally difficult show to collect. It's been out of reruns for many years, and all the DVD releases other than Shout! Factory's are from companies specializing in cheapo public domain films, and never include any information to help you determine what epsiodes are included. If I didn't have a good log for the series, it would be a hopeless cause. The good news is that the films of the shows almost definitely all survive. The bad news is that we may never see them again. Then again, Burns & Allen and Jack Benny came back to reruns after 20+ years off the air, so maybe it will happen someday!
+Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life Glad to see you're still trying to find them with updates only a month ago. Hard to believe there was like 500 episodes of this show. Not sure how many were groucho but it was a lot.
He was too witty for today's crowd. They would all be triggered and protesting his jokes in the streets and threatening all who watch it. These pea brained kids today .... These are the Swamp that is about to be drained!
What happened to the DeSoto? It's awesome. 8 cylinder 170 horsepower fully automatic transmission 70 YEARS AGO. Ps. Who needs seat belts or air bags in the 1954 Desoto, it looks like it's made with 3 tons of steel.
@@WalterJoergLangbein Groucho definitely makes the show and really brings out good things in the guests. But it was a well put together show. You can tell they rehearsed somewhat, but they couldn't have rehearsed a whole lot because the guests seem very natural. And they did a good job of contestant selection. Also, it seems to me watching these that normal people in those days weren't as TV-savvy and were definitely less inclined to try to grab attention for themselves. As for the show business people, it looks like if they had a shtick they stuck to it and played it straight, they didn't try to stick out in an "I'm in the biz" way that people do today. How much that has to do with Groucho and how much it was a norm, I don't know. Not that any of these people were stars, but that's my whole point. Everyone tries to stick out today. Fake it till you make it. Perhaps back then just the stars tried to act like stars in a public performance like this.
You Bet Your Life reruns: Day 4! To facilitate more interesting discussions and such, we're going to be doing a rewatch of the entire series from the beginning (such as is available), one episode on Saturday and one on Sundays (We've also been "rerunning" What's My Line episodes on the WML channel during the week, and it's worked out well). I'll post a message on the episodes here on RUclips as they come up, but you can also follow along by: (a) Joining the YBYL group on Facebook and looking for the pinned posts in this group, where I'll be posting links to the episodes, or (b) Looking at the main YBYL channel page, where the current rerun episode will be featured prominently at the top. Every video on the YBYL channel, too, will show a link at the end of the video for the currently featured rerun episode. I hope you follow along with us, and better yet, join the Facebook group if you haven't already! -------------------------------------- Main YBYL channel page: ruclips.net/channel/UCUIbTdEI7D1AMyLATIdKq5w Click here to subscribe: ruclips.net/channel/UCUIbTdEI7D1AMyLATIdKq5w?sub_confirmation=1
SuperWinterborn An uncle of mine had a Plymouth with the push-button transmission way back when. It wasn't that good or very popular, so it wasn't long before the car companies canned the push buttons.
+2150dalek My uncle had a push-button transmission on one of his cars back in the day. It wasn't all it was cracked up to be. They weren't very reliable and didn't catch on with the public. That's why they didn't last long.
At 5:20 when Groucho heard the gal say she wants to be a hich school teacher and teach auto shop, Groucho said, : Well I swan" What does that mean? I heard that term in the south years ago, and always thought it was a strange saying, but now years later hear it again, and don't know what it references. Anyone know?
The American Heritage Dictionary's explanation agrees with origins of Northern Old English "I wan, or warrant." In the north of England, in days of yore, people were wont to say, "I shall warrant ye." Translated into modern-day usage, that means, "I'll flat-out guarantee you." One writer claimed that if you say "I shall warrant ye" fast enough and with a heavy enough English accent, it comes out sounding something like "I swanny." In the USA Southern vernacular it is said to refer to the Suwanee river running Georgia and Florida and the song by Stephen Foster "Old Folks at Home" used as the State song of Florida. The idea is that the phrase is a euphemism for "I'll swear" which affirms the UK origin but softens the statement to genteel Southern conversation where swearing was not considered to be polite.
@@42CAINE Thank you so much for that excellent explanation. How great to finally know. My wife would say, "I swanny" every now and then, giving affirmation to something she really agrees with, but I'm sure she never knew the origins. She's a Southern Belle I uprooted and brought to the north. You can take the Belle out of the south, but it still is going to ring those southern charms. Thanks again, John.
The lovely Harriet looked real sweet on Jack. And, unlike the equally lovely Evie, it seemed she might tolerate some "havering and blethering". Lord knows us guys need some leeway on that front!!
people were much more mature back then. the couple are both 21 and the Scottish girl 23.. compare them to people that age today... I think Macfadden sounds and looks like the actor Cliff DeYoung. Is it him?
his dad is who you need to look up. BUT HIS DAD BERNNARR HAD no Jack of John as a son. All of his kids had names that s tarted with the letter B. Total farce. Jack Macfadden pulled it off. Fake
Alguien de santa Clara recuerda a Peruchi,un personaje peculiar que sempre estaba EN El parque zonas aledanas,tranquillo,con un andar muy suyo sempre arregladito y quando hablaba disparaba
There will never be another Groucho seen him also on what’s my line he stole the show every time those were shows todays tv has a long way to match those shows Groucho you are deeply missed
This show is better than anything on TV now. Maybe ever...Grouch was a comic genius.
Groucho Marx & his show was fabulous-- it stimulates your brain & makes you laugh at the same time--wonderful!
Your right, however with all the left wing nuts in control today, groucho wouldn't last 2 minutes.
You're a mean one, Mr. Grouch = lol
I've just started watching...have been saturating myself with What's My Line? That's another treasure on RUclips...the episodes with Groucho are a hoot! The night he wore his wife's hat...🤣🤣🤣.
You bet your life the show is better than anything on TV now
Harriet could have been the model for Cindy Williams in "American Graffiti". What a smile!
I am addicted to this program I can't stop watching every episode they should know they should but they can't be a new version this because Groucho is no longer with us rest in peace Groucho
The Bill Cosby version of "You Bet Your Life" was an unqualified disaster .
Agree.
"I think we all have misconceptions about other countries. I think that once we can eliminate that, we'll eliminate one of the chief causes of war." --Groucho Marx 1953
Beautiful...!
Interesting how he didn't joke on that, but took it seriously!
It's a nice sentiment, but wrong. Misconceptions don't cause wars... politicians and leaders do. Those who govern are the problem... it's never been what the governed think... in fact, no one ever even asks us.
@Oona Craig I don't think he was part of the problem, his sentiments were those of a man of the people, he was biased toward ordinary people because he enjoyed their company, he could not calculate that the misunderstandings are the mechanism by which people generally can pass all civil responsibilities to elites, the balance of power given to the State and therefore to the States disputes with other States.
@@56squadron you are so correct.
@@56squadron yes but to build support politicians often stoke prejudices
A genuinely nice person and George genuinely likes Groucho and adds such a flavor to comic genius Im in tears laughing and wish more people today were like them
Great shows always chill me out. Tomorrow I'm rushing out to my Desoto dealer to buy a brand new Desoto.
Tell them Grouch sent you
I am suffering from a dose of the flu and I was feeling pretty awful this morning. A good dose of Groucho, medicinally prescribed, and I'm feeling much better already. I'm a huge Groucho fan and I'm so grateful for the time and trouble you must go to to upload these immortal shows. Thank you. It really is appreciated from here in England. All good wishes :)
+ComposerInUK I'm so glad you got some comfort from the video-- get well soon!
Ironically, the Macfadden guy on the show was anti-science and anti-medicine...many of his siblings died from lack of medical care, thanks to his whackjob old man Bernarr Macfadden.
Great comment 👌...I agree with you about Groucho and this show
i miss benny hill.
Thank
What a show! Never know who will visit Groucho. Unbelievably accomplished artist Peterpaul Ott with celebrated works all the way to the Smithsonian...one of the eight children of the astounding Bernarr McFadden ...Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's relative. I learn so from Groucho bringing so many accomplished and intriguing people into my life. Thank you PF!
Groucho was pure genius. Love him and his brothers. I wish this show was on tv today. Would be best, show of shows
I understand that Jay Leno is planning on reviving it
So beautiful No Ugliness
Are u serious
Who would host
I want to add my thanks for these episodes.I have listened to all on OTR and thought I had seen everyone on youtube.I never tire of his wit and humour.
Thank you for the comment. :) As I've said elsewhere, this is an impossible show to keep track of without a good log, and there's only one, and it's never been published. It was compiled by a guy based on John Guedel's own notes (the producer of YBYL), I lucked into a copy, and if I hadn't, would never have been to identify the shows, let alone put together a half-decent collection. Still, I only have around 150 shows out of over 400 in the show's run. . .
Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life That was a quick reply.150 is still a lot of shows,interesting to watch some that I have listened to on OTR,where they have full listing of dates for the shows.I don't have the network but I wonder if GSN have ever shown YBYL.If not it would be a great way to expose Groucho to the younger generation and for his heirs to hopefully be compensated considering so many of their films are not owned by the Marx's estate.
No it was never rerun on GSN unfortunately, The last national syndication run was on the old cable channel CBN, in a block with Burns and Allen and Jack Benny. That ended in the early 1990s.
It would have been a perfect fit for GSN, but my guess is that they would have paid much more for it than they did to air "What's My Line", "To Tell the Truth" and "I've Got A Secret", which are all preserved only on kinescopes that are usually dirt cheap to license (if they need to be licensed at all). YBYL was a filmed show and was sold into syndication for many years, so it's presumably a lot more expensive. That's my best guess, because you're right that it would have been a great addition to their channel.
As far as answering so quickly, I have no life. :)
The Scottish woman was wonderful...beautiful singing voice
thanks ,i always loved groucho,,i watched this show when i was a boy . I wish you luck in finding more shows,its a shame if there lost..He makes me laugh even today and its hard to find much humor ,the way the usa is today.Groucho drops lines all the time about the foolishness of war but we still havent got it. Rest in peace groucho.
The good news is that I seriously doubt the shows are lost. The family had their own prints, which Groucho's grandson Andy went through and organized for syndication. I presume that these copies still exist, even if NBC was too short sighted to save their own copies. But I think NBC does, in fact, have their own copies, because the Shout! Factory DVDs a decade ago had new NBC copyrights on the shows included.
Although how or when these will ever see the light of day again, I don't know.
What started the "revival" in the '70s was that NBC was throwing out (or destroying) most of their films and kinescopes in their Ft. Lee warehouse in 1973. They contacted producer John Guedel, and asked if he'd like a set of film prints for his own collection. When he asked how many of the master negatives of "THE BEST OF GROUCHO" had been destroyed so far, they said "15 out of 250". "STOP!", he barked. "Send everything to me....right now!!!". They did....and Andy Marx helped assemble them in "broadcast order", and that's what was syndicated, beginning in 1974.
Barry I. Grauman I've been told, without any verification, that the episodes that were *not* in the "Best of Groucho" package and included in the Shout Factory DVD sets came from the Library of Congress, and that the new copyright notice is quite probably pure fiction. I'd very much like to know how many original films still survive. As it stand, I have about 140 of the "Best of Groucho" versions, so I'm missing quite a few of those, too. And those, I'm sure, still exist.
I loved Evie’s singing. So charming and poignant.
Poignant. Just the right word. You must be smart.
What I like about Groucho is that sometimes he gave the contestants a second or even a third chance to guess the right answer after they answered incorrectly, like couple #3.
Yes that was nice. He was great, almost a genius. But, a thing of the times, here he harped endlessly on whether women wanted to get married, or not. Even then I think I would have wearied of it.
Evie, is that you??
@@g-r-a-e-m-e- Yes, Groucho, a product of the times, seemed to always ask the married women, "What does your husband do?" Unless it was edited out, I'm surprised more women never called him on it.
I just love him when he smiles, when he genually smiles.
Genuinely?
Well, I have been binge-watching over the weekend and this was the last episode that I needed to see; I think it took me about a week and a half to see them all on your channel. All I can say is, thank you very much for uploading these. It is a reminder of what rubbish is on television today. If they began to show these programs from the 50's and 60's, and even from the 70's and 80's, they would do well; or produce like-minded programs like this again. I think we are starved for quality programming. This was a re-introduction for me to the wit of Groucho Marx, and and has given me a new appreciation for their earlier films once again. Overall, you've uploaded a gold mine here, and has re-enforced my belief that I was born fifty years later than I should have been.
There are still around 20 more to go, but I've been very slow posting them because I'm so busy with hat's My Line. I will post them, though. Glad I had any part in your discovering this series. :)
The Fonz Well Groucho was sui generis. Google the Library of Congress and let locate the Dick Cavett-Groucho letters, which Mr.Marx donated to the Library. Groucho was extremely intelligent and nor only a brilliant and spontaneous wit, but an autodidact. Dick Cavett's relationship with him, and their literate correspondence makes for fascinating reading. Dick was a Yale-y, btw,and so let us conclude here with a hearty Boola, Boola.
I agree.
I watch the show all the time.
He’s brilliant. Makes me laugh.
He was the BEST!!!
Grouchos wit was second to none!!!
While true, at this point in his career he had lost a step or three. Almost every joke he tells is recycled from earlier in his career. And Harriet there is the hottest Harriet to ever exist. 21?!?! Holy smokes ppl back then looked so much older than they were. Those two looked to be in their mid 30s with 3 kids.
@@KelticTim I understand Groucho's staff interviewed the contestants beforehand and arranged hidden cue cards for only Groucho to see. Most of the contestants look older likely because many smoked. You'll also notice many don't have the millennial/GEN Z teeth of today. Braces back then were very rare.
Love Groucho... he keeps me smiling...
Whoever had the job of dropping the duck must have had amazing concentration. No way I could have remembered "light" while listening to these charming conversations.
Didn't Groucho notice it first?
If you couldn't remember the word , light, while listening to those charming conversations, then i would say you are a real duck.
What can I say? Another 29 minutes with a comic genius. Some hard questions. Thank you for sharing.
Wonderful. Loving these on RUclips! So thankful for all the shows that have been posted. Keep them coming!! Groucho for President!
Chris Franco Why is it Trumpius Helot never laughs, at himself?
I enjoy this better than anything. Thank you Groucho
Harriet Snookal was an ULTIMATE FOX!!
Groucho never fails. Well, almost never. "Snooks" what a doll! 😻
Damn, she was a firestorm for that time period. Beautiful and adventurous.
Thanks for posting these. I love your channel.
+windyinok My pleasure-- glad you're enjoying the videos. :)
Thank you so very much for the uploads ... it is greatly appreciated. I wish there would be a box set of the Complete set of episodes and not just a select group of shows. However you have a huge number of shows, more than anyone could hope for. I have several box sets such as "Jack Benny", 3 Stooges", "Twilight Zone", "The Munsters", "Humphrey Bogart", but my favorite would by far be the "You Bet Your Life" episodes.
HARRIET SNOOKEL is Surely an ABSOLUTE FOXX!! Wish I’d known her, Back THEN!! Lovely,
independent-minded Woman!!!
Dream on. She is still alive at 91 living in LA. ...age is only a number.
1. I`ve loved every episode, so far.(oh-and, I was born, in `60.)2. My Mom is of Scottish descent(she is 88)so, I`m looking forward, to this show.
takes me back, most entertaining!
Thanks very much for the upload. I hope you upload every single episode aired.
When I was a teenager, I watched syndicated episodes of "You Bet Your Life" under the title of "The Best Of Groucho" on WKBF Channel 61, Cleveland, Ohio (which went off the air around the late-1970s), and WUAB Channel 43, Lorain-Cleveland, Ohio. This was back in the mid-1970s into the mid-1980s. "On "The Best Of Groucho", the show had different beginning and ending graphics, but the music was roughly the same as that of the late-1950s and early-1960s episodes of "You Bet Your Life". There were no original commercials aired, and no corporate product names or imagery were seen on the episodes used for "The Best Of Groucho", not even an NBC microphone.
So cool to find this. Evelyn Byrd is a relative and have never seen this before.
It's always a kick to see comments from folks who are relatives of the contestants, which has happened a couple of times already on other videos. If Evelyn is still with us, does she have any interesting memories of being on the show?
Lovely young woman, reminding me of my mother.
“Ohhh! Did do you have a banjo on your knee?” (Groucho to contestant)...
🤣😂 that line so snappy right after the guy said he had come from Texas to California, and Groucho said that about the banjo .......it just made me LOL for a half hour !!!!😁🤣😂🤣🤣😁😆😆😆
Groucho singing with the Scottish girl !!!! Wonderful 😃🎵🎶♥️
Yes, "YOU BET YOUR LIFE" was STILL on radio, Wednesdays at 9pm(et) over NBC.
J'adore tellement cette émission
Et cet épisode avec la chanson écossaise doit être mon préféré jusqu'à maintenant 😸
Good stuff!! The for posting these 💎s
What an amazing show!!!
I reckon the first couple fell in love with each other right there. They looked good together.
Surprising to hear the ancient Gods ate Ambrosia- tinned creamed rice pudding!
Yeah, just WHAT is ambrosia?
@@searchingforlostatoms7191 - possibly something like honey. In my cupboard it’s tinned rice!
Harriet married some lawyer, and she is still around, bless her heart !!!
This must be the only time in my life that I didnt actually skip the adverts, well this time around I mean lol, yep I'm that old lol.
This show embodies classic entertainment. I miss the lost days of men dressing in suits on a daily basis, ladies wearing beautiful dresses, seamed stockings, high heels, gloves, hats, tasteful makeup, and class...
You can still participate Michael in wonderful past eras- Check out Vintage Dance :-) and travel from 1810 into the 1950s. However a lot of us like to hang out at the turn of the century into the 1920s:)
@@giana9261 Thank you ma’am.
The only time you see women dressed up is men dressed as women in a drag show.
Good thanks for uploading.
Miss Snookal was pretty smitten by that man. In particular when she found out he was a hotel heir.
Now that's real sponsorship and great branding -- DeSoto Plymouth was just everywhere on the show
The De Sota was and is a beautiful car and those white walled tires sets it off..
Groucho was more than a comic genius. He was a genius--period.
His intellect extended well beyond comedy..
👍Agreed!!
Great show😂
I try to look up the people on the show, so far I found Evelyn Hawks. Her husband died in 1961 in a car accident. She passed in 1962 from an illness at age 42 ( broken heart maybe? ) didnt find anything on Jack Macfadden but it is stated that his father buried around a million dollars in places all over the states. So far only one container has been found with 89000 dollars in it.
If she was 23 in '53 how could she be 42 in '62 ? Must be another
THERE IS NO JACK MACFADDEN..haha Hes a Fraud. 'Ft Worth...'? All of the kids from Bernnarr had names that STARTED with 'B'. Jack... or John..? nope. this guy is a imposter.
@@joeambrose3260 what i was thinking.....!!!
I like looking up the contestants, too. I actually have spoken to two of them who, by 2011, were still around. To my surprise, they both seemed to have a rather cynical or dismissive attitude about being on the show. No apparent sense that they were part of early TV history or how neat it must have been to be on the same stage as a legend, Groucho Marx.
Ambrosia! How the heck did I know that??? 😂😂👍🏻🇦🇺
Groucho is a Comic legend..sensational SHOW
I search through the 50 present day TV programs and find nothing to watch.
Where have they all gone wrong?
Groucho. The best Comedian of all time!
Those 21-year-olds look 35 to me with their dress and the way they act. Grown-ups!
If you're talking about the woman in the first couple, she looks darn good. At least women didn't have tattoos and pierced noses in those days.
I wonder what became of these contestants- especially Harriet Snookal, the young woman who wanted to teach auto mechanics to high school students.
I heard she is around 91, still kickin, and lives in LA. She was all that and a bag of chips.....super cute!!
@@domenicv7962 Beavo!
@@censusgary Now give her a call...she'd like that !!!
The young lady looks like Cindy Williams. My mom had that car Desoto of 1954. I have pictures of mom and dad in that car
Those were the 1954-'61 repeats NBC syndicated after 1961, Larry. The 1960-'61 theme music was used. and all sponsor billboards on the back wall were eliminated [sometimes by optically blowing up the film frame, so that everything looked "grainy" at times], and the "NBC" on Groucho's mike was either whited or blacked out. By 1956, the sponsor's logos were inserted optically, so they could be eliminated in future rebroadcasts, and Groucho was using an "unmarked" microphone during the last two years of the show.
STRATMAN firdaus You're very welcome. I only WISH I had every episode!!! I will be posting all the episodes I've managed to find, outside of 36 episodes that were released in 2 excellent commercial DVD sets by a company called Shout! Factory. These were uncut episodes, with tons of bonus features, one of the best DVD releases of a 1950s TV show ever (outside of the fact that it was just a small sample of the shows). I won't be posted any of those 36 shows, but I have around 120 from other sources. This is an exceptionally difficult show to collect. It's been out of reruns for many years, and all the DVD releases other than Shout! Factory's are from companies specializing in cheapo public domain films, and never include any information to help you determine what epsiodes are included. If I didn't have a good log for the series, it would be a hopeless cause.
The good news is that the films of the shows almost definitely all survive. The bad news is that we may never see them again. Then again, Burns & Allen and Jack Benny came back to reruns after 20+ years off the air, so maybe it will happen someday!
+Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life Glad to see you're still trying to find them with updates only a month ago. Hard to believe there was like 500 episodes of this show. Not sure how many were groucho but it was a lot.
He was too witty for today's crowd. They would all be triggered and protesting his jokes in the streets and threatening all who watch it. These pea brained kids today .... These are the Swamp that is about to be drained!
When America was great!
Certainly got fucked up by treasonous trump
@@CD-db1zo mentality of a brick
Your so right.! Good memories watching all the old T. V. series. The world was so different and yes America was great .!
South America? Central America or North America?
Yup. At least 6 lynchin's a week. Great.
Groucho is my all-time favorite comedian.
McFadden! Grandpa had "Physical Culture" magazines. Great stuff.
What happened to the DeSoto? It's awesome. 8 cylinder 170 horsepower fully automatic transmission 70 YEARS AGO. Ps. Who needs seat belts or air bags in the 1954 Desoto, it looks like it's made with 3 tons of steel.
Probably not a trace of plastic either
so, - with 170 hp and 3 tons of steel you don't need seat belts ?
EXCELLENT ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
The first couple seemed to be genuinely attracted to each other. They made such an attractive couple.
she couldn't get enuff. coming into $
There was real chemistry there, you can see it.
The guy looked like a young Jack Nicholson
28:42- "CHRYSLER MEDALLION THEATER" was seen on CBS' Saturday night schedule at 10pm(et).
Harriet Snookal kind of reminds me of Shirley from Laverne and Shirley.
0:59 Groucho's line about humility was a jab at Arthur Godfrey.
Groucho is brilliant, but it's the guests that make the show. I wonder where "Evi" is now? Her's was an amazing appearance.
No, it is the other way round. Groucho Marx makes the show.
@@WalterJoergLangbein Groucho definitely makes the show and really brings out good things in the guests. But it was a well put together show. You can tell they rehearsed somewhat, but they couldn't have rehearsed a whole lot because the guests seem very natural. And they did a good job of contestant selection. Also, it seems to me watching these that normal people in those days weren't as TV-savvy and were definitely less inclined to try to grab attention for themselves. As for the show business people, it looks like if they had a shtick they stuck to it and played it straight, they didn't try to stick out in an "I'm in the biz" way that people do today. How much that has to do with Groucho and how much it was a norm, I don't know. Not that any of these people were stars, but that's my whole point. Everyone tries to stick out today. Fake it till you make it. Perhaps back then just the stars tried to act like stars in a public performance like this.
Grocho is the best! $210 in 1953 is worth about $2000 today.
Superb.
I often cry and laugh at The same time
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The doctor said "I'll do your appendectomy, but first you send a check to me!" - Groucho
That duck almost clobbered her.
How does one spell Harriet's last name? Snuckles? She was so cute
Schmuckles, i presume...lol
Snookal
I always want to run out and buy a DeSoto after watching one of these.
HansDelbruck53 Makes me think of the comic strip "Piranha Club", with Ernie and his old '57 DeSoto ;)
SuperWinterborn An uncle of mine had a Plymouth with the push-button transmission way back when. It wasn't that good or very popular, so it wasn't long before the car companies canned the push buttons.
Tell em Groucho sent ya!
+2150dalek My uncle had a push-button transmission on one of his cars back in the day. It wasn't all it was cracked up to be. They weren't very reliable and didn't catch on with the public. That's why they didn't last long.
Head down to Cuba. Some one is bound to have one there!
I want to trade my car in for a 1954 De Soto.
You won't get much for a '71 Pinto.
We had a junkyard owner who had a number of Desoto Firedomes when I was a kid. Nice cars.
You and me both !!!!
Lady Hot Rod. Dressed and LOOKED GOOD AND THEN HER TALKN CARS NASCAR'S SECRET QUEEN
A beautiful, chance-taking woman who can make her own hotrod?! Yes, please!
Sweet one.
I liked Snookie on Seventh Heaven!
I listened and listened and listened, where was Peter Paul from? He said he was from somewhere where somebody was from! Can anyone decipher it?
He was from Pilsen in the Czech Republic. "Where the good bear comes from"
Groucho’s bow tie is bigger on our left, his right! Funny!
EDIT: Oops, they just fixed the bow tie at 27:29 during the desoto commercial break!
At 5:20 when Groucho heard the gal say she wants to be a hich school teacher and teach auto shop, Groucho said, : Well I swan" What does that mean? I heard that term in the south years ago, and always thought it was a strange saying, but now years later hear it again, and don't know what it references. Anyone know?
The American Heritage Dictionary's explanation agrees with origins of Northern Old English "I wan, or warrant." In the north of England, in days of yore, people were wont to say, "I shall warrant ye." Translated into modern-day usage, that means, "I'll flat-out guarantee you."
One writer claimed that if you say "I shall warrant ye" fast enough and with a heavy enough English accent, it comes out sounding something like "I swanny."
In the USA Southern vernacular it is said to refer to the Suwanee river running Georgia and Florida and the song by Stephen Foster "Old Folks at Home" used as the State song of Florida.
The idea is that the phrase is a euphemism for "I'll swear" which affirms the UK origin but softens the statement to genteel Southern conversation where swearing was not considered to be polite.
@@42CAINE Thank you so much for that excellent explanation. How great to finally know. My wife would say, "I swanny" every now and then, giving affirmation to something she really agrees with, but I'm sure she never knew the origins. She's a Southern Belle I uprooted and brought to the north. You can take the Belle out of the south, but it still is going to ring those southern charms. Thanks again, John.
I love this show
The lovely Harriet looked real sweet on Jack. And, unlike the equally lovely Evie, it seemed she might tolerate some "havering and blethering". Lord knows us guys need some leeway on that front!!
Tolerate being hesitant? I thought Harriet was one of the hesitant contestants.
Instead of changing daylight savings time.....
Can they change the hands of TIME & bring YOU BET YOUR LIFE 🔙
Evie ... beautiful
Where can I buy a DeSoto?
I wonder if those two dated after the show?
I want a '54 DeSoto.
Yes For sure
why don't they make this stuff anymore?
Because no one has the quick wit
Hard to imagine that pretty girl was born in 1932.
Yup, she's 89 yrs old now...hopefully.
From the thumb nail I thought the young bloke was Montgomery Clift.
people were much more mature back then. the couple are both 21 and the Scottish girl 23.. compare them to people that age today...
I think Macfadden sounds and looks like the actor Cliff DeYoung. Is it him?
Also a resemblance to a young Jack Nicholson
Many smoked. Plus, many may have been affected having grown up during WWII and the Korean War.
ARE THEY RETURNING IN 2 WEEKS
He's 21 and his dads 84 wtf ?
@JT Hornsby Larry King might have him beat?
Tony Randall had kids in his late'70s, as did Strom Thurmond
before I checked replies.....I thot SAME
70 yrs. Old today, and still recall you bet your life when it first aired. Still makes me laugh.
his dad is who you need to look up. BUT HIS DAD BERNNARR HAD no Jack of John as a son. All of his kids had names that s tarted with the letter B. Total farce. Jack Macfadden pulled it off. Fake
Alguien de santa Clara recuerda a Peruchi,un personaje peculiar que sempre estaba EN El parque zonas aledanas,tranquillo,con un andar muy suyo sempre arregladito y quando hablaba disparaba
Robert Byrd' cousin
She wants to teach auto shop ... rofl ... Son, if you want an A in MY class...
Go to UCLA to eventually teach auto-shop? Something doesn't match.
There will never be another Groucho seen him also on what’s my line he stole the show every time those were shows todays tv has a long way to match those shows Groucho you are deeply missed