Seeing these early episodes makes you realize how much Arlene Francis really brought to this show.

@mcmlxii4419

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. At first I thought the panel was going to be made up entirely of stodgy old men, before they got to Dorothy.

@MikeMc442

2 жыл бұрын

@@mcmlxii4419 Shifting to a mix of two men and two women improved the chemistry; so did bringing in witty panelists such as Bennett Cerf, Steve and Fred Allen. The debut episode came off at times like a courtroom drama with witnesses being grilled.

@mcmlxii4419

2 жыл бұрын

@@MikeMc442 Well, yeah I guess...if you're a person who considers Bennett Cerf to be a witty panelist. Personally, I don't happen to be one of those people. More often than not, he came across as crude and one-dimensional.

@stevemarx415

Жыл бұрын

U in it y8 use it

@anneroy4560

11 ай бұрын

she has no chin ...@@mcmlxii4419

pretty neat watching this show bumping along the bottom in it's infancy. they were able to see what and wasn't necessary.

The veterinarian in panel interaction was *satisfying* and amusing. The heart of the show was right there in that guest.

John DALY was a cool dude even back then.

Phil Rizzuto, Pro athlete, Hall of Famer, New York Yankee, and he worked off season selling suits. My oh my !

@MikeMc442

2 жыл бұрын

Some years later, he was a panelist for a night.

@LandondeeL

9 ай бұрын

Back then, MLB only paid players during the actual baseball season.

So great to have this, and I love especially that the first mystery guest was Rizzuto -- but like many of the other comments say, this wasn't a great episode. That said, it's nicely remarkable that so much of the format survived forever.

I kept waiting for Phil Rizzuto to say "HOLY COW!", Loved watching him on the NY Yankee broadcasts for all those years, R.I.P. Scooter

The panelists and John Daly later switched to formal evening dresses and tuxedos.

Holy Cow 🐮, it's Phil Rizzuto!

I was born in June 1950 so I missed this show.

@MrMalibu30

4 ай бұрын

This was 10 days before I was born..............

Shows like these need to be put onto newer media.This way it won't fade into obscurlty!

How?? Do you have this recording? History. Different time. Kind of amazing.

@witherblaze

Жыл бұрын

Mark Goodson really cared for this show, and asked CBS to not wipe much. Though that policy didn't become a thing until 1952. So anything before 1952 is up in the air.

Phil Rizzuto is also known for his "play-by-play" in Meatloaf's classic Paradise by the Dashboard Light.

I 💖 this show 💯

CBS wasn't happy with the format of the show and the camera work early on. It is good that they had patience to keep the show on the air and after retooling it and getting good financial support from sponsors, it became the hit show for decades we all love.

I believe this was about the only episode that Arlene Francis didn't appear on--if my memory is correct!

@quizmaster85

Жыл бұрын

There have actually been a few episodes where Ms. Francis didn't appear.

John Daly NOT standing after the guest signs in.

@flyingchimp12

2 жыл бұрын

The no clapping was absolutely painful lol

@HelloooThere

Жыл бұрын

OMG 😱

"do you consider your life worth while?" "In other words do you give comfort, joy or substance to other people" Right there. Key difference between them and now. And a strong personal philosophy.

Lighting a smoke, I remember when yo uh would ask a lady if she minded.

Well, off to a very awkward start - a good learning experience. I guess the good news is that there were so few households back then with a television.

The neurosurgeon really pissed off the veterinarian.

So formal!

Interestingly awkward if not gauche - improved immensely as the show progressed.

@mepperganfortas

6 ай бұрын

Yes. I watched these live from about 1962 on. People were civil and educated. Not like today's Hip Hop frenzied B's.

@mepperganfortas

6 ай бұрын

Some of the comments toward large people seem very inappropriate now. Then people were more direct, less educated, and not very concerned with sugar coating everything.

@QuadMochaMatti

Ай бұрын

Took a major step backward with the inclusion of the uncouth clod, Hal Block. Thank goodness they overcame that casting gaffe.

A no more awkward debut than a good many live TV shows ever since. I was hoping to see some early commercials.

She still has her purse on her shoulder. 🤣

Would be great to be on tv instead of Cell phone

Who was lucky to have a television set in 1950!?

@sandybruce9092

4 ай бұрын

We didn’t get one till sometime in 1951. I was 4 and have no memory of this but I was told by my Mom that she needed one because my new sister was cranky!!!

Comments that couldn’t be made today.

When John fired up a cig on-air i was shocked

@sucher22

3 жыл бұрын

Shocked! --- Shocked! ...and where's his bowtie?

@georgemaster689

3 жыл бұрын

This was a time when you could smoke and drink on a game show.

@bbailey7818

2 жыл бұрын

It was a very different time, wasn't it? Also shocked to see Daly and panelists lighting up at will. Smoking's obviously bad but in many respects we had more freedoms and liberty then.

@MikeMc442

2 жыл бұрын

@@sucher22 Soon, dressing John and the male panelists in more formal suits (tuxedos) gave it a bit of a Broadway aura.

That’s the year I was born. Crazy!! 70 years ago. Can you imagine the outrage today saying those things to a young lady about her looks.And how about the look on John Daly’s face after he said goodnight. Was it relief or turn that camera off. 😊

@keithjohnson5365

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, you can't ask Miss or Mrs. nowadays

@bbailey7818

2 жыл бұрын

@@keithjohnson5365 And they never asked the men their marital status. But people were more formal then, always Mr or Miss or Mrs Soandso. Then it was like wokesters asking for people's pronouns only far less silly.

@englishwithteachermark4307

2 жыл бұрын

Same year I was born too partner!😉 I'm thinking about that beautiful hat check girl, if she was 20 then, she would be 91 now! Oh God!

@kenoneill8783

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that too, probably feared his career was over before it started with those dodgy creeps only short of sexually assaulting the first guest live on air.

John Daly a True Gentleman.

It's funny to see the doctor smoking cigarettes Lol

Am I correct in assuming this is the oldest Goodson-Todman episode in the Fremantle archive?

@pbatommy

3 жыл бұрын

71 years old.

@janeiwasduncan8463

3 жыл бұрын

I was five when this aired....we had no TV but two years later we got one!💥💥☺️☺️

@tejaswoman

2 жыл бұрын

@@janeiwasduncan8463 - My paternal grandmother was the opposite. She got a TV set 2 years before Corpus Christi, Texas, had any broadcasting stations!

Great show! Unfortunately, the volume is a little too low to run the video while doing chores. I'd have to hold my phone the whole time, to have it close enough to hear good, which would prevent me from getting my chores done. Unfortunately, I have to give episode one a pass. Been watching random episodes ever since they started showing up in my KZread feed a short time ago. However, this isn't my first introduction to the show. In the sixties, when I was a little kid, my mother used to watch this and other game shows, along with some soap operas while doing her own chores. She also exercised along with Jack LaLane. Being little, I was mostly hanging out with my mother until I was a little bigger, so I was exposed to all of her daytime shows. Never did like the soap operas, but the rest of them were okay. I will continue watching this series, and the other game shows that she used to watch, but will have to keep skipping low volume episodes. For those wondering, Mom passed away in 2003. My father made it into his mid 90s, but passed away 2 or 3 years ago. Stepmom is still around. I owe her an email, but I'm behind on my chores. I want to make a bigger dent in them before spending a lot of time on my desktop computer to catch up with everyone. Thanks for posting this video!😊

A cyber company in those days

interesting variants of layer shows the set layout & how/where they dignin! PLUS the smoking by Mr Daily & men.9n panel! The walk over and the panel requests are indeed odd to weard as rheblafy to l8ck 8n her tight pencil fress to walking with b99k 9n head of first female contestant, the hat check girl. Also no celebrity guest so n9 bl8ab folds! indeed the pr9gram evolves So improved when Arleen Frances kpins the panr! Great shows gr9man earlier gentle time so refreshing vs what is on now 70yrs later!!

I was not even born.

I wonder if the panel ever hit the jackpot with the wild guesses.

@tejaswoman

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, at minimum there's an episode in the 1955 season. Can't think of it right now.

That would, I believe, be panelist Jimmy Hoffa sitting next to John Charles Daly. He is now retired, and resides in the New Jersey Meadowlands.

Poor Miss Finch. I have always loved this TV show but this episode is a little painful to watch. I guess I just really love Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf.

@janeiwasduncan8463

3 жыл бұрын

Hat check girl??? Young people would question that job...This was in the era where a gentleman wore hats..ladies wore hats and gloves but did not check them like men did...

@keithjohnson5365

2 жыл бұрын

@@janeiwasduncan8463 I thought parading her around and some of the questions such as "services" or "work more with men than women" was a little creepy.

@buckroo8424

2 жыл бұрын

@@keithjohnson5365 it a different time and era. You’re thinking like someone today in the 21st Century. I lived overseas 20 years and come back to America and I don’t recognize the changes for the worst. This show ran for 17 years. After this show came Arlene Frances and Bennett Cerf. This show to me did bring changes to make it more entertaining and still had the best panel for years! All the future panel with several famous panelists brought much more than television today in my opinion!

@teresaavizienis8491

Жыл бұрын

@@buckroo8424 I totally agree. You cannot judge this show by today's standards. This episode may had had some rough spots, but they kept improving with every episode. It became one of the classiest shows on television. The concept was wonderful. It never had the scandals of the big-money game shows. Also, people were proud of the work they did. It evolved from a hidden diamond in the rough to a brilliant shining diamond. It was more intelligent and more civilized than most of the shows made today, especially in the realm of game shows.

It's interesting how casual they are smoking on the show. Nobody is even batting and eyelash.

Not the best episode glad they improved. Sound quality not good.

Another comment. Notice how everyone is so much more casual and uninhibited, that is to say natural in their demeanor. Can we rewind our country to 1950? Really. Everyone is so uptight today - 2021.

How about colourizing them?

I really enjoy watching this show, but my word is this episode so different from what it would become. John’s smoking during the show, the camera work is dreadful, and it’s just so unpolished. Thank goodness it wasn’t axed after one episode.

The way they had the contestants parade in front of the panel for examination was extremely creepy.

@janeiwasduncan8463

3 жыл бұрын

Different time...but they did stop that practice as well as the free guesses...

@MikeMc442

2 жыл бұрын

​@@janeiwasduncan8463 The "perp walk" and free guesses lasted for three or four years.

@flyingchimp12

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a good thing they got rid of it but the free guesses was fun

@nolancain8792

2 жыл бұрын

Arlene was the one that technically got the walk taken out.

@jamesgee9738

2 ай бұрын

You're a downer

The sexism in this piece is very startling.

This is very early television. It's interesting to find that a lot of this show's vaunted decorum wasn't original. Neither Daly nor the men on the panel stand up for female guests; Daly smokes without asking his female guest for permission to smoke. On the other hand, there was no wolf-whistling for the (attractive, young) female guest (an unpleasant feature of later seasons). Also (no disrespect to her), they found a way to make Dorothy Kilgallen look considerably better in later episodes.

We must have that at that time people were still wearing 1940s clothes styles just look at the guys suits

amazing the show even made it with this mismanaged disaster. even to the end of the run they could never get daly to shut up with his long disruptive speeches every question.

@georgecherucheril9947

3 ай бұрын

Daly was a wonderful host. I likes his manner and style of speaking. He was not long winded but effective.

Sheesh, so stilted and ponderous compared with what would come. 'Expert' guys instead of entertainers, engaged on the mistaken premiss that they would be better at profiling the guests and intuiting their jobs. In fact all it takes is native shrewdness, and the wit and geniality contributed by those who please crowds for a living would be the magic extra ingredient. Louis Untermeyer guessed the first contestant right and gets the most laughs, but G and T soon concluded that he could not sparkle the way another literary big shot, Bennett Cerf, could. Poor Louis was so downcast by his dismissal that he hardly left his NYC apartment for a time, fearing that people would mock him in the street. Above all, this tryout shows how much WML needed the warmth and humor of Arlene Francis to complement Dorothy's steely forensic air.

@georgecherucheril9947

3 ай бұрын

Louis was let go because of his ties and sympathies with communist organizations. He was not let go for performance. He would have been fine continuing on the panel with Dorothy, Arlene and Herb Block.

Smoking on live TV! I guess they didn't do any dry runs before hand. Dorothy sniffs out the DVM!

It was a from different time, but those three male panelists come across as dirty old men, oggling contestant Pat Finch.

Old men with corny jokes.... show needed a transfusion which it did..

Geeeze! That panel seems to consist of four perverts! Creepy!

They tried to pass off the panel as a bunch of intelligent people lol

Thank god for #MeToo!

Dorothy appears to be wearing little or no makeup! And women's hairstyles were not all that flattering at that time.

Not much money.

@nolancain8792

2 жыл бұрын

Almost $600 now.

these men's line of questioning was disgusting.

This is so awkward at the start. I can’t stand watching it. But these are the early days days of TV. They had to work out what worked or not. It’s hardly the Price is Right with Bob Barker. This is so dull.

These folks are duds

I’m surprised this program was allowed to continue. This first show was the worst I’ve ever seen, even considering it was at the beginning of TV.