"What's My Line?"

i remember when i first got back in the states and my friend had satellite tv and i'd watch tvland there all the time (it wasn't offered on local cable yet) and fucking sgt. bilko and honeymooners RULED and then our local cable picked it up and it was all three's company and shit and now it's fucking full house or some shit WTF. my sister and i both are crazy about the 50s reruns on gsn (#2 in my heart only to match game; fuck weakest link and greed and kennedy bullshit fuckit fuckit fuckit) - everyone seems profoundly smarter and more polite and possessing at least one ounce of class and we were wondering 'wtf happened to us?' and then we realized of course what happened was television.

FANNIE FLAGG FUCK YEAH

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At 3am central, I believe.

And yes it is awesome.

way ahead of ya. 3:30 eastern time here. :-)

Daly has penned over sixty books exploring topics from Constitutional Law to Foreign Affairs. He began his career as a WWII correspondent in Italy covering General Patton and other military icons. Daly earned three Peabody Awards throughout his career.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS4wjBCS3q4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uix0Z1zZG00

Above are Duke Ellington and Julie London. Here is Eydie Gorme with Steve Lawrence on the panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h856YKGlr_4

Linda Darnell -speaking Italian!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cef-S3oXSuA

This show is so soothing to watch in bed trying to fall asleep.
It is a joy to watch Arlene Francis' mind work as she's narrowing in on the contestant's job.
I don't think I'd ever seen Debbie Reynolds in "real life" when she was young. What a delight she was.
Typical of my generation, I've always thought formality in speech, social manners, and dress was a bunch of malarkey but Idk maybe it's cause I'm getting older, can really see the value of it via something like this show. "I'm goin to the Big City to be on TV, better go to the tailor asap!"

everyone seems profoundly smarter and more polite and possessing at least one ounce of class and we were wondering 'wtf happened to us?' and then we realized of course what happened was television.

j blount otm

Hate to say it, but you can really notice a change in classiness when game shows moved from Manhattan to Hollywood

They got more classy or less?

Less. John Daly refused to host the syndicated version in part because of the changes wrt the formality of the show, eg they started addressing the panelists by 1st name rather than "Mr/Mrs/Ms _____".

My grandfather was on the britishes version of this way back when - he used to make bows for a living (the archery kind)

It annoys me that BUZZR only seems to show a single season of this show, over and over, when there are so many other seasons of it they could show

I watch them on Youtube

There's always the whooping and hollerin' when an attractive female contestant or mystery guest is signing in and I'm like ugh just stop (esp for the non-mystery guest "average Janes"). But then Diahann Carroll comes on as mystery guest and she is ridic gorgeous but there was no whooping nor hollerin', just polite applause and I'm ugh cmon and objectify her for her looks already you racists! haha

Addicted to this show now. Watching in chronological order and I'm up to the Steve Allen period and being reminded how funny he was; he's only in his early 30s at this time.

Love Dorothy Kilgallen inspecting the male guests' suit makers (and of course they are always wearing suits). Evidently she's assessing the guests' economic status, but she also derives some significance from whether the suit was made in the guest's hometown versus bought in New York.

Yes! Steve Allen was some kind of genius, and very charming in his youth.