I absolutely agree with everything you have written here

Finally - someone who GETS it.

one of the funniest episodes in this series is when Arlene shows up in hot pants and Burt Reynolds is the mystery guest.

​@@ccbsnyc But the best episodes of 'What's My Line?' are truly from the CBS broadcast era (October 1950-October 1967), when the panelists (columnist-reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, comedians Fred and Steve Allen, actress-broadcaster Arlene Francis and publisher Bennett Cerf), along with host and news journalist John Charles Daly were formally attired as if attending an elegant cocktail party, and the Mystery Guests included such persons as actress-comedienne Gracie Allen, actor-comedian-director Woody Allen, actress-singer Julie Andrews, musician Louis Armstrong, actor and TV pioneer Desi Arnaz, actor-dancer-singer Fred Astaire, actress Lauren Bacall, actress and TV pioneer Lucille Ball, film and stage actress Tallulah Bankhead, actor-comedian Jack Benny, actress-comedienne Carol Burnett, actor-comedian George Burns, singer Nat King Cole, actor Gary Cooper, actor-playwright Noel Coward, actress Joan Crawford, journalist and news anchor Walter Cronkite, artist Salvador Dali, actress Bette Davis, New York Yankees batting champs and center fielders Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, cartoonist-entrepreneur-producer Walt Disney, U.S. Supreme Court Justices William O. Douglas and Earl Warren, composer-musician Duke Ellington, The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein, actor Henry Fonda, entertainer Judy Garland, actress Greer Garson, actor-comedian Jackie Gleason, actor Andy Griffith, film director Alfred Hitchcock, actor-comedian Bob Hope, actor Tab Hunter, actor-singer Danny Kaye, actress-singer Eartha Kitt, actor-broadcaster-entrepreneur Art Linkletter, actress-singer Julie London, actress Myrna Loy, actor Fred MacMurray, New York and San Francisco Giant batting champ Willy Mays, Broadway and film actress Ethel Merman, actress-singer Liza Minnelli, broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, radio & TV legends actor-musician Ozzie Nelson and actress-singer Harriet Nelson, actor and rock and roll singer Ricky Nelson, actress Julie Newmar, actress Geraldine Page, Boston Red Sox fielder Jimmy Piersall and batting champ Ted Williams, actor Tony Randall, then-actor and future United States President Ronald Reagan, Broadway composers-producers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, former U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, actor-singer Frank Sinatra, actor-comedian Red Skelton, actor Jimmy Stewart, actress-singer Barbra Streisand, legendary Motown trio The Supremes, actor John Wayne, actress-broadcaster Betty White, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, actresses Jane Wyatt and Jane Wyman and actor Robert Young, among many other luminaries of those times.

It was a set-up timed to allow for the fashion show to start at the right moment.

@@ccbsnyc and Burt Reynolds kept calling her " hot pants!" Lol

Henry was an interesting character. His guest appearance on Letterman was quite strange

Henry Morgan was a longtime panelist on “I’ve Got A Secret” on CBS. But he spent most of his career with his own local radio show in New York City. He was known as “The Bad Boy Of Radio”, for some of the controversies that he generated locally in that market. Morgan wrote a biography about his radio and entertainment career that was released shortly before his death in 1994.