It seems no one enjoyed Art Carney's impersonation more than Mr. Daly himself! Now THAT'S a class act!

Art Carney is wonderful - I didn't know he was SO talented!

When Joan walked onto that set, she strutted in like a STAR.

Aired the day after I was born = such exciting trivia for y'all - lol

Never thought Joan was a looker, but at that age WOW! Can anyone imagine jumping on sticks in mud for any distance? Art did the best John Daly imitation I've seen. Carney was a man about town, married three times to two women: Jean Myers, from 1940 to 1965, and again from 1980 until his death in 2003, and to Barbara Isaac from December 21, 1966 until 1977.

For Batman fans, we get the Siren and the Archer on the same program! :)

Mr Hansburg's pogo stick origin story seemed fanciful to me, so I looked it up. Wikipedia quotes Hansburg's story but quotes Hansburg as the source. More than likely, the name came from the first 2 letters of the names Pohlig and Gottschall, two Germans who patented a pogo stick in Germany in 1920. The pogo stick is actually older than Mr Hansburg, but his contribution was that he patented the first 2-handle pogo stick.

martin gabel was a highly intelligent fellow!...as well as arlene francis' husband!

If I'm not mistaken a big part of the joke was that Art Carney had done a spoof of "What's my line" just two days earlier on his own show ! It's ALSO here on KZfaq

Art Carney was so awesome

When Bennett welcomed Joan Collins and said that the panel was getting prettier every week, at 1:41, Martin Gable clearly didn’t like the comment, since it was his wife Arlene Francis who was missing. I wonder what Martin said to Bennett after the show.

Art Carney is my favorite. Just love him.

History of the pogo! Interesting.

For me, the funniest mystery guest segment ever!!!!

Thanks to the archivist for posting these wonderful, warm and intelligent episodes. This is the day I was born! I was born in the evening but I'm fairly sure they weren't watching WML. According to family fiction, they were watching Bonanza when Mom went into labor. According to Wikipedia, Bonanza was on Saturday nights and I was born on a Sunday. So much for family fiction.

Recently got my European passport renewed... took 6 weeks

The Carney segment is especially funny after one watches the spoof from his special which had aired two days previously. Note how Daly cracks up. :kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZuJrKSb19-lpGw.html

Bennett's reaction at 21:26 - Epic :)

What a Hoot!! I miss these guys....**sigh**...

There is a tendency in human nature to be overconfident in one's abilities. Martin asks the MG the first question, and based on the answer, he says at 17:35, "I know who it is already." Then he asks in later rounds whether the MG was on TV earlier that night, to which the answer was no, and whether he had appeared with his wife, to which the answer was also no. It is a fair conclusion that he did not know who the MG was, already, or even later on.

Wonder if there was any hell to pay from Kilgallen, Gabel or Francis after Bennett Cerf made the remark about Joan Collins how " the place is getting prettier every week "

You can tell daily really liked it when art Carney was on the show.

Was there ever a better sidekick than Carney's Ed Norton to Gleason's Ralph Kramden? Carney was so good, Gleason credited him with 90% of the success of "The Honeymooners". He was much more than a second banana. And to me, Joan Collins will always be remembered most as Edith Keeler from "Star Trek" (TOS). It was a meaty and unglamorous role, and one which gives me much pause for thought about idealism versus pragmatism and unintended consequences.

Francis Knight improved service by reducing the time to get a passport from 2-3 weeks to a few days. Can she take the job again? 60 years later one is lucky to get one in a month!

I’m dying here! 😂 watching Mr. Carney pull a John Daly on the Moderator!

Great impression

Well this was actually a couple of weeks before my 1st birthday!

Even Joan Collins looked uncomfortable when she saw Gabel's reaction to Cerf's clumsy and tasteless comment about the panel getting "prettier every week."

I love how when every contestant tries to say explain where they're from, he or she explains another place that the panel (or Bennett in this case) has never heard of.

I wish I could "like" this every time I watch it,

I went mid video to go see what art was talking about and it was worth it! So thanks for posting that as well ❤ I didn't see when I went to go look for it, the cast of what's my line on I've got a secret tho 😢

Art is a class act..

Check out Carney on the Twilight Zone. Great Christmas Episode.

When the rest of the nonsense gets annoying I watch and old What's My Line episode to calm and soothe my frazzled nerves!

Martin makes the insightful comment that Art Carney had a terrific agent in Bill McCaffery. In 1959 Art Carney had made no movies and only one Broadway performance. Later he played Felix Unger in the original "The Odd Couple" on Broadway. Carney's career then took a dive, largely due to his alcoholism, but he stayed with McCaffery, who in the 1970's argued with Carney that he, although 54, should make his film debut as a 72 year old man in "Harry and Tonto." Carney ultimately was persuaded and won the Best Actor Oscar, defeating Albert Finney, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, and Al Pacino. That opened a new line for Carney in later middle age in film.

Art Carney was incredibly talented.

Ironically, applying for a new passport is something on my short list of things to do. I haven't had one in about 30 years.

Wow... Ms. Collins - quite the stunner.

*_Director of the United States Passport Office_* *_Inventor and Manufacturer of Pogo Sticks_* The first contestant looked similar to the character actress Amzie Strickland.

And now we are back to 6-8 weeks to get a passport

That lech Bennet Cerf undoubtedly LOVED sitting next to Joan Collins.

How cool it would have been to just hang out with Art Carney in a living room somewhere for a few hours!

WOW, Martin Gabel was pissed at Bennett. He wouldn't e even bid Joan Collins good night after what Bennett said in the opening greetings about the panel.

I love the pogo stick origin story. Very cool

Took 6 weeks to get mine

Art had 4 appearances as the Mystery Guest; John really must have liked him.

Bennett's intro was a mean sideways swipe at Arlene (and Dorothy). He does not seem to even realize it. For a smart guy, he could be a dolt sometimes.

Honestly. I Would (Definitely) Call This Fellow "STELLAR"

Joan Collins was really beautiful! She's the great Edith Keeler 🖖

While every single person from this show is now dead, those Mix Masters are still out there working just fine.

art carney always gave them trouble lol...not the first time huh

Passports use to take a couple of days!? Why did we go back to weeks again?

Mr. Art Carney was a real man! There was something in him that strikes a chord with me. I remember during one academy award show, Lucile Ball was having trouble reading the award cards and asked “would one of you boys come up and help me with this? I'm not joking.”. Both Mr. Art Carney, and Milton Burl, started up the stage. Burl reached Miss Ball first, and as Mr. Carney was turning to leave, Burl snarled at him and yelled “get off the stage” as if Mr. Carney was some bum from the audience. Mr. Carney spun around and was heading toward Burl, but then I guess he thought better of it and went back to his seat. I’m not sure, but Miss Ball may have said something like “now, boys don’t fight”, in a motherly tone. (Too bad Mr. Carney didn’t rip Burl’s fucking head off.) Those few seconds of the show revealed who these people really were. Mr. Carney was a real flesh and blood and sweat and tears man.

Interesting story about the pogo stick

In what might be termed an “office”?

Art Carney, like Red Skelton, was a much lauded comedian who never once excited even an ounce of amusement in me. I'm Australian so perhaps it's a cultural thing.

You gotta love the chutzpah of Bennett Cerf: "This panel may not be very smart but it's getting prettier every day!"

I'm sure that was costume jewelry these ladies had on. Joan had on fake it look liked.

Bennett Cerf often showed himself to not be a very nice person. I heard one interview where he insinuated that the doctor who invented Stopette was a phony and another interview where he referred to Dorothy’s column as “disgusting.” To state that the panel wasn’t smart but got prettier in Arlene’s absence seems pretty typical of his behavior.

Geeze talk about foot and mouth disease. And then Mr Gable in a Soto voice says to Dorothy, "I don't know about that." And Dorthy giggles. Who knew that Joan Collins was such a good looking woman in her day.

Boy Bennett kind of knocked Arlene over Joan Collins who was certainty beautiful.

Bennett often dined on shoe leather while on the show. UGH!

It seems that Art Carney had a bad right ear.

Was Art Carney born looking old?

To add surely they could had found a better panel member than B. S. !

bennett does put his foot in his mouth on more than one occasion, but this time seemed more idiotic than most. his constant remarks about women's looks does get to be rather annoying after a while, but then again, it is probably not fair to view his sexism through today's eye.

Exactly WHY was Bennet an idiot in the introductions? I didn't hear him say ANYTHING wrong! At least 3 people on here said how he was tired of his cracks about women (or things of that nature). Since when is it a crime to say the panel was getting prettier?!

Bennett Cerf is my least favorite of the long-time What's My Line panelists. How tactless of him to rave about Ms. Collins' looks in the manner that he did, with Martin Gabel nearby. Martin mutters something to Dorothy, don't know what. Joan Collins was indeed quite beautiful...too bad in recent years she has become something of a parody of her former self, dangerously veering into Mae West/Sextette territory.

Wow b.s. Has a temper.

Not really a strut More a prance.