Me too🎩

Or when he bumped his head and broke the bulb 😂🤕

What would Thomas Edison think?! ❤

The original run was Jan 16, 1964 - Dec 27, 1970.

Joe Postove Yep Wikipedia is such a good resource. I use it too. :)

@@davidsanderson5918 It is! I (ahem) did not have that in my head. 😁

I saw Carol Channing in the original production. As great as she was, she wasn't NEARLY as great as Pearl Bailey in the all-Black production. That was marvelous!

I don’t know that it was reciprocated.

I have Skype, but most of the time only use it for audio connections, usually to someone outside of the U.S. and Canada.

It DID CATCH ON...that's skyping and video messaging ...facetime..people talk to each other and see each other every day

Not surprised

@@gailsirois7175 That was 6 years ago. I have a cell phone and Zoom now. Surprise.

Welcome to the 2020's!! (You won't like it.) 😵

Correct.

Dorothy looked really pretty in this episode.

This was about the year my sister got a 'Princess' phone - she was 15 and loved it. The 'Trimline' first came out with a dial in the receiver and later buttons. Back in 1964 you could only get phones through the phone company - that changed in the '70s.

john g I still have a couple of push button princess phones in harvest gold. They are part of my small collection of phones.

I have dial princess fone I use in my garage just to receive calls. Too cumbersome to dial! This was a fun mystery guest talking about the new technology. I would have guessed touchtone fones were 5 or so years later. They were very expensive to rent (yes, all fones were owned by the fone co and rented) for many years and most homes didn't have them until the late 70s. You had to pay extra for touch tone service. I remember my friends thinking we were rich in the 70s because we had a touch tone fone and a color TV in the den!

dial phones were still very common in the 1970s. And most pay phones were still using rotary dials well into the 1980s.

I am responding to an old thread, but I still have ( plugged in) a princess phone by the bed... still stylish and retro. Those things were built to last forever. Bought it from the phone company in 1982

Yes, I tried it at the Fair in 1964. I was eight, so was old enough to have experience using rotary dial phones, and it was clearly a great step forward in convenience. As a budding musician, too, I remember how dissonant the pairs of tones sounded -- not like any intervals in our musical scale. Later, as an engineer, I understood why the system was designed that way; it was easier for the phone company equipment to pick out the individual tones if they didn't fit into a "chord" musically speaking. And decades of familiarity with the tones has made them sound much less weird than they did to me back then.

I think the criticism is well deserved. I heard Cerf's wife had knowledge of the contestants beforehand and would feed him the "lines" on occasion. It appears to be true the way he "luckily" guesses...my admiration for him as dimmed as he is essentially cheating.

I find that seems to happen fairly often. Then I get to thinking that maybe it's because I don't want the show to end? Nevertheless, I agree that it would have been interesting.

Now THAT is cool !

@@rmelin13231 LOL of course I don't use it nowadays, but I keep it on my kitchen counter for retro decoration!

Could never stand her voice

That its abbreviation was the same as Mr didn't help...there was no need for a disguise for male marital status,a qv of Ms,therefore I kinda like it...was it used for older unmarried men too??🎩

Also because the laughter after Daly's "August heat" lasts a suspiciously long time. It was probably really cold that day.

Chris Barat Yes, as ***** pointed out in another post, below, this episode was actually taped in February. They sure did make a lot of jokes about the supposed summer heat, humidity and skin-burning sunshine. Obviously they knew at the time that this episode would be scheduled to air in August. I wonder if some people watching it on TV when it first aired believed it was live.

if you pay the balance each month, it's cheap - only an annual fee, yes?

Dick Tracy's two-way wrist TV. He used it to call his partner, Sam Ketchum.

fishhead06 We still had a 'dial' phone in the house till the early 1980s!!

One of the amusing things I've seen recently was a couple of teenage kids attempting to find out how a dial telephone worked. They were totally baffled.

Splendid!! Absolutely splendid!!

Touch TONE not stone. Unless you are in Ancient Greece.

Hence the laughter when John talks about August heat!

they're STILL push button, no?

@@washoe4827 Actually - we can voice call no - no hands

@@enriquesanchez2001 haha - got me !

For being one of the more literate people of his time and so closely associated with the Random House Dictionary, he certainly fit many of his spoken words into The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations by Charles Harrington Elster.

I likewise cringed while he (repeatedly) used the phrase. Obviously not even a second or third language for Mr. Cerf.

Bennett, being an avid reader, got many of his pronunciations by reading words, rather than by hearing them spoken.

I only started wearing a mask last week and that's only because it became mandatory, but I only wear them in the grocery store and the place I volunteer at. There is no WAY I'm gonna let the government control me by having me wear them when I'm out walking!

@@kristabrewer9363 I never wore one. Didn't buy into the total bullshit

It varies with different shows, but often there's a Sunday matinee and then they're dark until Tuesday night.

they'd still have to push the buttons...

Jason Francis And of course, nowadays, there'd be no qualification about it!

That's right. lol

I was thinking that, too! Most people only had one fone (legally) in their home because you paid for each fone you had. Some people managed to get (steal?) extra fones and use them in other rooms. I remember stories long ago of fone repairmen telling me in the "old days" they'd recall going to houses and hearing bells 'jingle' while people ran to hide their fones once they realized who was at the door!

16Lizards Back then you didn't even own your phones-- you rented them from the phone company!

What's My Line? Yep, I mentioned that in another comment above. Older fones have markings on the bottom that read "Property of "

Yes-- you called it! That's what caused the error! :) I have corrected it-- thank you for pointing it out.

What's My Line? You're welcome. :)

@@WhatsMyLine No, you haven't corrected it. That would have meant mentioning the actual name of the guest panelist. How petty of you!

DebbieFaubion Why?

Extraordinary comment.

My understanding is that she was quite proud of her heritage, although it did take her many years to speak publicly of it.

Sad?

Sarasota, Florida connected to a water sport. Not a difficult stretch, especially when the door had already been opened to his line having something to do with sports.

I think Mr. Cerf's general knowledge of U.S. geography has helped him guess correctly, or at least get the ball rolling, on many occasions. (But didn't help him with his French pronunciation).

How rumours got started: she wasn't any gigglier than often was nor was she slurring her words.

She is not. Why do you people say that?

Marky, don't bogart that joint...!

So what

As I said to another person, Bennett had a speech impediment that shouldn't be unsettling or irritating to anyone else. It must be difficult for him.

Merri, you're easily unsettled and easily irritated, yes?

Why don't you like her? Not every mystery guest is well liked by everyone.

Did you never meet her?