My third day in and yes, it's official; I'm addicted. I even fell asleep to these playing last night on my tablet. I love to hear the banter, the clever usage of the language which outside a university English department is almost lost, not to mention the visual treat of watching how exquisitely everyone dressed, panelists and contestants alike. Thanks again for this wonderful glimpse back into another time in our culture.

Sad to note that The first guest jockey Thomas “Tommy” Lee died on Aug. 3, 2016. He stopped riding in 1977 after a serious accident, but had run up an impressive record. In Maryland he went on to become the top rider in the state in 1964 with some 169 victories.

The more I see these wonderful episodes, the more fascinating I find them, everyone is so gracious. The panel are thoughtful, beautifully attired, delightfully spoken, cultured, witty and fun. All ably marshalled by John Charles Daly, enough said, simply brilliant.

Mr. Lee went on to be a jockey for about 20 years, accumulating over 1500 wins, and won the Maryland jockey championship in 1964. Retired in 1977 due to injury, became the Clerk of Scales for Maryland. (Which is basically making sure the weights for horse and jockey are reasonable and also fair.) I lose track of him at that point, but he doesn't seem to be dead.

I don't care if Dorothy and Arlene are wearing sack dresses, gunny sacks, flour sacks, or Saks Fifth Avenue; they're charming whatever they've got on!

I love how the gentlemen stand when a female contestant walks by.

"Well, that's what fish conservation is, Dorothy."

This panel is really smart and the two ladies always look so pretty

Dorothy is so cute when she giggles.

Good God, Hope Lange was gorgeous. I watched her on tv on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

Martin Gabel is just so cool.. really like that guy's humor

Anyone else notice how diverse their contestants were, long before it became fashionable?

Watching these videos helps me relax.

I just looked at the clock and realized I've been watching these reruns for 4+ hours ... I LUV them, thanks !! 😁👍🏻

Don and Hope were acting like little kids playing this game. It was so endearing to watch them together.

I loved John Daly's sneaky little "that's a lotta dam steps."

Hope Lange... The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. I thought that was a great T.V. show.

I heart Martin : ) His twirl in the introductions was simply adorable. And Dorothy! My, she looked so confident and sassy when she walked out there with her chin right up. I'm getting to like her more and more, although very sadly I think some of the fun aspects of her personality are shining through perhaps due to her growing reliance on alcohol. At any rate the sack dress is indeed an odd look but I suppose it did provide a bit of relief from those oft-mentioned corsets and girdles. If good ol' Bennett had to wear mostly wiggle dresses and all the accompanying pieces of "apparatus" I'd bet he would gladly slip into a formal chemise! And what a picture THAT would be...

Hilda the fish counter was having the time of her life. She was even making John Daly a little giggly. Fun segment.

Arlene Francis was so cute and hilariously funny with her remarks in this episode...especially "Do you separate the bad fish from the well fish?"

I thought Dorothy looked quite good in her dress.

Don Murray was at his best in "Bus Stop" with Marilyn Monroe.

Don Murray and Hope Lange looked great together.

Looking back from 2022, I think the ladies look fantastic in those chemise outfits.

I love it when the mystery guests have recently won or were nominated for Academy Awards like Don Murray, Hope Lange, Myoshi Umeki etc

I heard a local radio announcer mention that Don Murray turned 93, just a few days ago. And just today, I heard it said that it was sixty years (to the day) Marilyn Monroe passed on in 1962. Mr. Murray must be among the very last of Marilyn's co-stars ("Bus Stop") still with us. A very fine actor - good for him!

Hope Lange was a national treasure..unpretentiously stunning and incomparably vivacious.

Cute Arlene & Martin moments alert: Cute moment #1: Martin's twirl upon entrance. (1:20) Cute moment #2: The wordless communication between husband and wife: Martin merely needs to nod and Arlene knows it has something to do with horse racing. Because of that, the first challenger's occupation is quickly guessed. (5:29) Cute moment #3: Arlene saying that the first challenger could probably run faster than her horse, Cuthbert. (6:13) Cute moment #4: Arlene quipping that the second challenger teaches fish how to swim. (14:37)

Sooo cute!! Love the beginning!!! Wish it was in color. Love to see the dresses.

Arlene Francis had the most beautiful shoulders. Even on Match Game appearances in the mid-70s, she wore dresses that displayed them well. Can't say much for the bubble dress, though!

One of my favorite shows! Those dresses are pretty snappy!

Thank you so much, for posting What's My Line, far too young to have watched it as a kid, bet my parents loved it.Classy with a capital C..well done.

How cute was Martin's pirouette.

"SALMON AND SHUSTER !" Hahahahahaha . . . . I really laughed at that one !

What a great show! Those dresses!

I remember Don Murray in "Knot's Landing". He is still alive and kicking in his 90s.

Great line:"Back to your sack!"

Loved my fellow Oregonian the fish counter, she was having a blast. Thought the Don and Hope section was a little awkward. But it was fun to see John having so much fun.

July 31, 2019 DonMurray is still alive on his birthday .

This episode's women's fashions are featured at Sacks Fifth Avenue!

Something I hadn't noted, or at least remembered, from previous viewings: this episode is a bit off-kilter. I don't mean the goofiness of much of the banter, which is notable and enjoyable. What I mean is technical: the kinescope camera was not properly aimed at the studio video monitor. The film frame shows the lower edge of the video image, and it's not level! There's a tapering black bar at the bottom of the film frame, which is the dark part of the face of the picture tube of the monitor that's not being "lit" by the electron gun. The kind of CRT used in this process had a round, flat face (shaped like an Erlenmeyer flask in chemistry, turned on its side) and the image was scanned onto a rectangle entirely within the circle (usually), with no frame as would be present in a home TV set. I say usually because sometimes these kinescope images have dark corners, indicating that the video image was a big enough rectangle that the corners didn't fit within the round face of the CRT. But since viewers at the time were watching on sets with rounded glass CRT screens too, they didn't see those dark corners. Today we watch on computer monitors or flat screen TV sets with full rectangle images and can see these artifacts of mid-century technology. I wonder if today's youth wonders why printed TV listings still sometimes use those channel-number symbols with a white numeral in a black rectangle with rounded left and right edges? Those were designed when TV screens were shaped like that.

thank YOU! What fun!

I guess we love these people ? You can't replace them.

Dorothy and Arlene are wearing updated copies of the dresses that Lucy and Ethel wore in I Love Lucy two years earlier. The episode where the girls want Paris gowns and the boys have them made out of potato sacks.

A Portland (OR) connection on this episode. In addition to the fish counter (2nd challenger), Miss Lange attended Reed College which is located in that city.

Ms Francis and Ms. Kilgallen did a models thrull at their introductions at the beginning ! I guess that is what models did a lot at those 1958 fashion shows .

One of the best episodes!

Just wanted to say thank you for posting these. I've become hopelessly addicted. lol Like others here, I enjoy the 'glimpse' back in time. I'm fairly well versed in history and such, but this sort of gives us a 'live' view that the old movies and such can't. This was before my time as well. I'm quite well versed in old movies and such - but I don't reconize *MOST* of the mystery guests featured on this show. So its an education as well. I also love the way they play with the English language. :) And, frankly, in this episode. .I SERIOUSLY have to agree with Bennett about those dresses. *coughs* I thought he was complaining - in earlier episodes - about the changing fashion. . .women wearing pants or some such thing. But when Dorothy and Arlene came out wearing. . .*coughs* I think his complaints are quite legit. lol

Been binging for two weeks. What gracious nice people. Fall asleep with them every night. Although I like them all, Bennet Cerf is my favorite. In love with Arlene.

When I go up, I want to count fish for a living! LOL Love this episode. : )

"Do you separate the sick fish from the well wish?" lmaoo. No wonder Mr. Daly laughed so hard.

Don Murray is STILL ALIVE! As of 2/20/2020 he is 90 years old.

“Back in your sack”!! I had to watch this one twice too many funny moments

Don Murray is still with us.

Two Great souls and Beloved Actors!

Building my vocabulary: 'Life gets more parlous every day,' says John at 2:51. Parlous, meaning full of danger or uncertainty; perilous. (I'd seen it used, just never had occasion to need the actual definition.)

You can't beat those dress designs.

Extremely handsome Don Murray is still alive(93)!

The fish-counter guest episode was one of the best ... !

Funny into with the SACKS on. I like Martin's twirl.

Don Murray-Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nomination for BUS STOP in 1957, Hope Lange for Best Supporting Actress Nomination for PEYTON PLACE in 1958 that year.

Thank you so much for this game show featuring one of my favorites Hope Lange and her husband Don Murray whom I liked in a lot of films and television shows. 😃

Bennett: "I rest my case." THEN SIT DOWN, BENNETT! LOL.

What a job, counting fish!

Hope Lange was terrific in that great so-called women picture;THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. She is even more cute here than she was in that movie. She died rather young darn it.

Beautiful couple

Second contestant nearly as giggly and as fun as that Norwegian lady barber from Boston. Fun and educational as well. I've seen The Dalles Dam and I would not want to be a fish navigating the steps. I would like to think the fish know!

So those are the dresses Bennett's been harping on about for the last few weeks? I actually don't think they're that bad. Dorothy looked really good.

Love this program!

What a great looking couple!

R.I.P & LONG LIVE DON MURRAY 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Don Murray was an best supporting oscar nominee for BUS STOP (1956) & Hope Lange was an best supporting actress oscar nominee for PEYTON PLACE (1957)-The 1958 oscars that year. :)

Interesting that Martin Gabel plugs Irwin Shaw during the mystery guest sequence. In 1963, Gabel starred in "Children at their Games" a play written by Shaw that flopped mightily.

I think I have been trimmed this before but Dorothy must have been the cutest baby ever

Technically YES, the fish she counts ARE "domestic." But they are not "domesticated." So she was right and they scored this wrong.

Totally addicted to this show.

I'm surprised Bennett didn't ask the first contestant if he ran a laundry or restaurant. LOL. Good 'ol Mr. Cerf.

AS of this writing, Don Murray is still with us.

I kinda like Dorothy's dress. She pulled it off. Arlenes's would have been ok without the superman cape and stiff material.

What a delightful episode!

"As a picturesque description of its mode of locomotion that would not be untoward." Whoa! 🤭

Hope Lange is so beautiful here. They would be divorced only three years from then. Don Murray is still alive.🤓

Adore these people. Sad they are all long gone.

So Martin does the pirouette himself. Bravo!

Love Arlene and Dorothy

I never knew Hope Lange was a southpaw!

Bennett, founder of Random House, makes a quip about a competitor, Simon &Schuster, calling them Salmon & Shuster. Now, 60+ years later, Random House is acquiring Simon & Schuster, made possible by relaxed anti-trust regulation

many of the women contestants wear beautiful necklaces on this program

The fish counter seemed to have a great time.

John Daly was great & put up with alot, from the panel 😱😱😱

A chemise is an undergarment used by women during the late 18th and early 19th century, under their full length dress. I guess it became a dress in the 1950 .

Love these people…so witty and personable

Don Murray a treat to the eye

Back to your sack! 22:24 Lolololol gotta love Arlene.

One fish two fish red fish blue fish 😂❤ Those dresses were beautiful

I guess these dresses were so mocked back then but I think they look beautiful lol

Don Murray and Hope Lange look so in love here. Sad that they divorced in 1961.

Just so funny that they (the women) were so inspirational in their fashion 🥰

To the best of my knowledge I'm on my third time I only watched the versions that feature Dorothy this is the only time that Bennett Cerf says John Daly .

RIP Don Murray...