Wow! I shall look forward to seeing the Arlene Francis episode. Mrs. G. Goes to College just started being aired on the Talking Pictures Channel here in the UK. The last episode I watched had The Kingston Trio who sang Tom Dooley....later turned into a great film starring a very young Michael Landon! 😊👍

@@anselmgolden8286 I remember that movie well (especially due to the song).

Interesting. Thanks for the fun fact!

Just started watching Mrs G. Goes to College, here in the UK, on the Talking Pictures Channel. What an adorable lady. 😊💕💕💕💕

Actually BOAC was the first airline to introduce jets into passenger revenue service, introducing use of the de Havilland Comet in 1952. But the need for good publicity for BOAC couldn't have been much greater than in May 1954. The previous month, all of the Comets had been grounded. They had this rather dreadful propensity to crash. Apparently the frequent pressurization/depressurization cycles caused the thin aluminum alloy skin of the aircraft to develop cracks. I also remember one of my science teachers telling the class that the British were ahead of us Yanks in the development of jet aircraft. But we caught up and passed them because they used square windows instead of the round ones we used. It was part of his lesson on how stresses tend to gather at corners of a flat surface. And indeed, that was where the cracks in the skin began: at the corners of the windows. When Boeing flew its 367-80 (707 prototype) for the first time in 1954, the U.S. took the lead. This aircraft introduced the swept wing design to commercial aviation (Comets used straight wing design). Even so, it took 4 more years before the first 707's were put into service (by Pan Am) as airlines were leery of jets and Douglas was the first manufacturer they looked to for adding to or upgrading their fleet. Douglas's first passenger jet, the DC-8, also was put into revenue service for the first time in 1958 (Pan Am bought both 707's and DC-8's. It was unheard of at the time for an airline to buy competing aircraft from competitors simultaneously. I guess they figured that if one was a lemon, they's still have a jet fleet. And yes, the transcontinental flights came into Idlewild, with flight paths that often went directly over the house I grew up in until age 8. We could not only hear them, when a plane went overhead and we were watching TV, it would interfere with the picture Those were the days of adjusting the "rabbit ears" antenna on top of our Dumont television set.

Didn’t we all learn about flying in from Miami Beach BOAC from the Beatles?

Will always remember Williams' supporting role in the classic Twilight Zone episode, "Going My Way."

Adam Berg was born in 1922, and Gertrude Berg was born in 1899. He couldn't have been her grandson.

No relation between Gertrude and Adam Williams. The latter was married to Carole Berg, but I could find no connection between Carole and Gertrude.

Sorry, Wikipedia listed him as her grandson. He did though change his name from Goldberg to Williams. He also won the coveted Navy Cross as a fighter pilot in WW2. Quite an accomplishment.. Maurice HBank

You must be referring to the CBS TV series, "Mama", which was based around 1900, and was a very popular TV series during the early-1950s. Unfortunately, videotape was not invented until 1956, and there are not a lot of kinescopes of that show that exist.

@@LaptopLarry330 Yes. The movie it was based on was called "I remember Mama. Here are some You-Tube links to 'Mama': kzfaq.info?search_query=Mama+Peggy+wood Also: both 'Mama' and 'The Goldbergs' were on from 1949-1957!

I dismember mama

@What's My Line? - Just a bit insulting for such a lady and accomplished artist that the people who made up the name plates gave her the name of one of her many characters and did not use her name on the sign. They have spelled other people's names incorrectly at times, but this is a character name that would be generally shown on camera for the audience live and at home to see in event they did not know her well-known TV role. Though, I dare say everyone knew her Molly Goldberg.

@@philippapay4352 It is a tad bit insulting that you did not equally assume, that as an independent and accomplished woman, as she was, she did not sanction/suggest the "name plate" herself. Additionally, Steve Allen, blindfolded at the time, used the name "Molly Goldberg" to identify the name of the mystery guest. He could have been insulting her (with or without intent), he could have not know her actual name and used the character she played/created name or he could have used this name because she had created a character that had become so beloved that people used the charters name interchangeably with her actual name. Of course, if she felt insulted, Ms. Berg had every opportunity to correct the error and/or not return (she did).

@@nonenone3427 I wish that were the case. Sad to say, it was personnel of the show who made these embarrassing mistakes even with the spelling of many celebrities names. I think they misspelled Johnnie Ray, as Johnny, and Judy Holliday, as Holiday, Lilly Dache, as Lily, Ann Sothern, as Southern, among several others. Even Daly once removed a mistaken name plate, so he clearly did not proofread them in advance.

@@philippapay4352 No need to wish. Former or future spelling errors of other celebrities' names can not imply that Ms. Berg did not sanction/enjoy or even request the use of her character's name. Before assuming insulting behavior on behalf of a long dead performer/artist or ascribing insulting behavior to a long dead staff member, you may want to read about Ms. Berg (in the context of the actual time period and specific event) who routinely enjoyed signing BOTH her name and the name of "Molly Goldberg" when fans requested her autograph. This has been know and written about since 1956 when Mr. M. Freedman profiled her for a Judaism culture article. Far from being insulting, the association of Ms. Berg name and her character's name, was presented as a common and kind gesture reflective of the love of the public for both Ms. Berg and the character she created. Mr. Daly's use of Ms. Berg's name and the panelist use of her character's name is reflective of this. I can not quite apply a negative connotation to a routine practice that Ms. Berg, herself, was willing to sanction by affixing her signature to.

@@nonenone3427 I know that many celebrities are asked by fans to write their character's name, rather than their own. I do not personally know if Miss Berg did that because she was asked to do so by fans or just did it on her own. Because she was an accomplished theater actress of long decades' standing, I would think not, but could be wrong. But, since I was alive and watching these shows in real time back in the day and knew of Miss Berg's work because I, too, went into theater, I am doubtful. Nonetheless, thank you for the reference to the writer who noted this was common in her autographs. I will look it up in the spring because I may learn more. I think the show was sloppy at times, but I am not maligning anyone in particular who made an unfortunate mistake on a job. However, for a performer their name is their brand and it is a problem to be misnamed or misspelled on a placard of that nature. The entire point of their being the MG was advertising for their current play, movie, book, TV special, series, and so on. I will refer back to your note to look up the name when I am ready to read further on this topic.

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juliansinger Thank you, the link works great for me

I thought it was CPAP.

​@@mehboobkm2018 chin strap to keep your mouth closed😅

Good god almighty.

Those are cool stats!

Gertrude Berg was so closely identified with the character, which she also created and wrote the scripts for the programs, it was difficult for the public to know her as anything else at this time. She had been playing the character, first on radio, pretty much non-stop since Nov. 1929, almost 25 years when this show aired.

John had a toupee, Cerf had hair dye😊

Well I was just wondering!

True, the voters are (almost) all in one state, but potential donors are in many states

Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years😊

Narvelan Coleman Some folks filled me on this in the Facebook group-- there's no connection to the original "The Goldbergs". I was told that the current series has that name because it's the name of the guy who created the series, and it's based on his family.

I find it surprising that the creators of the current day show were even allowed to use that title. The only thing I can figure is that Gertrude Berg's descendants did not renew the copyrights on her works.

She was the third of his five wives; marriage lasted five years.

Get used to it if you continue to watch WML! It ends up being somewhat educational!

Over 90 years ago😊

Sleep apnea was first mentioned in medical literature in 1965, although the condition was recognized long before the medical causes were known.3 In the 1950s and 1960s, researchers took a deeper look at sleep apnea, eventually discovering that the problem was actually due to a person not breathing properly during sleep. Sleep apnea research really intensified in the 1970s, with dogs being the initial test subjects for proposed treatments.

@@marciadiehl5733 Doesn't being overweight increase the chance of experiencing sleep apnea ?

@@Baskerville22 I don't know. I know a person who isn't overweight who has sleep apnea. It may be more prevalent in obese persons, but I don't think it is the rule completely.

You do know this was 70 years ago don't you@@marciadiehl5733

+corner moose No, she was married to Skitch Henderson, one-time band leader for Johnny Carson.

wchumphries I must have been confused by the beard. That and the similarity of the names.

That's what I thought. Easy enough mistake to make.

She was married to Skitch Henderson at one point, but he got into trouble w/some underage girls & that was that.

Dorothy played the game to win. This quite incidentally showed off how smart (and informed) she was. It was up to John to feel sorry for the contestant and flip the cards.

Bennett Cerf and Martin Gabel both did this multiple times, but no one criticizes them. It left time to actually talk with the MG.

Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊

Because married or unmarried, a gentleman is addressed with the honorific of “Mr.” For the ladies, it is the difference between “Mrs.” And “”Miss”. Very civilized.

John Daly had a complicated and very noticeable comb-over going on to try to conceal his male pattern baldness. I always notice it in every episode, though I like him so much I'm willing to dismiss any disapproval of it on my part. I think he's so likeable as the moderator of WML that his rather outrageous comb-over isn't so bad, all things considered.

Seems the piece from front to back could be a toupée...?

Aaron Sakulich Severity? It could stop a bullet!

I just noticed it really for the first time in this episode

The first thing I noticed on the first episode I ever watched was John's part in his hair that seemed to defy gravity! I thought, "Why in the world would anyone part his hair to such an extreme far left??" Somehow, it never occurred to me that he was covering a bald spot!

I think he said, "...so much the quicker."

I notice at times Daly wasn't paying attention 😅

They did this to get clues of what type of work a person did. Majority of jobs 70 years ago were manual physical work😊

Gertrude Berg, and most of the panel (with the exception of Faye Emerson) started out their careers in the 1920s and early-1930s. They were all part of the New York "Establishment" during that era, and achieving and retaining wealth and status was an important thing for people to do at that time, because competition for dominance in business and entertainment and media in the New York City market, the largest market in America, was very fierce. And like today in social media on the Internet, rumors and innuendo was spread like wildfire in newspapers and magazines and radio and early-TV programs. It was very important for celebrities and socialites and businesspeople to "control the narrative", to make sure that people received the messages that they wanted the general public to hear and see.

Gertrude Berg was celebrating her 25th anniversary in the entertainment industry. The TV ratings for her TV show, "The Goldbergs", were falling, and there may have been rumors in the entertainment press that Berg was near bankruptcy. Gertrude Berg may have worn this formal dress and fur coat to let the public know that this was not the case.