Jack Lemmon was one of the greatest actors. A gift to anyone who watch him in movies.

Jack Lemmon is a brilliant gem.

20:15, Jack Lemmon staring directly at the camera after Dorothy's question simply killed me !!!

Jack Lemmon was a national treasure. Viva Daphne!

I just love Arlene to bits. In a different world/time we might be friends.

The lady who makes blankets was a real natural performer

I've been struggling, ever since the movie came out, to figure out who Johnny Depp patterned the voice of Mortdecai after. Now, I know. It was Terry-Thomas. I, always, loved Jack Lemmon's work. He was an incredibly talented actor who could play drama and comedy with equal ease and believability. Some Like it Hot was brilliant and The China Syndrome was an equal work of genius.

Back in the day when people actually took pride in and were respected as supermarket checkers. Interesting to see how much the times have changed.

Jack Lemmon's role in The Great Race with Tony Curtis was the kind of comic villain Terry-Thomas was so good at playing and did play in the later Monte Carlo or Bust, also with Curtis.

Arlene is in excellent form in this episode. Her stare at JCD was just priceless.

I'm sad to report, if you didn't know, that Terry Thomas became impoverished at the end of his life. There's an awful television news item about him, at home with his wife....I won't say any more, I wish I hadn't seen it and I strongly recommend AVOIDING it. Suffice to say he deserved way way way better in old age. For a better memory, his contribution to the movie School For Scoundrels (as a complete an utter cad) is the one to remember.

I'm watching these episodes in order, and it's neat to see many stars from "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" in WML episodes from early 1964 (and I think reaching back into 1963). Off the top of my head, I recall Ethel Merman, Edie Adams, Buddy Hackett, Jonathan Winters, and now Terry Thomas.

Just notice their use of language back in the days...I will forever be nostalgic for no other than this reason.

See the youtube of Terry Thomas in his last days, broke, in a wretched public hospital dying of Parkinson's. Fortunately the English had a huge benefit concert for Terry so he and his wife could be cared for and not worry.

Terry-Thomas made guest appearances in two star-studded films that were about finding a fortune of money. 1963's "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World", and a 1969 Italian-French comedy called "12 + 1" (aka "The 13 Chairs").

even supermarket checkers had looks and class back then

I saw almost all the movies of Jack Lemmon. Specially "Irma laDouce

"The Lone Raspberry." Almost zen in its purity of essence.

I often Google the guests on the show and it’s amazing the information I come up with. If you Google Mayme Ward plus trapeze artist, you’ll find an obituary and many pictures and stories about her life. She and her husband started the Flying Wards. She died at age 78, eight years after she appeared on this program.

The space between Terry Thomas's two front upper teeth is called a diastema. It indicates that his left and right skull did not complete fusion upon birth.

Gee Terry-Thomas was a real classy gent. Arlene called him Mr. Terry-Thomas and so did John.

Mr Thomas has a large back ground in film. Nextflix and BRT Box have many of his films. Worth seeing them from the 40s 50s and the 60s Enjoy

Baraboo, Wisconsin should have been a clue to the first contestant's circus connection. Baraboo was and is the home of the Circus World Museum, and until 1959 had been the winter quarters of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. This is the kind of, er, random geographical fact that Bennett might well have known.

He was a great actor, One could imagine himself reacting the same way in the same situation.

The 2nd sewer of horse blankets, there was one elephant blanket sewer

At first I heard the checker's name as Ruth Buzzi.

People in those days were so elegant. If I was younger & slim I would wear most of the clothes Arlene wears. I love Dorothy but Arlene's clothes are more to our time. I also think the tuxedos are also not out of fashion for our time.

Anyone who still doggedly thinks that Bennett had issues with Kilgallen check out their little bit of fun at the the two minute mark.

Some like it hot - Mr Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon is such a good actor he tricked the FBI lol

Why are all the nameplates blacked out in this episode? Anyone know?

Never be another Jack Lemon

Wow! How does one get to be "checker of the year". Get Chubby on the phone!

A fun flashback to a bygone era!

Love it!

"She drank Schlitz?" LOL.

John always calls on Bennett Cerf first if the guest is an attractive woman.

I Love Terry Thomas in the movie Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines.

i think Baraboo has a circus museum

I always find these early American TV attempts to introduce British contemporaries into their world fascinating..sometimes it works, sometimes not.

The first contestant was a blanket sewer (gee is that the right spelling..it smells a little) for elephants and horses. Seems like we been down this road before.

Did Terrt-Thomas ever do any Gilbert And Sullivan. He must have, I think his voice is perfect for it.

Gary, here is my explanation for the blacked nameplates. Actor Terry-Thomas (full name: Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens) always used only his hyphenated first name. Similar to how actress Ann-Margret Olsson has always used only her hyphenated first name.

I love the show and I have watched it from the beginning to now here in You Tube for several years. I really only have one issue, I hate it when John doesn’t let the contestant answer a basic question. He tends to cut them off quite a bit. But it was still a GREAT show

At first I thought this was one of the rare episodes in which Arlene was not wearing her diamond-heart pendant (a treasured gift from her loving husband, Martin Gabel). However, as I continued watching, I noticed a tiny sparkle at her neck. The longer I watched, the more I became certain it was the delicate chain of the pendant which Arlene apparently turned around so it would not be as noticeable. I wonder why, since most fans know she does not like to be without it?

Really, serious question. What happened to America?? Why are we so divided, doesn't this show teach us that no matter our jobs, socioeconomic situation, or anything, we are all just AMERICANS??? WTF folks, lets get our shit back together again, this in-fighting is only going to drag us deeper into the swap....

'How to Murder your Wife' begins as a satire on man/woman relationships but degenerates into a farce.

Ruth "Bussy" looks exactly like Ruth Buzzi the longtime star on Laugh In which premiered a couple years later and the age seems about right. IMDB doesn't list this appearance and Wiki doesn't mention being from Tampa (New England), but this seems too much of a coincidence!!

someone forgot to put the name plates for the panelists :(

Did that checker's arms look extraordinarily long to anyone else? Good Lord her hands hung down to her knees!

I love the way Bennett blames all his bad jokes at the beginning on Daly every week. It makes Daly look a right chump as he comes on. Ha ha.

Interesting that the name plates are not seen in this episode.

To What's My Line: For some reason there is no "reply" option to your post so I don't know if you'll see this or not. Not sure why the name plates were blacked out, but the following week there were no name plates at all so I don't know if they were phasing them out or not. I haven't watched past the following show to know if it stayed that way or not.

*_SEWS BLANKETS FOR HORSES AND ELEPHANTS_* *_SUPERMARKET CHECK-OUT GIRL (1964 CHECKER OF THE YEAR)_*

NO NAME PLATES !!!!!!

I understand the lady is contemplating moving from checkers to chess.

For some peculiar reason, your question about why the name plates are blacked out shows as having been posted three days ago and does not have a reply link associated with it, so I cannot answer you there. A poster at your favorite What's My Line? resource www.tv.com/shows/whats-my-line/episode-713-97721/ offers the theory that whoever on the production staff had the "name plaques" made up did not realize that Terry-Thomas's last name was not "Mr. Thomas" and that when this was pointed out, on the verge of air time, they removed all name plates as the only solution available.

How did Thomas come up with the idea of a flea circus?

As a box boy for consumers market it did not escape me at that time how fast these women were as checkers they could hit those buttons and ring up things quicker than you can imagine all at the same time at the end they would pull the lever and turn the wheel on the s&h Green stamp machine and give you your receipt and your Green stamps all with a smile. Behind the scenes boy they were always looking down the aisles making sure that the box boys were "facing front" that means that when you weren't doing anything you should be pulling the product to the front of each shelf. In those days down in the basement was where you shovel the coal into the furnace. That was your only relief from the checkers picking on you making sure you were busy. You had to know your bags and you had to know the sizes and you had to know the customers did they want boxes or did they want bags and you should remember these things. Yes we worked harder and we were smarter back then.❤

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How did Terry-Thomas get Jack Lemmon so quickly? Was it the voice not really being well disguised?

That poor woman! Bennett just implied that this woman's second cousins would be pigs.

19:00 Jack Lemmon segment

Is checker of the year still a thing?

What does making blankets for horses and elephants have to do with wild undomesticated animals?

Arlene asks if she would be correct in saying that the contestant does not work for "needix" (sp). Did I hear that correctly? If so, I don't know what she means?

19:46

Dorothy, Jane Austen called - she wants her wardrobe back.

Where is Arlene’s heart necklace?? 😮 Perhaps it’s at the jewelers having the center diamond placed ??

Does anyone else find those 3/4 sleeves to be incredibly unflattering?

I wish Arlene would keep quiet while others are talking. It is her habit to talk while John is trying to explain something or while other panel members are on camera. She then has to ask what was just said, only because she was talking over others.

WELL YES, TERRY T. WAS ANNOYING.

20:59 Lmao at the Khrushchev joke. Hilarious

Was Terry Thomas' accent real? It sounds exaggerated to me

geritol seems like it would taste as bad as it name sounds :/

Dude... fix those teeth! ... 😂

Whine, whine. I liked Arlene better as a blonde.

Over an entire episode, I think this is one of the worst sounding I've heard Dorothy. She's had famous bouts of stuttering or slurring but she sounded pretty rough this entire episode. Kind of sad

Oh boy ! It is so phony. Jack lemmon came for promoting the movie. Terry was the man to guess it.

Bennett says he though that Jack was Mickey Mantle "he came into the restaurant that he was eating dinner at"; c'mon, c'mon isn't that a dangling participle or something. It don't sound like no good English that oughta come from the publisher of a major house. Gee Whillikers!