Thanks for mentioning Babe Ruth. I couldn't otherwise have gotten the connection to sports.

Yeah. Duck Dynasty sucks.

@@RugNug Honestly????? I can't comment either way on that show. I've heard of it, but never watched it.

@@southtexasprepper1837 It's very popular among conservative bible thumpers. 😄

@@RugNug That's "Christian Believers" to you. I wouldn't being making fun of people's beliefs. Especially since you're using the KZfaq name "RugNug." People could come up with a number names making fun of yours. Just saying.

@@southtexasprepper1837 Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool - Voltaire.

Yeah,like today

MATHHEW TOMPKINS -- I loved watching his show when I was a kid.

OMG THAT WHAT I THOUGHT. HE WAS THRILLING. WATCHED HIM IN 60 S

You're all wet

And myself. I was deeply fascinated by the documentaries in the 60s

He would be so happy to know this.

Stop worshipping this man

Yes those were some if my good times I had back then.

We didn’t see them in class but the teacher would allow us to watch it at home that night in leu of homework. He even quizzed is the next day and I remember one of,the questions was about a commercial during the show.

@@tennissir1986 *lieu*

My Favorite Too !

It’s amazing how much more famous he became over the years. Only a few years after this, in the 60s when I was a child….he would have been instantly recognizable.

He didn't have a tv show then

At that time his name was well known but not his face. That's why he signed in as X.

That's a keen and accurate observation. Bravo.

Yes he did and makes me think just how closer this world be to being dead as it will be some day.

Not really. Not at all actually.

U don't say

+John Waller Nah I've seen it happen before at least one other time where someone was doing a voice and they wondered/asked if there was more than one person there, and there wasn't.

Losers

@@DeathBringer769 That was Jules Montenier, the sponsor in February '56 and they couldn't get him either.

Thanks for the bedtime story. It worked great!

@Matt Eagle It's so seldom necessary to do so.

Philippe Cousteau, the son of Jacques-Yve Cousteau, died in 1979 at age 38 while at the controls of a seaplane owned by the Cousteau Society. I don't think it had anything to do with any TV special featuring Jacques-Yves Cousteau, his ship the "Calypso", or any of the research conducted by the Cousteaux. The plane was in Lisbon, Portugal when the accident occurred. The plane was making a high-speed taxi run on the Tagus River to check for possible leakage after a landing when the plane nosed over, killing Philippe Cousteau.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

there's always suicide

Truly she is all class

@@lewisc215 yes. Or Nico. Oh wait. Shes dead. She still sounds the same

Sounds fishy to me

Haha that's true!

Also that he was the founder of the Bendix automotive brakes company.

@@blackie75 No he wasn't.

I never knew that - Lois, you are a veritable fount of trivial information!

@@dchawk81 yeah he sure was

I have a notion to second that emotion ! A truly magnificent performance !

Hitchock movies never won Oscars. I believe the only Hitchcock movie ever to win an Oscar for anything was the song "Que, Sera, Sera" from Hitchcock's remake of his own "The Man Who Knew Too Much"

@Corno di Bassetto thanks for pointing that out

@Corno di Bassetto Hitchcock never won a competitive Best Director Oscar and we can't think of a single actor who was even nominated for an Oscar in any of his movies, much less won one, notwithstanding the original comment in this thread about an actor who should have won an Oscar in any of his films (and I can think of numerous other actors under his direction who were better candidates). William Wyler is considered a great director in part because he won three Best Director Oscars and in part because more actors under his direction were nominated for and won Oscars than for any other director. Hitchcock was also an excellent director but the Academy never gave his pictures their due compared to others.

@@preppysocks209 That's wack

As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point ! What a talented fellow...equally good in both dramatic and comedic roles ! One of may all time fave stars of yesteryear ! :-)

William Bendix also did “Life of Riley” on radio before his TV show. I now enjoy the radio show on SXM! And I did watch the TV show in reruns in the latter part of the 50s!

I didn't know that..

Jackie Gleason was Riley on TV in 1949 before William Bendix did the television version of his longtime radio show, which had been on since the 1940s. But Bendix was the original Riley with the great Paula Winslow as his wife Peg.

Much like Randolph Churchill. Heavy smoking plays a part also hard liquor.

And yet it was all regulated by the network’s Standards and Practices and network censors removed anything offensive. There is, in fact, a lot more free speech on television than in the 1950s, so much so that you can observe people constantly carping about how vulgar programming has become.

I’m surprised that after they got “investigations” and he said he wasn’t a detective, they didn’t ask if he was a scientist. We do talk about “scientific investigations” in English quite a bit.

@@zoepaulastrassfield2664 I don't think we talk about "scientific investigations" quite a bit. The only term I've heard is "research." Maybe in British English?

@@gerberjoanne266 British English! What other English is there?

@@rogerlephoque3704 Hah!

@@gerberjoanne266 Vive la difference! Salut.

Once again, Lois, your knowledge of incidental details is astounding!

@@robertfiller8634 I could have added that he got the job with the Giants because one of their announcers, Frankie Frisch (member of the Baseball Hall of Fame aka "The Fordham Flash") had suffered a heart attack. He was well-received by New York fans. But the Giants didn't have plans to keep Phil for the 1957 season. When word got out that Rizzuto had submitted an audition tape to the Baltimore Orioles, the Yankees beer sponsor, Ballantine, insisted that the Yankees hire the long-time fan favorite. General Manager George Weiss felt he had no choice but to oblige, even though he already had three announcers under contract, and that was a full booth back then, as the announcers were expected to cover both radio and TV. There was no way that Weiss was going to fire Mel Allen or Red Barber to make room for Rizzuto. His only choice was to fire Jim Woods, a very good broadcaster in his own right. (Weiss was later quoted as saying it was the first time he fired someone for no reason; i.e. no fault of their own.) Ironically the Giants then hired Woods, but didn't bring him west with Russ Hodges after the 1957 season because they wanted at least one SF area announcer as part of the broadcast team. Woods went over to Pittsburgh and joined Bob Prince in the Pirates broadcast booth. As a kid, I would listen to the Dodger games on the radio late at night. but I had to use the other team's broadcasts. I always preferred Woods to Prince.

@@loissimmons6558 Wow, you said a mouthful! (And I am once again impressed.)

Phil Rizzuto spent his entire 13-year baseball career with the New York Yankees (1941-1956). This was at the end of his last season with the Yankees.

John makes the opposite mistake often: He doesn't flip a card when he should. This is the only case I've witnessed (I'm sure there are others) when he flips the card though he shouldn't.

that¡s the way it should be

+malikashiqui Now that I'm going back and watching (and in a few rare cases re-watching) all of these in order, and know more about the show, I do get your point, particularly the one about people coming to NY from far away. Also the one about $50. So from a long-distance, and money, point of view, I agree. From the point of view of what I enjoy about the show, though, I just like it better when the panelists get a good chance to figure out what's going on, and the guest gets a chance to properly hoodwink 'em. Abbreviated segments are, well. Abbreviated. That's all.

@malikashiqui - They would not have been able to stay in NYC from out of town at any distance until the next week's show was done, so you are right. They did get $1,000 from the producers to get to and fro and stay at a hotel. I do not recall if they got a non-AFTRA fee for appearing, but it would not have been much. So it did make sense to fit them into the show after the MG slot.

As accomplished as Dorothy was, in her career and as a panelist, I have the distinct impression that she was an insecure person. This was one of many slight indications of that in little things that she said throughout her run on the series. Perhaps her insecurity led to her problems with drugs and alcohol, and ultimately to her untimely death. It's such a shame when someone so talented and capable doesn't realize their own value. What hell they must go through.

@@mikejschin or a perfectionist. 😀😀

Interesting observation. People these days are famous for near to nothing.

@@zapkvr seems it was the case back then too.

He hadn’t been on television yet.

Where do we send a card?

Very well done and very funny Rhubba!

That sounds like something Marlin Perkins would do to Jim.

Dorothy always looks so pretty and elegant. She's so put together.

Always

haha, that's so funny.

Waaay back when I first started watching baseball on PIX, the broadcasters were Phil, Bill White and Frank Messer. Great team!

They were my first announcers too and I still love listening to old tapes of their broadcasts.

I should add I meant the announcers were a "great team"...at the time the Yankees team itself wasn't all that great, unfortunately :)

never heard of Phil Rizzuto......

@@murcer88 go on the Baseball Hall of Fame website and watch his induction. It is one of the most unintentionally funny things you will ever see.

And they're found in the average household!!! (False Teeth)

she is brilliant

What a wonderful childhood u had

Well, he was "very" French

Something Rizzuto rarely did with one swing. He hit only 38 home runs in 12+ major league seasons, covering 5816 at bats: 0.65%. In contrast, Ted Williams (a contemporary ballplayer who championed Rizzuto for the Hall of Fame) homered in 6.76% of his at bats.

@@loissimmons6558 At 5' 6", Rizzuto was shorter than either Arlene or Dorothy! (as you can see during the introductions). He was a fabulous shortstop, had a very respectable .273 lifetime BA with 149 SB and was a great singles hitter and bunter. He wasn't on the team to hit home runs.

@@robertfiller8634 Remember that the ladies would have been wearing heels. For the record, IMDB lists Arlene at 5'5½" and Dorothy Kilgallen at 5'6½". So in stocking feet, they were all around the same height, at least whatever is listed online. And I wasn't denigrating Scooter's ability when I mentioned his lack of home runs. It was merely a follow up to the original post in the thread mentioning "covers all bases". Of course as a Dodger fan (only hours after their latest championship), I will still take Pee Wee Reese over Rizzuto. He could do everything that Rizzuto could, but with more power ("Pee Wee" referred to his marble playing days, not his size) and with a much stronger throwing arm. Plus he had a longer career in the majors.

@@loissimmons6558 I agree with you about Pee Wee's prowess though I didn't know about the marbles being the source of his sobriquet. Reese was a strong supporter and good friend of Jackie Robinson and first befriended him in the latter's MLB rookie season in 1947.

@@robertfiller8634 Harold Reese was nicknamed "Pee Wee" as a kid because he was a marbles champion and used a pee wee marble as his shooter. Reese told the story that he heard about the Dodgers signing Robinson at the end of 1945 as he was returning from the Pacific after serving his tour of duty in the Navy during WWII. He admits that his initial reaction was negative, in part because of Jackie's color but largely because it was announced that Jackie was a shortstop (the position he played with the Kansas City Monarchs). Reese went on to say that when he arrived in port in San Francisco, he went out and got drunk the worst ever in his life because he was upset. But when he sobered, he decided that if Robinson was good enough to beat him out of a job, that was the only thing that mattered. And it turned out that when the Dodgers sent Robinson to Montreal in 1946. they moved him to second base because he didn't really have a major league shortstop's arm (although he had the range), and because they had a young budding star already at that position in Reese. So when a handful of southern players on the Dodgers circulated a petition during spring training in 1947 that Robinson not be promoted to Brooklyn, they expected Reese, being from Kentucky, to sign it. He shocked them by telling them he wanted no part of it. This was a long time before he showed his support out on the field in front of hostile fans when they were on the road.

Costeau was relatively unknown at this time, especially outside Europe. His first major documentary, the spectacular "The Silent World" didn't have its US premier until a week after this show was broadcast. It eventually gave him an Academy Award in 1957.

Check the year

Not in the 1950s.

His American television series didn’t begin being broadcast until 1968.

The infamy?

Wasn't seen on TV in the 50s as far as I know. Might be known by news items but nit by sight.

I agree that they do look somewhat alike !!

ha! you got it backwards.....Jay Leno reminds you of William Bendix, the former was before the latter

He reminds me of Paul Douglas from back then.

Holy cow!

He did okay