They are all on film, and the digitized videos of these original broadcasts contains all that data.

If Liberace were window shopping he was shopping for windows!😂

Lucky.

OMG what a awesome experience!!!!!!

How many Windows did he buy ?

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Don’t forget Steve and Fred!

@@jonsm8354 Totally agreed.

I'd rather sit down for dinner with Buddy Hackett. He was a comic genius.

Galileocan g - Yes, and to add Steve Allen to the list.

rustydog1236 - Yes he was. Add him as well.

I agree 100 per cent !!

Indeed!

@@bigbeefscorcho no

He's just so adorable and charming, too. Like a couth version of Artie Lange.

So glad I discovered "Rifleman" reruns. Buddy displayed a fine talent for portraying various characters. Mild-mannered, or the father of some brutes bent on shooting up North Fork, or some other interesting characters. I hadn't known he acted at all.

I agree with you that Buddy Hackett was a great game player on what's My Line, and he displayed his intelligence on Hollywood Squares and Password as well.

I agree, Buddy was great at the games. I saw him in a Western straight role. His talents were immeasurable. Totally impressed, I was.

Dorothy's hair here is the best I've ever seen on her.

0413dec I guess he has limited time to do so. I miss him he’s the best piano ever

By the time this episode aired, instead of a candelabra, it could have been a menorah.

Why? He wasn't Jewish.@@loissimmons6558

I noticed that too and admire it so very much !!

I would agree an ad that it was not just an act for the TV audience but most people at that time tended to conduct themselves in that manner on a regular basis.

Me too ! Very artistic !!

I loved the way Liberace changed his voice. And he was so admired.

Yes, but she looked sort of terrified. I felt sorry for her.

When I saw what she did for a living, my first thought was she looks just like all the nice ladies we used to see manning the toll booths in NY. Funny how she was one of the first women to do this.

It probably paid a nice living wage back then

@Agent Fungus I remember seeing Liberace as a kid on a TV talk show where he said that he was once introduced in such a way that his name "rhymed with brass."

Druidbro: Intentionally I should say. I caught it when Buddy said it.

I have a notion to second that emotion !! :-)

Interesting!

Yes, and unfortunately, 11 months later Vaugh Meader's career evaporated when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Damn right!

***** Oh, I didn't get that the first time around -- good call!

thetiler And the drawing was very well done too! Swift and precise! :)

tiler: Liberace often autographed with his signature and the drawing of the piano and the candelabra.

He's also the only person I saw who employed those two things.

Dorothy finally strikes a blow for biology literacy!

So many of us have said the same thing, it is quite endearing, IMHO

Actually, many mispronounced "Liberace" as Libber-ace when he was first starting out. He really worked very hard and struggled for years before heading West.

John Tomasello : Wow. What a neat memory! I had seen him twice in person in the late 70s/very early 80s when he had concerts in Milwaukee. He was walking around Downtown. Very friendly and genuine with that megawatt grin. Of course, he had bodyguards, but he always wanted to reach out and shake hands and say hi. He always paid homage to Milwaukee, having been born in West Allis, a very humble blue collar suburb of Milwaukee. He even had offered to buy an abandoned mansion in Wauwatosa (a well to do suburb) in the 70s and restore it, but the conservative farts in the Tosa gov't didn't want to taint their fair community by dealing with (gasp!) a "homo." They gave other lame reasons that were too easy to see through. He also offered to restore a Civil War era theater in Wood National Cemetery/VA Hospital grounds in West Milwaukee, but was turned down. Something about not allowing private funds being donated for Federal property(!) The theater is still standing, but has been in ruins for years. Lee used to give free piano concerts for the veterans in that theater before he moved away to seek fame and fortune. I wish Lee would come back now so he could enjoy his life and not have to be afraid of losing everything because of his lifestyle. Can you imagine how Millennials would love him? PS: If it's not obvious by now, I've been a lifelong fan of Liberace! He really was an amazing person. When I was a very little kid, my mother explained to me that he "liked men better than women." I didn't care then and still don't. My mother was very ahead of her time, rest her soul!

+Agent Fungus i'm using my fiance's account, and want to say that your mom and you are amazing too. she would be very proud of how accepting you are.God bless

soulierinvestments What a great Mom you had, John! I wish I had been fortunate like you! I was never accepted by her...and ended up supporting her and taking care of her for years!

Wow. She LOOKS much better with lighter hair. I've just seen her with dark hair before.

What a lovely lady.

Regarding the heart necklace, Arlene is wearing it as a bracelet wrapped around her left wrist. It is very blurry upon her initial entrance in this episode, but it can be seen very clearly in the previous episode (Dec. 16., 1962) at the 14:22 mark.

It was on her left wrist the previous show so it probably is again.

In one of the mid-'50s shows, the head of the Ohio state parole board, an African-American, was a non-celebrity challenger.

You mean black. They weren't from Africa.

There were quite a few, actually.

Also, a woman who packaged band-aids, a lawyer, many female singer/actresses, President Johnson's secretary, sports players. Many male singer/actors, sports players, fellow who gave yours in a glass bottom boat called Arlene, a person who made credit cards. There are more just can't remember.

I saw where an auction house sold Lucille Ball’s autographs for $6,750. According to the link, CBS had the autographs on a roll that were sprayed with lacquer to preserve them. Apparently many survived. It would be great to have one. Any of them.

Black and white spectrum would show both as black...

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Shd have got lots!

"Cat calls" or "Wolf whistles"... depending on which dialect of English we're talking about, I have read in other comment sections of WML episodes, were usually reserved for young, blonde ladies. And unmarried pretty, young blonde ladies, at that, it appears. It's a "thing" in the comment sections, like the panelist's dresses, etc.

The theme park was called "Santa's Village"; our family visited there over the 1960-61 winter holidays shortly before I turned five years old. Exit 6 on northbound California Highway 17 is still labeled Santas Village Road, but that's just the name of a short section of frontage road now; all traces of the park have vanished under development. They did have reindeer, so I'm confident that Mr. Carruthers was associated with the park in some way.

I'm watching in chronological order and he was on the panel a few episodes earlier!

Thumbs up for 1963.

I am, year I was born!

@@Rhonda9199 1963 - the year I was conceived, during the holiday season, no less.

She looks quite nervous in front of the camera, but handles herself very well. Also I am quite fond of that sultry presence of hers. And she reminds me of someone, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Yeah! That's it!

+Corleone Lena Horne

And with an adorable Jersey accent.

Joe Postove There were a number of African American contestants who were not celebrities on this program. Both John and panelists (as well as the audience) were all very respectful.

Don't say that here - most people commenting on WML seem to think those were the good old days where everything was better than now. Of course they didn't live back then and have no idea how hard life was for most people.

Charles Dickens might as well have been talking about the years from the end of World War II to November 1963 as "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." Things were simpler, most people felt positive about the future, people were polite and considerate, and believe it or not, most people were comfortable in the roles assigned to them by society. But there were exceptions. Blacks faced major discrimination in most places in the U.S., whether it was education, jobs, housing, etc. Interracial marriage was still illegal in many states. Most LGBT people hid their identity or retreated to fringe communities. Women also faced limits in business and financial matters. So times were great if you fit into the system. And most people fit so they look back fondly and for them society has gotten worse. But for those who didn't fit, there is no reason to wax nostalgic.

+Agent Fungus Shredded cabbage and fake Spam in lime Jello? I'm sure glad I finished eating before reading that. And considering that Spam is basically fake meat (although I do like it), the idea of faking fake stuff is pretty wild. I wish my mom was still here. I'd be calling her right now to thank her for packing a lunch for me every day I ate lunch at school.

@@LarsRyeJeppesen I did and it was. In so many ways. Back then, people talked to each other. Now everyone has a cell phone glued to their head and can't live without it. While in a waiting room recently, a man and his 2 young daughters were waiting to be seen. All three had cell phones and did not say one word to each other. They were each in their own little world.

@@Pashasmom1 That's fair enough.. I agree.. not saying it's all better, but against polio, child death, child labor, blacks /women discriminated and many many other things, there is no contest. You know the world is better if all you have is that people look into their phones /s... at least they can communicate with loved ones living far away... back them you couldn't do that.

They usually did a pre-taped episode on the same night before the live one. Wait until we get to the final 1966-1967 season. It had a few of instances of episodes being taped on a day other than a Sunday. They were recorded on a Monday in October. Of the 47 color videotaped episodes, 16 of them were pre-taped. More than any other season.

Joe Postove In my own language, I think I've started to sound like John Daly! Maybe it would be good to take a pause/change the channel for a while? ;) (And to What's My Line? Thanks for all your effort anyway! :)

You're kidding right? Of course they appear that way on the show. But behind the scenes is a completely different story.

+Tuff Bud Actually this was on Dec 23, 1962, not in the 1950's

December 23, Nineteen fifty twelve!

Tuff Bud - This show had a few others. This program did their part for equality. I held my breath but this panel were gracious, as one would have hoped.

A pun worthy of Bennett.

@@TheBlackhawkbrat My dear sir (madame?), Bennett is royalty, while I am but a cerf.

Except that Christmas isn't the only holiday around that time of year.

Shirtless - I had a college roommate who had a friend who was taking an Intro to Music class; he studied Batch, Choppin and Bee-thoven.. and maybe Hi-den. Well, college was the place to get this all worked out.

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Robert Romero - Why? That is the correct pronunciation. The word is Spanish.

Robert Romero - Why? That's the correct pronunciation. This is brought to you by the same people who proudly call the town San Peeedro instead of San Paydro, which is not used by native speakers. For years the residents of Long Beach called the street spelled Junipero "Juanipero." I guess we humans pick a pronunciation we like and stick with it. When I lived in Nevada the natives called it Nevaaada(as in cat)instead of Nevahda, which is correct.

The word rodeo, originally Spanish, was imported to United States and spoken with English accent /R0' dee oh/. The etymology is not Anglo-Saxon.

Yes, very much so

Um, he wasn't interested in being a lady killer.

George Wilson - Still women did think he was attractive. Imagine having to hide who you really are in order to keep your role in the entertainment world. These fifties and sixties episodes seemed to be the epitome of graciousness and civility but that hid a lot of entrenched prejudice and bigotry. We have advanced quite a lot; now we need to work on the civility and manners in our lives.

@@shirleyrombough8173 you are so right!

@@naomigoldberg6544 Thanks for your reply, Ms. Goldberg. We still have a lot of work to do to have a more equitable society.

So tacky.

So you like nuts and a piece of meat?

@@Pashasmom1 Not just tacky, but offensive.

Andrew Clayterman - Oh groan. Bab Boon.

Unhumerous BAA-foon-ery, that.

She did have nice legs!

She asked about vaughn meader kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o6x8ZbufldvFoqM.html

Yes. I always thought he was very annoying with very little talent.

He was pretty intelligent, I think. :-)

bloodgrss - I never cared for the cross eyed moron, he wasn’t even funny

bloodgrss You are being way too polite

bloodgrss - I liked him.

How old are you, eight?

@@kentetalman9008 No. Eight and a half.

The panel were all on the cutting edge of celebrity, intelligent journalists, publishers, and they knew who was in NYC performing at the time....not a sham, my step-father was on in 54, as an early astronaut and stumped them

He really did ! He was a good sport ! It always irks me when the Mystery Guest doesn't bother to disguise their voice; defeats the whole purpose of the game !