This vintage tv show is still a must watch game show ☺️😄

John. Dorothy, Bennett, and Arlene are just like old friends to me. I really love this show. It is so nice to see all these celebrities who have long left us, being a part of my enjoyment.

Danny Kaye beating John Daly at his own game during the balloon maker's segment: priceless.

Danny Kaye never disappoints! I thought I was gonna roll out of my bed laughing when he pretended to fall forward waiting for a particular answer. Best panel show on T. V. ❤️

I miss Danny Kaye. No one can surprise me, amuse me and confuse me at the same time they way he did.

Found this comment on Internet dated February 10, 2006: "Every night my husband and I would record "What's My Line?" so we can watch it the next day. My husband is fascinated with the everyday people who are on the show and always wonders if they are still alive and, if so, what they are now doing. Last week one contestant was a man named Harvey Ellswood Jr. from Denver, Colorado. His line was making and selling balloons. After the show I pulled out our Denver phonebook to see if his company was still in business and found Ellswood Balloon & Party Favors Inc listed in the Yellow Pages under Balloons-Whsle & Mfrs along with an ad that had "Since 1946" which convinced me that it was the same company. I showed the ad to my husband and the next day when I came home from walking the dogs he told me he had called Ellswood Balloon & Party Favors Inc and learned some interesting things from the woman who answered the phone. Ellswood Balloon was Mr. Harvey Ellswood's company and Mr Ellswood was the man who had been on What's My Line? Unfortunately, Mr. Ellswood had died in 1998. Since Mr. Ellswood had been an only child and never married he had no family. He had passed the business on to his best friend of forty years. His best friend happened to be the husband of the woman who answered the phone. Mr. Ellswood's best friend and the woman's husband died in 2001. She now ran the company by herself. The woman also told my husband she had an audio tape of the show that Mr. Ellswood had been on, but had never seen the episode herself. My husband told her he would make a copy of the show and mail it to her the next day. She was very pleased and then asked him where he was calling from and my husband gave her the name of our little town. He was then flabbergasted when she said she knew of it because it was the town where her parents had gotten married. It turns out she grew up in eastern Colorado in a town about 50 miles away from us. We are going to stop in to see her the next time we are in Denver.

A TIme Travelers dream to go back in time. What's My Line is what you need right here.

I think this show is one of the best game type shows that have ever been on TV. I admire Danny Kaye a lot. I think he was an orphan and really touch so many people for the good!

Once again, "WML?" is the best medicine. And Danny Kaye was the greatest!

The balloon segment with Danny Kaye mocking John Daily was funny 😄 😆

Danny Kaye - most talented - and greatly missed.

Danny Kaye really got the best of John Daly in the balloon segment. This was priceless. I have seen and enjoyed so many of What's My Line, I was hoping to see one instance of one of the panel members giving it back to John, I figured it would be Bennett who would do the honors.

Well dressed, well mannered, polite, not foul language -- how refreshing!

I really enjoy seeing what life was like in the time of my youth.

Watching Danny Kaye ask that wonderful and nonsensical question, mimicking John Daly's trait of verbose and complex non-responses was the highlight of this episode!

"Cuts the dog into different shapes, Miss Kilgallen? Please!" That part was so funny!

Danny Kaye gave the absolute best response to John Daly!! 😂😂😂

When this show aired, my family was approaching its first anniversary of living one town north of the first challenger, Edward Durfee, who was from Orangeburg (NY). I never met or heard of Mr. Durfee, but I have seen ads for Musbro Kennels for many years. I've never had a dog so I had no need of the services of a dog groomer or a kennel. Musbro Kennels is still in business in Orangeburg, but their website does not give the name of the current owner or any key personnel. When John Daly thinks that Orangeburg is upstate, he probably confused it with Ogdensburg which is situated on the St. Lawrence River, due south of Ottawa.

Arlene's spectacular sable-trimmed paisley Scassi ensemble was also featured in a Vogue spread on Cyd Charisse around this same time.

"In this product, does the chemical content insofar as the littered of the instance of the product, can you, in turn, with a degree of honesty, feel that there has been - not concerning those people who generally don't use it- but would there be, insofar as knowing a group of people as seated here, could you?" - Danny Kaye, 1961

Best Danny Kaye humour ever!

Danny's convoluted, hilarious question (14:02) was a parody of John Daly's similar long-winded answers to a panelist's question, and John's strong laughter recognized how Danny was only returning how long-winded John sounded at times! Danny was one of my favorite tv/film comic actors when growing up in this marvelous era for America and television!

I totally enjoyed this segment😄

Danny Kaye is brilliant. Not necessarily very good as a player, but huge laughs. His parody of Daly is for the ages. He was a busy guy -- so he did not show up much. Or maybe his always being on, like Groucho, put off some of the panelists.

The Louella Parsons segment was painful to watch. A relief to see her leave the set.

She was one of the most feared women in Hollywood.

Here is a special note to the younger people watching this... the guest celebrity, Louella Parsons. Do not be fooled by her "innocent, little old lady" appearance here. She was a horrible woman. She was a gossip columnist just as vile as Walter Winchell and Hedda Hopper. If you worshiped them like they were gods, you were relatively safe. But, if you tried to live your life outside their control you were a sitting duck and your life and career would be ruined. HORRIBLE WOMAN.

Thank you for this.i am a louella parsons fan.fascinating to see her shortly before she retired.too bad she did not do more television.

Notice how quickly (and skillfully) Mr. Daly intervened to prevent any further mention of Hedda Hopper!

😂😂😂😂 Loved the Danny Kaye mimicking of John! He could do the job lol.

Taped on the same night as the episode with Yves Montand as a mystery guest.

Louella Parsons..what a history

I was born the day this show originally aired.

Louella Parsons looks a lot like Aunt Clara from Bewitched, was her physical appreance the bases for Aunt Clara? Marion Lorne of course will always be that slighty off character from that classic series.

"It isn't very good .. " That's funny ... !

Fun to play along at times without seeing the profession. A pretty challenging game but the regulars had a lot of practice.

Danny Kaye priceless

Louella says she's there because she's written a book ("Tell It to Louella"), but then do I hear her say "It isn't very good"???

I was 8 years old when this aired.

That was rare at 25:00 when Dorothy stood-up in respect to say goodbye to fellow gossip columnist Louella Parsons, that Dorothy (or Arlene) just realized who it was when John stopped the guessing after she won the entire $50.

Danny Kaye does a great impression of John Daly

Did anyone notice that Dorothy Kilgallen stood to shake Louella Parsons' hand? A real class act!

Good epi

The word 'consumed' is always tricky on this show: we are all consumers in our consumer society in the sense that we buy things and use them up. Most people who use 'consume' in everyday speech mean eat or drink, but John Daly goes for the wider meaning of 'use and deplete' - in that meaning you or I could consume firewood, coal, fuel, toothpaste, shampoo, newspapers and perhaps electricity. He's a rather pedantic and schoolmasterly fellow but funny too - perhaps he is mocking himself when he does the explanations which are more difficult than the point he is making.

Louella seems like a lot of fun.

David Niven wrote in his memoirs about Parsons and Hedda Hopper and their coverage of Hollywood stars.

On my seventh birthday!

Louella Parsons wasn't even in the show for the thrill of being a mystery guest participant; at the end she states: "I am here because I have written a book"'. She was kinda mean looking.

There seems to have been no show on October 29, 1961. Pre-empted. Went from the 22nd to November 5th. (Some of us are watching chronologically.)

They dress so well, ladies dresses and mens bow ties. A different world . Tonight on JEOPARDY 6/28/22 a contestant had on jogging suit/ sweat clothes.!? No respect for themselves or audience. WML was wonderful… so good to have them posted here!

Damn! Arlene's ensemble tonight is next level. I'd heard Dorothy had been considered "best dressed", by frankly I never saw it that way. Maybe because her choices were not as bold as Arlene's so she had more mainstream appeal? Whatever....I'm Team Arlene all the way.

Did Miss Parsons have a face lift?

18:41 Arlene bonks her microphone with the balloon. They were having a bit too much fun there.

Louella Parsons answers were so misleading.

Is that Arlene Francis, or was she replaced that night by the Queen of Sheba?

What does the GSn at the top of the screen stand for?

I wonder if John was perhaps a bit intimidated by Louella Parsons. He seemed afraid to change any of her definitive "yes" answers to definitive "No"s, even when they were outright falsehoods (such as being a "leading woman" in motion pictures) or to even conference with her about performing in supper clubs, about which he seemed dubious, and I certainly am. Interesting too that Dorothy not only stood up to greet Louella but kissed her as well. It was my understanding that the two of them were arch rivals when Dorothy was starting out as a columnist. Perhaps their relationship mellowed over time?

Miss Parsons ......she rise and destroyed Carriers while her time .......Today nobody knows her

Daly doesn’t dig balloons.

John seemed nervous with Parsons, for some reason..not sure why but she was kind of cold to him, imo...

14:00 Danny Kaye is off the chart in this sequence...definitely one for the program's highlight reel. lol

I like the panel and guests, but sometimes john needs to shut up

*_POODLE CLIPPER_* *_MAKES AND SELLS BALLOONS_* 1:23 Breathless beauty? That was stretching it.

so, danny kay was trying out for second most obnoxious panelist in the show's history (numero uno, of course, was jerry lewis); victor borge and buddy hackett gave danny a run for his money, but i think it's danny by a nose.

Lolly Parsons

Consumed basically means eaten. Far fetched answer. He does that a lot. Slows the game

I was

Louella Parsons' answers were totally misleading. She was primarily a gossip columnist in the entertainment field.

Lolly has a few in her LOL

Bennett says "adopted" when he means "adapted". You don't have to be a good editor to be a publisher.

:( still no producer talk. He has no RIGHT to flip over those cards at 40 points!!!!! but yet the last episode, the contestant had NO points, and John wouldn't flip them over!! that's not FAIR!!!

Parsons very unpleasant woman

Danny Kaye, who reportedly maintained a romantic relationship for some years with actor Laurence Olivier. That makes for one odd couple.

Bet he's rolling in his grave knowing Random House has gone woke and cancel books.

Danny Kaye is so obnoxious! Watching Louella and then Hedda! (;

I was never a fan of Danny Kaye to start with and this episode clinches it. He was almost as bad as Wally Cox and Joey Bishop. Had no business being on this panel.

Danny Kaye is obnoxious.

Louella was 80 years old here....