I was struck by how much he looks like Bradley Cooper when he smiled. Or I suppose the other way around.

He wasn't THAT tanned yet, was he?

Yes he was!

They got stuck on thinking about the item ABOVE the waist! Never occurred to the panel to ask if it was a full length garment!

Read his book: "Don't Mind If I Do".. A really a fun ride, and a well told story of his life!

As a little boy, I listened to NBC Monitor on the radio when I was riding with my father in the car. I don't remember Monitor well enough to associate Jim Backus' voice with it, though.

Yes it was disappointing to hear Dorothy's introduction of Jim Backus. He was well known for better things than Gilligan's Island.

"And not so sweet this time!!"

Can someone explain what that card meant. I don't get it.

@@tigergreg8 George looked like the perfect melding of Tony C and Tony P.

​@@tigergreg8someone living under rock. They were bisexual lordy you must live where banjo music played every day ...lmao 😅😊😢

@@quagmiredavis4117 Well, you’re obviously the one living in a Swamp. 🤣 Lmao

Thank goodness, I thought I was the only one doing that. :)

***** Not so sad. :) I'm less likely to do that, but I do tend to anticipate the answers to the questions and say "yes" or "no" out loud sometimes before the contestant or John does. Then of course, there are the times that I shout at John when I think he has answered unfairly. ;)

SaveThe TPC You guys are all weird. I'll admit, I have a life-sized talking Bennett Cerf doll that sits next to me making puns while I watch WML, but. . . perhaps I've said too much.

What's My Line? Laughing so hard I can barely type! :D

I can remember a couple of comidians putting their masks on upside down or cockeyed!

But the breath-holding is generally initiated by use of a snorkel.

It's fairly common for all the panelists to fail to ask if an item can ALSO be worn below the waist. This is also true if they get an affirmative answer to the question of whether it can be worn below the waist. They also get hung up on thinking that if it goes above or below that it doesn't cover the entire area.

That was a very funny movie.

and 50 years later he's selling chicken!!

Read his book, "Don't Mind If I Do". A fascinating read!

And so was the skin diver (first guest).

He’s NOT ugly!! 😉

Indeed. I always thought he and Roger Moore looked they were from the same tribe.

Mollie Popp bennet cerf is a letch

George Hamilton was in a hilarious movie called "Love at First Bite," taking advantage of the vampire craze. Lots of puns and other word play.

I remember "Where the Boys Are" and of course he got the pretty girl! (didn't she, Delores Hart, become a nun?)

+Janei was Duncan Yes, Dolores Hart became a nun. Before that, she also starred in two movies opposite Elvis ("Loving You" and "King Creole"). She is still alive and holds the distinction of being the only nun who is also a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Gary Zerr yep lol!🤣

Her dress is great. I wanted a "twist" dress because they looked so fun.

Maybe lunch and conversation was all he wanted. Or am I dreaming?

He was good In that Columbo episode

I have never been a fan of Bennett's puns, but that one really did give me a chuckle!

I've come to the conclusion that Bennett must have had a large herb garden because only someone with too much thyme on their hands could come up with such puns.

@@loissimmons6558 Are you related to Bennett?😉🤣

@@clffliese26 Not at all.

@@loissimmons6558 I think you missed the joke.😉😂

'Where the Boys Are' has an interesting side note. The actress Delores Hart, who played George's love interest, would shortly retire from a very promising career and enter an abbey and become Sister Delores. Sixty years later, she's still there and is Mother Delores, the Abbess.

Exactly what I thought!!

Yep Hal Block would have been proud

Because they figured it would be more unusual for a man to be involved with bridal gowns than a woman and therefore it would be harder to guess.

Kurt Kauffman We know. And what a load of junk it is. :)

Yes, the first citation in the Oxford English Dictionary is from John Glenn's 1962 book "Into Orbit." It seems that aerospace engineers first used it to mean any unwanted or unexplained flicker in the voltage or current in a circuit, then it was generalized to mean any transient irregularity in a system's behavior, a quick and usually short-lived malfunction.

The question is, was the word coined by aerospace engineers or was it derived from a Yiddish word that means "slippery place"? Two decades earlier, it is most likely people connected to aircraft who coined the word "gremlin" to describe the cause of errors or malfunctions that happened mysteriously as if caused by a mischievous small mythical creature.

@@loissimmons6558 The Oxford dictionary doesn't cite any source for "glitch" and I don't know enough Yiddish to guess the word you're referring to. There are a limited number of phonemes in human speech, so false cognates are not unknown. Even if engineers borrowed from Yiddish, the technical sense of the word entered popular speech in the Space Age, which is what the original question was about. On "gremlin" the OED has a 1929 citation in an obsolete sense of underlings in the hierarchy of military aviation, and references from 1938 and 1941 in the sense we know, as "old Air Force legend" of "weird little creatures" who "fly about with scissors in each hand" and "good and bad fairies originally invented by the Royal Naval Air Service in the Great War." Those sources would indicate a jargon origin a couple of decades earlier than when the term became popularized, as when Bugs Bunny encountered a gremlin in the 1943 Warner Bros. cartoon "Falling Hare" and in a 1943 Roald Dahl book called "The Gremlins".

As I said, there's a question about which is the correct etymology. This is from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary: There's a glitch in the etymology of glitch - the origins of the word are not known for sure, though it may derive from the Yiddish glitsh, meaning "slippery place." You inspired me to do some further digging. Here's a quote from an article on the Visual Thesaurus website, quoting, among others, William Safire, Leo Rosten and Tony Randall: A glimmer of this backstory emerged when William Safire discussed glitch in an "On Language" column for The New York Times back in 1980. Safire thought the term dated from the '60s in aeronautical use, but noted that it "probably originated in the German and Yiddish glitschen, meaning 'slip,' and by extension, 'error.'" Others, such as Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish, have claimed glitch as a Yiddishism. But how do we get from Yiddish lingo to Cape Canaveral mishaps? None other than the actor Tony Randall supplied a piece of the puzzle. In a letter responding to Safire's column, reproduced in the 1982 "On Language" anthology What's the Good Word?, Randall wrote: The first time I heard the word "glitch" was in 1941 in Worcester. I got a job there as an announcer at WTAG. When an announcer made a mistake, such as putting on the wrong record or reading the wrong commercial, anything technical, or anything concerning the sales department, that was called a "glitch" and had to be entered on the Glitch Sheet, which was a mimeographed form. The older announcers told me the term had been used as long as they could remember. There matters stood until a few years ago, when there was a flurry of "antedating" (searching for ever-earlier citations) among the word researchers who participate in the American Dialect Society mailing list. Plumbing newspaper databases, Yale law librarian Fred Shapiro came up with the new date to beat: May 19, 1940. That was when the novelist Katharine Brush wrote about glitch in her column "Out of My Mind" (syndicated in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and other papers). Brush corroborated Tony Randall's radio recollection: When the radio talkers make a little mistake in diction they call it a "fluff," and when they make a bad one they call it a "glitch," and I love it. Other examples from the world of radio can be found in the 1940s. The April 11, 1943 issue of the Washington Post carried a review of Helen Sioussat's book about radio broadcasting, Mikes Don't Bite. The reviewer noted an error and wrote, "In the lingo of radio, has Miss Sioussat pulled a 'muff,' 'fluff,' 'bust,' or 'glitch'?" And in a 1948 book called The Advertising and Business Side of Radio, Ned Midgley explained how a radio station's "traffic department" was responsible for properly scheduling items in a broadcast. "Usually most 'glitches,' as on-the-air mistakes are called, can be traced to a mistake on the part of the traffic department," Midgley wrote. Further digging reveals that in the 1950s, glitch made the transition from radio to television. In a 1953 ad in Broadcasting Magazine, RCA boasted that their TV camera has "no more a-c power line 'glitches' (horizontal-bar interference)." And Bell Telephone ran an ad in a 1955 issue of Billboard showing two technicians monitoring the TV signals that were broadcast on Bell System lines: "When he talks of 'glitch' with a fellow technician, he means a low frequency interference which appears as a narrow horizontal bar moving vertically through the picture." A 1959 article in Sponsor, a trade magazine for television and radio advertisers, gave another technical usage in an article about editing TV commercials by splicing tape. "'Glitch' is slang for the 'momentary jiggle' that occurs at the editing point if the sync pulses don't match exactly in the splice." Sponsor also gave the earliest etymological explanation I've seen: "'Glitch' probably comes from a German or Yiddish word meaning a slide, a glide or a slip." So, by the time that glitch entered the space program in the '60s, it had enjoyed a long life in radio and television, referring to a variety of technical problems. And when astronauts used it in a general way for any hitch or snag, it was in fact a return to how glitch was introduced into radio broadcasting circles a few decades earlier. Though we still don't know for sure if the term was imported via Yiddish or came directly from German, a Yiddish origin certainly seems more likely. I'm not aware of any evidence of its use in historically German-speaking regions in the U.S., and its emergence in radio circa 1940 is telling, given the active role of Yiddish speakers in the world of radio at the time. So the next time you run into a glitch on HealthCare.gov or some other site, give a thought to the on-air flubs by Yiddish-slinging radio announcers of years past. So it would appear that John Glenn's usage was not the first in print or in public use.

@@loissimmons6558 Great research! Thanks for going into depth. I was brought up to revere the OED, but am beginning to realize that especially for 20th century usage it has its limitations. The corpus of material now searchable is greater than their ability to keep up with it. Even from major authors such as P. G. Wodehouse, I've been able to submit antedating citations of slang to the OED in recent years. There's an online form at their web pages for doing this...maybe you should tell them about "glitch." I'm still glad to have access to the online OED, but even more glad that it's through a local library and thus free of charge.

That would be correct. Go to IMDB for anything you want to know about movies or tv.

Yes, he was Jim Stark's father

I was a little disappointed he didn't do Mr. Magoo. Of course, if he'd gotten one of the contestants, he might have. "Oh, Magoo, you've done it, again."

Yes

Yes!

Marilyn Monroe thought so. I have read that one time when they worked together, she pushed him repeatedly to do his Mr. Magoo voice.

preppy socks, Cool! I didn't know that. 👍😊❤

Michael Danello I agree, although the era must be considered here. In those days, what was considered an acceptable comment toward a woman was much different than today. Case in point... the whistles and hoots when an attractive female contestant entered seemed commonplace and hardly construed as rude. That certainly would not be the case today.

True they all did that back then. Funny if you listen to his interview in 1969 he talked about how Hal Block was so crude to the women and said he was a clod. But he and Steve Allen did make remarks all the time and Daily almost always chimed in with agreement as well. In fact I always feel sorry for the gals who didn't receive whistles on the show. I know a gal who told me she hated getting whistled at until it stopped then she hated not getting them even more. lol funny how times change but yet stay the same

It is part of the times, things have changed since then.

Bennett could also be crude to foreigners. One episode had a gentleman from Japan who sold a "product", and Bennett asked if the product was "one of those cheap Japanese products". If that's not crude, what is?

I must constantly be careful around women I don’t know because when I was growing up women would have been insulted if their appearance was not praised. They spent hours pulling everything together, especially their hair took hours. Now I simply don’t remark on anyone’s appearance because it’s now considered offensive.

And he did the voice of "Mr Magoo"! :)

Chris Barat I guess Bob Denver would rightfully be called the star of "Gilligan's Island," but it was also pretty much an ensemble show, so any of the castaways could conceivably be said to have starred in it. I really liked Jim Backus's introduction of Arlene, though -- I thought it was both clever and informative, as I'd had no idea that he and Martin had ever been roommates, and I assume that was true and not just a joke.

Thurston! Behave yourself!

True but I suspect as I frequently do, Dorothy is given something to say where she has no reference. As I recall Gilligan's Island (where today even exceeds I love Lucy to number of Rerun episodes) back when it was in prime time Producers, studios, network brass, newspaper people distanced themselves from GI like it did not exist. I'm sure she never saw GI, and maybe didn't hear about it (this was 1965). I'll go further - I'll bet she never saw The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and ergo never heard of Bob Denver.

His voice of Magoo will never get old lol!!!

"Dr. Glitch" was just a nickname for one of the Cape Canaveral guys

That's probably true. The timing is right. But in 1965 NASA was beginning to make plans for a very ambitious program of which the Space Shuttle was only a part, and the Shuttle was the only item that got funded. See: “Integrated Program Plan [IPP] "Maximum Rate" Traffic Model (1970)” From Wired, April 18, 2012. “The IPP, a product of George Mueller's Office of Manned Space Flight, began to evolve as early as 1965, but did not take on the grandiose form NASA Administrator Thomas Paine stubbornly advocated to President Richard Nixon until May 1969….The IPP (image at top of post) included space stations in low-Earth orbit (LEO), geosynchronous orbit (GEO), and near-polar lunar orbit, Saturn V and Saturn V-derived rockets for launching them, a fully reusable Earth-to-LEO Space Shuttle for launching astronauts, cargo, and propellants, a reusable modular Space Tug that could operate manned or unmanned and do double-duty as a "Lunar Module-B" (LM-B) moon lander, a reusable Nuclear Shuttle for LEO-GEO and LEO-lunar orbit transportation, and lunar and Mars surface bases."

@@jackkomisar458 Thank you for the detailed and informative reply.

Terry Niblett We know.

So do a lot of us! ;-)

Joe Postove Take a look at David Von Pein's comment about this, above, if you haven't already.

I can't find David's comment now (2019). I've just now replied to a different comment by Purple Capricorn on this subject. The word first appeared in print in 1962.

I was expecting Bennett to go on with for ex. a "glitch witch" or something like that, but he stopped.

Joe Postove As a kid of the 1970s we used the word 'snag' instead.

No, you're not over dramatizing it. I was thinking exactly the same thing as the panel stumbled around with their false assumptions.

Joe Postove It's as if all four of them fell simultaneously into some sort of hypnotic trance. They all had the exact same logical mental block throughout practically the entire segment!

I think that it was wrong to say that it could be worn above the shoulder. That doesn't make sense at all - ON the shoulder, yes, but ABOVE the shoulder? A veil, which of course would be worn above the shoulders, is not the dress itself.

+Laura Snyder Many wedding gowns have high necklines. They would certainly be above the shoulder.

you might even call it a glitch -- they think the question contained the word "exclusively"

Although a Bond-fan I have never liked "Thunderball".

Johan Bengtsson That's strange. I thought it was the best of the lot.

ghshinn I know many fans regard *Thunderball* as being one of the best Bond Movies ever, but I beg to differ.

@@Beson-SE Whenever someone asks me what my favorite Bond film is, I, always, say, "The next one." Each one is better than the one before.

@@clffliese26 True. I'm really looking forward to this year's Bond!

The stunt diver was Wende Wagner, who was a contestant on the 18 December 1960 WML?, when she was doing swimming and diving stunts for "Sea Hunt," among other TV shows and movies. (In 1966-67, Miss Wagner played Lenore Case on the ABC series "The Green Hornet.")

mine has been that way for many years and still is .... like father like son..

Johan Bengtsson I did notice the eyelashes...

Johan Bengtsson She probably was recovering from a late night prior to this at the Regency with that gigolo boyfriend of hers, Ron Pataky.

SHE LOOKS LIKE TWEETIE BIRD.

@gcjerryusc I don't think Arlene ever did that. Of course, she didn't need to.

Randsom Wear Highly presumptious and somewhat cynical. Truth is she absolutely rocked as a journalist this year.

Very handsome man. Arlene called the female screams from the audience for "Moose calls". :) 20:10

So young in this video! Not quite 26. He is still a very handsome man at 75, but back then -- wow!

Well there are many upsides to dating the daughter of the President, particularly if he can keep you from going to Vietnam.

Oh good grief! Good point!

Skin divers don't dive deep. Hence the name.

@@rmelin13231 "Wikipedia" tells a different story than you do about this.

The male audience had better manners than the usual lot.

I keep thinking that they would not get away with that in today's world

​@@gilliankewI noticed that the wolf whistles started disappearing in these episodes during 1965. I wonder whether at some point the audience was specifically told to not do that, as cultural mores were rapidly changing.

Is it on KZfaq?

I cannot find it.

SaveThe TPC Two George Hamilton(s)! They must have been angry at each other for having the same name. :)

Johan Bengtsson I think this clip was of his father performing. I'm not sure, but I know George Hamilton's father was a musician/singer, and had the same name. (The father's nickname was btw "Spike" :)

SuperWinterborn No, this was a different George Hamilton.

+Observations Observations Or who are in fact so clever that they don't mind losing a chance to show everyone just how clever they are, who can laugh at themselves.

Observations Observations j

He'll work on his tan past death. 'I'm working on my tan...for The Lord!'

jrmetmoi The coffin! The ultimate tanning booth!

Maybe he's naturally darker.....

George Hamilton is idolized by perennial hippie and slacker, Zonker Harris, in the comic strip "Doonesbury", There was a time when Zonker would be perfecting his tan to compete in a fictional contest called "George Hamilton Open".

John Fuentes Ha ha.

thebluerobin Never seen him do anything but just look tanned and dressed smart.

He was a womanizer

Maybe like me she had allergy issues. I get itchy if so wear my ring too long - or I did, before my hubby replaced my gold ring with a platinum one. 😝

Yes, ears are part of the face.

@@Beson-SE No but they are part of the head...