What's My Line - Banned Episode, Smoking - 1950's

[@gname8252]

people smoked everywhere back then...the grocery store, the hospital, on a plane.....everyone smoked on t.v. they did not block shows for that reason

[@marinamartinez6886]

Yep, doctors were notorious for smoking and getting lung cancer.

[@jakesnake165]

That's because the cigarette co.we're paying their salaries.until Yul brener,& John wyane,died from cancer and made the link to cigarette's got them out of the industry.when I was a kid even the Flintstones we're advertising it,& having the kids in commercial's getting the cigarette's for them all it took for a kid to buy them in the 60s was a note from their mother.so you know how that went.

[@lindaackerman3507]

@@jakesnake165 I actually remember a commercial that Yul Brenner made about smoking, he said it was too late for him because he already had the disease but dont let it be too late for you too, don't smoke.....I took it very seriously.

[@dandybeano3891]

G name Back then the cigarettes smelled like Figs, and today's they smell like Camel shit.

[@JS-zf1ub]

They even sold candy cigarettes to kids back in the day, which we would “ smoke” then eat.. pretending to be very debonair..

[@jeffreybroad3123]

I don't much care about the title. I just love that someone or someones have uploaded these. I watched it with my grandmother, absolutely hated it then. Makes me so happy now. Thank you very much!

[@Dragon.Thistle.112]

Jeffrey if you check on KZbin under “What’s My Line” there’s a whole channel with episodes from beginning to their last show.

[@DorothyNylund]

My mom was a guest on this show in the early 60's. Very exciting for our family.

[@joeweatlu5169]

What was her "line"?

[@chloecook4511]

Come on, what was her line?

[@akrenwinkle]

@@chloecook4511 Natalie Wood's swimming instructor.

[@Weyjx]

Too soon​@@akrenwinkle

[@akrenwinkle]

@@Weyjx Sorry...

[@blaws6684]

Lucy and desi landed in a helicopter on the football field behind Jamestown High School to meet the fans in her home town. Then there was a short parade to the Palace Theater (now fully restored) for the premier. I was there but don’t remember. My mother had to carry me at that age. Today the Lucy Desi Museum is just 2 blocks away from that theater. Edit. Oh my goodness the pilot on the show too!

[@prioress]

Thanks for that information. Fun to know.

[@randilevson9547]

A wonderful memory to have, even if you don't remember it. 😊

[@richardoconnor2560]

The panelists were all so smart and articulate. Couldn't believe Fred Allen guessed Churchill's identity almost "out of the blue". I could listen to Arlene Frances' voice all day.

[@meltzerboy]

In those days most people, including Americans, were rather intelligent and articulate, unlike today.

[@laurahoward5426]

He had met him

[@largemember]

Its almost as if the whole show was CHOREOGRAPHED!!!....'SAY IT AINT SO!!!!!'

[@macmcleod1188]

​@@largememberit ain't so. However, they got a lot of clues from the audience reactions compared to a normal 20 questions game. The world was a smaller place than and there were less people. The United States only had a population 1/8 the size what it is today. The panel also had several questions they usually asked at the beginning that enormously restricted the potential possibilities. And finally, people were usually on the show in connection with something new they were doing like a book or show or play or movie.

[@cheriem432]

I still feel bad that Dorothy Kilgallen was most likely murdered.

[@WhatsMyLine]

What really bugs me about this video-- beyond the annoying 30 second intro-- is that the title is an outright LIE intended to troll for views. This episode was never banned. Whoever posted this made that up from whole cloth. Complete nonsense. It was rerun more than once on GSN. No episodes of WML were ever removed from the rerun lineup. Ever. I'd have thought this could possibly just have been a misunderstanding by the original poster here, but given how many people in the comments have already pointed out the "mistake", and that it's never been "corrected", I see no reason to doubt this was fully intentional.

[@jdano9029]

+What's My Line? Yes. I watch WML,TTTT and IGAS every day and Garry Moore, in particular, smoked a lot. John Daly also smoked some but not as blatantly as GM. Love your page, WML!

[@WhatsMyLine]

J Dano Thanks! Yes, when you see John smoking in a few of the early WML shows, he appears to have been trying to conceal it from the camera. Garry Moore sure never cared. :) There WERE episodes of IGAS and TTTT pulled from reruns due to cigarette **sponsorship** logos being visible on set, but never was any episode of any series banned because a person was seen smoking on camera. It's ridiculous to even think it would be so. Then again, it's ridiculous that the other shows were pulled due to merely having a visible cigarette sponsor logo. so go figure. We're just very lucky that WML was never prominently sponsored by cigarettes or some of the shows might have actually been pulled along with those TTTT and IGAS shows. In any event, it's still wildly inaccurate to call any episode of any series "banned" just because one cable station caved to the complaints of a minority of cranky viewers and stopped rerunning it. Of course, the more comments I leave on this video, the more I'm actually helping its search rankings, so. . . maybe I'd better stop. :) I appreciate your support!

[@Joebunkyss1]

+What's My Line? i wonder how one does word it yet not advocate smoking.

[@WhatsMyLine]

Scott Awaywithit I don't see what this has to do with "advocating smoking". This episode-- as well as many other shows from this and other series that show people smoking on camera-- are posted on various channels I run. I don't make a big issue of it in the video title, let alone outright LIE about the shows being banned so I can mislead hundreds of thousands of people to watch a video on a false pretense. I've yet to get a comment from anyone accusing me of "promoting" or "advocating" smoking by virtue of posting a show that shows someone smoking. The whole notion is, frankly, more than a little ridiculous to me. If the video were posted as a "banned episode" and the reason made up (from whole cloth) was something else, it would *still* be getting hundreds of thousands of views under false pretenses. "Smoking" isn't the issue. The fact that the video title and description are an outright and fully intentional LIE is the issue.

[@jdano9029]

+What's My Line? Ignore it...as you pointed out earlier, responding to people who have their panties in a wad only adds more views and purported 'support' to this video. I suggest you don't bother responding to any more of these. You are right and there's no reason to further the discussion. Your WML page is the definitive one. Anybody who cares enough to watch WML need only go to your page for great WML shows without misleading statements.

[@DBEdwards]

This show is hysterical. Great Panel and host. AND YOU HAVE INCLUDED THE ORIGINAL COMMERCIALS WHICH GIVES US, THE AUDIENCE, AN INTIMATE INSIGHT TO THE TIMES THEN. WONDERFUL!

[@Marnee4191]

I loved the commercial. I've bookmarked it to show my son. My Dad worked at what became called Univac (then Sperry I think) for decades. I believe he was working there at the time this was made. Our neighbor and my friend's Dad eventually became vice president of that company (in the 70s I think). I became a software developer and it's crazy how far the technology has come.

[@SusanSlack-j8f]

I never knew it existed until 2018

[@belindaalbright8798]

Doctors regularly did cigarette commercials. Smoking was chic and very much accepted in all social circles. There were other episodes of WML where panelists as well as John Daley were smoking. When you walked through any store there would be cigarette butts on the floor. In those days nonsmokers were outnumbered by those who smoked.

[@freemanz4051]

Camel sponsored the NEWS. Ed Murrow smoked on air... made hkim look intelligent, they said so, he was a bastion of... WHAT? Having a wall between news and sponsorship? BULLSHIT!

[@MK-ft3qt]

Doctors never did TV commercials for smoking ads....they were actors.😅

[@muppetonmeds]

@@MK-ft3qt Sorry but all doctors on TV are real. Yeah probably lol I wouldn't trust those tobacco sellers. TC

[@MK-ft3qt]

@@muppetonmeds We are both correct. Real doctors were used in cigarette commercials until the late 1960's. From the 1970s forward, actors were used.

[@Lalaland-q2z]

@@MK-ft3qt Back of popular magazines showed real Physician's endorsing cigarettes.

[@GreenJeansCO]

I've never really watched this show, but have been addicted to these videos for about three evenings now. So intelligent, and elegant in its simplicity. Also I loved the Univac commercial in this.

[@CarolMortensen-e2b]

My late husband worked for Sperry Rand then Univac later Unisys from 1973 until the day before he died in 2013. He graduated from college and enlisted in the Army before he was drafted. Instead of going into officer's training school, he trained as a computer tech in the army and was hired by Sperry Rand when he got out. He loved it. He was there for 40 years.

[@jceepf]

I am old enough that I used a UNIVAC computer..... and also a slide rule.

[@randilevson9547]

​@@jceepf Stone tablet and a chisel.

[@mandabear4167]

As an eleven year old this was simply amazing to watch, it put so much stuff in perspective.

[@MsJudi54]

I live in Richland Hills, TX. My dad was an Quality Assurance Inspector for the Huey Helicopter (military) in the 1950's at Bell Helicopter in Ft. Worth, TX-. He also inspected the Titan I & Titan II missiles in Altas, Oklahoma.

[@THE-HammerMan]

The show was NEVER banned! That is an outrageous lie. A wonderful show. The commercial with the advanced UNIVAC computer is iconic history.

[@Dougdenslowe714]

I’ve other episodes of WML and it showed Jonn C. Daly smoking

[@Dougdenslowe714]

I’ve “seen”

[@williamarndt9465]

I believe some of the episodes were never rerun

[@rmelin13231]

Very early on, even Arlene can be seen with a cigarette. What's the big deal? Something like 60% of adults smoked then. Probably even a higher percentage among teens.

[@williamarndt9465]

@@rmelin13231 The big deal? The number of friends and relatives my parents' age who died of lung cancer. And the pure disgust of the smell in people's home and in restaurants. You couldn't get away from it.

[@tullochgorum6323]

It's amazing how computing has progressed in my lifetime. That room-sized Univac costing around $15,000,000 at today's values made 2000 calculations per second. In my home office I have a workstation that offers up to 50 billion calculations per second. I bought it used for under $300...

[@steveinchelsea]

As someone "of a certain age" I can tell you that smoking was commonplace on TV in the 50s & 60s whether on dramatic, talk, or game shows. The tobacco industry was very powerful and they would be more likely to ban Fred Allen's joke about the American Tobacco Co.putting a filter on Old Smoky.

[@helengazzara8725]

After JFK died, there was a newsman who interviewed Abraham Zapruder. He was smoking his head off

[@pno2496]

we need to keep these videos before they are gone

[@windstorm1000]

Join the millions who are addicted to it--like me! Its intelligent and fun--both qualities lacking on TV these days, that's for sure.

[@thesilentdiva]

My mom mentioned Univac from time to time and how she thought out was so technologically advanced and fascinating at the time. Now I get to see it.

[@laurahoward5426]

Watch the Hepburn/ Tracy film Desk Set.....the univac is the main character...

[@divinewon73]

This show originated in 1950 and near the end of it. The host mentions they are celebration of their sixth anniversary so this took place some time after February 1956. Thank you for posting!😘👍

[@SusanSlack-j8f]

There were actually 15 seasons..they may only show certain seasons..but there were 15 seasons..the longest game show

[@jrft2610]

What a wonderful bunch of witty people. Witty panelists, witty host and interesting guests. What happened to TV? What happened to class? What happened to class on TV?

[@Charlotte-wp9rf]

Jackie Gibson - It fell into the gutter.

[@kensherwin4544]

Whatever happened to Randolph Scott? I guess it happened to the whole industry.

[@johnryman-f3c]

what happened to the country. .mass immigration

[@chloecook4511]

​​@@johnryman-f3cit is also what created this country.

[@johnahearn7964]

Are you saying Curb Your Enthusiasm isn’t witty and sophisticated???

[@KingOFuh]

This show was originally aired February 5, 1956. Makes sense that the helicopter pilot was from Richland Hills, TX, since that was the HQ of Bell Helicopter. It's in the Mid-Cities, between Dallas and Fort Worth.

[@RebekahCurielAlessi]

🌟 Thanks!!

[@mistermac56]

Fred Allen was a well known as a radio and early TV comedian. He died from a heart attack in 1956 during a walk about 24 hours before he was to be on the panel for the Sunday episode of "What's My Line" and John Daly presented a special tribute message at the beginning of that episode. Although Allen was a jokester on the show, he was an extremely good player.

[@Thompsontech1History]

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[@Grisbi6]

How great to see this episode of What's My Line from 1956! Thanks for saving it for us.

[@leannsherman6723]

Great teamwork on the Randolph Churchill segment. That was tough for Desi Arnaz, who probably wasn’t very familiar with him.

[@stratplayr6997]

Winston Churchill was still alive when this episode was filmed. He would've been an amazing mystery guest to have.

[@RonGerstein]

Winston Churchill died in 1965

[@eeddieedwards3890]

Winston Churchill would have been an awesome guest. If he had appeared on "What's My Line" it would have been the show's "finest hour" or half hour anyway.

[@paulmason329]

​@@eeddieedwards3890Churchill was Prime Minister again from 1951-55 and was in poor health during his eighties (he died at 90) so would not have been fit enough to appear on What's My Line either side of the Atlantic Randolph Churchill died in 1968.

[@eeddieedwards3890]

@@paulmason329 Good points. For the record Winston Churchill died in 1965.

[@rmp7400]

​@@eeddieedwards3890 Only if one were to be a fan of Churchill....

[@Alucard33592]

its absolutly crazy how far technology has come...to go from things like that that are that big to computers that fit in your hand that easily do 50 times more

[@KingOFuh]

The show was almost banned when Desi Arnaz asked Kim Novak if she was a natural blonde. She said, "I'll let you know some other time." All that got cut out.

[@TomBarrister]

The show hasn't been banned anywhere, as far as I know. I've seen it twice on Game Show Network. This episode was, in fact, the first one that was put up on the internet, almost 15 years ago, on a site named AETV.

[@rudd-dq6ns]

Why would they have any reason to ban this episode? Smoking wasn't made illegal in public places (except for pubs/clubs and some cafes) until the 90's and the ban on smoking in pubs and clubs came in the late 2000's - around 2009. Smoking was allowed on public transport back then even on planes

[@michaelbabbitt3837]

Because they think we are all dummies.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

It's a feeble-minded and rather pathetic attempt at creating clickbait, on the uploader's part.

[@cheriem432]

Nothing. "Banned" makes it clickbait, that's all.

[@SequoiaSemperviren]

Trying to think of any clip of Edward R. Morrow when he wasn't smoking a cigarette, I can't.

[@SergioArellano-yd7ik]

They couldn't even find a picture of him without a cigarette to put on his stamp so they removed it

[@voyaristika5673]

And Johnny Carson had a cig burning just about the whole show , I'm thinking into the 80s.

[@rdr319]

Chet Huntley and David Brinkley had a cigarette spewing smoke off the side while they were reading the news. The program was sponsored by cigars and cigarettes.

[@cheriem432]

Do we know his cause of death?

[@virginiaspeciale8641]

He always had a fog of 💨 smoke around his head.

[@101slowdream]

It was nice to see complete episode including commercials as it appeared in 1956 as opposed to a rebroadcast on the game show network.

[@CarolMortensen-e2b]

One my favorite things about watching old game shows is the old commercials. I'm always disappointed when there are none. My favorite thing about watching "You Bet Your Life" starring Groucho Marx are the DeSoto commercials where one can see the amazing vehicles from the early to late 50's.

[@georgestrum3478]

There aren't any tv hosts today that are as elegant as John Daley was. Right?

[@Tre404]

That's ABSOLUTELY right!

[@KiraPlaysGuitar]

Letterman and Stephen Fry might be along the same lines.

[@keithklein8935]

I think Alex Trebek does a wonderful job on Jeopardy.

[@jamessizemore1446]

If there ain't no profit then it doesn't happen.

[@lorenarodgers7545]

Trebek came to mind as the closest I've seen.

[@420GratefulHippie]

This was never banned. People smoked anywhere and everywhere. There were no laws banning indoor smoking back then. Just watch "The Twilight Zone", 1959-1964. Rod Serling is smoking in almost every show intro and they still air these shows on SyFy.

[@7890klop]

It was considered impolite if any ash tray was not provided for your guests.

[@troydante]

I remember when you could smoke in movie theaters and grocery stores ...

[@milomilo55]

@@troydante ..and in hospitals, banks, buses, all restaurants, planes, hotels and pretty much everywhere.

[@marygalati539]

You could even visit your doctor and be offered a cigarette to relax during the consultation.

[@dinahbrown902]

Smoking was as common as breathing

[@threynolds2]

I didn't watch this because it was banned (which it wasn't). I watched it because I'm a fan of What's My Line.

[@josephrichardson6818]

I watched it specifically because it said it was banned and wanted to see why. I read all the $+up!d comments to see why it was banned because I saw nothing wrong with it. So I got trolled twice (sort of)

[@roberttelarket4934]

Kim was one of Hollywood’s promiscuous gals! She was in many many many bedrooms! One especially was Porifirio Rubirosa.

[@fever_spike]

"Did he say, 'With Lucy'?" "That's another show--'I Love Loosely'...!" Good Lord, I almost spit out my soup! XD

[@BradThePitts]

27:15 In 5th grade my teacher asked, *"What do men do standing that women do sitting down?"* We all laughed because of course we thought he meant *"pee"* - but here we see the answer is *"shake hands!"*

[@edfelstein3891]

There's a third part: ...and a dog do with one leg raised.

[@BlackRiverBay]

@@edfelstein3891 only male dogs

[@dtwelloh1]

Notice how all the guys hair shine? Back then it was Brylcreem, a little dab will do ya.

[@donna30044]

"Brylcreem - A Little Dab'll Do Ya! Brylcreem - You'll look so debonair. Brylcreem - The gals'll all pursue ya; they'll love to run their fingers through your hair!"

[@beerborn]

It wasn't Brylcreem, it was Brilliantine Pomade.

[@walterweddle7644]

I came back to Brylcreem.

[@walterweddle7644]

Vitalis

[@19gregske55]

@@beerborn : Question - one hair product from the era employed 3 letters in its name. It went something like V is for vegetable A is for animal M is for mineral. But, I don't recall a product named VAM. Can anyone help?

[@patg9017]

Everyone is missing the best pat at 20 minutes where they talk about Univac and how fast and powerful it is.

[@terryblack2844]

I was a smoker 70’s-80’s. I flew a lot. It was awful sitting in the back of plane in the smoking section. All of us were coughing and needed oxygen. If you were in the front and walked to restrooms in the back, you would see a cloud of smoke covering the section. No exhaust fans. After a couple months, I started sitting in the front. When I wanted to smoke, I stood in the back (. Dozens of people would be standing in the back). You could stand in the aisles talking to others from after takeoff and prior to landing. I don’t recall ever being stuck with turbulence

[@MK-ft3qt]

You're full of crap. There wasn't a cloud of smoke in the smoking section of the aircraft....I flew for years and NOT ONCE was there anything like what you described...LIAR.

[@deborahchapman222]

I remember those days. I was on a long flight to California from Florida. I did not smoke. Everyone up front was asleep or quietly reading. Everyone else was in the back was smoking and drinking. They were having quite a party back there. I went back there and hung out with them. They were a lot of fun! 🎉🎉🎉

[@burlingtonbill1]

REALLY cool to see the Remington Rand computer commercial at 19:32! That's what a computer looked like in 1956. It took up most of a very large room.

[@wolfgangvonscheisskopf545]

Also needed to be kept in a very cold room because of all of the vacuum tubes.

[@sonnestt]

The computer wore tennis shoes

[@bdavis7981]

I've been saying recently, I and probably many other people are so tired of the whippy, loud, fast-edited stuff that plasters us all the time. Here was a simple show but all class. We need class again. I favor that one of the major networks bring this show back without any changes except for the people, of course, and it should be on Sundays at 10:30 like the original. Perfect time, end of weekend for most. Love the formal introductions, the formal good-nights and the formal attire. Let's write the networks. Bring back What's My Line?

[@gentjohn1000]

K

[@tapeize]

METV network.

[@songsalieri]

Great idea, if they would only keep the original format instead of trying to spice it up, modernize it or otherwise ruin it.

[@azmike007]

I agree! I love watching the old stuff. Especially, the Match Game series' that ran in the early -> mid 70's! They tried to do it with alec baldwin...absolute waste of time, plain garbage and Z-ro chemistry.

[@7890klop]

They could just show the old black-and-white reruns. That would be better.

[@YosenBMamma]

Did you ever encounter something that you never noticed before; and then suddenly every where you look, there it is(or references to it)? I don't know if there is a name for that phenomenon, but that is what's been happening to me lately. The other week, I encountered a story about UNIVAC computers. Ever since, I've been seeing UNIVAC all over the place. Weird, huh?

[@RobertJohnson-lc5bj]

Yosen B. Mamma -synchronicity

[@jzt999]

Have you watched the movie "Desk Set" yet?

[@billcoley8520]

Yes I can go all day and never know what time it is. Then I look and the time is 11:11 or 1:11. Last night I woke up because I was thirsty and I looked at the alarm clock ⏰ and it was 1:11am

[@lauriemashek5419]

Bill C. It is a curious phenomenon, the time I frequently see is 9:38.

[@bradenf]

@@billcoley8520 I tend to notice the time at 12:34 a lot. When it's 12:33 I notice and it's almost like a lost opportunity. Although I'm sure it happens often, I never find 12:35 remarkable.

[@123rosebuds]

Love these vintage shows!

[@user-bf5ik2sq5e]

💙💙💙 I can't recall the magazine we purchased for my grandmother from the 1940s, but my husband found it-it had everything, including a substantial collection of cookie recipes, not that she needed them; she could make anything. I was always shocked and intrigued by one of the advertisements; I don't remember the singer, I believe she was operatic... but the ad stated that Camels were her cigarette of choice; she trusted them with her voice, as the doctors recommended. I've never forgotten that. My husband, chain smoker, quit smoking in the 1970s and gave up drinking in 2002, habits he started as a child in the 1940s. If he can do it, anyone can.

[@Stevevan64]

It's just nice to see. I've been watching a few of these recently and it's been a joy. For sure this one is an oldie. Thanks

[@RBAILEY57]

I'm 66, and i loved WML as a child. This is a great episode. Yes, younger people don't understand how much smoking was socially acceptable then.

[@shananagans5]

No doubt. I recall making ash trays for Mother's day when I was in grade school. Even smoking on airliners. My High school even allowed students to smoke outside.

[@CarolMortensen-e2b]

When I was in grade school in the 60's, I recall visiting my neighbor lady who had just had a baby. She had the baby bottle in one hand feeding her baby while she held a cigarette in the other.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast LIVE on February 5, 1956. A month later, Fred Allen was dead of a heart attack.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Indeed. Poor Fred had suffered from hypertension (high blood pressure) for years.

[@bertiversham102]

Head to 19:28 and watch the advertisement for UNIVAC. Imagine how unfathomable it would have been for people watching this show in 1957(?) to envision the state of computers today.

[@raye64]

When I went in the Navy in the late 70's I was a technician on a Sperry Univac 1219 Computer that was very similar to this one, it had 16K of Ram and was the size of a small refrigerator. It was hard even then to envision having a cell phone in my pocket with so many times more computing power.

[@donna30044]

Todays smart phones have a lot more computing power than a warehouse full of Univac computers.

[@briane173]

Nevertheless this was the state of the art back then. Just a few years before the introduction of the integrated circuit.

[@Ichijoe2112]

@@donna30044 To bad it's no where near as useful or as revolutionary as the Univac. Considering the most taxing thing an iPhone might do, is playing a Video recording from sixty-three years ago. When Univacs were predicting presidential elections, the weather, and how nuclear bombs would explode. It feels like we lost something with the death of the 8-bit microcomputers of the 70s, and 80s. The point here being what good is having more power then X when you can never actually use it?

[@jackkomisar458]

@@Ichijoe2112 Computers are still being used to predict presidential elections, the weather, and nuclear reactions. Their increased speed means that they can do the job much better. Weather prediction, including hurricane prediction, has gotten a lot better since 1957. Back then, a 5-day prediction would have been sheer guessing. Now it is routine and based on sophisticated models and vast numbers of calculations. Getting back to the iPhone, it would have been impossible in 1957 or for many years later to create a cell phone network. Cell phones depend on high-speed switching between cell towers to maintain continuous contact with the network.

[@BB1951]

Kim Novak was in my VERY humble opinion one of the 20th centuries most georgous women, bar none. Breathtaking.

[@BasicYTHandle]

*century's

[@hyramesshiramess1035]

LOVED Fred Allen. Who comes up with lines like "I Love Loosely" these days? NO ONE. The Fifties were a grand and glorious time to be alive in the USA.

[@MsAppassionata]

Greg Ingram He sounds like he’s opposed to hate to me. And what do the democrats have to do with it? Bigotry existed inside and outside of politics.

[@1aikane]

It was a period of great contrast. Good economy, great cars, low cost of living, great films...but Jim Crow, McCarthyism, oppression of gay citizens. So, yes grand and not so grand

[@jamessizemore1446]

The cars were beautiful, but if not maintained meticulously were a smoking rusting heap in by the fifth year of use.

[@1aikane]

@@jamessizemore1446 they were made of carbon steel.

[@YellowstoneBound1948]

Well I could have told Hyramess that she was going to walk into your diatribe. The 50s were the greatest years. We loved our nation.@Greg Ingram

[@nephetula]

Johnny Carson (and his guests) smoked on camera during the old "Tonight Show" series well up into the 1970's.

[@markchildrey9441]

Exactly! Carson told Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes that he started to hide it when it became passe and out of vogue. Before then you could watch Carson light up and puff away on camera.

[@bartondonnelly5293]

Randolph Churchill (son of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill) and Kim Novak. Aired February 05, 1956.

[@susanh98110]

What's the big deal? Smoking was common on TV long after this.

[@jackiedavenport1028]

And it didn't bother anyone either!

[@d.e.b.b5788]

Through about 1980, doctors made rounds in hospitals while smoking cigarettes and cigars. Some would even offer one to their patients.

[@d.e.b.b5788]

@Real Dudes Party Nude Not everyone was an alcoholic; it was just that many enjoyed a drink, much the same way people offer coffee or tea today almost automatically to visitors. Few drank to excess on a regular basis during daytime hours. And surprisingly, just like today, some developed a tremendous tolerance to alcohol, drank all day, never slurred their words, never staggered, and drove quite well. Surprising to today's people who are taught that a single drink will make you falling down drunk. Many men in construction started drinking mid day and never screwed up their jobs, and that includes those working in high steel. Those that couldn't handle their alcohol, didn't drink it if they knew they were going to be doing something where their judgement was effected. This practice was quite widespread, a drink or two was very, very common among a widely diverse population of people. Today, while drinking or drugs are villianized by society, texting, talking on the phone, eating, putting on makeup, have all taken their place while driving, and just like back then, the people who do it truly believe that it won't affect their driving, at all. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@Woozler554]

They were smoking on TV sets as late as the 70s and probably the 80s as well.

[@dachtorstrange4863]

Old Randolph sure looks like his dad.

[@Theaddora]

Exactly!

[@a.f.7246]

Yes

[@voicetube]

It's very strange to think that there's probably more computing power in my ol' iPhone 6 (considered by some of my friends an "antique") than probably more than TWO of those Univac computers!

[@maryeperry3593]

My techie friends have told me that there is more computing power in a modern digital watch than there was in the Apollo space capsules..

[@voicetube]

@@maryeperry3593 I hear you, I have heard that sentiment echoed most certainly. Wild stuff!

[@donaldleen933]

Working in a hospital in the 1980s. The Doctors did patient rounds smoking cigarettes. Patients smoked in bed with special long rubber tubes connected to a cigarette so they would not set their beds on fire. Nurses and and other staff smoked too.

[@fossrampant5826]

"I love loosely" was brilliant.

[@georgebreithaupt126]

Fred Allen was brilliant. A true wit!!!

[@waynej2608]

Very good.

[@rjohnson9929]

There didn't used to be non-smoking areas; people smoked EVERYWHERE. Believe it or not, you could even smoke in a courtroom! - the judge, jury, attorneys, litigants, & witnesses (while on the stand no less) - I expect those in the galley as well. Watch an old episode of 'Perry Mason' or the movie, 'The Manchurian Candidate', or the like. It just blows my mind!

[@blairdalziel1447]

Try being in the concession stands during the intermission of a basketball or hockey game. Yikes…I was 11 yrs old and nearly lost my Dad in the thick second hand smoke cause you weren’t allowed to smoke in the arena when the game was on 😅

[@sheristewart3940]

In today's world the cigarette that Randolph S. Churchill smoked is no longer allowed to be shown on public television. My goodness, cigarettes were banned from television shows and commercials in the very late 70s or very early 80s, if memory serves me correct.

[@rickborbons4398]

I remember staying up to watch New Year's celebrations on TV on December 31st, 1970...the last half hour of the year was nothing but cigarette commercials...and this was way before the "Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's" that happens nowadays...

[@doloresswann4600]

WOW - seeing our very first computer / the Univac. Amazing. *( 6th Anniversary Feb. 2.)

[@1aikane]

Love seeing such natural class and dignity. Wish I could have been there

[@markziering6910]

Banned? Movies about the 50's, including those about Ed Murrow, the great reporter, show lots of people smoking.

[@DebbieW1965]

The people were all so Classy back in this area of time. It's very sad that those days age gone forever!

[@jossposs6111]

Give me a break? Like everybody on game shows today is rude? Stop whining!

[@irgski]

and they had excellent handwriting...yet another thing schools deem as unnecessary.

[@johnmills3163]

@@jossposs6111 ... they were classy , you just didn't grow up in that time period !

[@jossposs6111]

John Mills How do you know when I grew up? I’m probaly older than you!😥 I do agree we were a more disciplined, polite society. Just not sure you are forgetting many social issues?

[@justagerman140]

Let's bring it back! Have dignity, style and manners. Dress up and be polite. 'Please', 'thank you', 'excuse me' and a button up shirt with a sport coat can go a long way. :)

[@adersast1802]

I like people from this time.

[@dlwoolman]

We could smoke in most doctors waiting rooms into the 60's. And on TV, Kent cigarettes were advertised as the cigarette most doctors smoked.

[@wolfgangvonscheisskopf545]

It was Camels, the real ones with no filters, in the magazines.

[@dinahbrown902]

I smoked while visiting my mom in the hospital in the 70s. I know smoking is bad for you but it’s a right we let government take away, and they keep taking

[@mehboobkm3728]

@@dinahbrown902 Oh, harming other people is your right!! Thanks for letting us know.. Now you may take your guns out, go and shoot innocent people in the public or your relatives living around and tell the government, it is your right before aiming that gun to your head!!

[@johnamaral1786]

@@dinahbrown902 The gov. did not take away your right to smoke, only restricted your right to infringe on the right of nonsmokers to avoid the known health consequences caused by your smoke. /:-)

[@dinahbrown902]

@@johnamaral1786 I’ve always been a polite smoker. I f someone asks me not to smoke around them I don’t. I also don’t throw cigarette butts down, only litter bugs behave in that way.

[@MikeF5]

This wasn't banned. They were smoking on the show Match Game and that was in the 70's. Smoking just wasn't a big deal until the early 80's.

[@MK-ft3qt]

All the anti smoking NAZIS will lie about anything associated with smokers....exactly how HITLER was towards smoking. The NAZI anti smoking fascists go back centuries because the anti smoking NAZIS think it's not appropriate for a PURE RACE TO SMOKE...😮😮 It's not about health, it's about a pure race and discrimination of a group...it's no different from racism. It just flies under the guise of HEALTH.

[@Germatti13489]

When I was growing up in the sixties and seventies it seemed that everyone smoked on and off TV.

[@cheriem432]

They were. Smoking was everywhere. As an adult, I have never understood why such a disgusting habit for no more than 35% of the population was accepted practice.

[@keithhyttinen8275]

In college in the middle 1970's, we had ashtrays on the desks in classrooms. And smoked away. With no non-smokers whining.

[@MooPotPie]

Same at my college in the 1980s.

[@brontewcat]

No we dated not say a word then. Instead I used to go home with headache and a scratchy throat from the guy who was in the cubicle next to mine chain smoking

[@diane9247]

My parents and I watched this together...not sure what my brothers were doing during the show, but they were way to young to be interested in this one. I loved it!

[@flash001USA]

I remember watching this show in the early 60's and I've seen some of the reruns of the earlier shows. For a show without any bells and whistles this was a really good attention holder show. All I can say is wow this takes me back!

[@drmaw781]

On I've Got a Secret, the host Gary Moore, smokes constantly, and it ran at the same time as this show. Did anyone notice Randolph Churchill as a guest? The son of Winston Churchill who saved Britain in WWII less than 10 years before this show. That was my historical thrill. Quite amazing to see someone like that in a casual situation.

[@MikeGreenwood51]

Chruchill helped kill millions and get millions killed with his cigars. You know they rationed people to a pound of sausages a week. But Churchill could smoke about 10 £70 ($100) cigars a day as well as consumming brandy as if it was freely available.

[@theodorebratro4687]

Gary lost his voice box.

[@YellowstoneBound1948]

A warped comment from a disturbed individual. Churchill was the greatest man of the 20th Century. He and his tiny nation held German at bay for four years, while America dithered, finally landing in Normandy in 1940@@MikeGreenwood51

[@MikeGreenwood51]

@@YellowstoneBound1948 Nothing great about a murderer Masonic secret society psychopath mad on drink and dirty cigars. Sorry-but he didn't hold Germany back at all. His miserable anti German hate campaign from 1911 onwards proves he wasn't 'holding any Germans at bay'. But starting the politics of the devil for his own personal profit. He wasn't the only political member planning war. As the Triple Entente agreement against Germany and the European Central Powers was already active since 1907. The Triple Entente agreement of Tsar Nicholas, Britain and France. He and his 'tiny Nation'? Lol. Are you just a sick mad propagandist. 'The Empire upon which the sun never sets'? Are you sure that The Empire of Great Britain was such a tiny Nation? It had the world's largest Army at the time in India? How can such a midget of a nation be so large and yet still be tiny? The USA didn't differ. It had a clear policy. An anti war policy. A policy pro peace and non engagement in other European Nation's disputes. You write as if you were pro World War rather than non escalation. But you are also wrong about your differing view on the other reality as the USA were already actively engaged before 1940. They had been active since Woodrow Wilson's Versailles travesty. They were active in supplying arms and supplies. So how you conclude they were differing is something only one as bizarre as your self could explain. If not for the mad Churchill war mongering and globalist Empire subjectionist policies then maybe there would have been no war at all. His war from 1911 onward and likely before was not just against Germany but against the stability of Central Europe and the Central European Powers. So the Chruchillian protagonist policy was against most or All Europeans. As All Europeans would not be part of his subjectionist British Empire in any form other than supposed subjects under their fowl regime of tyrannical objectives. It was probably a good thing his son was booted from Parliament as well as likely the third and forth would War would already have occurred and the world would by now be on the fifth and sixth.

[@MikeGreenwood51]

@Bill Sanders Deaths for the Dresden bombing are reported as between 22,700 to 25.000 (4/4/19 Wikipedia April 2019). So I am not sure where you got your figure of 600,000. I also can not agree that Churchill or the UK Government would have seen the war as already won during those early 1945 months. Politically as far as I know, Dresden wasn't a pro Hitler NAZI Socialist centre. So the choice to bomb Dresden seems with hind sight inappropriate. But that as far as I know would not have been the thinking or knowledge of the UK Government at the time as they were against Germany as a whole regardless of their political affiliations. Churchill was pro Zionist and Zionism. But if he was a Zionist himself I do not know. So if you have factual evidence of his actual membership then please write. But clearly he was committed and supportive as well as being a quarter Jew from his half Jewish mother who his father had married. His father was an associate of the Zionists if not an active member whilst he severed as a UK Member of Parliament under the UK Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli under whom so many wars were engaged in from India, South Africa to Afghanistan under the flag of the British Empire. Along with Zionist Baron Rothschild (Principal financial benefactor of some of those wars (Kimberly Diamond Mines-The South African Gold fields) who Randolph (Winston's father) along with Disraeli had tried to get elected to the UK Parliament. They were all members of the Secret Masonic Society, so were an association of friends, associates, political associates and Zionist activists. Sorry but politically 'The Jews' did not kill Jesus. Judea was in revolt at the time of Jesus. So the Jews were not a united political entity able to act as a united nation. Jesus was Jewish him self, pro religious Mosaic Law. (He came not to destroy the laws of the Prophets but to full-fill them (New Testament)). It was the Judaeo Sanhedrin Council with the Pro Roman Priesthood Caiaphas who sentenced and sought the death sentence for Jesus. Not all Jews. Not the religious Zealots and followers (Mostly or all Jews). So it is not right to say 'The Jews killed Jesus. Some Jews killed Jesus. But wasn't it Jesus's own apocalyptian mission to die as a martyr? So in my opinion Jesus played a part in his own death. He also instructed all his disciples they would all be scourged and executed for his name sake. They would be the most hated of the nations (Mathew 10). So there was a suicide pact there with Jesus and his disciples. In that sense Jesus was complicit in his own death. So not 'The Jews'. But some Jews. But yes the Vatican Popes have continued doing genocides. Massacre of the French Huguenots, The Irish rebellion in the 1600s.

[@PrivateEyeYiYi]

There's nothing here that would be banned when it was originally shown.

[@TomSpurlock]

The best part of this video is at 19:45, the commercial for a 50's computer. Priceless.

[@Barb5001]

Fact is, back then it was very common for people to smoke on TV shows, particularly if the show was sponsored by a cigarette co.. This was a time when the general public was in denial about all the seroius heath issues that resulted from smoking..

[@jaddison1112]

The Univac Commercial was interesting from back in the 1950s. Little did they know how fast and improved computers would become. Little did they know how accurate computers would become in weather prediction when satellite data is also factored in. Fascinating !

[@gwardell2]

When I was in the Army I programmed a UNIVAC 1100.

[@sferrell1000]

gwardell2 So did my father. He was the first programmer at Ford Motor here at Brookpark OH. He said he could not smoke around it and the room was always freezing cold.

[@Walterwhiterocks]

Folks may wish to know that the birthplace of Univac was in Ilion, New York, the original home of both Remington Rand and Remington Arms.

[@BushPilot444]

Old TV shows and movies from the period are filled with smoking. None of which is banned.

[@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet]

Desi is sooo funny! What a comedian! Obviously not just a character on his show.

[@laurahoward5426]

A. Lot smarter than people think

[@sgtjeff56]

If they banned TV shows for smoking "You Bet Your Life" would have been banned decades ago. Ever see Groucho without a cigar?

[@goodkawz]

Edward R Murrow barely stopped smoking.

[@Catquick1957]

When he died he did

[@louisetaylor5021]

Jeff Rosen ;

[@lisalovecamedownfullalbuml9708]

Jeff Roses I thought the cigar was just a prop. Y or no?

[@suewhitaker6884]

Jeff Rosen or Johnny Carson on Tonight show reruns!

[@riverraisin1]

If anybody remembers the old Jetson's cartoons, they had a computer called Uniblab. The name was a clever take on the Univac computer featured here.

[@Meinstein]

I wonder what was going through Desi's mind after hearing the audience's reaction to his questions.

[@detroitjack0325]

The interesting part of this "What's My Line" episode was the commercial. UNIVAC was an early computer. This particular computer was quite advanced for it's time. It could do an astounding 2,000 calculations per second in the 1950's! Today's computers can do 1 quadrillion calculations per second! This 1950's version was much slower than a snail; and that's putting it quite mildly!

[@Melissa-c4b]

When I was in college near Chicago it was dial a phone and get connected to a huge computer like Univac There was nothing small to put on adesk

[@rickcharles5064]

The uploader of this video needs to drop the smoking/banned title and put "univac" or "early computer" or something like that to get a LOT more viewers. I just happened upon it and was thrilled to see that commercial!

[@voyaristika5673]

I grew up in the 50s, 60s, so assumed the caption meant banned by KZbin or something, because smoking back then was like someone sipping on water during a show today. I was in college when doctors moved their ashtrays from the waiting room to outside the door. Neither of my parents smoked and that surprised people. Virtually everyone smoked back then.

[@allanfifield8256]

One of my doctors had his own personalized cigarettes.

[@scottjones1109]

John Daly was gracious, charming, intelligent, erudite, genuine, and obviously highly regarded by the members of the panel. Sadly, it seems there is no longer a place for gentlemen like him on American television anymore.

[@supermanziggy]

I was so sorry when I found out the intelligent Killgalean was likely killed so young over knowing of JFK's assasination. I had a kind of crush on her watching some of these. It is kind of sad every one is likely dead by now any way.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

She just couldn't stay away from the pills and liquor. They will kill you if taken together.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

@@timdebaney7167 Fake news. Like on Fox.

[@supermanziggy]

@@SymphonyBrahms What!!!!! She was murdered. She found out too much from the JFK assassination., and told a friend she had figured something out. She planned on her story being printed on Monday since it was the weekend. She was not an alcoholic or casual pill popper. Surely you are jesting. I bet almost any thing you are a young person who did not know what had happened. There is comfort in that thought. Otherwise there is a large misinterpretation on your part. Like crazy.

[@chairlesnicol672]

I like the way John dalyy parts his hair ..very official to notice lol

[@MsMarple]

That’s right! Truly disturbing. Sometime it doesn’t pay to follow the journalistic “nose”.

[@feralbluee]

One of my favorite shows in the latter half of the ‘50’s. It was so interesting and sophisticated.🧐🤔🙂 Dorothy had her own way of walking - very individual. 🌷🌱 it’s a shame what happened to her - really tragic.🥀

[@helenespierman151]

The UNIVAC commercial is great!

[@jmcquown]

Why is everyone getting all upset about a 30 second intro? Don't like it? Move the slider over to skip past it. DUH. Banned, not banned, who cares in 2016? This was a fun show that aired before I was born. I find it very funny and fun to watch.

[@TheCometHunter]

Please, Jill, don't confuse the people with sanity and common sense!

[@cravinbob]

Dip shit, the uploader is taking credit for uploading and as another person said 30 seconds counts as a video watched, meaning the uploader makes money. Then the click-bait title... Now you and Jill can go fuck all night while the unwashed lower-downs try to figure what "DUH" stands for.

[@Cissy2cute]

Most of the drama shows had people smoking and drinking. Everybody was always offered a drink or two and/or cigarettes. Watching the old Alfred Hitchcock episodes, it seems to happen in every one and seems so odd today. The first thing when people came home, it appeared that they went straight to the booze!

[@manonmars2009]

It was not unusual for actors to smoke on TV shows in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. What would make this show so bad that it was "banned?"

[@1313Bahl]

I think it was banned because some of the things Ricky was saying...

[@peopleskarmasquad1042]

Hell, everyone smoked back then.

[@katiezee2]

Yeah I'm old enough to remember people puffing away in the grocery store, cigars included, and in the movie theater-- where they sold CANDY CIGARETTES at the snack bar

[@kathyh4804]

Bubble gum cigarettes, candy cigarettes and cigarette machines EVERYWHERE! You could smoke on planes, the mall, hospitals even your doctors office! Boy how things have changed

[@dubldeka]

This is worth watching for the computer add in the last quarter. The home computer then, needed its own home to live in.

[@Arthur_McGowan]

Nice to see Fred Allen.

[@Gordonsmusic911]

I'm a bit young to remember him but he appeared to be nobody's fool.

[@socaliraised3527]

He died a long time ago 1956

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

@@socaliraised3527 Fred Allen has had high blood pressure since 1940, at least his radio program was soon reduced from an hour to a half hour; he had to have a new script ready every week (did you read his book Treadmill to Oblivion, like I did? I read it 5 times).

[@Meinstein]

Those inserted UNIVAC commercials were/are great! Thank you.

[@JFinSD2]

Kim Novak was a fox.

[@waynej2608]

Gorgeous!

[@gheffz]

She is gorgeous. She's still with us... retired artist nowadays!

[@amymjennings]

@@gheffz shrs not retired at all she still paints at her home in Oregon

[@gheffz]

@@amymjennings Yes, agree ... more accurately I meant she's retired at home to paint. And I also agree that since she sells her pictures she is thus not technically retired. I agree with that, too.

[@rattusnorvegicus4380]

I`m just retiring to the drawing room....

[@ookland81]

I don't know why anyone would ban a historical program simply because someone in it was smoking. I can assure all the mums and dads out there that their child will not take up smoking simply because they saw someone doing so in a recording of an old show or maybe they saw the name of a cigarette brand on the side of a race car etc. I enjoyed the video.

[@rvarnum]

Your phone that you're watching this video on is about 5000 times more powerful than that Univac.

[@Garacha222]

but a phone doesn't come with a clothes washer sized printer!

[@AlizeeDefan]

KIm Novak is now 85 and still a beauty :)

[@georgealderson4424]

I had not realised she was still alive.

[@rods6405]

Not on my search engine looks like a zombie!

[@georgealderson4424]

@@fireandice6805 Thanks for the information

[@hwyman52]

Sorry, she went under the spell of one of those scam Hollywood plastic surgeons and came out looking awful. She was the most beautiful woman in Hollywood and an accomplished actress.

[@gravy1219]

@@hwyman52 Agreed, she looks 75% plastic