What's My Line? - George Hamilton; Jim Backus [panel] (Jun 20, 1965)

[@pukulu]

George Hamilton is still alive as of early 2023. He's 83. I thought of him as a comedian but he was originally a leading man type.

[@latsnojokelee6434]

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

[@chiil034]

2024 and he's 85 now.

[@VahanNisanian]

George Hamilton. The man with the most distinct suntan in Hollywood.

[@Beson-SE]

He wasn't THAT tanned yet, was he?

[@jrmetmoi]

Yes he was!

[@kenyongray2615]

Mrs. Young had a great smile and she was extremely beautiful.

[@bevn362]

Mrs Doris Young -skin diving is a form of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear.

[@rmelin13231]

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

[@ronmackinnon9374]

To think that the word 'glitch' was only being introduced to the vocabulary at that time.

[@TheGadgetPanda]

Sad but true - Whenever John asks if the panel's blindfolds are all in place, I chime in with a hearty, "Yes, John!" Every single time.

[@Beson-SE]

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

[@savethetpc6406]

***** 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. ;)

[@WhatsMyLine]

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.

[@savethetpc6406]

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

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

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

[@salvatorecollura2692]

Imagine the word ‘glitch’ being new and unfamiliar to the lexicon.

[@dennisdivine7448]

In addition to "Gilligan's Island", Jim Backus was a very busy man in the '60s. He was, of course, the voice of "Mr. Magoo", recorded comedy albums, was a popular guest star in sitcoms such as "I Dream of Genie", game shows that included "Password", as well as movies that include "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". He also was a professional golfer, playing in competitive tournaments. Not to be forgotten, Backus was part of a rotating lineup of personalities hosting NBC's "Monitor", a weekend magazine interspersed with easy listening music--his knack for being a witty conversationalist made him a great disc jockey then.

[@jackkomisar458]

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.

[@cathyziegaus3378]

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

[@trevormorris1208]

"And not so sweet this time!!"

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

@@cathyziegaus3378 That was his gig at the time. Nothing wrong with publicizing it.

[@michellebryant4730]

George Hamilton did an awesome job portraying Hank Williams.

[@ronmackinnon9374]

(1:42) Arlene's intro of Bennett relates to the fact that this aired on Father's Day (Sunday June 20, 1965). John Daly alludes to it near the end as well.

[@keithmiller5411]

The bridal gown segment was hilarious !

[@howiecricket52]

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!

[@jamesfeldman4234]

Funny story about George Hamilton. Burt Reynolds once created a birthday card for Hamilton that included a composite photo of Tony Curtis and Anthony Perkins. The card read "To George, Love from Mum and Dad". Hamilton thought that was hilarious and showed it to everybody.

[@tigergreg8]

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

[@gingerhiser7312]

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

[@quagmiredavis4117]

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

[@tigergreg8]

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

[@sumame47]

George Hamilton didn't age well. All of that sunshine does more harm than good. Was quite handsome though.

[@davidsanderson5918]

The Unbrownable Molly Sink. Brilliant!

[@sdkelmaruecan2907]

A beautiful contestant --> let's begin with Bennett Cerf

[@RonGerstein]

The great George Hamilton is still around (9/13/24).

[@ibnalhaytham]

Best unintentionally funny question ever: "Is there something connected with this that enables her to do something that she couldn't otherwise do?" 17:38 Audience and I are cracking up.

[@davidarcudi230]

That man doesn't age

[@dianefiske-foy4717]

The first guest has a pretty dress on. So does Dorothy. I like Dorothy’s hair tonight too.

[@johnscanlan9335]

Thurston Howell III would fit right in socially with the WML panel!

[@regissuchma5764]

This was aired 2 months and 9 days before I was born

[@galileocan]

Dorothy's dressed for the cotillion tonight!

[@savethetpc6406]

I think under different circumstances, John would have given Dorothy the win after she'd guessed that Mrs. Young was "some sort of a diver who goes underwater and gets things" (7:48). Perhaps it was a combination of the fact that Mrs. Young had only accumulated $5 up to that point and the fact that she was so beautiful that made John keep the game going a bit and then decide to flip all the cards. John's attitude towards when to end the game as a win for the panel, when to flip all the cards, and what he considered "an admirable showing" by a contestant changed a lot over the years, but at this point his decisions sometimes seemed a bit arbitrary, imo.

[@MrWindermere123]

Sometimes clever people make donkeys of themselves by misjudging the value of one small thing: the fact that bridal gowns can be seen above the waist. Bennet Cerf asked much too late if they can also be seen below the waist. By then we had gone via the nose, ears and top of the head to jewellery and hearing aids. The good effect of this was the lack of a final challenger rushed on to fill three minutes after the mystery guest had gone - great timing by lucky accident!

[@taraxacum]

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.

[@molliepopp7617]

Doris Young, the first contestant, was beautiful.

[@stevestites9762]

Mollie Popp bennet cerf is a letch

[@golden-63]

George Hamilton was certainly easy on the eyes here!

[@berwyn58]

and 50 years later he's selling chicken!!

[@princeharming8963]

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

[@thesixshooter6506]

And so was the skin diver (first guest).

[@hizgrase]

He’s NOT ugly!! 😉

[@MichelMawon4982]

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

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

With Jim Backus joining the panel, it should be retitled "Mid-Atlantic English 101."

[@Vitte4]

Beginning at 23:55: Check out Arlene's eyes on George Hamilton ...

[@butziporsche8646]

My favorite George Hamilton movie is "Love at First Bite". I took my aunt to see it in Anaheim.

[@terryblack2844]

George was seductive and hilarious in that movie

[@MOGGS1942]

@@terryblack2844 " I want to give you eternal life. " " Shit, I knew it, another insurance salesman ".

[@wvanderwahl]

George Hamilton a most handsome specimen of the male species here at the tender age of 26. What part about him isn't charming? Yet another reason to watch " What's My Line ".

[@princeharming8963]

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

[@davidmaneti9788]

I'm 60 and learn and love the show

[@allanshulstad1783]

Count Dracula in Love At First Bite.

[@misspad7282]

That was a very funny movie.

[@LoisCandler]

❤one of my favorites!

[@gbrumburgh]

BEFORE George heavily baked himself under the sun.

[@deborahd.7281]

George Hamilton played the good natured, slightly pompous, self-deprecating celebrity to the hilt. One time he was on the Today show being interviewed by Katy Couric and he had her smiling and laughing even before he said anything. Katy was very popular and a celebrity on her own right at the time. They were sitting in chairs facing each other and just as she started the interview, he paused and said to her kiddingly, acting as a royal might say to a commoner, "...And who might you be?" She laughed so hard, he had her in stitches.

[@luhoffma8836]

George is so handsome

[@michaelnivens6267]

Just watched George In " Where the Boys Are " - good actor-also , Home From The Hill, The Power and others

[@bluecamus5162]

'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.

[@bbailey7818]

When someone (Bennett) has to explain what the word "glitch" means, you realize how long ago 1965 was.

[@mahnoorkhan5657]

Didn't Jim Backus play James Dean's father in Rebel Without A Cause?

[@Omahabigbill]

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

[@pecintajadul8421]

Yes, he was Jim Stark's father

[@clffliese26]

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."

[@michaelnivens6267]

Yes

[@johnscanlan9335]

Yes!

[@vertxxgg]

charms and suntan lovely George Hamilton we all dream to look like him those years

[@norelcopc2431]

George Hamilton and family recently appeared on Celebrity Family Feud.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

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.

[@loissimmons6558]

Apparently none of the panelists read Sports Illustrated. In its June 7, 1965 issue, there was a long story about Doris Young and her husband Gardner. (The cover picture of that issue is of the second Ali-Liston fight, referred to as upcoming during the WML episode when Robert Goulet was the MG.) Doris also appeared on "To Tell The Truth" before being on WML. Apparently the WML panel didn't watch TTTT, either. The article describes some of their experiences in the motion picture industry, including The Beatles movie "Help" and the fact that Ringo Starr didn't know how to swim. We learn that as fearless as Gardner apparently is underwater, he was scared to death when standing on a NYC subway grate when a train passed underneath. (And he went to Boston University, so he should have been familiar with subway trains.) The article also mentions that Doris won a few beauty contests (no surprise), had a lung removed in 1963 and may have been even more of a daredevil than her husband. It's no surprise that she didn't stay a dental hygienist very long. Both of them had near death experiences. (Doris was so ill, she was down to 62 pounds at one point with a 107º fever.) She also had polio at one point. Both Doris and Gardner (and their little boy, Ole) are quite the characters and I've only given the tip of the iceberg of their lives. www.si.com/vault/1965/06/07/607751/their-business-is-going-under

[@booberry349]

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[@debjh8983]

Bennet Cerf was always eyeing the women. 😂😂😂

[@michellepost5232]

I had always known of Hamilton but never watched any movies he might have been in.He played a murderer on Columbo once.It is so weird when on old shows as this, they speak of what NASA is doing, but it was before the moon landing...sorta like being a time traveler and knowing what would happen in a few years.

[@michaelnivens6267]

He was good In that Columbo episode

[@allanshulstad1783]

Love the diver's dimples

[@VahanNisanian]

In 1965, Hamilton would star with Brigitte Bardot & Jeanne Moreau in a French film called "Viva Maria!".

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

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

[@loissimmons6558]

+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.

[@MrKbroyles]

Subtle innuendo I miss that. Now it’s just in your face

[@ofrabjousday1]

Doris Young must have been there when The Beatles filmed part of their movie, "Help!" in Nassau Bahamas in February, 1965. I would have loved to hear whether she met them.

[@patcurrie7733]

I wonder why Priscilla, of Priscilla of Boston didn't grace the show instead of her hubby, the probable CEO. She was way ahead of her time. Already outfitted Princess Grace by this time!!

[@loissimmons6558]

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.

[@PhilBagels]

"The Unbrownable Molly Sink"!!! I don't know if that's so bad it's good, or so good it's bad!

[@doctorjames7454]

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

[@loissimmons6558]

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.

[@clffliese26]

@@loissimmons6558 Are you related to Bennett?😉🤣

[@loissimmons6558]

@@clffliese26 Not at all.

[@clffliese26]

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

[@andysiegel6131]

I think Jim makes great panelist

[@lmundishop8047]

When I worked at the William Morris agency in the 60's he asked me to lunch. I turned him down politely and told him I was married. His answer, "I am too". Not cool!

[@gilliankew]

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

[@MrJoeybabe25]

My parents went on a cruise from Norfolk to (Funky) Nassau and Freeport in June of 1965. I guess my parents didn't see this lady because she was in NYC.

[@regissuchma5764]

George Hamilton is awesome actor

[@lynettepalecek3141]

George Hamilton was very handsome here!

[@TheBraveIntrovert]

Wait, glitch was a new word in 1965? You learn something new everyday....

[@neilmidkiff]

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.

[@loissimmons6558]

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.

[@neilmidkiff]

@@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".

[@loissimmons6558]

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.

[@neilmidkiff]

@@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.

[@hiyapal7719]

Cool! *Jim Backus.* ♡

[@preppysocks209]

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

[@hiyapal7719]

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

[@Frederick-t8t]

Nearly 60 years later George is still with us. Merry Christmas.

[@avenger2807]

OMG..... It's the Crispy Colonel!!!!!!

[@HelloooThere]

Why was John helping them with the diver part? highly unusual for him...seemed a bit impatient with Dorothy...

[@improg]

I do believe Mr. Daly was referring to early reports of the Space Shuttle in his opening remarks.

[@jackkomisar458]

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."

[@improg]

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

[@garyzerr8134]

Dorothy’s dress looks like she is in the middle of a layer cake, wow.

[@Kat-fw9se]

Gary Zerr yep lol!🤣

[@zeldasmith6154]

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

[@pinedelgado4743]

Dorothy Kilgallen looks awfully youthful and sweet in this episode of WML.

[@joelfogelsanger5773]

They just couldn't get the concept that it's not on the face.

[@TaniaPotivar]

All praise and glory to you....only to you.... 💎🦅🫂 So handsome the gorgeous Doma

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Dorothy asks if the scuba diver has any other equipment , and Bennett interjects "she sure does". Gosh oh mighty, I wonder if Hal Block was looking in and saying to himself "I could have done that!"?

[@berwyn58]

Exactly what I thought!!

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Yep Hal Block would have been proud

[@GCoop1985]

It's wouldn't be WML without Bennett Cerf's bad puns. 😂

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Is this a tradition of the panel when it comes to garments like a wedding gown? When they elicit the fact that it is worn around a certain area (like the neck) they seem to get bogged down, as if something worn around the neck (or anywhere) couldn't also be worn lots of other places on the body as part of the same garment. Or am I over dramatizing it?

[@ghshinn]

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

[@WhatsMyLine]

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!

[@laura1000]

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.

[@loissimmons6558]

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

[@preppysocks209]

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

[@kurtkauffman4326]

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[@davidsanderson5918]

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

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Were people unfamiliar with the word "glitch" in 1965. Jiminy Crickits!

[@savethetpc6406]

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

[@neilmidkiff]

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.

[@Retroscoop]

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

[@davidsanderson5918]

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

[@allanshulstad1783]

Hamilton still alive

[@2508bona]

"The star of Gilligan's Island"... Methinks Dorothy doth assign Mr. Backus just a scoche more credit than was merited. Of course, Mr. Backus then proceeded to ham up his introduction of Arlene.

[@Beson-SE]

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

[@savethetpc6406]

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.

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

Thurston! Behave yourself!

[@friggle3401]

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.

[@ericahoneypie322]

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

[@shoulderlift]

I just can't wait for this hairstyle that George Hamilton is sporting at 19:57, to come back in fashion for men! This is so manly and sexy!

[@71superbee39]

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

[@syd8802]

1:37 any one else see what dorothy did. Wonder who that was.

[@ellenmurphy2150]

The word glitch is based on a real Dr. Glitch? Didn't know that. Just discovered this show a few days ago.

[@richatlarge462]

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

[@michaelmiller1215]

The epitome of a gorgeous and classy man.

[@terryniblett9329]

Dorothy has just months to live!!!

[@davidsanderson5918]

Terry Niblett We know.

[@TheCosmicVagabond]

So do a lot of us! ;-)

[@RalphOnofrio]

The only people you see this intelligent is on Jeopardy....Tv shows have become intolerable.

[@michaeldanello3966]

As much as I like Bennett Cerf and despite his education, he can be remarkably crude when he thinks he is "complimenting" women

[@oldwestguy]

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.

[@coololdluke3905]

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

[@misspad7282]

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

[@rmelin13231]

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?

[@jw77019]

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.

[@sarakhh1892]

He's very beautiful..

[@buyvital]

By watching this I'm learning quite a few phrases from the diving world: Scoober Diver, Finny Folk, etc.

[@zquark1]

In 1965, the James Bond film that was in production must have been the fourth in the series,"Thunderball," which is set largely in the Bahamas. "Goldfinger" already had been released in 1964.

[@Merrida100]

This is the 2nd or 3rd person from the Bahamas and they were all female skin divers. One was, if I recall, a stunt diver.

[@jmccracken1963]

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.")

[@Damon_Strong]

3:20 to 4:00 What a windbag that Daly was.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

*_PROFESSIONAL SKIN DIVER_* *_MAKES BRIDAL GOWNS_*

[@pensiveowl7791]

What happened to the wolf whistles for the 1st guest? She was stunning!

[@gilliankew]

The male audience had better manners than the usual lot.

[@lisakhan1708]

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

[@richatlarge462]

​@@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.

[@lockbert99]

He was on in 1966 as well.

[@lukaszha8826]

16:48 Arlene gets annoyed

[@LOA1955]

I just love Bennett's comment about the new "Goldfinger" picture that's shooting in the Bahamas. "Thunderball" went on to become one of the top grossing Bond films.

[@Beson-SE]

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

[@ghshinn]

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

[@Beson-SE]

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

[@clffliese26]

@@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.

[@Beson-SE]

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

[@keetrandling4530]

The Tan One - yum!

[@pastorcoreyadams]

Are we sure this is June 20, 1965 and not June 21, 1964? I am just wondering based on Bennett Cerf's opening joke about the Molly Brown Sink. The movie musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" came out in June of 1964. I am just wondering if there was something in 1965 that would have brought that to mind. John talking about the Titan IIIC would make sense for 1965 as that did start in 1965 vs. 1964. Could anyone shed any light on Bennett's joke?

[@Mmdmade]

When they ask “can you see it above the waist” they should always ask “can you also wear it below the waste “

[@gingerhiser7312]

Our German rocket scientists vs the USSR's German rocket scientists.

[@soulierinvestments]

Hamilton deserved whistles. Gorgeous child. In this time period, Hamilton dated one of President Johnson's daughters. Escorted her to the Oscars, in fact. I am sure I do not want to date someone whose father can draft me to Vietnam if things go bad.

[@Beson-SE]

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

[@savethetpc6406]

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

[@preppysocks209]

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

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Oh good grief! Good point!

[@RalphOnofrio]

George Hamilton is still a cool guy.

[@Beson-SE]

Dorothy wears some really big false eyelashes and she seemed to be a little tired this evening.

[@savethetpc6406]

Johan Bengtsson I did notice the eyelashes...

[@Ransomhandsome]

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

[@MICHGO1]

SHE LOOKS LIKE TWEETIE BIRD.

[@clffliese26]

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

[@davidsanderson5918]

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

[@wholeNwon]

What was the nickname LBJ had for GH?

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Did George Hamilton ever get skin cancer? Does he still promote tanning?

[@jrmetmoi]

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

[@MrJoeybabe25]

jrmetmoi The coffin! The ultimate tanning booth!

[@tmmartinesq.6216]

Maybe he's naturally darker.....

[@loissimmons6558]

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".

[@jadezee6316]

anyone know what this guy has actually done in his life that he get attention?

[@IPlayOneOnT.V.]

I'm surprised the skin diver uses a bathing suit at all and not a wetsuit all the time in the water.

[@rmelin13231]

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

[@IPlayOneOnT.V.]

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

[@OperaJH]

People should just loosen up about Bennett Cerf. Or, I could stop reading comments! 😁