What's My Line? - Hedda Hopper; Dennis Weaver [panel] (Apr 22, 1962)

[@tomtriffid]

Dorothy Kilgallen always gave the appearance of being tough, and vulnerable, at the same time. I never understood how she did that.

[@tedthomas1993]

Booze and drugs

[@nancyayers6355]

thomas thompson Well, she grew up in very high society and manners were probably pounded into her all her life, so she would know what to say and how to carry herself in high society. And she was just one of the smartest women I ever saw! But her knowledge would emerge in a very.sweet, feminine way.

[@ironduke2000]

An astute observation, Mr. Thompson.

[@19gregske55]

I think that facet of her character was honed and fine-tuned at journalism school.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

@@tedthomas1993 - Why do people keep insisting that Dorothy abused drugs and alcohol? She never seemed affected by either, as many times as I have seen her on these reruns. What information do they have or get and from whom that would lead them to surmise that Dorothy abuses substances.

[@hoagie1978]

Hedda Hopper looks like she tore a piece off the trellis at her house with the flowers still attached and made a hat out of it.

[@annettekelly1592]

hoagie1978 lol. 😂

[@maryoliver3868]

Goofy hats were her trademark.

[@belindaalbright8798]

Lol! You nailed it! 🤣🤣🤣

[@lopa2828]

I second that feeling

[@nandofigueira2005]

hahahaha

[@lauraatkinson4790]

I somehow combined Dennis Weaver and Hedda Hopper's name in my head and so as I was watching I kept expecting the mystery guest to be Dennis Hopper. LOL.

[@dinahbrown902]

That is funny 😊

[@ddivincenzo1194]

Dennis Weaver was so handsome. I loved him as "McCloud".

[@cynthiat6505]

I am so grateful for these! Thank you for taking the time to put these out for us. They started when I was a baby so I didn’t get to see them very much. So appreciated.

[@michaelchapman4955]

I was a young boy generations ago living in LA, Hollywood watching these shows every Sunday evening with My Grandparents & 'dad-gum it seems like yesterday evening, 'Literally !!

[@shirleyrombough8173]

I love Dorothy's hair like this.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Quelle chapeu.

[@miketheyunggod2534]

What a young Dennis Weaver.

[@JamAshleyFilms]

I am 45 years old, born years AFTER these were made, and for the past year I have watched one every night. It is my nightly routine. It makes me nostalgic for a time I never lived. And call me a pig, but I like how the men in the audience whistle at attractive contestants.

[@downtonabbeyfreak]

I just adore when Arlene shouts out professions as a joke and gets it right! It happened quite a few times throughout the years. Some of my favourite moments.

[@claudiak4627]

I loved Weaver in Spielberg's "Duel." I still think it was the most intensely scary film i ever watched.

[@timcunningham722]

Very well put.

[@victoriahodge7498]

Agreed

[@Noone58319]

I totally agree.

[@mikeykm1993]

Thank you for bringing that film to my attention. I haven’t seen it, but the premise looks very interesting. It had been added to my watch list!

[@jeanesingsjazz]

I would not call it “scary” but extremely suspenseful. What kind of store that keeps you on the edge of your seat With anticipation.

[@soulierinvestments]

Arlene's comment on contestant one -- I didn't know that was a living. Well, maybe not, but it is a job that would keep her hopping.

[@michaelchapman4955]

I used to watch this Delightful Show in the '50s with my grandparents at their N Bronson Ave home down the street from Paramount Pictures & RKO next door on Melrose Ave in LA, Hollywood & my nephew recently had His wedding reception at Hedda Hopper's former Southern Ca LA home 'set up by my sister built in the '1920s with 'Forever views

[@jackanthony976]

Hedda Hopper was a witch on wheels. All the stars feared her wrath as she would destroy careers with her poison pen. Even the females on the WML panel stood up for her when she exited...something they almost never do.

[@preppysocks209]

Dorothy stood for a fellow gossip columnist and close personal friend. Arlene sat. Good for her

[@theblake5356]

Arlene didn’t.

[@bambi274]

They stood up for Joan Crawford. And for Roosevelts widow

[@kellygreen5556]

And that hat was just ridiculous!

[@qkhost]

I think her hats were great - they were her trademark. And her son was a fine actor. But she was a venomous, evil woman who destroyed careers and reveled in the power that Hollywood bestowed upon her.

[@amberola1b]

Hedda hopper has been on the show enough times, she should have known where to exit and to shake the panelists hands at the end.

[@jackanthony976]

She was probably getting senile by this time. She died just four years after this appearance on WML.

[@shirtless6934]

The witch probably was thinking she would write a column the next day, saying they had snubbed her, but then realized she was on television, and there would be a record.

[@robertmelson2130]

17:45 "Mr. Dillon, I need some help here." 22:27 "It's not Miss Kitty." Thank you, Mr. Weaver. I must say I enjoyed Dennis Weaver's participation on the panel. He might have been a little hesitant at times (understandably!), but I thought he did a pretty good job. He asked decent questions, too--without looking down to read them from a list. Too bad he wasn't on again sometime.

[@davidsanderson5918]

Noting Dennis Weaver's difficulty in playing the game (not as easy as it looks!!), it has to be said that while Dorothy is laser-like in her deductions it's Arlene that has the best resourcefulness of all of them for questionning. No wonder she stayed on the show forever!

[@icturner23]

As Hedda also said, I think both of the women are the equally sharp ones. Dorothy would also have stayed for ever had she not died.

[@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath]

Dorothy died. Surely you know that. She was the token gentile on the panel

[@michaeldanello3966]

Re: Hedda Hopper -- Anyone who could even consider wearing that hat should have been committed for observation...

[@randykirkland3927]

Michael Danello Uh yeah, that was her schtick

[@marylinvitals4950]

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[@ModMokkaMatti]

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[@HavensLight364]

Did anyone else realize what Miss Francis said at the beginning of the questioning for the man who made the church pews? She said it "Sounds like Heavenly fun!" I thought that was cute and ironic since the panel did not know what the man's line was yet.

[@savethetpc6406]

HavensLight364 I didn't notice, but that *is* funny!

[@loissimmons6558]

+HavensLight364 I heard it, but it was very much obscured by background noise. If it had been clearly heard, no doubt the audience would have reacted and that would have clued in Arlene, Bennett and Dorothy (and perhaps Dennis) to Mr. Anderson's product being religious in some way.

[@loissimmons6558]

Dennis Weaver graduated from the University of Oklahoma where he was a star in track & field. He was talented enough to qualify for the U.S. Track & Field Olympic trials in 1948 where he finished sixth. (A young Bob Mathias won the trials and went on the win the first of his two gold medals in the event in the 1948 Olympic Games in London.) I am fairly certain that one of his teammates on the U of Oklahoma track team was a star in his own right on the cinders and would also go on to become an actor. The late Don Crabtree also sang and for a time was Johnny Freedom, a featured performer at NYC's ill-fated attempt at a Disneyland style attraction called Freedomland. In that gig, he was a singing cowboy who also did roping tricks. He also played a sheriff on "Dark Shadows", was Herb's father on a series of Burger King commercials (Herb was supposedly the only person in the world who never had eaten at Burger King), beat up "Fast Eddie" (Paul Newman) in "The Hustler" and had a long career on Broadway. On the track, he was the anchor leg for the Sooners mile relay and he held the school record in the 880 for almost 30 years. He would have been 20 years old in 1948: i.e. college age. (Weaver was older, but he served in the military in WWII before going to college.) Don was my client for a number of years and one of his daughters was a co-worker and friend.

[@davidsanderson5918]

Hedda Hopper, in appearance, in manner, as a personality....is entirely the sort of person I can't stand. Yeuchh. Mercifully her appearance was shortlived as more time had been devoted to the Easter Bunny. Nice move!!

[@tompaulcampbell]

Yes, she was a true scumbag!!!

[@bruno.prieto]

no one cares

[@JJJBRICE]

Dennis Weaver at 6 ft 2 seems taller than the average panelist . We see how tall is really is . On Gunsmoke in his scenes with giant James Arness he appeared smaller . He looks like the Olympic athlete hopeful was in his earlier life .

[@alskndlaskndal]

Dorothy looks nice in this episode. Her hair looks more natural--she should have stuck with that. :)

[@WhatsMyLine]

I TOTALLY agree. I think her hair looks wonderful in this episode.

[@savethetpc6406]

Both Dorothy and Arlene wore many different hair styles and colors over the course of WML's run. Some were more flattering than others. I agree that this was a nice one for Dorothy, but the color also looks a bit lighter than her natural shade. I also liked her sort of "Betty Boop" look from the early 50s, as in some of the recently posted episodes from 1953. There was one in particular that I noticed and liked, and I think John later remarked that it was a new style for Dorothy, but I forgot which episode that was now.

[@uncleelmer]

Agreed. Dorothy truly was a beautiful woman. This episode truly shows that side of her. A nice tribute to her.

[@ellenmurray9196]

uncleelmer I think she was very pretty, she has such a sweet look about her. Very smart lady also. Adorable.

[@poetcomic1]

@@WhatsMyLine One time only she wore a kind of messy soft Italian cut that made her look like a different woman. Wish she kept it.

[@kguy152000]

Are you ready for it?Here it goes... Hedda Hopper? More like Hedda Lettuce!

[@battlegirldeb]

Yesterday Louella Parson and Today Hedda Hopper two of the biggest name in Hollywood Gossip these two could make of break a career in show business.

[@cookielady9995]

They were HUGE rivals and disliked eachother a great deal. I haven't read very much of Louella's work, but Hedda was a huge trouble maker and spearheaded many actors/actresses to be blacklisted. If she didn't like you she would do everything she could to destroy you and your family. She would fit in very well these days, unfortunately.

[@soulierinvestments]

"Gunsmoke" started on radio in 1952 with William Conrad as Marshall Dillon and Parley Baer as Chester. When GS went to television in 1955, neither Baer nor Conrad were the right age or the right --- how shall we say? -- build and fitness for the roles anymore. James Arness and Dennis Weaver were both young and very fit, and the rest is TV history.

[@jimsteele9261]

It lasted on radio till 1961, right up to the end of radio drama in the US, until nostalgia kicked in.

[@jmccracken1963]

Not only were William Conrad and Parley Baer not moved from the radio show to the TV show, neither were Georgia Ellis (Miss Kitty) or Howard McNear (Doc Adams). According to a "Nostalgia Digest" article from a year or two ago, none of the cast of the radio show were ever considered or even invited to audition for the TV show.

[@stevenwoodward8184]

As a child in the early 60's my parents let me come to the dinner table in a cowboy outfit pretending to be Chester. I believe it sparked my Imagination to this day.

[@preppysocks209]

@@jmccracken1963 Howard McNeer found something better I think, resulting in immortality, as Floyd the Barber on the Andy Griffith Show. And William Conrad had considerable television success in Cannon and Jake and the Fat Man (where he did not play Jake).

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Kind of a religiously themed show, huh? First the Easter Bunny gal, then the church pew man, and the the Goddess of Hollywood. Good show!

[@janajde]

It was Easter Sunday

[@rachelfairfield8755]

lol Hedda hopper is like the tea/commentary channel of that day

[@lisablack124]

Hedda was such an evil woman. But she had a handsome son. Hedda must have adopted him.

[@shuboy05]

Since I always seem to picture Dennis Weaver as McCloud, his clean shaven look here really threw me off.

[@ElaineSC]

What a cute game show! Dorothy and Arlene were both very sharp ladies. Always loved Dennis Weaver ♥️!! He was always so handsome and multi-talented.

[@kevinwachs5905]

Dennis Weaver was uncomfortable as a panelist because on Gunsmoke they shot first and asked questions later.

[@preppysocks209]

Often in the comments the discussion turns on whether the MG wishes to be known, so as not to think that they are not famous enough to be guessed, or wishes to stump the panel as a competitive game player. Surely there were MGs on both sides of the issue, and there were repeat MGs who remarked on some of the ways the panel were way off about them in a previous attempt. But here is a rare, so far singular case, in which the MG was delighted to have fooled the panel, recognizing how good they are. Had I ever been in such a situation, I would have tried to win as well, and would have been very pleased to have done so. It didn't happen that frequently.

[@soulierinvestments]

Dennis Weaver owned a house in Ridgway, Colorado -- a place about equidistant from Montrose, Ouray, Telluride, and Mount Sneffels -- that was touted as a landmark of its type of ecologically friendly architecture. Supposedly some if not most of the walls were at the core old tires. He died in Ridgway, so I suspect that was his final place.

[@jamesfox2579]

I remember reading about that fact!

[@icturner23]

Yes, I read about him after watching this and he did loads of environmental activism. So many male stars who appeared on it were real scumbags (such as Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis), but Weaver seems to have been an awesome guy.

[@sandydog291]

I wonder if the Easter Bunny ever had a career in dancing.

[@c0mputer]

Takes them that long to get any character. Love that!

[@allanshulstad1783]

I sense an Easter theme here. Easter bunny and Hedda Hopper!

[@RonGerstein-tf5tp]

This episode was shown on Easter Sunday.

[@soulierinvestments]

The most memorable Hedda Hopper movie appearance that I can remember is her appearance as a New York gossip columnist in George Cukor's "The Women." (1939) However, Ms Hopper was a Hollywood writer and so technically, somebody like Dorothy Kilgallen should have been cast in that bit, mostly in the nightclub-casino finale.

[@jmccracken1963]

She also played Madame Sonia Barton in the 1933 pre-Code film, "Beauty for Sale."

[@jackanthony976]

But Hedda was still considered a "real" actress in 1939. Hedda Hopper had been in 120 films since 1916 in both starring and costarring roles. By 1939 she was hitting 50 years old and was not getting the acting parts like she used to. She sort of "accidentally" fell into the gossip column business.

[@soulierinvestments]

Arlene could make a potato sack glamourous, but fortunately tonight's gown is no potato sack. Va va va voom.

[@poetcomic1]

Agreed except for one big bucket of hat covered with daisies. Even the panel made wisecracks about it.

[@tobit100]

Never liked people like Hedda Hopper who make business out of gossip that is not their business to begin with. Rather immoral. And creepy

[@1madDogz]

tobit100 Hedda Hopper was a vicious back stabbing journalist. If you crossed her by accident it could ruin your career.

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Like Dorothy Kilgallen

[@scotnick59]

Like Louella Parsons and Sheilah Graham, the last was a phoney and a liar

[@jackanthony976]

@@1madDogzWhose career did she ruin?

[@MrJoeybabe25]

@@jamesfox2579 It is just wicked moral relativism to portray Hedda Hopper as evil because she pointed out communists and communist sympathizers. So she becomes the wicked witch of the West Coast. And the enemy of leftists If, however, Hedda had pointed out Nazis and Klansmen for who they were she would be a hero. Unfair to her and conservative anti communists of the era. Personally I don't there should ever be an "un-American" ANYTHING, House Committee or any other government body on the personal beliefs of citizens. But it is a fact that communism, more than any political movement of the 20th century is responsible for more deaths of innocent people around the world, than any other type of authoritarianism or totalitarianism.

[@FreihEitner]

I have never seen "Gun Smoke" but I have watched "Duel" many times and also "Touch of Evil", and Dennis Weaver was just fantastic in both.

[@RonGerstein-tf5tp]

"Gunsmoke", not "Gun Smoke"

[@Beson-SE]

Being an Easter Bunny is mental work. Good to know! I have often wondered about that. ;) 8:30 and 11:30

[@icturner23]

Daly explained it clearly. Do you think talking kindly to children is physical work?

[@axiomist1076]

That hat looks like it was stolen from an old mule. Come to think of it, I can see the resemblance with that old woman ! On the pew questions, one of the women had it when she asked if it was something you get on or upon, but Daly misguided them, as he does, not infrequently, by going on one of those convoluted explanations of his. A pew IS something you get on or upon. Because of his crazy answer, they went on thinking it was something you get inside of and got nowhere. Also, when is a pew found in water ???

[@icturner23]

Yes, this was one of the examples of his being extremely unfair. I think he was actually dishonest here rather than just intentionally confusing. Very annoying.

[@loissimmons6558]

Most of the people in the United States who celebrated Easter would have celebrated it on this day. However any denominations associated with Eastern Orthodox would have celebrated Easter on April 29. Perhaps this was why Macy's would have had an Easter theme for another week.

[@icturner23]

And perhaps because they could make more money that way? I’m sure even then children did Easter activities in the general period, not just on Easter Sunday.

[@summertummer2394]

The young woman is GORGEOUS

[@mikery12]

John: "You've done rather well tonight". Clearly, an "on auto-pilot line", since they didn't get a single guest and mostly didn't even get close.

[@jvcomedy]

mikery12 Actually they did get the first one. Arlene blurted out "The Easter Bunny" which was correct. They were at the "8 down and 2 to go" point when she guessed it.

[@icturner23]

@@jvcomedy Well, technically they didn’t get that one either since it wasn’t her turn and thus that was cheating.

[@James_Bowie]

Hopper called herself “the bitch of the world”. She got that right.

[@icturner23]

‘Megacephalic’ is hardly a difficult word to work out.

[@Fush1234]

The hat of all hats 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chickadee0719]

In the presented timeframe and place, Ms. Hopper was the height of her profession. She didn't "pull any punches", very straight forward and at the time , factual.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

*_EASTER BUNNY AT MACY'S DEPARTMENT STORE_* *_MAKES CHURCH PEWS_*

[@Schattendragonfly]

I think this is the first episode where I see Arlene without the heart shaped necklace.

[@strange-universe]

I wonder that it might be under the top

[@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath]

It was ripped off her neck by a mugger at some point

[@RonGerstein-tf5tp]

​@@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath The robbery happened in 1986.

[@ThePicaretoKid]

What boggles me is how the customs (well mannered, large vocabulary, cunning) of these decades disappeared? What happened in between? I ask myself the same thing nowadays, as how stuff like "Anaconda" by Nicki Minaj is fully accepted.

[@WhatsMyLine]

It didn't happen overnight. A lot of the changes in what was considered acceptable in entertainment were wrought for very good reason, very notably by "All in the Family" changing television forever in 1970. But once the door is opened, anyone can walk through it, whether for any valid artistic or entertainment purpose or not.

[@Lava1964]

What's My Line? Agreed. Whatever we gained with reality and taboo-breaking with All in the Family was diminished by a loss of decorum and sensibilities.

[@jmccracken1963]

Particularly in the September 1973 season premiere of "All in the Family": the infamous episode in which Archie Bunker uses a seven-letter expletive which was, I believe, one of the "seven words you can't say on television" from George Carlin's routine - up to that point. And then he spends an inordinate amount of time trying to justify his use of the word/phrase to Edith afterward.

[@floris.927]

I think it has to do with to whom the TV industry wish to appeal. Here the target audiences are established middle-class or aspirants to the middle-class.

[@keithklein8935]

My mother taught my self and brothers to open doors for ladies. Women's library and what I called the Jerry Springer generation of obnoxiousness started the spiral downward. Maury povich and the hetero whores who didn't know who the baby's daddy was didn't help.

[@lisaharvey2596]

Love her hat! Reminds me of the one Martin bought for Arlene

[@violamateo-on8pc]

Hedda Hopper was truly a "rhymes with switch". Everyone was so afraid of her that they really couldn't trash-talk her until after she'd died.

[@mark-j-adderley]

Today Ms. Hopper could be president.

[@fanorama1]

hopper was a monster

[@roberttfoley]

My dyslexic mind thought the description read “Dennis Hopper” - boy that would have been interesting

[@harrisonreiner5398]

Hedda Hopper, for those who don't know, was an infamous character in history and reviled by the likes of Elizabeth Taylor for destroying people's careers.

[@curtisneilson5829]

I remember this show I was a young lad our society has fallen god help us

[@cellom.9227]

There was plenty of low-brow and low-quality entertainment on TV and in film at that time as well.

[@curtisneilson5829]

No

[@cellom.9227]

Oh, yes....

[@curtisneilson5829]

I loved whats my line and to tell the truth

[@norelcopc2431]

Dennis left his limp in Hollywood.

[@loissimmons6558]

But did he miss Kitty?

[@kathyyoung1774]

It was part of his character role, not real.

[@44032]

Playing Chester obscured how handsome a man Dennis Weaver was. Those are leading man looks.

[@stanochocki8984]

Dennis Weaver...always looked so Hot, had a 'boyhood crush' on him when he was on ''Gunsmoke'' and a Manhood crush on him as ''McCloud''..Lol...a real Downtown N.Y. Cowboy Midnight or otherwise...

[@icturner23]

I’ve never seen him before and am just about in love with him already. (Well, I saw ‘Duel’ as a child but I just remember the menace of the situation from that.)

[@icturner23]

When is a pew used on the water?! And it really wasn’t fair of Daly to even allow ‘in’ at all, let alone not straightforwardly admit to Dorothy that ‘on’ was more accurate.

[@starababa1985]

There are chapels on ocean liners and cruise ships.

[@1jamyc]

I had the same thought about the water question. I was thinking the same about the "in or on" question, but then figured its potayto potahto - -as in , some people say they live "in Long Island", some say they live "on Long Island"

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

There are church pews that go up and down. You put them up after services. Pull them down to sit.

[@OldTelivisionRocks]

Hedda seems to me a scary woman. I don't really know her as I am 22--so all I know is her from Trumbo. Definitely wouldn't want to be on we bad side or disagree with her...

[@randysills4418]

She was scary!!!

[@jeffrandall4046]

First I’ve seen Arlene without her heart necklace

[@anselmgolden8286]

Maybe the clasp was loose or the chain broke and needed to be repaired. Being cleared....?

[@allanshulstad1783]

Hedda Hopper reminds of La dy Catherine in P&P 1995

[@Fush1234]

I’ll cuddle that Easter bunny any day.

[@bocajrs7628]

Hedda Hopper was feared by people in Hollywood and for very good reasons. However, Louella Parsons was considered the Queen of Hollywood gossip. At one point her column was in 700 international newspapers with possibly 40 million readers. It seems she was very close friends with William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was also called the King of Sleaze, so it makes sense he would be close friends with someone who based her life and career on destroying lives and careers of others based on rumors and gossip. The lack of even a basic level of humanity and decency has not changed in Hollywood in over 100 years.

[@inesmurciasola7579]

Menuda bruja. Tenía aterrorizado a todo el mundo. Pero me encanta verla.

[@icturner23]

Hedda? No todo el mundo. Sólo algunos famosos en un país.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

You'd think show biz folk would want to make sure you always get a nice view of their beautiful faces. Not Dennis Weaver I guess. He's got half his kisser half covered with his hand.

[@icturner23]

It’s all right. He was so slow that we still got plenty of chance to behold his lovely visage.

[@taraxacum]

@What's My Line, this has nothing to do with the current episode but I remember one when Tony Randall asked the mystery guest if he was someone who supposedly resembled Tony. I'm going to guess he meant Jack Lemmon. Funny that they both went on to play Felix Unger.

[@DavidMcFarner]

What the hell landed on Hedda’s head?

[@RonGerstein-tf5tp]

Bird poop

[@soulierinvestments]

16:00 -- a classic of Daly semantics. 17:40 > > one of Chester's catch phrases in "Gunsmoke." LOL Second product -- Anything transported in it? only in the spiritual sense. Arlene: "Of course, all of us would have thought of a church pew immediately." I am assuming she is making a joke about their status as eastern secular humanists. Dorothy, I hear, was Catholic enough to be considered Catholic.

[@runawayuniverse]

Everything I've ever read about Hedda makes me think that she was a truly awful person.

[@LE64SAM-IAM]

Hedda's hat looks like it would make a great bird's nest.😆

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Hedda Hopper was born Elda Furry in May of 1885!

[@ghshinn]

Her son was William Hopper, who played Paul Drake on "Perry Mason."

[@2508bona]

And she was married to the great stage actor De Wolfe Hopper, best known for his dramatic recital of the poem Casey at the Bat. (You can see him do it in Ken Burns' baseball documentary, but it may also be available on KZbin.)

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Chris Barat Any relation to Billy DeWolfe?

[@jmccracken1963]

+Joe Postove His name is actually spelled DeWolf Hopper - no final, silent "e" in the first name.

[@scotnick59]

She died four years later, in 1966

[@kentetalman9008]

Another WML theme show, on Easter Sunday.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

I think Dennis Weaver was off "Gunsmoke" by the time of this show. Was there ever an explanation of what happened to Chester?

[@su8483]

Joe Postove "Actor Dennis Weaver (who played TV Chester) decided to exit the series after nine seasons to pursue other opportunities. His last episode, titled "Bently," saw Chester leave Dodge City, Kan. to find a murderer following a suspicious deathbed confession. " From www.distractify.com/p/what-happened-chester-on-gunsmoke

[@shirtless6934]

April 22 1962 was Easter Sunday

[@MathewRenfro]

What's My Line? - this channel also uploaded LOST EPISODE!!! Hedda Hopper; Constance Moore [panel] (Apr 29, 1951) onm aug 6, 2017

[@LE64SAM-IAM]

19:11Since when is a church pew used on the water? 18:30A church pew generally DOES contain storage to hold hymnals and Bibles.

[@deborahlangnese7645]

I love her hat.

[@icturner23]

Wow, the ‘Gunsmoke’ guy is dishy.

[@icturner23]

He’s not the sharpest tool in the box, but just delightful.

[@icturner23]

And upon looking him up I see that he was also an environmental activist. What a great guy!

[@pfflyer3381]

John mislead Dorothy when she asked , do you get into rather then get on? The answer should have been no ! It's a bench ! You sit on ,not into.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

What show was Dorothy referring to as a new CBS TV show called TV Tonight with Dennis Weaver. I have used all the powers of the internet at my disposal and still can't find anything about it.

[@rah62]

"1962: Made unsold musical pilot "TV Tonight"; sang and danced in the program" www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/203010|37805/Dennis-Weaver/milestones.html

[@savethetpc6406]

rah760 Good research job!

[@MrJoeybabe25]

rah760 Thanks Rah!

[@tedthomas1993]

She was always making herself look like the "in crowd". Steve and Edie folks... Read bios or her and her low life racist father for the truth

[@tedthomas1993]

@gcjerryusc ignorant..

[@jt414]

Wasn't Dennis Weaver young and handsome here! And such a Sexy voice!!!

[@shirtless6934]

21:15 I guess Hedda the Witch thought that monstosity on her head was an Easter bonnet.

[@brunoantony3218]

I absolutely love that hat.

[@davidsanderson5918]

You wouldn't get banter around the word 'megacephalic' on a panel show these days! I've also learned a new word from Bennett he uses later....'cavil'. I'll try and shoehorn both into conversation when I see friends tonight.

[@neilmidkiff]

If you use "cavil" don't echo Bennett's pronunciation. Even my "permissive" 1961 Webster's Third Unabridged only has one pronunciation in its guide, with the accent on the first syllable. Same for newer dictionaries. So this is one that we can agree Bennett got wrong, unlike most of the pronunciations that others complain about in these comments.

[@icturner23]

I’m afraid that this says more about the shows you watch than anything else. Since there are so many more options today, some are extremely highbrow. Watch ‘Only Connect’ (though it’s a quiz show rather than a panel show), for example.

[@loissimmons6558]

In the category of celebrity lookalikes: Dennis Weaver (w/o mustache) and singer Bill Medley of Righteous Brothers fame and duet with Jennifer Warnes. They are also similar in height with Weaver about an inch taller. Weaver was 16 years older.

[@icturner23]

No, I don’t agree at all.

[@hcombs0104]

That is one silly-looking hat worn by Hedda Hopper. And to the best of my knowledge the only two Hollywood types who stood up to her were Joan Bennett and Joseph Cotten.

[@Brazealen]

Hedda's hat is so awful - it's fabulous

[@1madDogz]

Marsha Reagan Nah, just's just repulsive.

[@shirtless6934]

24:45 did Daly have to signal the vile thing to be civil and come over and say hello?

[@summertummer2394]

Given that the early years of the show were telecast live and could not be recorded in advance because the the tape recorder was not invented, how do you have the tapes of this show pre 1960?

[@robbob1234]

The show was saved on kinescope, literally filmed live off of a studio video monitor. Luckily, most of these recordings were kept by Goodson and Todman.

[@summertummer2394]

@@robbob1234 Thank you Randy. That is very helpful. I am not saying this to flatter you, but you are a beautiful person on the inside and outside. You are beautiful on the outside of course, but your intelligence also makes you beautiful on the inside. May you live a long prosperous life with the best of friends, family and colleagues. And if you ever fall on hard times (that is 99.9999999999% not gonna happen) let me know and I will do my bit to help. God bless.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

They were played on the Game Show Network several years ago, which is what you are seeing uploaded to youtube.

[@95garyl]

We can thank Hedda for the Hollywood blacklist of the 1950’s

[@guidadiehl9176]

Oh, so she was a hero?

[@95garyl]

Guida Diehl how so? Destroying the lives of innocent people.

[@95garyl]

Guida Diehl you’re an idiot.

[@sandrageorge3488]

😡😡

[@slyparis2447]

hydra hopper, queen of the bitches, artists betrayor.

[@TheCometHunter]

Excuse me, dear Dorothy, but what is "TV Tonight"? Weaver left GS in '64 to star in KENTUCKY JONES; a family drama of a California veterinarian/widower.

[@tedthomas1993]

She was high..I dated her daughter Jill then..... Dorothy was an alcoholic and drug addict. When I met her in a theater ,Jill was doing a showcase in for AMDA.. she was stoned.

[@battlegirldeb]

Poor Dennis Weaver. I'm sure they never ask him again to be a part of the panel. If they did I'm sure he would turn them down after this show. Was he ever a Mystery Guest?

[@WhatsMyLine]

Nope, this was his only appearance on WML.

[@Beson-SE]

He looked almost bored during the whole show. I guess it was not his idea to be on WML.

[@jvcomedy]

Debra Battle Oddly enough, even though he seemed very unsure of himself he got a lot of "yes" answers to his questions. He just didn't have a clue what to do with them.

[@garyzerr9821]

He kept looking down at the desk between questions. Almost certainly there was a list of possible questions there. He did manage to make his discomfort funny but came across as not in his element at all.

[@tedthomas1993]

They only go on to plug something or get attention for fading careers.

[@Beson-SE]

I didn't know Dennis Weaver was that tall. I remember seing a picture from 'Gunsmoke' when he is standing next to James Arness and he looks like a midget. But of course James Arness was no small person either.

[@robertmelson2130]

I've read that one of the reasons he was cast was because he was tall enough to stand next to James Arness, although he does bring so much more to the role than height. On the other hand, Roger Ewing was cast in 1965 as deputy Thad Greenwood, and it must have been solely for his height (6'4"), because he was a terrible actor imo. He lasted 36 episodes before Buck Taylor's character of Newly took his place..

[@TheCometHunter]

Jim Arness was an immense man at roughly 6'7". (No, that's not a typo) Dennis weaver was 6'2"

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Silverstone L So around 183 cm? Not that tall, but maybe for the 60s it was

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Hedda was the Minnie Pearl of the Jet Set!

[@Beson-SE]

I'm sure that The Mad Hatter phoned her and wanted his hat back after seing her appearance! :)

[@MrJoeybabe25]

:)

[@erineguidry]

Johan Bengtsson oh you mean this character right here? he was an amazing mystery guest back in 1954 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZexoqOdf8p6hdk

[@Beson-SE]

erineguidry I meant Disney's Mad Hatter but since Ed Wynn did his voice, either Mad Hatter will do. :) I agree, Ed Wynn's Mystery Guest on WML is one of my "Top Ten Favorite Mystery Guests Ever!"

[@savethetpc6406]

Johan Bengtsson Originally Lewis Carroll's Mad Hatter, of course. ;)

[@soulierinvestments]

Hedda's head gear. Well now. I don't know what is more startling -- somebody designing it or somebody buying it. The difference between Hedda's 1962 hat and Sophie Tucker's 1963 hat and Groucho Marx's 1964 hat on WML is the difference between exhibitionism as compulsion, strategy, or irony.

[@jmccracken1963]

Let's not forget the "cranial creation" that Rhonda Fleming wore when she appeared as Mystery Guest in the 1950s.....