What's My Line? - Robert Young (Apr 21, 1957)

[@geoffm9944]

Robert Young was a great actor and a real gentleman. He had a superb speaking voice and great presence on the screen.

[@Ezio_1907]

Absolutely, the most natural Marcus Welby, one of a kind actor

[@mtnman6557]

Both Robert Young & Jimmy Stewart were excellent in the movie, Mortal Storm

[@erichanson426]

Robert Young was excellent in Father Knows Best

[@scottmiller6495]

Robert Young was a wonderful man, a terrific actor and had impressive talent that you will never see again! Marcus Welby M.D. was one the greatest Medical Drama Television shows of all time !!!!!

[@saran3214]

He suffered from terrible depression, poor man. He put a brave face on.

[@scottmiller6495]

@@saran3214 I know it was real sad and it's also said he had a severe drinking problem. But he was outstanding in many ways and a wonderful entertainer!

[@saran3214]

@@scottmiller6495 I liked him. He had energy. I wish he could have had modern help with his depression, maybe have gotten prescriptions to ease his pain. His wife was the same way, which did not help.

[@Ezio_1907]

Absolutely, he played Mark so naturally no other actor could've played him better. Very undervalued a unique expressional actor

[@telephotousa]

I like Robert Q. Lewis. Very intelligent, asked smart questions, took the game seriously but still had fun with it and wasn't a stiff.

[@ericmaine]

telephotousa he only got stiff when the male guests were handsome 😉

[@YowzaBowzaWowza]

@@ericmaine: Ha Ha. He was trying too hard to pass as straight.

[@RonGerstein]

The "Q" in his name is a prop. He has no middle name, but he uses "Q" to be more distinguished.

[@accomplice55]

I LOVE Robert Young.

[@williamlynnroden]

This is one of my favorite episodes because of the way the last contestant was delt with. I will not spoil it for anyone, but it is a great show of teamwork!

[@dinahbrown902]

I’ll watch 😊

[@ToddSF]

If you're wondering why it was so funny when Bennett asked if the mystery guest's regular TV show was on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), "Father Knows Best" did run on CBS from its premiere in 1950 through 1955. Then CBS canceled the program and NBC picked it up. So at the time of this episode of WML, "Father Knows Best" had been given the axe by CBS. Later on, NBC would cancel the show and CBS would take it back. (In sum, it ran on CBS from 1950-55, then on NBC from 1955-58, and after that on CBS gain from 1958-60.) I'm sure that's what Robert Q. was getting at when he talked about the show having gotten into trouble but was now sitting pretty.

[@neilmidkiff]

ToddSF 94109 Thanks, Todd, for explaining this! I was too young (born 1956) to notice this at the time.

[@picmajik]

I loved Robert Young as Marcus Welby. I didn't see Father Knows Best until much later in syndication. He was also good in "The Enchanted Cottage" as a wounded veteran.

[@annakaminski4406]

Good to know. I'll have to watch that. Thank you.

[@anneroy4560]

wonderful, wonderful film ...

[@alexis4ufrancois577]

@@annakaminski4406 6yt h

[@MrSadsack56]

i watched and got that enchanted cottage movie. its brilliant!!

[@jerrylee8261]

I've seen TEC several times. Very moving film. So sweet.

[@sarasmith5110]

It is so sad Palisades Park no longer exists. I wanted to go there because of the song and a beautiful poster of it, only to find out it was torn down decades ago. Also, Robert Young put on a brave face, but he suffered from severe depression.

[@anneroy4560]

and he had a problem with the drink but he carried on ... good actor ... very handsome fellow ...

[@geraldkatz7986]

It was replaced by a Co-Op Apartment Complex.

[@richardhall9815]

lol I love John Daly's facial expression at 3:26 after Bennet Cerf calls her a brussel sprout!

[@ToddSF]

Or even a Brussels sprout.

[@kristabrewer9363]

Bennet doesn't get too many laughs (maybe he thinks people don't like him), so when he CAN get a laugh, he probably goes for it

[@simonatheod6867]

Ouch! Lol my reaction was simelar. Was this supposed to be a compliment?

[@servabo_fidem1449]

Obfuscatory (from the verb obfuscate-to confuse, bewilder, stupidly). Thank you Bennet for the word of the day!

[@robertmelson2130]

It was fun to hear Robert Young talk about his 1948 movie "Sitting Pretty" (John Daly brought it up); it's one of our favorite movies. It was meant to be a Robert Young/Maureen O'Hara vehicle, I've read, but it was taken over by Clifton Webb playing the role of Mr. Belvedere. It was followed by two sequels starring Clifton Webb as the title character. I would recommend all three of the movies highly. In fact, it strikes me as possible that an affinity for WML might also indicate an affinity for Mr. Belvedere.

[@nanaberry4120]

John Daly was exceptionally petulant in this episode until Robert Young's set was almost over. I mean WOW! I have seen him pissy and moody before, but he was shooting daggers out of his eyes until Young got him in a better mood. Not a fun episode at all.

[@patricia7823]

@@nanaberry4120 andropause perhaps plus he did do a lot of govt work traveling the world in some cases. ****Andropause is basically male menopause without flow obviously****

[@SueProv]

The zoo keeper seemed upset that he messed up. I liked that Arlene kept them going and they the young man appeared much more relaxed at the end.

[@lllowkee6533]

Arlene’s is very sweet to everyone!

[@rmelin13231]

I felt bad for him, although it wasn't really such a major blunder. It was all in good fun, and I thought he did quite well.

[@tjbnyc76]

Leave it to Arlene -- she ALWAYS noticed when a male contestant was attractive. Mr. Sourhada had a wonderful smile.

[@joiefulton4015]

Mr Sohurda bullies hippopotamuses? +What's My Line, is that what was said?

[@juliansinger]

+Joie Fulton I'm not WML, but, yes. 'Bullies, and cajoles.' I assume it's basically 'pushes in the appropriate direction, sometimes forcefully.'

[@josephkane7805]

@@joiefulton4015 I noticed that too

[@m.e.d.7997]

And Bennett noticed the attractive women

[@janet8418]

Robert Young was one of my favorite TV stars.

[@Ezio_1907]

Definitely, only started watching Marcus Welby last year. A unique one of a kind expressional actor

[@rmelin13231]

On what other show could you possibly be introduced to an operator of a Tunnel of Love and a hippopotamus trainer? So many elements make this such a classic and enjoyable show. I smile with each episode.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

I liked Robert Young in Marcus Welby MD.

[@waldolydecker8118]

8:55 John regarding the Private Detective first guest: "98% of her work is Industrial work..checking on money that may be disappearing in an office, etc..." Bennett: "Or husbands who get too industrious." lol

[@leesher1845]

It’s weird that the company that the private detective worked for wanted her to change her name, but they allowed her to appear on national television. 🤔

[@daler.steffy1047]

I really enjoyed the panel's energy in this episode. You get this feeling that they would have been pleased if you had invited them, literally, into your living room to share with you directly their expertise and queries and their joy of just being there. Sincerity and humility at its best... (And I also like that Mr. Daly didn't do most of the talking on behalf of the guest contestants; he let them shine a bit, too.)

[@jayonnaj18]

I fondly remember Robert Young from Father Knows Best, he seemed so nice and kind! I also remember Robert Q Lewis! Seems like he had a TV show back in the 1950s and we 3 girls, my 2 sisters and I, really liked him!

[@m.e.d.7997]

Love Robert Young

[@195511SM]

I got to go on the Universal Studios tour in 1969, and remember the guide telling us (...as the tram took us down one of the 'residential' streets...)..that house used by Marcus Welby.....USED to be the old home of Beaver Cleaver. The house just to the left of that.....was the home of the Munsters.

[@mikejschin]

I went on that tour in 1967 and got the same info. It was fascinating. Did you get to see the Pyscho house up on the hill? Our tour guide generously pointed out that the path leading up to it was called the Psycho path. There were groans all around. Bennett would probably have laughed himself sick.

[@justinmay3451]

Can't believe how much my grandfather looked like Robert Young when he was younger. To my dad, aunt, and uncle, it certainly was "Father Knows Best!"

[@loissimmons6558]

I never knew that there were tunnels of love that wasn't ridden on water. Some of the panel didn't know either. Learn something knew every day.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Lois Simmons - The ones in Long Beach and Santa Monica were on land and were more scary than romance inducing.

[@preppysocks209]

Robert Young became a star when he appeared with the previous week's MG, Helen Hayes, in her Oscar winning performance in The Sin of Madelon Claudet

[@chikakomaki6598]

I was born in 1988 but I’m always watching this show everyday 😊

[@scottpardee6303]

Yay! I googled Robert Young and he was only married to one woman. So rare in the entertainment field.

[@RobertL.JonesJr-hz8vl]

I use to watch Mr. Robert Young in Father Knows Best and Dr.Marcus Welby M.D.❤

[@joncheskin]

I think Robert Q was the best game player of all the guest panelists. He had a great night here--he figured out that the second guest worked in an Amusement Park and the fourth guest worked in a zoo. He also guessed Robert Young's identity.

[@NizFam]

Agree, but he laid a major bomb with the "drowning your date" joke. Ugh.

[@blainj5687]

Haha John Daly @3:24...my reaction to that joke exactly!!!

[@Deah92fooeee]

It was so funny seeing Mr. Daly say “eight down four to go” when you could see they only had two to go he really wanted to get the panel 😂

[@anneroy4560]

Arlene looks lovely ... very flattering hat ...

[@adamodeo9320]

Arlene was not only smart and pretty talented but also kind - the same goes for Dorothy

[@robertjean5782]

Exactly 😊

[@anneroy4560]

Young's final television series was Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969-76), co-starring a young James Brolin. This show earned Young an Emmy for best leading actor in a drama series.

[@hoagie1978]

He also did Sanka ad's into the 1980's. In 1984 and 1988 he returned in two Marcus Welby TV movies. He retired from acting in 1989. In 1991 he attempted suicide by inhaling car exhaust, but couldn't get the car started.The repair guy came out to the house to fix the car and saw the hose hooked to the tail pipe and called the police. Robert then was evaluated by a mental health facility for help with his life long depresssion. He died in 1998 at 91.

[@BELINDA_LANE]

My late mother was good friends with Kathy Young, Robert Young's daughter who is famous for the song ""A Thousand Stars In The Sky"" ,, she's a lovely woman and has never used her famous father's name to become a recording artist ❤

[@sdkelmaruecan2907]

Wow, Arlene looks stunning in that episode... well she always does but something with the hairdo, the flower and her smile. I've said it before and I say it again, Martin Gabel was a very lucky man.

[@robertjean5782]

Exactly 😊

[@nataliep.9047]

Loved Robert Young in "Bachelor Knows Best" selling his decaf coffee.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

"Father Knows Best" was cancelled by CBS after one season. The show was picked up by NBC for the next three seasons and cancelled by NBC. CBS picked it up again for its final two seasons.

[@jayonnaj18]

I dearly love the Shirley Temple movie in which Robert Young co-starred as her adoptive father from the mid 1930s! I didn't see the movie called STOWAWAY in the 1930s, however! I saw it on TV when they showed Shirley's movies in the late 1950s! I have watched the movie "Sitting Pretty" recently, though!

[@jp0308]

Messrs. Robert Q. Lewis and Steve Allen were my faves! Forget the other guest panelists!

[@YowzaBowzaWowza]

I also enjoy the shows with Tony Randall.

[@Merrida100]

At the end lately, it's been saying that guests were flown courtesy of American Airlines. Does that mean all those years in the beginning that contestants flew in on their own dime, and that as the show grew and evolved, they reached out to folks and actually paid for them to travel here? I wonder if they also started to put the guests up in hotels too?

[@robertjean5782]

They did both from the beginning. Some by train if it wasn't too far😊

[@Beson-SE]

Robert Young is perhaps best known for the TV-series "Father Knows Best" which ran for 203 episodes 1954-60.

[@JLionelWaller]

***** Yet, when he is guessed he sobers up completely, so maybe he was just playing....

[@adamdicy]

His later series Windows on Main Street was a total flop and lasted only one season.

[@adamdicy]

Yeah, I agree there. But he bounced back as Marcus Welby, M.D.

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

Johan Bengtsson i liked him in The Canterville Ghost with the great Charles Laughton

[@Beson-SE]

orgonko the wildly untamed I wish someone would make a remake of that movie.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Robert Q gets off a fairly funny line with the private detective (oh man, even a stopped clock is right twice a day) "I'm ready for a pinch"...but I wonder if it was just not thought worth a giggle or was not understood?

[@MrJoeybabe25]

"Do you do anything with your hands"...and then the hilarity ensues!

[@steveburrus5526]

Does an yone happen to know for how much longer, after thhis show, "Miss Matot" continue to live? I would LUV to know what the year of her death was.

[@su8483]

Difficult to say since, I don't believe we know what her real name is. (As indicated by Daly that the detective agency did not want her name to be known.)

[@kentetalman9008]

I knew Robert Q. Lewis was a panelist, because there's no mention of him in the top line. He's the only guest panelist who is never mentioned.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Did Robert Q have a big time radio variety show on CBS late in the 50's? I seem to remember that from someplace, but I don't remember where.

[@bjmajor]

Joe Postove He was a game show host himself in the early 1950s with "The Name's the Same".

[@edwinrivera8449]

I don't like Miss Arlene in hats. (this is the first I have seen her in one) They make her look old. She always looks young with flowing hair.

[@ToddSF]

When it comes to women's hats, I hate the ones from the 1950's, including this one. They all look like hats for old ladies to me. No wonder, when Jacqueline Kennedy showed up in the public eye in 1960, people liked her pillbox hats so much -- all those 1950's hats were no hard act to follow.

[@baskervillebee6097]

At least it isn't the horrible lettuce hat.

[@patshhi4620]

You should see the video where she comes in wearing a hideous hat. She explained her husband bought it. Then he walks in to be beside her on the panel. He loves the hat, so all she do is say she loves it, but you can tell she hates it.

[@robertjean5782]

Hats were very much in fashion during these times😊

[@robertjean5782]

​@@ToddSFsend email to the show😂

[@lindaszatkowski321]

Robert Young was a classy man

[@chewycenter7690]

See, I told you that new girl at work was staring at me...

[@armyvet4081]

in 1969 -I and my father saw a hippopotamus in the mississippi river- Red Wing minn.

[@ralphmount-th9kr]

I was only 4 when this show was done, but it contnue until i was okd enough to rêmmber.

[@loissimmons6558]

While it was a different spelling and not her real name, the first challenger evoked memories of one of the most memorable and important goals in New York Rangers history: the one scored by Stephane Matteau in double overtime of the 7th game against the NJ Devils. That goal propelled the Rangers into the 1994 Cup finals en route to their first Stanley Cup championship in 54 years. MATTEAU ... MATTEAU ... MATTEAU kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6vMkqWFetSmf8U

[@jp0308]

@Lois Simmons: Ms. Simmons, you always amaze me with your knowledge of sports. I bet sitting with you at a ballgame would be great fun!

[@waldolydecker8118]

A friend said he was watching that Rangers game, but had lost the video feed before the winning goal was scored. At the time Matteau was a relatively unknown player, so when he heard the announcer he thought he had dropped something heavy in the booth on his foot....ma toe! ma toe! ma toe! Very droll.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

PRIVATE DETECTIVE OPERATES TUNNEL OF LOVE HIPPOPOTAMUS KEEPER, BRONX ZOO

[@robertjean5782]

Robert Young😊

[@stephaniemccoy9602]

What did Arlene say at 23:20?

[@BeIIeDoc24]

is it an animal who spits lol

[@stephaniemccoy9602]

Lorna Badeo Thanks : ) I don't know why I couldn't distinguish what she said at the time I commented to be honest. lol!

[@BeIIeDoc24]

haha perhaps distracted at the time :)

[@oswaldomilano3848]

yes ,what did she say ,please?

[@robertjean5782]

Animal 😊Spits

[@belindaalbright8798]

Robert Q, I was born 30 years too late or he was born 30 years too soon. He has a great sense of humor and is one of the more intelligent guest panelists.

[@amberola1b]

I like Robert Q. Lewis, But I wish he would quit trying so hard to seem like hes interrested in women. I've heard a lot of comments saying that he might be gay, that doesn't bother me but it bothers me when he over does all of the comments that he makes towards women. It's almost like every time a beautiful woman comes out as a contestant I expect him to make some kind of remark towards her and it's just really annoying and time consuming

[@44032]

There's a lot of casual comments in these 50's shows that would get a guy fired in today's atmosphere.

[@hot88s23]

He tried a bit too hard.

[@jp0308]

@amborola1b: Why not? If you were an average John or Jane appearing for a few brief moments on a nationally televised show and a well known celebrity paid you a flattering comment how would you feel? What is wrong recognizing attractiveness? Arlene Francis made several comments directed toward some handsome male contestants but I've not seen any negative comments directed toward her in this matter.

[@SueProv]

@@jp0308 I agree. She was very observational about a good looking man or flirtatious. Bennett gets ripped apart not Arlene. I don't think either one should although once in awhile it's tiresome. And sometimes fun.

[@josephkane7805]

I think that back then they may have been just throwaway lines whereas these days you have to tread a lot more carefully.

[@jimbomb3893]

I love Q going for dark humor of drowning his date. Ahead of his time

[@mikehunt8997]

Daylight saving time started in May in 1957.

[@m.e.d.7997]

Not before then?

[@RonGerstein]

This episode was April 21, and the following Sunday was Daylight Saving Time, or April 28.

[@Dolphin-cb9sq]

Such class from everone.

[@JENEAN32]

I hear sirens at 9:10.

[@robertjean5782]

The theater wasn't sound proof, between the traffic outside. And the train station below it was differcult to hear someone speaking!!😮

[@llyngibson4160]

Louise Matot is so beautiful.

[@edisone1]

Was Robert Q sick at this time? He looks awfully skinny

[@peternagy-im4be]

No he wasn't. OK?

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

One of several episodes where Dorothy made her hair up to look like Arlene's maybe subconsciously wishing she wasnt asked to be the "serious panelist"

[@santiagorodriguez3330]

voice too recognizable. kills the game

[@robertjean5782]

Agree😊

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

I wonder how do you test seasick pills. I guess you go on boat rides and see if they work. Lol!

[@keithhyttinen8275]

Didn't Mr. Young commit suicide?

[@Ezio_1907]

Attempted much later in life, but he recovered and reached for medical support and lived out the remaining of his life outliving his wife to 91

[@m.e.d.7997]

No

[@peternagy-im4be]

Gig Young did

[@robertjean5782]

No

[@stevestites9762]

The zoo contestant would have won the full prize if Bennett, as usual, hadn’t opened big mouth out of turn.

[@robertjean5782]

He received the full prize 😊

[@bettybaumann5824]

Who put that had on Arlene, Not a good look

[@robertjean5782]

70 years ago it was very fashionable 😊

[@BIGZIPZ]

Daughter: Mummy, will the cash prize on this game show ever increase after being on the air over 5 years? Mummy: Well, your father says it will, and your Father Knows Best.

[@wchumphries]

+Mark Cooper No, they will not.

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Funy how Daly referred to the weight of the animal of the last contestant as "weighing over a tonne".. did anyone in the US know what that meant at all, given the Imperial weight they use?

[@neilmidkiff]

Lars Rye Jeppesen In the USA we use a modified form of weight units, not the same as the British Imperial ones. An American ton is simply 2,000 pounds (907.03 kg), sometimes called a short ton. The long ton in Britain is 2,240 pounds (1,016.05 kg) which is 20 hundredweight of 112 pounds each, and those are equal to eight stone of 14 lb each. When we split from Britain, we kept the same pounds and ounces, but at least we went more or less decimal on larger quantities.

[@neilmidkiff]

Oh, and we call 1,000 kg a "metric ton" rather than a tonne.

[@barrykendrick3146]

The metric tonne is ~2204 lb. A friend of mine yrs. ago worked for Westinghouse Nuclear Power near Charlotte, NC. A huge part had been brought in & the British rep had told them how much it weighed. They were lowering it onto a steel "table" with a guy underneath with attachments to measure table deflection. They heard him screaming "Pick it up! Pick it up!" The British dude had given the weight in metric tonnes...

[@saran3214]

Daly referred to a ton, in the US that is 2240 lbs. A tonne is 2204 lbs. He is South African and could have meant either term. And yes we know what a ton is, it is a common expression. Why wouldn't we? Hippos can weigh a lot more than a ton. The males never stop growing.

[@robertjean5782]

​@@saran32142,000 lbs😊

[@michaelnak2681]

How do you drown your date, Robert Q Lewis would be cancelled today

[@peternagy-im4be]

Cancelled only by useless little babies.

[@robertjean5782]

It was a jest😊

[@vickimilo5185]

,

[@tommykl]

BELGIUM! :D

[@saran3214]

Arlene's hair was a bit messy under her hat. It would have looked better more contained. Dorothy's was lovely.

[@robertjean5782]

Arlene was the gorgeous one😊

[@simeonbaumel7293]

Private detective, hmmm? That's sort of like a spy. Should we call her "Mattot Hari", then?

[@robertjean5782]

A detective😊

[@BellaFirenze]

So sexist, so stereotypical of the times.

[@peternagy-im4be]

Don't be so silly

[@robertjean5782]

Not 70 years ago😊

[@BellaFirenze]

@@robertjean5782 Didn't you read "...of the times"? Stronzo.

[@RonGerstein]

​@@BellaFirenzeWRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG

[@kristabrewer9363]

The audience is really starting to bug me (even though they're probably all dead by now). I've noticed this on MANY episodes. Every time someone says, "Can I avail myself to your services?" even when it's a normal job; not funny at all, they HAVE to laugh. They can't NOT laugh on this show, whether something is funny or not

[@robertjean5782]

I suggest sending a email 😂

[@enriquesanchez2001]

You are weird to say that!

[@robertjean5782]

@@enriquesanchez2001 🤣