I grew up with these boys, Mike was my neighbor, Jeff and Johnny were my class mates along with Mike. Brings back find childhood memories for me! They were great friends!
Times have changed. When I was in the fifth grade in 1974, during a health class the teacher asked how many of us lived in a household where no one smoked. Only two of 31 kids raised their hands. I was one of them. Frankly, I was dumbfounded that my household was a rarity.
My family didn't smoke either, but for me the smell of cigarette smoke was the smell of "going to town" because there was so much public smoking. My dad's jacket always had that secondhand smoke smell on it (he taught at a university and ppl still smoked in their offices). I hadn't thought about that smell in a long time.......
1974 I was a Freshman in HS. Five kids & neither of my parents ever smoked. It fact whenever friends or relatives came over they had one little milk glass ashtray. Funny thing is all us surviving kids smoked.
As prophetic as his prediction was, they both lived long lives for the day. Gary died at age 78, and Henry was 79. Both lived past the average age expectancies for their generation.
They died unnecessarily painful deaths because of their addictions. My grandparents and aunts and uncles from this same time period lived well into their 90s...one at 100 and one at 110. Healthful life choices is what breaks the "average" life expectancy stats.
Another amazing thing is the he was cured of throat cancer in 1976….and went right on smoking until the emphysema finally took him out in the mid 90s. Wonder he lasted that long.
Oh I disagree. The sitcoms and TV on now especially those not on network television, like Netflix Hulu Amazon prime Etc groundbreaking and just mind blowing.
Nostalgia is clearly a disillusionment . Over the course of those 30 years there may be 10 -15 shows that people care to remember, and many of those shows are not as great as they are just memorable.
When I see some of the old shows from the 60s through the 80s, that I used to watch, I can't get over how corny and cheesy they are. Some of them are so cringeworthy, I can't believe I ever watched them. Not that there's much worth watching today on network or basic cable. I think there were quite a few good shows in the 90s and the 2000s.
I loved watching these great quiz shows in the early-mid '60s! "I've Got A Secret" and "To Tell The Truth" ran back-to-back on CBS on Monday nights, while "What's My Line?" ran on Sunday nights. Those were the 3 I watched every week, until they suddenly vanished: I've Got A Secret" (1952-67), "What's My Line?" (1950-67), and "To Tell The Truth" (1956-68). There haven't been better fun quiz shows as these were in that wonderful era of television!
I was searching UA-cam for the I’ve got a secret for the week of my birthday. I was born in May of 67. But I believe it ended in March of 67. Steve Allen said farewell after our last Secret.
@johnnytheprick People now look cheap, sloppy, uncouth, and slouched over. even the physical presence is mostly sickly, obese, and weak. People now look like faded carbon copies of carbon copies of carbon copies...the poisoning shows.
Emphysema and lung cancer usually happen in your 50s. Both diseases eat you alive a little bit at a time until you finally succumb in 10 to 20 years. it's not like you live to be 78 with a good quality of life and die in your sleep.
That’s what I was thinking. He wanted to establish the boys relationship so he then could say the man’s relationship to them and it was just pushed aside. The only reason I can think of was it was too fast. They wanted to make a big deal over it, give the family some money (maybe). Because he was just dismissed the other panel went in a different direction.
Yeah, I realised partway through, but it is starting to get slightly more complex, especially if your not thinking of seeing from the children's point of views.
Such a funny episode, these former kids are hysterical, and Garry makes it even funnier with his reactions to them, ...the 4 people on the panel are great too, ....just fantastic.☺
Good for all involved. My dad was the only smoker on our family; Lucky Strike of all things. He never quit but did switch to Winston after his first surgery for lung cancer. When it metastasized a few years later he was still on Winston's. When he died he was still on them. Thankfully Mom, my siblings and I did not fall into that trap.
My neighbor lady smokes heavily, has lung disease and is on oxygen. She looks older than me (59) and she is 49. Pretty sad since she is the only mom her grandchildren have ever known. Even at 4 and 5 they told her they are afraid she is going to die. Me too.
If you were alive back then you'd know that cigarettes were also called coffin nails and cancer sticks. Tobacco in general was called the red man's revenge. It was already known in the 1940s that smoking caused cancer. Cigarettes were referred to as coffin nails since at least 1896. The Nazis were already referring to tobacco as the red man's revenge in their anti smoking propaganda in the late 1930s and it's reference is a lot older than that. The boy is only repeating what he has been told. Cigarette ads on television and sponsorships were banned ten years later. The only naive people here are the current generation.
@@stpaley yeah they’d all be the same generation, it goes by age, not familial family tree, if an 80 year old and a 20 year old both have a kid the same year, the kids are the same generation
Thanks for posting. Haven't seen this for nearly 55 years... but it's one of the few IGAS bits I remember explicitly. I was in the 6th grade, growing up about 30 miles from Winston-Salem (where my parents met).
@@shirleya3615 he said "there will be meetings tomorrow in Winston Salem". Winston Salem NC was the location of the corporate headquarters for the maker of Winston and Salem cigarettes. I'm sure this bit of advice from the kid was an embarrassment for the sponsor.
@@ghostcityshelton9378 that's actually not what he said. He was referring to Winston-Salem, the city and corporate headquarters of the sponsoring cigarette brands. He was referring to some of the discussion about that little boy's declaration that would likely take place in the boardroom the next day.
These kids were ahead of their time because this was a rare thing for a child of that era to be saying. The reaction tells you not many were taking the warnings about smoking serious yet. Cigarette smoking reached its peak in the US in 1965 when it is estimated that 40% of the adult population were smokers
Not quite ahead of their time......kids KNEW they were bad as did all adults as well.....it was rare for a child to speak up to an adult!! Not just in smoking but any subject!! WE respected our elders, not like today's kids.
I think that kid picked it up from his parents making chitchat about the show prior to his appearance. One of them even might've said what the boy wound up saying. Or it might've been Grampa.
@@goodmaro Could be, but for folks who think that smoking was not considered harmful until the surgeon General's report came out in 1964, are mistaken. I was a child in the 50's, and that's all I heard about cigs were how bad they were for you.
@@Tunz909 I was born in 1958 and was raised to believe that cigarettes were bad for your health. Both parents as well as all my aunts and uncles smoked, but they knew of the danger involved. It's not as if they were oblivious to the facts. They just ignored them.
@@Tunz909 This aired in 1962, Surgeons General didn't start to put warnings on cigarettes until 1965, and people were very hesitant to believe that it was true even then. I was 9 years old and "every" grown up smoked, I remember thinking how could it be true if cigarettes had been around "forever".
It would be an appropriate even the match game is an appropriate they brought it back and it isn’t anywhere as good as it used to be it’s trash like everything else on TV
@@donaldsmalleypublishing401 Garry Moore was the host of this show. Gary Moore was a prolific guitarist. Neither of the Moores had anything to do with each other or with Wright.
@@felinegroovy I know this. Gary Moore the American TV personality hosted this show. Not Gary Wright, like the man suggested to me. Nor Gary Moore, the Irish blues guitarist that got pulled into this somehow.
In the late 1950's and early 1960's, MAD Magazine connected smoking with lung cancer. During that time, Raleigh Cigarettes had coupons on each pack that could be redeemed for prizes. In one of MADS's articles, it said that you could trade in Raleigh coupons for a new lung machine. Maybe this kid's father told his son that smoking could lead to death. As an aside, I always liked Garry Moore and saw him hosting the very first Earth Day event in 1970 in Union Square Park, New York.
My dad smoked Raleigh cigarettes for years. We had THOUSANDS of those little coupons. I don't know what he was saving them for, but to my knowledge we never traded them in for anything.
personally I laugh at all these earth day fools and climate jackasses. go for a walk anywhere and you will see the garbage people throw on the ground. for paper to plastic and now you see masks and gloves. earth day should be a day that people just pick up the trash that they throw on the ground. and now you have people shitting and pissing in the streets but you have to be concern about people not wearing masks or getting the jab. Idiots........
My mother smoked for 30 years. She quit when she was confined to bed for two years with a bad back, as she didn't want to smoke in bed and possibly fall asleep with a burning cigarette. When I used to tell her how dangerous cigarette smoking was, she told me how her grandmother died of old age at 92, and she smoked all her life. She then said that her own mother died of lung cancer at the age of 52 and never smoked a day in her life, so "don't tell me how dangerous cigarettes are." I mentioned that her mother was raised by her grandmother who smoked every day of her life, and maybe she got cancer later in life because she had breathed in so much of her mother's cigarette smoke. I was thinking about secondhand smoke before I ever heard the term. When we were kids, my mother used to have us roll her cigarettes while we watched TV. She bought loose tobacco and cigarette tubes and had a little syringe looking device that injected the tobacco into the tubes. It was kinda fun, even though we hated the smell of the cigarette smoke when she smoked them.
The guess of "an uncle, a nephew, and a grand uncle" was correct. I can't believe no one challenged that. And those titles were even in the order that the boys were standing.
I believe if he would have said nephew, grand nephew and uncle he would have given it to him. Bill kind of qualified the one boy twice (uncle and grand uncle) and left the other little boy out (grand nephew.)
I predict you all will die. This is so silly we are all going to die. I don't see this as a prediction. If they would've died on that some day or in the next few months it would be a prediction but they died 32 years later. That was no prediction.
@@donnabouterse8980 Yeah I always thought it was ridiculous to let kids go out for smoke breaks but those of us who didn't smoke got none of those "break" privileges. I then asked if I could go out with them and was told no because I didn't smoke. 🤣
No. Because the boys are not related to the man in that way. Yes. The boys are related to each other in that way but that really wasn't the secret. The secret was, how is the boys related to the man.
A five year-old child matter-of-factly predicted smoking would kill the two smokers. Is that innocence? He was more honest & realistic than the adults there... or the doctors & scientists of that time.
not really. they just did not have the advancement of computer and the web were everyone seems to think telling people their every move or thought is important. people at that time either did not care or what to know all the BS
The sponsors of many TV shows back then were cigarette / tobacco companies. The host of the show almost shit when the kid started badmouthing cigarettes. The one panel member that decided to "smoke on camera" even though the host of the show was the only one "allowed" to smoke on camera, that panel member ( by immediately lighting a smoke ) was kissing the ass of the sponsor to soften the criticism of the kid that said they were "going to die because they smoked cigarettes."
@johnnytheprick WRONG that came out around 1962 or 63. I know because I'm 67. I lived it. I had a father that smoked and I feared he would die. I did have an uncle die of lung cancer around 1972 and he was only 56. It was January 1, 1971 when cigarette ads were FINIALLY outlawed on TV although still allowed in magazines/newspapers. The last TV ads they made a big deal because the football games were on TV on the last day it was allowed and the cigarette companies bought up the football game ads.
This was TV when I was a kid. 3 channels, we thought we were sophisticated. 50 yrs earlier they had no cars, no planes, and all but a few were poor. Then today I hold in my hand a Star Trek communicator 😂
We use to go to our grandma's and listen to tv lol sit in front of the box. Imagination went a long way too. Late 60's my mom watched scary show in b&w... Dark Shadows lol. I sat on the floor peeking from behind the couch. 😟👀🧛🦇
Good for you Johnny! My grandfather died from emphysema, my parents died from cancer, I have a friend who died from emphysema four years ago, all were smokers. Children are blunt and get to the point, I never told people things like that, but I never got into smoking because I lost my grandfather when I was five and knew smoking had something to do with his death, but I wish had been more vocal about it, and admire this young fellows straightforward comment, and love the irony that the shows sponsor was in the tobacco industry!
Of course People who smoke around children and they get sick and they keep smoking well.they just Would rather smoke Than Raise there children or have any .my doc told me to quit said itcauses Health problem for my kid so I did .I stopped .it wasn't That Hard .so talk about peoole just not giving aDamn .continying.
I'm aware that Winston cigarette was a sponsor to the show but he couldn't stop smoking for a few minutes while introducings the kids? That cigarette came really close to the first kids ear.
Ha. Back then, kids weren’t held up on pedestals - we were afterthoughts. I was glad my mom wasn’t a smoker - she detested how they accidentally burned their kids and laughed about it.
@Doc Holiday kids aren’t weak and soft now - their parents simply are helicopters. However, there is a difference between kids being soft, and kids being burned by someone, I think. My own mother commented how the kids of cigarette users would have burns on them. She hated it to her core.
Original air date; October 29, 1962. On January 11, 1964, Luther L. Terry, M.D., Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, released the first report of the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health.
What is noteworthy about this clip is the secret. This man may have been the first and only person in history to have a child, a grandchild, and a great grandchild who were all the same age!! (I don't think l have heard of such an occurrence before. A situation like this would have to be very rare, if not in fact unique.)
Definitely not the only person in history. Imagine how many kids each family had then and when they started having kids. My grandfather for instance was the last of 10 kids. He was closer with his nieces and nephews than his own siblings, as the siblings had the kids around when he was born. If one of the oldest kids had a kid old enough to have a child, it could've happened. I mean, Otis was more than 20 years older than my grandfather. Very easily could've.
@@OfftheWallTales Exactly. even when I was growing up in the 70s, my Catholic school had families of 12, even 13 kids. There were nephews who were older than their uncles. I don’t keep in touch but I bet some of them have great grandkids and grandkids and kids overlap. If they start early enough and keep going!
Those boys were cute and spontaneous with genuine laughter🤣 from the panel and audience...all are 64/65 years old--hopefully all are well and non smokers.💖
Gary Moore smoking onstage. It was a different time. Doctor shows showed doctors smoking as they chatted in a hospital corridor. We truly didn’t know the dangers back then. Now we do. Amazing anyone starts now.
My Grandfather was a British soldier in WW1, he said cigarettes were called coffin nails.😑 So, yeah, I think we knew, we just chose to ignore the facts.
We didn’t know, nor did any of the children we grew up with. Every adult I knew smoked. Our doctors smoked, our Priest smoked. Everyone on TV smoked. There were advertisements everywhere. I knew nothing of the dangers of smoking.
A goodly number of the comments discuss the timeline in acknowledging the harmfulness of tobacco. I've read that people started to talk about the relationship between lung cancer and tobacco after the death of HM King George VI in 1952. Interestingly, George VI's father, George V and his grandfather Edward VII both died of smoking 🚬 related illnesses. A very good clip!
It killed all of the royal women too (until the 2 Elizabeths came along) Yet smokers all wanted to benefit from suing the tobacco companies in the 90s as they were all shocked to be told that cigarettes are harmful
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar : No, I didn't look any of it up - I learned it after a conversation with my GP, some 25 years ago. He was the son of a GP, and was born and educated in the UK. I was trying to invite people to realise that the journey of speaking the truth about the dangers of tobacco was quite prolonged. Capesce? GJS
@@19gregske55 why on earth would they tell you how the king's died prior. That is from assumption of the crowd, probably a much later crowd saying this about how the king died. I'm referring to that.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar HM King George VI was greatly loved by the entire British 🇬🇧 Empire. He had brought his subjects through WWII, and he died very young - 56 years old. His health problems were all related to 🚬 cigarettes; smoking was accepted and popular at the time. The discussion of the relationship between smoking and lung cancer was first tabled in 1952, when he died. Please have a look at your last missive, I suspect that either a word is missing or the spellcheck gremlin changed something. GJS
Back ok then the public was not only uninformed of the consequences of smoking, doctors actually recommended them for good health! So yeah, it's kind of amazing that the kid predicted this.
Back ok then the public was not only uninformed of the consequences of smoking, doctors actually recommended them for good health! So yeah, it's kind of amazing that the kid predicted this.
These are the days of " Ladies and Gentlemen". I watch the old stuff, long before my time, and wonder how marvelous it must have been! Women had poise, were intelligently well spoken, beautifully modest; men were strong characters, charming and gentlemanly back in the 40's, 50's and 60's.. Television was clean, showcased talent, love, and life. What's happened to society/ people?
They were also the days of segregation and Jim Crow laws. Gay people were beaten ostracized and labeled as criminals. The Klan was very open and recruiting heavily. Abortion was illegal. Sure these were great times , if you were white and male. Lol.
I was a kid in the 60's. Everyone smoked. Mom smoked Viceroys, Dad camels. Hated the smell. Hated the dirty ashtrays. Hated their stinky ass breath. I had asthma. As did my brother. Two of my best friends died of lung cancer before the age of 60. Both smoke starting the the 9th grade.
Yes my Mom and Dad did not come from a strong gene pool , they both smoked and drank , they did not see their 65 birthdays .I can't stand any type of smoke , here in Canada , Pot is legal and in the cities you can smell it all over , the city .I hate it .
I had a friend that starting smoking at 6. He and his friend would sit in his Mom's car and smoke all the half finished cigarettes she left in the ashtray.
We seem to look back at the “old days” in some what of a omnipotent manner from our present day as if nothing we “know” and believe today about science, pharmaceuticals etc could possibly be wrong. Let’s look back in 50 years and we’ll see how wrong we were.
@@lovemesomeslippers Well for one, Thalidomide, it turns out it wasn't really a wonder drug. And tobacco it turns out definitely can cause cancer and other diseases...🤔 I'm sure you see where this is going? In another 50 years I'm sure a lot of what we think we know today will be proven wrong as well.
@@lovemesomeslippers look at the tv ads...for this medication, that medication, followed by a commercial...if you've been harmed by... The opioid crisis. I can do this all day. Henrietta Lacks. Tuskegee experiment. Prisoners and mental patients as Guinea pigs, without consent. Are you completely unfamiliar with "medicine" in the United States?
@@julesj5853 Not to mention people were more naive and trusting of their government, more trustworthy as well. And not globally connected to all the horrors in the world that we are inundated with daily now.
I was lucky, both my parents didn't smoke and they were the WWII generation where smoking was HUGE. My dad lived strong & sharp to 98 & my Mom is still going strong at 92. Smoking takes years & years off your life
that is great. Did you have any persons that smoked in your house when growing up? Unfortunately, I had a mother who was a chain smoker and it was terrible for me to live with the smoking around me (secondhand smoke). I think she also caused a fire in our house from her smoking. I had a cousin who caused a fire in his house from smoking. Smokers causing fires is another hazard they present, not only to themself but to others around them.
No kidding. My parents both smoked. One died at age 62 in 1978 and the other(after years of horrible health) at age 71. Both related to smoking. My husband's parents died by age 60. Both smoked heavily. His Dad at age 53 his Mom age 57. His Dad had adult onset Diabetes(undiagnosed in the 1950'-60's)and even though he did quit smoking the long term effects caused permanent damage. His Mom had emphysema... She smoked for years. Luckily growing up our parents had to stop smoking in the house when our little sister had asthma. But for several years they smoked in the house. Also visits with relatives was horrible as every household smoked. They all died by age 70 or earlier...
@@ilikecontent2327 sorry to hear you had to go through that. For me, it was a nightmare living with smokers. At the time there were few places to escape it as most businesses allowed people to smoke in their stores or theatres etc. I remember going to see movies when the smoke from people smoking would create a foggy appearance in the theatre as the light from the projector hit the smoke in the air.. and it was not comfortable to breathe in or even smell in there. I am glad society has evolved to essentially make coming across a smoker a rare occurrence.
@@manp1039 Yes. I remember that. Work places, and restaurants, businesses. It was horrible! I was so glad when they made it illegal to smoke in public places. Of course the businesses claimed they would lose business and threw a fit! And the smokers were up in arms... That is not what happened. Instead the businesses had more visitors than ever before... I was thrilled! My husband and I were so tired of being shoved into the non-smoking section of restaurants and they were usually located next to the restrooms or kitchen and the smokers would blow smoke at you. For a long time we did not eat out. These smokers are the same type of people that refuse to wear masks and spread the Covid virus everywhere. Killed thousands of people that would be alive today. Same as the people they killed with second hand smoke. For a long time we did not eat out much. We just used the drive through. And I refused to work in an office with smokers...
I remember watching Bewitched with Elizabeth Montgomer as a kid, in both black and white and later when it was in color. Darren had a glass of booze or a cigarette in his hand most of the time. Every other commercial was for cigarettes.
Really quite something to have a son, a grandson AND a gt-grandson all the same age. A little puzzling though is how they differ in size and reactions -the gt. grandson especially as if he was really younger than 5 years old. Lovely kids though.
I think the great-grandson probably just turned five while the son is probably closer to six and the grandson is probably in the middle or so of his fifth year.
Garry Moore had his cigarette about a foot from the boys face when he first introduced them. How times have changed. I have a cigarette burn on my hand where I accidently got burned by my aunt's cigarette. You can see Johnny trying to fan the smoke away when he is standing behind him.
You'll always be right eventually predicting someone will die. The only interesting thing here was "predicting" the manner of their deaths. And even there, it's not as if those were rare causes of death.
@@19gregske55 & all - sorry, this was three years ago and I can't find the link anymore. I likely got it from Newspapers dot com, but it's not coming up in my searches.
This show was always interesting lol Gary's eyes to you're gonna die priceless! I was expecting to all dads walk out and claim their sons. Mr. Davis son acted alot older than his nephews.
I think, what with cigarette companies sponsoring so many early t.v. shows, that the regulars who smoked, such as Gary, were expected to smoke as much as possible to show what a fun and sophisticated thing it was to do. I even saw an ad on the Dick VanDyke Show where DVD and MTM were sitting in the set of Rob & Laura Petrie’s house, smoking and advertising the sponsored cigarettes. It is really disgusting how the cigarette industry, which knew damn well how dangerous their products were, bamboozled the public with their ads.
They were required by contract to smoke the sponsor's cigarettes. Lucy smoked a different brand, so they would put her chosen cigarettes in the sponsor's package. @@tigertbalm
On a lot of shows at the time, people smoked as part of the advertising. Phillip-Morris sponsored "I Love Lucy", and it was common to see Lucy and Ricky smoking. After cigarette ads were banned in the early seventies, people still smoked on camera through the eighties. Johnny Carson smoked during commercial breaks, and would often be seen putting out a cigarette as they returned. I remember one episode, which featured Dean Martin, Bob Hope, and George Gobel. Dean was flicking his ashes into Gobel's drink when he wasn't looking and Gobel thought the audience was laughing at his jokes.
@@tomkellycartoons The best way to retain a customer is to sell an addictive product! I'm thinking coffee, opium, sugar etc. Broccoli is a bit harder to sell repeatedly. Incidentally, a google search shows that the Germans had an anti-smoking campaign in the 1920s.
Freaky!! But not expected. They (the Sponsors and general public) were still giving multi packs for not only prizes but also advertising giving them for the holidays. People can smoke if they wish, but with chronic bronchitis, I can't be around the smoke for too long.
The Buzzr game channel used to air both "I've Got A Secret" and "What's My Line?" in the wee hours of the night. I wasn't born until 1958 so I never got a chance to see this programming during its heyday. I've Got A Secret always had cool things to show like the guy who made a complete suit and tie from newspaper. Or the demonstration of microfiche which had been invented in 1961 by an employee of the NCR Co. They had the entire Bible on a little piece of plastic. I think they also demonstrated the univac computer.
This holds true today, as well - youngsters often police the contents of the recycling ♻️ bin. Us oldsters are forever putting tinfoil and soiled black plastic into the recycling stream. The kids are much more environmentally grounded.
The old man’s wife is also the first kid’s sister, grandmother, and aunt, the second kid’s cousin, mother, and sister, and the third kid’s daughter, grandmother, and girlfriend.
Yeah, and they made us put suits on and it's not even Sunday. ( or did boys dress like that more in those days ? , as I was born in the 60's , so don't know)
@@Salena905 Sunday as you would be going to church. Unless this is a comedy cult, I don't believe this is a church. On more than one or ever two occasions, will suitable outfits such of this, be worn.
@@Salena905 yes it started to die down by the 1960's and 1970's. Outfits got a little...strange as did hair and accents of children now into their teens in the 70's. Even automobiles we're a little strange, my mother called them carpets on wheels because of how short they were, yet expansively wide. I was 6'3 so I could look right over the roof of it and just tell something wasn't right. The 1930's offered the opposite of those automobiles, tall and a about 71 inches wide instead of the insane 79-81 inches wide--- and curved, large open tires, completely different feeling suspension, tough quality, organized color pallets. If you ever put a 1970-73 Cadillac next to a 1930 Cadillac..the size difference is impossible to explain.
The explaination to the problem is a little unclear in the video, here's how it goes: Mr. Davis got married and had 2 sons. One of the son's name was Frank (Frank was not any of the boys on the stage.) The other son's name was Jeff (The boy on the right.) This boy Jeff was 5 years old at the time His other son, Frank (Who is presumably much older than Jeff) got married and also gave birth to 2 children. One of them was a boy named John (The boy on the left.) The other one was a girl (Her name goes unmentioned here) Who also got married and gave birth to her one son Mike (The one in the middle.) So the first generation is Mr. Davis, who gave birth to Jeff and Frank. Frank gave birth to John and another daughter, who would later give birth to Mike. If I were to guess the most likley way this would happen, Mr. Davis has been married twice (Or more.) His first relationship occured about 30-35 years ago let's say, and they gave birth to Frank. During the time when Frank was growing up, Mr. Davis would divorce and re-marry, and give birth to Jeff. During that time, Frank grew up and got married to a woman, and giving birth to 2 children, with the first one being a daughter. They either could've remarried again or they could've just waited 15-20 years or so before having another child that would be John. Then that daughter would get married and have Mike, and with enough prolonged marriage and child birth, this scenario is technically replicatable, but would require a ton of sheer luck, and would almost have to be manually set up without accounting for sheer coincidence.
Twas the norm back then, unfortunately At the time, they didn't know how harmful smoking was,,,,,, and now, everywhere you go there's a smoking/tobacco PSA
In those days the cigarette companies were the big TV sponsors, so you were supposed to be promoting smoking and many actors smoked during the shows. I can still remember some of the cigarette jingles and ads they played on TV and radio. Tobacco companies knew how to get their audience addicted.
The original air date for this show I found was Oct. 29, 1962, and Jane Powell (who recently passed away) was the celebrity guest, who had 50 light bulbs sewn into her dress.
Not really. Cigarettes weren't considered bad back in those days. Why else did they award every guest with packets of cigars? And by the time they were discovered to be bad, addictions kicks in
There were reports from Doctors, but the public didnt want to believe it. In those days, children who said things like that were deemed smart aleks and often ridiculed. But that kid told the truth.
It was well known a hindred years ago that cigarettes affected health. I have a book dated 1909 which talks about the subject of the book (oscar wilde) smoking even though he knew it would damage his health. It was common knowledge. Why did they hand out cigars? Because they were paid to by tobacco companies to encourage cigar smoking as a special treat. Why did doctors advertise Chesterfields? Because. They. Were. Paid. To. By. Tobacco. Companies.
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I grew up with these boys, Mike was my neighbor, Jeff and Johnny were my class mates along with Mike. Brings back find childhood memories for me! They were great friends!
Do you know how they are doing now?
@@志瑜杨 many seem to be asking the same question
Where did ya all grow up?
@@hello-ox5rf The treasures in the back yard to the left, under a rock.
Bullshit
Times have changed. When I was in the fifth grade in 1974, during a health class the teacher asked how many of us lived in a household where no one smoked. Only two of 31 kids raised their hands. I was one of them. Frankly, I was dumbfounded that my household was a rarity.
It kind of reminds me of tattoos people will follow anything to be in the group won't they
i'm holding out. i want to be the only one without a tattoo.@@kellystraveli7825
My family didn't smoke either, but for me the smell of cigarette smoke was the smell of "going to town" because there was so much public smoking. My dad's jacket always had that secondhand smoke smell on it (he taught at a university and ppl still smoked in their offices). I hadn't thought about that smell in a long time.......
I was 24 in ‘74. None of my immediate family ever smoked, but lots of aunts and uncles still did. They all died of smoking related illnesses.😢
1974 I was a Freshman in HS. Five kids & neither of my parents ever smoked. It fact whenever friends or relatives came over they had one little milk glass ashtray. Funny thing is all us surviving kids smoked.
As prophetic as his prediction was, they both lived long lives for the day. Gary died at age 78, and Henry was 79. Both lived past the average age expectancies for their generation.
@greghicks8497 You could, but that would make them statical outliers.
Uh, not so. Many many people of "that generation" lived as long or longer than we will today.
@@NotYoung3592 That can be said for any generation. However, you're ignoring mortality tables. The statistics don't support that.
They died unnecessarily painful deaths because of their addictions.
My grandparents and aunts and uncles from this same time period lived well into their 90s...one at 100 and one at 110.
Healthful life choices is what breaks the "average" life expectancy stats.
This is what I was curious about... anyone could say that about anyone. 40 years later when they die, "see i was right" 😂
proving that even a child knows that smoking is harmful to your lungs.
A child in the 50s
@@cruisepaige ua-cam.com/video/FHXBOoDmQk8/v-deo.html
Too oo oo funny😂🤣😂
Also proving that the anti-smoking campaign from the American Lung Association was reaching at least the youngest of our nation.
Yeah, too bad that Garry and Henry didn't listen to the young man. I believe that Bill Cullen's death may have possibly been smoking-related, too.
Unreal. Gary couldn’t get through taping an episode without a cig in his hand. The boy didn’t need to be psychic to predict his cause of death.
He smokes because Winston was the sponsor and Gary smoked.
Another amazing thing is the he was cured of throat cancer in 1976….and went right on smoking until the emphysema finally took him out in the mid 90s. Wonder he lasted that long.
BUT HE DID 😄😄😄😄
The good old days when you could smoke and drink on TV love it
Your cause of death will be "politically incorrect". lol
Tv will never be as good as it was in 50’s-60’s and 70’s it was a grand time for tv
Oh I disagree. The sitcoms and TV on now especially those not on network television, like Netflix Hulu Amazon prime Etc groundbreaking and just mind blowing.
Nostalgia is clearly a disillusionment . Over the course of those 30 years there may be 10 -15 shows that people care to remember, and many of those shows are not as great as they are just memorable.
When I see some of the old shows from the 60s through the 80s, that I used to watch, I can't get over how corny and cheesy they are. Some of them are so cringeworthy, I can't believe I ever watched them. Not that there's much worth watching today on network or basic cable. I think there were quite a few good shows in the 90s and the 2000s.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA
@@nylasorj you have been programmed away from your culture and behaviors and now view them as "corny" that's the way slow poisoning works.
I loved watching these great quiz shows in the early-mid '60s! "I've Got A Secret" and "To Tell The Truth" ran back-to-back on CBS on Monday nights, while "What's My Line?" ran on Sunday nights. Those were the 3 I watched every week, until they suddenly vanished: I've Got A Secret" (1952-67), "What's My Line?" (1950-67), and "To Tell The Truth" (1956-68). There haven't been better fun quiz shows as these were in that wonderful era of television!
They were likely replaced by: Match, Password, 24 Thousand dollar Pyramid.
I was searching UA-cam for the I’ve got a secret for the week of my birthday. I was born in May of 67. But I believe it ended in March of 67. Steve Allen said farewell after our last Secret.
Gary answered incorrectly in the beginning. There was an uncle, a nephew, and a grand uncle relationship.
@@valentinr.dominguez2892 Yes, I thought the same thing. Bill Cullen got it correctly right off the bat.
The women always looked so gorgeous back then. They were so glamorous.
I remember my great grandmother would dress in her Sunday best, including her gloves, to go to the grocery store.
@johnnytheprick Different opinions.
@@G-grandma_Army That’s so nice. My granny was the same.
A lot of women back there didn’t work outside the home so they had plenty of time to get dressed up and so on and so forth
@johnnytheprick People now look cheap, sloppy, uncouth, and slouched over. even the physical presence is mostly sickly, obese, and weak. People now look like faded carbon copies of carbon copies of carbon copies...the poisoning shows.
I got a secret, we're all going to die.
Not from cigarettes
@@TracymmoMaybe not but still lack of breath.
Emphysema and lung cancer usually happen in your 50s. Both diseases eat you alive a little bit at a time until you finally succumb in 10 to 20 years. it's not like you live to be 78 with a good quality of life and die in your sleep.
3:30 Bill got it right when he said that they were nephew, uncle and ‘grand uncle’, but Garry just dismissed it.
No...one was his Son..
@@bigjohn3928 : I think he was referring to the relationship among the three boys.
@@elizabethpease947 Yes bill meant between the boys not their relationship to their father/grandfather/great grandfather.
That’s what I was thinking.
He wanted to establish the boys relationship so he then could say the man’s relationship to them and it was just pushed aside.
The only reason I can think of was it was too fast. They wanted to make a big deal over it, give the family some money (maybe).
Because he was just dismissed the other panel went in a different direction.
Yeah, I realised partway through, but it is starting to get slightly more complex, especially if your not thinking of seeing from the children's point of views.
Such a funny episode, these former kids are hysterical, and Garry makes it even funnier with his reactions to them, ...the 4 people on the panel are great too, ....just fantastic.☺
Children! They speak their Truth! Amazing Connection they have to each other!
I endured lots of second hand smoke as a child. I had to beg my parents not to smoke around me. They listened and eventually quit.
Good for all involved. My dad was the only smoker on our family; Lucky Strike of all things. He never quit but did switch to Winston after his first surgery for lung cancer. When it metastasized a few years later he was still on Winston's. When he died he was still on them. Thankfully Mom, my siblings and I did not fall into that trap.
Smoking shud be banned worldwide
Vaping will seriously reduce smoking
@@knockedoutloaded279 adults should be free to ingest whatever they want into their own bodies.
@@knockedoutloaded279 there are problems with that too. Also not healthy.
Guaranteed, the commercial following Moore saying "let's watch this" was a cigarette ad.
Love this! They need to bring this show back, only the secrets today would not be as wholesome I'm afraid.
I know I wouldn't want to hear most of them!
Yep. Jerry springer 2.0
They did, but it was pretty filthy. The secrets were disgusting on the new show. Too bad.
True. They've ruined all the others, even the match game.
Sadly, I agree. If secrets like these were used, ratings would drop and be replaced
by I Married My Uncle’s Grandfather. 😳
My neighbor lady smokes heavily, has lung disease and is on oxygen. She looks older than me (59) and she is 49. Pretty sad since she is the only mom her grandchildren have ever known. Even at 4 and 5 they told her they are afraid she is going to die. Me too.
If she's raising her grandchildren, she needs those smokes.
Wow, talk about selfish!! Who is going to raise those babies when she dies sometime within the next couple years?
Cigarette in the hand was as common as a mobile phone in the hand today both a health issue!
Exactly
Very good comment ...
Your so right spot on.
Apples and oranges
Cell phone aren’t always a bad thing.
It would be interesting for a current show to track them down and interview them.
They can't because they're all dead now.
I'm curious what year this was. Totally possible if it was 1960, for example, that they're all here. I'd love to hear from them today!
@@woflover It states 1962 so it's a big possibility 😊
They did track them down. Unfortunately they all died of emphysema, due to second hand smoke.
I agree!!!
Smart kid. A lot of people didn't believe that back then.
Sounds familiar to something a lot of people don’t believe today. 😗
@@TheRealSmithFamily [grin!]
@@geekdivaherself 😁
If you were alive back then you'd know that cigarettes were also called coffin nails and cancer sticks. Tobacco in general was called the red man's revenge. It was already known in the 1940s that smoking caused cancer. Cigarettes were referred to as coffin nails since at least 1896. The Nazis were already referring to tobacco as the red man's revenge in their anti smoking propaganda in the late 1930s and it's reference is a lot older than that. The boy is only repeating what he has been told. Cigarette ads on television and sponsorships were banned ten years later. The only naive people here are the current generation.
And a lot of people still don't believe today
That was extraordinary! Three 5-year-olds from separate generations!
But all in the same line!
One is a boomer, one is from the greatest generation and one is from the lost generation.
now i am confused; being the same age, would they be the same generation?
@@theprogressiveatheist7024 that’s not how generations work..
@@stpaley yeah they’d all be the same generation, it goes by age, not familial family tree, if an 80 year old and a 20 year old both have a kid the same year, the kids are the same generation
Thanks for posting. Haven't seen this for nearly 55 years... but it's one of the few IGAS bits I remember explicitly. I was in the 6th grade, growing up about 30 miles from Winston-Salem (where my parents met).
I missed something....
I thought He was saying something about Winston AND Salem Brand Cigarettes. 🙊
@@shirleya3615 He did say that! He was talking about the cig sponcers of the show.
@@shirleya3615 he said "there will be meetings tomorrow in Winston Salem". Winston Salem NC was the location of the corporate headquarters for the maker of Winston and Salem cigarettes. I'm sure this bit of advice from the kid was an embarrassment for the sponsor.
@@joebrinson5040 Aww Haa!
Thanks for sharing that 🙂
@@ghostcityshelton9378 that's actually not what he said. He was referring to Winston-Salem, the city and corporate headquarters of the sponsoring cigarette brands. He was referring to some of the discussion about that little boy's declaration that would likely take place in the boardroom the next day.
These kids were ahead of their time because this was a rare thing for a child of that era to be saying.
The reaction tells you not many were taking the warnings about smoking serious yet.
Cigarette smoking reached its peak in the US in 1965 when it is estimated that 40% of the adult population were smokers
Not quite ahead of their time......kids KNEW they were bad as did all adults as well.....it was rare for a child to speak up to an adult!! Not just in smoking but any subject!! WE respected our elders, not like today's kids.
I think that kid picked it up from his parents making chitchat about the show prior to his appearance. One of them even might've said what the boy wound up saying. Or it might've been Grampa.
@@goodmaro Could be, but for folks who think that smoking was not considered harmful until the surgeon General's report came out in 1964, are mistaken. I was a child in the 50's, and that's all I heard about cigs were how bad they were for you.
@@Tunz909 I was born in 1958 and was raised to believe that cigarettes were bad for your health. Both parents as well as all my aunts and uncles smoked, but they knew of the danger involved. It's not as if they were oblivious to the facts. They just ignored them.
@@Tunz909 This aired in 1962, Surgeons General didn't start to put warnings on cigarettes until 1965, and people were very hesitant to believe that it was true even then. I was 9 years old and "every" grown up smoked, I remember thinking how could it be true if cigarettes had been around "forever".
They should bring something like this back......family oriented and funny to watch. Love this.
They did. It's called To Tell the Truth with Anthony Anderson as the host. It's family-oriented and it's very funny.
All but the cigs.
For sure. Family feud has all kinds of inappropriate surveys now
It would be an appropriate even the match game is an appropriate they brought it back and it isn’t anywhere as good as it used to be it’s trash like everything else on TV
with host and guest smoking
I'm sure the cigarette companies sponsoring the show loved that part.
"there are going to be meetings in Winston Salem tomorrow" was the best line of the show.
@@HavanaWoody What is the old adage, No such thing as bad publicity. YOU are going to die hahaha loved the face he made when he turned arround.
@@HavanaWoodyThat actually was a great line, and very few on here would understand what it meant. Good observation.
Both Moore and Morgan both lived till almost 80 years old. Both born in 1915 and died in '93 and '94.
Hey they out lived Alan Watts who was born 1915 died 1973. Alan also always spoke the obvious truth.
Thank you for showing these episodes
I remember watching this with my sweet mother as a little girl….we always thought Betsy Palmer was so pretty.
I had a doll that I named Betsy in honour of Betsy Palmer. She really was very pretty.
It's amazing you were able to be with your mother when she was a little girl.
I had a huge crush on Betsy.
This reminds me of that old country song "I'm My Own Grandpa"
Gary Moore handled it with comedy. It was classic!
*Garry
Gary Wright
@@luisxavier8124 Gary Moore was the host of I've Got a Secret. Gary Wright is or was a Pop musician (Dreamweaver)
@@donaldsmalleypublishing401 Garry Moore was the host of this show. Gary Moore was a prolific guitarist. Neither of the Moores had anything to do with each other or with Wright.
@@felinegroovy I know this. Gary Moore the American TV personality hosted this show. Not Gary Wright, like the man suggested to me. Nor Gary Moore, the Irish blues guitarist that got pulled into this somehow.
In the late 1950's and early 1960's, MAD Magazine connected smoking with lung cancer. During that time, Raleigh Cigarettes had coupons on each pack that could be redeemed for prizes. In one of MADS's articles, it said that you could trade in Raleigh coupons for a new lung machine. Maybe this kid's father told his son that smoking could lead to death.
As an aside, I always liked Garry Moore and saw him hosting the very first Earth Day event in 1970 in Union Square Park, New York.
Old Gold cigarettes had coupons too! My dad
smoked them.
I was 16 when I cut out that day from high school in Queens, with my friend, to attend the first Earth Day in Union Square! 👍
My dad smoked Raleigh cigarettes for years. We had THOUSANDS of those little coupons. I don't know what he was saving them for, but to my knowledge we never traded them in for anything.
Yep, causes cancer, but still somehow FDA approved. Makes me wonder about the FDA.
personally I laugh at all these earth day fools and climate jackasses. go for a walk anywhere and you will see the garbage people throw on the ground. for paper to plastic and now you see masks and gloves. earth day should be a day that people just pick up the trash that they throw on the ground. and now you have people shitting and pissing in the streets but you have to be concern about people not wearing masks or getting the jab. Idiots........
They ought to have also brought out Johnny’s father Frank and Mike’s grandfather and mother.
They weren’t there they died from smoking.
My mother smoked for 30 years. She quit when she was confined to bed for two years with a bad back, as she didn't want to smoke in bed and possibly fall asleep with a burning cigarette. When I used to tell her how dangerous cigarette smoking was, she told me how her grandmother died of old age at 92, and she smoked all her life. She then said that her own mother died of lung cancer at the age of 52 and never smoked a day in her life, so "don't tell me how dangerous cigarettes are." I mentioned that her mother was raised by her grandmother who smoked every day of her life, and maybe she got cancer later in life because she had breathed in so much of her mother's cigarette smoke. I was thinking about secondhand smoke before I ever heard the term. When we were kids, my mother used to have us roll her cigarettes while we watched TV. She bought loose tobacco and cigarette tubes and had a little syringe looking device that injected the tobacco into the tubes. It was kinda fun, even though we hated the smell of the cigarette smoke when she smoked them.
it is really the genes.
@@ElCid48 uh, no....tobacco is deadly.
MASSIVE difference between what is sold as "cigarettes" versus unadulterated loose tobacco. Cigarettes have toxic chemical additives.
The first guy guessed it in his initial attempt.
The guess of "an uncle, a nephew, and a grand uncle" was correct. I can't believe no one challenged that. And those titles were even in the order that the boys were standing.
Yes, it’s annoying that it was refuted when he guessed so well.
I believe if he would have said nephew, grand nephew and uncle he would have given it to him. Bill kind of qualified the one boy twice (uncle and grand uncle) and left the other little boy out (grand nephew.)
But that wasn’t HIS secret.
no it wasnt because he asked if the man was the great uncle instead of if one of the boys was
@@timhuggins7069nephew(middle), uncle(left), and granduncle(right).
i'm against smoking, but Moore&Morgan did live another respective 31&32yrs.
Yeah, but those last ten years were hell.
Wow; I didn’t realize that they lived that much longer. Still, that boy was correct.
But let's face it, either one of them could have been hit by a bus after this show.
but died painful deaths.
I predict you all will die. This is so silly we are all going to die. I don't see this as a prediction. If they would've died on that some day or in the next few months it would be a prediction but they died 32 years later. That was no prediction.
I can remember the ash trays being at the elevators. It was frowned upon to smoke on the elevator. But perfectly okay on the airplane
Not enough circulation in an elevator
Yes, I too, remember smoking allowed on ✈️ airplanes. And almost everywhere.
Smoking was allowed in the grocery stores & restaurants & our high school had a smoking area out back for those 16 and older.
I remember there were smoking and non-smoking sections on the airplanes. It was ridiculous.
@@donnabouterse8980 Yeah I always thought it was ridiculous to let kids go out for smoke breaks but those of us who didn't smoke got none of those "break" privileges. I then asked if I could go out with them and was told no because I didn't smoke. 🤣
I think the question about if they’re a nephew, uncle and great uncle should’ve been answered with a yes
100%.
No. Because the boys are not related to the man in that way. Yes. The boys are related to each other in that way but that really wasn't the secret. The secret was, how is the boys related to the man.
50's and 60's kids had a certain innocence about them.
Yeah, we were all kept in the dark and fed bull pucky.
@@louellagreen8365
Pretty much!! 😜
A five year-old child matter-of-factly predicted smoking would kill the two smokers. Is that innocence?
He was more honest & realistic than the adults there... or the doctors & scientists of that time.
not really. they just did not have the advancement of computer and the web were everyone seems to think telling people their every move or thought is important. people at that time either did not care or what to know all the BS
That’s because they were ! They weren’t being fed all this woke garbage we have today.
The sponsors of many TV shows back then were cigarette / tobacco companies. The host of the show almost shit when the kid started badmouthing cigarettes. The one panel member that decided to "smoke on camera" even though the host of the show was the only one "allowed" to smoke on camera, that panel member ( by immediately lighting a smoke ) was kissing the ass of the sponsor to soften the criticism of the kid that said they were "going to die because they smoked cigarettes."
@johnnytheprick WRONG that came out around 1962 or 63. I know because I'm 67. I lived it. I had a father that smoked and I feared he would die. I did have an uncle die of lung cancer around 1972 and he was only 56. It was January 1, 1971 when cigarette ads were FINIALLY outlawed on TV although still allowed in magazines/newspapers. The last TV ads they made a big deal because the football games were on TV on the last day it was allowed and the cigarette companies bought up the football game ads.
I also had an uncle die of Emphysema in 1975 at age 61. After losing a second brother, my dad did quit smoking.
@johnnytheprick my mom (1929-2009) said when she was young that she had heard cigarettes called coffin nails. They knew.
@johnnytheprick it was big news in the early 60s. I remember because I was a child and my parents smoked.
@johnnytheprick Untrue! Ball died in 1989 at age 77
Goodness, how I laughed and smiled throughout. Thank you so much for posting this.
This was TV when I was a kid. 3 channels, we thought we were sophisticated. 50 yrs earlier they had no cars, no planes, and all but a few were poor. Then today I hold in my hand a Star Trek communicator 😂
Just wait until the next 50 years.
Yet according to kids today, they are living in the ruins of the golden era.
We use to go to our grandma's and listen to tv lol sit in front of the box. Imagination went a long way too. Late 60's my mom watched scary show in b&w... Dark Shadows lol. I sat on the floor peeking from behind the couch. 😟👀🧛🦇
@Uncle Nik When I was five, fifty years prior was 1904. Thank you Forrest Gump.
@Uncle Nik 😂 You just confirmed who you are. Thx, I bet you're catching your head. 😂
Good for you Johnny! My grandfather died from emphysema, my parents died from cancer, I have a friend who died from emphysema four years ago, all were smokers. Children are blunt and get to the point, I never told people things like that, but I never got into smoking because I lost my grandfather when I was five and knew smoking had something to do with his death, but I wish had been more vocal about it, and admire this young fellows straightforward comment, and love the irony that the shows sponsor was in the tobacco industry!
2nd hand smoke is also lethal.
Of course People who smoke around children and they get sick and they keep smoking well.they just Would rather smoke Than Raise there children or have any .my doc told me to quit said itcauses Health problem for my kid so I did .I stopped .it wasn't That Hard .so talk about peoole just not giving aDamn .continying.
Betsy Palmer's secret: my son wears a hockey mask.
She was a knockout back then.
...from Friday the 13th 🔪
😂
You could tell she had been a looker at her older, Mama Voorhees age.
I'm aware that Winston cigarette was a sponsor to the show but he couldn't stop smoking for a few minutes while introducings the kids? That cigarette came really close to the first kids ear.
And yet close but no cigar
@@catholicfaithofmine2664 Your sense of humor is definitely smokin’.
Nobody gave a shit about that back then.
Ha. Back then, kids weren’t held up on pedestals - we were afterthoughts. I was glad my mom wasn’t a smoker - she detested how they accidentally burned their kids and laughed about it.
@Doc Holiday kids aren’t weak and soft now - their parents simply are helicopters. However, there is a difference between kids being soft, and kids being burned by someone, I think. My own mother commented how the kids of cigarette users would have burns on them. She hated it to her core.
What's funny about kids: they point out the obvious.
Original air date; October 29, 1962. On January 11, 1964, Luther L. Terry, M.D., Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, released the first report of the Surgeon
General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health.
1962. The youngster is a live version of the warnings that didn't appear on cigarette packs till '66.
What is noteworthy about this clip is the secret. This man may have been the first and only person in history to have a child, a grandchild, and a great grandchild who were all the same age!! (I don't think l have heard of such an occurrence before. A situation like this would have to be very rare, if not in fact unique.)
Definitely not the only person in history. Imagine how many kids each family had then and when they started having kids. My grandfather for instance was the last of 10 kids. He was closer with his nieces and nephews than his own siblings, as the siblings had the kids around when he was born. If one of the oldest kids had a kid old enough to have a child, it could've happened. I mean, Otis was more than 20 years older than my grandfather. Very easily could've.
That’s really something, isn’t it?
I was thinking the same thing!
@@OfftheWallTales Exactly. even when I was growing up in the 70s, my Catholic school had families of 12, even 13 kids. There were nephews who were older than their uncles. I don’t keep in touch but I bet some of them have great grandkids and grandkids and kids overlap. If they start early enough and keep going!
Unless youre Appalachian
Those boys were cute and spontaneous with genuine laughter🤣 from the panel and audience...all are 64/65 years old--hopefully all are well and non smokers.💖
Hello Sheila, How are you doing?
@@Cablecol Says who?
Gary Moore smoking onstage. It was a different time.
Doctor shows showed doctors smoking as they chatted in a hospital corridor.
We truly didn’t know the dangers back then.
Now we do. Amazing anyone starts now.
Actually we DID know the dangers back then. The proof is the boy in the video telling two grownups they would die from smoking.
My Grandfather was a British soldier in WW1, he said cigarettes were called coffin nails.😑 So, yeah, I think we knew, we just chose to ignore the facts.
They knew
We truly did know
We didn’t know, nor did any of the children we grew up with. Every adult I knew smoked. Our doctors smoked, our Priest smoked. Everyone on TV smoked. There were advertisements everywhere. I knew nothing of the dangers of smoking.
I can't believe they're smoking a cigarette so close to that kid's face
Hello Jane. How are you doing?
what psychic ability - only took 30 years for the prediction to come true
A goodly number of the comments discuss the timeline in acknowledging the harmfulness of tobacco. I've read that people started to talk about the relationship between lung cancer and tobacco after the death of HM King George VI in 1952. Interestingly, George VI's father, George V and his grandfather Edward VII both died of smoking 🚬 related illnesses.
A very good clip!
It killed all of the royal women too (until the 2 Elizabeths came along)
Yet smokers all wanted to benefit from suing the tobacco companies in the 90s as they were all shocked to be told that cigarettes are harmful
How the hell would you know? Because you looked it up?
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar : No, I didn't look any of it up - I learned it after a conversation with my GP, some 25 years ago. He was the son of a GP, and was born and educated in the UK.
I was trying to invite people to realise that the journey of speaking the truth about the dangers of tobacco was quite prolonged.
Capesce?
GJS
@@19gregske55 why on earth would they tell you how the king's died prior. That is from assumption of the crowd, probably a much later crowd saying this about how the king died. I'm referring to that.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar HM King George VI was greatly loved by the entire British 🇬🇧 Empire. He had brought his subjects through WWII, and he died very young - 56 years old. His health problems were all related to 🚬 cigarettes; smoking was accepted and popular at the time. The discussion of the relationship between smoking and lung cancer was first tabled in 1952, when he died. Please have a look at your last missive, I suspect that either a word is missing or the spellcheck gremlin changed something.
GJS
That boy is smarter than all the adults that smoke!!!
This is GENUINELY hilarious. Fully laughed out loud to this! 😂
A true lmao experience ...saw it 3 times in a row!🤣
Now if he predicted someone's death who didn't smoke that would be impressive.
Back then, cigarettes weren’t considered unhealthy.
He didn’t predict anything lol we all die
@@yvettegivens7 It was clear as a bell, the kid said they were going to die BECAUSE they smoked. Smoking was the cause of death.
Back ok then the public was not only uninformed of the consequences of smoking, doctors actually recommended them for good health! So yeah, it's kind of amazing that the kid predicted this.
Back ok then the public was not only uninformed of the consequences of smoking, doctors actually recommended them for good health! So yeah, it's kind of amazing that the kid predicted this.
These are the days of " Ladies and Gentlemen". I watch the old stuff, long before my time, and wonder how marvelous it must have been! Women had poise, were intelligently well spoken, beautifully modest; men were strong characters, charming and gentlemanly back in the 40's, 50's and 60's.. Television was clean, showcased talent, love, and life. What's happened to society/ people?
What's wrong with society/people? they've gone to hell in a handbasket.
They were also the days of segregation and Jim Crow laws. Gay people were beaten ostracized and labeled as criminals. The Klan was very open and recruiting heavily. Abortion was illegal.
Sure these were great times , if you were white and male. Lol.
TH Rubbish!
@@wlove3838 well, in the United States it was very true.
You are all correct; there were really good things, and really bad. Like always...
I was a kid in the 60's. Everyone smoked. Mom smoked Viceroys, Dad camels. Hated the smell. Hated the dirty ashtrays. Hated their stinky ass breath. I had asthma. As did my brother. Two of my best friends died of lung cancer before the age of 60. Both smoke starting the the 9th grade.
Yes my Mom and Dad did not come from a strong gene pool , they both smoked and drank , they did not see their 65 birthdays .I can't stand any type of smoke , here in Canada , Pot is legal and in the cities you can smell it all over , the city .I hate it .
My mom & dad both smoked non filtered Lucky Strike. The smell was awful. To this day I'm very sensitive to cigarette smoke. Gives me a headache.
I had a friend that starting smoking at 6. He and his friend would sit in his Mom's car and smoke all the half finished cigarettes she left in the ashtray.
I love these kids!!!! 🤣🤣 Would love to see what became of them.
Read the comments. Someone mentions a couple of them
Those kids would be 72 today
@@smdsoldering They were 5 in 1962. They'd be 66 today.
Call them triplets and split the difference
Funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Everyone had a great time.
We seem to look back at the “old days” in some what of a omnipotent manner from our present day as if nothing we “know” and believe today about science, pharmaceuticals etc could possibly be wrong. Let’s look back in 50 years and we’ll see how wrong we were.
What are we wrong about? You lost me.
@@lovemesomeslippers Well for one, Thalidomide, it turns out it wasn't really a wonder drug. And tobacco it turns out definitely can cause cancer and other diseases...🤔 I'm sure you see where this is going? In another 50 years I'm sure a lot of what we think we know today will be proven wrong as well.
@@lovemesomeslippers look at the tv ads...for this medication, that medication, followed by a commercial...if you've been harmed by...
The opioid crisis.
I can do this all day. Henrietta Lacks.
Tuskegee experiment.
Prisoners and mental patients as Guinea pigs, without consent.
Are you completely unfamiliar with "medicine" in the United States?
I think we look back because those were good days, society today is so jacked up and backwards! LOL
@@julesj5853 Not to mention people were more naive and trusting of their government, more trustworthy as well. And not globally connected to all the horrors in the world that we are inundated with daily now.
I was lucky, both my parents didn't smoke and they were the WWII generation where smoking was HUGE. My dad lived strong & sharp to 98 & my Mom is still going strong at 92. Smoking takes years & years off your life
that is great. Did you have any persons that smoked in your house when growing up? Unfortunately, I had a mother who was a chain smoker and it was terrible for me to live with the smoking around me (secondhand smoke). I think she also caused a fire in our house from her smoking. I had a cousin who caused a fire in his house from smoking. Smokers causing fires is another hazard they present, not only to themself but to others around them.
No kidding. My parents both smoked. One died at age 62 in 1978 and the other(after years of horrible health) at age 71. Both related to smoking. My husband's parents died by age 60. Both smoked heavily. His Dad at age 53 his Mom age 57. His Dad had adult onset Diabetes(undiagnosed in the 1950'-60's)and even though he did quit smoking the long term effects caused permanent damage. His Mom had emphysema... She smoked for years. Luckily growing up our parents had to stop smoking in the house when our little sister had asthma. But for several years they smoked in the house. Also visits with relatives was horrible as every household smoked. They all died by age 70 or earlier...
@@ilikecontent2327 sorry to hear you had to go through that. For me, it was a nightmare living with smokers. At the time there were few places to escape it as most businesses allowed people to smoke in their stores or theatres etc. I remember going to see movies when the smoke from people smoking would create a foggy appearance in the theatre as the light from the projector hit the smoke in the air.. and it was not comfortable to breathe in or even smell in there. I am glad society has evolved to essentially make coming across a smoker a rare occurrence.
@@manp1039 Yes. I remember that. Work places, and restaurants, businesses. It was horrible! I was so glad when they made it illegal to smoke in public places. Of course the businesses claimed they would lose business and threw a fit! And the smokers were up in arms... That is not what happened. Instead the businesses had more visitors than ever before... I was thrilled! My husband and I were so tired of being shoved into the non-smoking section of restaurants and they were usually located next to the restrooms or kitchen and the smokers would blow smoke at you. For a long time we did not eat out. These smokers are the same type of people that refuse to wear masks and spread the Covid virus everywhere. Killed thousands of people that would be alive today. Same as the people they killed with second hand smoke. For a long time we did not eat out much. We just used the drive through. And I refused to work in an office with smokers...
My grandparents didn’t smoke either. All their kids did except my mom
I remember watching Bewitched with Elizabeth Montgomer as a kid, in both black and white and later when it was in color. Darren had a glass of booze or a cigarette in his hand most of the time. Every other commercial was for cigarettes.
If memory serves, Chervolet and Quaker Oats sponsored "Bewithched."
I watch bewitched now and while it wasn’t uncommon to see cigarettes or drinks, it certainly wasn’t all the time.
The kids would be 63 or 64 now (December 2020), born in late 1956, or in 1957. I wonder if any of them avoided smoking.
I was hoping one of them might come on here and identify himself
I never understand with this one why they brought the boys out and stood them in the wrong order.
Really quite something to have a son, a grandson AND a gt-grandson all the same age. A little puzzling though is how they differ in size and reactions -the gt. grandson especially as if he was really younger than 5 years old. Lovely kids though.
I think the great-grandson probably just turned five while the son is probably closer to six and the grandson is probably in the middle or so of his fifth year.
Garry Moore had his cigarette about a foot from the boys face when he first introduced them. How times have changed. I have a cigarette burn on my hand where I accidently got burned by my aunt's cigarette. You can see Johnny trying to fan the smoke away when he is standing behind him.
A crazy prediction (SMH)...Garry was 78 when he died, Henry Morgan was 79. The kid isn't necessarily Nostradomus.
Thank you
You'll always be right eventually predicting someone will die. The only interesting thing here was "predicting" the manner of their deaths. And even there, it's not as if those were rare causes of death.
Surprised they lived that long.
He did not say when. Get it now.
But he predicted how. I have lost friends to emphysema. Horrible way to spend your last years.
Just read up on this family a bit now and amazingly, the senior Mr. Davis's mother was still living as well.
Can you provide any links?
Please, please provide a link to the update!
@@19gregske55 & all - sorry, this was three years ago and I can't find the link anymore. I likely got it from Newspapers dot com, but it's not coming up in my searches.
Bill Cullen got it right in the first place.
Give them kudos for broadcasting this instead of killing it.
This show was always interesting lol Gary's eyes to you're gonna die priceless! I was expecting to all dads walk out and claim their sons. Mr. Davis son acted alot older than his nephews.
Mr Davis son may have been closer to six and one may have just turned five.
I think, what with cigarette companies sponsoring so many early t.v. shows, that the regulars who smoked, such as Gary, were expected to smoke as much as possible to show what a fun and sophisticated thing it was to do. I even saw an ad on the Dick VanDyke Show where DVD and MTM were sitting in the set of Rob & Laura Petrie’s house, smoking and advertising the sponsored cigarettes. It is really disgusting how the cigarette industry, which knew damn well how dangerous their products were, bamboozled the public with their ads.
Lucille and Desi also did clips advertising cigarettes. I remember one where they talk about the "good taste" of the cigarette and she hands him one.
They were required by contract to smoke the sponsor's cigarettes. Lucy smoked a different brand, so they would put her chosen cigarettes in the sponsor's package. @@tigertbalm
So cute..And it was so nice watching a wholesome show...that it brought a smile to my face. 😊
3:58 the kid is waving the smoke away.
what a Riot ! TV used to be so much Fun !
And Winston was the sponsor wow.
Remember Winston tastes good like a cigarette should!
On a lot of shows at the time, people smoked as part of the advertising. Phillip-Morris sponsored "I Love Lucy", and it was common to see Lucy and Ricky smoking. After cigarette ads were banned in the early seventies, people still smoked on camera through the eighties. Johnny Carson smoked during commercial breaks, and would often be seen putting out a cigarette as they returned. I remember one episode, which featured Dean Martin, Bob Hope, and George Gobel. Dean was flicking his ashes into Gobel's drink when he wasn't looking and Gobel thought the audience was laughing at his jokes.
@@AUGshooter Dean Martin was the coolest cat EVER....
It was truly a different time.
Smoking was excepted nearly everywhere.
@@tomkellycartoons The best way to retain a customer is to sell an addictive product! I'm thinking coffee, opium, sugar etc. Broccoli is a bit harder to sell repeatedly. Incidentally, a google search shows that the Germans had an anti-smoking campaign in the 1920s.
I remember those days when people actually acted like people.
The shadow on this guy's suit at 0:42 is gorgeous
marnky887 that’s interesting. I don’t know much about that type of stuff
Ahhh... the old tube cameras.
Am I the only one finds Gary Moore not very funny?
Freaky!! But not expected. They (the Sponsors and general public) were still giving multi packs for not only prizes but also advertising giving them for the holidays. People can smoke if they wish, but with chronic bronchitis, I can't be around the smoke for too long.
Sorry....I meant to say "not unexpected."
Any child could go into a store and purchase an entire carton of cigarettes in those days. Some would buy a carton for a parent as a holiday gift.
The Buzzr game channel used to air both "I've Got A Secret" and "What's My Line?" in the wee hours of the night. I wasn't born until 1958 so I never got a chance to see this programming during its heyday. I've Got A Secret always had cool things to show like the guy who made a complete suit and tie from newspaper. Or the demonstration of microfiche which had been invented in 1961 by an employee of the NCR Co. They had the entire Bible on a little piece of plastic. I think they also demonstrated the univac computer.
The fact that this was allowed to air shows how little people took the dangers seriously.
Sadly The tobacco industry had not yet been exposed
Wasn't part of the prize a box of 200 Winstone cigarettes?
This holds true today, as well - youngsters often police the contents of the recycling ♻️ bin. Us oldsters are forever putting tinfoil and soiled black plastic into the recycling stream. The kids are much more environmentally grounded.
🤣you haven't a clue what the world was like then...NOT A CLUE
BTW, wonderful accidental double entendre there! :-)
People smoked inside businesses, in movies, magazine ads, after church in the parking lot, at the movies, restaurants- everywhere.
The old man’s wife is also the first kid’s sister, grandmother, and aunt, the second kid’s cousin, mother, and sister, and the third kid’s daughter, grandmother, and girlfriend.
@Mean Gene, I got lost!!!
"The less you say the better I'll be." lol
4:20 The kid says something smart and adults react like laughing hyenas.
Yeah and a couple of those obnoxious laughs where the other person needs you to know that they’re laughing at you
Ha ha ha 4:20 I feel like it was almost fated to happen
@@plarteey1316 I know. This kid predicted the future. We need to find him.
@@binghamguevara6814 He died of LUNG CANCER at 34!
What did he say that was smart?
It's weird seeing people smoking on TV.
"Mike, what is Jeff to you?"
"I don't know." 😆😂🤣
Perfect attitude for a 5 yo. All this grown up stuff is boring. Wanna play hide and go seek?
👍💯💖😅
Yeah, and they made us put suits on and it's not even Sunday. ( or did boys dress like that more in those days ? , as I was born in the 60's , so don't know)
@@Salena905 Sunday as you would be going to church. Unless this is a comedy cult, I don't believe this is a church. On more than one or ever two occasions, will suitable outfits such of this, be worn.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Thanks for letting me know 👍☺️
@@Salena905 yes it started to die down by the 1960's and 1970's. Outfits got a little...strange as did hair and accents of children now into their teens in the 70's. Even automobiles we're a little strange, my mother called them carpets on wheels because of how short they were, yet expansively wide. I was 6'3 so I could look right over the roof of it and just tell something wasn't right. The 1930's offered the opposite of those automobiles, tall and a about 71 inches wide instead of the insane 79-81 inches wide--- and curved, large open tires, completely different feeling suspension, tough quality, organized color pallets. If you ever put a 1970-73 Cadillac next to a 1930 Cadillac..the size difference is impossible to explain.
The explaination to the problem is a little unclear in the video, here's how it goes:
Mr. Davis got married and had 2 sons. One of the son's name was Frank (Frank was not any of the boys on the stage.) The other son's name was Jeff (The boy on the right.) This boy Jeff was 5 years old at the time
His other son, Frank (Who is presumably much older than Jeff) got married and also gave birth to 2 children. One of them was a boy named John (The boy on the left.) The other one was a girl (Her name goes unmentioned here) Who also got married and gave birth to her one son Mike (The one in the middle.)
So the first generation is Mr. Davis, who gave birth to Jeff and Frank. Frank gave birth to John and another daughter, who would later give birth to Mike.
If I were to guess the most likley way this would happen, Mr. Davis has been married twice (Or more.) His first relationship occured about 30-35 years ago let's say, and they gave birth to Frank. During the time when Frank was growing up, Mr. Davis would divorce and re-marry, and give birth to Jeff.
During that time, Frank grew up and got married to a woman, and giving birth to 2 children, with the first one being a daughter. They either could've remarried again or they could've just waited 15-20 years or so before having another child that would be John.
Then that daughter would get married and have Mike, and with enough prolonged marriage and child birth, this scenario is technically replicatable, but would require a ton of sheer luck, and would almost have to be manually set up without accounting for sheer coincidence.
Unbelievable he is smoking on the set!!
And poking his cigarette in the faces of all three children...!
Twas the norm back then, unfortunately
At the time, they didn't know how harmful smoking was,,,,,, and now, everywhere you go there's a smoking/tobacco PSA
In those days the cigarette companies were the big TV sponsors, so you were supposed to be promoting smoking and many actors smoked during the shows. I can still remember some of the cigarette jingles and ads they played on TV and radio. Tobacco companies knew how to get their audience addicted.
That was really funny when Mike said I don't know. 😆
The original air date for this show I found was Oct. 29, 1962, and Jane Powell (who recently passed away) was the celebrity guest, who had 50 light bulbs sewn into her dress.
"No carton of Winstons for you, sport."
Those three little boys are so darling and charming! 😊
It was common knowledge and widely known cigarettes were bad for your health a hundred years before this show
Not really. Cigarettes weren't considered bad back in those days. Why else did they award every guest with packets of cigars? And by the time they were discovered to be bad, addictions kicks in
There were reports from Doctors, but the public didnt want to believe it. In those days, children who said things like that were deemed smart aleks and often ridiculed. But that kid told the truth.
It was well known a hindred years ago that cigarettes affected health. I have a book dated 1909 which talks about the subject of the book (oscar wilde) smoking even though he knew it would damage his health. It was common knowledge. Why did they hand out cigars? Because they were paid to by tobacco companies to encourage cigar smoking as a special treat. Why did doctors advertise Chesterfields? Because. They. Were. Paid. To. By. Tobacco. Companies.
The term "coffin nails" has been around since the late 19th century
It wasn't fully understood though.
Children call it like they see it. I told my father does of time to quit smoking. He got cancer in his only kidney and died of renal failure
They didn't die for another 30 years when they exceeded life expectancy.
Wasn't Winston cigarettes the sponsor of the show? I remember Gary giving out cartons of cigarettes to guest panelists on another episode.
Hello Doreen, How are you doing?