What's My Line? - Colonel Sanders; Alan King; Martin Gabel [panel] (Dec 1, 1963)
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- Опубліковано 9 сер 2014
- MYSTERY GUEST: Alan King
PANEL: Arlene Francis, Martin Gabel, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf
Colonel Sanders was still unknown enough at this point in history to have appeared as a normal guest, signing in with his real name (rather than Mr. X), with the panel not blindfolded.
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It's hard to imagine a time where people don't immediately recognize Colonel Sanders.
Different times few TV networks no social media etc. A large corporation in the south back then would have been unknown to the east coast
@@peternagy-im4be Surprisingly, he says at this point KFC has 900 locations all across the States, in Hawaii, across Canada and even in England. I didn't think it would be that big since he wasn't recognized.
RIGHT?! 😂
I am shocked
Not even Mr X for Colonel Sanders!! It's like having a lifesize Mickey Mouse in the room. What an extraordinary segment.
Col Sanders' face has now actually become the company logo. You see that face and you can instantly know it's KFC, and since it has become the logo, his face is now instantly recognizable in 150 countries around the world.
I got such a kick out of hearing Sanders say, "Finger lickin' good." What a treat. =)
Yum
Loved the Colonel Sanders segment, I saw him in person when I was a small boy, his first restaurant was about 100 miles from where I was born. He was an extremely pleasant, gracious man.
What was the reason/context for your meeting him in person, Jeffrey? I'm very curious.
What's My Line? Colonel Sanders was a minor celebrity in my area and he made many personal appearances at shopping malls and the opening of Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in the area from the 60's to the 80's. It was more by chance that my parents and I stopped a new KFC that was having its grand opening and Colonel Sanders was there. I was probably about 6 or 7 at the time and he took special attention of the children that were there. A very pleasant man.
Jeffrey Crippen Thanks for filling me in!
Thank you!
He was actually a mean person. He admitted to tearing apart restaurant kitchens when mistakes were made.
How funny. Col Sanders is ubiquitous to us today but back then he was not recognized on a national scale. The panel sure had fun with him too!
I am astonished that the Colonel was able to stump the panel.
Interesting... and revealing of his success... Colonel Sanders was not immediately known on-sight at the time of hid appearance here, but now, nearly a full 38 years after his passing, his face (and famous white suit) are still easily recognized as the great founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. One of America's true gentleman... And success story.
I have friends who live near Shelbyville. They go to his home restaurant every Thanksgiving and have for many years. At one time they would see Col. Sanders and his wife at the restaurant. They second the mention that he was "good folks".
@@80sCanadian Yes, that was the strangest part of watching this appearance. To think that someone so immediately recognizable today could have walked around with nobody knowing who he was is hard to imagine. But this was just before his business... and face... became noteworthy. A year later, he would have had to be a mystery guest. And probably have disguised his voice too. Lol.
@@80sCanadian Lol. I didn't realize it was that long ago either till you mentioned it. Time flies! I love watching these old WML episodes, because our perspective on things is so different now. The Colonel in his white suit is SO symbolic of KFC... to think there was a time when he coulda walked down the street without anyone asking him for a bucket of chicken is unimaginable. Lol.
@@80sCanadian I like the part in this episode when it was Arlene's turn and she said "I don't know what you do Colonel but you're to beautiful to work." Or something to that effect. And he responded, somewhat muffled by the audience laughter, "I do plenty of work." Lol. By the way, I'm getting hungry. Wanna split a bucket? Lol.
Wow colonel sanders wasnt known yet....awesome they dont kno they are lookin at a future legend
Bryan Pena You don't get leg-ends in KFC, just breast pieces.
It's interesting to see Colonel Sanders as a regular guest, before he became famous. From the mid 60s until he died in 1980, he owned a second home in Mississauga, Ontario (near Toronto), where he spent about four months every year. I grew up nearby, and I remember seeing him a few times at the local shopping plaza. My brother, who had a high school job at the supermarket, saw him and his wife often. He always wore the trademark white suit.
I enjoyed his interview about how he gave his life to Jesus Christ. He lived quite the life, but it was sad at times.
What do u mean regular guest In some ways he was a mystery guest when even John new who he was.
@@warrencroom7621 If you are referring to John Daly, he always knew the occupation of every guest. That is how he is able to concur or dispute responses by the guest. Also, I don't think KFC had expanded very far from Kentucky at the time of this show's airing.
@@kd5you1 I am saying he is so recognizable even then he was a famous person
If this episode had been recorded a year or two later I think the panel would have to be blindfolded
It's a pleasure to see the final segment go to completion, even having time for discussion afterward. Too often it has to be cut short and we don't get a chance to hear more about the contestant.
How cool to see the actual Colonel Sanders ~ and what a southern gentleman he was indeed as evidenced by his demeanor and by his having acknowledged the audience as he was leaving.
Wow, this is the first time I ever saw what Colonel Sanders actually looked like, not based on pictures.
He looks exactly like the pictures, doesn't he?
Paula Murphy was a famous drag racer in the 60's in the NHRA. This episode was before that.
It's wonderful to be able to come to youtube and see these shows from decades ago when we watched on black and white sets. I use to love KFC back in my youth when you could buy a bucket of 10 pieces for 5.00. Now they charge 10.00 a 1 breast meal and the breast is cut in half. We can not turn back the clock...but KFC was great in the late 60's and 70's.
I find it hard to beleive that if the company was already that large by 1963, the panel had no idea who he was. I stumbled upon this episode because it was the first one broadcast after the Kennedy assasination.
+John Keating
First of all, the panel members at this point in their lives were not likely to be eating at fast food restaurants.
In addition, fast food restaurants were slow to penetrate the NYC metropolitan area market. White Castle was a notable exception, but with all the wonderful delicatessens and pizza parlors in our area, we didn't feel the need for fast food. Anyone who has ever grabbed a fried egg on a roll and coffee on the way to work, or a slice and a soda or one of our overstuffed deli sandwiches (with a pickle!) on a lunch break to keep pace with our frenetic NYC pace (thus the term "in a New York City minute") know that we had fast food long before those chain restaurants got a foothold. I don't recall setting foot or even seeing a fast food restaurant until we drove my brother to college in upstate New York in the late 1960's.
And if KFC didn't have national advertising yet, the panel would have no knowledge of Colonel Sanders. But I'd bet there were a lot of people watching this episode when it first ran who were jumping out of their seats wondering why the panel wasn't blindfolded.
I just remembered that there is another fast food chain chicken restaurant that was founded the same year as KFC but grew faster initially. It was called Chicken Delight and by the end of 1963, I think there were some of them in NYC. This commercial on the Dan Ingram Show was from 1966, but I'm pretty sure there were some in NYC in 1963.
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At one time there were over 1000 Chicken Delight restaurants in the U.S. Unfortunately they didn't enforce good quality control on their franchisees and then there was a lawsuit by some franchisees against the parent company which caused the parent (Consolidated Foods) to turn its back on the franchises and stop advertising. The number of restaurants now is down to 26: six in the NYC metro area and the rest in Manitoba, Canada, in or near Winnipeg.
I noticed the date,also. I vividly remember 1963, and while watching the show, I'm recalling that the nation was trying to return to normal after that horrible tragedy.
I lived on Long Island, New York in the 50’s and 60’s, as a child. We had never heard of Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1963. And probably because there were no restaurants nearby, there was no advertising for the restaurant on local TV. Remember we only had five channels back then that signed-off at midnight. And TV commercials during shows were very brief and very few, and mostly dedicated to whatever company sponsored the show.
We did however have Chicken Delight somewhere in our area according to their commercials. We never saw one, or tasted their food, but every kid knew their jingle, “Don’t cook tonight, call Chicken Delight!” We were dedicated Zorn’s customers though. Zorn’s sold whole broasted chickens, with foil-wrapped baked potatoes, and cole slaw. A great family owned company that is still in business today, now run by third-generation family members, although they have changed with the times somewhat and eventually expanded their menu. They even raised their own chickens and turkey’s back in the day.
Then at the end of 1963 we moved to Southern California and it appeared we had landed on another planet. Suddenly we were seeing Taco Bell’s (up until then we had never heard of a taco or burrito), and McDonald’s walk up restaurants. You ordered your burgers and fries at a window and either ate in your car, or at the few picnic tables on their front patio back then. We only had White Castle Hamburgers back in New York, but here we were in the land of fast food. It was everywhere!
And eventually we did see a Kentucky Fried Chicken, and once we tried it we were hooked. It was a strange new time for us. No longer did Mom cook dinner every night. Most nights she did, but every now and then she could take a break and we would enjoy one of the new options that always seemed so close at hand no matter where you traveled.
Today I have a KFC (and about a million other options) less than a mile from where I live. I can order online, and have the food delivered to the door. And while we eat we can watch TV or movies, from a selection of hundreds of options. The times have really changed. Not always 100% for the better though. I still miss the New York Delicatessens of my childhood, and nothing will ever compare to a New York Pastrami on Rye, a Pizza where the oil runs down your arm, or a fresh Bagel. Now that was delicious eating! ❤️
WOW!Unbeleivable episode with colonel sanders and the rest of the show was good also.
It’s hard to imagine there was ever a time when Colonel Sanders was not immediately recognized.
Makes you realize how long ago this was! No blindfolds even. He apparently found the investors he was looking for the following year 1964 and then KFC took off like a rocket.
Now, even Kentucky Fried Chicken isn’t recognizable either.
Oh what a gem this is that they didn't know who Col. Sanders was at that time!
Unfortunately Alan King never got his own show on TV. The closest he came was Kraft Music Hall which ran from Sept 1967 to May 1971. Along with Eddy Arnold and Don Rickles, King appeared in the first season and the three continued as the most frequent guests throughout KMHs run.
King had also done some pretty impressive dramatic work both on TV and film. Too bad no one ever found the right fit for him
That was a really good Topol he just did there. He could've done 'Fiddler on the Roof' had not two other brilliant actors did it before him.
"Would it ever be used in sausage?" at 8:24: the emphatic and faintly disgusted simultaneous "no" from John and the Colonel surprises me. Was chicken sausage unheard of in 1963? It's certainly common enough today. I'd go along with Arlene's "They put /everything/ in sausage!"
I’ve never heard of chicken sausage and the year is almost 2023
@@80sCanadian ?
@@dinahbrown902 A hot dog is a sausage.
The only chicken sausage I have heard of is chicken vienna sausage. I actually think Col. Sanders was implying that fried chicken is not used in sausage.
Col. Sanders was great! I've eaten a lot of his chicken. He came to Detroit sometime in the 60's to plug KFC. He was at Bill Kennedy at the movies and chatted with Bill during the commercials the whole show. Quite a funny guy.
Bill Kennedy, I haven’t heard that name in ages
In today's world, they would need the blindfolds for Colonel Sanders and not Alan King..LOL
They should totally bring this show back. It'd be fun to see who the panelists would be.
It wouldn’t be worth watching
Agree with Dinah Brown, who also replied herein. Classy panelists and a moderator, or, heck...even the celebrity guests like these just don't exist nowadays, and I'm sure the Hollywood producers would insist on idiotic innuendo a la Hollywood Squares or Family Feud. It wouldn't rise to the quality to which we're accustomed in this classic show.
It would be totally unwatchable garbage like all TV since c.2000
On a personal note: Sanders’s first franchise (1952) was the Harman Restaurants in Salt Lake City. When I was a kidlet, my family ate there a number of times. Before Sanders sold his product in 1964 to a corporation for a fraction of its value, he was known to drop in unannounced on his franchisees and close down the restaurants that did not measure up to his standards. Around 1963, Harmans Restaurants served Kentucky Fried Chicken at tables with utensils on china plates complete with the mashed potatoes and gravy plus vegetables. The modern mass produced KFC product is OK, but should never be confused with Sanders’s original concept. Even his gravy was a work of art.
When you were a kidlet, did you wear a wiglet?
I can remember a place called "Burrough's" in Norfolk, Virginia that featured "Kentucky Fried Chicken" when I was very young in the early 60's. They even had a small Colonel Sanders bucket on the roof.
What's My Line? lol that made me laugh xD
soulierinvestments There was a franchise in my town, too, called Angona's Chick-n-Teria. The name Angona was much more prominent than KFC or Colonel Sanders in the advertising.
Steven Paul, you and me both! They took the original recipe and "improved" it to where the devil wouldn't have it, to borrow a phrase from my grandfather.
At first, I was like why aren't the panel blind-folded... Shocked he mentioned Blackpool! lol.
It's a commentary on how insulated the New Yorkers on the panel are when they couldn't recognize Col. Sanders, despite the fact that KFC was at that point pretty much all over the country and halfway around the world. He was still alive when I tried my first KFC in the mid-60s in Southern California.
Even the voice Alan King tried to use still sounded like Alan King. I knew when he started that this would not last long.
I thought it was a perfect Topol from 'Fiddler on the Roof'.
Love this,Thanks !!!!!
Videotaped on November 3, 1963.
Ah, that would explain why there was no mention of the national tragedy as President Kennedy died on Nov, 22 1963. I expected them to make some reference to it. Maybe they did in a future episode.
+Gretchen King
The next live episode was on December 8, 1963. As best I can recall (I had just turned 11) we were trying to get past it by then and get in the Christmas spirit. But the pall hung over us for some time.
Shortly afterwards, I had a music teacher who played one of the brass horn instruments at a portion of the funeral-related ceremonies. He said it was one of the most difficult things he ever had to do in music. In addition to the emotion, it was outside and very cold, so cold the mouthpiece came close to freezing to his lips.
@@loissimmons6558 :(
Noted that Johnny Olsen does not say “LIVE” after the filmed titles. The slot was pre-empted on 11/24, the last Sunday of the month, but it does seem a bit eerie that the ladies appear in BLACK. This could be a show *intended* to air on the 24th, but was pre-taped to free-up the holiday.
03:51 Arlene is so sweet.
What a sweet, charming man that Colonel Sanders was… ❤️
Bennett is wearing a real tuxedo this time, with a shiny satin shawl collar on the jacket (I.e., the lapels aren't notched) and satin stripes on the trouser legs. Usually, as he admits in the oral history, he and John found they could "get away with" wearing a black suit and a black bow tie. But even with the tonal limitations of these kinescopes, the difference between satin black and dull black is clear enough. I wonder where else he was going on the Sunday when this was taped...November 3, as someone else pointed out here.
Colonel Sanders sold his nationwide franchise outfit FOR THREE MILLION DOLLARS. It is amazing how little that is for an international brand.
Often criticized for selling the outfit for "so little", one must also consider that the current value of that $3MM is about $30MM. And, though the fellows he sold it too (including a future KY governor) made a billion or more when they resold it less than 10 years later....one must consider that had only sold the US rights to them,. He retained the rights for the rest of the world, which were not sold by the family until after he died. Hence, the Colonel was no fool...and made a fortune off the Canadian & European outlets, which he heavily promoted. And, by remaining spokesman after the US sale, that helped promote the foreign outlets, at no cost to him. No-one needed to run a benefit for that Kentucky colonel.
@@olenfersoi8887 I lived in Iran in the last days of the Shah and we expats, oil workers etc. used to hang out at the Kentucky Fried. I remember seeing film of the Islamic takeover and they changed the KFC to 'Our Chicken' and put a turban on the picture of the Colonel and made him into a Mullah!
Very strange to see them quiz the Colonel before everybody knew him
Funny how John had to explain what a TV pilot is.
Dorothy's reaction is so cute at 6:12. What a lovely and truly brilliant woman she was.
When I first saw this episode on GSN I thought it odd that the panel was oddly upbeat given the mood of the country after JFK's assassination. But I read that CBS executives made it clear to producers & performers were not to dwell on or even talk about the assassination Only the news division could talk about it.
I'm pretty sure this was a pretaped episode. (Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken)
What's My Line? It is. November 3, 1963 was the taping date.
All of this information is coming from Gil Fates' handwritten logs, which (I presume) a woman named Suzanne Astorino has copies of. Currently, they are represented on tv.com
***** Thanks for the confirmation, Vahan. I don't really have time any more to go checking these things on my own-- I appreciate the help very much.
The announcer mentioned the episode was prerecorded.
For a time in the 1990's, KFC was the largest (having the most outlets) fast food concern in the world, even surpassing McD's. Nowadays, it's still #4.
I guess the Nov.24th episode was cancelled due to the JFK assassination on Nov. 22nd. I'm a little surprised that no mention was made of it. It left all of us in a state of shock and depression and the news of it was non-stop for about 2 weeks, all other programming being cancelled.
This episode was prerecorded prior to Nov. 22.
I love that they don't know who the Colonel is yet! A few years later and I'm sure they would have to be blindfolded.
Always wanted to hear that from him. Lol.
It's so hard to imagine a time when people didn't instantly recognize Colonel Sanders, but I supposed in 1963, I didn't know who he was. At some point, a KFC franchise showed up in my home suburb of L.A., and I learned who he was. In those days, the sign said, "Colonel Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken".
ToddSF 94109 - My family used to watch this every Sunday evening. Fast foods were not as ubiquitous back then. I do not think we knew of KFC in Philly so much quite yet. People widely knew of TV dinners and pizza take-out/delivery, but folks were still not as frequently eating foods that weren't home prepared.
"In 1960, KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) had around 200 franchised restaurants; by 1963, when this show aired, this had grown to over 600, making it the largest fast-food operation in the United States." "As of 2021, there are 24,000 KFC outlets in 145 countries and territories in the world."
Can't believe the panel did not recognize him
The Colonel is surprised they don't know his chicken.
The introductions seemed to be done rather quickly tonight. I wonder if the staff gives the panel a heads up that's it's going to be a busy show?
Wow! Dorothy was the best! She zeroed in on that truant officer like a laser beam!
Her kids 🤣
So many episodes when Daly should shut up & let guests answer questions plus explain occupation, and this is a perfect example with Paula Murphy. Was great when guest host Eamonn Andrews asked guests to explain their line to the panel.
whoa, just read that Paula Murphy later on went 300mph and airborne 70ft ...broke her neck, but survived. Yikes.
It's hard to believe panel fooled
A quick wikipedia search says in 1963 there were around 600 kfcs around the country 🤔?
I don’t think Colonel Sanders was as yet the figurehead of Kentucky Fried chicken that he later became.
Was not the Sanders character portrayed in little house on pairie episode about walnut grove getting a new food outlet idea, this was supposed to be in 1870's, my head is breaking.
The huge laugh the Colonel got to his answer about chicken skin surprised me... it didn't seem *that* hilarious to me. Almost looks like there's something cut out... or maybe the panel were just particularly jovial tonight?
"Would it be against the law if you took off?"
"What did you have in mind, Dorothy?"
Arlene, I love how your mind works! :-D
She's irresistibly lovable!
I think the audience found it especially amusing because the Colonel kept being very generous with his answers.
I think the skin question was asked with sausage in mind, since sausage is processed meat encased in some kind of skin. But of course the skin is part of the fried chicken, so John and the Colonel were able to answer yes.
I noticed as Colonel Sanders left that he seemed to have little use for his cane. He carries it in his left hand to shake hands with the panel, then afterward shifts it to his right hand to wave (with his left) to the audience. I then went back to watch his entrance again; he really didn't use the cane. As someone who uses a cane myself, I can completely understand the desirability of being able to carry a stick around in public, but I do believe it's just part of the costume in Col. Sanders' case..
I have no specific knowledge of the Colonel's case, and the cane may simply an affectation, but, considering his age, he may carry in just in case he loses his balance. As one ages, one's equilibrium becomes iffy.
Everyone should carry one. I find it desirable to have it to lean on when I have to stand for extended periods.
Great show
I walk with a can now, for balance. I can hold it in either hand, or go without it for short distances.
Did anyone know that John Charles Daley's father in law was Chief Justice Earl Warren?
9 days after the presidential assignation :(
I guest the show always goes on in show biz. . . . especially back then. Ironic when today every tremor is mourned as a trauma in "entertainment"
I find it very hard to believe that anyone wouldn't recognize the Colonel at first sight
Well yes today it’s hard to believe, not in 1963.
For those who wonder how Arlene ended up marrying someone like Martin Gabel, it's because she was pregnant and HAD to marry him.
I'm going to venture that of all of the people that were ever on this show not one face arguably is more famously recognizable than Colonel Sanders was up until the 1990s or later his face was on the restaurants worldwide, their marketing and commercials were always on tv.
*_COLONEL SANDERS (HEAD OF SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN COMPANY)_*
*_AUTOMOBILE TEST DRIVER (SET NEW WOMEN'S SPEED RECORD)_*
*_TRUANT OFFICER_*
He said it would not be used in sausage. but now we have chicken sausage 😂
I have to admit that in 63 I had not heard of KFC either, I lived on a farm and we did our own frying of chicken and rabbits.
Sounds yummy!
I didn't know people ate rabbits, were they good?
Do you eat fried rabbit with your fingers?
Does the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel still provide entertainment?
+Joe Postove I don't know this for a fact, but I don't believe they do. Certainly not of the magnitude they used to anyway. I've stayed there before and there was no entertainment when I was there.
+Joe Postove
Not right now. The hotel portion was closed for renovations in March 2017 and scheduled to reopen in 2020. There are still four restaurants operating but it doesn't seem that they offer entertainment. Whether there will be a night club in the new version of the hotel remains to be seen. The public spaces have been declared an historic landmark and may not be changed. However, the Empire Room was moved to the Empire State Building (the original location of the Waldorf Astoria) in 2010 and has since closed.
Lois Simmons hi Lois, I don’t believe the Empire Room that was located in the ESB had any affiliation with the one at the Waldorf.
I cant be too sure but I still believe there WAS a Sunday night Live Broadcast of WML on November 24-1963-but I will acknowledge that if you say there wasn't then I would believe you-53 yrs is a long time-Gee I was 14 at the time-where did all that time go-If anyone can remember seeing that Broadcast please tell us-Thanks-Paul was here-07-18-16.
No, there really wasn't any WML show on Nov 17, 1963. Really. The program was pre-empted a few times, that's all. It wasn't all that uncommon for shows to be pre-empted occasionally due to special broadcasts and news events.
My guess is that the 11/24/63 show was probably cancelled. The reason may have something to do with former president John F. Kennedy assassination on 11/22/63.
Steven, if you were old enough to remember that weekend, there were NO shows of any kind for over 3 full days (Fri. Nov. 22 afternoon-Mon. Nov. 25 Kennedy's funeral), outside of the news. And the news was all about the shocking murder. I'll never forget it. It was a watershed moment for television news, not to be repeated until 9/11/01, when again there was nothing on the tv for days but news about another national tragedy.
10:48 - "Is Granada Hills up South or down North?" Would we dare say Mr. Daly was flustered by her beauty?
Studebaker??!? AVANTI???!!!??
Last of a dying breed.
After more than a half-century, the 1963-64 Avanti remains one of the prettiest things ever to come out of Detroit, er, South Bend. You could market it today and it wouldn't look a bit obsolete externally, except perhaps for the wind wings. To bad it wasn't introduced until Studebaker was already spiraling into oblivion.
Indeed, shortly after this episode aired, Studebaker announced they were shutting down their South Bend operations.
This makes no sense ? So was this taped and aired on December 1 or was this actually performed in filmed on that first.
One doesn't eat Chicken with a knife and fork (ok, I know city people do, and Dorothy would be horrified, just horrified to see how people today eat chicken (can you imagine her reaction at someone licking their fingers? She would faint!), but I insist it is an optional hand food. OK, if you want to use a knife and fork, go ahead. But I'll be done and on dessert (like apple pie or ice cream, I'll bet) before you've sawed through a breast.
Joe Postove I'd like to see you eat chicken marsala without a fork and knife. ;)
Gary, if I knew what that was, I would probably use a spoon (sounds like spooning food)!
Joe Postove It's a boneless chicken breast in a wine sauce with mushrooms. Really, any boneless chicken breast dish would have served the same purpose, but I arbitrarily chose that one because I knew how to spell it.
What's My Line? " knew how to spell it." Seriously, Gary, a good chuckle. But as God (not the imposter who appeared on What's My Line) is my witness, I cannot bring myself to...you know...L.....As for the chicken dish it sounds delicious. But the bucket must leak.
Joe Postove Long before Colonel Sanders went national with his fried chicken, a waitress told a small boy (me) that Emily Post said it was perfectly acceptable to eat fried chicken with your fingers. If it's good enough for Emily, it should be good enough for Dorothy.
Is it illegal for a car to take off from the ground? (I'm wondering what Dorothy might be thinking of in the questioning of the second guest.)
Once a car is in the air you must have a pilot's license to drive it.
The first KFC opened in 1952, so why wouldn't Colonel Sanders be well known by now?
to make little girls ask questions...
I'm foxed 2
Alan King sounded a great deal like the character actor, Akim Tamiroff.
Paula Murphy had nice handwriting. I sure would like to see cursive come back to the schools.
As far as I know Alan King never had a TV series.
Joe Postove He sort of did on cable TV, I forget what channel (it might have been Comedy Central), called "Inside the Comedy Mind", where he interviewed comedians. Good show-- a few of these are available on a single disc, but only a small sampling. I posted the George Burns episode a long time ago.
George Burns on Inside the Comedy Mind with Alan King
What's My Line? Very cool. Thanks, Gary. I think that before I knew it about 10 years ago Buddy Hacket and Alan King died. I really miss them both.
He had hos own sitcom years ago. I used to watch it, but I haven't a CLUE what's it's called now!
I just looked up his tv shows and it wasn't there. Maybe it was because the show wasn't on for very long, I dunno. But I think he played a news guy of some sort (I keep "seeing" him walking into his office on every episode)
Chickens don't leap about lol.😅
I think Colonel Sanders was right. None of his chickens get to leap about.
I wonder how long it took KFC to get to NYC? I read that Dr. Pepper was not available in New York until 1970. Only God knows about Mountain Dew.
+Joe Postove
The late 1960's for KFC, if I recall. Before then, we had a similar, faster growing fast food chicken restaurant called Chicken Delight that actually delivered. There were over 1000 at one time. Because of mismanagement and a law suit that they lost (the precedent was eventually overturned), they barely exist now. Of the 26 remaining restaurants, six are in the NYC area and the rest in or near Winnipeg, Canada.
As far as Dr. Pepper, there were commercials playing on the fact that they were the new soda in town: a Jewish owner of "Mom and Pop" deli saying that she turned down the product until her customers started asking for it. So she told the soda distributor, "Morris, bring back the Dr. Peppers. Who knew?"
I think we got Mountain Dew around the same time. But growing up in New York City in the late 1950's until 1960, we had this delightful place for children called a soda fountain. We'd sit at the counter and for a nickel, you could have a glass of soda freshly mixed. What most people call a cream soda today we called a vanilla soda. You could have a plain coke or with a squirt of cherry syrup a cherry coke. When I first had Dr. Pepper, that's what it reminded me of: a cherry coke. (Note: Dr. Pepper sells a ice cream topping syrup called Dr. Pepper cherry dessert topping.)
Those of who grew up in NYC back in the day know that if you only had 2 pennies, you could still get a drink, but without any syrup. Thus seltzer water is also known as "2¢ plain."
On the note of soda in NYC, we had many local brands back then that may be history now. Our upstairs tenant consumed mass quantities of Pepsi, but we got all of our soda delivered until we moved to the suburbs. Periodically this dark green truck would pull up in front of our house (double parked). My mom would give him a wooden case filled with empties and he would give us another case with the assortment of sodas that my mom wanted: so many black cherry, so many root beer, so many orange, so many lemon-lime, so many ginger ale, so many for my dad's mixed drinks (club soda, Tom Collins mix), We were not big cola drinkers in our family. The company was called Hammer Beverages. Like local beers disappeared (until reinvented with the term "craft beers") those local soda companies are gone now. Also gone is Costa Beverages (folded in 1988) and Yukon Club.
Growing up in NYC, we used to play a game using bottle caps that is known by a lot of variant names: we called it skelzy in our neighborhood in Queens. A skelzy board would be drawn (usually with chalk or any soft piece of rock or cement that would leave a mark) on the asphalt of the street near the curb (to stay out of traffic - concrete sidewalks were too bumpy). The game pieces were bottle caps that we filled with melted crayon (by this time we were too old for coloring books) for ballast. Then we would wreck the skin on our shooting finger as we flicked the bottle cap around the board. Whoever got it into the last square first won the game.
A typical skelzy board (called skully by Wikipedia). The trapezoids around the #13 box were penalty areas. Land there and you couldn't move until another player knocked you out of there.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skully_(game)#/media/File:Skully_cp.gif
We would scrounge the trash cans for bottle caps. So we got to know every soda brand and every beer brand in the neighborhood. And you wanted different brands (and different color crayons) so the game pieces of different players wouldn't be confused. We were as likely to play with a Rheingold, Schaefer or Ballentine beer bottle cap as we were to play with a Nehi, Hires or Hammer soda bottle cap.
And this was before the days of twist off bottle caps. Those caps had to be pried off with a bottle opener (aka church key) and it wasn't always easy to find one that wasn't creased from opening. They needed to be flat to travel right and it was a skill to open them without a crease.
And they weren't lightweight aluminum. They were steel with nasty ridges. Coming home from a game of skelzy with torn finger skin (maybe a little blood) was a neighborhood rite of passage, as was learning how to dodge cars playing a game in the street or getting a ball off the roof or from the yard of a nearby house with a cranky owner. And we survived.
Mr Daly never played hooky
John actually did miss 4 shows over the course of the series (all are posted here), but by 1959, the producers very wisely decided to videotape some shows in advance so that there would never be another WML episode without him. WML just isn't WML with John Daly.
872 out of 876 programs is not bad at all
99.54% - that's even better than Ivory Snow!
He must have played hooky on the days they learned about zoology and geography.
Is there one from November 24th, 1963?
No
I believe that one was skipped.
Why should there be separate men's and women's speed records for auto driving or racing?
I just ate a KFC $20.00 Fill Up. Now that I done I figured I would watch this again. Now I can someone an upside silhouette of this man and everyone in United States would know his name.
Huh?
Paula Murphy just passed away 12/21/2023 Per Wikipedia
Miss Murphy was the last person from this particular episode who was still alive until today, just over 60 years later, living to the age of 95.
Knowing of the deaths of all the panelists, host, and two very well-known guests, Miss Hirschberg was the only remaining person on the show for whom I needed to check their status... and she lived quite a long life herself, surviving to the age of either 90 or 91, passing away in February of last year (2022); the conclusion of her obituary stated that "Shirlee loved travel, playing cards, theater, Judy Garland and Clams on the half-shell. She will be remembered for her incredible sense of humor; her smile; and the twinkle in her beautiful blue eyes."
4:20 mark ? - 4:23 : $20 What did it happen?
John was giving the panel a "penalty" because Arlene asked a question with "or" in it, and rather than getting a "yes, it's one of those" answer, the Colonel said which one of the choices was correct. There was nothing actually wrong with the question, and I suspect that John really was wanting to keep the segment from running too long, as some of the answers were chatty. The dollar figures were for the fun of play in any case, not reflecting what the contestants were actually paid, according to those who know the inside story.
Why didn’t they know Colonel Sanders???
Didn’t start out famous, had to earn a reputation
Seeing this I'm now hungry fir chicken
Well, we have chicken sausage but not Kentucky Fried Chicken Sausage. I think.
Arlene flirted with to many men! Surprised she was married for so many yrs to the same man!
I think Colonel 's chicken were very tasty that time
up south or down north lol
Colonel Sanders. Before him and KFC were internationally-famous.
The following year, Kentucky Fried Chicken (that PC acronym did not exist then!) got major exposure in "Goldfinger" for a scene when CIA agent Felix Leiter, tracking Bond is eating at a local one when they pick up his tracking signal. Since the scene was set in Kentucky but being filmed in Florida, the producers selected a Kentucky Fried Chicken, thinking it would help sell the idea that this was Kentucky, not realizing it was a national chain.
epaddon Just to clarify, you meant to say that it was Cec Linder's character eating at Kentucky Fried Chicken. Sean Connery, as far as I know, was never in America when he was filming his scenes for the picture.
And don't forget that the Colonel was also on "I've Got a Secret", as well.
***** Yes, that's what I said when I mentioned that it was Leiter eating at the KFC. And you're right, Connery never came to America, all US shooting was in Florida, first for the Miami hotel sequence and then for the scenes of Leiter tailing the car that really is Oddjob taking gangster "Mr. Solo" to the auto-crush.
Aigh! I forgot Col Sanders was in this one. I'll add him to the video title and description. I think it's worthy of note!
+Vahan Nisanian Indeed. As far as I know, there is no KFC in Sweden but thanks to movies and such I was aware of both it and him before watching this video. (More so than most mystery guests.)
+Joe Postove
I'm disappointed in you. I thought for sure you would have made a comment about how you like fast women!
I think CBS had a way not to mention JFK death in someway
They sure did, by using a prerecorded episode.
This panel was made up of worldly, well-informed and articulate people. It is very hard to believe they had never heard of or indeed not recognise the grumpy ol’ chicken nugget!
TIL what "truant" means.
Id love to go back in time and eat at the Colonels Kentucky Fried Chicken, the way he intended it to be. It was good as long as he was alive. Now, its total crap.
funny that they don't mention that JFK died last week.. but not everyone i smiling as they usually are, and you can see the sadness behind a lot of the people...
This episode was previously taped.
Dorothy obviously had an open marriage, and I always thought she was also bisexual based on how she looked at some women. Notice how her stare lingered on the very attractive female auto test driver, and how she gave her the once over!
Just a woman judging another, Arlene does it too. Some pathetic actions never go away
Huh... back when people (1) couldn't recognise what Kentucky thing they should associate with the living embodiment of KFC, and (2) used to actually wolf-whistle and compliment a girl by saying she looks like a 'California swimwear model'...
Relaxed people. Some of us still are, screw censorship on how we talk
Kfc Finger lickin' good.
OMG KFC GUY
I doubt the chicken 'grown' by KFC have seen a blade of grass since 1965...
😢
Too bad his product has been destroyed.