Today a really stirring episode of “What’s My Line?” that aired on February 16, 1964.
The great Carol Burnett, early in her marvelous career, was the mystery guest on a night that just hours earlier and also on CBS, the legendary Beatles made the second of their first two appearances on United States television, both times on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Panelist Bennett Cerf alludes to that appearance, when introducing host John Charles Daly.
Buddy Hackett, Dorothy Kilgallen and Arlene Francis are the other panelists. “Mr. X” is the first guest, wonder what he does. You can watch the video below and find out.
Enjoy.
Today, I offer three predictions on NFL games.
In London, England, the Bears are five point favorites vs the Oakland Raiders. Bears 24, Raiders 23.
Jim Nantz is back in the AFC, his regular spot after two all NFC games. In “his” tilt, the Chargers are minus 6 vs the (0-4) Denver Broncos. Chargers 26 Broncos 24.
Finally in another Minnesota at New York weekend game, (the Yankees annihilated the Twins in two “div” series games, Sam Rosen, a truly fine, rarely used network broadcaster, gets his first NFL game of ’19.
Rosen means the underdog, (look it up if you can), I will say outright—Giants 20, Vikings 16.
Alex Webster, pictured above, became the Giants’ coach in 1969. Just over 50 years ago, in his first game as coach, the Giants upset the Vikings (24-23) in the season opener.
Minnesota went to their first Super Bowl that season, losing to the Chiefs (23-7).
So help me, at the moment I got to the page indicating the Minnesota Twins’ ancestors, the Washington Senators, clinched their lone title on Friday October 6th, 1924–NPR’s Scott Simon cited the fact there had been protests in Hong Kong, “the last couple of FRIDAYS.”
Alas, which notes regarding the Yankees domination of the Minnesota Twins, 11 straight post-season game wins, a (101-37) record starting in ’02 and now top heavy favorites, to hand the Twins a 6th playoffs entity loss, in as many possibilities.
I knew and checked Friday post-season Twins’ action, their lone win being in #3/1991 ALCS, vs the Toronto Blue Jays, en route to their second and to date, last title. Ex Yankees’ player, Mike Pagliarulo had an extra innings, game deciding home run in that tilt.
Otherwise, the Twins are (0-6) in Friday post-season games, losses to the Yankees in ’04 and 10 years apart in ’09 and ’19, a loss that completed an A’s sweep vs them in ’06 and one to the A’s in game 3 of the ’02 division series.
That ’02 series manifested in a Twins series victory, before a loss to the eventual World Series winning Angels, which included a Friday game 3 Twins’ loss.
The great, maybe the greatest pitcher, Walter Johnson, pictured above got the win in relief when the Twins’ ancestors, the Washington Senators won their lone World Series in game 7 of the 1924 World Series.
I recall then New York Yankees’ second baseman, Horace Clarke breaking up three no hit bids, by American League pitchers in the ninth inning, back in 1970.
Incredibly, Clarke did so within a period of less than a month, (June 4th-July 2nd), first vs Jim Rooker, then Wilford “Sonny” Siebert and finally vs Joe Niekro.
Only Siebert, who had the lone no hit game in baseball 1966, (in what was to be Sandy Koufax’s last season and after pitching a no hit game for four straight seasons, Sandy did not pitch one in 1966), among the three, had a no hit game in his career.
I remember sitting at my school type desk, listening when Mr. Clarke broke up Niekro’s no hit bid. In those, I believe better days, not all, in fact less than half of the Yankees’ games were televised.
Horace Clarke, pictured above.
It is very entertaining and nostalgic to watch the iconic television show, “Perry Mason” on MeTV.
The show airs twice a day, with different episodes at 9 A.M. and 11:30 P.M. Eastern Time.
Last night from season 1, episode 14 “The Case of the Baited Hook,”, there seems more personal interaction going on between Barbara Hale’s “Della” and Raymond Burr’s “Perry Mason.” Della reminds Perry of her “value.”
Also in the episode, William Hopper’s “Paul Drake” puts an “out of order” sign around a phone booth. That action would not be necessary today. This was quite an episode, originally shown on Saturday night December 21, 1957, with the fine actress, Geraldine Wall as the top billed guest star.
Time moves on, for better or worse and watching “Perry Mason” makes it better.
While it is still likely that the top ranked Washington Mystics will cop their first WNBA crown, they certainly are far from certain title winners, after the Connecticut Sun won game 2 in “Wash,” to even the best of 5 title round series last night.
It was a night the baseball Nationals won a “must” 10 to 8 game, rallying to beat the Brewers, also in the nation’s capital, however, the Mystics, 8 point game favorites and highly inflated 10 or more to 1 series favorites after winning game 1, failed.
Now also highly inflated, is the wait for the “long” trip Washington D.C. to Connecticut that manifests in 4 days off (even the NBA is not that bad, usually Tuesday to Saturday), before game 3 Sunday afternoon, in Connecticut.
Today, quite an episode of the great show, “What’s My Line?”
It is from August, 1954 and has two mystery guests. One is Ivy Baker Priest, then treasurer of the United States, the other, the one and only Debbie Reynolds.
Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis and Steve Allen are the panelists.
John Charles Daly is the show’s host.
Enjoy.
Six (3-0) NFL teams (two vs each other) played lat week, four lost and two, the defending champion, New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs won, but did not cover the spread.
10 point underdog Tampa Bay (Bucs) won at the now (3-1) Rams, in the day’s big upset.
The (3-0) 49ers had a bye, while Detroit (Lions) fell to (2-1-1) after a tough loss vs the Chiefs.
Washington, Denver and Miami all lost and fell to (0-4.
I will channel Ronald Colman/”Sydney Carton” from the classic Charles Dickens’ novel, “A Tail of Two Cities” and use two “fars” to convey that this is far, far less dramatic than a similar St. Louis Cardinals’ bid to win a baseball entity 55 years ago.
Today, on baseball’s last day of the regular season, there are two meaningful games going in, the St. Louis Cardinals hosting the Cubs and the Brewers visiting Colorado.
The Cardinals, who also lost Friday and Saturday games in unexpected results, in a dramatic race for the National League Pennant and World Series entry those 55 years ago, lead “Milw” by a game.
If the Brewers gain today, the teams meet tomorrow in St. Louis, with the winner into the “quarters” vs Atlanta and the loser to Washington for a 10 to 8 game, Tuesday.
If the Cards win or if Milwaukee loses or both, the Cards will be the N.L. “3” seed and face Atlanta in playoffs action for the fifth time.
Al Jackson, who/(whom?) sadly, passed on in August of this year, out dueled the great Cards’ pitcher, Bob Gibson in the Friday night opening game of the ’64 series finale, winning (1-0).
Today a fantastic episode of “What’s My Line?” from July 31, 1960, a time just after the presidential political conventions, to which panelist Bennett Cerf refers.
The mystery guest is the beautiful, great actress, Myrna Loy. Other “challengers” are also quite interesting.
Dorothy Kilgallen, Dirk Bogarde and Arlene Francis join Mr. Cerf on the panel. John Charles Daly is the show’s host.
Enjoy.
