What's My Line - Banned Episode, Smoking - 1950's

http://www.GloucesterCounty-VA.com What's My Line was a very popular show back in the 50's and 60's. It was not unusual for guests to smoke on the program. In this one you see smoking on the actual set.

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[Onlymusical]

Back in the 50s and '60s cigarettes were everywhere on television. Johnny Carson smoked unfiltered Pall Malls for decades right on the Tonight Show, finally dying a slow and torturous death during his fabulously wealthy but comparatively brief retirement alongside his trophy blonde wife who had initially bribed his beach guard to let her into his compound and within clutching distance of all those millions. The Univac commercial! Wonder how our computers will compare to those 50 years from now.

[Onlymusical]

Back in the 50s and '60s cigarettes were everywhere on television. Johnny Carson smoked unfiltered Pall Malls for decades right on the Tonight Show, finally dying a slow and torturous death during his fabulously wealthy but comparatively brief retirement alongside his trophy blonde wife who had initially bribed his beach guard to let her into his compound and within clutching distance of all those millions.

[Onlymusical]

I've noticed that on "I've Got a Secret," sponsored by Winston cigarettes, almost everybody on the panel and the host (subsequent cancer victim Garry Moore) are smoking like chimneys, no doubt at the insistence of the sponsor.

Wonder how Randolph Churchill got that job? (That's a joke, of course.)

[ClassicShowbiz]

Did you ban this? Why are showing it if you banned it?

[karlakor]

The panel really seems to dislike wearing their blindfolds. I always like those segments of the show.

[bossapeach]

(I loved the 1950s computer ad :-)

[13loomisst]

Banned by whom, and when?