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00:20Hi, I'm Charles Nelson Reilly, and here's a little TV fact.
00:23For 17.5% of the 20th century,
00:27What's My Line ran in primetime on CBS.
00:29That's 17.5 years in primetime!
00:32Oh, unheard of in this day and age.
00:34The show you're about to see is one for the time capsule.
00:37It features Arlene Francis, the queen of What's My Line,
00:41and the original star of Arthur Miller's Broadway All My Sons.
00:45And it features an appearance by the show's creators,
00:48Mark Goodson and Bill Todman.
00:50So here, from September 3rd, 1967,
00:53is the last broadcast of the original, timeless, legendary wonder,
00:58What's My Line!
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01:30And now, let's all play What's...
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01:36And now, live from New York,
01:39for the 876th and last time,
01:42let's meet our What's My Line panel.
01:45First making his 112th appearance as a guest panelist,
01:49the distinguished actor and producer,
01:51Mr. Martin Gable.
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02:05And on my left, a girl who's leaving next week for London
02:09to appear in a television special
02:12called Laura, Miss Arlene Francis.
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02:29And now, a gentleman who has been a regular panelist
02:31on What's My Line,
02:33he's been an irregular panelist,
02:35he's always been a welcome panelist,
02:37and he has just authored a new book
02:39practically dedicated to this program
02:41called Bigger Than a Breadbox,
02:43Mr. Steve Allen.
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02:55Thank you.
02:57Thank you, Arlene, and now I'd like to introduce
02:59one of the friendliest,
03:01most charming people I know,
03:03distinguished publisher, lecturer,
03:05newspaper columnist, Mr. Bennett Cerf.
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03:19As usual, it's my pleasure tonight,
03:21a rather rueful one, to introduce
03:23a gourmet, a bon vivant,
03:25and every sense of the word,
03:27a gentleman, John Charles Dick.
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03:43Thank you.
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03:49Now, Miss Arlene,
03:51seventeen and a half years, it's Sunday night,
03:53and you know it's a wonderful thing,
03:55Arlene grows lovelier every Sunday.
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04:03And Bennett,
04:05we have just come back from California,
04:07and I bring you a gift.
04:09Have you heard about the two hippies
04:11that were married in the bathtub?
04:13It was a double ring ceremony.
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04:23And you don't know how hard it was
04:25to avoid the temptation,
04:27because I saw Bennett about twenty minutes ago
04:29for the first time since we parted for the month,
04:31and I just said,
04:33I've got to wait until we get out there.
04:35The one last pun, well, it won't be the last,
04:37but I hope one of the best will be mine.
04:39Well, Martin Gable has appeared
04:41with us over a hundred times,
04:43more than any other guest panelist,
04:45and Steve Allen, as you all know, is with us
04:47for a regular, for a year and a half,
04:49and then many, many, many times as a guest,
04:51and we think it's a privilege that you two
04:53would join us on this last program,
04:55and welcome, welcome very much.
04:57Now, we're going to have an occupation or two
04:59to solve tonight. We'll have a mystery guest
05:01later on in the proceedings,
05:03but tonight's program's going to be a bit
05:05out of the ordinary, off the norm.
05:07To start things off, I'm going to ask three people
05:09to join us here on stage.
05:11Will you enter and sign in, please?
05:13Thank you.
05:27All right.
05:29Now, right here next to me is
05:31Pat Finch. The gentleman on your left
05:33is Arthur Feinberg. Next to him
05:35is Seymour Kalodny.
05:37Now, panel, not one of you was
05:39here that night
05:41when the first program of
05:43What's My Line appeared, in which these three people
05:45were the contestants in our very first
05:47show on February 2nd of 1950.
05:49Today, Mr. Feinberg...
05:51I was eight years old at that time.
05:53The girl was eight years old at that time.
05:55Oh, there he is.
05:57Well, Mr. Feinberg,
05:59we're going to start with, because we want to play a game,
06:01is an executive now of the same
06:03company that he was with in 1950.
06:05And panel, I want to see if you
06:07can guess what he does. We'll admit it's just a
06:09wild guess. We'll give you one guess apiece.
06:11I'll tell you only that Mr.
06:13Feinberg has something to do with children.
06:15And we'll start with
06:17Arlene.
06:19He...
06:21makes baby
06:23carriages. No. Mr. Allen?
06:25He is
06:27in the diaper business.
06:29Mr. Sir?
06:31I thought he probably ran a diaper
06:33service. Mr. Gable?
06:35Makes bread boxes for children.
06:37Mr. Allen
06:39and Mr. Sir both get one peppermint
06:41candy bar. They're both right, because
06:43that's exactly what Mr.
06:45Feinberg does. He's with the Cascade
06:47Diaper Service. Very good.
06:49All right.
06:51All right.
06:53All right.
06:55Well,
06:57Mr. Feinberg, all I can say is that I hope
06:59that the years have been as kind to you
07:01as they have been to what's my life.
07:03They have been, thank you very
07:05much. You've enjoyed them as much as we have?
07:07I have. Well, I'm glad you...
07:09I want to take this opportunity to wish
07:11you great success in your new
07:13undertaking. Oh, thanks very much.
07:15And may you continue to
07:17prosper with the diaper business.
07:19With a population explosion?
07:21With a population explosion, yeah.
07:23Now, Mr. Kolodny is also engaged
07:25in the same occupation as he was
07:27when our first show went on the air, and I'll tell you
07:29that he is properly
07:31addressed as Dr.
07:33Kolodny. Now, let's start the
07:35guesses this time with Steve Allen.
07:37I would guess he's
07:39a veterinarian. Mr. Sir?
07:41I think he's a dentist. Mr. Gable?
07:43Psychoanalyst. Arlene?
07:45Psychiatrist.
07:47Mr. Allen gets another peppermint
07:49candy bar. Absolutely right!
07:51Applause.
07:53Applause.
07:55Applause.
07:57Applause.
07:59Dr. Kolodny
08:01practices veterinary medicine down
08:03in Greenwich Village. Well, Doctor, I know that
08:05it's been a long time since they had
08:07pasture down there.
08:09What have you been doing all of these 17 and a half
08:11years? Your clientele is what?
08:13Mostly, uh... Well, mostly dogs and
08:15cats now.
08:17But the people are changing. The people
08:19are changing. Yeah.
08:21The dogs and cats go on and on. Go on, but the people
08:23are changing. And the 17 and a
08:25half years have been kind to you too, I hope?
08:27Oh, yes, they have. Oh, good.
08:29With you, also, may I
08:31say we all appreciate your coming back to join
08:33us for the final show, having been with us on
08:35the first one. Thank you. Glad to have you both with us.
08:37Alright, now, Pat
08:39Finch was the very first
08:41contestant on the first show, and thus
08:43the first occupation that
08:45any panel ever had to solve.
08:47Now, I'll tell you that in 1950,
08:49Pat worked for
08:51Sherman Billingsley at the famous Stork Club.
08:53And we'll start
08:55the guesses this time with
08:57Bennet Sirk.
08:59I would say she was probably the
09:01lovely girl who sold cigarettes there.
09:03No, we want to know what Pat's doing now.
09:05Oh, I thought you meant what she was doing.
09:07Well, actually, I don't know what do I want you
09:09to do.
09:11Yeah, go ahead. Do that.
09:13I think she was a slender little
09:15girl, cuddling cigarettes
09:17at the Stork Club. Alright, Mr. Gable?
09:19Uh, Miss Finch
09:21is working at El Morocco now.
09:23Miss Francis?
09:25Well, I think Miss Finch should have graduated
09:27to her own
09:29bistro by now.
09:31Mr. L? My interpretation was the same
09:33as Bennet, so I'll guess what she did then. Since she's
09:35very pretty and doesn't look at all like one, I'll guess
09:37that she was a bouncer then, or something.
09:39Now, actually,
09:41Bennet was very close. Pat was
09:43the hat-check girl at the Stork Club
09:45in those days. It's been
09:47torn down, as you all know, for
09:49Paley Park. But Pat Finch
09:51has gone on to bigger and better things.
09:53Miss Pat, why don't you tell us what you've
09:55gone on to? Oh, well, Mr. Daly, I've
09:57been in several Broadway
09:59shows. Some nice long runs
10:01among them, thank heavens.
10:03I stood by for Eileen
10:05Hurley in The Matchmaker, and
10:07played the part. And I was in Fanny
10:09and Bells are Ringing and
10:11Unthinkable Molly Brown.
10:13And now I'm doing television
10:15commercials and some
10:17television and radio.
10:19That's good. And I also have
10:21just, for the record, a very lovely
10:23five-year-old son named Kenneth, who's
10:25watching tonight. Oh, wonderful,
10:27Pat. That's just grand. So
10:29there. That's, I hope, in a way
10:31that, having started with what my
10:33line was responsible for
10:35this rise in career
10:37that you had, I know that
10:39I can say to Pat, for you,
10:41and to Mr. Feinberg, and Dr. Cullodney,
10:43thanks for being with us again
10:45as you were in 1950,
10:4717 and a half years later.
10:49It was awfully good of you to come to our
10:51last show, and good luck to all three of you,
10:53and the best of wishes to that five-year-old.
10:55Thank you.
10:57And we'll be back right after this word.
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11:27coming back. That's why we invented
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11:31It expands,
11:33filling your entire pipe,
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11:39so drains stay clear
11:41longer.
11:43Drano Foamer.
11:45Keeps drains clear longer than liquid
11:47plumber. S.E. Johnson.
11:49Well,
11:57so far on this last show, we've talked
11:59about the first show all the time. Before we
12:01leave that subject, we thought you'd like to see some
12:031950 television
12:05when instead of 56 million
12:07television sets, there were one tenth
12:09of that number. Panel, we've got a big
12:11surprise, and I hope some fun for you, too.
12:13We've placed a monitor on
12:15stage for the first time.
12:17We're going to let you watch a part of What's My
12:19Line while it's actually
12:21on the air. Here is how
12:23on February 2nd, 1950,
12:25a new program called What's
12:27My Line was introduced to
12:29a small but growing television
12:31audience.
12:35Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and
12:37welcome to What's My Line. In fact,
12:39welcome to our premiere telecast
12:41of What's My Line, and I certainly
12:43hope our distinguished panelists,
12:45members of our panel tonight are going to do a fine
12:47job of human analysis. In other words,
12:49be able to answer the question, What's My
12:51Line? Now to start things
12:53rolling, I'd like the panel to meet our first
12:55challenger, whose occupation it's
12:57their job to ferret out. Will you
12:59sign in, please, miss?
13:01Now watch Arlene one month later
13:03as she questioned a hotel house
13:05detective.
13:07He gets up and down. He's not too sure what floor he's on.
13:09No, that's fine.
13:11Oh!
13:13Hey, I ought to penalize you for that.
13:15Other people employed in your organization
13:17that do the same kind of work you do?
13:19Yes, ma'am.
13:21Do you work,
13:23uh,
13:25pardon me,
13:27do you work on several floors of an
13:29organization or just on one?
13:31Bennett Cerf made his
13:33premiere appearance with us on October
13:3515th of that first year,
13:371950. Now famous
13:39for his long, complicated, and
13:41funny introductions, watch how he
13:43did the first time out.
13:45And on my left, our guest
13:47panelist tonight, the famous
13:49publisher and columnist, Mr. Bennett
13:51Cerf. And on my left
13:53is the famous news analyst
13:55and moderator and master of ceremonies
13:57of this program, Mr. John
13:59Daly. Not a pun
14:01in a carload, then.
14:03Steve Allen joined us for the first
14:05time one year later in March of
14:071951. His wit
14:09and humor were apparent from the outset, as
14:11on that show, he questioned a
14:13challenger who made wedding
14:15rings.
14:17Um...
14:19Warren?
14:21Yes?
14:23Gee, I didn't expect
14:25to get this good so soon.
14:27Go ahead.
14:29I got it, but I don't know what to do with it.
14:31Um...
14:33It's Warren. Would it
14:35be something you might see in
14:37casual surroundings, like at the beach
14:39or something? Could it be worn at the...
14:41Yes.
14:43You're doing great!
14:45Uh...
14:47I know what you're thinking, and if you
14:49ask him if he modeled them, I'll throw the desk.
14:51No.
14:53No, um, it can be worn at the beach.
14:55Would it be all right to wear one of these
14:57and nothing else?
15:00Head for the beach!
15:05Martin Gable came to us first
15:07just in time for Christmas in
15:091956. Sitting next
15:11to Mrs. Gable, as he is now,
15:13he questioned a lady who made
15:15nightcaps for bald-headed
15:17men. Is it
15:19something that
15:21improves the general
15:23well-being of the male sex,
15:25that portion of the sex that uses it?
15:27I think it might.
15:31Hmm.
15:33Is it something that
15:35I would be apt to want to buy
15:37for myself?
15:39Might.
15:43Uh...
15:45Is it something which, when I
15:47applied it, in whatever form,
15:49would improve me in some way?
15:51Well, I'm not going
15:53to answer that one. I'll say that.
15:57Well, these have been wonderful years,
15:59and I might say I think
16:01the finest thing about it are the close
16:03bonds of friendship that have
16:05been formed by all of us who are
16:07the old hands on What's My
16:09Line, and we can take much
16:11comfort in the simple fact that these
16:13friendships will continue in the years ahead.
16:15The 17 and a half years have brought
16:17us sadness, too. Two of
16:19our oldest and dearest friends left us,
16:21Dorothy Kilgallen, who was on the
16:23very first program and was with us for 15
16:25years, Fred Allen,
16:27who was with us for better than a year,
16:29and then went on
16:31too, and I would say only
16:33speaking for the panel and for myself
16:35that we all treasure the
16:37memory of those years when they were with us.
16:39Now, very soon,
16:41panel, we're going to get back to what we've done
16:43for 17 and a half years. We're going to have an
16:45occupation for you to get. We'll
16:47give you that chance right after this message.
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18:23Hi, I'm
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18:27we're gonna have a party, and you're
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18:43together with Lisa Robertson and Todd
18:45Newton, live from the Disney MGM
18:47Studios, right here in Walt Disney World
18:49Live.
18:53It's time
18:55to test your game show IQ.
18:57Whoa!
18:59This is tough.
19:05Nice one!
19:07Dessert for you! What's My Line?
19:09Weekdays at 11.30 a.m. Eastern,
19:118.30 Pacific, only on Game Show Network.
19:21Alright, and now let's see what we can do
19:23with a regular challenger. Would you enter
19:25and sign in, please?
19:31El
19:33Fergielli, right there.
19:39Mr.
19:41Mr. Fergielli, where are you from?
19:43New York City. New York City. May I
19:45present the panel, sir? Fergielli,
19:47now if you'll join me over here, we'll
19:49let the audience at home and the audience
19:51in the theater know exactly what your
19:53line is.
20:01Alright.
20:03Panel,
20:05we can tell you that Mr.
20:07Fergielli is salaried and deals in a
20:09service, and we'll start things with
20:11Arlene Frank. Well, Mr.
20:13Fergielli, you're handsome enough to be a
20:15performer yourself. Do you
20:17perform in any way?
20:19No. One down
20:21and nine to go, Mr. Allen. Are your
20:23services equally of interest to men and
20:25women? Yes.
20:27Does what you do
20:29change them physically in any way? No.
20:31Two down and eight to go, Mr. Seth.
20:33Have you any connection, whatever, with
20:35the entertainment industry?
20:37No, I don't. Three down and seven to go,
20:39Mr. Gable. Have you anything to do with clothes?
20:41No. Four down
20:43and six to go, Miss Francis. Would people come
20:45to you for your service? Yes.
20:47Would
20:49I
20:51hand the money directly to you for the
20:53service that you might give to me? No.
20:55Five down and five to go, Mr. Allen.
20:57When you are performing your professional function,
20:59are you attired differently than you are
21:01at this moment? No. Six down and
21:03four to go, Mr. Cerf. Do you work for a
21:05profit-making organization? No.
21:07Oh, I'm
21:09going to throw all the cards over. We're just
21:11trying to give you a service, that all.
21:13That's all, I mean. He runs
21:15a service. That's right. He handles claims
21:17for the New York State Unemployment Bureau.
21:19That's funny.
21:21That's funny.
21:23That's funny.
21:25That's funny.
21:27That's funny.
21:29That's funny.
21:31Mr. Fergielli, we had you here because we all
21:33wanted to meet you. You know, I was going to say...
21:37What are your hours, Mr. Fergielli?
21:39I was going to say, I hope that you have a long and busy
21:41career ahead of you, but I don't really mean that
21:43because I don't want you to be that busy.
21:45Well, we, you know, the kind of
21:47service we perform is very rewarding
21:49in many ways, and
21:51we, of course, don't expect to see any
21:53of the talent there. We'll be there to see you.
21:55I hope you don't either.
21:57Thanks very much, sir, for being part of our show.
21:59Thank you.
22:11We'll be back with
22:13our final mystery guest
22:15in just a moment.
22:195.8
22:215.7
22:236.0
22:25Uh-oh.
22:27Mounds and
22:29Almond Joy. Because everybody needs
22:31a five-minute vacation. Mark McGrath of
22:33Sugar Ray, watch
22:35The Command of Rock & Roll Jeopardy on Game Show
22:37Network. Weekends at 12.30 p.m.
22:39Eastern, 9.30 a.m. Pacific. This game
22:41rocks.
22:43Which bag seals tighter, GLAD
22:45or the Ziploc slider bag?
22:47My Ziploc slider is dripping. Wait a minute.
22:49My GLAD is double-locked.
22:51The double-locked green seal. Only GLAD has it.
22:53Can I borrow a cup of water?
22:55Don't get mad. Get GLAD.
23:03And now we come to the special feature of our program,
23:05the appearance of our mystery challenger,
23:07which, as you all know, the panel is always blindfolded.
23:09Are the blindfolds all in place, panel?
23:11Yes, sir. Good. Will you come
23:13out, mystery challenger, and sign
23:15in, please?
23:25All right.
23:31All right.
23:33All right.
23:35All right.
23:37All right. As you know, panel,
23:39in this case, a different form of questioning.
23:41One question at a time. In turn,
23:43moving clockwise, and we will begin
23:45with Martin Gable. Are you
23:47in the theatrical business? Thank you, John.
23:49Uh, no.
23:51That's one
23:53down and nine to go. Arlene?
23:55Are you
23:57voted into office?
23:59No.
24:01That's
24:03two down and eight to go. Mr. Allen?
24:05Have you any connection with the world
24:07of sports? Uh,
24:09no.
24:11That's three
24:13down and seven to go. Mr.
24:15Sir? I smell eight rats.
24:19Have you any connection with the
24:21television industry?
24:23Yes.
24:25Mr. Gable, are you connected with this
24:27network? Uh,
24:29yes.
24:31Arlene? Are you going to be out of business
24:33like the rest of us?
24:45Arlene, do you have something in mind that, I mean, you want
24:47to take a guess? Well, if it's
24:49everybody I think it is, they won't be out of business
24:51as much as I will, but
24:53I just want to keep in good with them. Is it
24:55by any chance Mark Goodson
24:57and Bill Todman?
24:59No.
25:01Four down and six to go.
25:03Mr. Allen? Oh, dear.
25:05I thought it was Goodson and Todman,
25:07or Donder and Blitzen, or somebody like that.
25:09Now I'm at a loss.
25:11You did say connected with the network. Yes.
25:13Are you
25:15having
25:17any fun? Are you a senior officer
25:19of this network? No.
25:21Now that's
25:23five down and five to go.
25:25Are you possibly impersonating
25:27yourself, Mr. Daly?
25:29Who?
25:31I'm not.
25:33I'm not.
25:35That is.
25:37I'm not.
25:39I'm not.
25:41I'm not.
25:43I'm not.
25:47I hadn't realized how hard that was.
25:49I'm practically out of voice.
25:51Crazy about your new voice.
25:53That's the voice of America.
25:55You think
25:57I've got a future, do you, Harvey?
25:59Well, let me explain very quickly that we
26:01did that because, although I
26:03suppose it's difficult for you all to believe it, we've had
26:05literally thousands of letters in 17
26:07and a half years saying, why don't you be
26:09the mystery guest? We've never been able to use it
26:11because it was the only backstop we had
26:13in case a mystery guest didn't come
26:15because the mystery guest arrives after
26:17the program starts and we've had a couple of close
26:19shaves one minute once before
26:21the guest was supposed to go on.
26:23Well, I see our time is running short
26:25so
26:27I think what we had better do
26:29is
26:31something we'd all want to do.
26:33One last task remains.
26:35A happy task.
26:37I'd like to bring out the two men responsible
26:39for the creation of What's My Line
26:41and through it for the panel game show
26:43as a television staple, Mark Goodson
26:45and Bill Totten.
27:01John, that was one of the funniest mystery guest spots
27:03I've ever heard.
27:05You know, it seems
27:07almost impossible to realize
27:09that Sunday night at 10.30
27:11will not be What's My Line time
27:13anymore.
27:15We've been around
27:17so long we've become more than a show, I think.
27:19We've become kind of an institution,
27:21sort of, even those who didn't
27:23tune us in regularly every week
27:25knew we were there, like the
27:27Plaza Hotel and
27:29the Lions in front of the library.
27:31And I was just realizing
27:33when I saw the
27:35diaper serviceman out here
27:37and someone talked about the growth in population
27:39and since What's My Line has been on the air
27:41some over 70
27:43million children have been born
27:45in the United States.
27:47And instantly Twiggy was six months old
27:49when the show went on the air.
27:51We've got a marvelous roster of guests
27:53and I couldn't
27:55possibly read them all off now
27:57but it will not be the same
27:59without What's My Line. We're going to miss it and we're going to
28:01miss you too. Thank you, Marcus.
28:03I feel like crying
28:05but I won't. I would like
28:07to thank, most sincerely, for all
28:09of us, to our wonderful
28:11CBS crew, the technicians, too numerous
28:13to mention. I want to thank Gil Fates,
28:15our producer, who has been with us since
28:17our very first show, Franklin Hill,
28:19our director who started on our very third
28:21program, Ann Krieger and Bob
28:23Bach, each with us from the beginning
28:25and Ann Krieger for 13 of those
28:27years, Barbara Griff, the program staff
28:29and from all of us to all of you
28:31out there, we thank you for being
28:33our audience. Good night.
28:35And now, uh...
28:37Johnny Olsen, come in here.
28:39Johnny Olsen, come in and be a part of the gang
28:41and as we say good night, because it is time
28:43to say good night, Johnny Olsen
28:45here, who's been with us for all these years, goodbye,
28:47Bobby. Thank you. Goodbye, Johnny.
28:49Thank you.
28:55I've enjoyed it very much.
28:57Good luck to us all.
28:5920 seconds is a very short
29:01time after 17 and a half years
29:03to say goodbye to all of our
29:05friends. My feelings are too deep
29:07to make up for that ratio
29:09in time, but thank you all
29:11deeply and very good luck
29:13to our replacement. Arlene,
29:15you took the words right out of my mouth.
29:17Good night. Good night.
29:19Well, this is the end of one of the most rewarding,
29:21wonderful experiences of my life.
29:23I've enjoyed every minute of it
29:25and I hope a lot of you who've watched this
29:27have enjoyed it too. Thank you for
29:29supporting us. And John, I hope
29:31you're going to be a beautiful voice of America.
29:33Thank you. Good night. Thank you, Bennett.
29:35Good night, ladies and gentlemen, for having been with us
29:37for 17 and a half years with
29:39What's My Line?
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