NBC
January 31, 1957
Game Show, Comedy
VHS
C+
The copy I have is from a local Southern Californian PBS series of the late '80s, called I Remember Television, so I think it's edited down from what you might see on YouTube or elsewhere. The basic format is here though, with the two man-woman pairs successively trying for amounts of money that weren't much even at the time. (When the quiz show scandal happened, YBYL was in the clear, very obviously not fixed.) It's all an excuse for Groucho to gently mock the contestants, who are of course good sports about it and occasionally joke back. This time the secret word (worth $100) is "head" and is won by the Italian war bride and her partner the talent agent. (The other female contestant is an airline pilot and apparently future astronaut, Jan Dietrich.)
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| A lively moment on what is mostly a slow-moving episode. |
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