169     January 11, 1956
Bill, Jayne, Arnold Stang, Faye

Don McNeill hosts

George Smith from Los Angeles: “I made a parachute jump at supersonic speed” 
Smith, a civilian test pilot, was flying a new Super Sabre jet last February when it began to nosedive at a speed faster than sound.  He is the first pilot to survive such a bailout.  The multiple injuries he sustained from the sudden deceleration, estimated at 40G, left him hospitalized for six months.  Six days after this appearance, Smith would fly a Super Sabre once again.   

Special Guest Cyril Ritchard answers each question using a range of emotions from A to Z (A=Anger, etc). 
Ritchard is an Australian stage actor best known for playing Captain Hook on Broadway and on television in productions of Peter Pan.  The original 1954 Broadway production led to a wildly successful live NBC television broadcast on March 7, 1955.  A second live NBC broadcast featuring the same cast aired on January 9, just two days before this appearance.  Ritchard and Mary Martin (who played Peter) would revisit their roles for television one more time in 1960.  That final production was the only one videotaped in color, and would be the version frequently replayed in subsequent decades.   

[Rachel Palmer]: “I kissed Bill Cullen three weeks ago on this program” 
On that episode ( E166 ), Bill tried to cajole the audience into various emotional reactions.  In the end, Palmer appears to be overcome with emotion and runs up on stage to kiss him.  Given that Bill is hardly a sex symbol, the segment was almost certainly staged.