297     August 6, 1958
Bill, Betty White, Henry, Betsy

Unidentified great-great-grandmother: "My 92-year-old mother is backstage"
In all, there are six generations of the family in the studio, down to a baby.

Special guest Cliff "Charley Weaver" Arquette
With the panel blindfolded, "Charley" only answers half the questions asked of him.  Singer and actor Dennis Day answers the other half.  Arquette had been a co-star on The Dennis Day Show (1952-54) which is probably where Day picked up his impression.  Arquette was a busy comic actor, primarily in radio, where he started playing his "Charley Weaver" character in the 1940s.  He retired from show business in 1956, but a year later started making wildly popular appearances on Jack Paar's Tonight show, always in character as Charley.  That led to a successful "second act" career in which Arquette made many television appearances over the next two decades, almost always in character.

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