As a resolution to last week’s
cliffhanger involving Henry and a buzzsaw, the show attempts an illusion which
Garry says was designed for them by The Amazing Randi, a popular magician and
escapologist who would later become a well-known investigator and debunker of
people claiming to have actual supernatural abilities. Randi would appear on the show in 1965 (
E591
). The bit does not go off exactly as
planned, but no harm befalls Henry.
Kenneth Shields, Julius Metivier, Fred Weigel, Robert Talbot:
“We’re all losers in a Bill Cullen look-alike contest” and Mr. X: “I won the
contest”
Vincent Griski won the summer contest,
and with it a trip for two to Paris. The
contest was part of Bill’s morning radio series originally named Pulse but later known as The Bill Cullen Show (1955-1961). As morning radio increasingly moved to DJs
spinning records with only light chatter in between, Bill’s show in New York
remained an ambitious mix of talk, features, contests, news and, yes, some
records all the way to the end. At this
point in his career, Bill was doing this three-hour daily radio show, a daily
version of The Price Is Right a weekly
prime-time version of Price, and of
course, Secret.
Special Guest Gisele MacKenzie: “I’m going to play a violin duet
tonight…with a chimpanzee”
MacKenzie performs with Kokomo Jr,
accompanied by Norman Paris and his quartet.
Kokomo Jr was a popular TV figure for a brief time. He replaced J Fred Muggs as the animal mascot
on the Today Show in 1957, and also
in that year he was made an honorary citizen of Kokomo, Indiana. MacKenzie was a popular TV figure as
well. Her busy schedule has her appearing
on Jack Benny’s show on October 30 (her violin duet with Benny on “Getting to
Know You” is classic), and on the Bell
Telephone Hour November 11.
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