A third show recorded in Hollywood, on the same trip
as the two shows that aired last month (E418,
E419
).
[Joyce Kenny] from Los Angeles: “I’m a Police Department Meter
Maid…I gave Betsy Palmer a parking ticket this week”
The first parking meter was installed
in Oklahoma City in 1935 and the idea quickly became a source of revenue for
municipalities across the country. In
1954, Salt Lake City experimented with female officers specifically tasked with
identifying parking violations. When the
experiment proved successful, other large cities followed suit, and young
“meter maids” became the scourge of city drivers everywhere. Much rarer today in this age of automation,
the position would be immortalized in the 1967 Beatles song “Lovely Rita.” Betsy didn’t fight the citation and paid a
two-dollar fine.
Special Guest Jonathan Winters comes
up with comical responses to the blindfolded panel’s questions, inspired by
famous works of art displayed on a screen behind him. Winters studied art at the Dayton Art
Institute, and originally aspired to being a cartoonist. Garry plugs Winters’ latest album without
identifying it by name.
“Koko”: “I’m going to sing a song”
Koko appears to be a large, barely
trained chimpanzee, but is actually a human actor billed here as “The Great
Janos.” Janos Prohaska made a living inside costumes, usually as a primate (in
everything from The Outer Limits to Gilligan’s Island) but sometimes as
other creatures. He played several alien
beings on the original Star Trek (1966-1969) and
was The Cookie Bear, a comic foil on The
Andy Williams Show from 1969 until 1971.
Prohaska’s unusual but active career would be cut short in 1974 when he
and dozens of other cast and crew died in a charter plane crash while working
on the television project Primal Man.
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