423     March 8, 1961 (Taped February 8)
Steve Allen, Betsy, Henry, Bess

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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