A special “Country Fair” episode has Garry and the panel in their
finest country costumes and a fiddle band playing on a specially decorated stage. A lot of unusual games are on the docket, in
addition to two traditional Secrets. The
show is also not presented live, but had been recorded earlier that same
evening. The regular 10:30 airtime was
probably after some of the younger participants’ bedtimes.
Each panelist
picks a rooster, and the rooster who crows the most in the next twenty minutes
is the winner, as judged by young members of a New Jersey 4-H club. Betsy’s ends up being the only rooster who
crows. The 4-H’ers are given savings
bonds.
Mrs. W.E. Nielsen from Huron, South Dakota: “I’ve won more than
600 prizes at county fairs”
Mrs. Nielsen has been winning prizes
at various South Dakota fairs since the 1930s.
She also becomes the judge for the cakes the panelists baked for the
show, based on one of Mrs. Nielsen’s recipes they all received the previous
week. Betsy wins.
Max Kirkland from Hightstown, New Jersey: “I’m going to judge the
panel in a corn shucking contest”
Kirkland is not only an agriculture
expert at Rutgers University, he also is a specialist in radio and television
there. The event is unsurprisingly
slapstick, but after the shucks have settled, Bess is the winner.
Pete Burgang, Mary Ann Herman, [Jerry
Zucker] and [Estelle Reed], all experts from the Folk Dance House in New York,
pair off with the panelists for an old-fashioned hoedown. Bill becomes the caller (due to his physical
limitations, though nothing is mentioned) and Garry dances. Herman and her husband Michael run the Folk
Dance House, and would become legends in the folk dancing community, teaching
into the 1990s.
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