Tony Leonardo from Newburgh, New York: “I’m wearing a suit worth
$3,000…It’s made of 3,000 one-dollar bills”
Mr.
Leonardo’s suit is hidden underneath a giant paper sack as they play the
game. He is a tailor as well as an
entertainer, and put his suit together without cutting or otherwise defacing
the currency.
Special guest Vivian Vance plays the
new Goodson-Todman game show Password with the panel. Password debuted on the CBS daytime schedule on October 2, and
would become a classic in the game show world, with multiple revivals and
variations in the ensuing decades. In
time, all four panelists as well as Garry would end up appearing at one time or
another on the actual Password show
hosted by Allen Ludden. Our friend and colleague, author Adam Nedeff, has a theory that Ludden himself was originally scheduled to be on this show. Ludden's first wife died on October 30, and it's not unreasonable to think that he would have excused himself from this gig to attend to her affairs. (Besides, Vance has virtually no connection to Password.) When the prime-time version of Password premiered in January, the debut celebrities were Garry Moore and Carol Burnett. Ludden would marry Betty White in June 1963.
Bud Wilkie from North Hollywood, California: “I’m going to fill
the stage with bubbles”
Wilkie has four bubble machines
running at once. He is the vice
president of Better Bubbles Inc. By far
their best known client was The Lawrence
Welk Show (1951-1982) which used one of their machines to create the
“champagne bubbles” seen at the start of every episode.
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