Ameche is currently the host of International Showtime (1961-1965) an
NBC variety series featuring circuses and other performance spectaculars from
across Europe. Ameche travelled with the
production unit throughout the series and was on hand to witness the acts
himself, rather than introduce them from a studio.
Wanda Faye LeBlanc from Donaldsonville, Louisiana: “I have 1,853
pictures of Don Ameche”
She brings
her large scrapbook full of clippings and gives it to Ameche after the game.
Ed Ferrar from Valley Stream, Long Island: “I have a pet lion that
lives with me”
Ferrar’s
nine-month-old lion named Congo seems perfectly docile, but local authorities didn’t
want him keeping the lion as a pet, citing a law which forbids harboring wild
and dangerous animals. Ferrar would
plead guilty to the charge in March but avoided sentencing by moving Congo to his summer home in Pennsylvania, where no laws prohibited him from having a
pet lion.
Special guest Hugh O’Brian has each of
the panelists play a scripted scene.
Twice in each scene, something goes wrong, such as a prop failure. Once, the panelist recovers by saying a line
from the teleprompter. The other time,
the panelist has to ad-lib a reaction.
The other panelists try to figure out which line was ad-libbed. O’Brian
will appear on February 11 in a production of Spellbound on Theatre 62 (1961-1962) an anthology series of new television adaptations of feature films.
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