490     June 25, 1962
Bess, Bill, Betsy, Henry

The panel sits out of their usual order, and Henry is nowhere to be found.  The hazards of New York traffic.  Henry would miss the entire first segment.   

Jim Street from Dayton, Ohio is holding a small box: “I’m going to drive my car on to this stage…by remote control” 
Street’s car is the Golden Sahara II, a custom vehicle which cost $75,000 to build. Decades before driverless cars became a topic of conversation, this car could be controlled by an operator in or near the vehicle by remote control.  Street shows off his futuristic beauty, which includes gold plated ornamental trim, a convertible bubble dome, multiple steering systems, television, telephone, tape recorder, massaging seats and a minibar, among many other features.  After several highly publicized auto shows that took a toll on the vehicle, Street would put the Golden Sahara in storage in the late 1960s, where it would remain hidden until his death in 2018.  Since then, his now-deteriorated custom dream car was sold at auction for nearly $400,000 and has been restored to its former glory.    

Art Barker from New York City is a comic who performed only one show of a scheduled three-week engagement in Florida, because: “I showed up for the job one year too early”                 
Barker was a Miami-based comic who worked primarily in Playboy Clubs throughout the 1960s.  In the early 70s, the recovering alcoholic would retire from stand-up and start The Seed, a controversial and mostly debunked program designed to stop drug abuse among young people.  While early attention on his facility was positive, his methods of peer pressure, physical intimidation, mind control and other abuses were later compared to North Korean brainwashing in a US Senate report.  Today, while some people speak positively of their experiences at The Seed, others describe horrific treatment at the hands of the staff there.   

Special guests are four Miss Universe contestants: Miss Lebanon Nouhad Cabbabe, Miss Finland Aulikki Järvinen, Miss Wales Hazel Williams and Miss Norway Julie Ege.  
Each is paired with a panelist who tries to figure out what they’re saying in their native language.  Ege would appear in many British movies in the 60s and 70s, including the James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969).  The Miss Universe pageant would air on CBS on July 14.  The title would be won by Miss Argentina.  Of these four, Järvinen would be second runner-up and Cabbabe would finish in the top 15.