560     March 23, 1964 (LIVE)
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

Betsy and Bess: “We’re not wearing dresses…we’re wearing bathing suits and skirts”                 
Bill and Henry are left alone to question their fellow panelists, who model their outfits after the game.   

Marvin Myers from Connersville, Indiana: “My team played his team in a game of Monopoly” and David Moore from Connersville: “The game lasted 14 days, nonstop”                 
The boys were the captains of two eleven-man teams playing in shifts, all but two of them high school students.  The game continued even while moving from location to location, as the boys were thrown out of overnight laundromats and shuttled between homes.  When the players ran out of money, the regional Parker Brothers sales manager personally delivered another $1 million in colorful bills.  Monopoly marathons became such a fad in the 1960s that a Monopoly Marathon Records Documentation Committee was established to handle all the unusual and time-consuming ways players stayed busy going bankrupt.   

Special guest EG Marshall brings along a jury made up of eleven members of the studio audience.  He reads the details of two actual court cases, and each panelist either defends or prosecutes, trying to get a majority of the jury on his or her side.  (See E611 ) Marshall is starring in the courtroom drama The Defenders (1961-1965).  He and Robert Reed play father and son defense attorneys who handle complex and often morally thorny cases.  The acclaimed series would win thirteen Emmy awards in its four seasons, including three for Outstanding Drama Series and two for Marshall as Lead Actor.