595     February 22, 1965 (Taped February 15)
Betsy, Bill, Bess, Henry

Robert Hamlin from Fairfield, Maine with his 3-year-old twins Terry and Cherry: “We have eighteen brothers and sisters”                 
Wacky childbirth.  The twenty children in the Hamlin family include three sets of twins.  Ages range from 22 to ten months.  The entire clan marches out after the game, and the show provides the family with a much needed clothes dryer.   


Jack Slack from Freeport, Grand Bahama Island: “We found a sunken treasure worth more than a million dollars”                 
In October 1964, Slack and a trio of skindiving colleagues discovered thousands of 17th century coins in only 30 feet of water just a few hundred yards from the Lucayan Beach Hotel on the island.  Estimates of the value of their find would reach as high as $9 million, but the foursome would not enjoy such riches.  Between dealings with various governments wanting cuts, a backer hired to market their find, and infighting amongst the four men, they would barely break even on their discovery.  Slack would later write Finders Losers: The Lucayan Treasure Find (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1967) about their failed adventure.   


Special guest Buddy Hackett brings with him five women chosen from the audience: “One of these ladies will replace Bess Myerson on the panel next week” 
The five women don’t know the reason they’re on stage.  Steve and Buddy have a glass slipper, and the woman whose foot most closely fits it will win the gig.  The highly anticipated remake of the Rodgers and Hammerstein TV musical Cinderella, starring Lesley Ann Warren, will air immediately after tonight’s show.  The show would be an enormous hit in the ratings, and would become an enduring classic, as fondly remembers by many as the Julie Andrews original.  Secret had played a similar Cinderella game in 1958 ( E311 ).  Hackett is starring in the Broadway musical I Had a Ball (1964-65) which, despite the title, has nothing to do with the Cinderella story.  Hackett will also sit in on the panel next week.


Don't be thrown off by the beginning of the video below.  It connects delightfully.

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