Two-year-old Denise Austin from Colon, Michigan: “My great-grandmother is backstage,” her
mother Mrs. Lynn Austin: “My great-grandmother is backstage,” and Denise’s grandmother
Mrs. Jack Fitch from Bronson, Michigan: “My great-grandmother is home watching
us on TV”
The other
generations are Mrs. Stephen Early of Bronson (Denise’s great-grandmother),
Mrs. Myrtle Ireland of Gentry, Missouri (Denise’s great-great-grandmother) and
98-year-old Mrs. Comphert Elizabeth Henderson of Gentry (Denise’s great-great-great-grandmother),
who speaks with Steve by phone.
Studio usher John Arnold: “I played the leading man in a new
movie”
Arnold stars
in Hot Rod Hullabaloo (1966), a
low-budget action drama about a teen who enters a demolition derby to win money
for college. The movie also marked the
film debut of Marsha Mason, who would go on to earn four Oscar nominations in a
long, successful career. However, it
appears to be Arnold’s only credited screen role. The movie’s producer-director, William T
Naud, has several other low-budget films to his credit. He would also later create a handful of minor
game shows, including Blank Check (1975) and Rhyme and Reason (1975-76). Hot Rod
Hullabaloo is today nearly impossible to find.
Special guest Buddy Hackett has something in common with a burro,
an otter and a worm: “We all paint pictures in our spare time”
All three
animals have sold hundreds of dollars worth of their works. The burro and “Okee” the otter are on stage,
plus Buddy has a “stand-in” worm in his pocket to represent the worm in
California that shares the Secret.
Okee’s owner, Dorothy Wisbeski, wrote Okee: The Story of an Otter in the House (Farrar, Straus 1964).
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