633     January 24, 1966 (Taped January 17)
Betsy, Bill, Bess, Henry

Ronald Gould from Garden City, Long Island, Arnold Goldberg from Brooklyn and Rolf Barnes from Manhattan: “The three of us and all these instruments…travel in these two cars”                 
The three men make up the New York Percussion Trio, a group whose primary focus is bringing percussion music to young people in schools around the country.  They tour with a wide array of instruments in two Volkswagen Beetles, which they prove by packing it all up during the questioning.  The Trio was founded in the mid-50s and would continue to perform until the mid-70s.  They recorded the album Holidays for Percussion (Vox 1958). Gould and Goldberg would also perform for many years with the New York Ballet Orchestra.  

William Taynton from London, England: “I was the first person ever to appear on television (1925)”                 
Many pioneers are credited with various firsts in the development of television, and among them is Scottish inventor John Logie Baird.  Baird paid Toynton, a 20-year-old office worker, “half a crown” to sit in front of hot lights and serve as the model for his first test.  Later, the two switched places and Taynton became the second man to see a television image (that of Baird) in the laboratory.  Baird’s mechanical apparatus would quickly be made obsolete by advances in electronic television by Vladimir Zworykin and Philo T Farnsworth ( E242 ).  Taynton maintained a large collection of memorabilia related to early television.  That collection would be auctioned off in 2018.   

Special guest Frank Gorshin helps the panelists do impressions of famous figures without using any dialogue, and everybody else tries to figure out who each of them is doing.   Gorshin is best known at this point in his career for his comic impressions, and for his many performances on TV variety shows.  He is appearing in the film That Darn Cat! (1965) and is about to be seen in Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966).  Though not mentioned here, he has also recently made his first appearance in the role for which he would become arguably the most famous, that of The Riddler on the TV series Batman (1966-68).  He would be nominated for an Emmy Award for the role, the only performer on the series to be so honored.