639     March 7, 1966 (Taped February 28)
Betsy, Bill, Lee Remick, Henry

Remick is the star of the Broadway thriller Wait Until Dark (1966).  She would have a successful career in films, TV and stage.    

Members of the rock group The Hi-Five: “There are four barbers backstage…They’re going to give us normal haircuts tonight” 
“Normal”, of course, by the standards of the rapidly aging demographic of the Secret audience.  The group’s members are Seth Evans, Jeffrey Comanor, Tedd Baron, Pam Robins and [Vic King].  They perform their single “Did You Have to Rub It In?” (Vanguard 1966).  The Hi-Five are playing at the Café Wha? in Greenwich Village.  Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Paul and Mary, Bruce Springsteen and many other legendary musicians got some of their earliest gigs at the Café Wha?, but that level of stardom would elude the Hi-Five.  They were signed by famed Beatles manager Brian Epstein, but after his death in 1967, their career would never gain traction.   

Dale Cummings, Jr from Mount Berry, Georgia: “I’m the sit-up champion of the world…I did 14,118 sit-ups in 12 hours & 3 minutes non-stop” 
Cummings had been motivated to set a record, any record, at a youth conference in Mackinac Island, Michigan in the summer of 1965, where he met baseball great Stan Musial.  On November 29 of that year, he broke the record set by a Florida FBI agent.  Cummings, whose record would eventually be broken, would start his own construction company in Georgia.   

Jack Henderson: “I had a toothache” and special guest Edgar Buchanan: “I pulled his tooth…I’m a dentist”                 
Henderson is Buchanan’s longtime friend and stand-in, who needed an emergency extraction while they were shooting on location.  Buchanan was a dentist for more than a decade before appearing in his first film at the age of 36.  He had a successful career as an actor in film and television but gained his greatest fame late in life as “Uncle Joe” Carson on the TV sitcom Petticoat Junction (1963-70).