678     February 27, 1967 (Taped January 16)
Betsy, Bill, Bess, Henry

Guest Prasanna Rao is a practitioner in the art of shadowgraphy, which is to say he makes shadow puppets with his hands.  Oddly, this is not presented as a secret.  We simply see a demonstration of his talent, and he helps each of the panelists attempt to perform the art as well.  Rao would continue to ply his unusual trade, mostly at puppetry festivals, into the 21st century.  Author George Mendoza would publish a pictorial collection of Rao’s work as Shadowplay (Henry Holt 1974).   

Virgil Quick from Newark, Ohio and [Curt] Fast from Columbus, Ohio: “Mr. Speedy is a highway patrolman” and Robert Speedy from The Plains, Ohio: “I gave Mr. Quick a ticket for driving too fast…I gave Mr. Fast a ticket for driving too slow”                 
Fun with names.                   

Special guest Woody Allen has the panel try to identify words based on often hilarious definitions collected from children aged five to seven.  Years later, this idea would be the central conceit behind the game show Child’s Play (1982-83) hosted by Bill.   Woody has written the play Don’t Drink the Water (1966-68), currently running on Broadway.

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