Pat Carroll, Henry Morgan, Meredith MacRae, Richard Dawson
The first contestant flies in (on wires) wearing the red and gold costume of superhero Captain Marvel: "My real name is Captain Marvel (U.S. Air Force)"
Lieutenant William Marvel had been promoted only a few weeks ago, and with the new title came the press attention and teasing you might expect. (Friends made the costume for him.) He is a deskbound engineer for the Air Force, but he has a private pilot's license, so Captain Marvel does, in fact, fly. In the 1940s, the comic book character sold more copies than any other superhero, even Superman. However, publisher Fawcett Comics became engaged in a protracted legal battle with National Comics (later DC) over their character's similarities to the Man of Steel. Fawcett stopped publishing in 1953, and in an odd twist to the story, DC picked up the rights to their popular character. However, in the meantime, rival Marvel Comics had acquired the rights to the NAME "Captain Marvel" (still with us?) so DC eventually renamed their character Shazam. ("SHAZAM!" was the magic word young Bill Batson said to turn into the heroic Captain.) Today, "Captain Marvel" is the name associated with several characters in the Marvel Comics universe. 2023 saw the release of both a DC Captain Marvel movie (Shazam! Fury of the Gods)
and a Marvel one (The Marvels).
Photographer Peter Gowland and Miss X have a secret having
to do with a magazine. Gowland: “I posed
nude for the centerfold picture” and Miss X: “I took the picture”
“Miss” X is actually Mrs. Alice Adams Gowland, Peter’s wife
and business partner. In a career that has spanned decades, Gowland is well-known for his glamour photography, which has graced the covers of Playboy and Rolling Stone among many other
magazines. Societal norms are changing,
and magazines like Playboy are moving out of the shadows, but so are feminist
objections to it. Gowland was a frequent
target of their ire. Here, comparisons
are made to Burt Reynolds, who had posed nude in Cosmopolitan earlier in
the year. In the still-tame world of television, this is all just terribly titillating. Gowland’s tastefully nude photo (his private parts are obscured by palm fronds) appears in Reflections,
a student publication at Santa Monica College.
Special guest Paul Lynde: “I lost 90 pounds! (I used to weigh 260)”
Between jokes, Lynde is quite serious about his fight with obesity, which had been a problem of his since childhood. Though Lynde’s enduring fame is as the center square in the
long running game show The Hollywood Squares, he was also a ubiquitous
performer in films and television throughout the 60s and 70s. He often played put-upon husbands and fathers, despite a just-barely-secret personal life as a gay man. Here, Pat Carroll finds the fact that he's once again playing a family man hilariously funny. Here, Steve gushes about the new sitcom
(creatively titled The Paul Lynde Show) even though as they tape this
program in June, Lynde’s show is still months away from airing its first episode. The Paul Lynde Show would premiere strongly,
but poor reviews (it was basically a watered-down version of All In The Family)
and negative audience reaction would doom it to a single season.
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