Pat Carroll, Arte Johnson, Anita Gillette, Richard Dawson
Trudy Galeener, [Katie Carter], [Joyce Collins]: “We’re all deputy sheriffs”
The three attractive young women are joined during the questioning by [Joanna Sakowski], [Jill Laird], George Galeener (the only male, and Trudy’s husband), [Theodosia Jones], Janet Dunn and Karen Myrdahl. The game is only played by the male panel members, supposedly due to an accidental backstage reveal. While the show tries to wring laughs out of the incongruity of pretty young things in a traditionally male job, by the early seventies there were already hundreds of female deputies working in Los Angeles County alone.
Mr X and Miss Y: “We rowed across the Pacific – 8000 miles!”
John Fairfax and Sylvia Cook are British adventurers who spent 361 days (1971-72) rowing from San Francisco to Australia in a 35-foot vessel. Fairfax had rowed the Atlantic alone in 1969, the first person to do so. He received praise from the crew of Apollo 11, which landed on the moon the day after he finished his journey. Cook was an experienced rower but essentially Fairfax’s assistant until they set out together across the Pacific. Their relationship would become personal as well as professional, but they never married. Fairfax would marry in 1982.
Special guest Greg Morris plays basketball against a trained seal.
Morris explains the hoops contest while the panel is
offstage. He’s wearing the warm-up jacket of Greg’s Gangsters, a celebrity
basketball team he founded to play charity matches in the LA area. The eclectic lineup included pitching great
Sandy Koufax, UCLA standout (and future Hill Street Blues star) Michael
Warren, and rotund comedian Johnny Brown.
Morris played a little college ball at Iowa, and claims that he dreamed
of a pro career. Here he competes
against “Nipper” from the San Diego Zoo. Mission: Impossible (1966-1973), in which Morris plays
electronics wiz Barney Collier, is in its seventh season. Although Steve says it will probably run “for
seven more”, the current season would be its last. A two-season revival which debuted in 1988
featured Morris’ son Phil as the son of his original character. The Tom Cruise
film series, which was based on the original TV show and by all accounts was
loathed by the original TV cast, began in 1996.
Joe Winnicki from Canoga Park, California brings a chicken with him: “This chicken lays eggs…He’s a rooster”
Winnicki doesn’t get much time to explain his fowl situation because the show has run long, but chickens are born with both male and female reproductive organs, and while hormones determine which becomes dominant, neither ever disappears entirely. In rare circumstances, chickens can undergo a “sex reversal” and become roosters. Or, as in this case, vice versa. As one expert put it, “That so-called rooster is only a rooster from the neck up.”
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