Pat Carroll, Gene Rayburn, Nanette Fabray, Richard Dawson
A contestant identified only as Bob: “That’s Lassie hiding from the panel”
Lassie has been sitting in front of the panel desk, out of the view of the panelists, since before the show began. Bob Weatherwax is the 31-year-old son of Rudd Weatherwax, the original owner and trainer of the original Lassie. The Weatherwax family is most famous for their Lassies but have been training dogs for movie and television roles for more than a century. The Lassie TV series, which began in 1954 and ran for 17 years on CBS, is in its second and final season in first-run syndication. The Campbell Soup Company, which has sponsored Lassie for its entire run, has recently released a Recipe brand of dog food with Lassie’s picture on the label, and Steve gets in a plug for “Lassie’s Own Recipe Dog Dinner.” Even after the show’s cancellation, Lassie’s image appeared on Recipe cans until 1979.
Miss Willy Rey is a model whose picture appears: “On the Playboy Enterprises stock certificate --- nude.”
Rey not only appears on the company’s stock certificate, the
Dutch-born Canadian model was also the Playmate of the Month for the February
1971 issue. Tragically, she died in
August 1973, less than a year after this appearance, from a sleeping pill
overdose. She was only 23 years old at the time of her death.
Special guest Kay Ballard’s secret, explained while the panel is off stage, is that she and Pat Carroll are going to perform a musical number together.
Ballard performs on the flute (she’s good) and Carroll performs on a novelty percussion instrument they call a “boom bass.” The two are old friends with such an easy rapport that you could swear you’d seem them working together before, like perhaps on the sitcom The Mothers-In-Law (1967-1969) (except that was Ballard with Eve Arden) or in the TV production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (except Ballard played a stepsister in the original 1957 version with Julie Andrews, and Carroll played a stepsister in the 1965 version with Leslie Ann Warren). Both even starred on stage in various incarnations of the musical Nunsense, but never at the same time. Ballard is a prolific actress in many media, but she is perhaps best known to television audiences for her various appearances as herself on talk shows and game shows like this one.
Tommy Bond: “I was Butch in the Our Gang comedies”
Bond appeared in 27 Our Gang short films in the 1930s, first as “Tommy” in smaller roles and later as the bully “Butch”. (In the segment, he claims to have been in more than fifty.) Bond was also the first person to play Jimmy Olsen on film, in the two Superman serials starring Kirk Alyn ( E6 ). The producers didn’t have to go far to find Bond. He works on the production staff in the studio where I’ve Got a Secret is recorded.
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