Pat Carroll, Gene Rayburn, Anita Gillette, Richard Dawson
Gene gets Steve to promote his upcoming book Curses! (Hawthorn 1973) a collection of colorful curses from around the world and the meanings behind them.
Wolfgang Bayer, a wildlife filmmaker: “I took movies of the panelists with a hidden camera”
Bayer is a producer of television nature programs. His best-known work is probably the television series Animal World (1968-1972) starring Bill Burrud, which aired on all three networks and eventually in syndication. Here, Bayer captured Pat leading a school field trip to a firehouse, Anita taking tennis lessons, and Richard with his son jumping on a trampoline in his backyard.
Twelve-year-old Joy Maranville from Bolton Landing, New York: “I was fishing…and hooked a whale!”
This happened about a year ago on a family trip to New
Zealand to see relatives. Joy was with
her father and uncle in a 12-foot dinghy when she hooked a 35-foot blue whale
that leaped out of the water just a few feet away from their boat. Not taking any chances, they cut the line and
rowed to safety.
Special guest Chad Everett will communicate with a talking computer 3000 miles away.
The computer is in the Bell Labs Complex in Holmdel, New
Jersey. Anita helps with the
demonstration and “talks” with the computer using a touch-tone telephone, still
something of a novelty in 1973. The goal
is to use such a computer to teach children to read, though at this early juncture in computer technology the "lesson" is simplistic and little more than a stunt. Everett’s TV series Medical Center (1969-1976) is in the middle of its seven-season run. Steve’s wife Jayne Meadows has an occasional
supporting role on the show as Nurse Chambers.
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