6 Recorded July 20, 1972

Anita Gillette, Gene Rayburn, Jo Anne Worley, Richard Dawson

Worley, the special guest of the show recorded earlier in today’s taping session, takes the place of Stephanie Edwards on the panel. This is the only time in the series’ brief run that a panelist is swapped out in between shows taped on the same day.

Linda Todd from Burbank, California brings with her Clyde the Cockatoo: “He rides a bicycle on a tightrope”

Todd, a lovely 20-year-old who was “Miss Burbank” in 1970, is here in her role as bird trainer for Busch Gardens in the San Fernando Valley, where Clyde performs. The original Busch Gardens referred to actual gardens open to the public from 1906 to 1937 around the Pasadena home of Adolphus Busch, the beer magnate. Those gardens served as scenic locations for many early films, perhaps most notably as part of Sherwood Forest in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). The name later became used for four amusement parks scattered around the country, originally with close ties to the Anheuser-Busch brand. The San Fernando location would close in 1979, and another park in Houston was only open for a couple of years in the early 70s. The two remaining parks, one in Williamsburg, Virginia and the other in Tampa, Florida, remain active today.

Victor Barba from Brentwood, California is a botanist and sculptor who makes planters out of unusual items. For example: “I planted vines in Richard Dawson’s boots”

Barba wheels out some of his other unusual works, including plants inside an army medical helmet, an iron stove and a mannequin leg. After the game, it’s revealed that he also made planters out of Anita Gillette’s hat, Gene Rayburn’s derby and Jo Anne Worley’s oversized purse. Barba is the owner of St Marie’s Garden, which he ran from 1971 until 1986 in various Southern California locations.

Special guest Buddy Hackett is posing for a sculptor whose effort is hidden from the panel: “He’s making my head from chopped liver”

Sculptor Jim McNalis normally works in the more traditional medium of clay and is known for his often whimsical busts of famous figures from the worlds of entertainment and politics, some of which are shown here. Hackett, who appeared many times on the original series, is the same loose cannon here, cracking jokes at whatever comes to mind. He even makes a comment about the frogs from the previous show, which had been recorded earlier that same day.

Kirk Alyn from Hollywood: “I was the first Superman”

Alyn played the Man of Steel in two film serials, Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs Superman (1950). Oddly, Alyn’s name does not appear in the credits for either serial. Superman is just billed as 'Superman.' Much like George Reeves who played the role on television in the fifties, Alyn had trouble finding film work after being known as the Man of Steel. The rest of his career consisted primarily of personal appearances and cameos, such as a brief role as Lois Lane’s father in the 1978 Christopher Reeve version of Superman.