[quote name=\'SimpsonGeek\' date=\'Mar 17 2004, 04:40 PM\']You Bet Your Life - Set 2 is planned
Posted by Gord Lacey 3/17/2004
TVShowsOnDVD.com reader Richard Wierzbowski recently wrote us to let us know Shout! Factory's plans for their next You Bet Your Life box set slated for release on July 27th, 2004. The first set was titled "The Lost Episodes," and this one is "The Best Episodes." They are trying to get masters for the following 18 episodes:
Debut of secret word duck 12/7/50
Boots Bootsin 4/7/55
Edouard Counard perfume executive 11/10/55
Ray Bradbury 5/24/56
Fanatic female Fenneman fan 4/25/57
Francis X. Bushman 2/6/58
Kuldip Rae Singh, John Guedel (show producer) 9/27/56
Kuldip Rae Singh returns 11/15/56
Organ Grinder with Groucho monkey 11/6/58
Max Schulman 1/8/60
Guedel, Dwan, Meakin 05/21/59
Miss Finland 9/25/58
Rocky Marciano 5/5/60
Rocky Marciano 5/12/60
Daws Butler 5/26/60
Bobby Van, Melinda Marx 5/25/61
Fashion model 4/27/61
Frankie Avalon, Harry Ruby 6/8/61[/quote]
All of those except for the first appearance of the duck are in the "Best of Groucho" package. I would wonder if the original versions with the commercials are still around.
And I suspect the "Guedel, Dwan, Meakin" show is the episode where the female half of the couple was extremely attractive and Groucho did his usual flirting act with her. The couple had chosen the identify-the-song category and they were dealing with the then-recent Doris Day hit "Everybody Loves a Lover." The intro of the original record was a bass/handclap riff that took up the first eight bars of the song (which was the standard number of bars played of a song in the music ID categories). Jack Meakin decided to have the band play it *and* the next eight bars with the melody line. Groucho started to call for the answer after eight bars, but the band kept playing. When they stopped and the couple correctly identified the song, Groucho said "Wait a minute!" and called Meakin out on stage, accusing him of giving the extremely attractive contestant some extra help. Meakin replied that he gave them the extra music because he wanted to follow the record. When Groucho continued to press him, pointing out the beauty of the contestant, Meakin said that Bob Dwan told him to. Dwan was then called out and grilled by Groucho about his intentions. He said that John Guedel told him to. Guedel was then called out by Groucho. His response was, "She's (the contestant's) my mother!" With that, Groucho exclaimed, "Well, that explains everything!" and finally ruled them correct.
Since the quiz was almost always played straight, this is truely an out-of-the-norm moment for "YBYL"--and if it had happened six months later after the breakout of the quiz scandals, NBC would've probably ordered it cut.
