There was an incident on Hot Potato during the bonus round where a trio of Coast Guardsmen were asked where Boot Hill cemetery was. (They had answered four straight questions, then passed on the next one, which they were allowed to do.) They were given a choice of Dodge City (Kansas) and Tombstone (Arizona), then they answered Tombstone and were called wrong, thus losing the $15,000 they were playing for. I was watching that show and had a feeling the show screwed up. I looked in my family's road atlas that was there at the time, and found out that yes, there was a Boot Hill in Dodge City, but there was also a Boot Hill in Tombstone as well, so the show did indeed screw up. Later, I called Barry & Enright, the show's production company, from a pay phone, and found out that they essentially knew about the mistake, and that host Bill Cullen would give an apology a few days later, but when the time came, or close to it, there appeared a message on one of those shows that said, "This week's shows are being aired out of sequence." NBC must have been embarrassed to air such a show. I told this story to Adam Nedeff in 2002 after seeing his tape collection list that included (as I noticed at the time) the mistake episode, and he was kind enough to send me that episode, and the show that had Cullen's subsequent apology.
