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SPECIAL NOTE: PER GIL FATES ORIGINAL SHOW LOGS, COPIES OF WHICH I HAVE IN MY POSSESSION, THIS EPISODE WAS PRERECORDED ON NOVEMBER 3, 1963, WHICH WAS PRIOR TO THE DEATH OF JOHN F. KENNEDY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LOOK FOR ANY "SIGNS OF SADNESS" FROM JOHN DALY OR THE PANEL REGARDING JFK EVENTS. THANK YOU, SUZANNE ASTORINO
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''Game 1: Colonel Harland Sanders (9/9/1890 - 12/16/1980) - "Head of Southern Fried Chicken Company" (self-employed; originally from Henryville, Indiana; now from Shelbyville, KY; see more notes below)
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''Game 2: Miss Paula Murphy - "Automobile Test Driver, Set New Women's Speed Record" (salaried; she drove at an average speed of 161.29 mph in a Studebaker Avanti at the Bonneville Salt Flats; from Granada Hills, CA)
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''Game 3: Alan King (12/26/1927 - 5/9/2004) (as Mystery Guest)
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''Game 4: Miss Shirlee Hirschberg - "Truant Officer" (salaried; she stated the correct title of her job is "attendance teacher"; this game causes John to joke that Bennett was a truant as a child, and Bennett is visibly upset at John's joke; from New York, NY)''.''.moreless
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''Game 1: Colonel Harland Sanders (9/9/1890 - 12/16/1980) - "Head of Southern Fried Chicken Company" (self-employed; originally from Henryville, Indiana; now from Shelbyville, KY; see more notes below)
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''Game 2: Miss Paula Murphy - "Automobile Test Driver, Set New Women's Speed Record" (salaried; she drove at an average speed of 161.29 mph in a Studebaker Avanti at the Bonneville Salt Flats; from Granada Hills, CA)
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''Game 3: Alan King (12/26/1927 - 5/9/2004) (as Mystery Guest)
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''Game 4: Miss Shirlee Hirschberg - "Truant Officer" (salaried; she stated the correct title of her job is "attendance teacher"; this game causes John to joke that Bennett was a truant as a child, and Bennett is visibly upset at John's joke; from New York, NY)''.''.moreless
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ADD NOTES- REVIEW: This looked as if it was going to be one of those nights that the panel would have wished to have stayed home. However, with correct guesses in the mystery guest round and the final game, the panel was able to end the night on a happy note. In the first game, the panel failed to guess that Col. Harland Sanders was a southern fried chicken magnate. Of course, this was long before the good colonel and his Kentucky Fried Chicken empire became staples of the American dinner table. In the second game, the panel was so far off-track, pun intended, that John flipped the cards before they could figure out that she was a lady automobile test driver. In the mystery guest round, Martin correctly identified frequent guest panelist Alan King. Of course, it was probably made a lot easier when Bennett asked if Alan ever graced the panel with his presence. Alan was on the show to promote his upcoming appearance at the Empire Room as well as his plans for a proposed pilot for a new television series. In the final game, Dorothy closed the evening in style by correctly guessing that the contestant was a truant officer (or as the guest termed it, attendance teacher). That definitely helped to put a nice capper on the evening. Even though we know that this episode was taped prior to JFK's death, tonight's delightful show might have helped to ease the American mood after what happened in Dallas two weeks earlier. - Sargebri Edit
- WENDY'S: Interestingly, one of Col. Sanders' franchisees would later go on to enormous success. Dave Thomas was a former KFC franchise owner and he took what he learned from the good colonel and used it to build up one of the most successful fast food chains in history, Wendy's. - Sargebri KFC: As was mentioned in another post, Colonel Sanders would later appear on the syndicated version of WML as a full-fledged mystery guest. However, a year after the Colonel's appearance on this episode, he sold his burgeoning empire to a group of investors, including John Y. Brown Jr., who later was governor of Kentucky from 1980 to 1984. As Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation, the company was built into a multi-billion dollar empire. However, Brown was smart and kept the Colonel as the face of the company. Brown would later become a U.S. Senator representing Kentucky and was married to former Miss America, and CBS football hostess, Phyllis George. Also, Brown would later sell off his interest in KFC and eventually went into partnership with singer Kenny Rogers to start up a successful chain of wood-roasted chicken restaurants called Kenny Rogers Roasters. - Sargebri Edit
- MORE COLONEL SANDERS GAME SHOW APPEARANCES: Col. Sanders also made an appearance on Goodson-Todman's "I've Got a Secret." Before his game began, he showed off the multi-million dollar check (or more likely a facsimile of same) that he had received for selling the rights to the "Kentucky Fried Chicken" name and the KFC cooking process. His "IGaS" secret was that he had started his business at age 65 with his first Social Security check of $105. - Garrison Skunk Edit
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ADD QUOTES- During his What's My Line? appearance, we saw a little of the Colonel's determination to promote what he saw as an outstanding product. He worked in all of the following comments (and more) in a little under one minute, sometimes without even stopping to take a breath. - Lee McIntyre Colonel Harland Sanders: You never heard of finger-lickin' good Kentucky Fried Chicken? Kentucky Fried Chicken is different than ordinary fried chicken. There's eleven different spices and herbs and a patented method of frying. We have over 900 outlets, all the way from Honolulu to Black Pool in London and Manchester England, all across the continent, all selling... And wherever you see a picture of this mug of mine, you know you're going to get good food -- at least good chicken! Edit
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