Part of this was recently featured in the miniseries “When We Left Earth.”
Bess Myerson was a serious fox.
Heh. Nice clip. I took away the fact that Betsy, whom one in those days assumed was a blond ditz, was the one who got it. She evidently read the papers that week.
Thanks for the memories. Never missed a show.
Great clip! Thanks! It is nice to reminisce about game shows that didn’t feature dramatic music, banks of spotlights, endless repetition, and dapper, insincere hosts. Garry Moore was one of my favorite guys from '50s television. He looked and spoke like a real person, and seemed friendly. It’s great to see all of those panelists again, too. When I saw Betsy Palmer playing the psycho mom in the first Friday the Thirteenth movie, I felt very sad.
Wow, what a prophetic question to ask.
I’m a bit cheered by the enthusiasm of the audience when the secret was revealed. Was that a typical amount of applause or was being an astronaut considered especially special?
Also, I kinda think the X-15 program should have been continued.
That was pretty typical. It wouldn’t have been really any more or less if Bill had been correct, for instance. I think the applause is more because the panel got it than anything else.
No, I mean the applause that runs from 0:57 to 1:07, complete with whistles and such, well before the panel got to work.
Boy, televison was really white back in the day.
Kinda? KINDA?!?!? It was SO much cooler than the chimp in a garbage can missions of Mercury!
ETA: Hell, YEAH, Bess Myerson was hot!
ETA 2: Betsy Palmer, too.
Definitely. Remember that Neil was selected as a member of the second ever group of astronauts. The first group (who were selected for the Mercury program) consisted of just seven astronauts from a pool of over 100 pilots who were tested under extremely secret conditions. The second group consisted of nine. These dudes who serious rock starts in their day.
Absolutely. They were the ones whose public rise to the top showed guys like me had no chance whatsoever. The Mercury 7 were gods, anonymous, when they took the tests, and their level was unattainable. The next group was Humans who attained godhood, and showed that the rest of us would never, EVER, be as good.
It’s one of those “You had to be there” moments. And not in a good way.
Gee, you talk about 'em like they had some kinda… stuff, or something.
Wow, Drew Carrey is a lot older than I thought!
If you think she’s hot there (and frankly, who wouldn’t?), imagine how she must have looked twenty years or so earlier when she won the 1945 Miss America contest.