A couple of years before this program William Bendix had appeared on Mr. Ed sitcom with Alan Young in an undercover pitot for a perspective TV series .
1:28 - William Bendix lost a lot of weight and "felt great" unfortunately because he was suffering from malnutrition due to the stomach ailment which would cause pneumonia which ultimately led to his death the following year in 1964.
This was Jack Benny's 1963 summer replacement [Tuesdays, 9:30pm(et)], for the same sponsors {State Farm Insurance, General Foods [Jell-O, Gravy Train, et. al.]}.
So Pilgrims and Pioneers committed indigenous genocide, colonialists ran slavery and settlers paved over the natural landscapes of an entire continent, so we could come to this: game shows to squelch our boredom and distract the collective bad conscience from thinking too deeply and addressing historic justice.