This is the same Dick Curtis who played a game show host (of all things) on an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show where Laura discloses that Alan Brady is actually bald.
And the same Dick Curtis who was the voice of Motor Mouse in the Motor Mouse and Auto Cat cartoon segment of the 1969-1970 Hanna-Barbera Catanooga Cats cartoon series?
Yeah, "Johnny Patrick"- the "rat" who hosts "PAY AS YOU GO", and gets contestants to say embarrassing things about their families, friends and acquaintances. "Do you mean that Alan Brady is really *BALD???"* "No!"" "Then why does he wear a toupee?" "Well........" "That's it, ladies, the secret's out! She knows, and she SAID it!!! How about that, folks?" 😁
I know a lady who won on the old version of this show. Her son was born with a heart condition - they said he would not live for long. She did her best with him and he lived to be about 35 years old.
This revival of "QFAD" lasted but one season (1969-70) and the queen was determined by audience vote. The 1950s Jack Bailey version had an on-screen applause meter, whichever contestant received the most applause was declared queen.
Given the "lovely wardrobe" chosen by the Fashion Expert, was the Queen really a winner after all? Queen for a day, but fashion victim for a years to come.
Drag Queen for a Day was never green-lit by the network. It featured crossdressing husbands (complete with prom corsages) whining about their lives to a television audience. A missed opportunity, if you ask me.
Jack Bailey hosted the original "Queen For A Day" during the mid 1950s (1955-64). Art Linkletter hosted "People Are Funny" (1954-61) and his self-titled "House Party" (1952-69) .
