I had the pleasure of meeting June Lockhart at the Hollywood bowl back in the 1970s for the Easter Sunrise service. The following year, I saw her again and she actually remembered my name! An absolute gem of a lady.
I was going to mention Adam Wade on Musical Chairs on CBS during the summer of '75, but you stole my thunder...:-) Any way, while I remember that short-lived program, I did not know that Adam Wade was a lab technician who worked with Jonas Salk, of all people, before the music world called him. Quite a revelation there.
It was great to have Mrs. Lassie and Mrs. Robinson aka June Lockhart on this panel. As I write this,, June is still with us. Age 97 and about 6 months.
Hold on a minute. Number 1 said the moon was 176,000 miles away. Number two was close saying 242,000 miles away. It is 238,900 miles. So number 1 either lied or did not know which is kind of strange.
You are fortunate. I have heard others speak the same of him. He certainly knew how to carry a song to its zenith. Sadly passed in 2022. I wish I had known him.
Landmansid, yes June Lockhart was great on this show. And I appreciated the way she reminded Tom that he interrupted her time, and got in her next question! Does anyone else find Pollywolly irritating? She always takes extra time rambling aimlessly and acting and posing...maybe she was assigned to play the role of "twit"?
Poor greyhound doggies. Born just to run in circles and if they fail to do well they are destroyed. Some dogs are drugged. I want to adopt a couple of them!
Here is something else to think of how small we really are compared to the big picture. It takes light less then 2 seconds to get to the moon. Light would have to travel over 2.5 million years just to get to Andromeda Galaxy and that is the closest one to our own Milky Way. Multiply that by our fastest space craft and you get around 3600 X 2.5 million years. 9000000000 years. We are stuck in our own little Solar System.
The BEST part of watching this show on you tube is that I can skip over listening to Polly Bergens idiotic questions and comments she constantly makes.
Most of the panelists did not now much scientific and basic medical issues, i.e. a normal heart beat...etc..although I still got it wrong! June Lockhart was cute when the bell rang just recording her vote...
She was essential. Her befuddlement and saying aloud what everyone in America was saying in their own living rooms thoroughly endeared her to them and connected viewers with the show.
In the last segment, the real William Henderson incorrectly answered about the distance of the moon from the earth. Actually, the moon is 238,900 miles distant from the earth.
In the space cabin round, how was #1 the real guy if he thought the moon is 376,000 miles away? As he was "sworn to tell the truth," either he really thought that was the distance or he violated that oath, per se, by guessing. {FTC #2 was right: it is close to 240,000 miles mean distance.}
This was an especially “interesting” show considering the truth that has recently come out about NASA--and our falsely so called “space program”! Maranatha!
