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00:00Everyone in this arena has a money stake to one of our famous couples as we play the game of celebrity gossip, Tattletales.
00:15And here's the star of Tattletales, Burt Convey!
00:20Hello, everybody. Welcome to Tattletales. Nice to have you with us today.
00:33See, sometimes the girl in that seat will hand me the microphone, and you didn't.
00:38And so that I wouldn't feel terrible and be rejected, I gave you the microphone and forced a kiss on you.
00:44See, here's what I did. I came out, and the microphone was here.
00:47And I went, oh, my goodness, and then I gave it to you like that. And, oh, thank you.
00:51See, that's the way I do it sometimes.
00:53Then other times I...
00:55You know what I just touched? I thought that was a piece of gum. It's a microphone. I didn't even know that.
00:59So be careful what you say. I mean, you're not offended in any way, are you?
01:02She hasn't said a word yet. I've just completely overpowered.
01:05Welcome. This is Tattletales, in spite of what you might think.
01:08We have some wonderful people in the back who are going to play this game today
01:11and win the people here in our audience a lot of money and have some laughs along the way.
01:14I guarantee that.
01:15Winning money for the blue section today is country singer, Mr. Bill Anderson, and his wife, Becky Anderson.
01:24Winning money today for the banana section, the star of The Man from Atlantis, Mr. Patrick Duffy and his wife, Carlin.
01:34And winning money today for the red section is Alan Ludden and his wife, Betty White.
01:39What's that?
01:46Is that where they keep the questions?
01:48The first question? Yeah.
01:49You never knew that?
01:50I didn't know that.
01:51You mean you would have looked at that if you'd known?
01:52I would have walked by it and glanced down, yeah.
01:54See, no, but it's in here like this and it's folded over.
01:57So even if you walked by, you'd have to get on the floor there to see that.
02:01Well, you can do it now because I'm going to read it to you right now.
02:04Here's the first question, ladies. It's worth $150 to your rooting sections.
02:07If a documentary type of film were made showing exactly how you and your husband met, fell in love, and finally got married, do you think the general public would find it interesting?
02:20Yes or no?
02:22Okay, you got that? Off you go.
02:24How did you meet Becky?
02:26Backstage at a show. She was a groupie.
02:29Did I say that?
02:32Could be true. Is that true?
02:34No, that's not true. I did meet her backstage at a show though.
02:37Yeah. Were you performing?
02:38Yeah. A mutual friend. It was real crazy. I had a friend, a disc jockey, who was like the MC for the show.
02:45And he knew the girl that Becky came to the show with. So the four of us got together and had dinner after the show and so forth.
02:53I think that's kind of interesting because I think a lot of people, I think they come to shows to see...
03:00They come to see Burt Convy and they fantasize about going home as Burt Convy's wife some day.
03:07I'm sorry. They don't do that now. I'm a married person.
03:09Oh, I see.
03:10People just come to say hello.
03:11What are you getting that girl's number for there?
03:13What?
03:14Oh, never mind.
03:15So I'm supposed to say if I think that that particular incident...
03:18No, but you were following a story there. She came to see you in the show.
03:21Yeah, she came to see me at a show.
03:22Yeah.
03:23Bought a ticket.
03:24Bought a ticket.
03:25And you've been paying for it ever since, haven't you, Bill?
03:28All right.
03:29Do you think it would make an interesting film?
03:31I think it would be.
03:32Of course, it's been done probably, hasn't it?
03:33By people coming to the show and seeing people.
03:35What do you think?
03:36What do you think?
03:37I don't know.
03:38What does the blue section think?
03:39Well, I'm asking Becky, too, remember that.
03:40I don't know. Does the blue section think I should say?
03:42Yes.
03:43Yes.
03:44You'd all go to see it?
03:46It's called Star Wars.
03:49It's what it's been ever since.
03:51Okay, we'll say yes.
03:52You'll say yes.
03:53Okay, here she comes.
03:54It is.
03:55It's a good story.
03:56Becky, you making a film of how you met and fell in love and married Bill.
04:03Making a film out of that.
04:04Do you think that would be an interesting film that the public would want to see?
04:07Do they have X-rated documentaries?
04:10X-rated documentaries?
04:11You mean it was X-rated?
04:12Oh.
04:13Well, I don't know.
04:15I think probably, yes.
04:17That's right.
04:18That's what he said.
04:20Absolutely right.
04:21I mean, Bill told us the story, and it's a charming story.
04:23I think it's great.
04:24Oh, I can't wait to hear it.
04:25Patrick, what would Carla say?
04:26She'd say, I'm sure she'd say yes, because we met, she's a ballerina, and we met touring
04:41her company.
04:42And I used to watch her dance around all the time and get all hot under the collar.
04:46And finally, we started seeing each other and dating.
04:48And it was a long, torrid sort of story that make great either movie or soap opera.
04:54Yeah.
04:55One or the other.
04:56Great story.
04:57I think a lot of people come to see it.
04:58You were touring the country together?
04:59You were working together?
05:00Yeah.
05:01I was narrating her ballet's performance, her ballet company's performances.
05:04Really?
05:05Yeah.
05:06Long, involved story.
05:07So you met on the stage as well?
05:08Yeah.
05:09Really?
05:10Yeah.
05:11I sort of grew on her.
05:12Well, it's because...
05:13I never let her rest.
05:14I was always there.
05:15It's because you were always damp.
05:16I mean, anybody who's got sweaty palms and wet all the time, you know.
05:19Okay.
05:20You say, sure.
05:21Sure.
05:22I think you would call it the red shoes returns.
05:24Turning stomach.
05:25Turning point.
05:26Here she comes.
05:28What do you think, Carlin?
05:29If they made a documentary film out of the way you and Patrick met and fell in love and
05:32got married, do you think that would be a film the public would be interested in seeing?
05:35Oh, absolutely.
05:36I mean, it was just incredible.
05:38We had a million obstacles.
05:40That's right.
05:41He didn't say a million obstacles, but he agreed to you.
05:45A million...
05:48A million obstacles, Carlin?
05:49It was so improbable that we would ever, ever have gotten together and we went to struggle
05:53through a lot of things against the backdrop of a touring ballet company and it's really
05:57romantic.
05:58It is.
05:59It's a good story.
06:00Oh, yeah.
06:01I like hearing about it now.
06:02We'd like to do a part of it now for you.
06:03Because we have a man sitting next to you who can't wait to tell us about his movie.
06:06How was it that you and Betty fell in love and got married and all of that?
06:11How did you meet, first of all?
06:13Well, actually, I met Betty first on Password.
06:15Oh, that's where you met for the first time.
06:17Yes.
06:18She was a celebrity on Password.
06:19The very earliest, one of their earliest, what about the third or fourth week of Password
06:24in 1961.
06:25Oh, my God.
06:26And then that summer I was going to do a play and I didn't want to do it alone.
06:31And they said, what if we get Betty White?
06:33And I said, if you can get Betty White, I'll do the play.
06:36So they got Betty White to do it and I came out here and met her really for the first time.
06:40And we had a little very business-like date and then we got to do a play.
06:44I think it might be relatively interesting, more soap opera than documentary.
06:48Two middle-aged people fall in love and that sort of thing.
06:53I think as just as things go, it may not be quite as colorful as this, but in our own way,
07:01we had a few obstacles.
07:03Double.
07:04All right.
07:05Yeah, I think she'll say yes.
07:07Absolutely.
07:08And you know how wrong I am so often.
07:10No, I'd pay a dollar and a quarter to see it any time.
07:12Here she comes.
07:14Betty, what do you think?
07:15The way you met Alan and fell in love with him and got married,
07:18do you think that that would make an interesting film?
07:20The public might want to see that?
07:22Well, in all honesty, if you like a year in the life of a dumb, stubborn lady
07:28and a single-minded, good salesman, I think they might find it fun.
07:33That's what the man said.
07:34You got it.
07:35Everybody got it.
07:36We have three nice PG films to see here.
07:39Let's split that first one three ways.
07:40Not PG, yes.
07:41We'll be back in a moment with question number two, which probably won't be PG.
07:45Hang on.
07:49Here we go.
07:50Question number two coming up.
07:51This is it.
07:52Everybody's got some money already, so we're all friends.
07:54Ladies, when you're hoping something will happen, do you ever cross your fingers?
07:58Yes or no?
07:59Do you ever do that?
08:00Off you go.
08:01I guess the basic question is, is she superstitious?
08:04But does it take the form of crossing fingers ever, Patrick, in Carlin's case?
08:08I'll say no.
08:09No?
08:10No.
08:11Oh, don't like that.
08:12I have my reasons.
08:13Yeah, wait.
08:14Give the man a chance here.
08:15No.
08:16I don't.
08:17She doesn't cross her fingers.
08:18We have a form of meditation, which is our religion, everything that we do.
08:22And we sort of make causes for things to happen.
08:23And crossing your fingers wasn't one of them.
08:24So I think she'll say no.
08:25Okay.
08:26Does she have any compulsions?
08:27Do you have any compulsions of any kind?
08:28Oh, you mean superstitious compulsions?
08:29Or little habits or little things you do?
08:30Oh, yeah.
08:31All the time.
08:32I mean, I think I'm more out of formality.
08:33If you're with somebody, you knock on wood to show that you're sincere about wanting something
08:35to happen or something, but not a real, I mean, it's not like I really believe
08:50in things like that.
08:51Yeah.
08:52Or whistling backstage or all those things.
08:53Oh, right.
08:54You don't have any of those and she doesn't either.
08:56Uh-uh.
08:57Okay.
08:58The answer is no.
08:59I have to do this though to make sure that we win.
09:00Yeah.
09:01Fine.
09:02That's what I was striving at then.
09:03Yeah.
09:04I have a million of them.
09:06In fact, I have so many, I can't get through the day.
09:08Is your head all right there?
09:09I don't know.
09:10It wasn't worth the little laugh of God, I'll tell you that.
09:13Well, next time pound it on the box there in front of you.
09:16That'll probably work better.
09:17Here she comes.
09:18Carlin, when you're hoping something will happen, do you ever cross your fingers?
09:21No, I don't.
09:22I chant instead.
09:23That's it.
09:24Works a lot better than crossing your fingers.
09:25It does, yes?
09:26Oh, yeah.
09:27I hope so because I cross my fingers nothing.
09:28I was crossing my fingers and she'd answer it right that time.
09:41He had his legs crossed all the time.
09:43We couldn't tell.
09:44Alan, what about Betty?
09:45What was he saying?
09:46Listen, have you ever heard of the idea that if you leave the house and you have forgotten
09:49something you have to go back in the house to get it?
09:51You've done that, I'm sure.
09:52If I go back in the house to get it because I always forget something, I have to sit down
09:56and count 10.
09:57She's taught me to do that and it's so important to her that I find myself doing when she's not
10:02there to catch me.
10:03I don't believe in it but she does.
10:04Is that a superstition?
10:05Yeah.
10:06I never heard of it but it's very important in our house.
10:07What does it mean?
10:08We have to walk with pillars between us.
10:09We have to walk around and if we do something's taller, we have to say bread and butter.
10:13The answer to the question is she is so superstitious she's made an idiot out of me.
10:18I'm doing this.
10:20She's made me do the same thing and I don't even believe it.
10:23You don't even care.
10:24But yes, she crosses her fingers and everything.
10:27Absolutely.
10:28Does she throw salt over her shoulder?
10:29Oh yes and says all those things and jumps up and down and stunts.
10:32Oh really?
10:33But it's coming back and sitting down and counting 10 that makes me, I feel so silly when I do
10:38it and she's not even there to catch me.
10:40But does counting 10 mean that?
10:41I don't know what it means.
10:43Well let's find out.
10:44Let's see what she says.
10:45Don't say anything.
10:46Here comes Betty.
10:47Betty, do you ever, when you want something to happen, cross your fingers?
10:51If I really want something to happen, I'll cross anything I can.
10:54It doesn't always work.
10:55That's right.
10:56That's what the man is saying.
10:57I do have to ask a question if you're in the red section.
10:59Ask her.
11:00I am.
11:01Betty, Alan says that when he leaves the house and forgets something, he
11:06has to come back in the house and sit down and count to 10 and he has no idea why he
11:10has to do that.
11:11Why does he have to do that?
11:12Well, a person must.
11:14Oh.
11:15You see?
11:17Why?
11:18Because something terrible will transpire if you don't.
11:22Oh, I wish you hadn't told me that.
11:24Now I'll have to do it.
11:25You certainly will.
11:26And I don't want to.
11:27Now wait a minute.
11:28Where did that one come from?
11:29I never heard of that one.
11:30Her Aunt Emma.
11:31No, not my Aunt Emma.
11:32My, it's been passed down for generations in our family.
11:35Oh, it's in your family?
11:36Yes.
11:37Oh, thank God it's not in my family.
11:38It's in.
11:39Because I'll never get any place.
11:40I forget something every time I leave.
11:42But the counting to 10, is that, is that, what does that mean?
11:45Well, it's like if you put your underwear on inside out by accident, you have to count
11:48to 12 as you turn it right side out or else you'll change your luck for the day.
11:52Now thank goodness she's never told me that.
11:55He never let me see you put on your underwear.
11:58And if you don't wear any underwear.
12:00And if you leave the house without your underwear, you gotta count to 22.
12:03Yeah.
12:07Thank you, Betty.
12:08Bill, what will Becky say?
12:09You think she's a little weird?
12:10No, nonsense.
12:11Not at all.
12:12There's no way I can top either of these stories.
12:15I am the more superstitious of us.
12:18You know, step on a crack and break your mama's back.
12:20You know.
12:21Oh, now that's totally true.
12:22Yeah, I can tell.
12:23And I knock on wood and I cross my fingers and this kind of thing.
12:28I've really never noticed her doing it, but I'm gonna go on a hunch and say that she's
12:32gonna say yes.
12:33She has crossed her fingers.
12:34I've never really noticed it, but I think she...
12:38I do, really.
12:39I do all the time, but I'm gonna say she's gonna say yes.
12:41All right.
12:42Here she comes.
12:43We'll find out, won't we?
12:44Becky, what about that?
12:45Have you, when you wish something would happen or hoping it would happen, do you ever cross
12:49your fingers?
12:50Sure.
12:51That's right.
12:52Anybody got that?
12:53We had two yeses and a no, but everybody's right.
12:55A three-way tie at halftime.
12:56Gentlemen, step to the rear.
12:57The ladies will be out here in a moment.
12:59And we'll continue with the second half of Time of Air by Hope.
13:06Off we go.
13:07We've changed places after halftime.
13:09We have a three-way tie.
13:10You've been doing that a lot, you know, the last few days.
13:12We've had ties right up until the end, which is good, you know?
13:15We'll lose it, yeah.
13:16This one's worth $150, fellas.
13:17Listen.
13:18Oh, this will be good.
13:20Has your wife ever told you that she could have married another man instead of you?
13:25Yes or no?
13:26Did she ever tell you that?
13:28Goodbye.
13:29Betty, did you ever tell Alan, well, if I'd have married what's-his-name, or I could
13:36have married what's-his-name, you know?
13:37I don't think I've ever said it in that context.
13:40No.
13:41I don't think, no.
13:42I really, I think...
13:43Or you may have, no, I don't want to read the context into it.
13:45It may have possibly been, you know, before I married you, I was going, what's-his-name,
13:49and I could have married him.
13:50Yes, Robert Redford just would not stop.
13:52Oh, oh.
13:53See, I hit the right context, didn't I?
13:55No, I don't think so.
13:56No?
13:57Uh-uh.
13:58You never told him that?
13:59I don't think I ever said it.
14:00Could you have married someone else?
14:01No.
14:02Oh.
14:05No, nobody cared.
14:07Okay.
14:08You'll say, you never told him.
14:10Here he comes.
14:11Has Betty ever told you she could have married somebody else instead of you?
14:15Well, I don't understand the question.
14:16Oh, well, I'll say it again.
14:18I mean, she could have.
14:20Of course she could.
14:21There was another guy trying to talk her into it, and I tried to talk her into it.
14:24Yeah.
14:25So I, being fully aware of the fact that she could have, there had never been a need for
14:29her to tell me.
14:30And if you mean, has she ever thrown it up to me in a peak that I could have married somebody
14:35else instead of you?
14:36No, she's never thrown it up to me.
14:37You're right both ways.
14:38She didn't throw it up in a fit of peak or know that she ever feel the need to tell you.
14:43Right.
14:44You're right twice.
14:45The money stays the same, Ellen, but you're-
14:46That's a rare thing for me to be right once.
14:48Yes.
14:49You should save one of those up.
14:50Yeah.
14:51Becky, what will Bill say?
14:52I have this problem.
14:53Oh.
14:54Well, would you like to tell me about it?
14:55Yes.
14:56You know, Bill-
14:57Will you whisper?
14:58Bill imagines things.
14:59Oh, he imagines things, doesn't he?
15:00He thinks that I say things.
15:01He thinks?
15:02And he thinks that I do things that I don't do.
15:05I have that same problem, you know?
15:07Yeah.
15:08He keeps thinking I do things that I don't do.
15:10Yeah.
15:11Bird.
15:12What?
15:13I do the Liars Club, not you.
15:14No, no.
15:15I wouldn't.
15:16Well, what is the problem?
15:17Well, he just has these preconceived notions.
15:21Yeah.
15:22So, I don't know what-
15:23He may be sitting back there thinking I say that every day.
15:25Have you ever said that to him?
15:26I don't think I've ever said that to him.
15:28Could you have married somebody else when setting him?
15:30Sure.
15:31Sure.
15:32Sure.
15:33Why not?
15:34Why not?
15:35But you never said that to him, right?
15:36You know, who knows what he may say?
15:37Yeah.
15:38Really.
15:39You know how he is.
15:40He's crazy.
15:41You know what I mean?
15:42They're all alike.
15:43Right.
15:44I know.
15:45Okay.
15:46Here he comes.
15:47The answer is no.
15:49Bill, has Becky ever told you-
15:52Matt.
15:53Are you there?
15:54They were playing the greatest bluegrass banjo picking in the-
15:57Oh, well, you want to go back and listen some-
15:59The first decent record they've played in days.
16:02We'll come back to later, Bill, if you'd like.
16:04That's all right.
16:05Uh, okay.
16:06Good.
16:07Where were we?
16:08Has Becky ever told you that she could have married another man instead of you?
16:10No.
16:11That's right.
16:12That's what she said.
16:13See?
16:14You misjudged him.
16:15He remembered.
16:16Carlin, what about Patrick?
16:18Have you ever told Patrick that?
16:20No, I haven't.
16:21Ever.
16:22Yeah.
16:23You have never-
16:24I wasn't even looking for him when I met him.
16:26That's right.
16:27We've established that.
16:28All right.
16:29The answer is no.
16:30Here he comes.
16:31Patrick, did Carlin ever tell you she could have married another man instead of you?
16:33She did.
16:34What?
16:35She was married before.
16:36So I'd have to say, I'd have to stick with it and say that she did marry somebody other
16:39than me.
16:40Oh, I see.
16:41It wasn't technically what we said, but you have to, you want to go with that.
16:45You really have to now, I guess.
16:46Yeah.
16:47I heard the audience go boom, but I think that's what my real answer was.
16:49Yeah.
16:50No, thank you for not changing your answer.
16:51That's very decent of you, sir.
16:52But then after all.
16:53Yeah, but we still lost.
16:54Yeah.
16:55It's the last time I'm going to be honest.
16:56But you're a righteous loser.
16:57Becky and Bill and Betty and Alan are right.
16:58They split that money in half.
16:59Still got time for the bananas, Patrick.
17:01We'll come back with a $300 question in a minute.
17:03And you'll come back soon.
17:04See you soon.
17:05Here we go.
17:09This one's worth $300.
17:10As you can see, anybody can win, truly.
17:12It's very, very close.
17:13Listen, fellas.
17:14What are you more aware of?
17:15And that's the word.
17:16What are you more aware of?
17:18Your capabilities or your liabilities?
17:21What are you more aware of?
17:23Okay?
17:24Off you go.
17:25What?
17:26What did I say?
17:28Oh, throw that away.
17:30Don't listen to what I just said.
17:31I don't know where I got that.
17:32What are you more aware of?
17:34Your capabilities or your limitations?
17:36What did I say?
17:37Liabilities.
17:38Liabilities.
17:39And I was going to ask for a definition.
17:40It sounded fine to me, Bert.
17:41It's hardly the opposite of capabilities, is it?
17:43Anything you want to tell us, Bert?
17:45I've got some liabilities.
17:46Now, what is it, Bert?
17:47Wait.
17:48The question is this.
17:49Erase everything.
17:50What are you more aware of?
17:51Your capabilities or your limitations?
17:54That's the question.
17:55Goodbye.
17:56Same thing.
17:57Almost.
17:58And now we have no time for answers.
17:59Carlin, what will Patrick say?
18:01He's so positive.
18:02He really sees his capabilities.
18:03Capabilities.
18:04Yeah.
18:05Capabilities.
18:06That's the answer, and here he comes.
18:07Don't say a word, bananas.
18:08Patrick, what are you more aware of?
18:10Your capabilities or your limitations?
18:12Well, I don't think I've ever heard one Irishman talk to another Irishman about any limitations,
18:18so I'd have to say capabilities.
18:19You got it.
18:20That's it.
18:21Absolutely right, sir.
18:22Now, see you right back in the thick of things.
18:24Becky, what will Bill say?
18:25Oh, dear.
18:26I thought you were going to...
18:27We fooled you, didn't we?
18:28Yeah, you did.
18:29He's really aware of...
18:30Really and truly, he's very aware of both, but...
18:31You had to pick one.
18:32Capabilities.
18:33More aware of his capabilities than his limitations.
18:34Hope.
18:35Hope.
18:36Okay, here he comes.
18:37It's an interesting question.
18:38I wish we had more time.
18:39I wish I could read it right.
18:40Hello there, Bill.
18:41What are you more aware of?
18:42Your capabilities or your limitations?
18:43I think in our business you really have to be pretty aware of both and I am very aware
18:48of both.
18:49I think there was a time when I would have said my limitations, but I'm going to say my capabilities.
18:53aware of, your capabilities or your limitations? I think in our business, you really have to be
19:00pretty aware of both. And I am very aware of both. I think there was a time when I would have said
19:06my limitations, but I'm going to say my capabilities. That's the one. You got it.
19:15Thank you, Bill. Well, this one decided, Betty. Right down to the wire here, as always.
19:20It's a toughie because he just hit the nail on the head when he said, in this business,
19:24it's terribly important that you know your capabilities. But I still think Alan's going
19:28to say limitations. Really? Because that's important, too, to know where you should go.
19:33And that means you should know both, exactly. But you'll say he will take this and go with
19:38limitations. I would say so. All right. Here he comes. We'll find out. Alan, this will decide it.
19:44This is it right here. And it so often is on the very last answer. What are you more aware of,
19:48your capabilities or your limitations? Well, I'm essentially a pretty positive guy, I think.
19:55And if aware means, do I dwell more on my limitations than on my capabilities? Am I...
20:03No, I think I am more aware, in the sense that I think you're using it, of my capabilities.
20:08No, Betty said you would say limitations. That's interesting. It works both ways, truly.
20:13However, Becky and Bill and Carlin and Patrick are right. They split the $300, but time is up and the blue section wins it.
20:19We will return in just a moment to give the blue section all their money.
20:28And they don't...
20:29The blue section with Becky and Bill did it today. $325. We had a thousand. They will divide $1,325 in the blue section.
20:38Thank you, everybody. You were nice and splendid. And so were you. And thank you for watching us right here on Tattletales.
20:42We'll see you next time. Bye.
20:44This is Gene Wood speaking for Tattletales. A Mark Goodson, Bill Codman production.
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