A book could be written about everything behind the scenes.

Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

Field Trips

This actor was probably B+ list at his prime as far as acting went.

He was probably an A list celebrity at his peak though because of his almost daily (well weekday) appearances on multiple television shows.

One of those shows was basically a drunken mob of celebrities who would spend all day getting progressively more drunk while in front of the cameras playing a very easy game which required very little actual thought. A book could be written about everything behind the scenes.

I am just focusing on one person right now.

He would run into some parent with a tween boy at a grocery store and strike up a conversation and the whole point was to find out what school the boy went to.

He then would start talking about getting the boy’s class invited to the show for a field trip.

The school would invariably say yes and then with the one teacher and a couple of parents star struck and also drinking, the actor would find some boy he found attractive and take him back to his dressing room where he might give him some booze or a pill and then molest the boy or have the boy touch him.

This happened dozens of times and the show knew it was happening but didn’t want to do anything about one of the main attractions of the show.

Charles Nelson Reilly

Match Game

Filling in the Blanks on a Staple of Daytime

You couldn’t say urinate. The word was “tinkle.” You couldn’t say fornicate. The phrase, naturally, was “make whoopee.”

Such were the strict language codes of “Match Game,” the ribald game show of 30 years ago that introduced American housewives and children — anyone home in the afternoons — to the inscrutable stylings of Charles Nelson Reilly.

The snickering, lascivious ways the regulars interacted — always hinting that the others were more depraved or druggy than they admitted — was more than a little scary to a kid. It was certainly a direct counterpoint to the after-school parables elsewhere on television. I now see that the show wasn’t planned that way. Mark Goodson’s original idea was for a kind of guess-what-I’m-thinking show that would take advantage of that era’s love of thought experiments; that soon proved boring, and matches were not frequent enough. Someone suggested turning to bluer material, or at least hinting at blueness, and the rest is history.

In “Match Game” clues, Ed was always freezing his blank off; Susie always needed to find a guy who could blank in five minutes; Pete loved girls who had gigantic blanks. The giggles these blanks got from the audience were so sure-fire it seemed the show could never fail, though fail it eventually did — partly because nothing gold can stay, and partly because it lost the (loved and hated) star who gave it ballast, and a dash of seriousness: Richard Dawson. – Source