Uploaded October 2013 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
In the quiz segment for couple #2, they miss a question whose answer was the Marx Brothers' "A Night at the Opera", guessing instead "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". Groucho looks none too pleased by *that*!
Interestingly, in the radio version of this episode, the kid from couple #1, Ben Zeppa, sings "You Gotta Have Heart" from "Damn Yankees", but the TV version here omits it entirely (and this is not due to syndication editing-- this episode comes from an uncut 16mm source film. Note the bumpers that read "Commercial Here").
COUPLE #1: Ben Zeppa, 13 year-old kid / Sylvia Thompson, member of the Tip-Top club (for tall people)
COUPLE #2: Pearl Money, from the South / Robert McLeod, Scotsman
COUPLE #3: Pancho Gonzalez, top ranking tennis player (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Gonzales) / Binnie Dick, pancake racer. Groucho is quite surprised by the coincidence of both Binnie Dick and Ben Zeppa being from Liberal, Kansas.
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
In the quiz segment for couple #2, they miss a question whose answer was the Marx Brothers' "A Night at the Opera", guessing instead "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". Groucho looks none too pleased by *that*!
Interestingly, in the radio version of this episode, the kid from couple #1, Ben Zeppa, sings "You Gotta Have Heart" from "Damn Yankees", but the TV version here omits it entirely (and this is not due to syndication editing-- this episode comes from an uncut 16mm source film. Note the bumpers that read "Commercial Here").
COUPLE #1: Ben Zeppa, 13 year-old kid / Sylvia Thompson, member of the Tip-Top club (for tall people)
COUPLE #2: Pearl Money, from the South / Robert McLeod, Scotsman
COUPLE #3: Pancho Gonzalez, top ranking tennis player (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Gonzales) / Binnie Dick, pancake racer. Groucho is quite surprised by the coincidence of both Binnie Dick and Ben Zeppa being from Liberal, Kansas.
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
![You Bet Your Life #54-11 Groucho does modern dance (Secret word Table, Nov 25, 1954) [partial]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zBuhiDjJVFo/mqdefault.jpg "You Bet Your Life #54-11 Groucho does modern dance (Secret word Table, Nov 25, 1954) [partial]
Note: The first half of this program is missing, but the highlight here is too good to not post the fragment: Groucho hilariously joins in on a modern dance demonstration by one of the contestants, @ 8:00. Its like seeing Groucho briefly overtaken by the old spirit of Captain Spaulding himself.
COUPLE #1 [missing]: Howard Lindenmeyer / Ellen Waring
COUPLE #2: Game warden / Mrs. Howard Owens, house mother for college boys
COUPLE #3: Ivan Kirov, dance instructor, who does the above-mentioned dance demonstration / Barbara Tominson, adagio artist at Muscle Beach
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Episode identification and basic description based on Tell em Groucho Sent You, © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.")
