Uploaded November 2013 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
John J. Anthony was famous for his TV show where he gave advice to people who appeared anonymously (hence his reference at one point to the commonly used warning on his show, "No names, please!") Billy Pearson is the real highlight of the show, though. He's a very personable jockey who has a side wager going with a couple of his jockey friends on how well he'll do in the quiz (he's trying to make up for a bad run in Vegas).
There was no time for the third couple, so there were only two pairs of contestants in this show.
COUPLE #1: Billy Pearson, a jockey who has a side wager going on how well he'll do in the quiz / Susan Miller
COUPLE #2: John J. Anthony, advice expert / Ros Gelfgren
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
John J. Anthony was famous for his TV show where he gave advice to people who appeared anonymously (hence his reference at one point to the commonly used warning on his show, "No names, please!") Billy Pearson is the real highlight of the show, though. He's a very personable jockey who has a side wager going with a couple of his jockey friends on how well he'll do in the quiz (he's trying to make up for a bad run in Vegas).
There was no time for the third couple, so there were only two pairs of contestants in this show.
COUPLE #1: Billy Pearson, a jockey who has a side wager going on how well he'll do in the quiz / Susan Miller
COUPLE #2: John J. Anthony, advice expert / Ros Gelfgren
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Click here to subscribe to the YBYL channel, where you'll find well over a hundred complete episodes you can't find anywhere else, as well as some rare Burns and Allen material that doesn't really belong there:
youtube.com/channel/UCUIbTdEI7D1AMyLATIdKq5w?sub_confirmation=1
New Facebook group for You Bet Your Life! If you've already been sucked into the Facebook vortex, you might as well check it out, right? facebook.com/groups/1643223392577688/?ref=bookmarks
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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 #59-11 Tor Johnson [Incomplete] (Chair, Dec 3, 1959)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2_XO0_iDPDE/mqdefault.jpg "You Bet Your Life #59-11 Tor Johnson [Incomplete] (Chair, Dec 3, 1959)
For reasons I will never understand, this episode has been impossible to find. Its not a lost show Ed Wood aficionados have apparently been passing this episode around for years but all Ive been able to get my grubby little hands on is this incomplete copy in horrific video quality. Im still grateful to have it, though prior to this, all that was available from this show was a 3 minute clip. At least we get to see (sort of) the full Tor Johnson segment here, including the quiz!
If anyone has a complete and/or better quality copy of this one, please let me know!
COUPLE #1: Gail Van Der Most / Mike Dini [NOT INCLUDED]
COUPLE #2: Tor Johnson / Stassa Damascus
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Episode identification and basic description based on Tell em Groucho Sent You, © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.")
