Uploaded November 2013 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Because Groucho spent the whole previous week's show talking to Esther Bradley, there was no time for any of the other couples. As a result, Esther and her partner Joe, along with Pat Hunt (the young soldier who filled in for her in the quiz) return to compete against this week's other couples.
Groucho does a little bit of dancing with Mama Schwartz around 3:00.
COUPLE #1: Helen "Mama" Schwartz / Isaac Kashdan, international grand master chess player
COUPLE #2: Rose Westlake, who performs under the name of "Fifi the Sheep-headed Girl", and demonstrates where the name comes from by removing her hat / Miguel Pinell, from Nicaragua
COUPLE #3: Esther Bradley / Joe Egbert / Pat Hunt return.
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
Because Groucho spent the whole previous week's show talking to Esther Bradley, there was no time for any of the other couples. As a result, Esther and her partner Joe, along with Pat Hunt (the young soldier who filled in for her in the quiz) return to compete against this week's other couples.
Groucho does a little bit of dancing with Mama Schwartz around 3:00.
COUPLE #1: Helen "Mama" Schwartz / Isaac Kashdan, international grand master chess player
COUPLE #2: Rose Westlake, who performs under the name of "Fifi the Sheep-headed Girl", and demonstrates where the name comes from by removing her hat / Miguel Pinell, from Nicaragua
COUPLE #3: Esther Bradley / Joe Egbert / Pat Hunt return.
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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 #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.")
