Making the transformation from radio show to television screen can be problematic for any show, but with Groucho Marx at the helm there was never much doubt that YOU BET YOUR LIFE would be a huge success. This compilation offers highlights from the show, which eventually stretched over an incredible 423 episodes from 1950-1961. 18 episodes are included, providing some hearty belly-laughs, and a document of a classic television show.
“Now it’s time to play You Bet Your Life.”
For 14 years that’s how Groucho Marx concluded his conversations with the 2500 offbeat characters, regular folks and thoroughly unusual people who were contestants on the show. They sang, they danced, they chewed wood and they blew up inner tubes. But when George Fenneman invited them to “come in please, and meet Groucho Marx,” they were immediately relegated to the role of second banana. Even the occasional celebrity guest was merely fodder for the one … the only … GROUCHO!
DISC 1
1. Broadcast Date: May 15, 1958
Filmed: April 1958
Secret Word: table
Episode # 57-34
Guests: Edgar & Candace Bergen, Melinda Marx
2. Broadcast Date: January 19, 1956
Filmed: December 5, 1955
Secret Word: food
Episode # 55-17
Guest: Hoot Gibson
3. Broadcast: June 14, 1956
Filmed: April 25, 1956
Secret Word: room
Episode # 55-38
Guest: Harry Ruby
4. Broadcast Date: October 9, 1958
Filmed: August 1958
Secret Word: grass
Episode # 58-03
Guests: Johnny Weissmuller, Richard Armour
5. Broadcast Date: January 19, 1961
Filmed: March & August 1960
Secret Word: walk
Episode # 60-17
Guest: Writer Mark Harris
6. Broadcast Date: May 11,1961
Filmed: March 1961
Secret Word: house
Episode # 60-31
Guest: Harpo Marx
Bonus Features
The Plot Thickens pilot Filmed 1963
You Bet Your Life “Stag Reel” filmed 1956 – 1957
Rare Marx Brothers Commercial
Outtakes
DISC 2
1. Broadcast Date: March 3, 1955
Filmed: January 19, 1955
Secret Word: money
Episode # 54-25
Guest: Joe Louis
2. Broadcast Date: April 7, 1955
Filmed: February 8, 1955
Secret Word: voice
Episode # 54-30
Guest: Boots Bootzin
3. Broadcast Date: November 10, 1955
Filmed: September 26, 1955
Secret Word: street
Episode # 55-07
Guest: Edouard Cournand
4. Broadcast Date: April 25, 1957
Filmed: March 1957
Secret Word: roof
Episode # 56-31
Contestant: Gal who makes Fenneman blush
5. Broadcast Date: November 6, 1958
Filmed: September 1958
Episode # 58-07
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