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1. Forget that overbearing Dr. Phil. The nineteen seventies talk show psychologist niche belonged to a soft-spoken, well-mannered, sensible shoe-wearing woman whose pop culture resume also included cameos on everything from sitcoms to soap operas. Who was this mellow matriarch of the seventies talk show circuit?
2. Every decade has its sex symbols, but one of the best-known nineteen seventies sex symbols could also play a mean classical guitar. What was the name of this blonde, Spanish-accented, much-parodied icon of the seventies talk show circuit?
3. Interest in the paranormal was strong in the seventies, resulting in a steady stream of "psychic" guests making the rounds of the talk show circuit. One of the most ubiquitous was Uri Gellar, whose special talent was his ability to bend common household items using the power of his mind. Which common household item did Mr. Gellar most often use to display his telekinetic abilities?
4. Nineteen seventies talk shows were a politically correct-free zone. In keeping with that spirit, "Tonight Show": viewers hardly batted an eye when Johnny Carson told a famously buxom female guest that he would love to "take a peek" under her top. Who was the recipient of Mr. Carson's unabashed interest in late night cleavage ogling?
5. As bizarre as it may seem now, back in nineteen-seventy-two, John Lennon and Yoko Ono once co-hosted an afternoon talk show for an entire week, chatting up a succession of guests that included John's boyhood idol, Chuck Berry. What talk show did the legendary couple co-host?
6. Some performers that we now consider "established" and even "legendary" were virtual unknowns when they were making the rounds of the nineteen-seventies talk show circuit. One such performer was Suzanne Somers, whose first appearance on "The Tonight Show" had nothing to do with her acting ability. What non-acting achievement did Ms. Somers promote during her debut as a "Tonight Show" guest?
7. Ninteeen-seventies talk show host and TV tycoon, Merv Griffin was once romantically linked to the late Eva Gabor.
8. What would a nineteen-seventies talk show be without animals and their handlers? In the seventies, the biggest name in animal handling was Jim Fowler, who first rose to fame as Marlin Perkin's khaki-clad sidekick on a series of TV nature "specials" sponsored by an insurance company whose name was included in the title of the show. What was the rather wordy title of this classic seventies nature program?
9. You never know when or where you're going to meet your soulmate. Just ask Marlo Thomas, the former star of "That Girl", who met her husband of twenty-plus years when she appeared as a guest on his "groundbreaking" nineteen-seventies talk show. Who was the talk show host who won Ms. Thomas' heart?
10. Some of the most famous one-liners in show business were first uttered on a talk show set. One such classic quip was born in the seventies, when comedian George Gobel posed the following self-deprecating question that referenced two specific items of clothing: "Do you ever feel like the world's a tuxedo and you're a pair of _____?"
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