Guests there:  Robert Q Lewis, Betty White and Linda Kaye Henning.  I don't recognize the celeb between the ladies.

The two to the right of Betty are Leslie Nielsen and Abbe Lane.

Quote from: Chief-O on October 11, 2025, 08:40:33 PM

especially "Cross-Wits" (in CW's case, the tapes apparently *do* exist....they've just been sitting there doing nothing).

I don't know about the masters, but in a 2016 Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD bonus feature about screenwriter Steven E. de Souza, he mentions his appearance as a contestant on The Cross-Wits, which is accompanied by a few seconds of footage.



The video quality implies it's a home recording (I'm guessing it came from Mr. de Souza). Somebody made an entry for the episode on IMDb, but I don't know whether this is an episode that's out in the wild. If it isn't, at least there's evidence a home copy exists.

Guests there:  Robert Q Lewis, Betty White and Linda Kaye Henning.  I don't recognize the celeb between the ladies.

I remember it as being "Don't let the hair fool you..."

Guess we need someone's VHS recording of one of those reruns to show up.

This was not built for Peter's memorial. It is the Tom set pulled out of storage last minute!

This is weird.  What this piece specifically is, which the auction materials acknowledge deep in the descriptions, is a replica of the original set which was used for a tribute to Peter Marshall last November.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1033555192118617&set=pcb.1033561178784685

Now the seller is apparently saying that this replica set was build on the structure of a still-existing Tom Bergeron grid.  That may very well be true.  However, there is nothing visible that would suggest in any way that it's the Bergeron set.  It is clearly designed to look like the original version.  Meanwhile, the auction is throwing around words like "original" "iconic" and "vintage," words which are going to confuse a lot of people.

Hard to say how much this matters.  Some rich guy is going to get a kick out of having this crazy conversation piece in his rumpus room with a 20-foot-high ceiling.  But the whole listing strikes me as at best sloppy, and at worse deliberately misleading.

especially "Cross-Wits" (in CW's case, the tapes apparently *do* exist....they've just been sitting there doing nothing).

I don't know about the masters, but in a 2016 Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD bonus feature about screenwriter Steven E. de Souza, he mentions his appearance as a contestant on The Cross-Wits, which is accompanied by a few seconds of footage.



The video quality implies it's a home recording (I'm guessing it came from Mr. de Souza). Somebody made an entry for the episode on IMDb, but I don't know whether this is an episode that's out in the wild. If it isn't, at least there's evidence a home copy exists.