Began the morning with breakfast and Once Upon a Mattress. I go further into this vehicle for Carol Burnett at the height of her variety show's original popularity at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
I didn't even have time to finish the movie before getting dressed and calling Uber. Though it wasn't raining when I left, it was once again supposed to rain later. The streets were already wet. I had a much harder time getting a ride there than home. The one going to work took 13 minutes. I barely got to work on time. Ironically, the driver going home came in less than a minute, and that was during rush hour and after the rain had long started.
Spent the entire afternoon in the floral department. The floral manager had a family event and had to leave early, but she left me written instructions to shelve three boxes of stuffed animals. Two contained sherbet-colored "gelato" teddy bears. The others were three types of rolly-polly spring animals. She actually bought the bubble gum pink axolotl for me - she came with the name Emma! I also watered pansies in bowls on a shelf outside and the pots of daisies and tulips inside, dusted the shelves in the floral department, and made two small rose bud arrangements in red and yellow. Grabbed dried pineapple from the clearance produce nuts and dried fruit on the way out.
And yes, sometime after I arrived at work, it did start pouring. It was pouring when I went home and would continue pouring off and on for the rest of the day. I think I even heard thunder at one point.
Had enough time to finish Once Upon a Mattress before the start of tonight's Match Game Saturday Classics marathon. Game show hosts frequently appeared on Match Game, starting with Bob Barker the second week in 1973. Barker was one of three hosts who became a semi-regular in his own right, appearing frequently through 1980. Bert Convy turned up a lot for the first three years of the show, even after he started on his own show, Tattletales. He made one last appearance in 1979, on a very funny week that featured Patty Duke insisting Robert Walden strip off his sweater for them.
The other semi-regular host was Bill Cullen. The Dean of Game Shows made fairly frequent appearances from the very funny week in late 1973 that also featured Cass Elliott through 1981. Allen Ludden did several weeks on his own in 1974 and one with his wife Betty White in '75. Jack Narz of Concentration turned up for a week in 1974 and made a cameo two days before the New Year to promote his Now You See It. Announcer Gene Wood did a week in 1974. Johnny Olsen sat in for Gary Burghoff when he was late due to Daylight Savings. Arlene Francis mostly turned up from 1973 through 1975, including the week Carol Bartos became the all-time winner at that point. Narz's brother Tom Kennedy and Peter Marshall of Hollywood Squares were seen during the syndicated run.
Play along with your favorite hosts as they try to match the stars in this hilarious marathon!
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