Tell It To Groucho - Fabian (April 26, 1962)

You Bet Your Life was retooled as "Tell It To Groucho" and sold to CBS for one short season in early 1962. Here's one of the very few episodes available to view today, this one featuring teen heartthrob and singing star Fabian.
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.

[@joelake7986]

Groucho is one of the few heroes I've ever had in my life who has never let me down. This was a great episode and I'm very grateful I got to see it.

[@timdavis4332]

Love Groucho's timing/sense of humor! Classic comedy! 😆👍🏼👍🏼🌎🌈💖 The production was raw and it felt real. So Kudos to the producer, like this show! 😆👍🏼👍🏼

[@jamesroy5190]

Fantastic show! Enjoy watching.

[@johnblackthorn8158]

This was a lot of money back then, and Groucho was quite generous with bending the rules in favor of the guest. Nice!

[@lupesizeer2508]

Love & miss Grouch !!!!!!!!💜

[@cefcat5733]

Nobody is safe from Groucho. He has those eyes of performers who can get too close to you, even scare you, from their vantage point upon the stage.

[@ferlenarab]

Great spontaneous show! Groucho was the best!

[@paulwunder]

Thanks. I never knew this was a thing.

[@gordonward537]

I can't ever say anything against about Groucho's ways... Simply a great mind...

[@519djw6]

I only saw a small snippet of this: the part with Fabian Forte, because some girl on "You Bet Your Life" had been smitten with him. And if this was an example of what the new show was like, I can see why it failed. Just identifying a picture by showing it for a split-second was not nearly as interesting as having a couple answer questions about some category they had chosen--even though it has been said that Groucho's comic chit-chat with the contestants was the part of the show that people really tuned in for.

[@SunbeamsSting]

Great episode of your bet your live. Thanks for posting :-)

[@larslarsman]

Groucho was my Dad's favorite, back when the shows were live/current. And, I will admit, I'm loving watching and laughing with these videos. He was never at a loss for a comeback. Did Groucho ever write for any comics? Thanks.

[@bruceflashback3877]

After so many episodes of You Bet Your Life ,this is hard to get accustomed to,but it is a very interesting bit of history.I find it interesting that Joy Harmon is in the Fenneman role ,after her in Village Of The Giants.

[@ahcapella]

As I understand it, Joy Harmon was “discovered” by Groucho Marx on an episode of the last season (1960-61) of _You Bet Your Life_ ( which had actually been renamed _The Groucho Show_ ), after which he hired her for _Tell It To Groucho._ She wouldn’t appear in _Village Of the Giants_ until 1965.

[@peka__]

Groucho: Makes fun of a guy who wants a girl to bring him his pipe and slippers. Also Groucho: Makes Patty bring him his Kadiddelhopper.

[@joebob5888]

The "Tell it" clips are harder to find,I would guess. More clips would be great if possible . Thanks

[@alheitzer2438]

Fabian was always one of the handsomest guys around back in the day. His voice and records were from hunger ... I haven't heard of him since he stopped touring with Bobby Rydell and someone else as 'The Boys From Bandstand'?

[@wyatt_kincaid]

Frankie Avalon is the third guy who toured in TBFB

[@kevinfitzmaurice4072]

Announcer: Johnny Jacobs.

[@beatmet2355]

This isn’t quite YBYL. A lot of the people they show aren’t exactly well known figures in this day and age. At least on the quiz, most of the questions are still relevant today.

[@jeffreymclaughlin1789]

IT WOULD BE REALLY REALLY COOL TO FIND OUT WERE THIS FIRST CONTESTANT JAY ALLAN WEBER JR. IS DOING NOW IF HE IS STILL WORKING RETIRED OR IF HE IS STILL ALIVE AND WERE HE IS AT NOW AND IF HE STILL PLAY'S THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT THE KLEDIDLEHOPPER

[@georgefeist8190]

FABIAN FORTE...

[@auletjohnast03638]

George Feist, Beatle Forte.

[@rogerpropes7129]

Groucho was 72 and Fabian 19. I was 18 but I never saw this program. One wonders if that soldier was killed in Vietnam?

[@rickrick5041]

What happened? Why was you Bet Your Life canceled and then they replaced by almost the same thing? Why would they replace a classic that was great to a similar show? The new one is good too but it doesn’t make sense to stop the old one. Whoever this Groucho guy is he’s got a great sense of humor and maybe has enough talent to do other things in comedy. Why did they cancel this show too?

[@auletjohnast03638]

Rick rick, Wow, you don't know who Groucho is? Where have you been, under a rock?

[@rickrick5041]

@@auletjohnast03638 I don’t watch the new sitcoms

[@htatpersonwhoop9687]

@@rickrick5041 Groucho Marx was a big comedian from the 1920s-1930s (if you google him you'll see the iconic mustache and glasses!). I looked it up and apparently Groucho was also the host for the original run of You Bet Your Life. By the 1960's the show was declining in ratings, so it got cancelled. I'm thinking that this new version was an attempt to reformat the old show so more people would check it out.

[@rickrick5041]

@@htatpersonwhoop9687 I thought it always had good ratings but ok thanks

[@henningandersen9027]

Did Patti get into acting subsequently?

[@stephenleonard3110]

Henning Andersen you need to Google Patti Harmon as Patricia Joy Harmon. Joy Harmon played with Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke for one ... great Bio on Google

[@wyatt_kincaid]

Anything so innocent and built like that just gotta be named Lucille! kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4OalXyelqdrrJI

[@henningandersen9027]

@@stephenleonard3110 Thank you, Stephen.

[@libertynow4047]

Also look up “Joy’s Cakes”. She has a bakery in So Cal that caters to movie studios. She’s still cute as a button.

[@bh9225]

She was in an episode of the Dick Van Dike show. She played a dancer who developed a crush on Rob Petrie.

[@robertsiebenrock3997]

Why not get a famous person, who has some talent

[@m42037]

Harry Callahan?

[@tonycevallos7513]

I'll bet Groucho used a lot of Polident . Smoking all those cheap stogies,his choppers much have needed extra strength.

[@rickrick5041]

Why did they fire Fabian?

[@hoozerob]

At 20:48, did he give her the tongue ? lol

[@alheitzer2438]

Harmon is cute but clearly hasn't developed into an actress yet?