To Tell the Truth - "Wrong Way" Corrigan (Jul 16, 1957)

[@sharon8312]

The elderly couple that danced absolutely blew me away. It’s things like this that can keep you young, but also think good genes helps too. Just as sweet as can be.

[@93Jubilee]

You know, 75 used to be old, but it's really not that old, now that we're living longer.

[@jacquelinebell6201]

Love the dancing! This is why I love this show, seeing stuff from before I was born.

[@crystalheart9]

I watched this show as a kid. It's so delightful to see it again. I have to laugh at Wrong Way Corrigan, he was so smiley and gleeful he gave himself away. Thanks for the upload.

[@456zounds]

DAMNED right, Crystal!! I guess I might add that sixties TV had a LOT of junk (and those commercials...yikes!!), but some of these shows (also including, e.g., "I've Got a Secret" and "The Match Game") were very entertaining (and sometimes educational too)!!! ; )

[@crystalheart9]

@@456zounds They were fun.

[@DarraghC]

Love these shows. My dad used to call me wrong way Corrigan anytime i did anything assways as a kid lol

[@456zounds]

Corrigan had a great story...and he ran a kind of ghost town amusement park in S. California in the late fifties/early sixties...which my family visited around 1962, "Corriganville," which was REAL fun. One of the "odd features" was that the beer may've been a bit expensive, but the sandwiches were only fifteen cents!! We actually met the man...and he seemed like a cool guy!! ; )

[@capnhawk51]

Corriganville was owned by Ray "Crash" Corrigan who was an actor and a stuntman. No relation to Douglas Corrigan.

[@456zounds]

@@capnhawk51 Yep...and I have NO idea why you're bringing in some guy named Douglas!

[@paulkennedy8701]

​@@456zounds Why are you leaving your mistake up here? It can only mislead people.

[@456zounds]

@@paulkennedy8701 No need to be a dick!!! There was NO mistake!!

[@gerrydooley951]

it's the internet, it's purpose is to make people dumber@@paulkennedy8701

[@gabe-po9yi]

I looked WW Corrigan up after this episode, and he had applied for this very crossing, but could never get approval. The CAA would turn him down, citing such and such reason with the craft. Even though he made the necessary modifications they still wouldn’t approve the flight. Don’t you know it was because they didn’t want any attention taken away from Lindbergh. Of course he knew this, so he went ahead with it. What’s really cool is that his Broadway ticker tape parade was attended by more people than Lindbergh’s.

[@dennistucker9081]

gabe 25, Hello. Do you have a source for this information? I’d like to read up on this.

[@leesher1845]

That’s good to hear because Lindbergh was a bigot and antisemite.

[@TheBaldr]

@@dennistucker9081 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZuvaZqOmLSKibc

[@456zounds]

No kidding?

[@cmans79tr7]

To tell the Truth (CBS) thank you for all of your posts.

[@drey8696]

Wrong Way Corrigan...he couldn't help but keep that Cheshire grin the whole time. And Polly B....wow!

[@Rodin99]

Less time between this game and the twenties than this 1957 game and now. I started school. big year for me. people in their seventies don't look so elderly now.

[@_wormlet]

How you doing?

[@jaysilverheals4445]

just so you know they kept denying him permission to fly to his ireland so he modified the plane with many extra tanks and flew to ireland anyway. he was not lost and did not go the wrong way.

[@poetcomic1]

Polly Bergen: "Only someone who parted his hair in the middle could go the wrong way across the Atlantic."

[@TheJoyfulEye]

I picked the right Corrigan! he just seemed like he was secretly amused by the whole thing, which accords with what he actually did do by going the wrong way.

[@raywhittington1368]

The ladies on the panel were adorably right! "Part his hair down the middle". "The only one whacky enough to have done it". Hahahahaha! Corrigan starts at 17:00.

[@bird10498]

I knew who Corrigan was because a video about Wrong-Way Corrigan brought me here.

[@raywhittington1368]

The History Guy YT channel last week, first I ever heard of Corrigan.

[@soulierinvestments]

The Gordons dancing together is electrifying. He looks like he is having fun. She looks like she is doing her job. Gil Fates said that old contestants always got a lot of applause from the audience. In game two , though, the bad acoustics of the stage get emphasized by some hardness of hearing.

[@MW-bi1pi]

With the plane modifications, and the fact he had previously been denied permission to go to Ireland , it's pretty obvious it was a stunt. The Curtiss Robin was NOT a good plane for this flight. Corrigan was a hell of a good pilot.When asked earlier about if he was REALLY going the wrong way, Ray laughed and said "That's my story and I'm stickin' to it". Ray Corrigan was a great guy, as seen in this clip.

[@456zounds]

NATURALLY, it was STUNT!!! ; )

[@kenyongray2615]

Kitty Carlisle always has a great time. She is always laughing. Polly Bergen is gorgeous but she tends to take over the show. Was her behavior all an act? I guess dancing keeps you young. Did you see the way the gentleman bounded down the stairs? Thanks for the video.

[@Dubyular]

After watching many of these I think Polly is an act

[@TimefortheApocalypse]

Polly Bergen was the killer on the first Friday the 13th

[@davidsessera1337]

​@TimefortheApocalypse I 18:24 I think you are confusing Polly Bergen with Betsy Palmer from "I've Got a Secret" Palmer was the killer in 1st F13.

[@acousticshadow4032]

I've watched dozens of these TTTT reruns, and Polly is over-the-top dramatic. Too bad because it detracts from her God-given beauty. She was definitely a knockout, but the incessant begging for attention is annoying with a capital A.

[@americansailor7967]

The real story is different. "Wrong way" had made several modifications to his own plane, preparing it for his transatlantic flight. He had been denied permission to make a nonstop flight from New York to Ireland, and his "navigational error" was seen as deliberate. Nevertheless, he never publicly admitted to having flown to Ireland intentionally

[@easygoing2479]

I remember watching the surreal Apollo 11 mission to the moon, with Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins. Although Armstrong was mission commander and landed the LM on the moon with Aldrin, I always wished they had assigned Wrongway Corrigan to command that glorious journey to the . . . Venus

[@VahanNisanian]

Great introduction of Game 3.

[@soulierinvestments]

Finally! Someone has figured out that it is dramatic to have the challengers walk down the stairs on camera! I was wondering how long it would take G-T & Co to realize that. Given its time and place, this game show has very dramatic visuals.

[@savethetpc6406]

soulierinvestments I knew you'd be pleased with that! :)

[@RachelDavisMatthews]

wow Bobby just died 3 weeks ago - and I just happened across this clip and looked him up He's gorgeous

[@wrengoode5470]

Bruh Bobby is my 4th cousin and to prove it, my great grandma is Sandra (Morrow) Goode and I know his kids Elizabeth and Ron!!

[@soulierinvestments]

Game two contestant three -- I bet the oldest hat check girl in the northeast got a lot of tips. She probably reminded the men of their grandmothers.

[@VahanNisanian]

I just love it when they have someone associated with the contestant identify the real one.

[@zacharydunlap-tunnage2220]

***** You & me both, man! :-)

[@soulierinvestments]

***** It's great when he trots down the stairs -- visually and dramatically.

[@savethetpc6406]

***** Zachary Dunlap-Tunnage ***** That makes _at least_ 4 of us! :-)

[@savethetpc6406]

soulierinvestments This episode included a lot of fun features, from showing all of the contestants going down the stairs, to having Mr. Gordon pick out his dance partner and actually dance with her, to introducing "Wrong Way Corrigan" with all 3 contestants facing the wrong way!

[@519djw6]

"Wrong Way" Corrigan was portrayed on "Gilligan's Island"--which I'm ashamed to say I wasted my time watching when I was a kid--by Hans Conreid. But ironically, the real Corrigan outlived Conreid by 13 years. So, if he had had any acting chops (and I think he did), he could have played himself on that show--if he didn't consider it beneath his dignity!

[@FirstLast-kr3co]

+519DJW - Corrigan played himself in a movie about his life (up to making his famous flight) so he had some acting talent. I don't know offhand when the movie was made, but I'd think if it was before this episode, more of the panel would have recognized him. He's pretty hard to forget. Your time wasn't wasted by watching Gilligan's Island - your time would be wasted by watching pretty much anything they're showing nowadays. Thank goodness for KZbin.

[@rsattahip]

You enjoyed it didn't you? That show was harmless.

[@karltiedemann9329]

I believe it was Dick Cavett who said,-- when asked why he was going out to the west coast-- that he was going to make "a comedy version of Gilligan's Island."

[@stanbrown32]

That was Wrong Way Feldman, lol. According to Mr. Howell, that Wrong Way got his nickname by bombing the wrong side in WWI.

[@519djw6]

@@stanbrown32 By George, you're right! It was "Wrong Way Feldman."

[@stanochocki8984]

2 things here..A--was Polly B. at the time of these shows, on medications? I seems, that I have read that she did suffer from severe, anxiety over, 'a form of Inferiority Complex', which is why she constantly relied on glasses as a Prop, to help boost her personal self esteem, especially towards Miss Carlisle, who though friends with Polly, 'intimated' her, do to her, (Carlisle's) easy of self assurance. B. Yes, Mr. Corrigan was very much a 'VICTIM' of Govt. suppression and intimidation NOT to interfere in the 'GLORY OF THE GOLDEN BOY, LINDBERG'. Pressure approved from the White House, the FBI--who leaned on his friends and apparently went so far as Lindberg, himself, being pressured to apply pressure. A fact, that caused personal pain, as up to that point, both Corrigan and Lindberg had been buddies. WHY, AMERICA--IS NOT THIS READILY TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS?

[@RachelDavisMatthews]

Bobby Morrow is still alive at 79 yrs young

[@wrengoode5470]

Omgggggg my cousin is Bobby morrow and for kinda proof is that I’m originally from San Benito lol, he is my 4th cousin R.I.P

[@MarcBrewer]

Corrigan did it on purpose, but couldn't admit it - he would have incurred the wrath of the CAA.

[@soulierinvestments]

MarcBrewer I figure. A good pilot would have noticed too much water in New Jersey and reversed. Hence another reason why Bud seemed unduly rude in shushing him up. G-T probably told Bud that the organization did not want to get involved in a legal dispute on live network TV.

[@CAMacKenzie]

Corrigan always claimed that he misread his compass, and heavy clouds obscured sea and sky, until it was too late to turn back, but I doubt that anybody actually believed that.

[@soulierinvestments]

13:10 -- Dorothy Parker was not entirely correct. Men always make passes at girls who wear glasses, especially Polly Bergen who looks terribly intellectual in them.

[@savethetpc6406]

soulierinvestments Even though she's anything *_but_* -- imho. (* _ducks out of the way to avoid getting pelted by shoes and other stuff!_* :p )

[@519djw6]

SaveThe TPC Well, Polly Bergen did act like a bit of a ditz--but she *was* one gorgeous lady, glasses or no glasses!

[@savethetpc6406]

519DJW Agreed.

[@hortondlfn1994]

I threw a sock.

[@Djm8520]

Turn up the mics on the contestants‼️

[@jonvater8424]

The men in round one.... hubba hubba!

[@josephwolosz2522]

What's a game show without Kitty Carlisle?

[@acousticshadow4032]

She was Pure Class.

[@UberLummox]

Wrong Way gave himself away by smiling at Hy from the beginning and several times throughout. He couldn't contain himself. Probably why he got most of the votes.

[@loriminnesota]

For the record, I picked the right dancer the moment she came down the stairs...she was the only one with an appropriate dancing dress on. The other two had on fitted skirts that would not be easy to dance in!

[@sonnyburnett8725]

Go to 17:00 to see Wrong way.

[@leesher1845]

I don’t think that ballroom dancer Mrs. Gordon smiled once.

[@soulierinvestments]

Bud Collyer seems a little rude at the end of the third game when Hy asked Corrigan if he really intended to fly to LA. However, this is live TV and they have to get in the final absolute -- the last commercial. And I bet G-T told Bud not to involve the show in any legal dispute on live TV. I, too, have utter misgivings about Corrigan's story. OK, I can understand getting mixed up in bad fog on take off without radar and modern directional equipment. But after a given point, the fog clears. Any good pilot should have known there was a hell of a lot of too much water on Ohio.

[@acousticshadow4032]

It's well known Corrigan's flight to Ireland was fully intentional. Read up on it.

[@VahanNisanian]

So what's the name of that song that played when they danced?

[@savethetpc6406]

Thanks, *****! I've been familiar with that tune for as long as I can remember, but I don't think I've ever known the name of it!

[@MovieJon]

Late to the party, but the song the couple danced to is "12th Street Rag," which was done on piano by, among many, Liberace and on banjo by Roy Clark. :-)

[@mattdeans9873]

Ive watched many many episodes of TTTT now. 1957. Not one person of color or Asian or Latin descent. All of them, panel and contestants, white only.

[@stevej1154]

“Wrong Way” Corrigan is an example of the story being too good to fact check. But it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that you don’t accidentally fly 28 hours to Ireland. It was absolutely on purpose.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

Wrong way guy did look wacky though. Once my mother was supposed to be driving to Clifton N. J. and ended up in Rhode island so anything is possible when you make just one wrong turn I guess, Lol!

[@paulkennedy8701]

Sure. If you can fly all day over the ocean when you're supposed to be flying over land.

[@acousticshadow4032]

Your mother also did that intentionally. She had a b/f in RI.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

@@acousticshadow4032 Actually I was with her, we were going to see my brother in a group home. Also before she passed she asked me to be his Legal guardian. So you could say I have a son older than me, Lol! I'm 66 and he's going to be 69 next month. She was bad with directions too.

[@walkertongdee]

None were him the real one is Douglas Corrigan

[@GirGir183]

If someone won three olympic gold medals the year before, wouldn't the panelists be likely to know what he looked like?

[@kenyongray2615]

You would think so but all the athletes were amateurs so no commercials with that athlete selling the product. Probably not much public exposure. I also get the impression that this particular panel is not into sports of any kind and doesn't know a football from a basketball or baseball. Just the impression from watching them for a few episodes.

[@mistermiguel9011]

TV made the Olympics a big event. The first telecast of the Olympics on American TV wasn't until the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California.

[@VahanNisanian]

Corrigan said his unauthorized flight was because of a navigational error.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

Man #3 in Game #1 Lady #1 in Game #2 Man #2 in Game #3

[@gemoftheocean]

Congrats AH

[@peternagy-im4be]

Please remove this complete and utter troll from the comments section

[@loriminnesota]

I truly think the panel asks some really stupid questions. How would people know this stuff? They waste a heck of a lot of time on dense questions.

[@freddyfurrah3789]

Polly your ANTICS really grow TIRESOME.I CAN'T STAND KITTY.