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kick coming. For God's sake, we were on for seventeen and a half years. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that that show still had life left in it.

Anyway, the last night, Labor Day, was a sad night. They showed some clips of the early broadcasts. My, how we had changed in those seventeen years!

Was there a party afterwards?

Yes. It was more or less a wake. We were all very sad. We had become a close-knit family. The producers, the directors--we were all good friends. Every Sunday night for seventeen years we were together. It was a way of life.

Some people who become T.V. personalities find that it disturbs their life, or their children? Did you ever run across anything of that sort?

Oh, no. After all, I wasn't an actor.

Oh, you were to a certain extent though.

At least I didn't put on makeup and sing songs or clown or play somebody else. I was myself on the show. And I loved it. The fame that came with it I loved even more. I made no bones about it. Of course when you're out with a much bigger celebrity, you immediately fade into the