This is the episode of Lunch With Soupy Sales that ran January 7, 1961 on Los Angeles television (and perhaps elsewhere) and it was probably my favorite TV series back then. If you don't love it, maybe that's because you aren't nine years old like I was. It ran around the noon hour on Saturdays on Channel 7 and my friends and I would never miss it.
The show starred Soupy (of course) and everyone else on it was played by a wickedly funny gent named Clyde Adler. When I watched the show, I dearly wanted to be one of those people on the set that you heard laughing. Many years later when Soupy did a short-lived syndicated revival, I was.
My good friend, the late Earl Kress, grew up on the East Coast so to him, The Soupy Sales Show was the version that Soupy did out of New York from 1964 to 1966 with Frank Nastasi taking over for Clyde. But to me, The Soupy Sales Show was the version Soupy did out here from 1960 to 1962 with Clyde. This was just about the only thing Earl and I ever disagreed on. Here's a prime example of what to me was what Soupy was all about…