I’ll admit that I only read this clipping because I couldn’t get the headline to make any sense:
I’ve mentioned the Rice TV show in the past (here) but until I ran across this I had no idea that it went on for so long. That sent me scampering to see if I could find anything else about it and indeed I could. Here’s a Rice press release about the upcoming 1967 season–which was a doozy (although maybe not as good as the Lawrence Welk Show, which has aged in a very congenial manner):
