You will now send the money to the following address…
Soupy Sales was said to have tele-contributed-to-the-delinquency-of-minors on New Year’s Day 1965 by urging his early-morning child viewers to find “green paper with pictures of men with beards” in their parents’ wallets and purses and mail them to him in care of the studio that live-broadcast his show. Some versions of the story claim that he received over $70,000 from kids. That would be on the order of several hundred thousands in today’s cash.
The story is apparently a mix of truth and myth. He apparently did ad-lib this as a joke/prank on live TV, and some money did get sent to him. In addition to a few dollars in actual cash, people sent in Monopoly money, other play money, and drawings of money. He wound up with a two week suspension from his show, but remained on the air for two more years after that.
As the show was live and the prank was ad-libbed, there is no tape or kinescope of the event, not even a printed script… but there were enough witnesses who gave fairly consistent accounts that the event is generally regarded to have actually happened.
How about tele-hypnosis?
You will now send the money to the following address…
Soupy Sales was said to have tele-contributed-to-the-delinquency-of-minors on New Year’s Day 1965 by urging his early-morning child viewers to find “green paper with pictures of men with beards” in their parents’ wallets and purses and mail them to him in care of the studio that live-broadcast his show. Some versions of the story claim that he received over $70,000 from kids. That would be on the order of several hundred thousands in today’s cash.
The story is apparently a mix of truth and myth. He apparently did ad-lib this as a joke/prank on live TV, and some money did get sent to him. In addition to a few dollars in actual cash, people sent in Monopoly money, other play money, and drawings of money. He wound up with a two week suspension from his show, but remained on the air for two more years after that.
As the show was live and the prank was ad-libbed, there is no tape or kinescope of the event, not even a printed script… but there were enough witnesses who gave fairly consistent accounts that the event is generally regarded to have actually happened.