Don Giller

My pal @AdamNedeff is _the_ world authority on game shows. Today he posted on FB what makes his "hobby" worth it: A contestant from "The Price Is Right" contacted him for a show she was on in 1959. He, of course, had and sent it.

It was the first time she'd seen it in 61 years. Adam then asked if I had any favorite requests from DaveWorld, and that was the biggest mistake he made today. My response:

There's one that wasn't even a request. Claudia Costa, baton-twirling champ. She had been bumped. On her 2nd visit there was no time left, so Dave invited her on in the show's closing segment, apologized for the too-brief time allotted to her.

They chatted for maybe a minute or less. He asked her to demonstrate her baton twirling. She moved to center stage and began her performance to a prepared soundtrack (Laura Branigan's "Gloria").

It lasts for maybe 15 seconds before the closing end-credit comes onscreen, and the show quickly fades out.

I had two sources for this show: The first from a viewer's broadcast capture; the second from a pre-broadcast tape that someone dubbed for me back in 2002. I digitized both on March 31, 2016, the broadcast version first.

Then the pre-broadcast version. It's the first time I've watched this version after having acquired it 14 years earlier. I'm watching the last act. Claudia begins her performance, the credits appear.