ABC - TV KIDS SHOW HOST SOUPY SALES DIES AT 83

TV KIDS SHOW HOST SOUPY SALES DIES AT 83

Soupy Sales, who fronted a kids show in the '50s and '60s that attracted a sizable adult audience, died Thursday in New York at age 83. He is best remembered as the TV host who delivered pies in the face to celebrities and often took as many himself. However, many who worked with him remember a practical joke that the ABC crew played on him in Los Angeles in 1961. In one scene that was televised live he was to knock on a door and be greeted by a beautiful woman. The woman, however, turned out to be bare-breasted -- and Sales could see her image on a monitor on the set. What went out over the air, however, was just a close-up of Sales' reaction. "I thought my career was over," he said later. The closed-circuit scene, however, has been circulating on blooper reels for years.

23/10/2009