Word: breck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Payola." There were sponsor problems too. A shampoo manufacturer (John H. Breck Inc.) happened to be paying for the show, and worried about that nasty business of shaving a patient's head before a brain operation. Naturally, the TV Bourke-White could not say, "I'll be glad to have my head shaved," or "This is a great year for wigs-Marlene Dietrich has ten of them," and both lines were exxed out of the script. The producers even had to fight for the dramatically climactic operation scene, since the patient would have to be bald (Actress Wright...