Signed, sealed and delivered...the seals from Person to Person | TV Guide Chicago, 23-29 April 1955

The producers of My Little Margie filmed a show recently in which Vern Albright (Charlie Farrell) and his daughter Margie (Gale Storm) appeared on a take-off of Ed Murrow's Person to Person. It was a memorable half-hour of madness in which almost everything happened-even to their making a boast (which, lo and behold, has come true) that they would make the cover of TV GUIDE.

The plot called for Margie to invest in a circus act, only to find that she had also signed a contract agreeing to house in her apartment a bearded lady, two trained seals and some jugglers-and on the night that her father was to appear before the "Important Persons" cameras, too. If the idea was to produce bedlam, it did.

For example-Margie, thinking that the seals were actually two little boys, read the following off-stage line into a telephone: "Oh, that's easy. Just tell him they're my cousins."

On the word "cousins," Mike, the seal with the Toni, honked the most disgusted honk of his brief but profit- able career. By the time cast and crew had recovered from mass hysterics, some $2567 had gone down the drain under the heading of wasted time.

The seals, interested in nothing but the fish their trainer kept feeding them, had an annoying tendency to follow him right out of the scene. He finally hid behind a sofa on the set, which explains why the seals looked so sadly puzzled in the film. . . . And thus was sealed the doom of all seals on the show from now to eternity.