[Ads-l] antedating of to "gaslight."

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Correction: the airdate displayed in the YouTube copy at 33 seconds
was 02/18/1953. The same date mentioned by JL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2zrd2ajQIw

[Begin excerpt]
"DRAFTBOARD"
Season One, Episode #19
Airdate: 02/18/1953
Director: Marc Daniels
Writers: Arthur Stander
Frank Tarloff
Ben Starr
[End excerpt]

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 1:15 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Great citation, JL.
> I watched the episode on YouTube and at The Film Detective. The dialog
> was slightly different. The timestamp is specified below.
>
> I Married Joan S01E19 Draft Board
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOV0Y9EDNs
> Timestamp 15 minutes 24 seconds of 23 minutes 15 seconds
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> "Now, here's the plan. We'll gaslight 'em!"
> "Gaslight 'em!"
> "Yeah."
> "What do you mean?"
> "Well, you saw that picture Gaslight, remember? Where they made the
> woman think that she was crazy, and she really wasn't?"
> "Yeah."
> "Well, we'll make the people who rented the place think they're crazy ..."
> [End excerpt]
>
> The episode is also available at The Film Detective website with a
> different introduction. The timestamp is shifted by a few seconds.
>
> 1953 _I Married Joan_ (CBS TV)  (Season 1, Episode 19 "Draft Board"):
> https://thefilmdetective.tv/video/i-married-joan-s1-ep19-draftboard-1953/60b86297be87d50001b535ff/
>
> Another copy on YouTube displays the following at 33 seconds:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2zrd2ajQIw
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> "DRAFTBOARD"
> Season One, Episode #19
> Airdate: 12/18/1953
> Director: Marc Daniels
> Writers: Arthur Stander
> Frank Tarloff
> Ben Starr
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:01 AM Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 1953 _I Married Joan_ (CBS TV)  (Season 1, Episode 19 "Draft Board"):
> > "Here's the plan. We'll gaslight 'em!" "Gaslight? What do you mean?" "Well,
> > you saw that picture _Gaslight_, remember? Where they made the woman think
> > she was crazy, and she really wasn't?"
> >
> > According to Wikipedia, the episode first aired on February 18, 1953.
> >
> > As best I can see from the print shown on the Film Detective stream, it
> > appears to have a copyright date of "MCMLII," though "MCMLIII" is certainly
> > possible.
> >
> > You can see the pertinent part of the episode on YouTube beginning at about
> > 1:00.
> >
> > Persons of a certain age may recall that star Joan Davis (the one with the
> > plan) was very much the comedic equal of Lucille Ball.
> >
> > Odds are my mother picked up the word from this show.
> >
> > JL
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
> >
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