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R.I.P., Dr. Joyce Brothers, 1927-2013

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Joseph_Gallant

Psychologist and television personality Dr. Joyce Brothers has died at the age of 85.

Brothers first came to national fame as a contestant on "The $64,000 Question" in 1955, winning not by answering questions about her professional field, but by answering questions on boxing. According to an article on the USA Today website (link below), she was the only woman to ever win the $64,000 top prize during the show's three-year (1955-58) run.

She later went on to a long career of appearing and hosting various TV shows as well as writing numerous best-selling books.

USA Today report:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/13/joyce-brothers-dead/2156805/ .
 
Yes she will be missed.

BTW I love her guest appearances on "Happy Days", "The Nanny," and "All That." They were memorable and hilarious too.
 
She also appeared as herself in 1982 in an ep of "Police Squad!", asking Johnny (the shoeshine guy with all the hot tips) all about the Cinderella Complex. Johnny, natch, supplied her with all the psychiatric info she needed!

She will be missed. She knew her boxing, for sure!

cd
 
Joyce Brothers did a one hour show during the week on WMCA in New York preceding Bob Grant when they switched to talk in September 1970 and also did radio work for WNBC in the 60's. I would imagine she was the first, if not among the first of the radio psychologists..paving the way for Toni Grant,Laura Schlessinger, Joy Brown and many others.
 
benale said:
I would imagine she was the first, if not among the first of the radio psychologists..paving the way for Toni Grant,Laura Schlessinger, Joy Brown and many others.
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Also Dr. Ruth.
 
RIP to the psychologist! By the way, she appeared on Johnny Carson more than *100* times!

-crainbebo
 
Re Dr. Brothers' appearances on "The $64,000 Question":
Charles Revson, whose company, Revlon, sponsored the show,
thought she was dull and ordered the question writers (one of
whom, in her case, was Ring Magazine publisher Nat Fleischer)
to come up with the most obscure questions they could in order
to knock her off. At one point she was asked to name the referees
of various fights. But she had memorized the Ring Magazine Record
Book, and her knowledge of boxing was genuine. Nobody could connect
her with any wrongdoing.

She went on to win another $70,000 on "The $64,000 Challenge," defeating
six boxers, and used the money in part to set up her physician husband in
practice.

I won't argue the point that she was the only woman to win $64,000 on
"Question"; Barbara Feldon, a decade away from playing Agent 99 on "Get
Smart," stopped at $16,000 in her category of Shakespeare, and there were
several $32,000 winners. The woman who won the most money on those
shows was Elfrida Von Nardroff, who won (I believe) $220,000 on "Twenty-One,"
but whose winnings were suspect since she had gotten help. Her winnings were
eclipsed by a man, Teddy Nadler, who won $264,000, mostly on "Challenge," a
record that stood until Thom McKee passed the $300,000 mark on "Tic Tac Dough"
in 1980.
 
I remember watching when she won the top prize on the $64,000.00 Question. In fact, the show actually ran slightly over, being cut just as Hal March said she answered it correctly.
 
TheBigA said:
benale said:
I would imagine she was the first, if not among the first of the radio psychologists..paving the way for Toni Grant,Laura Schlessinger, Joy Brown and many others.
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Also Dr. Ruth.
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I think the first relationship counselor on radio, who paved the way for them all, was John J. Anthony, who gave marital advice to listeners of "The Goodwill Hour" and "A Helping Hand." He was referred to as "Mr. Anthony" to emphasize the fact that he wasn't a doctor. (There was also M. Searle Taylor, aka "The Voice of Experience," who may have predated Anthony.) So we went from him to Dr. Brothers to Dr. Ruth and Dr. Phil...
 
Cincinnati Kid recalls: said:
I remember watching when she won the top prize on the $64,000.00 Question. In fact, the show actually ran slightly over, being cut just as Hal March said she answered it correctly.
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That's because the show was broadcast live.

Had tape been around, the show could have been pre-taped and edited so we could have seen the door to the isolation booth open, Dr. Brothers leaving the booth, her husband bounding out of the audience to give her a big hug and a kiss, while the audience would have been standing and roaring their approval so loudly you would think Elvis has just entered the building!
 
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