These Times

From “Gloria and the Riddle,” an episode that aired on CBS in October 1972:

Gloria: There’s this father and his son and they’re driving along in the car. The car crashes and the father is killed.

Edith (Gloria’s mother): Oh, that’s so sad.

Archie (Gloria’s father): Oh, geez. It’s only a story Edith.

Gloria: Anyway, the father is killed, and the little boy is badly injured so they rush him to a hospital and take him into the operating room. The surgeon walks in and says, ‘I can’t operate on this boy. He’s my son.’ How come?

Archie: Well, that’s easy. The surgeon is his father and he ain’t suppo...