re: #231 Gert Frbe

Smart lady, though I would have thought Alan Hale Jr. and Jim Backus, being old hands in showbiz, would have done the same.

I guess such arrangements weren’t exactly common back then, though.

She was married to an agent who advised her to include it. The TV execs thought it was funny at the time and figured the show would flop and they would never have to pay anything out, so they agreed.