9/22/2023 0 Comments Stl post dis turkey quiz wkrpJerry Blum's son, Gary, wrote in to give me the full scoop. HUGH WILSON: I didn’t dream up the helicopter. Although the turkeys were thrown off the back of a truck, as opposed to how it was depicted on the. There were other stories of this nature that were embellished that one was really not embellished that much. All of us, naïve and uneducated, thought that turkeys could fly. We thought that we could throw these live turkeys out into the crowd for their Thanksgiving dinners. It was at a shopping center in Atlanta I think it was Broadview Plaza, which no longer exists. So I said to him at the time, “Jerry, I think you just won me an Emmy.”ĬLARKE BROWN: The turkey drop was actually a real incident. They crashed to the ground, it was just a horrible disaster, and he wound up losing his job over it. HUGH WILSON: I was allowed to see everything, and then Jerry Blum, the station manager, told me about a promotion – I believe in Texas, and I want to say Dallas, but I’m not sure – in which he threw turkeys out of a helicopter, and they didn’t fly. Here's Wilson's take and here's Brown's take: When Carlson and Tarlek walked in, covered in feathers, Carlson was in shock but also apologetic. Nessman called the drop in the style of Herbert Morrison's famous radio call of the destruction of the zeppelin called the Hindenburg in 1937, right down to Nessman echoing Morrison's famed cry, "Oh the humanity!" Whatever turkeys that survived then turned on the crowd and attacked. The trouble, of course, is that turkeys aren't particularly known for flying. As it turned out, the secret project was that Carlson was having a bunch of turkeys dropped from a helicopter high up in the air into the crowd below. It was all hush hush until the end of the episode, where Nessman was on the street, reporting live when the event occurred. He came up with a secret promotion for Thanksgiving. The seventh episode of the series, "Turkeys Away" (which actually aired on October 30th, 1978, despite being the show's Thanksgiving episode), showed Carlson trying to take on more of a hand's on approach to prove that he still had what it took to run the station.
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