It Hoppened On Wonderama

Bob McAllister hosts Wonderama in the early 1970s.

Going behind the scenes at a TV show is like the final scene of The Wizard of Oz, where Toto pulls back the curtain and exposes the great and mighty Oz is a sham. We give an inordinate amount of deference to the people we welcome into our living rooms through the big, magic box. When it happened to me at age 7, it was so fast that it took me decades to process exactly what I experienced.