Ray Milland was in New York City for rehearsals of the upcoming Broadway play "Hostile Witness", which opened on February 14, 1966, at the Music Box Theatre. This production would run for 156 performances after four previews and was adapted into Hostile Witness (1969), with Milland directing and starring.
Author and editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine Helen Gurley Brown replaced Dorothy Kilgallen as panelist. After Kilgallen's passing in the beginning of the month, the panel would always have two guest-panelists until the show's cancellation in 1967.