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==Episode status== DuMont's corporate successor, [[Metromedia]], [[List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts|disposed of what was left of the DuMont archive]] in the East River.<ref group=note>Ed McMahon, David C. Fisher, in their book ''When Television Was Young: The Inside Story with Memories by Legends of the Small Screen'', wrote, "Unfortunately, these kinescopes survived only until the 1970s when ABC dumped all the old DuMont programs into the New York Bay and CBS trashed its own old kinescopes."</ref><ref name="wtwy">{{cite book|last1=McMahon|first1=Ed|last2=Fisher|first2=David C.|title=When Television Was Young: The Inside Story with Memories by Legends of the Small Screen|date=2007|publisher=Thomas Nelson Inc|isbn=9781418578411|url=https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000mcma|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000mcma/page/117 117]|quote=Mary Kay and Johnny.|accessdate=22 September 2017|language=en}}</ref> The fate of the NBC episodes is unknown, although they also were known to have been getting rid of their older recordings in the early 1970s and disposing the ones they could not get the stars of the shows to take.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boingboing.net/2013/03/12/the-day-my-grandfather-groucho.html|first=Andy|last=Marx|title=The day my grandfather Groucho and I saved You Bet Your Life|work=BoingBoing.net|date=March 2, 2013|accessdate=January 11, 2019}}</ref> The [[Paley Center for Media]] has one 1949 episode in its collection.<ref>[http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=mary+kay&f=all&c=tv&advanced=1&p=1&item=T:13423 Entry for June 13th, 1949 episode at The Paley Center for Media website]</ref> [[TV Land]] used a clip of Mary Kay and Johnny in an episode of ''[[Inside TV Land]]'' called "Taboo TV".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/tv-tame-special-examines-old-taboos-article-1.504748#ixzz2Te0S0Lec|title=When TV Was Tame: Special examines old taboos|last=Bianculli|first=David|website=[[New York Daily News]]|date=November 14, 2002|accessdate=May 18, 2013}}</ref> However, this clip showed a scene of Mary Kay and Johnny together in a bed; the single episode held by The Paley Center for Media does not feature such a scene, so that would indicate at least one more episode survives.<ref>https://youtube.com/watch?si=Z7PRXJThPaA5i8kH&v=4VCqXm5XeLE&feature=youtu.be</ref>
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