Interesting notes: If you look at the rehearsal schedule you see they did a "Dress Tape" of the show with an audience earlier in the day and then afterwards they did an "Air Tape" of the show with an audience. So, there is a complete taped alternate version of this special floating around someone's archive, that is if those tapes weren't erased and re-used.
I suspected there was, based on stills I've seen of the show where Diana is wearing wigs that are different from the ones she wore when it aired. Also at the beginning of the special in the long shot as she is walking down upstage she is wearing what looks like a bobbed wig, then as she turns to face the camera and it cuts to a medium shot she is wearing an upswept wig.
Also on the bottom left hand corner of the page you see the VTR [[Video Tape Recording] dates listed as: August 23, 24, 1968 and the Air Date listed as: December 9, 1968.
Everything that is spoken on the show of course was scripted and the girl's opening lines are on the first page I've attached. I do have to say that Mary's line "We is terrific" makes me wince. First of all it's not grammatically correct. It feeds into the perception that African Americans don't speak the English language correctly therefore perpetuating that misconception. Back in 1968 no one batted an eye or questioned it. They certainly didn't question it...maybe they thought it was harmless. I'm surprised Berry Gordy allowed it since he was so image conscious especially where The Supremes and especially Diana was concerned. I don't think you'd get away with that today.
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