You know who else Merv used to have on a lot? Stanley Myron Handelman and Dana Valery and Sergio Franchi. I think also Professor Irwin Corey. Julie Budd was supposed to be a poor man's Barbra Streisand -- hopefully she turned out better than Barbra. Jack E. Leonard bump.
Whoa. Scary. I almost posted those exact words.
On Merv's guest list you could add Orson Bean, Betty White and Jack Klugman's wife (I cannot recall her name), and of course the Gabor sisters.