The lesbians included Barbara Gittings, Lilli Vincenz, and Barbara Love. They were among the first open lesbians to appear on television in the US, and debated long-held stereotypes about gays with Susskind. This segment is remembered for Gittings saying, "Homosexuals today are taking it for granted that their homosexuality is not at all something dreadful – it’s good, it’s right, it’s natural, it’s moral, and this is the way they are going to be!". In May 1973, to acknowledge Digestive Disease Week, the show invited three gastroenterologists to discuss therapies for peptic ulcer. Viewer William Dufty had bet that "These three distinguished specialists could go on for the entire ninety minutes without ever mentioning the word sugar." Afterward he noted, "In ninety minutes, they were unable to come up with a single constructive suggestion for the average person to manage their diet in a way that might prevent ulcers." A December 16, 1981 debate on chiropractic had as participants, among others, Stephen Barrett, a psychiatrist, consumer activist, medical writer and skeptic nowadays mostly known as the webmaster of Quackwatch, and Chester Wilk, a chiropractor who was the plaintiff in Wilk v. American Medical Ass'n. The show continued until September 1986, at which point WNEW-TV, now under the ownership of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and beginning the transition to being the flagship of the new commercial network Fox, had moved the program to an late Sunday-to-early Monday timeslot, albeit still filling two hours. Susskind chose to end the program himself, six months before his death from a heart attack. As the successor to Metromedia and WNEW-TV, Fox and WNYW maintain much of the series' archives. Edited segments of the show aired on weekends on Fox News Channel in the early 2000s, with wraparounds hosted by Paula Zahn. References "SUSSKIND, DAVID: U.S. Producer and Talk Show Host". Museum of Broadcast Communications . Council of the City of Philadelphia External links Sound recordings of the Open End television program are available for listening at the Hoover Institution Archives First-run syndicated television programs in the United States 1958 American television series debuts 1986 American television series endings 1960s American television series 1970s American television series 1980s American television talk shows Black-and-white American television shows Television series by CBS Studios Television series by Metromedia Television series by 20th Century Fox Television English-language television shows