THAT TIME WHEN SHELLEY WINTERS DUMPED WHISKY ON OLIVER REED’S HEAD FOR BEING A SEXIST ASS, 1975

When two of the best and most unpredictable talk show guests in all of television history—boisterous Oscar-winning actress Shelley Winters and alcoholic Brit leading man, Oliver Reed—ended up as consecutive bookings on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on September 25, 1975, it seemed like an occasion where sparks might fly.