Consumer Probe: Irwin Mainway

Candice Bergen opens a holiday edition of Consumer Probe by warning viewers about unsafe toys, then welcomes Irwin Mainway, president of Mainway Toys. One by one she presents his products: an ear-piercing kit, a skin-grafting set, a knife-armed doll and a bag of jagged broken glass. Mainway, in tinted glasses, shrugs off each concern with rambling excuses, insisting kids are just getting what they want and that the glass even teaches them about light and prisms. He then pushes his own pitch, a chainsaw teddy bear, and complains that ordinary alphabet blocks gave him a splinter. Bergen tries to end on a harmless foam ball, but the segment runs out of time with Mainway still unrepentant.