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00:00From the Tropicana Hotel, the most exciting game in town, Las Vegas Gambit, and here's
00:18your host, Wink Martindale!
00:30Nice to see you. Thank you very much, everybody. Welcome to Las Vegas Gambit. I found a billfold
00:38laying down there on the floor as I was coming up here, and would all of the owners of this
00:43billfold line up and make a single file right outside the room? We'll take care of that
00:46business a little later. You're a nice group. Applaud yourself. On a scale of 1 to 10, a
00:52definite 25 or 30. Right, O'Neill? Here's the lady who deals our cards, Beverly Malden,
00:57and look at this outfit, would you? Come on over here. Lovely, lovely. How are you
01:03today? I'm doing great. How about you? I'm doing fine, and they're doing even better. I
01:07know, and they're ready to go to the gambit board, I think. Who are they? This is Dick
01:11and Susan O'Neill. Hello, O'Neill. Welcome back. Hi, thank you. Dick, for the benefit of
01:17those who perhaps have not seen you on the show thus far, if there's anybody out there
01:20who hasn't, tell us what you do. Well, Wink, I'm a pilot with a major commercial airline.
01:25And from where? And we're from St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis, Missouri. Your wife, Susan,
01:29is a mother and a homemaker and a mother of four children, right? Yes, Wink. What are
01:32their age ranges? I think I asked you the first time you came on the show. Yes, their range
01:36in age from 2 to 10. 2 to 10. Well, welcome back, and good luck. I don't think you need
01:41it from me. So far, they've won $21,114 in cash and merchandise. And as the last show ended,
01:48they hit a jackpot of $21 worth $4,500. And you had just won your match, so let's go to
01:54the gambit board and see if you can add all of that. Kenny, get us underway, please.
01:58On the gambit board, 21 and any combination wins our jackpot now at $500 plus a special
02:04prize of $5,000 for a grand total of $5,500.
02:09Definitely break the seal on that jacket card. Dick, give him a cut.
02:11Now, on the gambit board this time, behind some of those select numbers up there, we
02:16have four trips. We have a trip to Puerto Vallarta, we have a trip to Monte Carlo, we have a trip
02:21to Palm Springs and Peru, and we have some cards up there that say 100 times, 200 times,
02:26and 500 times. Those times cards simply mean money, that's all. So let's see if we can find
02:30some of them right now. Susan, you have been starting first, so ladies first. Go.
02:34Number six. Number six. Right up here on the top right, it's a 200 times card.
02:38All right. Tell you what I'm going to do. Yes. Tell you what that means. After you're
02:43through with the gambit board, providing, of course, you don't go over 21, you'll get
02:47an extra card, one extra card, and we'll multiply the value of that extra card 200 times. That
02:52means you could win as much as $2,200 on that one card. All right, let's take a look at the
02:58first card over here out of the deck, and it's a four. Dick, your turn to select.
03:02Okay, I'll try 18. Number 18, all right. From six to 18.
03:07And another trip, this time to Palm Springs, California.
03:11That's right. We'll fly the two of you from Los Angeles for four days at the Sheridan Oasis
03:16Hotel in the heart of beautiful Palm Springs. Relax in the desert sun, enjoy luxury rooms,
03:21dine their exciting new Hank's Cafe Americana, furnished by the Sheridan Oasis Hotel.
03:27Here's your next card. It's a nine. Thirteen. Freeze or play with a thirteen.
03:31Remember, by the way, 21 on the gambit board's worth $5,500. You want to go for one more card
03:38and eight, or would you like to stop? I think we'll freeze, Wink. You're going to stop. All right.
03:42They're going to quit at thirteen, so they have the 200 times card yet to play off, and the
03:46trip to Palm Springs is now yours. Okay, we'll pay off the 200 times card this way. Remember,
03:51we'll pay you in cash, 200 times the value of the card you get. If it's an ace, you could
03:54win as much as $2,200. We're going to ask you to give the deck a cut. Would you do that
04:00for us, Dick, please? Beverly will hold those cards there, and you just simply cut them, and
04:03the card on top will be yours. Again, I want to wish you good luck. Cut to a good big one,
04:08200 times the value of the card on top of the deck. What is that card? 200 times 10.
04:19Boy, I tell you, you do have a way of winning big ones.
04:22Not much involved here, just another $2,000, that's all. Well, you do pull some lucky cards
04:30on those decks. Congratulations to you again. Thank you. You got the trip to Palm Springs
04:34for $2,000 in cash. Added to your prior winnings, your grand total now in cash and merchandise
04:39has risen to $23,658. By the way, I think it's only fair and perhaps interesting to point
04:49out that of all of that loot, $8,500 is in cold, hard greenbacks. So, O'Neal, again,
04:57congratulations as our champions. Beverly, two new players, please.
05:00Wink, we have Wayne and Teddy Peterson.
05:02We're going to go Hawaiian. Hawaiian crunches the taste, the one and only.
05:18Join us up here to take on the fantastically lucky and talented O'Neals, and they are the
05:22Petersons, Wayne and Teddy. Wayne, tell us what you do.
05:25I'm an engineering technician for a local utility.
05:28And how about you, Teddy?
05:29I teach second grade here in Las Vegas.
05:31I knew that off the bat.
05:33Sorry.
05:33That's right. She brought me a card.
05:3625, they made me this little card, and I open up the card. That's a picture of all the
05:41kids in the class, and if I open it up like this, they've all signed it in there.
05:46Isn't that kind of neat?
05:49Room 25, where she teaches. Thank you, kids, every one of you.
05:53One thing about this, I notice they've got my eye...
05:55I don't know why that happened to be that way. Hey, will you thank them for me?
05:59I sure will.
05:59And I will...
06:00...to our show. Good.
06:03Please, Mr. Peterson, will you cut the cards for us?
06:05And we shall begin.
06:07At the start of every match, we put $500 in our jackpot.
06:09That means we started with $500, so we add another $500.
06:12It's up to $1,000 already.
06:16Beverly, the card, please, for a seven.
06:17Seven.
06:18Now, listen carefully.
06:20Famed literary agent, Swiftie Lazar, says he could get a $3 million advance for this comedian's memoirs.
06:26He's the man who hosted Ronald Reagan's inaugural...
06:29O'Neal.
06:30Johnny Carson.
06:30Right.
06:31Swiftie says he could get a $3 million advance for Johnny Carson's memoirs.
06:35You want the seven?
06:36Yes, Wink, we'll take it.
06:37They will hang on to that.
06:38Johnny Carson was not the only celebrity Swiftie Lazar thought he could get a big advance for.
06:43He said if this actress ever wrote her memoirs, he had asked for $5 million, but she's always wanted to be alone.
06:51Come on, O'Neal.
06:52Greta Garbo.
06:53Right, Greta Garbo.
06:55Take it or give it away.
06:57We'll take it, Wink.
06:58The card belongs to the O'Neals, and it is a five, and a decision to freeze or play.
07:02What's it going to be?
07:04We'll play, Wink.
07:05Play on with a 12.
07:06They will continue with a 12.
07:07In Peter Pan, in Peter Pan, what was the name of the pet who belonged to the Darling family?
07:13O'Neals.
07:14Nana.
07:14Right, Nana or Nana.
07:16Nana or Nana, either one.
07:18Well, if it's a 10, you'll go over.
07:19Do you take a chance of taking the card, or would you like to pass it on to the Petersons?
07:24Poor things are sitting there without any cards.
07:28We'll take it.
07:28We'll try.
07:29You think it's not going to be a 10, right?
07:30I hope it isn't, yes.
07:31With their luck, it could be a 9, right, audience?
07:33Let's find out.
07:34They take the card, and they've taken a 10.
07:37The game goes to Wayne and Teddy Peterson.
07:39Well, at least that time, luck ran a little short on Dick and Susan O'Neal.
07:48So, Petersons, congratulations.
07:49Poor things didn't have any cards.
07:51They might as well get some money for that.
07:52$100 goes to you.
07:53It takes two games to win a match, and we promise to play game two if you'll promise to be right back.
07:57Petersons have the first game of this match between the Petersons and the O'Neals.
08:09Beverly First Card, game two.
08:10Remember, for any 21, we pay $1,000.
08:13For a six on this question, listen carefully.
08:15He's already won two Best Supporting Actor awards for Julia and All the President's Men.
08:20This year, Petersons.
08:21Robert Redford.
08:22No, no, no.
08:23I'm going to repeat the entire question.
08:25He's already won two Best Supporting Actor awards for Julia and All the President's Men.
08:28This year, he's been nominated for the film Melvin and Howard.
08:31Am I talking about Art Carney, Jason Robards, or Hal Holbrook?
08:35And the answer, of course, Jason Robards.
08:36O'Neal, do you want the six?
08:39I think we'll pass it.
08:39Pass it away?
08:40All right.
08:40Petersons can get it anyway.
08:42She says, yeah, we'll take it.
08:43We'll take it.
08:43In the film Melvin and Howard, does Jason Robards play Melvin or Howard?
08:50Howard.
08:51Yes, that's correct.
08:52You got it.
08:53Yay!
08:53Good guess.
08:55Howard being Howard Hughes.
08:56All right.
08:57What do you want to do?
08:57Take the card or give it away?
08:59Take it.
09:00Take it.
09:00We'll take it.
09:01Take the card.
09:01All right.
09:02You go with a six, a five.
09:03All right.
09:04Five.
09:08O'Neal's, I'm just standing here, and I'm wondering, has luck turned against you?
09:12They gave away a six.
09:13They got a five with that answer.
09:15You got an 11, and of course, a 10 would give you 21, the match, and another $1,000.
09:19But first things first, question, true or false?
09:22Shetland ponies come from the Shetland Islands.
09:25O'Neal.
09:25True.
09:26That is correct.
09:27Shetland ponies come from the Shetland Islands.
09:29Here it comes.
09:30We'll take it.
09:31The card is an ace.
09:32And so we have a rather interesting situation, wouldn't you say, audience?
09:37We have two 11s, one on each side of the block.
09:41The O'Neals, of course, need it for themselves more than the Petersons, because the Petersons
09:45have a game, and you need this game to stay alive in the match.
09:48So this is a very important question.
09:52Was it just before or just after the French Revolution that Napoleon came to power in
09:58France?
09:58Did you guess at that one?
10:06I sure did.
10:07You admitted, she just guessed at that one.
10:10Now, do I need to ask?
10:11No, I don't think so.
10:12If the card is a 10, you'll have the match, and $1,000 in the day.
10:1710, 10, 10.
10:18Here it comes.
10:196.
10:20Now you've got sort of a tough hand.
10:22The O'Neals are frozen at 17.
10:24Can be a good hand, though.
10:25Been a lot of wins for the 17.
10:28Freeze or play?
10:28Freeze.
10:29Freeze.
10:29All right.
10:30The O'Neals are frozen at 17.
10:31So, Dick and Susan O'Neal, you know what you need to stay alive.
10:34Here is the next question.
10:36And, of course, if you miss a question, the rule is the Petersons automatically win.
10:40His very first shot at directing a film earned him an Oscar nomination this year.
10:45The picture is Ordinary People.
10:47Is the first-time director Paul Newman, Robert Redford, or George C. Scott?
10:52Robert Redford.
10:53You're correct.
10:53Robert Redford.
10:55Trying to beat a 17.
10:57If the next card is a 10, you will have the game.
11:00We'll have an even match, and you'll pick up $1,000.
11:03And here's the next card.
11:05All right.
11:06Back to the business at hand.
11:07Three or 13.
11:08Former hostage Gary Lee spent his days in captivity listening to a recording of The Gambler.
11:13Back home, he was invited to Las Vegas as the guest of the singer who made the record.
11:19Is he Wayne Newton, Kenny Rogers, or Eric Clapton?
11:23Newton, Rogers, or Clapton, who recorded The Gambler?
11:28Kenny Rogers?
11:30Yes, that's right.
11:32Another guest came in handy.
11:35Well, you're trying to beat 17, but you have three or 13.
11:38This cannot put you over.
11:39What is the next card?
11:4110, 13.
11:42All right.
11:44You're still trying to beat 17.
11:45Mercy.
11:46Now, audience, be very quiet, and be careful that you don't say any answers out loud inadvertently.
11:51Are you brave or chicken if you're pusillanimous?
11:57Pusillanimous, I'm sorry.
11:58Are you brave or chicken if you're pusillanimous?
12:02Chicken.
12:02That's correct.
12:03You're chicken if you're pusillanimous.
12:05I have such terrible times with that.
12:08Well, if you have a 13, what card would you like?
12:11Why not an 8?
12:12Why not an 8?
12:13Here is the next card.
12:158!
12:15Oh, my gosh.
12:32I wouldn't come over and shake your hand for doing that,
12:34but I'd have to give equal time over here.
12:36We don't have that much time.
12:38Well, you picked up $1,000 with that 21.
12:40That evens up our match at a game apiece.
12:42We're going to take a commercial break, and I'll tell you why.
12:45We need it.
12:53If you plan to be in the Las Vegas area
12:55and would like to see our show in person,
12:56write for information about tickets to Las Vegas Gambit,
12:59Tropicana Hotel, Post Office Box 18248, Las Vegas, Nevada 89-114.
13:04Now, back to the game in Wake Martindale.
13:07Don't go away.
13:09Whatever you do, don't leave your television sets.
13:12We got one of the hottest matches going
13:14that we've ever seen on Las Vegas Gambit.
13:16O'Neill's have a game and $24,758.
13:21Peterson's trying their best to become our new champions with $100.
13:25This is the first card in the final game between you four.
13:28Four of five.
13:29Jacqueline Bissett's new movie is rich and famous,
13:33and starring with her is the flawless blonde
13:35we last saw with Jill Clayberg in Starting Over.
13:38Is she Ellen Burstyn, Cheryl Ladd, or Candace Bergen?
13:43Nobody knew that one.
13:44Candace Bergen.
13:45Ireland.
13:47Ireland.
13:48Is it located off the eastern or western coast?
13:51O'Neill.
13:51Western.
13:52Right.
13:52The western coast of Britain.
13:54Ireland.
13:55Located off the western coast of Britain.
13:57How about it, Dick?
13:58Susan?
13:58Pass it, Link.
13:59Pass it away.
14:00Peterson's get the five.
14:01This actress plays the dragon lady
14:03in the latest Charlie Chan film.
14:05You probably remember her best, though,
14:07as Pepper on the TV series Police.
14:09Peterson.
14:09Angie Dickinson.
14:10You got it.
14:11Angie Dickinson is correct.
14:13Lady on Police Woman.
14:14They gave you a five.
14:15You want to return the favor?
14:16No.
14:17Tell me what you want to do.
14:18Look this way.
14:18We'll take the card.
14:19All right.
14:19You've taken a six.
14:22Four and eleven.
14:24All right.
14:26I told you folks at home and here,
14:28don't leave your seats.
14:29Hot match going.
14:31Next question.
14:32In the Honeymooners series,
14:34did Art Carney live on the floor below or the floor?
14:38Hold it.
14:38Above.
14:39Right.
14:39Above Jackie Gleason.
14:41That's correct.
14:42He lived on the floor above.
14:43Take it.
14:43We'll take it, Link.
14:44You got it.
14:45Three.
14:46True or false to this, players,
14:48birds are the only animals that have feathers.
14:51Peterson.
14:52False.
14:52No, that's true.
14:53Birds are the only animals that have feathers.
14:56The answer is true.
14:58O'Neill's?
14:59Yes, we'll take it.
15:01To go with a three, you've matched a four.
15:03Seven.
15:04The Pentagon Papers or the Pickwick Papers?
15:07Which ones did Charles Dickens write?
15:09Peterson.
15:09Pickwick Papers.
15:10Write the Pickwick Papers.
15:11Go up.
15:13Do you want to take the card?
15:15We'll take it.
15:16Wayne and Teddy Peterson.
15:18If the next card is a ten, you'll pick up the match and $500.
15:23Is the card a ten?
15:25Three.
15:27Fourteen.
15:28Freeze or play with a fourteen.
15:33What do you think they ought to do?
15:36A lot of people saying freeze.
15:37A lot of people saying play.
15:40Fourteen with a match at stake.
15:41Play.
15:42Play on.
15:43They have decided after a little family conference between the two of them to play on.
15:47And here's the next question.
15:48Hollywood fashion designer, Mr. Blackwell, says of her wardrobe, she looks like recycled spaghetti.
15:56He's talking about TV's Chrissy.
15:58O'Neill.
15:59Suzanne Somers.
16:00That's right.
16:01Suzanne Somers, the lady of recycled spaghetti trains.
16:04Take it or give it away.
16:05They have a fourteen.
16:06If you give away an eight, they'll be over.
16:09You might give away a seven and twenty-one in the match.
16:12Do you take it or do you give it to them?
16:14If you think it's an eight, nine, or ten, get rid of it.
16:17If you don't, take it.
16:18What do you want to do?
16:20We'll take it.
16:21You're going to take the card.
16:23That's what she said.
16:24All right.
16:24Here's the next card.
16:25To go with a seven, another seven.
16:27Had you given it away, which I think Mr. O'Neill wanted to do, you'd have given away a twenty-one in the match.
16:33As it is, Mrs. O'Neill.
16:35The wives always know they all, well, almost always.
16:42Fourteen versus fourteen.
16:43Nobody can freeze.
16:44Next question.
16:45She appeared on the cover of Life magazine nine times, more than any other Hollywood actress.
16:50Considering her popularity in Some Like It Hot and Bust Stuff.
16:54O'Neill.
16:54Marilyn Monroe.
16:55Correct.
16:56Marilyn Monroe.
16:58All right.
17:00Decision time again.
17:02Do you pass it or do you keep it?
17:04We'll pass it.
17:06This time, they're going to change their strategy.
17:09They've decided to pass the card to the Petersons.
17:12If it's more than a seven, of course, the match will go to the O'Neills.
17:16Petersons, you need seven or less to stay alive.
17:19What is the card?
17:21Three.
17:22Seventeen.
17:22Threes are played.
17:24Three.
17:24Okay, O'Neills, had you taken the card, you would have had a seventeen.
17:27As it is, you gave it away.
17:29They have frozen at seventeen.
17:30And you, Dick and Susan O'Neill, in order to remain our champions,
17:33have to come up with eighteen or better.
17:35Just relax if you can and answer this question.
17:39Bonnie Parker had a famous partner.
17:41Was he George Burns, Luke Costello, or Clyde Barrow?
17:45Clyde Barrow.
17:46That's right.
17:47They were Bonnie and Clyde.
17:49Well, you need a four or more, not more than a seven.
17:53Four or more, but not more than a seven to stay our champions.
17:57What's the card?
17:57Two more, and the wing goes to Wayne and Teddy Hedidson.
18:04Well, you did.
18:11Congratulations to you.
18:11If you can stop chissing there long enough.
18:16So, we've got a couple of new champions over here.
18:18How are you feeling, Teddy?
18:19Wonderful.
18:20How are you feeling, Wayne?
18:21Well, kind of giddy.
18:22A little bit giddy, but you feel awfully good.
18:24Yeah, and you know something, as you got the win that time
18:28and became our new champions, I had to think back.
18:30I hearkened back to the cards you brought me
18:32from all the kids in the class,
18:33and aren't they going to be proud?
18:35Yes, very proud.
18:36Oh, boy.
18:36Well, I'm proud for you both, and congratulations.
18:40You picked up only $200 because you won the match,
18:42but you continue as our champions until you should, you know, lose,
18:46and you get to go to the gambit board
18:47to really add to those prizes in a considerable way, hopefully.
18:51And to the O'Neills, Dick and Susan,
18:54let's talk a little bit about what you've won.
18:56You are leaving us with things like
18:581,000 gallons of gasoline, bunk beds, a gold and diamond ring.
19:03You have two tickets worth $1,000 apiece
19:05to anywhere in the United States you want to travel.
19:08You have a barbecue.
19:09You have a game set, a camera, and projector.
19:11You won a cruise to Greece.
19:13You won a trip to Palm Springs.
19:14You won a pinball machine.
19:16You won the Picasso lithograph.
19:18Cash totaling $9,600.
19:20And all of that comes to $24,758 in cash and merchandise.
19:29Fantastic.
19:29Thank you very much.
19:31And like her class is going to be proud of this couple,
19:34I know that the people back there in St. Louis, Missouri,
19:36are going to look at the O'Neills and say,
19:37boy, they represented our city pretty darn well.
19:40How do you feel about all this?
19:42Overwhelmed.
19:43Overwhelmed.
19:43Have any idea when you came on the show
19:45you'd get anywhere near this?
19:46The only thing I've ever wanted in my whole life
19:48has been an electric razor.
19:50So this is something very new to me.
19:52An electric razor.
19:54Well, thank goodness she did better than that.
19:55A little bit better than that this time
19:57because she was just a little sharper.
20:00Hey, thanks.
20:01Be nice.
20:02Be nice.
20:03It's a very, very hostile audience.
20:05Very hostile audience.
20:06I'll deal with you later.
20:09Congratulations to all of you.
20:10Thanks, sir.
20:11Oh, that got to me just in time.
20:12That's the bell.
20:13Thank the Lord.
20:14We'll be back in just a moment.
20:28Us and for us on Las Vegas Gambit.
20:30I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
20:32I know that Peterson had a great time.
20:33The O'Neills, they certainly have no reason to frown.
20:35They're leaving with over 24,000.
20:37Congratulations.
20:38And tell everybody, hello back there in St. Louis.
20:40Beverly, have a nice day.
20:41Thank you, Wink.
20:42Bye-bye, everybody.
20:42Bye-bye, Wink Martindale.
20:43For everybody here on Las Vegas Gambit, God bless.
20:45We'll see you next time.
20:46Bye-bye.
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