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Announcer:
BOB BARKER!

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BOY, I HIT THE BULL'S EYE
RIGHT IN THE FACE.

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Host: SAY, ARE MOST
STOLEN CARS RECOVERED?

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I HAD ONE RECOVERED
IN ZEBRA ONCE.

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OKAY, TOMORROW WE MAKE
ANOTHER PHONE CALL,

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SO BE SURE AND GET
YOUR CARDS IN.

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OPEN IT.

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Announcer:
BOB BARKER!

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YOU GOT IT!

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YOU GOT IT!

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YOU GOT IT!

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<i>THIS PROGRAM</i>

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<i>BY CONTRIBUTIONS
TO YOUR PBS STATION</i>

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<i>FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU.</i>

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THEY INVITED ALL OF US
TO JOIN THEIR GAMES.

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<i>YOU MAKE DEALS</i>

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<i>EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIVES.</i>

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OPEN IT.

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Announcer:
BOB BARKER!

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WE PLAY GAMES
AT PARTIES.

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WE GO TO CLUBS
AND PLAY GAMES.

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AMERICANS LOVE GAMES.

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THIS IS A SHOW
ABOUT GUESSING

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HOW MUCH SOMETHING COSTS.

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THAT'S A GAME SHOW?

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SAID, "IT'LL<i> NEVER</i> GO!"

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BUT YOU LOVE
YOUR HUSBAND, HUH?

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YEAH, I LOVE EVERY MAN.
I'M CRAZY ABOUT MEN.

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HONEY, I THINK YOU'RE ABOUT
THE PRETTIEST MAN I EVER SEEN.

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I NEVER DID LOOK YOU
RIGHT SQUARE IN THE EYE BEFORE.

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I'M TELLING THE TRUTH!

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I DON'T CARE
IF THEY DO LAUGH.

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YOU'RE GOING TO WIN

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A LOT OF MONEY
HERE TONIGHT.

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THEY WERE ALL LAUGHING
AND SCREAMING.

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AND I DIDN'T KNOW
WHAT THE GAME WAS.

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AND BY THE END OF THIS THING,

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THEY ALL SAID,
"YOU GOT THE JOB."

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AND I WENT, "WHOA."

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Narrator: THEY LET US
PARTICIPATE, PLAY ALONG,

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EVERY DAY.

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BERYL SAN?

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UH, BERYL...

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BERYL...

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OH, NO!

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Host: YOUR TIME IS UP,
TIME IS UP.

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PLAYING GAMES FOR A LIVING,

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IT SOUNDS SO RIDICULOUS.

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THEN I FELL IN LOVE
WITH THE GAME.

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I LOVE THE GAME OF "PASSWORD."

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Barker: JUST LET'S SEE
WHAT WE GOT

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COMING UP FOR BIDS
RIGHT NOW

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ON "THE PRICE IS RIGHT."

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Narrator: THEY OFFERED
THE EXCITEMENT

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OF INSTANT RICHES.

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Host: WHAT'S BEHIND
DOOR NUMBER 3?

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YOU GOT IT!

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YOU GOT IT!

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WIN OR LOSE, THEY HAD
THE TIME OF THEIR LIFE.

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Narrator:
THEY PUSHED BOUNDARIES...

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WITH A SMILE.

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Host: HOW, HOW DID HE
SPEND HIS TIME

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IN THE GEISHA HOUSE?

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OH, NEGOTIATING
FOR PEACE.

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WE KNOW ALL ABOUT
THESE SWASHBUCKLING HEROES.

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BET YOUR LIFE.

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WHAT SWASHES
ON THE SCREEN

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SOMETIMES BUCKLES

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WE WERE THE EDGY SHOW.

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THAT NOBODY HAD TALKED ABOUT
AT THAT TIME.

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Narrator: THEY GAVE US
AN ESCAPE...

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A FEW MOMENTS
OF FUN.

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Host: STEADY
AS YOU GO, NOW.

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SAVED BY THE BELL!
WONDERFUL!

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WE GOT TOGETHER
ONCE A WEEK TO DO FIVE SHOWS,

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MAKE A FEW BUCKS,
AND HAVE A LOT OF LAUGHS.

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AND THAT'S WHAT WE DID.

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IT'S THE BEST JOB
IN SHOW BIZ,

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BECAUSE YOU DON'T
HAVE TO MEMORIZE ANYTHING,

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AND YOU GET TO SIT DOWN.

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<i>Host: MRS. PETERSON,
WE HAVE A JOB</i>

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<i>FOR THE TWO OF YOU
ON THE $100...</i>

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<i>GOING TO STOP
THIS FILM COLD.</i>

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Narrator: PIONEERING
A SUCCESSFUL GAME SHOW

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OVER THE DECADES,
JUST A HANDFUL OF VISIONARIES

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HAVE MASTERED
THE FORM,

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SHAPING THE GAMES
WE LOVE TO PLAY OVER AND OVER.

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THEY ARE THE PIONEERS
OF TELEVISION.

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THE 1930s WERE ESPECIALLY HOT.

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SUMMER VACATIONS

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FOR ONE CALIFORNIA FAMILY

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MEANT LONG, MONOTONOUS DRIVES

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IN A SWELTERING CAR.

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TO RELIEVE THE BOREDOM,

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THE TWO YOUNGSTERS
WOULD PLAY

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A GAME CALLED "HANGMAN"
OVER AND OVER.

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THE GIRL'S NAME
WAS BARBARA.

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HER BROTHER WAS MERV...

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MERV GRIFFIN.

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LATER, THE MEMORY
OF THESE TRIPS

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WOULD SPARK MERV'S IMAGINATION.

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AND I THOUGHT, "I WONDER
IF THAT'S A GAME SHOW."

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Host: OVER $49,000
JUST WAITING TO BE WON

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TODAY ON "WHEEL OF FORTUNE"!

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Narrator: GRIFFIN'S IDEA WOULD
BECOME "WHEEL OF FORTUNE,"

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THE BIGGEST FRANCHISE
IN GAME SHOW HISTORY,

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THE SHOW THAT WOULD EARN MERV
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS

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AND CEMENT HIS POSITION

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AS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL
GAME SHOW CREATOR IN HISTORY.

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BUT THE STORY
OF THE GAME SHOW PIONEERS

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BEGINS LONG BEFORE
"WHEEL OF FORTUNE."

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IN FACT, IT BEGINS
EVEN BEFORE TELEVISION ITSELF.

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WHEN RADIO EXPLODED
IN THE 1920s,

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BROADCASTERS SOON DISCOVERED

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THEY COULD PLAY GAMES
ON THE AIR,

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AND PEOPLE WOULD LISTEN.

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<i>Host: WONDER IF THIS LADY
COULD TELL ME,</i>

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<i>FOR SEVEN SILVER DOLLARS,
OF ALL THE TERRITORIES</i>

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<i>AND STATES
OF THE UNITED STATES,</i>

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<i>NO COACHING, PLEASE.</i>

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<i>THE LARGEST OF OUR TERRITORIES</i>
<i>OR STATES.</i>
<i>Woman: TEXAS.</i>

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<i>WHAT'S THAT?
TEXAS.</i>

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<i>Host: I'M SORRY,
IT WOULD BE ALASKA.</i>

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<i>INCLUDING THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS,</i>

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<i>MORE THAN TWICE THE SIZE
OF TEXAS.</i>

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<i>AND TWO TICKETS TO NEXT WEEK'S
PRODUCTION TO THE LADY.</i>

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Narrator:
THE EARLIEST PROGRAMS

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FOCUSED PURELY
ON THE CONTEST.

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THE PEOPLE WERE NEARLY
IRRELEVANT.

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THE PLAYER COULD SAY,
"JEEZ, I'M SORRY

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"I COULDN'T COME LAST WEEK,
BUT MY MOTHER DIED,

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AND I HAD TO GO TO THE FUNERAL,"

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AND THE GAME SHOW HOST
WOULD SAY,

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"WELL, IT'S REALLY GREAT
TO HAVE YOU WITH US."

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I MEAN, IT WOULD JUST
GO COMPLETELY OVER THEM,

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WITH NO SYMPATHY... IT WAS LIKE,
"LET'S GET ON WITH THE GAME."

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Narrator: BY FAR THE BIGGEST
SUCCESS ON RADIO

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WAS A SHOW CALLED
"STOP THE MUSIC,"

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CREATED BY THE MOST PROLIFIC

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GAME SHOW PRODUCER IN HISTORY,

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MARK GOODSON.

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"STOP THE MUSIC'S" INNOVATION
WAS MONEY...

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EACH WEEK, THE HOST
WOULD MAKE A PHONE CALL

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TO A RANDOM NUMBER
SOMEWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES.

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IF THE PERSON WHO PICKED UP
COULD NAME THE SONG,

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THE PRIZE MIGHT REACH
$30,000...

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AN UNHEARD-OF JACKPOT
FOR THE ERA.

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<i>Host: MRS. DALEY,
THIS IS BERT PARKS</i>

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<i>CALLING FOR BUICK
ON "STOP THE MUSIC."</i>

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<i>CAN YOU TELL ME
THE NAME OF THE SELECTION</i>

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<i>THE ORCHESTRA
WAS JUST PLAYING?</i>

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Man: I REMEMBER, AS A YOUNGSTER,

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17, 18 YEARS OLD,
AS A SODA JERK

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AT BAKER'S DRUG STORE,

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IN JACKSON, TENNESSEE,

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GATHERING AROUND THE RADIO
AAT 8:00 ON SUNDAY NIGHT, ,

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TO LISTEN TO "STOP THE MUSIC."

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WOW, WHAT A GREAT SHOW
THAT WAS.

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Narrator: IN TRUTH,
MANY PEOPLE

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FOUND THE SHOW ANNOYING,

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BUT STILL LISTENED, ANYWAY,

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BECAUSE THEY HOPED
TO WIN THE PRIZES.

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IN EFFECT, MARK GOODSON
HAD CREATED

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THE FIRST NATIONAL LOTTERY.

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AND AMERICA COULDN'T RESIST.

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THE ONE WORD
THAT I WOULD CHOOSE

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TO DESCRIBE MARK
IS "BRILLIANT."

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BRILLIANT.

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HE WAS BRILLIANT,
AND HE WAS A PERFECTIONIST.

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Narrator: SOON, MARK GOODSON
WOULD FACE

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A WORTHY CHALLENGER...

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AN INNOVATOR
WHO TOOK RADIO GAME SHOWS

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IN A BRALPH EDWARDS.ION...

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HIS CREATION WAS
"TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES."

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AT THE AGE OF 26,
HE SOLD "TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES"

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AS A PRIME-TIME SHOW
ON RADIO,

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AND HE PUT TOGETHER
THE STAFF,

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HE PRODUCED IT,
HE HOSTED IT,

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AND IT BECAME...
I BELIEVE IT WAS 1941...

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IT WAS THE MOST POPULAR
RADIO SHOW IN THE UNITED STATES.

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AND HE GOT IT ALL STARTED
AT 26.

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<i>Host: THAT'S JUST ABOUT
GOING TO BE</i>

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<i>WHAT YOUR CONSEQUENCE IS...</i>

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<i>NOW, DOCTOR, HERE ARE
THE THREE MEN</i>

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<i>WHO WILL PRETEND
THEY ARE BABIES</i>

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<i>THAT YOU'VE JUST DELIVERED.</i>

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<i>NOW, WE'VE SEEN IN MOVIES
HOW A DOCTOR</i>

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<i>ALWAYS SORT OF
SLAP THEIR BABIES</i>

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<i>TO GET THEM STARTED.</i>

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<i>UPSIDE-DOWN
AGAINST THIS BACKBOARD HERE,</i>

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<i>JUST GET OVER THERE.</i>

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<i>AND SO THE DOCTOR
CAN SLAP YOU,</i>

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<i>JUST AS IF...
JUST AS IF</i>

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<i>YOU WERE GETTING BORN.</i>

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Narrator:
"TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES"

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DID HAVE A QUIZ,
BUT EDWARDS' REAL AIM

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WAS TO PUT ORDINARY CONTESTANTS
INTO FUNNY SITUATIONS.

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THE GAME WAS MERELY
A FRAMEWORK.

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THE GOAL WAS FUN.

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IT WAS A NEW APPROACH
TO GAME SHOWS.

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AND IT WOULD TRANSLATE WELL
AS THE GENRE ADAPTED

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TO THE NEXT BIG THING...
TELEVISION.

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WHEN THE BELL SOUNDS,

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THAT PERSON THEN BECOMES
OUR LUCKY MOTHER.

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Narrator: EARLY TELEVISION
NEEDED PROGRAMMING.

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AND GAME SHOWS WERE EASY
TO PRODUCE.

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IT WAS A PERFECT MATCH.

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Host: ALL SET?

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♪ OKAY, MOTHER ♪

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♪ IT'S YOUR TIME OF DAY ♪

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♪ OKAY, MOTHER ♪

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♪ TIME TO HAVE YOUR SAY ♪♪

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Narrator: THE FIRST
TV GAME SHOWS PREMIERED

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IN THE LATE 1940s.

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THE PROGRAMS WERE PRIMITIVE.

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BUT AUDIENCES

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DIDN'T SEEM TO CARE.

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THE LIGHTING WAS
SO INTENSE IN THOSE DAYS,

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IT WAS, IT WAS JUST...
THEY'D TURN ON THE LIGHTS,

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AND YOU BROKE OUT IN A SWEAT.

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IT WAS TERRIBLE.

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YOU'RE LOOKING AT A TIME

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WHEN THE FACT
THAT THE SCREEN LIT UP

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WAS IN ITSELF A NOVELTY.

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SO THAT THE AUDIENCE OUT THERE

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WAS SO THRILLED TO HAVE PICTURES
IN THEIR LIVING ROOM!

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AND THE MAKEUP...
TONS OF IT.

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BLACK LIPSTICK,
DEEP... ALMOST PINK...

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PANCAKE MAKEUP.

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IT WAS WILD.

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Narrator:
IN 1950, RALPH EDWARDS

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BROUGHT HIS FRANCHISE
TO TV.

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A FEW YEARS LATER,
EDWARDS HANDED OVER

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THE EMCEE JOB
TO A YOUNG UNKNOWN

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NAMED BOB BARKER.

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HE WOULD STAY ON
FOR 19 YEARS.

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Announcer:
HELLO THERE!

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WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU.

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IT'S TIME TO PLAY
"TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES."

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AND NOW, HERE HE IS,
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,

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THE STAR OF OUR SHOW,

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BOB BARKER!

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Barker: HE SAID,
"BOB, YOU ARE NOW

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THE STAR OF
'TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES.'"

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HE SAID, "I DON'T WANT YOU
TO IMITATE ME.

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"I DON'T WANT YOU
TO IMITATE ANYBODY.

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I WANT YOU TO GO OUT THERE
AND BE BOB BARKER."

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AND WHAT BETTER...
WHAT BETTER BREAK

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COULD A YOUNG MAN HAVE?

250
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YOU CAN DO IT.

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GO AHEAD,
STEP ON THE...

252
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YOUR ARM'S IN THE WAY.

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WELL...

254
00:11:23,116 --> 00:11:27,063
PUT YOUR RIGHT FOOT
MYUP THERE.

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ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
ALL RIGHT, GO.

256
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PUT YOUR HAND
ON MY SHOULDER, GO AHEAD.

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NOW, GET UP THERE FAST,
BEFORE IT FALLS.

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OKAY, THERE.

259
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OKAY, I GOT IT.

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ALL RIGHT, GO.

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I'M GOING TO GO.

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,

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THIS IS NOT
MR. BELDEN, THIS IS NOT

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DON THOMPSON.

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FOR THE INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN
VALENTI BROTHERS.

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HERE THEY ARE.

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Narrator: THE FIRST FEW YEARS
OF "TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES"

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WERE PRODUCED LIVE

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AT 8:00 A.M.

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THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE
WAS GETTING

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A LOS ANGELES AUDIENCE

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TO SHOW UP SO EARLY.

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00:12:17,436 --> 00:12:20,216
THEY HAD UP HERE
ON THE MARQUEE,

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THEY HAD,

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"FREE DONUTS AND BOB BARKER."

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AND AFTER I'D DONE THE SHOW

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A FOUR-WEEK OUT CLAUSE
IN MY CONTRACT...

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SO THEY KEPT ME.

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AND WHEN THEY DID,
I SAID,

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"I WANT IT,
'BOB BARKER AND FREE DONUTS.'"

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I GOT BILLING OVER THE DONUTS.

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I HAD IT MADE!

283
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Narrator:
BY THE EARLY 1950s,

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RALPH EDWARDS
HAD TWO HIT SHOWS...

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"TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES"
AND ITS SPIN-OFF,

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"THIS IS YOUR LIFE."

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Announcer:
"THIS IS YOUR LIFE,"

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AMERICA'S MOST
TALKED-ABOUT PROGRAM!

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NOW HERE HE IS,

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MR. "THIS IS YOUR LIFE"
HIMSELF,

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RALPH EDWARDS!

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DON'T GO AWAY TONIGHT.

293
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I WARN YOU,
DON'T LEAVE THE SET.

294
00:13:12,225 --> 00:13:13,636
THIS IS
GOING TO BE TERRIFIC.

295
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HELLO, EVERYBODY,
THANKS FOR JOINING US AGAIN

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ON "THIS IS YOUR LIFE."

297
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Narrator: COMPETITOR
MARK GOODSON

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HIS COMPANY WAS BUSY PERFECTING
THE FIRST MAJOR

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GAME SHOW INNOVATION
UNIQUE TO TELEVISION...

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Host:
ALL RIGHT, MR. OLSON,

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COME ON OVER HERE
AND SIT DOWN.

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I KNOW IT'S HARD
TO TEAR YOURSELF AWAY

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YOUNG LADIES ON IT
AND JUST STEVE ALLEN,

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BUT COME OVER HERE
AND JOIN ME,

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WE'LL LET THEM
GET GOING.

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WE'LL LET OUR VIEWERS
HAVE A FURTHER LOOK

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AT MR. OLSON...
AT THE SAME TIME,

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WE WILL TELL THEM
WHAT HIS LINE IS.

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THE GENERAL QUESTIONING
WITH STEVE ALLEN.

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WOULD ANY OF THE MEMBERS
HERE ON THE PANEL TONIGHT...

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YES.

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I DIDN'T EVEN
HEAR THE QUESTION.

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Narrator:
IN "WHAT'S MY LINE?"

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GOODSON'S PRODUCER,
BOB STEWART,

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CREATED A PANEL
OF FOUR CELEBRITIES

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WHO WOULD TRY TO GUESS
A CONTESTANT'S OCCUPATION.

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00:14:23,863 --> 00:14:25,408
WITH THIS MASTER STROKE,

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00:14:25,432 --> 00:14:29,078
GAME SHOWS HAD FUSED
WITH TALK SHOWS...

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A WINNING FORMULA

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00:14:30,636 --> 00:14:33,382
THAT WOULD BE REPEATED
MANY TIMES OVER.

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00:14:33,406 --> 00:14:36,152
NOW, MISS CLEVELAND,
IF YOU'LL WHISPER TO ME,

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WE'LL SHOW THE AUDIENCE
WHAT YOU DO

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00:14:38,578 --> 00:14:43,381
THAT KEEPS YOU
S

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THE CLUE
TO MISS CLEVELAND'S SECRET

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CONCERNS
SOMETHING SHE DOES.

326
00:14:57,863 --> 00:14:59,075
AND WE'LL START THE GAME
WITH BETTY.

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Narrator: IF A PANEL
OF CELEBRITIES WORKED,

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00:15:02,635 --> 00:15:03,812
WHY NOT INSTALL

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00:15:03,836 --> 00:15:05,814
A BIG MOVIE STAR

330
00:15:05,838 --> 00:15:06,782
AS A GAME SHOW HOST?

331
00:15:06,806 --> 00:15:08,617
IT'S A FORMULA
THAT WORKED...

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00:15:08,641 --> 00:15:11,053
JUST ONCE.

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00:15:11,077 --> 00:15:14,056
Announcer:
"YOU BET YOUR LIFE"!

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00:15:15,014 --> 00:15:17,626
HERE HE IS,
THE ONE, THE ONLY...

335
00:15:17,650 --> 00:15:19,895
Audience:
GROUCHO!

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Narrator: MOVIE COMEDIAN
GROUCHO MARX

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APPLIED HIS AD-LIBBING SKILLS
TO TELEVISION

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TO CREATE ONE OF THE BIGGEST
GAME SHOW HITS

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00:15:28,428 --> 00:15:29,705
OF THE ERA.

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00:15:29,729 --> 00:15:32,107
<i>PESOS,</i> NOT<i> BESOS.</i>

341
00:15:32,131 --> 00:15:33,809
WELL, WHEN DO YOU...

342
00:15:33,833 --> 00:15:34,743
WHAT DID I SAY?

343
00:15:34,767 --> 00:15:37,947
YOU SAID... WELL,<i> BESOS</i>
MEAN "KISSES."

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00:15:37,971 --> 00:15:41,750
BUT<i> PESOS</i> MEAN,
YOU KNOW, LIKE DOLLARS.

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00:15:41,774 --> 00:15:43,519
OH, WELL, IF YOU HAVE
ENOUGH<i> PESOS,</i>

346
00:15:43,543 --> 00:15:44,853
YOU CAN GET
ENOUGH<i> BESOS.</i>

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00:15:47,446 --> 00:15:51,193
ON THAT, HE USED
HIS FULL RANGE

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00:15:51,217 --> 00:15:55,731
OF GIFTS
AND CONVERSATIONAL ABILITIES,

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00:15:55,755 --> 00:15:56,999
AND IMPROVISATION,
AD-LIB,

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SPONTANEOUS, WHATEVER
YOU WANT TO CALL IT,

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00:15:59,259 --> 00:16:02,771
OF WHICH HE IS, WAS
OF THE HIGHEST ORDER

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00:16:02,795 --> 00:16:04,706
OF ANYONE WE HAVE EVER KNOWN.

353
00:16:04,730 --> 00:16:08,644
Narrator: ONE OF GROUCHO'S
MANY CONTESTANTS

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00:16:08,668 --> 00:16:13,982
YOUNG COMIC MAKING HER FIRST
NETWORK APPEARANCE...

355
00:16:14,006 --> 00:16:17,119
YES, I'VE, UH, Marx:
WORN A WEDDING RINGOU MARRIED?

356
00:16:17,143 --> 00:16:18,253
FOR 18 YEARS.

357
00:16:18,277 --> 00:16:19,087
REALLY?

358
00:16:19,111 --> 00:16:20,055
TWO MORE PAYMENTS,

359
00:16:20,079 --> 00:16:21,590
AND IT'LL BE ALL YOURS.

360
00:16:22,716 --> 00:16:24,860
I WAS NOT ONLY NERVOUS,

361
00:16:24,884 --> 00:16:26,429
I WAS PETRIFIED!

362
00:16:26,453 --> 00:16:28,597
MR. MARX WAS TALKING
ABOUT HIS PSYCHIATRIST,

363
00:16:28,621 --> 00:16:30,932
AND I DECIDED I'D SURELY
BETTER BE WELL ADJUSTED

364
00:16:30,956 --> 00:16:33,001
BEFORE I WENT INTO SUCH
A SHAKY BUSINESS,

365
00:16:33,025 --> 00:16:36,371
AND... SO I DECIDED
I SHOULD BE ANALYZED,

366
00:16:36,395 --> 00:16:38,340
AND I WENT TO THIS ANALYST.

367
00:16:38,364 --> 00:16:39,808
HE'S HELPED ME A GREAT DEAL.

368
00:16:39,832 --> 00:16:41,977
IN FACT,
I AM SO MUCH BETTER NOW

369
00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:43,479
THAT I GET TO SIT UP.

370
00:16:49,642 --> 00:16:52,588
MY DELIVERY WAS
SO SLOW.

371
00:16:52,612 --> 00:16:54,055
I HAD... I LOOKED AWFUL.

372
00:16:54,079 --> 00:16:56,492
I KNEW NOTHING
ABOUT MAKEUP.

373
00:16:56,516 --> 00:16:57,793
I HAD DRAWN EYEBROWS ON

374
00:16:57,817 --> 00:17:01,363
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT
ON HALLOWEEN.

375
00:17:05,458 --> 00:17:07,603
Narrator: WHILE IT'S TRUE
THAT GROUCHO

376
00:17:07,627 --> 00:17:11,073
QUIZZED HIS CONTESTANTS
AND GAVE AWAY SMALL PRIZES,

377
00:17:11,097 --> 00:17:13,309
THE REAL ATTRACTION
OF THE SHOW

378
00:17:13,333 --> 00:17:15,778
WAS THE HUMOR
THAT HE WOULD EXTRACT

379
00:17:15,802 --> 00:17:16,678
FROM THE SITUATION.

380
00:17:16,702 --> 00:17:18,013
WELL, YOU KNOW,
THE GIRLS

381
00:17:18,037 --> 00:17:19,715
USUALLY CONSIDER IT
A COMPLIMENT

382
00:17:19,739 --> 00:17:21,316
WHEN THE BOYS
WHISTLE AT THEM.

383
00:17:21,340 --> 00:17:24,186
I DON'T SEE HOW THE BOYS
<i>COULD</i> WHISTLE AT YOU.

384
00:17:24,210 --> 00:17:26,188
I SHOULD THINK IT WOULD BE
IMPOSSIBLE TO WHISTLE

385
00:17:26,212 --> 00:17:29,392
WHEN THEY ALL HAVE
THEIR TONGUES HANGING OUT.

386
00:17:31,851 --> 00:17:34,763
Narrator: THE NEXT BIG WAVE
IN TELEVISION GAMES

387
00:17:34,787 --> 00:17:38,234
WOULD STRAY
FROM GROUCHO'S APPROACH...

388
00:17:38,258 --> 00:17:40,069
FAR AWAY.

389
00:17:40,093 --> 00:17:42,071
THE RESULT
WAS DEVASTATING

390
00:17:42,095 --> 00:17:46,942
TO THE GAME SHOW INDUSTRY
AND THE COUNTRY.

391
00:17:46,966 --> 00:17:51,379
IF YOU'RE READY, LET'S GET
INTO THE ISOLATION BOOTHS.

392
00:17:52,438 --> 00:17:54,183
Narrator:
BY THE LATE 1950s,

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00:17:54,207 --> 00:17:56,251
GAME SHOWS WERE
THE HIGHEST-RATED

394
00:17:56,275 --> 00:17:57,186
PROGRAMS ON TELEVISION.

395
00:17:57,210 --> 00:18:00,355
SERIES LIKE
"THE $64,000 CHALLENGE,"

396
00:18:00,379 --> 00:18:02,057
"TWENTY-ONE," AND "DOTTO"

397
00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:06,161
ATTRACTED UNPRECEDENTED
AUDIENCES.

398
00:18:06,185 --> 00:18:07,463
MAY I QUESTION YOU
ONCE AGAIN?

399
00:18:07,487 --> 00:18:08,564
TONIGHT IT'LL BE
THE BIGGEST GAME

400
00:18:08,588 --> 00:18:09,965
WE EVER PLAYED
HERE ON THE PROGRAM.

401
00:18:09,989 --> 00:18:11,534
Narrator:
PRODUCERS HAD LEARNED

402
00:18:11,558 --> 00:18:13,368
TO RATCHET UP THE DRAMA
OF THE GAMES

403
00:18:13,392 --> 00:18:17,840
WITH LARGE CASH PRIZES,
SOUNDPROOF BOOTHS,

404
00:18:17,864 --> 00:18:23,446
THE TECHNIQUE WAS SO REFINED,
ANTHEY EVEN KNEW EXACTLYS.

405
00:18:23,470 --> 00:18:26,048
WHEN TO TURN UP THE HEAT
IN THE STUDIO

406
00:18:26,072 --> 00:18:30,820
TO ENSURE A CONTESTANT
WOULD DAB HIS BROW DRAMATICALLY.

407
00:18:30,844 --> 00:18:33,422
Host:
THEN YOU WIN $20,000!

408
00:18:33,446 --> 00:18:35,824
CONGRATULATIONS!

409
00:18:35,848 --> 00:18:37,793
Narrator:
BUT THEN SOME PRODUCERS

410
00:18:37,817 --> 00:18:40,128
ADDED ONE MORE
DRAMATIC ELEMENT...

411
00:18:40,152 --> 00:18:41,997
A PREDETERMINED OUTCOME.

412
00:18:42,021 --> 00:18:45,901
THEY RIGGED THE GAMES
TO FAVOR APPEALING CONTESTANTS.

413
00:18:45,925 --> 00:18:49,237
THE STRATEGY WAS SUCCESSFUL
FOR A WHILE.

414
00:18:49,261 --> 00:18:51,507
AND RATINGS INCREASED.

415
00:18:51,531 --> 00:18:53,909
THEN THEY GOT CAUGHT.

416
00:18:53,933 --> 00:18:58,847
THE FIRST GAME TO BE EXPOSED
WAS "DOTTO."

417
00:18:58,871 --> 00:19:01,149
EMCEE JACK NARZ
HAD NO IDEA

418
00:19:01,173 --> 00:19:02,618
THE SHOW WAS BEING RIGGED...

419
00:19:02,642 --> 00:19:06,288
UNTIL HE RECEIVED
A LATE-NIGHT PHONE CALL

420
00:19:06,312 --> 00:19:08,089
FROM HIS BOSS.

421
00:19:08,113 --> 00:19:09,158
HE SAID, "COME OVER
TO MY HOUSE,

422
00:19:09,182 --> 00:19:11,093
WOULD YOU COME TO MY HOUSE
FOR DINNER TONIGHT?"

423
00:19:11,117 --> 00:19:13,862
I WENT OVER, AND HE GAVE ME
A MARTINI.

424
00:19:13,886 --> 00:19:18,200
AND THEN HE SAID,
"HOW ABOUT A SECOND MARTINI?"

425
00:19:18,224 --> 00:19:23,472
HE SAID,
"DON'T GO TO WORK MONDAY."

426
00:19:23,496 --> 00:19:25,341
HE SAID, "THE SHOW
HAS BEEN CANCELLED."

427
00:19:25,365 --> 00:19:28,344
IT CAME AS A BOLT
OUT OF THE BLUE FOR ME.

428
00:19:28,368 --> 00:19:31,180
BOOM, HIT ME
RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES.

429
00:19:31,204 --> 00:19:35,751
I WENT FROM CLOUD NINE
TO...

430
00:19:35,775 --> 00:19:39,521
THE NETHER REGIONS,
IN ONE DAY.

431
00:19:39,545 --> 00:19:41,957
THAT WAS TOUGH.

432
00:19:41,981 --> 00:19:43,725
HE WAS STUNNED BY IT,
AND I WAS, TOO.

433
00:19:43,749 --> 00:19:45,194
WHEN HE TOLD ME,
I SAID, "YOU'RE KIDDING!"

434
00:19:45,218 --> 00:19:49,398
EVERYBODY'S FIRST REACTION...
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, IT'S OFF?

435
00:19:49,422 --> 00:19:52,367
"YOU'RE KIDDING!
SOMEBODY GAVE AN ANSWER

436
00:19:52,391 --> 00:19:54,102
TO SOMEBODY?
OH, COME ON!"

437
00:19:54,126 --> 00:19:55,170
AND HE'D SAY, "YEAH."

438
00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:59,841
Narrator: SOON, "TWENTY-ONE"

439
00:19:59,865 --> 00:20:04,213
RIGHT AFTER THE SHOW,
IT INSTALLED A NEW HOST...

440
00:20:04,237 --> 00:20:05,647
MONTY HALL.

441
00:20:05,671 --> 00:20:07,550
NOW, WHEN I WAS DOING THE SHOW,

442
00:20:07,574 --> 00:20:09,151
I WOULD BE TAKEN
INTO AN OFFICE,

443
00:20:09,175 --> 00:20:12,053
THEY'D TAKE... OPEN UP A SAFE
AND SHOW ME THE QUESTIONS,

444
00:20:12,077 --> 00:20:14,290
SO I'D FAMILIARIZE MYSELF
WITH THE QUESTIONS,

445
00:20:14,314 --> 00:20:16,658
PUT IT BACK IN THE SAFE,
AND NEXT THING I KNEW,

446
00:20:16,682 --> 00:20:18,727
I WAS ON THE...
IN FRONT OF A CAMERA,

447
00:20:18,751 --> 00:20:20,295
DOING THE SHOW
WITH CONTESTANTS.

448
00:20:20,319 --> 00:20:23,298
I HAD NO IDEA
THAT THE CONTESTANTS

449
00:20:23,322 --> 00:20:25,000
ALSO SAW THE QUESTIONS.

450
00:20:25,024 --> 00:20:27,135
Narrator:
BUT THEY DID.

451
00:20:27,159 --> 00:20:29,338
CONTESTANT CHARLES VAN DOREN

452
00:20:29,362 --> 00:20:31,606
HAD BECOME
A NATIONAL HERO.

453
00:20:31,630 --> 00:20:36,645
WITHIN DAYS,
HE WAS A DISGRACE.

454
00:20:36,669 --> 00:20:38,113
MILLIONS WERE OUTRAGED.

455
00:20:38,137 --> 00:20:40,348
GRAND JURIES
WERE ASSEMBLED.

456
00:20:40,372 --> 00:20:42,584
PERJURY CHARGES
WERE FILED.

457
00:20:42,608 --> 00:20:46,589
AND THE GAME SHOWS
THAT REMAINED ON

458
00:20:46,613 --> 00:20:49,558
Stewart: ONE OF THE PAGES
CAME OVER TO ME

459
00:20:49,582 --> 00:20:53,928
AND SAID, "SOMEBODY JUST CALLED
BACKSTAGE AND SAID

460
00:20:53,952 --> 00:20:58,600
THAT THEY HAD PLANTED
A BOMB IN THE AUDIENCE."

461
00:20:58,624 --> 00:21:02,404
WELL, THIS KIND OF THING
WAS SORT OF TAKING PLACE,

462
00:21:02,428 --> 00:21:06,975
AND THE PEOPLE WERE VERY ANGRY
AT TELEVISION SHOWS

463
00:21:06,999 --> 00:21:08,877
FOR ALL OF THAT SCANDAL.

464
00:21:08,901 --> 00:21:12,047
AND... WE HAD FIVE MINUTES

465
00:21:12,071 --> 00:21:15,083
TO GO ON THE AIR.

466
00:21:15,107 --> 00:21:18,987
"TELL THE AUDIENCE
THAT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE,

467
00:21:19,011 --> 00:21:21,590
"WE HAVE A PRIZE
FOR SOMEBODY THERE.

468
00:21:21,614 --> 00:21:25,193
"AT THE COUNT OF THREE,
STAND UP, PICK UP YOUR SEAT,

469
00:21:25,217 --> 00:21:28,029
"AND THE PERSON WHO SEES
A PACKAGE THERE,

470
00:21:28,053 --> 00:21:31,165
RAISE YOUR HAND,
WE'LL COME AND GET IT."

471
00:21:31,189 --> 00:21:32,934
AND WE WERE ABLE TO EXAMINE

472
00:21:32,958 --> 00:21:35,337
THE WHOLE THEATER
IN ONE MINUTE.

473
00:21:35,361 --> 00:21:38,107
THOSE WERE... THOSE WERE
DANGEROUS DAYS.

474
00:21:38,131 --> 00:21:41,509
I MEAN, THERE WAS
A LOT OF ILL WILL GOING ON.

475
00:21:41,533 --> 00:21:44,746
Narrator:
CONGRESS SOON PASSED LAWS

476
00:21:44,770 --> 00:21:47,015
TO PREVENT FURTHER RIGGING.

477
00:21:47,039 --> 00:21:48,616
AND THE NETWORKS WERE DETERMINED

478
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,153
TO POLICE THE GAME SHOW INDUSTRY
CLOSELY...

479
00:21:51,177 --> 00:21:55,457
A PRACTICE THAT WENT ON
FOR MANY YEARS.

480
00:21:55,481 --> 00:21:57,659
ALL THE NETWORKS HAD
A NEW DEPARTMENT

481
00:21:57,683 --> 00:22:00,962
CALLED "STANDARDS
AND PRACTICES," S and P.

482
00:22:00,986 --> 00:22:03,231
AND IT WAS LIKE
AN FBI.

483
00:22:03,255 --> 00:22:06,134
IT WAS AN IN-HOUSE FBI.

484
00:22:06,158 --> 00:22:09,270
BECAUSE AT FIRST, THEY WERE
SO OVERLY PROTECTIVE,

485
00:22:09,294 --> 00:22:12,641
YOU WOULD SEE LITTLE FACES
PEERING OUT FROM BEHIND THE SET,

486
00:22:12,665 --> 00:22:17,245
AND THEY'RE LOOKING TO SEE
IF ANYBODY IS READING A SCRIPT

487
00:22:17,269 --> 00:22:19,013
OR LOOKING ASKANCE AT ANYTHING.

488
00:22:19,037 --> 00:22:22,751
YOUR CONTESTANTS HAD TO BE
CLOSETED IN A DIFFERENT

489
00:22:22,775 --> 00:22:24,553
AND THERE'S SOMEBODY
STANDING THERE,

490
00:22:24,577 --> 00:22:28,223
WATCHING THAT YOU DIDN'T
HAVE CONTACT WITH THEM,

491
00:22:28,247 --> 00:22:31,293
BRUSHED BY THEM IN THE HALLWAY,
STUFF LIKE THAT.

492
00:22:31,317 --> 00:22:34,162
SO WE HAD A SETUP
IN "CONCENTRATION,"

493
00:22:34,186 --> 00:22:37,565
WHERE WE HIRED A GUY
FROM SCOTLAND YARD

494
00:22:37,589 --> 00:22:41,202
WHO WAS BACKSTAGE
TO MAKE SURE

495
00:22:41,226 --> 00:22:44,406
THAT NOBODY... SEE,
THE STAGEHANDS

496
00:22:44,430 --> 00:22:46,441
WOULD KNOW THE ANSWER
TO THE PUZZLE.

497
00:22:46,465 --> 00:22:48,843
AND AS SOON AS THEY...
SO THEY HAD TO MAKE SURE

498
00:22:48,867 --> 00:22:52,413
THAT THAT DIDN'T SOMEHOW
GET TO A CONTESTANT

499
00:22:52,437 --> 00:22:56,919
NBC, ON ITS OWN,
HIRED SOMEBODY TO DO THAT.

500
00:22:56,943 --> 00:22:58,119
AND THEN THE GUARDS CLASHED.

501
00:22:58,143 --> 00:23:00,022
EACH DIDN'T KNOW
THE OTHER WAS HIRED,

502
00:23:00,046 --> 00:23:03,225
AND THEY'RE... AND EACH
THOUGHT THE OTHER

503
00:23:03,249 --> 00:23:06,194
THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE
EVERYTHING WAS ON THE UP AND UP,

504
00:23:06,218 --> 00:23:08,930
WANTED TO MAKE SURE
NO ONE WAS GIVING ANYONE

505
00:23:08,954 --> 00:23:10,098
ANY SIGNALS, YOU KNOW.

506
00:23:10,122 --> 00:23:11,166
AND I WOULD LOOK OVER

507
00:23:11,190 --> 00:23:12,467
AT A CELEBRITY, FOR INSTANCE,

508
00:23:12,491 --> 00:23:14,536
ON "YOU DON'T SAY,"
I CAN REMEMBER,

509
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,539
AND JUST BEYOND THAT,
WITHIN EYE SHOT,

510
00:23:17,563 --> 00:23:18,873
THERE WOULD BE

511
00:23:18,897 --> 00:23:22,544
A LITTLE HEAD PEERING
AROUND THE EDGE OF THE THING.

512
00:23:22,568 --> 00:23:23,311
WE DIDN'T SCORE A POINT,

513
00:23:23,335 --> 00:23:25,748
BUT WE HAD
LOTS OF FUN THAT TIME.

514
00:23:25,772 --> 00:23:26,715
SO, DOROTHY DANDRIDGE

515
00:23:26,739 --> 00:23:28,316
AND PETER LAWFORD,
NEXT NAME.

516
00:23:28,340 --> 00:23:29,484
Announcer:
HE DIDN'T KNOW

517
00:23:29,508 --> 00:23:31,686
A FEATHER IN HIS HAT
FROM MACARONI.

518
00:23:31,710 --> 00:23:32,621
YANKEE DOODLE.

519
00:23:32,645 --> 00:23:33,956
ALL RIGHT,
DOROTHY FIRST,

520
00:23:33,980 --> 00:23:35,679
WHAT IS YOURS?

521
00:23:37,382 --> 00:23:40,862
Narrator: THE QUIZ SHOW SCANDAL
DIDN'T TAINT MARK GOODSON.

522
00:23:40,886 --> 00:23:43,799
HIS PANEL SHOWS
LIKE "WHAT'S MY LINE?"

523
00:23:43,823 --> 00:23:47,335
DIDN'T LEND THEMSELVES
TO CHEATING, ANYWAY.

524
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,838
SO IT WAS NO SURPRISE
THAT HIS COMPANY

525
00:23:49,862 --> 00:23:52,540
DEVELOPED THE FIRST
BIG GAME SHOW HIT

526
00:23:52,564 --> 00:23:55,143
OF THE P "PASSWORD." ERA...

527
00:23:55,167 --> 00:23:58,347
Announcer: THE PASSWORD
IS "BACKFIRE."

528
00:23:59,305 --> 00:24:01,149
Narrator:
MARK GOODSON DIDN'T

529
00:24:01,173 --> 00:24:02,617
CREATE "PASSWORD" PERSONALLY.

530
00:24:02,641 --> 00:24:06,054
INSTEAD, THAT CREDIT
GOES TO HIS PRODUCER,

531
00:24:06,078 --> 00:24:09,757
PERHAPS THE MOST INVENTIVE MIND
IN THE GENRE,

532
00:24:09,781 --> 00:24:11,626
BOB STEWART.

533
00:24:11,650 --> 00:24:14,662
IN MY OPINION, YOU HAVE
A GREAT GAME SHOW

534
00:24:14,686 --> 00:24:17,966
IF THE PERSON AT HOME

535
00:24:17,990 --> 00:24:20,001
IS TALKING TO THE SCREEN ALOUD.

536
00:24:20,025 --> 00:24:24,172
WHEN THEY... WHEN THEY YELL
AT THE SCREEN,

537
00:24:24,196 --> 00:24:25,540
"SAY SO-AND-SO!"

538
00:24:25,564 --> 00:24:27,042
OR "DO SO-AND-SO!"

539
00:24:27,066 --> 00:24:28,944
YOU GOT 'EM HOOKED.

540
00:24:28,968 --> 00:24:29,911
THANK YOU!

541
00:24:29,935 --> 00:24:30,779
HELLO THERE!

542
00:24:30,803 --> 00:24:32,581
Narrator:
YEARS EARLIER,

543
00:24:32,605 --> 00:24:35,951
BOB STEWART HAD CREATED
THE FIRST ITERATION

544
00:24:35,975 --> 00:24:37,418
OF "THE PRICE IS RIGHT,"

545
00:24:37,442 --> 00:24:40,122
AND LATER, "TO TELL THE TRUTH."

546
00:24:40,146 --> 00:24:41,290
"PASSWORD" INTRODUCED

547
00:24:41,314 --> 00:24:43,992
ANOTHER
BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION...

548
00:24:44,016 --> 00:24:46,728
TEAMING ORDINARY CONTESTANTS

549
00:24:46,752 --> 00:24:48,630
WITH CELEBRITIES.

550
00:24:48,654 --> 00:24:53,669
WE SAW CELEBRITIES
STRUGGLING LIKE CONTESTANTS.

551
00:24:53,693 --> 00:24:56,638
BECAUSE THEY PLAYED
EXACTLY THE SAME GAME

552
00:24:56,662 --> 00:24:57,739
THE CONTESTANTS DID.

553
00:24:57,763 --> 00:24:59,474
WASN'T A PANEL OF SHOW-OFFS.

554
00:24:59,498 --> 00:25:01,043
THESE WERE PEOPLE STRUGGLING...

555
00:25:01,067 --> 00:25:04,913
TO GET THE RIGHT WORD
AT THE RIGHT TIME,

556
00:25:04,937 --> 00:25:06,081
AND WIN THE GAME.

557
00:25:06,105 --> 00:25:08,383
AND A NEW DIMENSION
WAS ADDED

558
00:25:08,407 --> 00:25:09,818
TO THEIR PERSONALITY

559
00:25:09,842 --> 00:25:10,919
AS THEY STRUGGLED,

560
00:25:10,943 --> 00:25:12,387
AND THEY STRIPPED THEMSELVES

561
00:25:12,411 --> 00:25:15,523
OF THE KIND OF COVER
THAT AN ACTOR USES.

562
00:25:15,547 --> 00:25:17,058
AND THAT TURNED OUT TO BE

563
00:25:17,082 --> 00:25:21,463
ONE OF THE UNQUESTIONABLY
KEY ASSETS OF THAT IDEA.

564
00:25:21,487 --> 00:25:27,068
AND A KEY ELEMENT
"PAOF THE SHOW'S SUCCESST.

565
00:25:27,092 --> 00:25:28,670
WAS HOST ALLEN LUDDEN.

566
00:25:28,694 --> 00:25:31,539
IF A CONTESTANT GAVE
A DUMB CLUE

567
00:25:31,563 --> 00:25:34,176
HE WOULD, HE WOULD ALWAYS TRY
TO BE VERY NICE ABOUT IT,

568
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,545
BUT HE'D LOOK
AT THE CAMERA WITH THIS LOOK,

569
00:25:37,569 --> 00:25:41,115
LIKE... YOU KNEW
WHAT HE WAS THINKING ABOUT,

570
00:25:41,139 --> 00:25:43,251
"DUMMY, WHY DID YOU SAY<i> THAT?"</i>

571
00:25:43,275 --> 00:25:45,253
AND I THINK THE AUDIENCE
LOVED THAT.

572
00:25:45,277 --> 00:25:47,355
THEY LOVED THAT,
AND THEY ALWAYS LOVED

573
00:25:47,379 --> 00:25:49,691
COPYING HIS, WHENEVER HE GAVE
THE CLUE,

574
00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:51,560
HE WOULD ALWAYS,
HIS HANDS WERE...

575
00:25:51,584 --> 00:25:53,895
ALLEN'S HANDS WERE
SO EXPRESSIVE,

576
00:25:53,919 --> 00:25:55,129
AND IT WAS ALWAYS THIS.

577
00:25:55,153 --> 00:25:57,699
PEOPLE... WE'D BE DRIVING
DOWN THE STREET,

578
00:25:57,723 --> 00:26:00,768
AND SOMEBODY WOULD RECOGNIZE
HIM, AND THEY'D SAY...

579
00:26:01,527 --> 00:26:03,471
Narrator:
CERTAIN CELEBRITIES

580
00:26:03,495 --> 00:26:05,840
HAD A NATURAL GIFT
FOR "PASSWORD"...

581
00:26:05,864 --> 00:26:08,876
PEOPLE LIKE CAROL CHANNING,
JIM BACKUS,

582
00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:14,850
WHO WOULD EVENTUALLY MARRY
AND HOST ALLEN LUDDEN.ITE,

583
00:26:14,874 --> 00:26:17,118
BY THE END OF THE YEAR,

584
00:26:17,142 --> 00:26:20,455
HE BEGAN...
HE WOULDN'T SAY, "HELLO,"

585
00:26:20,479 --> 00:26:21,656
HE'D SAY,
"WILL YOU MARRY ME?"

586
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,725
WELL, I THOUGHT THAT WAS
SUCH A JOKE.

587
00:26:23,749 --> 00:26:24,959
YOU KNOW, THAT'S RIDICULOUS.

588
00:26:24,983 --> 00:26:27,396
ONE NIGHT, WE WENT
TO DINNER.

589
00:26:27,420 --> 00:26:28,696
AND HE GAVE ME
A JEWELRY BOX,

590
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,800
AND I OPENED IT,
AND THERE'S A WEDDING RING.

591
00:26:31,824 --> 00:26:33,468
WITH DIAMONDS
ALL THE WAY AROUND.

592
00:26:33,492 --> 00:26:35,804
HE SAYS,
"YOU MIGHT AS WELL WEAR IT.

593
00:26:35,828 --> 00:26:38,506
YOU'RE GOING TO SAY YES
SOONER OR LATER."

594
00:26:38,530 --> 00:26:42,077
WELL, AS ANY RED-BLOODED
AMERICAN GIRL WOULD DO,

595
00:26:42,101 --> 00:26:43,611
I GOT MAD,
I GOT FURIOUS.

596
00:26:43,635 --> 00:26:47,215
AND I GAVE IT BACK TO HIM,
AND I SAID, "FORGET IT!

597
00:26:47,239 --> 00:26:48,549
"AND STOP PUSHING ME!

598
00:26:48,573 --> 00:26:50,652
I'M NOT INTERESTED!"

599
00:26:50,676 --> 00:26:52,821
THERE WAS NO WAY
I WAS GOING TO MOVE TO NEW YORK.

600
00:26:52,845 --> 00:26:55,924
DID HE GIVE IT BACK
TO THE JEWELER?

601
00:26:55,948 --> 00:26:59,895
NO, HE PUT IT
ON A CHAIN AROUND HIS NECK.

602
00:26:59,919 --> 00:27:02,197
HE WORE THAT DAMN WEDDING RING

603
00:27:02,221 --> 00:27:04,332
FOR... WE'D GO TO THE BEACH,

604
00:27:04,356 --> 00:27:06,001
THERE'S THE WEDDING RING.

605
00:27:06,025 --> 00:27:08,870
YOU'D SEE IT
AT ALL TIMES,

606
00:27:08,894 --> 00:27:12,306
SO, IN MY IDIOCY,
I WASTED A WHOLE YEAR

607
00:27:12,330 --> 00:27:14,408
WE COULD HAVE BEEN TOGETHER.

608
00:27:14,432 --> 00:27:17,679
I MET THIS LADY
ON THIS GAME.

609
00:27:17,703 --> 00:27:18,447
14 YEARS AGO.

610
00:27:18,471 --> 00:27:20,882
I'VE LOVED
EVERY MINUTE OF IT.

611
00:27:20,906 --> 00:27:22,317
I'VE WORKED
FOR THE BEST.

612
00:27:22,341 --> 00:27:24,018
IT'LL BE A TOUGH GAME
TO REPLACE.

613
00:27:24,042 --> 00:27:26,688
SOMEDAY MAYBE SOMEWHERE
THERE'S ANOTHER GAME SHOW

614
00:27:26,712 --> 00:27:29,057
WORTHY OF THIS KIND
OF INTEREST AND LOVE,

615
00:27:29,081 --> 00:27:31,025
BUT THIS IS THE BEST
GAME SHOW

616
00:27:31,049 --> 00:27:32,627
YOU CAN BE ASSOCIATED WITH,

617
00:27:32,651 --> 00:27:33,595
AND I'M DARN GRATEFUL

618
00:27:33,619 --> 00:27:35,564
I HAD 14 LOVELY YEARS
WITH IT.

619
00:27:35,588 --> 00:27:38,933
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING IT.

620
00:27:40,292 --> 00:27:41,036
THANK YOU.

621
00:27:41,060 --> 00:27:43,371
Host:
THAT WAS $7,000...

622
00:27:43,395 --> 00:27:44,172
YOU'VE DONE IT!

623
00:27:44,196 --> 00:27:45,907
Narrator:
AFTER "PASSWORD" HIT

624
00:27:45,931 --> 00:27:46,908
IN 1961,

625
00:27:46,932 --> 00:27:49,577
GAME SHOWS BEGAN
A RENAISSANCE.

626
00:27:49,601 --> 00:27:52,981
Announcer: AND NOW,
HERE'S AMERICA'S TOP TRADER,

627
00:27:53,005 --> 00:27:55,417
TV'S BIG DEALER,
MONTY HALL!

628
00:27:55,441 --> 00:27:59,120
CREATED BY MONTY HALL
AND STEFAN HATOS,

629
00:27:59,144 --> 00:28:02,924
"LET'S MAKE A DEAL"
DIDN'T HAVE ANY CELEBRITIES

630
00:28:02,948 --> 00:28:05,394
OR QUIZ QUESTIONS.

631
00:28:05,418 --> 00:28:07,329
IT DIDN'T EVEN HAVE
MUCH OF A SCRIPT.

632
00:28:07,353 --> 00:28:08,964
IT MIGHT BE
BEHIND DOOR NUMBER ONE

633
00:28:08,988 --> 00:28:11,265
OR DOOR NUMBER TWO
OR DOOR NUMBER THREE.

634
00:28:11,289 --> 00:28:12,734
Narrator:
THE GAME RELIED

635
00:28:12,758 --> 00:28:14,235
SOLELY ON MONTY HALL'S

636
00:28:14,259 --> 00:28:17,038
ABILITY TO BUILD DRAMA

637
00:28:17,062 --> 00:28:18,206
FROM INDECISION.

638
00:28:18,230 --> 00:28:19,807
Hall: I WOULD LOOK
INTO HER EYES

639
00:28:19,831 --> 00:28:21,909
AND SEE WHETHER
I HAD MORE DRAMA

640
00:28:21,933 --> 00:28:24,046
IF I WENT
TO 500 OR 700 OR 800,

641
00:28:24,070 --> 00:28:26,747
AND LET THE CAMERA PICK OUT
HER REACTION.

642
00:28:26,771 --> 00:28:28,350
OR YOU CAN HAVE
WHAT'S IN THE BOX

643
00:28:28,374 --> 00:28:30,552
THAT CAROL IS SHOWING US
RIGHT NOW.

644
00:28:30,576 --> 00:28:34,456
OH!
AGH!

645
00:28:37,016 --> 00:28:39,494
Hall: AND YOU'RE NOTICING
THE CONTESTANTS' REACTIONS,

646
00:28:39,518 --> 00:28:40,695
BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO PLAY

647
00:28:40,719 --> 00:28:41,496
OFF THEIR REACTIONS.

648
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:42,597
THAT'S THE FIRST THING
YOU DO.

649
00:28:42,621 --> 00:28:44,432
YOU ARE LIKE
AN AMATEUR PSYCHOLOGIST,

650
00:28:44,456 --> 00:28:46,601
BECAUSE YOU'RE WATCHING
THE EYELIDS FLUTTER,

651
00:28:46,625 --> 00:28:49,337
AND YOU THINK YOU KNOW
WHEN HER BREAKING POINT IS.

652
00:28:49,361 --> 00:28:50,905
AND YOU GO TO THAT POINT
AND NO FARTHER.

653
00:28:50,929 --> 00:28:53,975
Narrator: NOT LONG AFTER
"LET'S MAKE A DEAL" STARTED,

654
00:28:53,999 --> 00:28:56,711
CONTESTANTS REALIZED
THAT WEARING A COSTUME

655
00:28:56,735 --> 00:29:00,014
MEANT THEY WERE MORE LIKELY
TO GET PICKED BY MONTY.

656
00:29:00,038 --> 00:29:02,350
Hall: SO NBC CALLED US IN
AND SAID,

657
00:29:02,374 --> 00:29:03,718
"WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO
ABOUT THIS?

658
00:29:03,742 --> 00:29:06,354
"THERE'S 350 PEOPLE OUT THERE
ON YOUR SHOW

659
00:29:06,378 --> 00:29:07,621
"WITH THESE CRAZY COSTUMES.

660
00:29:07,645 --> 00:29:09,858
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO
ABOUT IT?"

661
00:29:09,882 --> 00:29:11,659
AND WE SAID, "NOTHING.

662
00:29:11,683 --> 00:29:14,128
"YOU KNOW, THIS IS TELEVISION,

663
00:29:14,152 --> 00:29:16,965
"AND THAT'S VERY PICTORIAL.

664
00:29:16,989 --> 00:29:18,600
YOU WANT ALL THE STUFF
YOU'VE SEEN SO FAR

665
00:29:18,624 --> 00:29:20,802
AND THE MONEY
IN THE POCKETS?

666
00:29:20,826 --> 00:29:23,572
WHEN MOST TV SHOWS PRESENTED
AN ALL-WHITE CAST,

667
00:29:23,596 --> 00:29:28,009
GAME SHOWS LIKE "DEAL" TOOK
A VERY DIFFERENT APPROACH,

668
00:29:28,033 --> 00:29:30,878
SHOWCASING
A CROSS-SECTION OF AMERICA,

669
00:29:30,902 --> 00:29:34,282
REAL PEOPLE
FROM EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC.

670
00:29:34,306 --> 00:29:36,050
WE FIGURED THAT
"LET'S MAKE A DEAL"

671
00:29:36,074 --> 00:29:37,252
WAS A SHOW THAT WAS DONE
IN THE AUDIENCE.

672
00:29:37,276 --> 00:29:42,423
AND THIS AUDIENCE COMPOSITION
HAD TO REPRESENT AMERICA.

673
00:29:42,447 --> 00:29:45,160
"WHEN YOU GO OUTSIDE
TO PICK THE 30 OR 40 PEOPLE

674
00:29:45,184 --> 00:29:46,294
SITTING IN THE FRONT SECTION,

675
00:29:46,318 --> 00:29:48,462
GIVE US A CROSS-SECTION
OF AMERICA.

676
00:29:48,486 --> 00:29:50,898
OF COURSE, IT PROVED
TO BE THE RIGHT DECISION.

677
00:29:50,922 --> 00:29:55,570
Narrator: A YEAR AFTER
"LET'S MAKE A DEAL" DEBUTED,

678
00:29:55,594 --> 00:29:57,939
ANOTHER JUGGERNAUT
WAS LAUNCHED,

679
00:29:57,963 --> 00:30:00,542
A GAME THAT HELPED
MAKE ITS CREATOR

680
00:30:00,566 --> 00:30:03,545
ONE OF THE RICHEST MEN
IN AMERICA.

681
00:30:03,569 --> 00:30:05,413
THE SHOW WAS "JEOPARDY!"

682
00:30:05,437 --> 00:30:09,217
AND THE MAN WHO INVENTED IT
WAS MERV GRIFFIN.

683
00:30:09,241 --> 00:30:12,887
GRIFFIN WAS NO NEWCOMER
TO GAME SHOWS.

684
00:30:12,911 --> 00:30:15,056
AS EARLY AS 1958,
HE'D HOSTED

685
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,859
MARK GOODSON'S
"PLAY YOUR HUNCH."

686
00:30:17,883 --> 00:30:21,496
MY AGENT SAID, "YOU'RE GOING
FOR AN INTERVIEW

687
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:26,935
THEY HAVE SEEN YOU,
AND THEY ARE INTERESTED IN YOU

688
00:30:26,959 --> 00:30:28,603
AS A GAME SHOW HOST.

689
00:30:28,627 --> 00:30:31,406
I SAID, "BUT I DON'T KNOW
HOW TO DO THAT."

690
00:30:31,430 --> 00:30:35,210
AND I CAME UP TO THIS HIGH FLOOR
IN NEW YORK CITY

691
00:30:35,234 --> 00:30:36,578
AT GOODSON-TODMAN.

692
00:30:36,602 --> 00:30:37,479
IT WAS 9:00 AT NIGHT.

693
00:30:37,503 --> 00:30:40,248
THE ELEVATOR DOOR OPENED,
AND I WALKED OUT,

694
00:30:40,272 --> 00:30:41,883
AND THERE WAS A RECEPTION ROOM,

695
00:30:41,907 --> 00:30:43,485
AND I SAT DOWN
FOR A FEW MINUTES,

696
00:30:43,509 --> 00:30:46,087
AND I WENT, "NO, NO, NO,
THIS IS NOT FOR ME."

697
00:30:46,111 --> 00:30:47,355
AND THERE WAS NOBODY THERE,

698
00:30:47,379 --> 00:30:49,958
AND I STARTED AND RANG
FOR THE ELEVATOR.

699
00:30:49,982 --> 00:30:51,159
AND NOT EVEN MY AGENT WAS THERE.

700
00:30:51,183 --> 00:30:53,628
AND I... SOMEBODY CAME OUT...
A DOOR OPENED,

701
00:30:53,652 --> 00:30:56,597
AND A GIRL CAME OUT,
AND SHE SAID,

702
00:30:56,621 --> 00:30:59,033
IN JUST ABOUT TWO MINUTES,
MR. GRIFFIN."

703
00:30:59,057 --> 00:31:02,070
AND I SAID, "READY FOR WHAT?"

704
00:31:02,094 --> 00:31:03,004
"TO PLAY THE GAME."

705
00:31:03,028 --> 00:31:04,406
I SAID, "I DON'T KNOW THE GAME.

706
00:31:04,430 --> 00:31:06,141
NO ONE HAS EXPLAINED TO ME
WHAT YOUR GAME IS."

707
00:31:06,165 --> 00:31:09,310
SHE SAID, "OH, GO IN,
AND YOU'LL FIGURE IT OUT."

708
00:31:09,334 --> 00:31:11,779
Announcer:
STARRING MERV GRIFFIN!

709
00:31:14,673 --> 00:31:16,818
Griffin: SO I WALKED IN,
AND I STEPPED UP THERE

710
00:31:16,842 --> 00:31:20,255
AND STARTED TO TALK, AND THEY
WERE ALL LAUGHING AND SCREAMING.

711
00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:22,891
AND I DIDN'T KNOW
WHAT THE GAME WAS.

712
00:31:22,915 --> 00:31:24,559
AND BY THE END OF THIS THING,

713
00:31:24,583 --> 00:31:27,262
THEY ALL SAID,
"YOU GOT THE JOB."

714
00:31:27,286 --> 00:31:28,562
AND I WENT, "WHOA.

715
00:31:28,586 --> 00:31:30,798
THAT WAS
THE STRANGEST INTERVIEW."

716
00:31:30,822 --> 00:31:32,934
AND THEN I WENT TO WORK
ON "PLAY YOUR HUNCH,"

717
00:31:32,958 --> 00:31:33,901
AND LOVED GAME SHOWS.

718
00:31:33,925 --> 00:31:35,703
I THINK YOU'LL HAVE FUN.
HERE'S HOW WE SCORE.

719
00:31:35,727 --> 00:31:37,205
EACH TIME YOU
PLAY YOUR HUNCH CORRECTLY,

720
00:31:37,229 --> 00:31:38,873
YOU GET A POINT...
EACH POINT IS WORTH $100.

721
00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:41,442
THREE POINTS WINS THE GAME
FOR A TOTAL OF $300,

722
00:31:41,466 --> 00:31:43,311
AND, MORE IMPORTANT,
THE RIGHT TO STAY ON

723
00:31:43,335 --> 00:31:44,212
AND MEET NEW COMPETITION.

724
00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:45,480
SO GOOD LUCK TO BOTH TEAMS.

725
00:31:45,504 --> 00:31:48,783
Narrator: GRIFFIN WANTED
TO APPLY ALL HE'D LEARNED

726
00:31:48,807 --> 00:31:50,718
TO CREATE HIS OWN GAME SHOW.

727
00:31:50,742 --> 00:31:53,120
BUT A WINNING CONCEPT
ELUDED HIM.

728
00:31:53,144 --> 00:31:57,191
THE SPARK OF THE IDEA
THAT WOULD BECOME "JEOPARDY!"

729
00:31:57,215 --> 00:32:00,695
FINALLY CAME
FROM GRIFFIN'S WIFE,

730
00:32:00,719 --> 00:32:02,030
JULANN.

731
00:32:02,054 --> 00:32:02,997
MY WIFE SAID TO ME...

732
00:32:03,021 --> 00:32:05,333
I SAID, "I WANT TO DO
A QUIZ SHOW."

733
00:32:05,357 --> 00:32:07,735
AND SHE SAID,
"WELL, DO ONE."

734
00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:09,704
THEY WON'T ACCEPT THEM
AT THE NETWORK."

735
00:32:09,728 --> 00:32:10,605
SHE SAID, "WELL, DO ONE

736
00:32:10,629 --> 00:32:12,106
WHERE YOU GIVE THEM
THE ANSWERS."

737
00:32:12,130 --> 00:32:15,309
AND I SAID, "WELL, THAT'S WHY
EVERYONE WENT TO JAIL.

738
00:32:15,333 --> 00:32:16,278
ARE YOU CRAZY?"

739
00:32:16,302 --> 00:32:18,913
AND SHE SAID, "NO...

740
00:32:18,937 --> 00:32:21,349
AND I SAID,
"HOW MANY FEET IN A MILE?"

741
00:32:21,373 --> 00:32:22,850
AND SHE SAID, "THAT'S GOOD."

742
00:32:22,874 --> 00:32:26,087
AND THEN I THOUGHT,
"WHOA, THAT<i> IS</i> A SHOW!"

743
00:32:26,111 --> 00:32:29,891
BUT THEN TRYING TO PUT IT
INTO A GAME SHOW FORMAT

744
00:32:29,915 --> 00:32:31,826
IS THE MOST DIFFICULT
OF ALL.

745
00:32:31,850 --> 00:32:36,464
Narrator: GRIFFIN SPENT
A FULL YEAR EXPERIMENTING,

746
00:32:36,488 --> 00:32:38,833
PAPERING HIS MANHATTAN APARTMENT

747
00:32:38,857 --> 00:32:41,670
WITH ANSWERS
SCRAWLED ON 3x5 CARDS.

748
00:32:41,694 --> 00:32:46,340
AND MAKESHIFT BULLETIN BOARDS
WITH ROWS OF CATEGORIES.

749
00:32:46,364 --> 00:32:50,478
A YEAR LATER, "JEOPARDY!"
WAS FINALLY READY

750
00:32:50,502 --> 00:32:53,381
TO PITCH
TO THE PRESIDENT OF NBC.

751
00:32:53,405 --> 00:32:54,949
I JUST CUT THE BACKS OFF
OF THE ENVELOPES

752
00:32:54,973 --> 00:32:57,952
AND STUCK THE CARDS IN THERE
AND BROUGHT IN THE CONTESTANTS.

753
00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:01,990
AND THE PRESIDENT SAT THERE,
AND THE TWO OF THEM,

754
00:33:02,014 --> 00:33:05,460
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN,
I RAN THE WHOLE SHOW,

755
00:33:05,484 --> 00:33:08,296
AND THE PRESIDENT OF NBC
LOOKED ME, AND HE SAID,

756
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:09,730
"I AIN'T GOT<i> ONE</i> OF 'EM!"

757
00:33:09,754 --> 00:33:12,567
AND I WENT,
"OOH... OH, WELL, UH,

758
00:33:12,591 --> 00:33:15,570
IT'S A DIFFICULT SHOW,
YOU KNOW."

759
00:33:15,594 --> 00:33:17,538
"BUT I DIDN'T GET<i> ONE!"</i>

760
00:33:17,562 --> 00:33:20,307
AND I SAID, "WELL,
I CAN'T HELP THAT, SIR."

761
00:33:20,331 --> 00:33:24,345
Narrator: THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
THE END OF "JEOPARDY!"

762
00:33:24,369 --> 00:33:28,149
BUT A YOUNG NBC EXECUTIVE
NAMED GRANT TINKER

763
00:33:28,173 --> 00:33:29,550
PERSUADED HIS BOSS

764
00:33:29,574 --> 00:33:31,218
TO PICK UP THE SHOW.

765
00:33:31,242 --> 00:33:36,257
"JEOPARDY!" PREMIERED
ON NBC IN 1964.

766
00:33:36,281 --> 00:33:38,659
AND IT WAS AN IMMEDIATE HIT.

767
00:33:38,683 --> 00:33:39,860
Host: TRY AGAIN,
PLEASE, KAREN.

768
00:33:39,884 --> 00:33:40,895
Woman: SPORTS
FOR $10, PLEASE.

769
00:33:40,919 --> 00:33:42,930
THE ANSWER IS,
"OF BASEBALL, L FOOTBALL,

770
00:33:42,954 --> 00:33:44,866
AND HORSE RACING..."

771
00:33:44,890 --> 00:33:46,067
THE ONE THAT DRAWS
THE LARGEST

772
00:33:46,091 --> 00:33:48,603
LIVE ATTENDANCE IN
THE UNITED STATES... KAREN.

773
00:33:48,627 --> 00:33:50,338
WHAT'S HORSE RACING?

774
00:33:50,362 --> 00:33:54,275
Narrator: LIGHTING WOULD STRIKE
A SECOND TIME FOR MERV GRIFFIN

775
00:33:54,299 --> 00:33:57,512
WHEN HE REMEMBERED
THE CHILDHOOD GAME OF HANGMAN

776
00:33:57,536 --> 00:34:00,949
AND THOUGHT IT MIGHT MAKE
A GREAT GAME SHOW.

777
00:34:00,973 --> 00:34:02,984
BUT IT NEEDED
A GIMMICK.

778
00:34:03,008 --> 00:34:06,187
FOR THE SOLUTION,
GRIFFIN REACHED BACK

779
00:34:06,211 --> 00:34:09,257
TO ANOTHER MEMORY
FROM HIS YOUTH...

780
00:34:09,281 --> 00:34:11,359
THE BIG SPINNING-WHEEL GAME

781
00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:13,962
AT THE ANNUAL CHURCH PICNIC.

782
00:34:13,986 --> 00:34:16,965
GRIFFIN HAD HIS GIMMICK...
ALMOST.

783
00:34:16,989 --> 00:34:19,934
THE FIRST COUPLE OF PILOTS
WE DID ON IT,

784
00:34:19,958 --> 00:34:23,404
THE WHEEL WAS STANDING UPRIGHT
LIKE THIS,

785
00:34:23,428 --> 00:34:24,338
AND IT LOOKED AWFUL.

786
00:34:24,362 --> 00:34:26,874
Narrator:
LAYING THE WHEEL DOWN

787
00:34:26,898 --> 00:34:28,542
MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE.

788
00:34:28,566 --> 00:34:31,779
BUT MERV STILL HAD
ONE MORE ISSUE TO SOLVE.

789
00:34:31,803 --> 00:34:34,815
WHEN THE ORIGINAL HOSTESS,
SUSAN STAFFORD,

790
00:34:34,839 --> 00:34:37,518
LEFT TO PURSUE
HER Ph.D...

791
00:34:37,542 --> 00:34:39,220
I NEEDED A GIRL
ON THE SHOW.

792
00:34:39,244 --> 00:34:41,523
SO I SAID TO THE WOMAN
WHO PRODUCED IT,

793
00:34:41,547 --> 00:34:47,795
"PLEASE FIND 12 PICTURES,
8x10 GLOSSIES,

794
00:34:47,819 --> 00:34:49,597
"PUT THEM ON MY DESK,
AND I'LL WALK IN

795
00:34:49,621 --> 00:34:52,433
AND SHE DID THAT,
AND POAND I WALKED ININK."

796
00:34:52,457 --> 00:34:53,367
AND JUST WENT, "HER."

797
00:34:53,391 --> 00:34:55,837
GET ME SOME TAPE
ON HER TALKING.

798
00:34:55,861 --> 00:34:59,941
AND IT WAS VANNA,
AND THAT WAS IT.

799
00:34:59,965 --> 00:35:03,077
Narrator: GRIFFIN HAD BROUGHT
TOGETHER THE PERFECT COMBINATION

800
00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:06,447
OF ELEMENTS TO CREATE
WHAT WOULD BECOME

801
00:35:06,471 --> 00:35:10,184
THE MOST PROFITABLE GAME
IN THE HISTORY OF THE GENRE...

802
00:35:10,208 --> 00:35:12,453
"WHEEL OF FORTUNE."

803
00:35:12,477 --> 00:35:15,823
Announcer:
OVER $49,000

804
00:35:15,847 --> 00:35:18,459
JUST WAITING TO BE WON

805
00:35:18,483 --> 00:35:22,329
TODAY ON "WHEEL OF FORTUNE"!

806
00:35:22,353 --> 00:35:25,667
NOW, HERE'S YOUR HOST,
CHUCK WOOLERY!

807
00:35:25,691 --> 00:35:27,802
Narrator: IF A KIDS' GAME
LIKE HANGMAN

808
00:35:27,826 --> 00:35:31,038
COULD BE MORPHED INTO A MAJOR
GAME SHOW FRANCHISE,

809
00:35:31,062 --> 00:35:34,475
WHY NOT ANOTHER
CHILDHOOD FAVORITE,

810
00:35:34,499 --> 00:35:36,966
TIC-TAC-TOE?

811
00:35:38,970 --> 00:35:40,481
THAT WAS THE QUESTION

812
00:35:40,505 --> 00:35:43,450
PRODUCERS MERRILL HEATTER
AND BOB QUIGLEY

813
00:35:43,474 --> 00:35:45,553
PONDERED IN EARLY 1964

814
00:35:45,577 --> 00:35:47,455
AS THEY DEVELOPED A GAME

815
00:35:47,479 --> 00:35:49,857
WITH A GIANT TIC-TAC-TOE BOARD

816
00:35:49,881 --> 00:35:53,527
AND CELEBRITIES
IN THE SQUARES.

817
00:35:53,551 --> 00:35:57,098
Kennedy: WHEN THEY MOUNTED
"HOLLYWOOD SQUARES"

818
00:35:57,122 --> 00:35:58,399
WITH THOSE NINE CUBICLES,

819
00:35:58,423 --> 00:36:01,469
I SAW THAT GOING UP,
AND I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.

820
00:36:01,493 --> 00:36:03,204
THAT WAS REALLY MONUMENTAL.

821
00:36:03,228 --> 00:36:06,007
THAT WAS THE BIGGEST,
STRANGEST,

822
00:36:06,031 --> 00:36:07,641
WILDLY DIFFERENT THING

823
00:36:07,665 --> 00:36:08,542
I'D EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.

824
00:36:08,566 --> 00:36:11,445
IT WAS SO BIG,
I THOUGHT TO MYSELF,

825
00:36:11,469 --> 00:36:13,681
IT CANNOT WORK,
BECAUSE IT'S TOO BIG,

826
00:36:13,705 --> 00:36:17,952
ITIT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS.E.

827
00:36:17,976 --> 00:36:18,953
HUGE SUCCESS.

828
00:36:18,977 --> 00:36:20,955
Host: WHAT WOULD
YOU NORMALLY

829
00:36:20,979 --> 00:36:23,024
FIND A CAMPER
MOUNTED ON?

830
00:36:23,048 --> 00:36:25,793
A CAMPRESS.

831
00:36:27,585 --> 00:36:34,168
"HOLLYWOOD SQUARES" IS THE MOST
FUN GAME SHOW IN THE WORLD.

832
00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:36,370
Narrator: MUCH
OF THE SHOW'S POPULARITY

833
00:36:36,394 --> 00:36:38,206
FLOWED FROM
THE PARTY ATMOSPHERE...

834
00:36:38,230 --> 00:36:42,376
NINE CELEBRITIES,
HAVING A GOOD TIME TOGETHER.

835
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,046
Host: KAREN, A PARACHUTIST
HITS THE GROUND

836
00:36:45,070 --> 00:36:47,015
A HOW MANY
MILES PER HOUR?

837
00:36:49,207 --> 00:36:51,252
DID HIS CHUTE OPEN?

838
00:36:52,143 --> 00:36:53,888
"DO THE STARS
KNOW THE QUESTION?"

839
00:36:53,912 --> 00:36:56,457
I SAY, "NO."
THEY NEVER KNEW THE QUESTION.

840
00:36:56,481 --> 00:36:58,726
THEY KNEW AN AREA
OF THE QUESTION.

841
00:36:58,750 --> 00:37:00,127
BUT THEY NEVER KNEW
THE QUESTION.

842
00:37:00,151 --> 00:37:02,363
THEY MIGHT GET A JOKE,
BUT THEY NEVER KNEW

843
00:37:02,387 --> 00:37:03,698
WHAT THE STRAIGHT LINE WAS.

844
00:37:03,722 --> 00:37:06,600
YOU'D TAPE FIVE IN A DAY.

845
00:37:06,624 --> 00:37:09,070
SO YOU'D DO THREE SHOWS,
BREAK FOR DINNER,

846
00:37:09,094 --> 00:37:11,839
AND THEN YOU WOULD DO
TWO MORE.

847
00:37:11,863 --> 00:37:14,141
AND BY THAT TIME...
YOU KNOW,

848
00:37:14,165 --> 00:37:15,977
THEY'D SERVE WINE AT DINNER.

849
00:37:16,001 --> 00:37:18,612
SO THAT WAS ALWAYS INTERESTING.

850
00:37:18,636 --> 00:37:21,816
AT HOME IN BED,
AT 2:00 IN THE MORNING,

851
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:26,454
YOU'D THINK OF THE GREATEST LINE
THAT YOU DIDN'T USE.

852
00:37:26,478 --> 00:37:29,757
THAT'S ENOUGH
TO KILL A PERSON.

853
00:37:29,781 --> 00:37:33,460
Host: SAY, ARE MOST
STOLEN CARS RECOVERED?

854
00:37:33,484 --> 00:37:37,632
I HAD ONE RECOVERED
IN ZEBRA ONCE.

855
00:37:38,757 --> 00:37:39,701
Henderson:
WE HAD REDD FOXX.

856
00:37:39,725 --> 00:37:42,904
HE LOVED TO BE VERY BAWDY
WITH YOU.

857
00:37:42,928 --> 00:37:46,273
AND DURING THE COMMERCIALS,
HE WOULD SAY

858
00:37:46,297 --> 00:37:48,276
SOME PRETTY WILD THINGS.

859
00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:51,178
AND SOME PEOPLE,
SOME YOUNG GIRLS,

860
00:37:51,202 --> 00:37:54,381
DIDN'T REALLY WANT
TO BE NEXT TO HIM.

861
00:37:54,405 --> 00:37:56,984
I WOULD ALWAYS JUST
SAY SOMETHING BACK TO HIM.

862
00:37:57,008 --> 00:38:01,288
Narrator: "HOLLYWOOD SQUARES"
BECAME SO POPULAR

863
00:38:01,312 --> 00:38:04,658
THAT CELEBRITIES
OFTEN LOBBIED

864
00:38:04,682 --> 00:38:07,962
BUT SOME HAD A HARD TIME
GRASPING THE GAME.

865
00:38:07,986 --> 00:38:10,197
HENNY YOUNGMAN,
FOR EXAMPLE,

866
00:38:10,221 --> 00:38:11,833
WAS AN ACCOMPLISHED COMEDIAN.

867
00:38:11,857 --> 00:38:14,601
BUT HIS APPEARANCE
ON "HOLLYWOOD SQUARES"

868
00:38:14,625 --> 00:38:16,270
DID NOT GO WELL.

869
00:38:16,294 --> 00:38:19,039
I SAID, "HENNY, I'M SO EXCITED
YOU'RE ON THE SHOW.

870
00:38:19,063 --> 00:38:20,541
"NOW, HERE'S THE WAY
THE SHOW WORKS.

871
00:38:20,565 --> 00:38:23,411
"I'LL ASK YOU A QUESTION,
AND IF YOU HAVE A JOKE, DO IT.

872
00:38:23,435 --> 00:38:25,113
"AND THEN GET TO THE ANSWER,
OKAY?

873
00:38:25,137 --> 00:38:27,581
"20 SECONDS, 25 SECONDS.

874
00:38:27,605 --> 00:38:30,785
ANY LONGER IS NO GOOD, OKAY?"

875
00:38:30,809 --> 00:38:31,919
HE SAID, "YOU GOT IT."

876
00:38:31,943 --> 00:38:34,187
FIRST QUESTION WAS,
"DO BIRDS FLY?"

877
00:38:34,211 --> 00:38:37,224
HE SAID, "THESE TWO GUYS,
THEY GO BEAR HUNTING,

878
00:38:37,248 --> 00:38:39,326
"THEY COME TO A SIGN THAT SAYS,
'BEAR LEFT, '

879
00:38:39,350 --> 00:38:40,160
AND SO THEY WENT HOME."

880
00:38:40,184 --> 00:38:42,530
AND I SAID,
"HENNY, DO BIRDS FLY?"

881
00:38:42,554 --> 00:38:46,099
HE SAID, "THERE WAS THIS GIRL
IN CLEVELAND, AND..."

882
00:38:47,258 --> 00:38:49,069
AND GOBEL FELL OFF HIS CHAIR.

883
00:38:49,093 --> 00:38:52,440
AND I SAID,
"WE GOT TO STOP TAPE, GUYS."

884
00:38:52,464 --> 00:38:54,041
BECAUSE HE DIDN'T GET IT.

885
00:38:54,065 --> 00:38:55,342
AND GROUCHO
DIDN'T GET IT.

886
00:38:55,366 --> 00:38:57,645
A LOT OF PEOPLE
DIDN'T WORK ON THE SHOW.

887
00:38:57,669 --> 00:39:01,249
Narrator: THE CELEBRITIES
WHO COULD WORK

888
00:39:01,273 --> 00:39:02,983
WITHIN THE SHOW'S FORMAT

889
00:39:03,007 --> 00:39:05,253
OFTEN STAYED ON
FOR YEARS

890
00:39:05,277 --> 00:39:07,588
AND BECAME HOUSEHOLD NAMES.

891
00:39:07,612 --> 00:39:09,389
CHARLEY WEAVER,

892
00:39:09,413 --> 00:39:10,925
WALLY COX,

893
00:39:10,949 --> 00:39:12,026
PAUL LYNDE.

894
00:39:12,050 --> 00:39:13,561
Host: ACCORDING
TO THE RED CROSS,

895
00:39:13,585 --> 00:39:17,332
WHEN WILL THEY STOP ACCEPTING
BLOOD DONATIONS FROM A PERSON?

896
00:39:17,356 --> 00:39:18,933
OH, WHEN HE DRIES UP.

897
00:39:20,124 --> 00:39:23,338
"HEY, PAUL,
HOW MANY MEN ON A HOCKEY TEAM?"

898
00:39:23,362 --> 00:39:24,071
"ABOUT HALF."

899
00:39:24,095 --> 00:39:27,041
BANG, THAT'S IT,
THERE YOU GO.

900
00:39:27,065 --> 00:39:31,546
YOU CAN'T DO A LONG MONOLOGUE.

901
00:39:31,570 --> 00:39:33,381
Host: WILL
HUMMING, HUMMING

902
00:39:33,405 --> 00:39:35,482
HELP YOUR TENNIS GAME?

903
00:39:38,476 --> 00:39:39,820
THIS STRUCK ME FUNNY!

904
00:39:39,844 --> 00:39:42,757
UM, WILL HUMMING
HELP MY TENNIS GAME?

905
00:39:42,781 --> 00:39:45,226
SURE, WHY NOT?
IT TAKES YOUR MIND

906
00:39:45,250 --> 00:39:47,728
OFF YOUR BALLS
OR SOMETHING.

907
00:39:49,554 --> 00:39:51,799
AND I SAID,
"YES, IT WOULD PROBABLY

908
00:39:51,823 --> 00:39:53,801
TAKE YOUR MIND
OFF YOUR BALLS."

909
00:39:53,825 --> 00:39:55,702
S...
AND THEN I WENT...

910
00:39:55,726 --> 00:39:58,873
WELL, THE AUDIENCE
BECAME HYSTERICAL.

911
00:39:58,897 --> 00:40:02,009
CHARLEY WEAVER GOT UP
AND WALKED OFF,

912
00:40:02,033 --> 00:40:05,513
EVEN THOUGH
HE COULDN'T WALK VERY WELL.

913
00:40:05,537 --> 00:40:07,315
AND IT WAS
ONE OF THOSE THINGS

914
00:40:07,339 --> 00:40:09,784
WHERE THE LAUGHTER
WENT ON FOR,

915
00:40:09,808 --> 00:40:13,020
FOREVER, AND I JUST
HAD MY HEAD DOWN ON THE DESK.

916
00:40:15,914 --> 00:40:17,158
OH, NO!

917
00:40:21,686 --> 00:40:25,066
Narrator: HAVING FUN
WITH CELEBRITIES

918
00:40:25,090 --> 00:40:29,070
BECAME A STAPLE
OF THE GAME SHOW UNIVERSE.

919
00:40:29,094 --> 00:40:32,673
BUT COULD A GAME SUCCEED
BY EXTRACTING HUMOR

920
00:40:32,697 --> 00:40:34,408
FROM THE CONTESTANTS?

921
00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:36,844
THE ONE MAN WHO KNEW
THE ANSWER

922
00:40:36,868 --> 00:40:39,547
WAS GAME SHOW PRODUCER
CHUCK BARRIS,

923
00:40:39,571 --> 00:40:44,551
ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL PEOPLE
IN AMERICAN TELEVISION.

924
00:40:44,575 --> 00:40:46,053
AND WHEN YOU WALK
INTO CHUCK'S OFFICE,

925
00:40:46,077 --> 00:40:47,955
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A URINAL
ON THE WALL.

926
00:40:47,979 --> 00:40:50,223
YOU KNOW, AND HE WAS JUST ONE...

927
00:40:50,247 --> 00:40:52,527
YOU KNOW, HE WAS...
HE WAS

928
00:40:52,551 --> 00:40:53,661
JUST AN ECCENTRIC GUY.

929
00:40:53,685 --> 00:40:56,264
BUT I HAVE NOTHING
BUT NICE THINGS

930
00:40:56,288 --> 00:40:59,299
HE KNEW EXACTLY
TO SWHAT HE WAS DOING.RIS.

931
00:40:59,323 --> 00:41:02,102
HE FIGURED OUT VERY EARLY
THAT JOHN AND MARY JONES

932
00:41:02,126 --> 00:41:04,538
ARE THE FUNNIEST PEOPLE
IN THE WORLD.

933
00:41:06,397 --> 00:41:09,376
THIS DAZZLING BACHELORETTE
IS A CHRONIC DISCO DANCER.

934
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,513
SHE'S HERE TONIGHT TO ANSWER
THE MUSICAL QUESTION,

935
00:41:12,537 --> 00:41:14,615
"CAN THE HUSTLE
REALLY CLEAR UP

936
00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:16,617
DISTRESS IN THE LOWER TRACT?"

937
00:41:16,641 --> 00:41:19,486
Narrator: BARRIS MADE
HIS FIRST BIG SPLASH

938
00:41:19,510 --> 00:41:21,923
IN LATE 1965 WITH
"THE DATING GAME."

939
00:41:21,947 --> 00:41:25,559
THE SHOW DIDN'T HAVE
A QUIZ OR BIG MONEY PRIZES.

940
00:41:25,583 --> 00:41:30,964
INSTEAD, IT FEATURED
ORDINARY PEOPLE, HAVING FUN.

941
00:41:30,988 --> 00:41:33,500
BACHELOR NUMBER ONE.

942
00:41:33,524 --> 00:41:35,402
I REALLY LIKE ICE CREAM.

943
00:41:35,426 --> 00:41:39,339
IF YOU WERE ICE CREAM,
WHAT FLAVOR WOULD YOU BE?

944
00:41:41,933 --> 00:41:43,778
Narrator:
BARRIS SOON FOLLOWED UP

945
00:41:43,802 --> 00:41:47,214
WITH "THE NEWLYWED GAME,"
WHICH ALSO GLEANED HUMOR

946
00:41:47,238 --> 00:41:48,549
FROM REGULAR FOLKS.

947
00:41:48,573 --> 00:41:50,217
Host:
WHAT ANIMAL, LISA,

948
00:41:50,241 --> 00:41:52,353
DID YOU INHERIT
YOUR RUMP FROM?

949
00:41:52,377 --> 00:41:53,620
I SAID, "HER MOTHER."

950
00:41:53,644 --> 00:41:56,656
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING
AT MY MOTHER'S RUMP FOR?

951
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:57,724
IT'S NOT EVEN BIG!

952
00:41:57,748 --> 00:41:58,759
YOU CAN'T MISS IT.

953
00:41:58,783 --> 00:42:02,263
THE THING'S THE SIZE
OF A BUICK.

954
00:42:02,287 --> 00:42:04,164
YOU CAN'T EVEN
GET IT THROUGH THE DOOR.

955
00:42:04,188 --> 00:42:05,165
NO, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT.

956
00:42:05,189 --> 00:42:07,134
IT'S BIG...
IT'S THE SIZE...

957
00:42:07,158 --> 00:42:10,604
SHE'S JUST BIG-BONED.

958
00:42:10,628 --> 00:42:12,206
Narrator:
BARRIS TOOK PRIDE

959
00:42:12,230 --> 00:42:14,641
IN AVOIDING THE USUAL
GAME SHOW HOSTS.

960
00:42:14,665 --> 00:42:18,545
WHEN BOB EUBANKS WAS TAPPED
FOR "THE NEWLYWED GAME,"

961
00:42:18,569 --> 00:42:22,716
HE WAS THE YOUNGEST PERSON
EVER TO EMCEE A GAME SHOW.

962
00:42:22,740 --> 00:42:24,985
AFTER THE FIRST SHOW,
CHUCK BARRIS CAME TO ME,

963
00:42:25,009 --> 00:42:26,553
AND HE SAYS,
"I NEED TO TALK TO YOU."

964
00:42:26,577 --> 00:42:27,988
I SAID, "WHAT'S THE MATTER?"

965
00:42:28,012 --> 00:42:29,523
HE SAYS,
"YOU'VE JUST DONE SOMETHING

966
00:42:29,547 --> 00:42:32,159
I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYBODY
DO BEFORE."

967
00:42:32,183 --> 00:42:34,928
HE SAID, "YOU WENT A HALF-HOUR
WITHOUT BLINKING."

968
00:42:34,952 --> 00:42:37,031
SO I HAD TO WRITE MYSELF A NOTE.

969
00:42:37,055 --> 00:42:38,733
"WE'LL BE BACK WITH MORE
OF 'THE NEWLYWED GAME, '"

970
00:42:38,757 --> 00:42:40,334
AND IT SAYS, "BLINK,"
AND I GO, BLINK, BLINK.

971
00:42:40,358 --> 00:42:42,402
THAT'S HOW FRIGHTENED I WAS.
I WAS SCARED TO DEATH.

972
00:42:42,426 --> 00:42:45,272
Man: HEAVY DRAIN
UPON THE FILLER RESOURCES...

973
00:42:45,296 --> 00:42:48,408
Narrator: "THE NEWLYWED GAME"
HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE

974
00:42:48,432 --> 00:42:50,210
TO PREMIERE AT THE EXACT MOMENT

975
00:42:50,234 --> 00:42:52,512
DEFENSE SECRETARY
ROBERT McNAMARA

976
00:42:52,536 --> 00:42:57,985
NBC AND CBS
WCARRIED THE SPEECH LIVE..

977
00:42:58,009 --> 00:43:02,923
Announcer: FROM HOLLYWOOD,
HERE COME THE NEWLYWEDS!

978
00:43:02,947 --> 00:43:07,961
Narrator: BUT ABC WENT WITH
THE NEWLYWEDS.

979
00:43:07,985 --> 00:43:14,468
THAT FIRST EPISODE HAD RATINGS
TO RIVAL A SUPER BOWL.

980
00:43:14,492 --> 00:43:17,871
BOTH "THE DATING"
AND "NEWLYWED" GAMES

981
00:43:17,895 --> 00:43:23,210
REFLECTING THE VERY YOUNG
WEAND FREE-WHEELING STAFF,

982
00:43:23,234 --> 00:43:27,814
HE WAS AMONG THE FIRST
THAT BATV PRODUCERSEMBLED.

983
00:43:27,838 --> 00:43:31,419
TO TAP INTO THE CHANGING
NATIONAL CULTURE

984
00:43:31,443 --> 00:43:32,520
OF THE 1960s.

985
00:43:32,544 --> 00:43:36,957
AND IT MADE BARRIS
EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL.

986
00:43:36,981 --> 00:43:38,225
"THE NEWLYWED GAME"
WAS A COMEDY SHOW

987
00:43:38,249 --> 00:43:39,459
THAT HAPPENED TO HAVE
A GAME THERE.

988
00:43:39,483 --> 00:43:42,262
AND THAT'S REALLY
WHAT IT IS, YOU KNOW.

989
00:43:42,286 --> 00:43:44,298
"WOW, DID YOU SEE
THAT GREAT PRIZE THEY WON,"

990
00:43:44,322 --> 00:43:45,832
OR, "WOW, THEY SURE
KNEW EACH OTHER."

991
00:43:45,856 --> 00:43:47,734
NO, THEY ONLY TALK
ABOUT THE FUNNY STUFF.

992
00:43:47,758 --> 00:43:49,169
Host: IN COINS,
HOW MUCH MONEY

993
00:43:49,193 --> 00:43:50,837
COULD YOUR
BELLY BUTTON HOLD?

994
00:43:50,861 --> 00:43:52,606
CARRIE?

995
00:43:52,630 --> 00:43:54,708
I GUESS...
I WOULD SAY A DIME.
A DIME.

996
00:43:54,732 --> 00:43:55,943
HE SAID
YOUR BELLY BUTTON

997
00:43:55,967 --> 00:43:57,211
COULD HOLD
ONE DOLLAR!

998
00:43:57,235 --> 00:44:00,047
YOU JERK!
A DOLLAR?

999
00:44:00,071 --> 00:44:01,848
WELL, IT'S BIG
AND ROUND, BUT SHALLOW.

1000
00:44:01,872 --> 00:44:05,785
HE SAID, "A BIG OLD SILVER
DOLLAR," IS WHAT HE SAID.

1001
00:44:05,809 --> 00:44:09,189
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO
GIVE HIM A RIDE HOME, TOO!

1002
00:44:09,213 --> 00:44:10,024
A SILVER DOLLAR?

1003
00:44:10,048 --> 00:44:11,658
Eubanks:
HE FIGURED IT OUT,

1004
00:44:11,682 --> 00:44:13,728
AND HE WAS DOING
REALITY TELEVISION BACK THEN,

1005
00:44:13,752 --> 00:44:15,830
BEFORE WE KNEW WHAT
THE WORD "REALITY" MEANT.

1006
00:44:15,854 --> 00:44:19,366
HE HAD GREAT INSTINCTS.
GREAT INSTINCTS.

1007
00:44:19,390 --> 00:44:22,636
Narrator:
BARRIS'S UNIQUE INSTINCTS CAME

1008
00:44:22,660 --> 00:44:24,839
AT JUST THE RIGHT TIME
FOR ABC.

1009
00:44:24,863 --> 00:44:27,641
A PERENNIAL THIRD-PLACE
ALSO-RAN,

1010
00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:31,111
THE NETWORK
WAS IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE.

1011
00:44:31,135 --> 00:44:32,612
"THE NEWLYWED GAME"
AND "DATING GAME"

1012
00:44:32,636 --> 00:44:38,686
AND "LET'S MAKE A DEAL,"
I BELIEVE LITERALLY SAVED ABC.

1013
00:44:38,710 --> 00:44:42,423
WE TOOK THAT NETWORK
FROM HERE TO HERE.

1014
00:44:42,447 --> 00:44:45,859
BECAUSE EVERY SHOW... NOT ONLY
DID WE GET THAT TIME PERIOD,

1015
00:44:45,883 --> 00:44:48,329
BUT EVERY SHOW FOLLOWING US
ZOOMED UP.

1016
00:44:48,353 --> 00:44:50,364
I REMEMBER, MICHAEL EISNER
WAS THE HEAD

1017
00:44:50,388 --> 00:44:51,866
OF WEST COAST
DAYTIME TELEVISION,

1018
00:44:51,890 --> 00:44:53,700
AND HE CAME UP TO ME ONE TIME
AT A PARTY,

1019
00:44:53,724 --> 00:44:55,269
HE SAYS,
"YOU'RE VERY IMPORTANT TO ME."

1020
00:44:55,293 --> 00:44:57,371
HE SAYS, "YOU'RE<i> VERY</i>
IMPORTANT TO ME."

1021
00:44:57,395 --> 00:45:00,107
BECAUSE HE REALIZED
THAT THESE THREE SHOWS...

1022
00:45:00,131 --> 00:45:01,842
"DATING GAME," "NEWLYWED GAME,"

1023
00:45:01,866 --> 00:45:04,845
LITERALLY SAVED THE NETWORK
AND "LEAT THE TIME.EAL"...

1024
00:45:04,869 --> 00:45:08,182
I REMEMBER, IT WAS SO MUCH FUN
GOING INTO HIS OFFICES,

1025
00:45:08,206 --> 00:45:13,254
BECAUSE EVERYBODY WAS YOUNG
AROUND HIM,

1026
00:45:13,278 --> 00:45:16,390
THEY WERE EXCITED,
THEY WERE EXUBERANT.

1027
00:45:16,414 --> 00:45:18,425
THEY LOVED WHAT CHUCK
WAS DOING.

1028
00:45:18,449 --> 00:45:22,530
HE HAD STARTED
WITH PRACTICALLY NOTHING.

1029
00:45:22,554 --> 00:45:25,132
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN,
HE WAS

1030
00:45:25,156 --> 00:45:28,368
THE KING, QUOTE-UNQUOTE,
OF ABC!

1031
00:45:28,392 --> 00:45:30,504
<i>Man:
WHAT'S YOUR IDEA</i>

1032
00:45:30,528 --> 00:45:31,739
<i>OF A DREAM GIRL?</i>

1033
00:45:31,763 --> 00:45:34,040
<i>JOIN OUR NEW WEEKDAY GAME,</i>

1034
00:45:34,064 --> 00:45:37,978
Narrator: BARRIS'S GOLDEN TOUCH<i>.</i>

1035
00:45:38,002 --> 00:45:38,945
HAD ITS LIMITS.

1036
00:45:38,969 --> 00:45:42,783
MANY OF HIS CREATIONS
DID NOT CATCH ON.

1037
00:45:42,807 --> 00:45:44,885
SHOWS LIKE "DREAM GIRL '67,"

1038
00:45:44,909 --> 00:45:46,019
"THE PARENT GAME,"

1039
00:45:46,043 --> 00:45:48,589
AND "HOW'S YOUR MOTHER-IN-LAW?"

1040
00:45:48,613 --> 00:45:53,894
AND IT WAS CALLED,
"HOW'S YOUR MOTHER-IN-LAW?"

1041
00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:59,466
"WHAT WAS THE FORMAT
I'VE HAOF THAT SHOW? TO ME,

1042
00:45:59,490 --> 00:46:01,001
WHAT WAS THE CONCEPT?"

1043
00:46:01,025 --> 00:46:02,002
AND I'VE LAUGHINGLY SAID...

1044
00:46:02,026 --> 00:46:03,570
AND THIS MAY NOT
BE TOTALLY TRUE...

1045
00:46:03,594 --> 00:46:05,472
BUT I SAID,
"THERE WAS NO CONCEPT!

1046
00:46:05,496 --> 00:46:06,307
THAT WAS THE PROBLEM!"

1047
00:46:06,331 --> 00:46:09,410
IT WASN'T ALL THAT GREAT
AN IDEA.

1048
00:46:13,204 --> 00:46:15,516
Narrator: WHILE A GREAT IDEA
IS THE KEY

1049
00:46:15,540 --> 00:46:17,485
TO A GAME SHOW'S SUCCESS,

1050
00:46:17,509 --> 00:46:21,088
ANOTHER ELEMENT
IS EQUALLY CRITICAL...

1051
00:46:21,112 --> 00:46:23,123
THE EMCEE.

1052
00:46:23,147 --> 00:46:25,459
A LITTLE OLD PAUSE
FOR STATION IDENTIFICATION.

1053
00:46:25,483 --> 00:46:28,562
I DON'T KNOW WHAT
TO MAKE OF THIS!

1054
00:46:28,586 --> 00:46:30,130
OPEN IT.

1055
00:46:30,154 --> 00:46:33,567
Announcer:
BOB BARKER!

1056
00:46:35,793 --> 00:46:37,904
Narrator: THE JOB
OF A GAME SHOW EMCEE

1057
00:46:37,928 --> 00:46:41,942
MAY BE ONE OF THE MOST
COMPLICATED IN SHOW BUSINESS.

1058
00:46:41,966 --> 00:46:44,077
PLUS THE PRICE
OF THE TRIP

1059
00:46:44,101 --> 00:46:45,312
TOTALS $5,000 TO $6,000.

1060
00:46:45,336 --> 00:46:48,482
YOU'LL WIN MONEY
IN THE AMOUNT OF THE CHECK,

1061
00:46:48,506 --> 00:46:51,385
AND YOU WILL WIN
THE TRIP TO ATLANTA.

1062
00:46:51,409 --> 00:46:52,453
DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION?

1063
00:46:52,477 --> 00:46:55,922
Narrator: A GOOD EMCEE
HAS TO KNOW THE GAME COLD,

1064
00:46:55,946 --> 00:46:58,625
MONITOR THE CLOCK
CONSTANTLY,

1065
00:46:58,649 --> 00:47:00,126
INTERACT EFFORTLESSLY

1066
00:47:00,150 --> 00:47:02,663
WITH CELEBRITIES
AND CONTESTANTS,

1067
00:47:02,687 --> 00:47:05,366
AND CONSTANTLY MAKE
ADJUSTMENTS

1068
00:47:05,390 --> 00:47:07,534
TO ENSURE THE PROGRAM
IS ENTERTAINING.

1069
00:47:07,558 --> 00:47:11,371
IN ESSENCE, THE HOST
MUST MANUFACTURE

1070
00:47:11,395 --> 00:47:13,574
A HALF-HOUR SHOW
EVERY DAY,

1071
00:47:13,598 --> 00:47:16,977
OFTEN WITH NOTHING MORE
THAN A BASIC OUTLINE

1072
00:47:17,001 --> 00:47:18,478
AND A FEW NOTE CARDS.

1073
00:47:18,502 --> 00:47:21,715
MARK GOODSON ONCE DESCRIBED
THE GAME SHOW HOSTING JOB

1074
00:47:21,739 --> 00:47:26,686
AS "DRIVING A CAR BACKWARDS
DOWN A MOUNTAIN ROAD,

1075
00:47:26,710 --> 00:47:31,258
AND BEING WITTY AND FUNNY
AT THE SAME TIME."

1076
00:47:31,282 --> 00:47:33,493
THE SKILL SET IS BASIC
IN TELEVISION,

1077
00:47:33,517 --> 00:47:34,862
IN TIME AND UNDERSTANDING TIME,

1078
00:47:34,886 --> 00:47:37,497
AND IN BEING ABLE
TO PUT THAT BEHIND YOU

1079
00:47:37,521 --> 00:47:41,067
AND GO ON WITH THE SHOW
AND BE SUBCONSCIOUSLY AWARE

1080
00:47:41,091 --> 00:47:43,503
THAT YOU HAVE SO MUCH TIME
TO PERFORM THIS

1081
00:47:43,527 --> 00:47:46,707
AND TRY TO PULL IT OFF
AS BEST YOU CAN.

1082
00:47:46,731 --> 00:47:49,043
AND OVER TIME,
YOU ACQUIRE THAT SKILL

1083
00:47:49,067 --> 00:47:50,844
OR YOU DON'T
ACQUIRE THAT SKILL.

1084
00:47:50,868 --> 00:47:53,080
AND THE REST OF IT
IS JUST KIND OF

1085
00:47:53,104 --> 00:47:55,415
BEING FUNNY AND INTERESTING
AND...

1086
00:47:55,439 --> 00:47:57,050
OH, I DON'T KNOW!

1087
00:47:57,074 --> 00:47:59,486
TRYING NOT TO FALL DOWN
TOO MANY TIMES.

1088
00:47:59,510 --> 00:48:03,223
A GOOD EMCEE FLOWS
WITH THE SHOW.

1089
00:48:03,247 --> 00:48:07,660
HE IS... COMPATIBLE
WITH THE CONTESTANTS,

1090
00:48:07,684 --> 00:48:11,464
HE'S ON THEIR SIDE,
HE LIKES TO SEE PEOPLE WIN,

1091
00:48:11,488 --> 00:48:15,669
AND WITHOUT THINKING,
WITHOUT TRYING,

1092
00:48:15,693 --> 00:48:18,605
WITHOUT BEING AT ALL MECHANICAL,

1093
00:48:18,629 --> 00:48:21,141
HE'S JUST BECOME
A PART OF THE SHOW.

1094
00:48:21,165 --> 00:48:22,476
AND LET IT FLOW.

1095
00:48:22,500 --> 00:48:28,515
Narrator: IN THE EARLY YEARS,
COMEDIANS WERE OFTEN TAPPED

1096
00:48:28,539 --> 00:48:33,654
GROUCHO MARX,
PEAND EVEN DICK VAN DYKE, ,

1097
00:48:33,678 --> 00:48:37,090
WHO AUDITIONED TO BE
THE FIRST HOST

1098
00:48:37,114 --> 00:48:40,427
Van Dyke: YES, THEY WERE PUTTING
TOGETHER "THE PRICE IS RIGHT"

1099
00:48:40,451 --> 00:48:42,563
BACK IN THE... THIS IS
IN THE LATE '50s.

1100
00:48:42,587 --> 00:48:43,997
THEY ASKED ME
TO BE THE HOST.

1101
00:48:44,021 --> 00:48:46,867
AND I KEPT TELLING MY WIFE,
"THIS IS A SHOW

1102
00:48:46,891 --> 00:48:49,736
"ABOUT GUESSING HOW MUCH
SOMETHING COSTS!

1103
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,072
THAT'S A GAME SHOW?"

1104
00:48:52,096 --> 00:48:53,206
SAID, "IT'LL<i> NEVER</i> GO!"

1105
00:48:53,230 --> 00:48:56,877
Narrator: OVER TIME,
PRODUCERS LEARNED

1106
00:48:56,901 --> 00:48:59,313
THAT MANY TRADITIONAL COMEDIANS

1107
00:48:59,337 --> 00:49:02,048
WEREN'T QUITE RIGHT
FOR THE EMCEE JOB.

1108
00:49:02,072 --> 00:49:05,385
INSTEAD, HOSTING A GAME SHOW
WOULD REQUIRE

1109
00:49:05,409 --> 00:49:08,889
A VERY DIFFERENT SET
OF SKILLS.

1110
00:49:08,913 --> 00:49:10,490
THE WHOLE SECRET
IS TO LISTEN.

1111
00:49:10,514 --> 00:49:14,728
IF YOU LISTEN TO WHAT
THE CONTESTANT IS SAYING,

1112
00:49:14,752 --> 00:49:16,830
THEN GO AND MAKE SOMETHING
FROM IT.

1113
00:49:16,854 --> 00:49:19,299
CREATING SPONTANEOUS
ENTERTAINMENT,

1114
00:49:19,323 --> 00:49:23,036
YOU FIND THIS WONDERFUL
IT'S LITTLE CONTESTANTOLD.

1115
00:49:23,060 --> 00:49:24,271
OR BIG CONTESTANT
OR WHATEVER,

1116
00:49:24,295 --> 00:49:28,709
AND YOU GO WITH THAT PERSON
AND GET THAT AUDIENCE LAUGHING.

1117
00:49:28,733 --> 00:49:30,878
I WOULD HAVE TO WATCH MYSELF,

1118
00:49:30,902 --> 00:49:33,814
BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY
OPENINGS FOR JOKES AND THINGS,

1119
00:49:33,838 --> 00:49:35,615
AND I SAID,
"NO, NO, NO, PETE.

1120
00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:36,583
"YOU'RE THE STRAIGHT MAN.

1121
00:49:36,607 --> 00:49:39,753
JUST STAY
RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE."

1122
00:49:39,777 --> 00:49:42,455
Narrator: AS WITH MANY
PROFESSIONS OF THE ERA,

1123
00:49:42,479 --> 00:49:47,161
WOMEN WERE OFTEN OVERLOOKED
AS POTENTIAL GAME SHOW EMCEES.

1124
00:49:47,185 --> 00:49:50,931
IN 1949, ARLENE FRANCIS
BRIEFLY HOSTED

1125
00:49:50,955 --> 00:49:53,533
A PROGRAM CALLED "BLIND DATE."

1126
00:49:53,557 --> 00:49:58,072
BUT FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS,
WOMEN WERE SHUT OUT.

1127
00:49:58,096 --> 00:49:59,640
TV PRODUCERS RECOGNIZED

1128
00:49:59,664 --> 00:50:02,743
BETTY WHITE'S POTENTIAL
AS AN EMCEE,

1129
00:50:02,767 --> 00:50:06,580
BUT THE NETWORKS REFUSED,
OVER AND OVER.

1130
00:50:06,604 --> 00:50:09,650
THE NETWORK SAID, "NO,
A WOMAN JUST CAN'T,

1131
00:50:09,674 --> 00:50:11,585
"SHE CAN'T HOLD A SHOW TOGETHER,

1132
00:50:11,609 --> 00:50:13,119
"AND SHE JUST DOESN'T HAVE...

1133
00:50:13,143 --> 00:50:15,622
IT JUST DOESN'T WORK
WITH A WOMAN," YOU KNOW.

1134
00:50:15,646 --> 00:50:20,093
Narrator: WHITE FINALLY
GOT HER CHANCE TO EMCEE

1135
00:50:20,117 --> 00:50:22,329
ON A GAME CALLED
"JUST MEN."

1136
00:50:22,353 --> 00:50:26,900
SHE WON AN EMMY, BUT THE SHOW
WAS QUICKLY CANCELLED.

1137
00:50:26,924 --> 00:50:30,070
Woman: THEN THEY STARTED
DOING RESEARCH.

1138
00:50:30,094 --> 00:50:31,304
THEY SAID, "WE HAVE RESEARCH."

1139
00:50:31,328 --> 00:50:33,339
YOU KNOW, THEY LOVE
TO DO RESEARCH.

1140
00:50:33,363 --> 00:50:34,941
"WE HAVE RESEARCH THAT SAYS

1141
00:50:34,965 --> 00:50:37,544
"THAT WOMEN ARE BASICALLY
IN LOVE

1142
00:50:37,568 --> 00:50:39,079
"WITH THE GUYS
THAT HOST GAME SHOWS,

1143
00:50:39,103 --> 00:50:41,281
"THAT IT'S LIKE A ROMANTIC
KIND OF,

1144
00:50:41,305 --> 00:50:42,449
A FANTASY ROMANCE CONNECTION."

1145
00:50:42,473 --> 00:50:47,421
Narrator: DESPITE THE RESEARCH,
VICKI LAWRENCE WAS HIRED

1146
00:50:47,445 --> 00:50:49,289
TO HOST "WIN, LOSE, OR DRAW."

1147
00:50:49,313 --> 00:50:52,692
SHE FACED UNIQUE CHALLENGES,
BECAUSE THE PRODUCERS

1148
00:50:52,716 --> 00:50:53,960
WOULDN'T LET HER WEAR SKIRTS.

1149
00:50:53,984 --> 00:50:57,330
THEY THOUGHT SUITS
WOULD GIVE HER MORE AUTHORITY.

1150
00:50:57,354 --> 00:51:00,000
AND, YOU KNOW, I DO NOT HAVE
VANNA WHITE'S BODY,

1151
00:51:00,024 --> 00:51:01,735
SO SOME DAYS
THE STUFF WOULD NOT WORK.

1152
00:51:01,759 --> 00:51:04,171
AND MY WARDROBE GAL AND I
WOULD BE PEEING IN OUR PANTS,

1153
00:51:04,195 --> 00:51:05,939
BECAUSE IT WOULD LOOK
SO HORRIBLE ON ME.

1154
00:51:05,963 --> 00:51:07,608
SO WE'D HAVE TO GO ON
TO THE NEXT SUIT,

1155
00:51:07,632 --> 00:51:09,176
SEE IF WE COULD MAKE THAT WORK,
YOU KNOW,

1156
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:10,511
AND THEN THE BOOTH WOULD BE
CALLING,

1157
00:51:10,535 --> 00:51:11,512
GOING,
"WHERE'S THAT RED SUIT?

1158
00:51:11,536 --> 00:51:12,712
SHE'S SUPPOSED TO BE
IN THAT RED SUIT."

1159
00:51:12,736 --> 00:51:15,215
WELL, THE RED SUIT DIDN'T FIT
OVER HER LEFT THIGH,

1160
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:18,740
SO WE HAD TO MOVE ON
TO THE BLUE SUIT, YOU KNOW.

1161
00:51:21,011 --> 00:51:25,859
Narrator: WHO WAS THE BEST EMCEE
OF THE PIONEERING ERA?

1162
00:51:25,883 --> 00:51:29,196
BOB BARKER HAS THE MOST AWARDS

1163
00:51:29,220 --> 00:51:30,363
AND GREATEST LONGEVITY.

1164
00:51:30,387 --> 00:51:35,469
BUT FOR SHEER VERSATILITY,
ONE OTHER NAME APPEARS

1165
00:51:35,493 --> 00:51:37,904
ON EVERY INSIDER'S LIST.

1166
00:51:37,928 --> 00:51:40,306
BUT THERE WAS ONE GUY
WHO WAS GOOD

1167
00:51:40,330 --> 00:51:42,942
AT EVAND YOU KNOW WHY? DID.

1168
00:51:42,966 --> 00:51:44,745
BECAUSE HE WAS VERY NATURAL,

1169
00:51:44,769 --> 00:51:47,814
HE WAS VERY POLITE,

1170
00:51:47,838 --> 00:51:52,118
HE LOVED HIS CONTESTANTS
AND THE OTHER PEOPLE,

1171
00:51:52,142 --> 00:51:53,386
AND HIS NAME WAS BILL CULLEN.

1172
00:51:53,410 --> 00:51:55,521
Bill Cullen:
ACTUAL RETAIL VALUE

1173
00:51:55,545 --> 00:51:56,589
$332.94.

1174
00:51:56,613 --> 00:51:59,259
MR. McTAGUE,
IT IS YOURS!

1175
00:52:03,888 --> 00:52:06,867
YOU'VE JUST SEEN THE MOST TORRID
LOVE SCENE ON TELEVISION.

1176
00:52:06,891 --> 00:52:09,469
AND WE'RE GOING TO LOSE
THAT TELEVISION LICENSE, TOO.

1177
00:52:10,361 --> 00:52:12,172
BILL CULLEN WAS SO GOOD

1178
00:52:12,196 --> 00:52:16,109
THAT IT'S HARD
TO DESCRIBE.

1179
00:52:16,133 --> 00:52:19,011
HE WAS VERY SELF-DEPRECATING.

1180
00:52:19,035 --> 00:52:22,949
BILL ALSO WAS
VERY, VERY BRIGHT

1181
00:52:22,973 --> 00:52:24,084
AND LAUGHED EASILY.

1182
00:52:24,108 --> 00:52:25,018
AND ISN'T IT PLEASANT

1183
00:52:25,042 --> 00:52:27,421
TO BE AROUND PEOPLE
WHO LAUGH EASILY?

1184
00:52:27,445 --> 00:52:28,688
THIS ALSO HAS

1185
00:52:28,712 --> 00:52:29,890
A PRESCRIPTION TABLETOP.

1186
00:52:29,914 --> 00:52:31,891
YOU KNEW IT WAS BILL CULLEN.

1187
00:52:31,915 --> 00:52:34,294
THIS WASN'T A PASTEBOARD CUTOUT.

1188
00:52:34,318 --> 00:52:35,195
BILL WAS THE BEST.

1189
00:52:35,219 --> 00:52:37,497
HE HAD A GREAT SENSE
OF HUMOR.

1190
00:52:37,521 --> 00:52:38,498
HE HAD STYLE.

1191
00:52:38,522 --> 00:52:41,134
HE HAD PANACHE,
HE HAD EVERYTHING.

1192
00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:43,102
THIS IS BILL CULLEN, SAYING,
THANKS FOR WATCHING,

1193
00:52:43,126 --> 00:52:46,005
AND KEEP YOUR MINDS WORKING
QUICK AS A FLASH.

1194
00:52:46,029 --> 00:52:47,841
AND THANKS, PANEL,
FOR BEING WITH US.

1195
00:52:47,865 --> 00:52:48,865
GOOD NIGHT!

1196
00:52:50,268 --> 00:52:51,511
COME ON DOWN!

1197
00:52:51,535 --> 00:52:55,015
Narrator: GAME SHOWS CAN EARN
A LOT OF MONEY

1198
00:52:55,039 --> 00:52:58,818
AND MAKE THEIR PARTICIPANTS
FAMOUS.

1199
00:52:58,842 --> 00:53:01,922
BUT THAT'S NOT WHY
MOST GAME SHOW PIONEERS

1200
00:53:01,946 --> 00:53:04,491
GOT INVOLVED
IN THE FORM.

1201
00:53:04,515 --> 00:53:05,825
INSTEAD, AT THE MOST

1202
00:53:05,849 --> 00:53:09,629
BASIC LEVEL,
THEY LIKE PLAYING GAMES...

1203
00:53:09,653 --> 00:53:13,566
THE CHALLENGE, THE COMPETITION,
THE FUN.

1204
00:53:13,590 --> 00:53:16,035
OUR NEXT CONTESTANT
IS NONE OTHER THAN

1205
00:53:16,059 --> 00:53:17,671
DAVID JENSEN!

1206
00:53:17,695 --> 00:53:21,341
I BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT GAMES
HAD BEEN AROUND FOREVER.

1207
00:53:21,365 --> 00:53:23,210
AND I HAVE LOVED THEM FOREVER.

1208
00:53:23,234 --> 00:53:24,911
AND I FELL IN LOVE
WITH THE GAME.

1209
00:53:24,935 --> 00:53:26,346
I<i> LOVE</i> THE GAME
OF "PASSWORD."

1210
00:53:26,370 --> 00:53:28,848
LET'S FACE IT,
PEOPLE LOVE TO PLAY GAMES.

1211
00:53:28,872 --> 00:53:30,550
PEOPLE LOVE TO SEE PEOPLE WIN.

1212
00:53:30,574 --> 00:53:32,586
I LOVE THE PEOPLE.

1213
00:53:32,610 --> 00:53:34,354
AND SO I DON'T CARE
IF THEY JUMP ON ME,

1214
00:53:34,378 --> 00:53:37,290
AND I DON'T CARE IF THEY YELL
AND THEY FAINT.

1215
00:53:37,314 --> 00:53:41,160
YOU'RE NOT DOING SOMETHING
LIKE CURING CANCER OR ANYTHING.

1216
00:53:41,184 --> 00:53:43,396
YOU'RE JUST HAVING FUN
AND MAKING,

1217
00:53:43,420 --> 00:53:45,732
GIVING PEOPLE 30 MINUTES
OF ENTERTAINMENT.

1218
00:53:45,756 --> 00:53:50,570
GAME SHOWS GIVE THE PUBLIC
A CHANCE TO GET TO KNOW YOU

1219
00:53:50,594 --> 00:53:51,838
AS YOU, AS A PERSON.

1220
00:53:51,862 --> 00:53:54,107
BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT
PLAYING A ROLE.

1221
00:53:54,131 --> 00:53:55,342
OR NOT SINGING A SONG.

1222
00:53:55,366 --> 00:53:59,312
YOU'RE SPEAKING FOR YOURSELF,
IN YOUR OWN VOICE,

1223
00:53:59,336 --> 00:54:02,416
SO THEY, THEY FEEL
THAT THEY KNOW YOU

1224
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:05,385
A LOT BETTER THAN IF YOU'RE
IN A MOVIE

1225
00:54:05,409 --> 00:54:06,819
OR IN A TELEVISION SHOW.

1226
00:54:06,843 --> 00:54:08,554
NOW, EDDIE, I THINK
I'M A PRETTY GOOD

1227
00:54:08,578 --> 00:54:09,923
JUDGE OF CHARACTER,
SO WHAT KIND

1228
00:54:09,947 --> 00:54:12,859
OF ILLEGITIMATE BUSINESS
ARE YOU IN?

1229
00:54:12,883 --> 00:54:15,061
THE AUDIENCE LAUGHED,
AND IT STARTLED ME.

1230
00:54:15,085 --> 00:54:16,863
I THOUGHT, "OH,
THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL SOUND!

1231
00:54:16,887 --> 00:54:19,499
I'M GOING TO SEE IF I CAN GET
THEM TO DO THAT AGAIN!"

1232
00:54:19,523 --> 00:54:21,268
AND I'VE BEEN DOING IT
FOR 50 YEARS.

1233
00:54:21,292 --> 00:54:24,103
<i>WE'RE GOING
TO STOP THIS FILM COLD.</i>

1234
00:54:24,127 --> 00:54:26,206
<i>IS THAT RIGHT?</i>

1235
00:54:26,230 --> 00:54:27,807
Narrator:
FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS,

1236
00:54:27,831 --> 00:54:29,409
WE'VE BEEN
WATCHING GAME SHOWS.

1237
00:54:29,433 --> 00:54:32,379
PLAYING ALONG,
JOINING THE PARTY.

1238
00:54:32,403 --> 00:54:33,913
<i>KEEP YOUR MINDS WORKING
QUICK AS A FLASH.</i>

1239
00:54:33,937 --> 00:54:35,615
<i>GOOD NIGHT, EVERYBODY,
AND THANKS, PANEL,</i>

1240
00:54:35,639 --> 00:54:36,783
<i>FOR BEING WITH US.
GOOD NIGHT.</i>

1241
00:54:36,807 --> 00:54:42,978
Narrator: THANKS
TO THE PIONEERS OF TELEVISION.

1242
00:54:49,986 --> 00:54:51,931
<i>FOR MORE INFORMATION
ON "PIONEERS OF TELEVISION"</i>

1243
00:54:51,955 --> 00:54:54,167
<i>AND OTHER PBS PROGRAMS,</i>

1244
00:54:54,191 --> 00:54:57,659
<i>GO TO PBS.ORG.</i>

1245
00:55:00,698 --> 00:55:03,910
WHAT DO YOU
MAKE OF THIS, HUH?

1246
00:55:03,934 --> 00:55:05,178
YES, SIR.

1247
00:55:05,202 --> 00:55:08,382
IT'S PRETTY GOOD.

1248
00:55:12,910 --> 00:55:13,587
OPEN IT.

1249
00:55:13,611 --> 00:55:16,823
Announcer:
BOB BARKER!

1250
00:55:28,958 --> 00:55:30,003
<i>THIS PROGRAM</i>

1251
00:55:30,027 --> 00:55:32,839
<i>BY CONTRIBUTIONS
TO YOUR PBS STATION</i>

1252
00:55:32,863 --> 00:55:38,533
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