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00:01You have the knowledge. You know the odds. All the rest is in the cards on Gambit, a game of skill, fate, and fortune.
00:11And now from Television City in Hollywood, your host, Wink Martindale.
00:15Thank you very much, Steve Williams. Thank you. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Gambit.
00:20We are ready to do our number again, ready to do our thing called Gambit, playing with a regular deck of 52 cards. Thank you.
00:26Thank you. First of all, let's begin, as we always do, by saying good morning to our dealer of the cards, Elaine Stewart.
00:31Good morning, Elaine. Hi, Wink. How are you today?
00:35Now let's meet our players for the day. Kenny, who do we have?
00:37First, let's meet the challengers. Here they are. They are Karen and Phil Livingston.
00:42And these are the champions who already won cash and prizes worth over $1,500, Mike and Angela Ferraro.
00:49Hello, Ferraros. Hello.
00:51We've got to give them some applause, too. Come on up.
00:56Mike and Angela are from Los Angeles. Mike is an insurance broker, while Angela is a housewife.
01:02They have a little boy, and they are our current champions.
01:05They have won $1,535 in cash and prizes. Good morning and welcome back, and good luck today.
01:10The Livingstons, Phil and Karen, are from Downey. Phil is a policeman with the city of Los Angeles, and Karen is a housewife.
01:16They are the new challengers, and they're going to try to knock off the Ferraros and become new champions.
01:20Good luck today, Livingston.
01:21Let's see. When we left off on our last show, we were in the first game of a new match.
01:26The Ferraros have what they hope is a lucky 13 there, and the Livingstons have an 8.
01:31The remaining cards in the deck we were using have been reshuffled and resealed.
01:34Now let's break the seal, Elaine, and we'll ask the Livingstons, Mr. Livingston, cut the cards for us, please.
01:39And incidentally, 21 in any combination hits our Gambit jackpot, which starts at $500 and goes up $500 a day.
01:45And today it's worth $1,500 for a 21.
01:49Here's the first question today.
01:51Actress Susan Strasberg plays the wife of one of TV's detectives.
01:55Ferraros.
01:55Toma.
01:56Right, Toma. She plays the wife of Toma.
02:03What are you going to do? Take this card or give it away?
02:05We'll take it, Wayne.
02:06Take the card.
02:0821!
02:0921!
02:09So congratulations, Mike and Angela. How's that for a start?
02:24I won't ask the Livingstons that because they might throw something at me, but congratulations.
02:29That's a beautiful way to begin.
02:31Let's see. You got $1,500 for the 21, $100 for the game.
02:34So that 21 is worth $1,600, and your grand total now, including cash, $1,400, is $3,135.
02:43We'll be back to game two of this match right after this.
02:53Here's game two of this match.
02:54By the way, we reset the jackpot now for a 21 to $500.
02:58Elaine, may we see the first card in the second game, please, for a jack of hearts.
03:01You're in the armed forces, and your captain says you'll meet at 1,800 hours.
03:07Livingston.
03:076 o'clock. 6 p.m.
03:09That's correct. 6 p.m.
03:11That's 1,800 hours.
03:13You want that card?
03:14Yeah, we'll take it.
03:15You got it.
03:16Well, good with me.
03:16This is a true or false question, so answer true or false.
03:19The words RSVP at the bottom of an invitation mean bring your own bottle of whiskey.
03:25Livingston.
03:27False.
03:27Right. It means please reply.
03:29All right. We'll take the next stage.
03:32Take it?
03:33Yes.
03:33Here it comes.
03:34Jack of hearts, plus a 10-iron.
03:38You want to stop or keep going?
03:39I think we'll freeze.
03:40For all of us, you got to have 21 to take the match.
03:43This famous country music star had a number of hit records during his short career with such songs as
03:48You're Cheatin' Hearts, Lovesick Blues, and Cold, Cold Heart.
03:52Am I talking about Hank Williams, Jimmy Rogers, or Tex Ritter?
03:56Williams, Rogers, or Ritter?
03:59Hank Williams.
04:00Right.
04:01Hank Williams is the one.
04:05You got to have 21 to win.
04:06Elaine, give them their first card.
04:08What do you have for them?
04:08First one of five.
04:09Mythology tells us that an ancient king named Midas had the power to turn everything he touched into what?
04:15Stole, gold, or ashes?
04:17Gold.
04:18Yes.
04:18The Midas touch.
04:20Next star, Elaine.
04:22Still trying to beat 20.
04:24You need a six.
04:24True or false?
04:25The song, It Takes Two to Tango, is the theme song from the film Last Tango in Paris.
04:31False.
04:34That's right.
04:35You're right.
04:36That's false.
04:36You need a six to win.
04:40Too much.
04:41Game goes to the Livingston minutes.
04:43All even Steven at a game of games.
04:49Done got $100, Livingston.
04:50Elaine, let's see the first card in the determining factor, which is the final game of the match.
04:55For a ten of spades, the songs You're a Grand Old Flag and Over There were written by a man who was played in a famous movie by Jimmy Caggart.
05:03Livingston?
05:04Answer.
05:05George Hammock, Cohan.
05:06Right.
05:07George M. Cohan is the man who played it.
05:10I'll take it.
05:12These names, Toscanini, Meta, Bernstein, are they famous as physicists, conductors, or attorneys?
05:19Livingston?
05:20Conductors.
05:21Famous conductors.
05:22Right.
05:25You got a ten.
05:26Do you want to take the next card?
05:27We'll take it.
05:28Here you go.
05:29Ten plus ten.
05:30Do you want to stop?
05:35I think so, yeah.
05:36Ferraros, the tables are suddenly turned.
05:38You got to beat that 20.
05:39You use peroxide on your hair.
05:41Are you bleaching it or darkening it?
05:44Bleaching it.
05:44Right.
05:45Bleaching your hair.
05:47First start, Elaine.
05:49Gary Cooper portrayed this Army General who was court-martialed for defying his superiors.
05:54He was a strong advocate of air power.
05:56Was he Eddie Rickenbacker, Billy Mitchell, or Jimmy Doolittle?
05:59Gary Cooper portrayed it.
06:06Rickenbacker.
06:06No, Billy Mitchell.
06:08And the match goes to the Livingstons with a 20.
06:16Congratulations, Phil and Karen.
06:17Karen with a K.
06:18K-A-R-O-N spells it a little differently.
06:20No matter how you spell it, you won the match.
06:22You go to the gambit board next.
06:23And congratulations, you have $200.
06:25And to the Ferraros, needless to say, you did very well.
06:28This has been a good day's work for you, hasn't it?
06:30Yes.
06:31Thank you so much.
06:32Thank you so much.
06:32$1,800 in cash and cash and prizes, a grand total of $3,135.
06:37Thank you very much.
06:38Congratulations, Virginia.
06:40We'll take a break and then we'll get it again.
06:42Come back in a minute.
08:02Kenny, what are those gifts this week?
08:04First, Miromatic electric housewares, including bacon-served casserole, electric broiler, and a couple-minute percolator, fresh-brewed coffee faster than instant from Miro, and here's a complete beautiful eye-makeup wardrobe from Maybelline.
08:16Beautiful eyes are yours with Maybelline.
08:18We'll be back with more of Gambit after this message.
08:26Our policeman's ready to go, huh?
08:28I sure am.
08:29You're not going to give me a ticket if you lose.
08:31No.
08:32Promise.
08:33Promise.
08:33Okay, then, we'll do it.
08:34Come on.
08:35On the Gambit board, 21 and any combination wins this.
08:38Our jackpot now is $500, plus the car, the Opel Manta, the best-selling car in Germany.
08:44The economical four-cylinder engine and excellent craftsmanship of Opel make it right for America now.
08:49Elaine, break the seal on a new deck of cards, and Phil, while you're cutting them, Karen, I'll tell you that among the prizes, we have our grocery special up here today.
08:57We have our Gambit Galaxy up here behind one of these cards.
09:00That's worth over $3,000, and we have three summer fun vacations up here behind these cards somewhere.
09:07Karen, pick the first one.
09:08Not number one, necessarily, but...
09:10Ten for our ten-week-old son.
09:12Okay, number ten.
09:13You got a pair of portables, and Kenny will tell you what they are.
09:15For your television during pleasure, a pair of portable color television sets for those times when you can't agree on what to watch.
09:22Now you can each have your own color TV.
09:24Elaine, what's the first card for Karen and Phil Livingston?
09:27King of hearts.
09:28You're pretty good at getting those hearts.
09:29Phil?
09:31Four.
09:32Number four.
09:33His and her watches.
09:36From Lucian Picard, his and her watches with a dependable precision, a quality gift of time from a most distinguished watchmaker, Lucian Picard.
09:43For a nice pair, everything's coming in pairs for you.
09:45Now let's see if we can find an ace of hearts to go with that king.
09:48That would be nice.
09:49Twelve.
09:50You want to stop?
09:51Make sure it's two prizes or dance with something else.
09:54What do we do?
09:55Keep on going or do we stop?
09:57Go one more time.
09:58Go one more time.
09:59One more once.
10:00All righty.
10:01Karen, back to you.
10:02Uh, number twelve.
10:04She picks number twelve, and we see a stereo.
10:06It's from Juliet, a beautiful home entertainment system consisting of AM, FM, stereo radio with eight-track player and built-in B&R changer, complete with stand and headphones from Juliet.
10:18His and her watches, beautiful stereo, a pair of portables, and a jackpot worth $500, and a car.
10:24All if you, uh, should happen to get a nine next.
10:27Anything but a ten, Elaine.
10:28Give them anything but a ten.
10:30Oh!
10:30Elaine, I said give a minute.
10:33Oh, well, that's the way they came up, so we forget the gambit board, but we do not forget the fact that you have $200 in cash.
10:40You're our new champions with the right to continue.
10:42And, audience, I think they make a nice pair.
10:43Don't you?
10:44Good new champions.
10:45Elaine, who's going to take them off?
10:49Now we welcome Nancy and Jim Brown together.
10:53Hi, how are you, Jim?
10:54Hi, Nancy.
10:55How are you?
10:55Nancy and Jim have traveled all the way from Pensacola, Florida, right?
11:01Right.
11:01Jim, tell us about yourself.
11:03Obviously, you're in the Navy.
11:04Yes, I'm pilot in the Navy.
11:05Pilot in the Navy.
11:06Nancy, what do you do?
11:07Do you...
11:07Housewife.
11:08Housewife.
11:09Any children?
11:09No, we don't have any children.
11:10Welcome to our show all the way from Pensacola.
11:12Do you come out here to visit relatives or friends or...
11:15To be on Gambit.
11:16To be on Gambit.
11:18Well, I hope we make it world...
11:19I hope you make it world where you want.
11:20Okay, good luck.
11:22Elaine, break the seal, please, and we'll ask our pilot.
11:25To cut the cards for us.
11:26Remember, 21 exactly hits our Gambit jackpot, which today is worth $500 in cash.
11:31Elaine, show us the first card, please.
11:33And away we go.
11:35For a six, according to this term, if something is said to be at its zenith, does this mean...
11:40Livingston.
11:41At its peak.
11:42That's right, yes.
11:44At its highest point.
11:45Or at its peak.
11:47What are we going to do?
11:48Give it away or take it?
11:50We'll take it.
11:51Take it.
11:51You got it.
11:51Veteran actor Tom Bosley plays Ronnie Howard's father in this television situation round.
11:57Happy days.
11:58That's right.
11:59We're going to see it during the figures.
12:02Let's take it.
12:04In the famous story, William Tell shoots an apple from his son's head.
12:08Now, is William Tell English, Swiss, or French?
12:10Livingston.
12:12English.
12:12No, Swiss.
12:13And the Browns control the card.
12:15Take it.
12:16Take it.
12:16Now, this is true or false.
12:28Answer is simply true or false.
12:30According to the Bible, Sodom and Gomorrah were two lovers who were kept apart because of
12:34a feud between their families.
12:36Livingston.
12:39Answer.
12:39True.
12:40No, false.
12:42They were two cities destroyed because of their wickedness and the Browns control it.
12:46We'll take the card.
12:48We'll take the card.
12:50You want to stay?
12:5217.
12:52Okay.
12:53They stopped at 17 this time.
12:55Karen, are you laughing at yourself?
12:57Here's your question.
12:58You're trying to beat 17.
12:59Uncle Sam is the imaginary man who signifies the United States.
13:03What country is signified by John Bull?
13:06Russia, England, or Spain?
13:08England.
13:12Right.
13:15Here's your next star, the ladies.
13:17For the Livingston's, they're trying to beat 17.
13:22Emiliano Zapata was a Mexican revolutionary.
13:25Who played the role in the movie Viva Zapata?
13:28Was it Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn, or Charlton Heston?
13:31I like this Marlon Brando.
13:33That's right.
13:33She's correct.
13:35Okay.
13:36Let's see if she's going to do it.
13:37We'll be back to continue this match right after this.
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14:12We'll be back with more of Gambit, right after this.
14:18Back with Gambit.
14:19First card in game two.
14:21Elaine, what do we have?
14:22We're shooting for a nine of clubs and you're eating guacamole.
14:24What's the main ingredient?
14:26Livingston.
14:28Avocado.
14:29That's right.
14:29Avocado.
14:33You want it?
14:34We'll take it.
14:34Okay.
14:35Question.
14:36Which of these TV detectives is played by Richard Roundtree?
14:39Shaft, Toma, or Tenefra?
14:41Brown?
14:41Shaft.
14:42Ryan.
14:45You want it?
14:46Take it.
14:47Go on, Elaine.
14:49Which of the following is not a fish?
14:52Piranha, Barracuda, or...
14:55Livingston.
14:56The third one.
14:57Right.
14:57Brazil one.
14:58We'll take it.
15:04Take it.
15:04Here it is.
15:06Nineteen.
15:07You want to stop?
15:07Three.
15:08Keep going.
15:09Browns ain't frozen.
15:10Nineteen.
15:10You need a ten to win.
15:12A friend of yours is telling you about a train trip in which he got to ride in the caboose.
15:16Is the caboose the train's engine car or last car?
15:19Last car.
15:20Correct.
15:22If it's a ten, you've got a max win.
15:25Elaine, do you have a ten for him?
15:27No.
15:28Marlon Brando starred in the 1957 film Sayonara as an American officer in love with a Japanese
15:33girl.
15:34Now, in Japanese, does the word Sayonara mean I love you, goodbye, or tablecloth?
15:38Goodbye.
15:40Pardon?
15:40Goodbye.
15:42That's right.
15:45I'm going to tear that one up.
15:47I'm never going to run across that one again.
15:50You know, I've been breaking up with some of these questions.
15:52The guys have been working overtime, everything.
15:54Well, you know what you've got to do, Browns?
15:56You've got to beat that 19.
15:58You've got an 18.
15:59A three would give you 21.
16:00Think in those terms.
16:01Elaine?
16:03Too much.
16:04The game goes to the living systems, and it's all evened up.
16:10So Elaine clears the boards and shows us the first card in game number three, the rubber
16:14game of the match for a seven of diamonds.
16:16True or false?
16:17The current film, Conrack, which stars John Voight as a young Southern schoolteacher,
16:21is based on a true story.
16:23Is that true or false?
16:24Brown?
16:25True.
16:26That's right.
16:26It is based on a true story.
16:28Okay.
16:29Second.
16:30We'll take it.
16:30You got it.
16:32If an animal is amphibious, does it live only on...
16:35Livingston?
16:37Both.
16:38Either land or sea.
16:39That's right.
16:40Both on land and sea.
16:44Take it or give it away?
16:45We'll take it.
16:45Here it comes.
16:46Elaine, Livingston's get a what?
16:48Can it save?
16:49Use that card.
16:52Our naval officer is going to go to bed when I think about that last question.
16:55I know.
16:56If someone mentions the word cummerbund to you, is he discussing Danish pastry, an article
17:00of clothing...
17:01Browns?
17:02An article of clothing.
17:03That's right.
17:07We'll take it.
17:07Take the card.
17:08Here it comes.
17:0917.
17:10Freeze or play on?
17:11We'll have to freeze.
17:13Okay.
17:13You know what you got to do, Livingston's?
17:15In order to take the match, you got to beat 17.
17:19He wipes the perspiration for me, Brown.
17:22Someone is introduced to you as being a philatelist.
17:26Is he a doctor, a religious leader, or a stamp collector?
17:29A philatelist.
17:31Stamp collector?
17:31Yes, that's right.
17:32A stamp collector.
17:34I was going to spell it for you.
17:36Elaine, give him the next card if it's at least an eighth.
17:38Well, I'll say this.
17:52That's one way to come from behind.
17:54That's a nice way to come from behind.
17:55You won $500 in our 21 jackpot.
17:58You got $200 for the match.
17:59So quickly, in about three or four minutes' time, you have another $700.
18:03We'll go to the Gambit Board in just a second.
18:05Jim and Nancy Brown from Pensacola, I hope you feel like the trip was worth it.
18:09You got $100.
18:10You didn't pay for the trip without $100.
18:12However, I hope you enjoyed your stay.
18:14Thank you for being with us.
18:15Thank you so much.
18:15And nice having you with us on the show.
18:19Now let's go to the Gambit Board with the Livingston's again.
18:27Elaine has a brand new deck of cards, so Elaine, break them open, please, and Phil, cut the cards.
18:31Karen, remember, I'll remind you and your husband, if you hit $21 this time, you'll hit our jackpot worth $500.
18:37Plus, most importantly, you'll get a new car.
18:40That's for a $21 at the Gambit Board.
18:42Karen, call out the first card.
18:43Ten again.
18:44Number ten.
18:45She started there a while ago.
18:46That's worth $500.
18:49That's one of the four suit cards.
18:51That club with $500 on it means you win $500 plus an additional $500 for every club you draw as long as you don't go over $21.
18:59Let's see if we can come up with the club.
19:00First card.
19:01Elaine?
19:02Ace of spades, though.
19:03You won't give that away, will you?
19:04You'll accept that, won't you?
19:05Oh, I think I can.
19:06Okay.
19:06Now over to you, Phil.
19:07Pick one.
19:08Number two.
19:09Number two.
19:10Dude, camping equipment.
19:11Listen.
19:11It's a camping outfit, including a tent big enough to sleep aid, a deluxe lantern, convertible cooler, heater and two-burner stove, plus a king-size sleeping bag.
19:19$500 on the board, camping equipment, $500 in the jackpot, and a new car in the CBS garage for a ten.
19:27If it happens to be the next card, it's all yours.
19:29Elaine, show it to us.
19:34You want to keep going?
19:37Yeah, I hope we will.
19:38Okay.
19:40Karen?
19:41$12.
19:41Number 12.
19:43Another $500 in cash.
19:46Another two-card.
19:48So that trade is worth $500, and you have one up there, so that's $1,000.
19:55So you have $1,500 cash in the camping equipment.
19:59Now you have an ace, so you can't go over, so you're assured that.
20:01Elaine, what's the next card?
20:03Whoa!
20:03Whoa!
20:04Whoa!
20:04Whoa!
20:04Whoa!
20:05Whoa!
20:06Whoa!
20:06Whoa!
20:07Whoa!
20:07Whoa!
20:08Whoa!
20:08That has never happened on this show before, and if another one comes up, we're all going
20:13to fall out, I'll tell you.
20:17Okay, you want to keep going?
20:19Yeah.
20:19Why not?
20:20Okay, one's got to be an omen.
20:22We'll take one.
20:23Number one, summer fun.
20:27First of all, listen, you have won a wardrobe, luggage, a movie camera and projector, and
20:31other travel accessories worth $1,000.
20:34You can take all of that with you, and let's see where you're going.
20:37You're going to take some summer fun to New York City.
20:42You're going to New York City to Marriott's Essex House, New York's superb setting for
20:49pleasant living and gracious entertainment with magnificent view and quiet, convenient
20:52location.
20:53Marriott's Essex House in New York.
20:55Now let's take a look at the next card.
20:57Now let's take a look at the next card.
20:57Let's hope it's a club or a spade.
20:59Elaine, what do you have?
21:01Another one!
21:02Okay, back to you, Karen.
21:07Pick another one.
21:0818.
21:0918, right here.
21:11And let's give that one a little help.
21:12Another five-time trip.
21:18So you get all of those goodies, or the cash equivalent, I guess.
21:22And another trip, this time to Puerto Vallarta.
21:27We'll fly you for a Mexican fiesta at Posada Vallarta, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
21:32250 air-conditioned rooms with exclusive beaches and private villas.
21:36Continental dining with native entertainment.
21:37Add the fine service at the Posada Vallarta.
21:40You two may put us out of business.
21:41Elaine, what's the next card?
21:43You two may put us out of business.
22:13They won better than $10,000.
22:18We'll see all of you tomorrow.
22:19Goodbye.
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