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00:00This is the battlefield for a game of speed and strategy.
00:04These are the letters that lead to victory on Blockbusters!
00:09And here's the star of our show, Bill Pelley!
00:18Thank you. I don't know why. Thank you. Thank you.
00:21Hi, please. Thank you, Bob.
00:26Okay. That's fine.
00:30Well, it's been a long night today.
00:33Thought I'd wear my vest today. Makes me look distinguished. You notice that?
00:37The vest is very... It should have worn my trousers, but you can't do everything.
00:42This is Blockbusters, in spite of what you may have been told, and we are happy to have you with us.
00:47Have a good game going here between our family pair and our solo player.
00:50Actually, our family pair, let me introduce them first, because they are the champions at the moment.
00:55Clyde Banfield is here with his father-in-law, who is the captain of his team and an ex-sergeant major of the U.S. Marines, John Shaughnessy.
01:05They have so far won $1,300. Welcome back, man.
01:09Did I get that right, John?
01:14What was that, Bill?
01:15Did I get that right about sergeant major?
01:18What is the difference? In the Marines, there are sergeant majors. Are there sergeant majors in the Army?
01:23Yes, there are. The Army has two types of sergeant major.
01:26They have a command sergeant major and then just a plane sergeant, a regular sergeant major.
01:29And how about you in the Marines outside?
01:31The Marine Corps just has one classification of sergeant major.
01:33Sergeant major. And you've trained the fellows and stuff like that?
01:37Whatever your duties require, wherever you may be assigned.
01:40Happy to have you safely retired and back in our hands, John.
01:43Glad to be here.
01:44With your son-in-law, Clyde Banfield, married to your daughter, naturally.
01:47That's for sure.
01:48I say, putting two and two together like that. Any children, Clyde?
01:51Two.
01:52Oh, my goodness. Tell us about them. Be a proud father. Come on.
01:54Well, we have a little boy, two and a half, and we have a daughter, 13.
01:57I wish you well. 13 years?
01:59Yes.
01:59Oh, that's long space in there, huh?
02:01Well, we rested.
02:10Ask me how many I have.
02:12How many do you have, Bill?
02:13None.
02:13Still rested.
02:14Boy, I'll have my rest.
02:17Anyway, that didn't scare the personal man.
02:19Let us say hello to a very lovely opponent and challenger who's already won a game and has $500,
02:25Museta Malone.
02:26Welcome back, Museta.
02:29There you go.
02:35You're a single girl. I know that.
02:36Yes.
02:37And you teach school?
02:38Yes. Junior high school.
02:39What? Are you allowed to me?
02:41I must say you can mention the school because we don't plug a school.
02:43You know, what school?
02:44Mount Vernon Junior High in Los Angeles.
02:46Okay.
02:47You have, how old are your kids, is it the rule?
02:5013, 14, and 15.
02:51Would I put you on a spot if I said to you, Museta, tell me the name of the brightest student in your class?
02:58That's putting me on a spot.
02:59Okay, so I won't do it.
03:01I'll let you off the hook.
03:02Tell me the dumbest student in your class.
03:05No, don't do it.
03:06You don't have that much time.
03:07Right.
03:07No, only kidding, kids.
03:12Your breed hasn't changed in all the years.
03:14No, I know you're kidding, and I won't put you in a spot.
03:16Anyway, Museta has won herself the game, and now John and Clyde are going to tie it all up, or try to.
03:22So we'll start the game.
03:23We're going to begin this with the letter H.
03:25Everybody ready now?
03:26The moment you think you know, hit the button.
03:28I stop talking.
03:29You give me the answer.
03:30Here's the question.
03:31H.
03:32What H wrote the Odyssey?
03:35Yes, Museta?
03:36Homer.
03:37It was Homer who did it, and you had the first one.
03:42Homer Spargo, it was.
03:45Take the B again for Bill.
03:47Oh, B?
03:47Yeah, that worked out last time for you.
03:49Clyde and John, you better get in here, because she's on her way at this moment to two games, and that'll be it.
03:55What B?
03:56Answer starts with a B.
03:57What B is considered so holy in the Middle East?
04:00That a piece of it dropped on the floor must be picked up and kissed in atonement.
04:12Go ahead, Clyde.
04:13Bible.
04:14Nope.
04:15I read the whole thing, and you get a shot at it, Museta.
04:17What B is considered so holy in the Middle East that a piece of it dropped on the floor must be picked up and kissed in atonement?
04:24Bread.
04:25Bread is the right answer.
04:26You have it.
04:26Well, look at the...
04:33Museta is trying to make a top-to-bottom connection there.
04:36Where to?
04:37I'll take the L.
04:38Okay.
04:39Fill in the middle there.
04:40Question coming.
04:40Everybody ready.
04:42What L is smaller than Washington, D.C., and is the country...
04:47Museta.
04:48Lichtenstein.
04:49That's the right answer.
04:50Lichtenstein it is.
04:55Smaller than our nation's capital and is the country that lies between Switzerland and Austria.
05:01Where to, he asks, as if he didn't know.
05:04Well, I'm going to go to the M for Museta.
05:07Sure.
05:07The M for Museta.
05:07Sure.
05:08That makes the connection.
05:09And Clyde and John, it's your last shot to get in there and save the match, because this is a possible game and match for Museta.
05:18Question coming.
05:21Question.
05:22What M was the Chinese dynasty?
05:26Game, match.
05:27Ming.
05:27Ming is the right answer.
05:29Museta, you have it.
05:30That was a darn good family pair you defeated there.
05:48The rest of the question, dynasty of China, known for its exquisite blue and white porcelains.
05:54Ming was the answer.
05:55So we have a new champion.
05:56And Clyde and John, I'm sorry to see you two go.
05:58You were fun.
05:59Enjoyed it.
05:59You had a wonderful time, Bill.
06:01And we enjoyed working with you and having you here.
06:03And Clyde, you came up with some pretty good lines.
06:05I'll recommend you to Tom Kennedy.
06:07I'll tell him you're funny and he'll never have you on.
06:12You've won $1,300 and you take with you our thanks.
06:15Just so you're comfortable.
06:16Thank you very much.
06:18What can I say?
06:20You've done it.
06:22You've shown those students of yours how good you are.
06:27You now have $1,000 and we'll be back, students, to give Museta a chance at $5,000 in a moment.
06:33Right now, though, let's watch it.
06:34Good luck.
06:36Oh, thank you.
06:38It's beautiful.
06:42Well, by golly, Museta, when I was a kid in Pittsburgh going to school, I didn't have any of my teachers go win money on shows like this.
06:52Just because there was no shows like this on television.
06:55There was no television.
06:56We had to wait for you to grow up.
06:59You had to wait.
06:59That's what my teachers said.
07:00We're going to wait for you to grow up.
07:02And they're all back there in Pittsburgh still waiting.
07:04You've got $1,000.
07:06Now you're going to get the shot at the extra five.
07:08You ready to come up here?
07:09Yes, I am.
07:09Okay, let me push the button.
07:10Ladies and gentlemen, Museta Malone is going to take a shot at another $5,000.
07:15Good luck, Museta.
07:16Right.
07:17Easy does it there.
07:18Well, Museta, there's the board.
07:23You've seen it, of course, as a player, but now you see it in a different configuration.
07:28Your idea is to call out the letters.
07:30I ask the questions.
07:31You make a path across the board, and when you make the connection, you get a quick $5,000.
07:35If you miss, we put a block up, a miss or a pass.
07:38You should be able to work your way around it with the questions, some easier than others, but no multiple choice.
07:44Okay.
07:44Put 60 seconds up there.
07:46Now, Museta, take a breath or do whatever you want to do, but when you're ready to start, just call out the first letters.
07:51S.T.
07:52He was the saint.
07:55Simon Templer.
07:56Right.
07:57E.A.P.
07:58He wrote the raven.
08:00Edgar Allan Poe.
08:01Right.
08:02A.C.
08:03Creator of Dogpatch, USA.
08:08Andy Capp.
08:09Nope.
08:10Take another.
08:10S.G.
08:11The purest and noblest of Arthur's knights.
08:16I.A.C.R.
08:22Early Judy Garland song.
08:27J.K.
08:29J.K.
08:30Wrote the Beat Generation novel On the Road.
08:35G.A.
08:36His first record was That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine.
08:40O.T.O.S.
08:41Song About a Mountain.
08:45No.
08:46E.G.
08:48Sinclair Lewis Evangelist.
08:51M.B.
08:52He played...
08:53Boy!
08:55You ran into a bunch of killers there, actually.
08:58Started off beautifully.
08:59Your first answer, you were on your way with a Simon Templer.
09:03The Beat Generation novel On the Road, J.K., was written by Jack Kerouac.
09:08Jack Kerouac.
09:09And then we go to G.A.
09:10His first record was That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine, Gene Autry.
09:14Oh, Gene.
09:14A little bit before your time, that happened.
09:16I watch him every night.
09:17Does he still sing that?
09:18Yes, he sings that on and off.
09:21All right.
09:22O.T.O.O.S., Song About a Mountain on Top of Old Smokey.
09:25I.A.C.R., the Judy Garland song, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows.
09:29I thought you'd get that.
09:31Sinclair Lewis Evangelist, E.G., Elmer Gantry.
09:34And S.G., the purest and noblest of Arthur's Dights.
09:37I thought you were going to do that, too.
09:38Sir Galahad.
09:39And the creator of Dogpatch.
09:41Cap was right.
09:41It was Al Cap.
09:42Al Cap.
09:43Andy Cap is that Englishman who goes to the bar and drinks like that while his wife was.
09:47Okay.
09:48You have $1,200.
09:49Go on back there.
09:50We'll introduce you to another family pair in a moment.
09:53Before we do that, we'll let you watch this, please.
10:01Okay.
10:04Rosetta has $1,200, and you're still in the game.
10:08There's still a chance to build up your winnings.
10:09And we have a pair of twins to oppose you.
10:12They are Janet McBride and Nancy Reppard.
10:14Welcome, both of them.
10:15Happy to have you.
10:16We don't often have twins on our program, although I think on our very first one we had two men
10:25twins, do we not?
10:26Nancy, you're the captain, so I'll begin with you.
10:29Tell us.
10:29You are identical twins.
10:31No, we're fraternal.
10:3220 minutes.
10:3320 minutes?
10:33I'm 20 minutes older and wiser than Janet.
10:38You don't look 20 minutes older.
10:40I don't know about the wiser.
10:41We'll find that out.
10:42Yes, that's true.
10:43Now, you say you're 20 minutes apart, but that is not what makes you fraternal twins.
10:49No.
10:49That is a gene thing or a chromosome thing or something like that.
10:52Because if you were identical twins, you wouldn't both be born at the same split second like
10:56that, would you?
10:56No.
10:57No, that would be difficult.
11:01Are you married, Nancy?
11:02No.
11:03No, I'm single.
11:04I'm a student, and I'm studying French and German.
11:07Oh, you are?
11:08Yes.
11:08You might have some French and German questions.
11:10I hope so.
11:11Yeah, we never know.
11:12We take the ones that are on top and say, come up.
11:13How about you, Janet?
11:14What do you want to tell you?
11:15You're the younger of the two.
11:16How are things there, kid?
11:17Fine.
11:17I'm married.
11:18You're married?
11:19Yeah, I'm the married one.
11:20Oh, boy.
11:21Yeah.
11:21Tell us about your married life, who you're married to.
11:23Don't tell me about your married life.
11:25Tell me about who he is and all that.
11:27Oh, his name is Bill, too.
11:29Uh-huh.
11:29And we got married about nine months ago in Hawaii.
11:32Well, congratulate you.
11:33You're a newlywed.
11:34Yeah, sort of.
11:35Well, you can maybe win something here and buy him a wedding present or something like
11:39that, okay?
11:40Okay, I'll try it.
11:41All right.
11:41You met Musetta.
11:42You all know each other.
11:43We have two single ladies and a married lady up here, and I'm a married lady fellow, okay?
11:48First to win two games gets a shot at the gold run board.
11:52We start with the letter M.
11:53So the answer begins, Nancy and Janet, the moment you think you know, hit the button.
11:57Question.
11:57What M was our gang character played by...
12:03Yes, Musetta?
12:04Mickey.
12:04Mickey is the right answer.
12:05I'll tell you why in a moment.
12:08Looks good.
12:09Robert Blake.
12:10Yeah.
12:11Do you know who played the part of Mickey?
12:12Robert Blake.
12:13Robert Blake.
12:14That was the rest of my question.
12:15Played by Robert Blake.
12:16Or is mystery writer Mr. Spillane?
12:18Mickey in both cases.
12:19So Nancy and Janet, that's how it works.
12:21The moment you think you know, hit the button.
12:23Where are you going, Musetta?
12:24Um, I'll go to the E.
12:25Okay, letter E. Make the top to bottom connection.
12:29What E is an angled pipe joint, an angled macaroni?
12:36Yes, Nancy?
12:36Elbow?
12:37Elbow's the right answer.
12:38You two are on board.
12:43Or an angled human joint was the rest of the question.
12:47The answer, elbow.
12:47Nancy, your selection.
12:48Where are you going?
12:49Uh, G, please, Bill.
12:50Okay, letter G. Family pair going to try to make a side-to-side connection.
12:54Here comes question.
12:56What G makes a nest in the branches of trees and is the largest of the apes?
13:04Musetta?
13:04Gorilla.
13:05Gorilla's the right answer.
13:06You're back there.
13:11Yes, ma'am?
13:12I'll go to the H.
13:13Letter H.
13:15Here it comes.
13:16Everybody ready.
13:17What H is singer Furlan or a Siberian working dog?
13:24Musetta again.
13:25Husky.
13:26Husky's the right answer, Musetta.
13:27Husky, Furlan.
13:28Furlan, Husky.
13:31It is.
13:32Furlan, Husky is the singer.
13:33Furlan, Husky and the Siberian working dog.
13:35Don't know his name.
13:36Where to, Musetta?
13:37Um, the O, please.
13:39That'll be three-quarters of the way there, Nancy and Janet.
13:41You want to get in there now.
13:42Here comes an old question.
13:44What O lays eggs that take 40 minutes?
13:49Janet.
13:50Ostrich?
13:51Ostrich is the right answer.
13:57I don't know.
13:58This is an interesting piece of information I have here, so I want to read the whole thing.
14:02An ostrich egg takes 40 minutes to boil, and the reason for that is they weigh three and
14:07a half pounds each, and water, where they are there, boils at a temperature of 90 degrees,
14:13and naturally that doesn't boil.
14:15No, that's not so.
14:16Actually, an ostrich way, I'm sorry I brought it up.
14:19Where, where?
14:21I laid an ostrich egg, and that's quite an egg to lay.
14:24Where are you going, Janet?
14:25Um, to the L.
14:26Take your time.
14:28Don't let me rush you.
14:28L, please.
14:29Sure.
14:30Okay, L question coming here.
14:31I'm going to rework that ostrich egg joke.
14:33I think there's some humor in there.
14:35L question.
14:36Answer starts with L.
14:38What L was once presented with a gem-encrusted miniature piano?
14:44Who's that at?
14:45Liberace.
14:46Liberace's right.
14:53You know who gave it to him?
14:55No.
14:55An appreciative ostrich.
14:58I'm going to get something out of that.
15:00Actually, the Queen of England gave it to Liberace.
15:03Where are you going, Ms. Zeta?
15:03The F, please.
15:04Letter F.
15:05Answer starts with F.
15:07Okay, starting a new little line there.
15:09Everybody eligible now.
15:11What F is a bourbon, apple brandy, lemon juice, and creme de menthe cocktail?
15:17Or was it a kind of gun used in the 17th century?
15:29Flintlock.
15:30The Flintlock.
15:31Okay, come up with another F question.
15:33That didn't hurt anybody.
15:34What F comes from a Latin word meaning faithful and is a popular...
15:40Nancy?
15:42Fidelity?
15:43No, I repeat it now for Musetta.
15:45What F comes from the Latin word meaning faithful and is the popular name given to many faithful dogs?
15:52Please don't help.
15:56Saved by the bell, Nancy.
15:58Fido.
15:59Fido.
16:00Fidelity was right as far as the word itself was concerned, but Fido comes from it.
16:04Where to now?
16:05Oh, we stay right with the F.
16:06That's where I stay.
16:07I don't know about you.
16:08You can answer anything, but I'm reading F questions.
16:10What F was Richard Burton's affectionate nickname for Elizabeth Taylor?
16:16Is that it?
16:17Fattie?
16:18Fattie is the right answer.
16:20Oh, I didn't know that.
16:23Did you know that?
16:26Or the nickname of silent movie star Roscoe Arbuckle.
16:30Fattie Arbuckle, but I never heard of the other one.
16:32While I try to get out of this, why don't you folks watch these words,
16:35because I'm sure you'll find them beneficial.
16:45Our studio audience will receive a Sears Toy Catalog Gift Certificate
16:50with which you may choose items ranging from playpen toys
16:53to sophisticated radio-controlled cars and planes
16:56furnished by Sears.
16:58And he's got his own collection of toys and planes, don't you, Bill?
17:01Thank you, sir.
17:02That was a good audition, Bob.
17:04Good.
17:05All right?
17:06Come back.
17:09Come back a week from Tuesday, Bob.
17:11We're having final auditions,
17:13and I really think we're going to be able to use you.
17:15Who got the last one right?
17:16Musetta did, huh?
17:17Okay, let's take a look at the board over there
17:19and give Musetta a chance to pick.
17:21Well, I'll take the W.
17:23All right, letter W.
17:24And Nancy and Janet, see what you can do here.
17:28Answer begins with W.
17:30What W is called the air capital of the world
17:33because two-thirds of all the small planes in the world
17:37are manufactured there?
17:39And is the largest city in Kansas?
17:44Musetta.
17:45Wichita.
17:45Wichita is the right answer.
17:47You've got another one.
17:53Our schoolteacher from Mount Vernon High School.
17:56Mount Vernon High?
17:56Junior High.
17:57Junior High is getting pretty close.
17:58Where are you going?
17:59The P.
18:00This would be game one for you in $500.
18:03Match takes two wins,
18:05but Nancy and Janet are going to try to get in there.
18:07What P could you buy insurance against in 1151
18:13and was the horrible disease that once...
18:17Yes, Nancy?
18:18Plague.
18:19Plague is the right answer.
18:20You got it in there.
18:25The rest of it was
18:26and was the horrible disease that once swept Europe.
18:29Okay, Nancy, where are you going?
18:32To the S, please, Bill.
18:33Letter S.
18:34Okay, now the family pair is going to try to make
18:35the side connection.
18:38I had a joke there,
18:38but the shape I'm in,
18:39I'm not going to try it.
18:41Okay, ready to go?
18:42This one begins with an S.
18:43Everybody ready now.
18:44What S was the home
18:46of the 1962 World's Fair?
18:51Musetta.
18:52Seattle.
18:52Seattle's the right answer,
18:53and you're back in there.
18:56Oh, boy.
18:59All right, it's your choice now, Musetta.
19:02I'll take the A, please.
19:04All right, letter A.
19:05We'll not quite do it for you,
19:06and, of course,
19:07Janet and Nancy are going to try to get back in.
19:09What A was originally a byproduct of coal tar,
19:13but now synthetic methods are used
19:16to make this popular painkiller?
19:20Nancy.
19:21Aspirin.
19:21Aspirin's right,
19:22and you're back in there.
19:24There you go.
19:28Where are you going, Nancy?
19:29To the R, please.
19:30Letter R, okay.
19:31The answer starts with R.
19:34Question.
19:34What R was first used on ships in 1241,
19:39and is what steers, airplanes, and...
19:43Musetta.
19:44Rudders.
19:45Rudders the right answer.
19:46You got another one.
19:51First rudder was made 1241,
19:53and that's very recently
19:54because it's only 110 now.
19:57Boy, I knew that joke wouldn't work.
20:01I thought the joke...
20:02See, the idea is made in 1241.
20:04Then I say,
20:05well, the first rudder was made in 1241,
20:07and here it is only 110.
20:08Don't we do this show
20:16with just an applause machine?
20:18We are.
20:19Okay, good enough.
20:20Musetta,
20:21would you give me an opportunity
20:22to pause for a commercial?
20:23Sure.
20:23Because I feel
20:24the way things are going
20:25with my humor today,
20:27this might be my last chance
20:28to make $30.
20:29We'll be back here
20:30in just a second.
20:39Okay.
20:41That's all we have time for.
20:43Musetta and Nancy and Janet
20:45will pick it up again next time.
20:46We'll be still in game one here
20:47and see who takes it away.
20:48Thank you ever so much.
20:49And if you join us,
20:50we'll be very, very...
20:52By the way,
20:52the time is at 1126.
20:56Goodbye.
20:57And don't ever come back.
20:58Just stay out there.
21:00Don't come back.
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