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00:00Today, highlight shows of the past season.
00:03Thrilling moments worth repeating.
00:05See for yourself.
00:07This is Barbara Ann Eddy, complaint clerk from Vancouver.
00:12Our champion in the category of Shakespeare.
00:14Earlier this season, she won $64,000.
00:20And this is John Crutz, sales manager with a tire company in Akron, Ohio.
00:25Our champion in the category of World War I.
00:28Earlier this season, he also won $64,000.
00:33Both are back to continue our playoff of champions.
00:36A contest in which one of these two will win an additional $64,000.
00:41The largest prize in television on the show that rewards knowledge.
00:46Not chance, the $128,000 question.
00:50Welcome to the new $128,000 question.
00:55The big show, the classic show, the quality show.
01:00The show where knowledge is king and the payoff, king size.
01:06Where someone like yourself can win the largest single prize in television, $128,000.
01:15For over 40 years, first in radio and then in TV, the format of this show, where a contestant can
01:21take his winnings or risk it on a question worth double, has captured top ratings and shares from coast to
01:28coast.
01:28Well, you've got a lot to smile about on the $128,000 question.
01:32You've got $8,000 in cash to this point.
01:34Do you want to keep it and quit, or do you want to risk it and try for $16,000?
01:40Well, I talked it over with my girlfriend, and in spite of what she says, I'm going to go on.
01:45All right, he's going on for $16,000.
01:48Sylvie, take him into the booth.
01:49Good luck, Don.
01:50Why has it been such a TV success?
01:53First, because of its contestants.
01:55Contestants who appeal to all ages, all backgrounds, from every city of the nation.
02:01There is always someone you can identify with.
02:05Contestants like...
02:06Joining us for the fifth time on the category of Greek Mythology is our schoolboy from Woodside, New York,
02:11who will tell us if he will quit with the $32,000 he's already won, or risk it for a
02:16chance at $64,000, Douglas Mow.
02:19Joining us for the first time is our secretary from Vancouver, Playboy's Miss October, Christine Winder.
02:29Joining us for the fourth time on the category of boxing is our medical doctor,
02:33who will tell us if he will try for $16,000, Dr. Joseph Folletta.
02:39Joining us for the second time on the category of Gilbert and Sullivan is our married couple from New York
02:44City,
02:44who will go for a question worth $128, Douglas and one person.
02:49Yes, you identify.
02:51But just as important is that delicious surprise that grabs you when a contestant reveals his category.
02:58Like Father Gensel, a priest, his category, an absolute paradox.
03:04His category was jazz.
03:06I'm anxious to get to this part because I want to ask you questions that will help you win money.
03:11As you know, we start off with $64.
03:13May I have the jazz category questions, please?
03:16Here's the first question, Reverend.
03:18What trumpet player formed the Hot Five and the Hot Seven in Chicago?
03:22Was it Count Basie or Louis Armstrong?
03:25May I come back to that?
03:28Louis Armstrong.
03:29You're right.
03:37Are you this way in church also?
03:39I have it on very good authority, ladies and gentlemen, from one of our research assistants on the program.
03:44She tells me that the Reverend Gensel is the most irreverent reverend she has ever met.
03:50But right now, you've got to tell me what you want to do with the $64.
03:53You want to risk it on $128?
03:55All K.
03:57What great jazz city was home to the Rhythm Kings, Papa Jack Lane, and Storyville?
04:03Is it New Orleans or San Francisco?
04:06It's New Orleans.
04:07You are right again for $128.
04:13You want to try for $256?
04:16Does that mean I could take what I've made already?
04:19Oh, yes.
04:20You can quit with $128.
04:21Well, I'll tell you what.
04:22I'm going to give you a few moments to think about this important decision in your life.
04:26What you want to do with that $128.
04:28And while you're making up your mind, we'll pause for these words of importance.
04:34And on the same show, a double paradox.
04:37Jerry Lucas, basketball star, celebrity athlete.
04:40What would you expect his category to be?
04:42Let's find out.
04:44Which disciple's mother-in-law is cured?
04:47Simon Peter's.
04:49Right.
04:50Finally, part six.
04:52For $32,000, what man called the magician was stricken with blindness by Paul?
05:01He has two names.
05:02Elemus the sorcerer or Bar Jesus.
05:04You are absolutely right.
05:05Elemus is the one we were looking for.
05:11We have presented a psychiatrist on movies.
05:14A 12-year-old boy on horse racing.
05:18Susan B. Anthony, namesake and direct descendant of the suffragette who gave the women the vote on women's rights.
05:25A peanut farmer on, guess what, presidents of the United States.
05:30And a man who sewed buttons and pressed pants for a living, a tailor on grand opera.
05:35His name was Baldo Battigliari.
05:39The great square in Madrid and the forest of Fontainebleau.
05:43What's the opera?
05:45Don Carlos.
05:46Right.
05:47Four for four so far.
05:48You get the next one correct and you have won $8,000 in cash.
05:54The polka bar room, Minnie's dwelling, and the great California forest.
06:01La fanciulla del Veste.
06:03La fanciulla del Veste.
06:06Translation, the girl of the Golden West.
06:08He is right and he has just won $8,000.
06:12The high excitement and tension of the show is reflected in the faces of the audience.
06:17Friends, relatives, complete strangers.
06:20Excitement and tension that moves right into your living room
06:23and increases your rooting interest for the contestant in the isolation booth.
06:30Some contestants, like Kitsie Kim, mother of nine, wife of an Episcopal minister, expert on Agatha Christie, struggle with an
06:39answer.
06:40Teeter on the very brink until the final explosion.
06:45All you need to do is come up with two more.
06:48Let's go back to number three that you passed on.
06:51The drama co-adapted by Miss Christie from her own short story, Philomile Cottage.
06:58Love from a Stranger.
07:00Whoop-de-daisy, you got that one right.
07:03All you have to do is get one more for $32,000.
07:12It's the fifth one.
07:13Question five.
07:14You passed on that.
07:15The play for four characters in which a murder is revenged by trapping a man and woman in an apartment
07:21along with a corpse.
07:26I don't have any.
07:28The spider's web.
07:29Well, you were close in terms of dealing with animals because the title is The Rats.
07:34You missed that?
07:35We've got a makeup question for you.
07:37And here it is.
07:38If you give me a correct answer to this one, you've got a prize worth $32,000.
07:42Name the play whose title refers to the country home of Sir Henry and Lady Lucy Ancatel.
07:52Name the play whose title refers to the country home of Sir Henry and Lady Lucy Ancatel.
08:02The play whose title refers to the country home?
08:05Yes.
08:07The Hollow.
08:08You're right for $32,000!
08:13And some contestants, well, watch how 14-year-old Bruce Bider handled these tough and penetrating questions on Broadway and
08:22Hollywood musicals, produced, would you believe it, before he was even born.
08:27My mom looks worried.
08:28Dad's expression didn't change one bit.
08:31And you were smiling halfway through this.
08:33All right, here we go.
08:35Who composed the music for High Lily, High Low?
08:38Bronislaw Caper.
08:39Right.
08:41In which film was the popular song you'd be so nice to come home to introduced?
08:45Something to shout about.
08:47Right again.
08:48Number three.
08:48In what film did Judy Garland sing You Made Me Love You to a picture of Clark Gable?
08:53The Broadway Melody of 1938.
08:55You're right.
08:58Who played composer Richard Rogers in Words and Music?
09:02Tom Drake.
09:02That's right.
09:04Two more to go.
09:05Who directed Follow the Fleet and Holiday Inn?
09:08Mark Sandridge.
09:10Wipe that grin off your face.
09:12You've got me psyched out now.
09:14Name the comedian who sang Life Upon the Wicked Stage Until the Clouds Roll By.
09:19Virginia O'Brien.
09:20That's it!
09:21Hey!
09:24The show moves with unfaltering momentum from the small money starting at $64 up through $64,000 and beyond to
09:33a grand finale where all top winners play off for a top prize.
09:38The largest single prize in television, $128,000.
09:45$64,000 winners who have gone on for a crack at $128,000 have included a policeman on Great Wines,
09:53a Chinese American on The Big Band Era, a meteorologist on John Philip Sousa.
10:00Red wine.
10:02Chamber 10.
10:03Chamber 10 is right!
10:05You have won $64,000!
10:09Jesse Stacy.
10:11That's right for $64,000!
10:18Shama, Whitfield, Swallow.
10:23That is right for $64,000!
10:30And a complaint clerk.
10:32One of seven children.
10:33Her salary less than $9,000 a year.
10:36Eventual winner of a sum so large that it would take her 15 years of work to earn it.
10:43Her name was Barbara Ann Eddy.
10:45She always brought a stuffed frog with her as a good luck charm.
10:48And her category?
10:50Shakespeare.
10:51Would you repeat that?
10:52I think it is Henry VI, Part III.
10:54You're right.
10:55Okay.
10:57One more.
10:58And you've won $64,000.
11:02In Julius Caesar, name the character whom Antony dismisses as, quote,
11:08a slight, unmeritable man, meet to be sent on errands.
11:13End of quote.
11:14I believe that is Lepidus.
11:16You're absolutely right!
11:18For $64,000!
11:26Barbara went on to the playoffs.
11:28And a final match between herself and John Crutz.
11:31$64,000 winner in the category of World War I.
11:34The contest was neck and neck.
11:36Tied many times along the way.
11:38And then, the moment of truth.
11:41At stake, an additional $64,000 for a total of $128,000.
11:47Barbara Ann Eddy, I have here question number eight.
11:52If you give me a correct answer, you will have a total of 138 points, and incidentally,
12:01$128,000 in cash.
12:03Oh, boy.
12:03In cash.
12:04May I faint now?
12:06If you want to faint now, uh...
12:09Then I'll miss the question.
12:10You'll miss the question.
12:11Here it is.
12:13For $128,000.
12:15Which play includes a son that has killed his father, as well as a father that has killed his son?
12:24Which play includes a son that has killed his father, as well as a father that has killed his son?
12:32Henry VI, Part III.
12:36You've got $128,000!
12:48Each season, including the next season, new ideas, new production devices, added for spice and surprise.
12:56And always, new sensational contestants, people you can identify with, who help create a show that gives you the perfect
13:06climate for product and station.
13:08The kind of show you would be proud to have, radiating a sense of excitement and thrill, a sense of
13:14credibility, passed on to product and station.
13:21It takes 23 people from executive producer down, and another 40-plus behind the scenes and in the studio to
13:30put this show on every week.
13:32Thousands of letters, hundreds of interviews to find our people, lavish production, constant changes of pace, and each show a
13:40cliffhanger that makes you wonder what will happen next week.
13:44There must be a reason why a format has stood the test of time for over 40 years, starting way
13:51back in the 30s, through the war years, into the 50s and the 60s, and now the 70s, to become
13:57a perennial, a classic, a household word, part of our entertainment heritage, celebrated and remembered like Bob Hope, Elvis Presley,
14:07the Beatles.
14:07Join a winner, a show that has ranked in first place, city after city, that has matched and beaten many
14:15of the charismatic names in TV.
14:18The Quality Show, the new $128,000 question.
14:23You'll be proud to be part of it.
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