Gambit - Big winners

To get you geared up for Merrill Heatter's return to the game show business this summer ("Catch-21" on GSN), here's a look at Heatter-Quigley's original blackjack game, "Gambit."

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Entertainment

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• gambit
• game
• show
• wink
• martindale

[RJSchex]

This is the Gambit Board round. You can't reject or give away cards here. They *have* to take them.

[secondchance1977]

My grandfather has a big pair of cards from something in Las Vegas in the 70's

[mittdawson]

@disneyfan81 Hey Micheal...last time I saw you was at your mother's wedding. Did your grandfather ever show you the video I shot of you playing with your friends in the back yard? It's very cute.

[disneyfan81]

@mittdawson Actually my maternal grandparents used to have a set of cards almost the same size as these.

[disneyfan81]

@buckleyns In addition to this one, there's one at the Paley Center for Media both here in Beverly Hills and in New York City. And there are also five episodes on file here at The UCLA Film and Television Archives.

[pbamse]

Elaine Stewart R.I.P.

[SuperGamer7]

@storrs19 GSN does NOT suck! Yes, it's hit or miss with game show fans, but you're not being objective about this at all. I realize you posted that 3 years ago, you're still wrong to a degree. GSN has done, and is doing a lot of GOOD original programming. They still run classics as well. Need I remind you of Grand Slam! Oh, and they brought back Lingo, too!

[ccie12933]

@HoustonRules I loved this show, and really enjoy these clips, but rarely did anyone ever miss a question on this show. : )

[269848]

@storrs19 Yeah, I only wish that someone else would run GSN and be like it was when it took off in '94. I'd tape ALL of the shows.

[gshowguy]

BTW, who here besides me thinks that Wink would be better on Catch 21 than Alfonso? Given what I saw about a year ago on Instant Recall, he still has his chops...

[HoustonRules]

Great show, although IMO the questions were "Joker's Wild" EASY. I don't think anyone got one wrong in this whole clip. And I'm surprised that they accepted "the third one" as a correct answer.  LOL!

[lakebay972]

@AdamNedeff The-late Randy Amasia, an acquaintance from game show message boards and tape trading websites. He was an intern at CBS and an errand boy at Goodson-Todman Productions back in the '70s during his high school and college years. He was a die-hard game show fanatic and a contestant on "Whew!" in 1979 where he won $26,000; and appeared on "The Gong Show" I don't remember what he did; but he was gonged. Sadly, in 2001, Randy died of throat cancer at age 44.