High Rollers - Daphne vs. Gene (5/19/1978) 

Your dad was an amazing High Rollers champion. How much in cash and prizes he won in his reign on HR?

@@1TexasTV He loved to gamble. Really wild to watch this. Wound up being about $58,000 as far as I know.

@@heymelyo Sorry to ask, but when did your dad passed away?

Where you in the audience at the time?

@@jasonbertalotto2355 No, I was playing high school sports in Oregon at the time and this was filmed in Burbank. I vaguely remember watching part of an episode when it aired; it was so cool to see my dad up there. He called me after it was all over and he was over the moon!

I bet Alex is smiling down on you when he reads this. 😊

They would need to talk to whomever has the Merrill Heatter Library. And probably bump up the prize values by at least 20 times. Each game would be 2 grand plus whatever cash revealed behind the rolled numbers (goes into side pot) with a completely shut out player getting "travel expense money" of 2 grand. Unused insurance markers at the end of a game worth 2 grand a pop (even if you didn't win it). Big Numbers is 2500 bucks a number, 50,000 for clearing the board (and 100,000 if no doubles rolled to do it).

@@theodorehsu5023 Does Sony own the H-Q library? I remember when GSN aired the Marshall Squares, each episode ended with the Columbia-TriStar Television logo (this means Sony owns Squares).

@@gameshowguy2000 I think MGM Television owns that content. But here's a better question, did GSN air any of the other Merrill Heatter content besides Hollywood Squares?

@@mitchellries256 Not unless you count "Catch 21".

@@disneyfan8178 I don't count that personally because he created this show for GSN. I was talking about all his other shows from Video Village (his first show) all the way up to The Last Word (his last show before Catch 21). So you're telling me GSN never showed any reruns of High Rollers, Gambit, To Say The Least, Battlestars, Bargain Hunters, All Star Blitz, The Magnificent Marble Machine, etc?

I Got some Golden Dice, at BOOKS-A-MILLION

No remake of a game is as good as the original.

Home because you were sick from school or home because you were sick of going to school?

@@kellyethington7981 sometimes it was both. 😏 🤫

Stay tuned for Wheel of Fortune next on NBC

I agree!

They can’t, because they already have “Dice Game” On “The Price Is Right” where they can win a car.

Highly doubt that's the reason, given this came back in 1978, and Dice Game started prior to that.

@@wschmrdr and again in the 80s with Wink Martindale hosting. It can be brought back.

They should for a new generation.

Amen

Sad to see him gone.

Hear Hear!!

Sadly, most of the drama stems from the timing of the show, where they want to self-contain the episode so they can bicycle it for ratings.

@@wschmrdr Not if they choose to use a streaming service instead.

And how many game shows are there out there that do that exclusively?

@@wschmrdr Well, it's just a thought if streaming services want to do game shows exclusive to their services. We must plan for the future.

Second will never happen. They have these things called budgets. They could bring it back if they find a way to self-contain the show without heavy edits or dramatization (if time's running out, dump the questions and alternate rolls until someone wins). Could make it an all cash show, with an additional $500 at the start of each game in each column (or a variable amount randomized based on the contestant's buzzer), most games wins (single die roll for a tiebreak), plays Big Numbers for 5k (or 10k, again depending on budget).

And Here's the Man with the Action, Alex Trebek.

What i didnt like is eventually the prizes became things like antiques and artworks, african masks or the infamous $10,000 fish bowl, not necessarily things regular people would want.

Yes INDEED and one of the most exciting contestants on the show and fun to watch God Bless This Man

@@tnawcwvictoria God bless them both. May Gene and Alex be having fun reliving this wonderful day.

I remember it well.

That one I saw on USA Network, back in the days!

+Rohan Padiyar I Have a HIGH ROLLERS Album on my Facebook

Aaron Ladner At least with that show, I had a crush on Crystal Owens.

Duc Nguyen Last as long? Dude To Say The Least lasted 6 months. This version of High Rollers lasted 2 years. Not even close.

MultiAnimationdude all prizes combined total $19,008 in game 1

In today's era that would have been over $200,000 cash and prizes

It Aired in January 1976.

If it's available. NBC famously erased many of their videotapes so there may not be many around.

Until about the early '80s, that was sadly true. I think Goodson/Todman had asked that their shows not be wiped, but that does not explain the almost wholesale absence of Mindreaders (the show sucked, yes; but it would be valuable, all the same).

+sabster74 Only at the Paley Center for Media (new name for the Museum of Television and Radio) in New York City and Beverly Hills.

There is one complete episode from July 4, 1975 that is on RU-vid, notable for two things: 1. Ruta Lee getting hit in the head at the beginning by what closes the entrance she comes out of. 2. One of the contestants being Ray Wersching, a long-time NFL Placekicker who most famously was the kicker on the San Francisco 49ers when the 49ers won Super Bowls XVI (1981, won in January 1982 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit against the Cincinnati Bengals) and XIX (1984, won in January 1985 at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, CA against the Dolphins). He was a member of the San Diego (now Los Angeles) Chargers at the time of his appearance.

@@WaltGekko And that episode is also on file at The Paley Center. I watched it there before it was uploaded on to RU-vid.

Yep, and while he was willing to keep it because the viewers loved it, his wife said otherwise. But, at least he had that, a goatee and the mustache before he was clean shaven again.

Nowadays, unless you are Tom Selleck, mustaches alone are no longer in style.

This never happened until “The Price Is Right” where any contestant had won in “Dice Game” if they can get the numbers right if they don’t make a mistake when it got higher or lower.

Watch the finale, that's my response to that. Alex is (i hear) a total cornball in real life (i mean that in a nice way) its a side of him we dont see much on jeopardy.

Only on HIGH ROLLERS!

@@AaronBruceLadner or if you bet on the don't pass in craps.

It helped, but i dont think $5,000 would have covered the taxes

Kenny did do the original, no clue why that version ended

PREGO1966 I think the "1978" was discontinued and the HR's appearing on the board happened by the start of the following year (1979).

Tubewings It's Eric to my friends, and it was Randy who asked the question. He wanted to know why the old High Rollers ended, I said I did not know but I think it was bad ratings, but they decided to bring it back

Actually, I meant how long did Kenny announce the year of the show in the opening. Sorry if I misinterpreted my question!

***** As I mentioned in a previous comment, I think it only lasted until the end of the year.

Lol

Of course. Boris and Natasha were first seen around 1963 or so and Rocky and Bullwinkle was still airing in syndication at the time as I remember.

On the 1987 Version with Wink Martindale, A Different Pair of Dice was Used. Plus, There was a Pair of Golden Dice for the "Big Numbers".

Bullwinkle can’t fly, Rocky flies.

Yep.

Bullwinkle walks, but Rocky flies.

It was the lapel clip for her microphone. The Spokesmodel caught the mic cable while walking away and it whipped off after her. The lapel clip went flying in the other direction.

Charles allen jr Obviously the latter.

Other than the embarrassing "flying moose" slip-up, probably his entire run.

Let's just say I've seen people win the Big Numbers a few times but I've never seen someone clear a board worth over $18,000.