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00:00This is the battlefield for our game of speed and strategy.
00:10These are the letters which lead to victory on Blockbusters.
00:14And here's the star of Blockbusters, Bill Cullen.
00:20Bill Cullen!
00:22Thank you all, thank you.
00:24Thank you.
00:26Hello there.
00:27Thank you.
00:28Hi there again.
00:33Hello there.
00:34Thank you.
00:36What a nice...
00:39Please.
00:40You are very...
00:42Thank you very much.
00:43You're very kind and I'm going to spend the next 28 minutes
00:46proving that I do not deserve that applause.
00:48This is Blockbusters.
00:49You know what we do here.
00:50Solo player competes against a family pair
00:52to see whether two heads are really better than one.
00:54We're in the middle of a game when time was called
00:56and our solo player was leading.
00:58But first of all, let's re-meet our people.
01:00Ladies and gentlemen, our solo player thus far, $1,200,
01:05Carla Moss.
01:06Welcome back, Carla.
01:07Hello.
01:08How are you?
01:09I'm fine, thanks.
01:12Fill us in on a little Carla Moss lore, Carla.
01:16Well, my children are just about getting out of college
01:20and I went back also to UCLA
01:23and I'm in the landscape architecture program.
01:26You went back after being out for how long?
01:28Oh, we won't quite tell the years, but it's been a few.
01:31Well, I will tell you this, I admire you for going back
01:34and happy to have you back here with us, Carla.
01:35Thank you.
01:36Let's say hello to our family pair.
01:37They are a sister team, Valerie Fishman and Diana Fishman.
01:40Welcome you two.
01:44You're the captain, Valerie.
01:46Why don't you tell us about you?
01:48Okay.
01:49I'm a nurse and we're out here from Jackson, Michigan.
01:52And I've gotten into the California scene a little bit.
01:55I've come up with some of the activities, skating and jogging.
01:58And getting sun, I can see.
02:00Yeah, I can't go home without a tea.
02:02Not indeed.
02:03And how about you, Diana?
02:04Hi, I'm also from Jackson, Michigan.
02:05I'm a child development worker
02:07and I've also gotten into jogging
02:09and we're enjoying ourselves out here.
02:11Okay, let's pick it up where we started.
02:12Carla had one game won, $500.
02:14First team that wins two games, wins the match,
02:16goes on to our gold run board.
02:18Now, we're going to pick up right in the middle.
02:20There you see the configuration.
02:21Red is our solo player.
02:22White represents the family pair.
02:24We're going to take a C question
02:25because that's where we left off.
02:26Everybody ready?
02:27The moment you think you know, hit your buzzer.
02:29Question coming.
02:30What C is a kind of a restaurant or a...
02:33Yes, Diana?
02:35Cafe?
02:36Nope.
02:37I repeat the whole question now for Carla.
02:39Carla, what C is a kind of a restaurant
02:41or a Liza Minnelli hit?
02:44Cabaret.
02:45Cabaret is it.
02:46That was the second part.
02:49Congratulations, you have won the game.
02:52There you go, our solo player.
03:04Solo player picked up right where she left off.
03:07Carla, that didn't take long, did it?
03:08One question and that was it.
03:09Oh, it's a thrill.
03:11It is a thrill.
03:12That's your second game that you've won?
03:13Yes, thank you.
03:14Diana and Valerie, we thank you very kindly
03:16for coming by to Blockbusters.
03:17It was our pleasure.
03:18Thank you.
03:19Get some more of that sun
03:20and we have some very nice consolation prizes for you.
03:22Thank you.
03:23We'll be back here to give Carla
03:24our shot at our gold run board in a moment.
03:26But right now,
03:27cut to my life of a serious thing.
03:28Thank you.
03:37Well, Carla, when you get right down to it,
03:40this is really what it's all about.
03:42You picked up $1,000 in winning the game,
03:44which was pretty good,
03:45but now you're going to get a chance
03:46to add $5,000 to it.
03:47You ready to go?
03:48Oh, I sure am.
03:49All right, wait till I press my button.
03:50Come on over here,
03:51we're going to give you a chance
03:52to play Gold Run for $5,000.
03:53There you go.
03:55Good luck being fast.
04:00Carla, you know how the whole thing works.
04:01The idea is for you to answer the questions
04:03as we pose them.
04:04The initials are up there
04:05and it's up to you to make a path
04:07connecting the gold to the gold.
04:08There you see one right there.
04:09The moment you do that,
04:10if you do in 60 seconds,
04:11$5,000 is yours.
04:13If you miss, we throw a block up.
04:14You should be able to work your way around it.
04:16Okay, take a deep breath.
04:18Now the clock will begin
04:19when you tell me,
04:20you start at the left,
04:21work to the right,
04:22when you tell me where you want to start.
04:23There's the 60 seconds.
04:24Good luck.
04:25The F.
04:26A hard winter in 1777.
04:29Valley Forge.
04:30Yes.
04:31T.
04:32The largest Polynesian island.
04:33Tahiti.
04:34Correct.
04:35G.
04:36Hungarian stew.
04:37Goulash.
04:38Yes.
04:39DZ.
04:40Nobel Prize winning novel.
04:41Dr. Zhivago.
04:43Yes.
04:44LI.
04:45One end is at Montauk Point.
04:46Long Island.
04:47That's it.
04:48Boy, you were close.
04:50Oh, 39 seconds left.
04:52Nice.
04:53Thank you.
04:54Good job.
04:57Hey, good job.
05:02Carla, was that a job or work?
05:07I don't know.
05:09I don't keep records in my head,
05:10or for that matter,
05:11much of anything else in my head.
05:13I do know, though,
05:14that you had 39 seconds left,
05:16which means you did it.
05:1839, 49, 59.
05:19In 21 seconds.
05:20How's that for...
05:21No.
05:22Yeah, that's right.
05:2321 seconds.
05:24That's awfully good.
05:25You know what your total winnings are now?
05:26No.
05:27I'm unconscious.
05:28All right.
05:29I'm glad because I'm about to announce them.
05:30$12,200 of your very own.
05:38That is before tax.
05:40That is before tax.
05:42That's your gross winnings.
05:44Now, when everything gets right down,
05:46it actually comes out to $7,000.
05:49$7,200.
05:50We added a $5,000.
05:51Right.
05:52Forgive us, Carla.
05:53Right.
05:54I understand.
05:55Would you like,
05:56as you count your $7,002
05:57to meet a family pair?
05:58I certainly would.
05:59Come on in here, you two.
06:00We're going to give you a chance
06:01to play some blockbusters.
06:02Here comes Sisters-in-Law.
06:04Vicki and Frankie.
06:11We have a pair of Sister-in-Laws here.
06:13Frankie Camel is our captain.
06:15Hello, Frankie.
06:16Hello.
06:17How long have you two been Sisters-in-Law?
06:19Just a year and a few weeks.
06:21Yeah.
06:22A year and a few weeks.
06:23You want to change the answer?
06:25A year and a month.
06:26Okay.
06:27Tell us about you, Frankie.
06:29What do you do?
06:30I'm a homemaker,
06:31and I live with my husband
06:32and my three sons
06:34in a very beautiful rural area.
06:37It's on the Pacific Crest Trail
06:39in the San Jacinto Mountains.
06:41Very pretty.
06:42Very pretty.
06:43And I enjoy watching sports and people
06:47and going to movies and live productions.
06:50Very good.
06:51Speaking of live productions,
06:52Vicki Haas is here.
06:55Vicki, I gather from that which I've been told
06:58word has gotten around
06:59that you're about to become a mother.
07:00Is that so?
07:01Yes.
07:02Well, that's a live production
07:03if they're ever up.
07:04When's this going to happen?
07:05In June.
07:06Okay.
07:07We want to win something
07:08so we can buy a layette
07:10for the little tyke, right?
07:11Right.
07:12You two know how it works?
07:13Yes, we do.
07:14Okay.
07:15We're all ready to start.
07:16It's Frankie and Vicki,
07:17our family pair,
07:18and Carla Moss with $7,200,
07:19our solo player.
07:20We're going to begin this game
07:21with the letter B.
07:22It means the answer
07:23will begin with the letter B.
07:24Okay.
07:25The minute you think you know,
07:26hit the button.
07:27Question.
07:28What B does a brook or an idiot...
07:31Yes, Carla?
07:33Babble.
07:34Do.
07:35Babble is the answer.
07:36You're right.
07:37A brook babbles.
07:40Three things babble, actually,
07:41brooks, idiots,
07:42and masters of ceremony.
07:44Where are you going, Carla?
07:46F, please.
07:47Okay, the letter F.
07:48Make the connection at the top.
07:49Question.
07:50What F discovered penicillin
07:53or is skater Peggy?
07:56Hey, Frankie.
07:57Fleming.
07:58Fleming is the right answer.
07:59Correct.
08:04Penicillin comes from bread mold,
08:06as I think I recall.
08:08Where do you want to go now, Frankie?
08:09M.
08:10Okay, this is a family pair
08:11trying to make that white-to-white
08:13or across-the-board connection.
08:14Question coming.
08:15What M is the more popular name
08:17for the tricuspid?
08:20That's Carla.
08:21Molar.
08:22That's right, Carla.
08:23Molar is the answer.
08:24Two.
08:28Where, two?
08:29L, please.
08:30Letter L.
08:31Question.
08:32What L are the South American natives
08:36that are being used as pack animals
08:38in the Western...
08:40Yes, Frankie?
08:41Llamas.
08:42Western United States.
08:43Llamas is right or llamas.
08:44You say it any way you want.
08:49The llama is spelled with two Ls,
08:51thereby, I am informed,
08:52pronounced Yama.
08:53The fellas, the llamas,
08:55the grand Dalai Llamas
08:57and things like that
08:58are spelled with only one L
09:00and they're pronounced rabbi.
09:01Now then, where...
09:03Well, she didn't help us out.
09:04Let's go back to the A.
09:06Okay, you want to try the A,
09:07get some connection up there on the board.
09:09Here comes an A question.
09:10What A precedes Texas
09:13or follows Tracy?
09:16Carla, quick.
09:17Alamo?
09:18No.
09:19By golly, I thought she'd have it.
09:20Either one of you.
09:21What A precedes Texas
09:22or follows Tracy?
09:24Frankie, you're the...
09:25Okay, Vicki?
09:26Austin.
09:27Austin is the right answer
09:28and the family has scored that.
09:31Where, two, Vicki?
09:34The O.
09:35Letter O.
09:36Question coming.
09:37Answer starts with an O.
09:39What O is the city
09:40whose football team won Super...
09:44Vicki, again?
09:45Oakland.
09:46Oakland is right.
09:47Super Bowl XV.
09:50Vicki's on a roll here.
09:52Look at the family pair.
09:53They got white all over the board.
09:55Where are you going now, Vicki?
09:56We'll go back to T.
09:57Okay, the letter T.
09:58If you make this,
09:59you have four-fifths
10:00of your path accomplished.
10:01Here's a question, Carla,
10:02you want to block.
10:03What T does the average American
10:05spend one year of his life
10:08talking on?
10:09Frankie?
10:10Telephone.
10:11Certainly, telephone.
10:12It's the family pair again.
10:16I asked for the record.
10:17Where are you going, Frankie?
10:18J for Gene.
10:19And if they get the J for Gene,
10:21is that your husband?
10:22Yes.
10:23Okay, they get the J for Gene.
10:25It means the family pair
10:26has won the game,
10:27picked up $500.
10:28Carla, to block.
10:29Question for the game, possibly.
10:31What J was taken to Cape Kennedy
10:34in a bottle by Major Nelson?
10:37Carla?
10:38Genie.
10:39Genie is the right answer,
10:40and you block.
10:41Good block.
10:42Where are you going, Carla?
10:47P.
10:48Okay, letter P.
10:49That's in the right direction.
10:50Question coming.
10:51What P was the family name
10:53of TV's Laurie, Keith, Danny...
10:57Vicki?
10:58Partridge.
10:59Partridge is right.
11:00Chris and Tracy are the other two.
11:05Where to, Vicki?
11:06We'll go to the R.
11:07And if they get the R,
11:08it means they've won the game
11:09because the connection will be complete.
11:11Carla, to block again.
11:12Question coming for the game.
11:14What R was the older daughter
11:16of TV character Ida Morgenstern?
11:20Carla?
11:21Rhoda.
11:22Rhoda is right,
11:23and you block again.
11:26Look at that line.
11:27Where are you going, Carla?
11:31C.
11:32All right.
11:33Question coming.
11:34What C is an overweight person
11:36or singer, Mr. Checker?
11:39Frankie?
11:40Chubby.
11:41Chubby is the right answer,
11:42family.
11:43There it goes.
11:46Where to, Frankie?
11:47N.
11:48N.
11:49And as you see there,
11:50if they get it,
11:51they win the game.
11:52Family pair going for a win.
11:54Carla again going to block.
11:56Here it comes.
11:57What N was originally
11:59thought to be caused
12:01by a weight pressing on someone
12:04as they slept?
12:07Carla?
12:08Neuralgia.
12:09Nope.
12:10I'll repeat it now.
12:11For either Frankie or Vicki,
12:12it could be a game-winning repeat.
12:13What N was originally thought
12:15to be caused by a weight,
12:17and please don't help,
12:18pressing on someone as they slept?
12:22Frankie, Captain?
12:24Time.
12:25The answer is nightmare.
12:27Nightmare.
12:28That was a long time ago,
12:29like 1947 or something.
12:32Come up with another N question,
12:33and with it again,
12:34the family pair can win it.
12:35Here comes the question.
12:36What N gave the English
12:38a tough time in 1066?
12:43Frankie for the game.
12:45Napoleon.
12:46No.
12:47Repeat it for Carla.
12:48What N gave the English
12:49a tough time in 1066?
12:53The Norseman?
12:54Nope.
12:55The answer,
12:56Normans.
12:57The Norseman came before,
12:59and Napoleon considerably after.
13:01Another N question.
13:03By golly,
13:04I'm not going to run out
13:05of N questions.
13:06Everybody ready?
13:07Again, the family pair could win it.
13:08What N is the fuzzy surface
13:10of some fabrics?
13:12Or Carla to block?
13:13Nap.
13:14A brief sleep.
13:15Nap is the answer,
13:16and you block.
13:19Look at that board,
13:20if you would.
13:22Well, Carla?
13:23G, please.
13:24If Carla gets it,
13:25she, after all this,
13:26will win the game.
13:27If the family pair gets it,
13:29they, after all this,
13:30will win the game.
13:31This has to be a winner.
13:33Question coming for the game.
13:35What G is a comic strip cat?
13:39Or our 20th president?
13:45Vicki's going to take a chance.
13:47Gallagher?
13:48No.
13:49I'm never good at history.
13:50He was our 24th president,
13:52I believe.
13:53Ike Gallagher.
13:56Coming to you, Carla,
13:57for the game.
13:58Carla, what G is a comic strip cat?
14:01Or our 20th president?
14:02For the game.
14:03Garfield?
14:04Correct.
14:05You have won the game.
14:15Our solo player pulled that out.
14:17After being way behind,
14:19you pulled it out,
14:20thanks to Gallagher.
14:21Carla, you won the first game,
14:23$500.
14:24And now, if you're ready,
14:25we're going to be getting
14:26into game two now.
14:27This will be it for you, Carla,
14:28if you want.
14:29I'll tell you what,
14:30give you a chance to rest.
14:31We will pause here
14:32because along about now,
14:33cash is getting short for us,
14:34so we'll go pick something.
14:44Okay.
14:46That was a good game.
14:48I like that game.
14:49Our family pair had it
14:50locked in there,
14:51and, Carla, you kept
14:52throwing blocks up,
14:53and you kept an opening.
14:54That's the reason
14:55we were so proud
14:56of that board of ours.
14:57It was a good win.
14:58$7,200.
14:59$500 for the game.
15:00You have $7,700 now,
15:01and Frankie and Vicki,
15:02you got the ideal.
15:03Let's see if you can't win this one.
15:04Ready to go?
15:05Game two.
15:06Going to begin with this one
15:07with the letter C.
15:09Here comes the question.
15:10What C was once
15:12Mrs. Xavier Cougar?
15:14Carla?
15:15Charro.
15:16Charro is right.
15:17You have Xavier, I guess.
15:18Let him do the exercise.
15:22So the C goes to the solo player.
15:24O, please.
15:25Letter O to make
15:26that top-to-bottom path.
15:27Question.
15:28What O has more people
15:30than any other Canadian province?
15:33Carla again.
15:34Ontario.
15:35Ontario is the right answer,
15:37and boy, you're on a run.
15:40S, please.
15:41Letter S.
15:42Question.
15:44What S was Lauren Bacall's
15:47to have and have not character
15:50or country singer Whitman?
15:57No one tries.
15:58Time is up.
15:59The answer is Slim.
16:00She played.
16:01Lauren played Slim
16:02and Slim Whitman, the singer.
16:03We come up with another S question
16:06for the taking.
16:08What S is a cocktail
16:10or an attachment for a motorcycle?
16:15Carla?
16:16Sidecar.
16:17Sidecar is the right answer, yes.
16:20Boy, did you go...
16:21Well, here you...
16:22What are you going to do now?
16:23R, please.
16:24Naturally, the letter R.
16:25I always let you name it,
16:26the player name it.
16:28This could be it
16:29unless Frankie and Vicki
16:30come up with a block.
16:32Possible game and match
16:33for the solo player.
16:34Question.
16:35What R is a late-night flight
16:39or for the game?
16:42Red Eye.
16:43And the match.
16:44Congratulations, Carla.
16:45You did it.
16:47Carla did it again.
16:52The full question,
16:53what R is a late-night flight
16:55or a cheap bottle of whiskey?
16:57That was the other definition.
16:58Red Eye, of course, was it.
17:00And, Carla, you did it once again.
17:03Congratulations.
17:04Thank you.
17:05Frankie and Vicki,
17:06you have a chance
17:07to win the match.
17:08Congratulations, Carla.
17:09You did it.
17:10Congratulations, Carla.
17:11You did it.
17:12Congratulations, Carla.
17:13You did it.
17:14Congratulations.
17:15Thank you.
17:16Frankie and Vicki,
17:17you played well that first game
17:18and then sort of went
17:19into a little slump there.
17:20Yeah, we did.
17:21We thank you both
17:22for coming here
17:23and we have some very nice
17:24consolation prizes, okay?
17:25Thank you.
17:26Stay right there
17:27and rest for a while.
17:28We'll be back
17:29to give Carla Moss
17:30a chance at another $5,000
17:31on Gold Run,
17:32but right now,
17:33if you'll listen,
17:34here's what's ahead.
17:39Let's play with me today.
17:43Carla, you've done all right.
17:46Thank you.
17:47You have done all right.
17:48I don't suppose,
17:49because you've waited
17:50so long to go back to school,
17:51I don't suppose you're
17:52on a scholarship, are you?
17:53No.
17:54No.
17:55But this is going to help
17:56your own little scholarship.
17:57Oh, it certainly is.
17:58$7,002 plus one, $8,200.
18:00You ready to try
18:01to pick up another five?
18:02Yes.
18:03If that's how that is,
18:04I will now push my button
18:05as we watch Carla Moss
18:06try to win another $5,000
18:08on Gold Run.
18:09Okay, Carla.
18:11Good luck.
18:12Now just pick up.
18:14Well, Carla,
18:15certainly this is your
18:16third trip up here,
18:17and you did amazingly well
18:18that last time,
18:19so you know how this works.
18:20The idea is for you
18:21to connect the gold to the gold.
18:22You call out the initial.
18:23I'll read the question
18:24that goes with it.
18:25Answer it,
18:26and you get a gold hexagon
18:27in there.
18:28Make the connection.
18:295,000 big ones.
18:30Put the clock up there
18:31alongside of Carla.
18:32There it is.
18:33Carla's the one on the right.
18:34The number 60
18:35is the one on the left.
18:36It will begin counting down.
18:38The number 60,
18:39not Carla.
18:40The moment you tell me
18:41where you're going to start.
18:42Good luck to you, Carla.
18:43Y, please.
18:44Uses the slogan,
18:45richness worth a second cup.
18:48U-Band.
18:49Yes.
18:50O.
18:51The greatest of the Norse gods.
18:53Odin.
18:54Yes.
18:55A.W.
18:56NBC soap opera.
18:58Another World.
18:59Yes.
19:00R.
19:01Capital of North Carolina.
19:03Raleigh.
19:04Yes.
19:05F.G.
19:06Barbara Streisand's
19:07first movie.
19:08Funny Girl.
19:09That's all there is to it.
19:10Oh!
19:11Boy, boy,
19:12are you going to do it.
19:13Wow.
19:14Boy.
19:15Now.
19:16What a job it is.
19:17What a truly amazing job
19:18you're doing there, Carla.
19:19You got,
19:20you had 37 seconds.
19:21You had more time,
19:22but not because you missed any.
19:23You were just more delayed
19:24by the time you got there.
19:25Yes.
19:26Yes.
19:27Yes.
19:28Yes.
19:29Yes.
19:30Yes.
19:31Yes.
19:32Yes.
19:33Yes.
19:34Yes.
19:35Yes.
19:36Yes.
19:37Yes.
19:38Yes.
19:39Yes.
19:40Yes.
19:41Yes.
19:42Yes.
19:43Yes.
19:44Yes.
19:45Yes.
19:46Yes.
19:47Yes.
19:48Yes.
19:49Yes.
19:50Yes.
19:51Yes.
19:52Yes.
19:53Yes.
19:54Yes.
19:55Yes.
19:56Yes.
19:57Yes.
19:58Yes.
19:59Yes.
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22:17This is Bob Hilton speaking for Blockbusters, a mark guessing Bill Todman production.