High Rollers
From The TV IV
| High Rollers | |
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| Premiere | July 1, 1974 |
| Finale | September 9, 1988 |
| Airs | |
| Creator | Merrill Heatter, Bob Quigley |
| Host | Alex Trebek Wink Martindale |
| Network | NBC, Syndicated |
| Style | 30-minute game show |
| Company | Merrill Heatter-Bob Quigley Productions, Merrill Heatter Productions/Century Towers Productions/Orion Television |
| Seasons | 5 |
| Origin | USA |
High Rollers was a game show airing on NBC daytime and in syndication.
Two contestants answer a toss-up question to begin the game. Whoever answers controls two oversized dice--he/she may play them or pass to his/her opponent. The player rolls the dice and whatever combination shows up that player eliminates in any combination on a display of lighted numbers from 0 to 9. The corresponding numbers appeared on a game board which credited the contestants with prizes in three rows. A player wins the game if he/she successfully wipes out all the numbers or the opponent rolls a combination that cannot be eliminated.
The winner of two games vies for $10,000 by trying to eliminate all nine numbers successfully with the dice.
This version ran for two years. It launched a nighttime syndicated edition in fall of 1975 which ran a year. It returned on NBC daytime in 1978 and ran two more years. High Rollers was revived yet again in 1987 for first-run syndication. It lasted a year.
Cast
| Person | Role | Duration | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Cast | ||||||
| Alex Trebek | Host | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Wink Martindale | 5 | |||||
| Ruta Lee | Asststant (NBC) | 1 | 2 | |||
| Becky Price | 3 | |||||
| Lauren Firestone | 4 | |||||
| Elaine Stewart | Assistant (Syndicated) | 2 | ||||
| K.C. Winkler | 5 | |||||
| Crystal Owens | 5 | |||||
| Kenny Williams | Announcer | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Dean Goss | 5 | |||||



