Wink Martindale Dead: “Tic-Tac-Dagh”, “GAMBIT” GAME Show

Wink Martindale, The King of the Television Game Show, who hosted “TIC-Tough”, “Gambit” and “High Rollers” and a large number of other programs that have become food rooms in all over America, on Tuesday in Rancho Mirage. It was 91.

Martinel, a long voice for Los Angeles, who recorded an unexpected record in the late 1950s, died, surrounded by the family and his 49 -year -old wife, Sandra Martinel, according to a press statement from the advertising company.

Throughout a long career on radio and television, Martindale was repeatedly asked how he came with his first unusual name.

He also explains, one of his young friends in Jackson, Tin, faced a problem in saying his specific name, Winston, and appeared like Winky. The pseudonym, shortened to the wink after he entered the radio, stuck – with one exception.

After Marteldel fell to host the first national television show in 1964, NBC day -to -day programming chief felt that the name WINK looked very. Therefore, almost one year, “What is this song? “Win Martindale.

No, he did not particularly amaze that “K” had decreased from Wink.

“Not really, because I am lovable Those checks [from NBC]He said in an interview with the 2017 TV Academy Foundation.

A TV host Genial and DAPPER hosted with Smileming Smile and fully covered hair software Local TV game in Los Angeles before going to “What is this song?”

Over the decades, according to its website, Martindale hosted either or produced 21 shows, including “Words and Music”, “Trivial Pursuit”, “The Last Word” and “Debt”.

“This is a lot of offers,” he confessed in an interview with the New York Daily News in 1996. “This means either everyone wants me to offer them or I cannot fill a job.”

Martindale was famous for hosting “Tic-Tac-Dagh”, which is to revive the width of the late fifties, which was broadcast on CBS for less than two months in 1978 but continued to participate until 1986.

Unlike TIC-TOE, where two players simply try to get three XS or three consecutive operating system in a network of nine boxes, “Tic-TAC Dough” requires the contestants to choose a subject category in each of the nine boxes, everything from geography to song addresses. Each correct answer has gained X or O in the chosen box.

“Tic-TAC-Dagh” achieved its highest rankings in 1980 in 88 games, 46 shows of Lieutenant Thom Mckee, a fighter in the handsome young navy who won the victory chain of $ 312,700 in cash, prizes and place in the Guinness Book of World Numbers.

“Our classifications were never large until they arrived and were never great after leaving,” Martinel said in an interview with his founder at the TV Academy.

As he saw, the simplicity of “Tic-Tac-Dagh” and other TV games shows explain its continuous popularity.

He said that people are at home, “they are attracted to the games they know. They can sit there, and they say to themselves,” O man, I could have so; I can play that game.

Martindale “Tic-Tac-Dagh” left in 1985, a year before leaving the air, to host a width he created. Unfortunately, the “main chases” continued less than a year.

“There was a lot of bombs between the strikes.”

Winston Conrad Martinel was born on December 4, 1933, in Jackson, Tin, was one of five children. His father was a wood inspector and his mother is a housewife.

During its inception, Martindale was a great admirer of the famous radio programs of the day, and early in the dream to become a radio broadcaster. For years, he recalled in an interview with his TV Academy Foundation, ads were torn from Life magazine, and behind a closed bedroom door, the hands of commercial ads were pretending to be on the radio.

All this practice is fruit. After he has repeatedly hunting a small local radio station director with an area of ​​250 watts in Jackson for a job, a test was presented less than two months after high school graduated in 1951.

In 17 years, the previous summer soda jerk was set at $ 25 a week to work from 4 to 11 pm at the WPLI radio station.

On air jobs on two increasingly increasingly local radio stations before getting his “DREAM” function in 1953: hosting the famous morning show “Wortwatches” on WHBQ radio in Memphis, Tenn.

For Martindale, the Work in WhBQ was a matter in the right place at the right time.

One night in July 1954, he remembers later, he was showing some friends around the station when the famous Di Di Di -Phillips played a demonstration disk of a recently recorded song that Sam Phillips (without relationship), the founder of Sun Records in Memphis.

The song “This All Right” was the singer Memphis Electric Company called Elvis Presley.

“Dewey put her on the dizziness and the switching board lit up,” Martinel said in an interview with him in 2010 with the Times newspaper. “Keep playing over and over again.”

The song caused a lot of excitement to the point that a call was made to the Prison House to make it come to make an interview on the air. Elvis was not at home, so Glades and Virunniennnnnoni traveled to a movie theater, where their son was watching west, and led him to the radio station to conduct his first interview.

“This was the beginning of the Bresley obsession.” “I am thinking about this on the night when the course of popular music changed forever.”

After WHBQ launched a TV station in Memphis in 1953, Martindale branched on TV, first hosted a half -hour width called “Wink Martindale of the Mars Patrol”. The direct show was characterized by Marandal, which was filled with half of children in a cheap spacecraft group, and Segue to five or six minutes of old flash film series.

Next, affected by the success of the teenage teenager “Bandstand” in Philadelphia, Martindale began hosting “10 Best Dances” in WhBQ-TV.

It recorded a coup in June 1956 when Elvis fell, by that time, the phenomenon of showing work, in order to appear and interview with Martindale in his direct presentation-crazy.

Colonel Tom Parker, the director of Prisoni, “He will never talk to me after that because he wanted to be paid for everything. We had no budget. IFor a house, Martinel told the Times in 2010.

Because of the local Martindale popularity with “Best Dancing”, the small Memphis record company, Oj Records, signed a registration contract.

His registration to “Al -Thika in that he was Monlof” signed with DOT records, which he recorded well in the 1960s.

Martindale, who had a fun but unforgettable lyrical voice, played a role in a teenage TV dance in the movie “Let’s Rock!” And in which he sang “All love has exploded.”

While working on radio and television in Memphis, Marteldel is graduated from what is now known as Memphis University, where he specialized in speech and drama.

In 1959, he moved to Los Angeles to become the morning DJ at the KHJ radio station.

In the same year, he scored a great success in “Deck of Cards”, which reached 7th on Billboard Hot 100 and 11 on the hot country song scheme. Martinel, who got a golden record for registration, performed the article at the famous ED Sullivan exhibition on Sunday night.

While working on Radio KHJ in 1959, he began hosting “The Wink Martindale Dance Party” on KHJ-TV on Saturday. The famous show, broadcasting from the studio, started broadcasting the days of the week, directly from Pacific Ocean Park in Santa Monica.

Over the years, in addition to KHJ, Martindale’s work in La Radio Stations Krla, KFWB, KMPC and Kgil.

In 2006, he received a star on Walkwood Walk of Fame. A year later, it became one of the first recruits in the American TV Hall in Las Vegas.

“I have always loved games,” he said in an interview with his founder at the TV Academy. “As soon as I entered the world of games, it seemed to me that he was slipping from one to the other … I never looked at the idea that I had described as a gaming host, because most people love games.”

Martinel survived his wife Sandra. Sister Geraldine, his daughters Lisa, Lynn and Laura; And many grandchildren and grandchildren.

MCLELLAN is the employee writer in the Times.