Introducing Wink Martindale at "Trivial Pursuit". Nothing trivial about it!

Dear, talented Gene Rayburn. He generously shared his honest recollections and insights... from NBC page through his network and Broadway careers.

Hey, is that a smile? Anne Robinson is always a sweetheart to me; but then, I don't have to answer any questions!

 

Beam me up Scotty!

From a memorable on-camera role. So many teeth!
Love those corporate gigs! Spin and land on my picture, we go up to my room.

 

You have no idea what the initiation to this group was like!

In the basement of stately Wayne Manor, Adam and Randy West attempt to hotwire the Batmobile.

With Chuck in 1990. We reunited for "Price Is Right - Live" in 2004, & swore to each other that we hadn't aged a single day!

 

Name them all and win!

 

Watching myself on Rod Serling's TV. You'd be scared too!
My relationship with the microphone goes way back. Marconi had just stepped out when Tom Edison took this picture. That board was run by coal!
Back then we played everyone from the Allman Brothers to ZZ Top from round vinyl discs! Howard Stern fans will recognize this WRNW studio.

 

More silicone here than at Home Depot. I brought two home to help me caulk the bathtub.

"Yes folks, Bob Barker shook THIS hand"!

With Franny, "The Nanny"; my hand on her fanny!

 

The same Oxnard radio station where Bob Eubanks worked. 30 years later, and still no soap in the men's room.

A high-level development conference with the senior
executives fro
m "Cartoon Network".

 

Billy Vera yells for help as I murder his hit "At This Moment".

AWOL for 40 years from his role as Gruber on "McHales Navy", vaudeville star "The Great Ballentine"
"Oh, was I supposed to stop at make-up first"? On the set with Howard Morton, Lee Meriwether and Jason Marsden

 

The show starts in 5 minutes and we're still at Sunset and Vine!
Celebrating Mini-Me's shopping spree.
"Get ready to 'Come On Down'. Bob Barker should be back from the ATM any moment with the $1,000,000"!

 

J.D. Roth gets a public "attitude adjustment" for wearing the same color suit as me to the Emmys!
The lovely Rachel Reynolds helps Brandi Sherwood select her date, on stage at the 2005 Emmy Creative Awards. (Brandi doesn't know that my name is on ALL the slips!)

 

The First Lady of television, Betty White.
There is nobody more caring or sweeter.
Negotiating my refund from Orbitz directly with Wink!
When I grow up, I wanna be just like Charlie O'Donnell (left) or
Don Pardo (center). Together, over 120 years behind the mic,
and both are still going strong. Over 1 billion words served!

 

She hosts, she sings, she bakes, she has Beach Boys DNA, and together we've embarrassed hundreds of newlyweds.
Carnie Wilson

Bob Eubanks and I never made whoopie.
But we've had lots of fun!

 

Behind door number 2, Monty Hall made me a deal I can't refuse.
The master of the Hollywood Squares with the Pacoima parallelogram.

 

 

 

 

 



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