{"id":19495,"date":"2025-04-16T05:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wink-martindale-host-of-game-shows-tic-tac-dough-and-high-rollers-dies-at-91\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T05:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:46:29","slug":"wink-martindale-host-of-game-shows-tic-tac-dough-and-high-rollers-dies-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wink-martindale-host-of-game-shows-tic-tac-dough-and-high-rollers-dies-at-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Wink Martindale, host of game shows &#8220;Tic-Tac-Dough&#8221; and &#8220;High Rollers,&#8221; dies at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Game show host Wink Martindale, known for &#8220;Tic-Tac-Dough,&#8221; &#8220;High Rollers&#8221; and &#8220;Gambit,&#8221; has died, according to his official Facebook page. He was 91.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wink was amazing, funny and talented,&#8221; the post on his Facebook page reads. &#8220;Truly a LEGEND!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The host, born Winston Martindale, had a 74-year career, according to Nashville Publicity Group, which also confirmed Martindale&#8217;s death. A cause of death was not given.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The entire Game Show Network family mourns the loss of Wink Martindale, the host of the original &#8220;Tic-Tac-Dough&#8221; and a true legend of television game shows,&#8221; the Game Show Network posted on social media. &#8220;His charm and presence lit up the screen for generations of viewers and he will never be forgotten.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Martindale&#8217;s professional career began when he was just 17, according to his <a href=\"https:\/\/walkoffame.com\/wink-martindale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hollywood Walk of Fame<\/a> biography. The Jackson, Tennessee, man worked as a disc jockey for several years and even had his rendition of the spoken-word song &#8220;Deck Of Cards&#8221; chart on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/1959-09-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His television career began at WHBQ-TV as the host of &#8220;Mars Patrol,&#8221; a science-fiction program for kids, according to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which Martindale earned a star on in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>While at WHBQ-TV, Martindale began hosting &#8220;Teenage Dance Party,&#8221; where he was joined by Elvis Presley in one appearance. The two were <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/elvis-presley-fans-gather-at-graceland-to-honor-the-kings-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">long-time friends<\/a><\/span>; Presley dated Martindale&#8217;s wife, Sandy, before they married.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/04\/15\/0065b6dc-ff2e-47ba-84d0-0582d45c4cf2\/thumbnail\/1240x1550\/50d68023f8f9c472cb87f94838c3df9e\/gettyimages-1024835562-1.jpg?v=412b48b2e3085db78364e6e02a7dc2b8#\" alt=\"Wink Martindale and Elvis Presley \" height=\"1550\" width=\"1240\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">American singer Elvis Presley (1935 &#8211; 1977) appears with presenter Wink Martindale (left) on Wink&#8217;s television show &#8216;Teenage Dance Party&#8217; in Memphis, Tennessee, 16th June 1956.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                ilver Screen Collection\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1964, Martindale landed a job hosting NBC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058854\/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What&#8217;s This Song<\/a>.&#8221; Other hosting credits include &#8220;Words and Music,&#8221; &#8220;Can You Stop This&#8221; and &#8220;Headline Chasers.&#8221; He hosted more than a dozen game shows, according to his 2000 autobiography.<\/p>\n<p>He hosted &#8220;Tic-Tac-Dough&#8221; on CBS from 1978 until 1985, according to IMDB. Martindale hosted 185 episodes of NBC&#8217;s &#8220;High Rollers&#8221; between 1987 and 1988. His show &#8220;Gambit,&#8221; based on blackjack, was produced by Heatter-Quigley Productions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember that they auditioned practically every possible host. It came down to Dick Clark and me, and this is one time I beat Dick Clark,&#8221; Martindale told the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.televisionacademy.com\/features\/emmy-magazine\/articles\/foundation-interviews-wink-martindale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Television Academy Foundation<\/a>\u00a0in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He also told the Television Academy Foundation that he liked getting to meet so many different people while working on game shows. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I enjoy finding out what makes people tick,&#8221; he told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.televisionacademy.com\/features\/emmy-magazine\/articles\/foundation-interviews-wink-martindale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Television Academy Foundation<\/a>. &#8220;As you play a game, you see why one person is more successful than another. But I just love working with people, and I love talking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Martindale made appearances on such programs as &#8220;Most Outrageous Game Show Moments,&#8221; &#8220;The Chase&#8221; and &#8220;The Bold and the Beautiful,&#8221; according to his publicist. He also appeared in commercials for Orbitz and KFC.<\/p>\n<p>Martindale is survived by his wife, his daughters and his sister.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/aliza-chasan\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Aliza  Chasan<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. 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