Insight: "All Out" (syndicated, 1975)

[Theme music] [Announcer over music] Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to, "All Out." [Announcer] The game of game shows where you can win one hundred thousand dollars if you go, "All Out!" [Applause] [Announcer] The first portion of tonight's show is brought to you by Armory peanut butter. With the taste that makes your mouth water for more. And now, here he is folks, the man you've been waiting for, the one, the only, Johnny Mitchell! [Applause] [Johnny Mitchell, over applause] Thank you! Thank you, thank you! Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we've got another exciting segment of, "All Out." The game show that requires guts and perseverance instead of luck. And as you know we choose our contestants from the studio audience. So, audience, are we ready? [Audience] Yes! Let's go! Tell me, P. D., who's number one? [Announcer] Johnny, our first contestant is right here from, Watts, California, Julia Colby! [Cheers, applause] [Mitchell] Come on, whoops! Hey, whoo! I don't have to ask you if you're excited, Julia! [Julia Colby, giggling] I'm so excited, Johnny, I can't stop crying! [Mitchell] Well, you have been picked to try to win one hundred thousand dollars! Now, how do you feel about that, Julia? [Colby] Oh, I'm real tough, Johnny and I'm gonna give it my best! [Mitchell] She's going to give it her best, ladies and gentleman! So, how about a big round of applause for Julia Colby! [Applause] [Announcer, over applause] Johnny, our next contestant, Charles Ritter! [Applause, cheers] [Mitchell] Here comes someone who's going to win because here's a man who is really sure of himself! [Charlie Ritter] I'm gonna go all out you, Johnny! [Mitchell] Well, good luck to you, Charlie! [Applause] [Announcer] Thelma Mann, come on up! [Applause, cheers] [Mitchell] Oh, oh. Woo! Hi there, Thelma! Thelma, would you tell us, ah, what do you do for a living? [Thelma, giggling] Oh I'm a secretary. But, my fiancee is here with me today. Jake! [Mitchell] Hi ya, Jake.  Tell me, to what do we owe the pleasure, and I must say, pleasure, of having you on our show? [Thelma] You want to know why I'm here? [Mitchell] I'm listening. [Thelma] Because I'm greedy! [Laughter, applause] [Announcer] Our final contestant tonight, Johnny, Corporal George Reading! [Applause] [Mitchell] Hi ya, Corporal! [George Reading] Hi ya, Johnny. [Mitchell] Whoop! Easy there! [Mitchell] Hey, it's always a pleasure to have a serviceman on our show! Would you, ah, mind telling us how you lost your arm? [George Reading] Vietnam, Johnny. But I don't miss it. [Mitchell] Did you hear that ladies and gentlemen? What a wonderful, spirited young man! [Mitchell] George Reading! And there you have our four contestants for tonight. [Mitchell] "All Out!" We'll be back for the start of our show after a couple of messages. So, don't you go away! [Applause] ["Insight," theme music] "Insight." [Narrator over theme music] Stories of modern man's search for meaning. [Narrator] Freedom. [Narrator] Love. [Narrator] Insight. [Theme music] [Music, applause] [Mitchell] Thank you, thank you, thank you and welcome back to, "All Out." Remember contestants, to win, "All Out," and our hundred thousand dollar final prize, you must play right through to the finish. There are three games. [Mitchell] If at any time you decide to drop out, you will forfeit the money you have.  Do you understand that? [Contestants] Yes. [Mitchell] Good, then we'll get right on with our first game, which I have right here. And by the way our producer told me earlier, this is a dilly. Let's take a look. It's a dilly. Contestants, each of you has brought a loved one with you here tonight and here they are. [Music, applause] [Mitchell over applause] Will you please identify your loved one by coming down and standing next to them. [Applause] [Mitchell] Now, for the sum of twenty five hundred dollars, [Mitchell] you must strike your loved one in the face. [Audience groans] And our audience here will be the  judge as to whether you deserve the prize money. Does anybody want to quit? We'll start with you, Julia. [Soft slap.] [Audience boos, laughs] No go, Julia. I'm afraid our audience  doesn't think that you deserve the twenty five hundred dollars. [Julia] Oh Lord, Willy. [Willy] Go ahead, Mom. I've been here before. We need the money. [Loud slap] [Applause, laughter] Yes, she's done it! Julia Colby is our first winner. Now we go to Charlie Ritter. [Charlie] We agreed, remember? [Elaine Ritter] I'm scared. Don't hurt me honey. [Charlie] Well, I may have to. Now, we're gonna win this. [Charlie] Okay? [Loud slap] [Elaine] Oh! [Mitchell over applause] Oh, that's nice! Beautiful! Charlie, very good! We have two winners. That's almost unbelievable, ladies and gentlemen. We'll go on to contestant number three. George Reedy, it's your turn to go, "All Out." [Mother] It's alright, Son. [George] I can't. I, I won't. [Mother] Oh. l[George] I don't want the money that bad. [Mitchell] Well, I guess that means goodbye, George Ready. But you never can tell folks. [Applause] And now for our fourth contestant, Thelma Mann. [Thelma] I promise I'll never hit you again. [Jake] We don't need this, you know. [Thelma] So, just pretend that it isn't me here, all right. [Jake] All right. [Jake] Just smile when you swing. [Loud slap] [Mitchell over applause] Well done! There's another winner! Thelma Mann. I want to come down here. And I want to say, "Thank you to our loved ones, for being such good sports." [Mitchell] Now, this charming young lady will take you right back to the audience and right back to your seats. [Mitchell] Thank you, very much. How about a big hand for our loved ones, ladies and gentlemen. [Applause] [Mitchell] And now we have three contestants going on to our second game. And our second game, what is it? Well, we call it, "Tell a little lie about yourself." [Mitchell] Contestants, would you please come down here with me. Because for this portion of our show you must talk to our audience, personally. [Mitchell] Thelma, Charlie, Julia, who'd like to be first? [Julia] Me! [Mitchell] All right. Julia Colby, ladies and gentleman. Come right down here. Come on now, don't be afraid. [Mitchell] Remember, Julia you must tell our audience something about yourself. Some deep, dark secret, that nobody knows about. [Julia] How much is this for? [Audience snickers] [Mitchell] Do you hear that, ladies and gentlemen, she's right. I forgot to tell you how much our second game is worth. Julia it is worth, [Mitchell] fifty thousand dollars! [Julia] Fifty thousand dollars? [Mitchell] Fifty thou! [Julia] And all I have to do is tell something terrible about myself? [Mitchell] That's right and all of us know that what you tell us isn't true. Right, ladies and gentlemen. [Mitchell] Sure because the name of this game is, "Tell a little lie about yourself." [Julia] But, it's gotta sound real, right? [Mitchell] Oh you, bet, you must impress our judges that it is real. [Mitchell] Go ahead, Julia. [Julia] Well. I only had a sixth grade education. So, I guess some of you out there would say, I was dumb. I got seven children. And they're all poor and shiftless. And they got four different fathers. [Footsteps] [Mitchell] I'm afraid that's not enough, Julia. [Julia] Well. I, I, I walked the streets, in the daytime sometimes. And, I walk the street at night. Well, what, what, what I'm trying to really say, is that I was a whore. [Julia] And, I, [Julia] I've got, [Julia] something bad. [Julia] Some real bad sickness. [Julia] And I ain't, I ain't never, I ain't never told nobody before. [Julia] Because if I did, [Julia] my, my, my friends, [Julia] they wouldn't come around. I got what the doctors call, syphilis. And, and there ain't no cure for it. Because I, I went too long without medicine. And, and maybe, I got, a year. [sobbing] [Julia sobbing] [Mitchell over applause] Ladies and gentlemen! [Applause] [Mitchell over applause] Aw! Bless you, Julia Colby! And that was worth fifty thousand dollars, Julia! Congratulations! [Julia] Thank you. [Mitchell over applause] Thank you, Julia Colby! [Mitchell] Now contestants, who will be next? How about you, Charlie Ritter? [Charlie] Okay, Johnny. [Mitchell] All right, Charlie, it's your turn to go, "All Out." Do your thing. [Charlie coughs] Well, ladies and gentlemen. [Charlie coughs] I'm a man who knows what it's like to work hard all his life 'til he's close to fifty and end up with [raspberry noise] nothing. [Charlie] Zilch. [Charlie] Um, okay, I, [Charlie] I get drunk once in a while. [Charlie] I mean, you know, I really, [Charlie] I really get smashed. I, ah. Okay, I, I love my wife. Elaine, don't get angry with me. I know you're sitting out there in the audience listening someplace, but I, um, Well, I did. I, I had this affair. I, ah, you know. it was, oh boy, ah, What the hell do you want from me? [Mitchell] That's not enough, Charlie. Fifty thousand dollars buys a lot more than that! [Charlie] Okay, okay. [Coughs] Well, I had a brother. He was older than me, you know, a real whiz. He could do anything I could do, only better. And how mom and dad loved him. And how, how I, I, ah, envied him. Well, we were up at Lake Concourse, like we were every summer. And we thought it would be fun to climb the Saddleback. I mean, it was my idea. [Charlie] But, I could see Joe was a little bit queasy. And that made me want to climb it all the more. [Charlie] He had just been accepted into UCLA on a physics scholarship. [Charlie] Well, I always got lousy grades. I knew that wasn't gonna be the thing with me. [Charlie] I mean, I knew I was never going to go to any college. I wasn't gonna be any of the things Joe dreamed about being. [Charlie] I was just ordinary. [Charlie] But, I knew that, [Charlie] Joe was afraid to climb that mountain. [Charlie] And, [Charlie] and, when he fell, we were just going up this little chimney. We were hand climbing and, I turned around and, oh, I saw him about, hanging fifteen, maybe twenty feet below me there. He wasn't in any kind of trouble or anything like that, but he was just hanging there on this slope. I turned around again. I pulled myself up another, oh, five, maybe six feet. And, it felt good. Oh God, it felt good. Then I heard him call out below me there, "Hey, Charlie. "Help me, Charlie, I'm getting tired." But, I never even turned around. And, when he fell, he screamed my name, "Charlie, Charlie!" [Sobbing] I never even, turned around because, for once, I was the winner. And I just kept going. [Charlie] And I just went on and on, and, [Charlie] on. [Applause] [Mitchell, over applause] Wasn't that wonderful! What a wonderful lie, Charlie Ritter. Another winner of fifty thousand dollars! Thank you very much! [Mitchell] And now for our final contestant, Thelma Mann. [Theme music] [Thelma] What kind of bad thing can you say about a nice girl like me, who's been sheltered by her parents all her life. [Thelma] Umm. [Thelma] Would you believe that I am really a secret agent who assassinates people. Would you? [Thelma] No, okay. Hi there, Jake. Listen. Don't listen. Ah. When I was fourteen. There was this boy. And, um, I liked him very much. [Sigh] Anyway, um, I had an abortion. My parents never knew. Nobody ever knew. Um. Well, men are usually hitting on me. But, Jake's different. He really is. And, I, ah, [Thelma] Oh, [laughs] wait a minute. I mean just wait a minute. [Thelma] I mean, I was about to say something now, that I am ashamed of. [Thelma] Something that I should tell  Jake in private. That he should know. I want him to know. And I think he'll understand. Oh, I hope to God, he'll understand. But I'm not gonna say it up here. And you want to know why not? Because it's none of your damn business. [Thelma] So you can take, [Mitchell] Ladies and gentlemen, we'll be back after a brief announcement! So, stay tuned for the big finale! One hundred thousand dollars at, "All Out!" [Applause] [Announcer] So, we're out. [Applause, music fades] [Mitchell] Who the hell picked her for a contestant? My job is hard enough without somebody like that.  [Announcer] Can you beat it? [Mitchell] You got the contract? [Announcer] Yeah, the're right here. [Footsteps] [Mitchell] Would you sign these, please? [Charlie] What is it, Johnny? [Mitchell] Well, it's, it's legal. It releases the show from any liability, you know, lawsuit stuff like that. [Mitchell] Well, would you hurry up and make up your mind. [Charlie] Oh, I'll sign it. What the hell. [Julia] I don't know. You're not gonna hurt us, are you? [Mitchell] Julia, I guarantee you that if you win, you'll be able to walk off this  stage. [Julia] That's good enough for me. [Announcer over theme music] And here we are back for the exciting second half of, "All Out!" [Applause] [Announcer] Johnny, we've still got two contestants with us, Charlie Ritter and Julia Colby! [Applause, cheers] Julia and Charlie have ascended to the peak, ladies and gentlemen. And now for one hundred thousand dollars, they are going, "All Out!" And we go to our final big game, the hundred thousand dollar game. [?] number two. [Theme music] [Charlie over music] I thought we were finished with all this. Oh, man. Yes, yes, the instruments please. [Footsteps] [Mitchell] Contestants, have you ever heard of Russian Roulette. [Audience murmurs] [Charlie] Yeah, I've heard of it. I read about it in the newspapers. Well, that's not what this is. [Julia] Whoo. You had me scared there for a while. [Charlie] Me too. Johnny, I knew you couldn't do that on this show. And you're absolutely right, Charlie. Because this game is not Russian Roulette. Our producer calls it, Russian Roulette, once removed. [Mitchell] Because you have to convince your loved one to play Russian Roulette.  [Applause] [Charlie] Wait a minute. Wait one little minute. I don't mind putting my life on the line, but I can't ask my wife to do that. Oh, Charlie, Charlie, would you just sit down. Don't get ahead of me. Let me explain the game. [Mitchell] We will give each of you one bullet. [MItchell] You will insert it in the gun. I can't force my son to take a chance like that. Why, that ain't fair. But, Julia, that's the game. You must convince him. Think of what you can do with one hundred thousand dollars! [Mitchell] But, the decision is entirely up to you. We will not coerce you in any way. The decision is yours totally. And Johnny, what happens if the gun goes off? [Laughs] Charlie, I'm afraid you didn't read that contract you signed. Because, funeral arrangements are your obligation. [Audience chuckles] We will give each of you three minutes to talk it over. Make your decision. And in that time, we're going to go way for station identification and some other announcements. But don't turn that dial, ladies and gentlemen. Come back for the exciting finish to, "All Out!" [Applause] [Crew member, unintelligible] [Mitchell] Hell of a way to make a living. [Crew member] Yeah. [Mitchell] Hmm. [Footsteps] [Willy] Mama, I've been in more danger on the streets before. [Willy] I fought gangs before. Remember the Dukes? I handled two of them. This ain't nothing. [Julia] Oh, shut up and let me think. [Julia] Ain't you got no pride? [Julia] What do we do, you go killing yourself here on this stage. [Willy] But, Mama, one hundred thousand dollars. Do you hear me? We could get the hell out of the ghetto. Out, Mama, out. [Willy] We could live like human beings. [Charlie] You got, ah, five empty cylinders and one bullet. I don't think it can happen. [Elaine] And, what if it does, Charlie? [Charlie] Well, just don't think about it because it won't. [Elaine] When you slapped me before, I thought well this isn't Charlie. He's never hit me before. And I just, [Elaine] put it out of my mind, like it never even happened. I couldn't do it this time, Charlie. [Charlie] Elaine, [Charlie] if I could stop now, don't you think I would? [Elaine] Would  you? [Charlie] Yes, I would. [Charlie] Okay, this is terrible. We've gone over half way. [Charlie] Elaine. One hundred thousand dollars. [Elaine] For  a funeral. If you pay for it, Charlie. [Charlie] Now, look, forget the funeral, because it's not gonna happen. It can't. [Willy] Mama, you said it yourself. Seven kids. I mean, this one won't be missed that bad. [Julia] Because a mother has seven children, that don't mean each one isn't precious to her. [Julia] Now, you're my oldest. [Julia] And I ain't never told you this before. [Julia] But, you're also my favorite. [Julia] But, don't let that go to your head, boy. [Willy] Mama, this ain't nothing. Believe me, I'll spin it around, take my click. [Willy] And we'll collect our loot. We'll be rich.  And we could buy us a house in Westchester. [Julia] Well, that ain't exactly big time. But it would be nice. [Willy] Now, you got the idea, Mama. [Willy] I'm telling you, it won't be hard. Believe me. All I do is close my eyes, [Willy] spin it around, take my click, and, [Willy] and we'll be hugging and laughing, and, [Willy] with a hundred thousand dollars in our pocket. [Julia] Well, I, I sure want that money. [Willy] Then, we'll go on, okay? [Crew member] Okay, thirty seconds. [Willy] Mama, think of the kids at home. And think of the firetrap we live in. [Willy] And think of three meals a day with meat. [Willy] And, no more hassles with the pigs. And no more worries about being ripped off. [Willy] And all for one little click. [Elaine] There's something, Charlie, I always wanted to tell you. [Elaine] Now, I know, you have this, this awful drive to make money. [Charlie] No, no, no, no, not to make money. To be somebody. [Charlie] When you have money than you are somebody and people admire you and respect you. [Elaine] I know it. To be someone special. And I've seen you drive yourself all the time. [Elaine] And I figured, well, that's what a man is, is all about. He has  to make a success of himself. [Elaine] Because failure is bad stuff. [Elaine] Oh, I knew you wanted to be a success, Charlie. [Elaine] And, I want you to know. [Elaine] You always were, in my eyes. [Charlie] Oh, Elaine. That's not enough. Now, come on. It'll be easy.  [Elaine] You know, I love you. [Elaine] I love our children too, but, you're my man. I love you more. [Elaine] I'd gladly die for you if it was for something really important. Something, [Elaine] something that would make you happy. [Charlie] Good, it's just the most important thing in our whole lives. Can't you see? [Elaine] Charlie, Charlie, am I only worth a hundred thousand dollars to you? Is that it after all these years. [Charlie] Oh, of course you're worth more than that. [Elaine] Am I? What is this? [Elaine] What do you mean to yourself? [Charlie] I can be anything I ever dreamed about being. You'll see the difference. [Elaine] No, I see right now. [Elaine] It won't make any difference. When this is over, you'll get the money. But, it won't make you any different. [Charlie] It will. I won't have to grovel in that lousy job anymore. [Charlie] You and I can go places and do things. We can buy a new house. We can get a new car. We can go out to dinner whenever we want to. We can invest some of the money. [Charlie] Elaine, we've come so far. Don't let me down now. [Elaine] All right. [Elaine] If you ask me to do this thing, I will. [Charlie] You promise? [Elaine] But, I will not love you anymore. [Charlie] Oh, sure you will. You love me now, don't you? [Elaine] I have. [Elaine] I think I could go on loving you, if we left right now. [Charlie] What, we're not just gonna change, are we? [Elaine] I think we will,. [Charlie] Elaine, we've been married for twenty five years, honey. [Charlie] Things like that don't just change. [Elaine] It won't, if you don't ask me. [Elaine] Let's go home right now. Let's just walk off right now and forget this whole thing. [Elaine] Charlie. [Crew member over music] Five seconds until you're on. [Mitchell] Thank you. [Theme music] [Mitchell over music] Now don't tell me [?] please. Get up on your place there. Will you get up there. [Mitchell over music] We just have a couple of seconds. Thank you. Thank you. [Theme music] Hello, "All Out!" fans! Welcome back to the one hundred thousand dollar portion of our show. I know you're watching and waiting for the big answer. What will our contestants do? Will they go on and go, "All Out?" [Mitchell] Now is the time to find  out. We'll start with Julia Colby. [Willy] She says she's going on. [Mitchell] Oh, I'm sorry, Willy. I'm sorry, but your mother must answer for herself. [Mitchell] What will it be, Julia? [Willy] Look, we've already decided. She's going on with no sweat. No. We ain't gonna do it. [Julia] We ain't gonna let you out there make a spectacle of us. [Julia] I got my pride. [Julia] And ain't nobody gonna take it away. [Julia] I don't want your money. [Julia] You understand? [Willy] But, Mama, [Julia] Mama, nothing. [Julia] I runs this family. [Julia] And what I say goes. And that's that. [Julia] But, I'm proud of you son, for offering. [Julia] Come on, let's go home [Mitchell] Julia Colby goes home with nothing, ladies and gentlemen but let's give the lady a big hand. [Applause] [Mitchell, over applause] Thank you. Now, for our last contestant. [Mitchell] Charlie Ritter, have you talked it over? Yes, we have. Do you have a decision? Yes, we do. We'd like to go ahead. [Applause] [Mitchell over applause] Ladies and gentlemen, we have a contestant for our final game of, "All Out!" We have a gentleman who wants to go, "All Out!" [Mitchell] May we have the gun please. [Footsteps] [Mitchell] Charlie, would you load the gun. [Charlie] Sure. Me? [Mitchell] Rules of the game. [Charlie] Okay. [Mitchell] And just one bullet. [Mitchell] Ah, would you twirl it, Charlie? [Mitchell] Fine. Ladies and gentlemen we're all set. Charlie, would you give the gun to Elaine. [Mitchell] Charlie, Elaine's waiting. [Mitchell] And, so are we. [Mitchell] Now, Elaine. On the count of one. [Mitchell] I will count down from ten and our studio audience will count down with me. Do we have the microphones open for the studio audience, please? [Crew member] Okay. [Mitchell] Thank you. Are you all set? Then, here we go. [Mitchell and audience] Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. I hate you. [Click] [Mitchell] ladies and gentlemen. [Gun clicks] One hundred thousand dollars! [Gun clicks] Hey, Charley Ritter and his wife, Elaine, have won the one hundred thousand dollars. [Mitchell] Charlie, Charlie, here is your check for one hundred thousand dollars. How do you feel? [Mitchell] Too choked up to talk. I can understand that. And how about his loyal wife, ladies and gentlemen. Elaine, Elaine, how do you feel? [Elaine] Rich. [Mitchell] Well, ladies and gentlemen, I guess our time is up for tonight. So, remember, tune in tomorrow night. Same time. Same station.  And until then, ask yourself, would you go, "All Out!" [Theme music]