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You Bet Your Life - The Best Episodes Boxed DVD Set:$7.48	Groucho Marx Collection: You Bet Your Life Boxed DVD Set:$3.19
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During the 1950s, Groucho Marx ruled NBC-TV on Thursday nights while hosting a quiz show promising lots of fun and plenty of laughter. You Bet your Life featured a great deal of humorous conversation followed by a series of competitive questions. What made this show so popular was the rapport Groucho established with the contestants.

You Bet Your Life was inspired after Groucho ran his radio program of the same name. It was while doing an improvisational episode with Bob Hope, that convinced Groucho to bring it to television. Inviting people on the show and offering an unrehearsed conversation with Groucho provided much entertainment to the program. Groucho’s bantering with contestants with his unique blend of comedy and wit produced some of the most humorous moments in television history. Groucho became famous for his provocative comments and leering looks made to many beautiful, well-developed women that frequented the show.

During this era, quiz shows typically gave away record amounts of money. In contrast, You Bet Your Life hardly gave away more than one thousand dollars, and this was split between the two contestants. After the initial conversation with the contestants, the game began with them choosing quiz questions from a preselected category. They were also given the opportunity to win one hundred dollars by guessing the secret word of the day. If lucky enough to win, a duck made of paper Mache would come down to hand-deliver the loot. The show produced influential people, not necessarily of A-list status, but newsworthy. One episode featured Melinda Marx, Groucho’s daughter, and a pre-teen Candice Bergen.

While ostensibly a quiz show, the most important asset has always been the humorous interaction between Groucho and the contestants before they even had a chance to play the game. Contestants were primarily chosen with the idea that they would be ammunition for Groucho’s barbs, which incidentally, they seemed to love.