Prolific game show host and media personality Wink Martindale, known for popular programs like Tic-Tac-Dough, Gambit, and Teenage Dance Party and for his stylish, affable onscreen persona, has died at ...

Wink Martindale, the legendary game show host, has died. He was 91 and surrounded by his family in Rancho Mirage Tuesday, ...

Born in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1933, Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale — his nickname ... "It was like an out-of-body experience," Martindale noted of those hectic early days. "Dance Party" ran from ...

Wink Martindale, a radio and television entertainer known to audiences as host of classic game shows including “Tic-Tac-Dough ...

While working at KHJ Radio in 1959, he began hosting “The Wink Martindale Dance Party” on KHJ-TV on Saturdays. The popular show, broadcast from a studio, also began airing weekdays ...

Wink Martindale — the game show host known ... TV show — the “American Bandstand” adjacent “Top Ten Dance Party” — he put in a transfer to Los Angeles radio and TV network KHJ ...

Host Wink Martindale looks at a card during game ... to do a joint interview on Martindale’s TV show “Top Ten Dance Party” in 1956. By then, Presley had become a major star and agreed ...

Host Wink Martindale looks at a card during game ... Presley to do a joint interview on Martindale's TV show "Top Ten Dance Party" in 1956. By then, Presley had become a major star and agreed ...

Wink Martindale, the genial host of such hit game shows as “Gambit” and “Tic-Tac-Dough” who also did one of the first ...

1956 - Elvis Presley visits the set of "Dance Party" with Wink Martindale, center, and Dewey Phillips. Phillips was the first deejay to play Elvis' first recording, "That's Alright Mama." ...