The Joker's Wild - "The Savers"

(TV Debut: September 4, 1972) Jack Barry made a successful comeback to network television on the Joker's Wild after spending years in exile as a result of the quiz show scandals of the late 1950s. (Barry actually returned as network television host on the short-lived game show THE GENERATION GAP in 1969 when replaced original host Dennis Wholey.) The Joker's Wild was a question-and-answer game in which the categories played were determined by a device that was patterned after the slot machines of Las Vegas. It ran three years on CBS and then nine years in syndication. Included here is the original electronic synthesizer theme used on the CBS version called "The Savers," composed by Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley, whose music was also heard in Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade.