Elaine Stewart (co-creater Merrill Heatter's wife) was the card dealer/co-hostess for the CBS version, while Beverly Malden filled this role for the first half of Las Vegas Gambit, and was later replaced by Lee Menning.

The object of the main game was similar to blackjack, with two married couples attempting to build a hand as close to 21 as possible without going over (busting).

Removing all nine numbers awarded the Gambit Galaxy, a jackpot which included $5,000 cash and a collection of prizes that increased in value every time it was not won.

On April 1, 1974 (the same day Now You See It with Jack Narz premiered), CBS moved the show back a half-hour to 10:30/9:30, where it faced NBC's aging quiz Jeopardy!

That show's weakness made late 1974 the high point of Gambit's original daytime run at least in the Nielsen ratings.

The network canceled the four-year-old game two weeks before Christmas 1976 and replaced it with Goodson-Todman's Double Dare with Trebek taking the hosting position after High Rollers came to an end on June 11, 1976.

Stan Worth composed the theme for this version, with Beverly Malden serving as card dealer before she was replaced by Lee Menning.

[1] Despite limited competition (reruns of The Jeffersons on CBS, and local or syndicated programming on ABC affiliates), the revival failed to draw the ratings of its predecessor and was cancelled after just over a year, ending on November 27, 1981.

[1] Elaine Stewart was the card dealer on the original version, while Beverly Malden served in this role on early episodes of Las Vegas Gambit before being replaced by Lee Menning.

[1] Gambit creator Merrill Heatter developed a similar show, Catch 21, which premiered on GSN July 21, 2008 with Alfonso Ribeiro as host and Mikki Padilla as dealer.

The Joker's Wild which premiered the same day as Gambit (September 4, 1972) also had a majority of its episodes lost to time until the first two seasons of the CBS run were found.

[9] Reruns of the CBS series aired on WPIX-TV and KHJ-TV in 1976 and 1977, with Rhodes Productions handling distribution, but it is not clear what happened to these episodes afterward.