You're Right! High Rollers premiered July 1, 1974, replacing Alex Trebek’s first American game show, The Wizard of Odds, on NBC. It did pretty well at first, eventually knocking off Now You See It on CBS. It was the first game show to position a camera in mid-air, above the dice table (which would become a standard camera shot on Wheel of Fortune). Ruta Lee was an occasional film actress (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), Vegas entertainer, and friend of Frank Sinatra, so her appointment in 1974 as dice roller was a little of a shock. After being slotted against Now You See It and then Tattletales in the first half of 1975, High Rollers wound up against CBS’s Gambit, also produced by Heatter-Quigley. NBC moved High Rollers to 12 noon in December 1975, allowing Wheel of Fortune to temporarily expand to one hour. NBC brought back High Rollers in April 1978, and the changes Heatter-Quigley made between the first and the second versions of the game improved it immensely. There was no hostess in this version (although Becky Price, Linda Hooks, and Lauren Firestone served as models); contestants rolled the dice themselves. Other than that, game play was the same. This version lasted just over two years, until June 1980, when NBC decided housewives wanted to watch David Letterman for ninety minutes every morning. Trebek hung in with the syndicated Pitfall (1981-82) and two versions of Merrill Heatter’s Battlestars (NBC, 1981-82 and 1983) until Merv Griffin tapped him to host the revived Jeopardy! in 1984. Trebek’s been there ever since, with occasional additional workloads on Classic Concentration (NBC, 1987-93) and To Tell the Truth (NBC, 1991) as well as ABC’s summer run of Super Jeopardy! in 1990.