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You Bet Your Life - 2 Episodes From 1954 From 1950 until 1961, Groucho Marx ruled on NBC-TV Thursday nights with, of all things, a game show. You Bet Your Life was originally broadcast on radio beginning in 1947, initially moving to television in 1950 as a radio show with cameras. On the program, contestants could "say the secret word and win a hundred dollars" and a paper-mache duck would come down with the loot. People tuned in to see and hear Groucho grill the contestants, the game itself was almost inconsequential.