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Once the two minutes expired, or the balls were lost through one of the two "out holes" (one below the main flippers, the other behind the "6" bumper), the game ended...but if the team managed to score at least 15,000 points (minus 1,000 each time the goal wasn't met), they played a "Gold Money Ball" for another 60 seconds and won $200 each time it hit a noisemaker or bumper. (Later in the run, the goal began at 13,000 points and the Money Ball awarded $500 for each bumper hit.)
''Marble'' debuted in a time swap with the neutered ''[[Jackpot]]!'', going up against [[CBS]]' hit soap ''[[The Young and The Restless]]'' and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s problematic game ''Showoffs''. It moved to 12:30 PM on December 1, and not only went up against CBS' ''[[Search for Tomorrow]]'' and ABC's ''[[All My Children]]'' but had to run just 25 minutes to accomodate NBC's 12:55 newscast. It was actually canned on January 5 in favor of ''Take My Advice'', but the relationship show failed and ''Marble'' returned on January 19 at Noon...and switched to all-celebrities, a move which failed despite being against ABC's faltering ''[[Let's Make a Deal]]''.
While ''Marble'' ended on March 12, it aired repeats through June 11 because its replacement (''The Fun Factory'') wasn't actually ready to debut...which slightly increases the chance of more existing.
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* Personnel:
** [[The Announcer]]: Johnny Gilbert, in one of only two Heatter-Quigley games ''not'' announced by company standby Kenny Williams (the other was ''Temptation'', which ran from 1967-68 and had Carl King announcing).
** [[Game Show Host]]: Art James, who only did two more games after this — ''[[Super Pay Cards]]!'' (1981-82) and ''[[Catchphrase (game show)|Catchphrase]]'' (1985-86).
** [[Studio Audience]]
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