the slip to the operator, and if the serial numbers matched, the customer was declared a winner. Other references in popular culture Episode The Troubleshooter of the Untouchables involved the illegal mob activities around punchboards. The feature film The Flim-Flam Man starring George C. Scott involved the use of illegal gambling through punchboards. On the American television game show The Price Is Right, an over-sized punchboard is used as part of its pricing game "Punch a Bunch". The novel Sweet Creek Holler by Ruth White. A punchboard is featured in the final episode of the TV show of Quantum Leap. The "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series frequently refers to the punchboard at Fibber's Elks Lodge. In the 1940 musical film “Strike Up The Band”, a character suggests punchboards as a way to earn money to get Mickey Rooney’s band and Judy Garland to Chicago for an audition with Paul Whiteman. Madame Fortuna, a character in Stephen King's book Joyland, has a punchboard in her cash box. The 1947 "Pennies for Plunder" storyline from the radio series The Adventures of Superman revolved around a crooked punchboard racket directed at children and a Daily Planet campaign to promote the outlawing of punchboards. In the novel "Winter In The Blood" by James Welch a character is using a punchboard. In the novel "The Grifters" by Jim Thompson, Roy Dillon attempts to grift a punchboard in a bar. In the 1963 TV episode of "The Virginian" titled "The Exiles" The Virginian is searching for a murderer, Ralph Slocum, an alleged punchboard salesman. In the novel "Tattoo" by Earl Thompson, the main character tries to cheat on a punchboard. Notes External links History of the punchboard stories, pictures, and history of punchboards Lotteries