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Post by balozier on Mar 26, 2017 22:34:06 GMT -5
So now I'm completely confused. Can we get a bullet-list of what GSN has and hasn't aired of the syndicated run of The Joker's Wild? To the best of my knowledge: * 1977-1978 season: Aired in full. * 1978-1979 season: Roughly September-November 1978 shown, stopping partway through the $100,000 Tournament of Champions, during the 2000-2001 period. Not sure if it may have been shown previously before then. * 1979-1980 season: Not sure if they touched this or not. * 1980-1981 season: The $1,000,000 Tournament of Champions episodes, at the very least, have been shown. As for the rest of the season, no clue. * 1981-1982 season: Never shown. * 1982-1983 season: Aired in full. * 1983-1984 season: A single episode from this season has been seen, as part of the aforementioned "50 Greatest Game Shows" marathon in 2006. * 1984-1985 season: Never shown. * 1985-1986 season: At least part of this season was run (not sure how far in they got.)
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Post by WarioSajak on Mar 27, 2017 3:03:16 GMT -5
I did read on the Barry & Enright Wiki that The Joker's Wild had a special category called "Take a Chance." As far as I know, "Take A Chance" was only ever used on The Honeymoon Game (1970), where it covered up the center reel for the final round. If a couple answered the question correctly, they could opt to reveal whatever had been spun up in the center window, which would add or deduct an amount ranging from $10-$100. * 1985-1986 season: At least part of this season was run (not sure how far in they got.) I think they started at the season premiere and stopped about a month or so into '86. They've never aired the Finale. Same goes for the final season of Tic-Tac-Dough.
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Post by aaaa on Mar 27, 2017 6:41:37 GMT -5
* 1979-1980 season: Not sure if they touched this or not.
They aired the 1979-80 season, as per a post on ATGS back then, at least part of it, in late 1997 during the so-called"Dark Period" of GSN when the only Goodson shows on the schedule were TPIR and the 1994-95 season of Dawson Feud. They got up to at least the November 1979 $250K TofC.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2017 16:26:41 GMT -5
Does anybody have the entire run (or close to it) of the $1,000,000 Tournament of Champions that were uploaded by thewhammy83 before he took them down in the wake of users earning strikes by Sony? If they do, could you please inform me by PM?
Regarding said tournament, was Face the Devil ever played during that string of shows?
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Post by aaaa on Mar 28, 2017 5:01:39 GMT -5
GSN aired the last eight episodes of the November 1980 Joker's Wild TofC from 8PM-Midnight EST on 3/17/2001. Anthony Martin has uploaded a few episodes of it on his Youtube page, along with other Joker episodes aired on GSN between 1997-2001, plus a few Tic episodes. www.youtube.com/channel/UCq1ugkzYh8Ku2aDacAKtnKA
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 15:18:41 GMT -5
There is an extensive gallery of category slides from TJW on Game Shows Wiki. It showcases almost every slide seen on the series since 1980.
But, after seeing one of Joe Dunn's episodes yesterday, I did discover a slide that was not added to the wiki, and that video has been online for nearly a decade. The category is "Songs About Places." Needless to say, I captured the screen, and contributed the screenshot to said gallery.
I also discovered on a very short clip, there was a "Bob Hope" category slide. No closeup, unfortunately.
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Post by ivoryface86 on Mar 28, 2017 17:37:18 GMT -5
* 1979-1980 season: Not sure if they touched this or not.
They aired the 1979-80 season, as per a post on ATGS back then, at least part of it, in late 1997 during the so-called"Dark Period" of GSN when the only Goodson shows on the schedule were TPIR and the 1994-95 season of Dawson Feud. They got up to at least the November 1979 $250K TofC.
Even farther than that, GSN got to March 1980 and got Tic Tac Dough to March 1981(Allan's run to over $100,000 began either in late January or early February 1981). Now I'm assuming the Allan was defeated by Jim on Hat Day Friday(which ended with Jim in the middle of his 2nd attempt at defeating the Dragon). Now with Joker, Joker, Joker, does anybody know how many total episodes of that kids variation had and did it have any new first-run episodes during the 1980-81 season(in which Art James was the announcer at the beginning of the season) and did the kids variation award a bonus prize for pulling a Natural Triple like they did in the regular counterpart?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 14:19:24 GMT -5
I remember when GSN aired one random episode from the 1983-84 season in 2006 during the "50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time", it got me thinking if some of the episodes used were for seasons of certain series not yet acquired by GSN at the time, and maybe it implies that GSN was possibly considering acquiring the rights to the 1983-84 season of The Joker's Wild at the time, and they probably aired an episode in the marathon to possibly "test the waters" and see how much viewership came out of it.
Since that season never got acquired by this point, it implies that there were not enough viewers interested in seeing the episode. In fact, of the non-acquired series where one random episode was aired as part of the countdown, only Tic Tac Dough and Shop 'Til You Drop got acquired - the latter, seven years later. The 2006-aired episodes were later aired in the regular rotations of the leases of each respective series, and both those leases lasted only one year apiece.
If GSN were to acquire the 1983-84 season, I would record and collect all of the episodes, as that was the only season i got to enjoy in the original broadcasts.. I also wonder if Sony did claims on The Joker's Wild a couple of years back because GSN may be planning on acquiring a limited run of the series in the foreseeable future?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 13:37:34 GMT -5
I remember posting on The Game Show Forum quite a while ago, a thread about slide rotations on The Joker's Wild, and it got me wondering if there were any cycles repeating in the rotation, and how many devils were in each carousel for the Face the Devil round.
I looked back at that thread a few weeks ago, and there was a link to a website that explained the details. All I understood was that the show used the carousel slide projectors. After doing research on that Kodak product, I learned that they only came in varieties of 80-slide of 140-slide.
Since there were seven slides in play for Face the Devil (six cash amounts plus the devil), I had to find out if either 80 or 140 was divisible by seven. According to my math, 80 is not divisible by seven, but 140 is. Dividing 140 by 7, there are apparently 20 cycles, supposedly with a devil for every seventh slide.
Now, for the main game, there are six slides in play: five categories usually mentioned in order by genre: Special category, then academia, pop culture, lifestyle and miscellaneous (during the Barry run, at least by 1983-84). Assuming they use the same 140-slide carousels, 140 is not divisible by 6, and neither is 80. But I have noticed a frequency in contestants getting three jokers in a single spin -it happens far more often than a natural triple! The closest numbers that 140 is divisible by are seven and ten. I would assume, for consistency sake, there would be five category slides then two joker slides. It makes sense, since the category slides shown at the start of the match, are shown one by one, in a set order. So it sounds like, in a cycle of seven slides, repeated 20 times in the carousel, there are likely two consecutive Joker slides after five categories. It does make a lot of sense why it's more probable to get three Jokers in one spin than a natural triple.
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Post by balozier on Mar 30, 2017 14:23:30 GMT -5
^ I'd always heard that, with the slide projectors, the slides were mounted on some kind of metal platter thing (think an oversized, metal version of a ViewMaster reel).
ETA: And in the Face the Devil round, only one of the three windows was loaded with a Devil slide.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 16:09:03 GMT -5
If it's similar to a ViewMaster reel, I wonder if there were only six slides on each reel (with the devil replacing a dollar amount in FTD, most likely $200)? I wonder how many revolutions each reel makes before they stop?
Now that i think about it, I think the carousel projector may have only applied to the host's announcing of the categories at the start of the main game.
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Post by vahan on Mar 30, 2017 16:16:48 GMT -5
Wonder if Press Your Luck also used an oversized metal projector? That shows' big board had three slides per square for 54. The pilot board operated a little differently: The slides changed slower, and there was a different Whammy slide in all the squares that contained a Whammy everytime the board changed, rather than each square with a Whammy slide staying the same, like on the series.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 16:27:51 GMT -5
I think Press Your Luck used some form of carousel projector, hence the transition effect. But then again, prize slides would have to be swapped if a prize was hit.
When I saw an image of a close-up of an actual Navy blue $1500 + a Spin slide on the internet, it appeared to be very tiny and a square shape, not a rectangle chape..
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 19:29:02 GMT -5
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Post by Kaos on Apr 4, 2017 21:54:59 GMT -5
If it's similar to a ViewMaster reel, I wonder if there were only six slides on each reel (with the devil replacing a dollar amount in FTD, most likely $200)? I wonder how many revolutions each reel makes before they stop? Now that i think about it, I think the carousel projector may have only applied to the host's announcing of the categories at the start of the main game. From what I've heard, it was 12 slides, with the devil slides replacing the 200's on one reel. Two for each of every slide.
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