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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2015 13:14:38 GMT -5
The dumbest decision I ever saw was as follows: One player was behind by $2500 and had 1 spin left. He landed on "move one space" and had the choice between $500 and a spin or $2500. If he had taken the $2500, he would have tied the leader and both players would have come back. On the extra spin, he got $800. Considering most of the spaces on the board are considerably less than two grand, there was no reason not to say "Okay, we'll tie, and settle this another day". That would be the first episode beyond GSN's current lease, if I recall. I think this player should have just taken the $2,500 and declared a tie. The odds of hitting anything greater than $2,500 on the next spin would have been pretty slim. I don't know if a motorboat and/or a tent trailer and/or a car was prevalent on said episode.
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Post by jasonlarsen on Sept 2, 2016 19:28:40 GMT -5
Does anyone know when GSN will finish airing the episodes in their current lease of Press Your Luck? I can't say why I'm asking.
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Post by vahan on Sept 2, 2016 20:35:38 GMT -5
This fourth cycle ends on September 8. After that, it rewinds the clock to episode #561 yet again.
At this point, I am at my wits end. I am hoping October 3 will be the start of the final three months of the show. USA Network would have NEVER done this.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 20:57:20 GMT -5
I'm with you, Vahan. I am hoping to see the final three months of the series in the fall. Given it would only be about 60 episodes and likely a two-year lease, I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being aired on Saturday and Sunday mornings, in the same fashion as Password Plus a few years back.
I bet the earliest airings of Deal or No Deal on Saturday and Sunday were probably just a placeholder after the weekend repeats of Blockbusters and Super Password bombed in October 2014 and were removed after just two weeks. The reason why ratings were bad was because those episodes of said shows had only aired 2 to 3 days before.
It would make sense for GSN to acquire the final three months of the series, especially since Annemarie Carrera breaks the bank and wins the highest amount of money in the series without having to memorize the flashing light pattern like Larson did. Now that woman is one contestant that won big and did it the right way.
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Post by vahan on Sept 2, 2016 21:05:27 GMT -5
It would make sense for GSN to acquire the final three months of the series, especially since Annemarie Carrera breaks the bank and wins the highest amount of money in the series without having to memorize the flashing light pattern like Larson did. Now that woman is one contestant that won big and did it the right way. And for anyone wondering what he meant by "did it the right way", he meant that Annemarie didn't blow her winnings so easily, like Larson did. I'm talking to the other posters here.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 21:10:15 GMT -5
No, I actually meant not hogging the board and obsessively focusing on two squares that guarantee money plus a spin just to fulfill greed.
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Post by vahan on Sept 2, 2016 21:11:26 GMT -5
No, I actually meant not hogging the board and obsessively focusing on two squares that guarantee money plus a spin just to fulfill greed. I meant after the game, when Larson spent his winnings on bad investments (these were talked about in the Larson Documentary in 2003). But I see what you mean.
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Post by jasonlarsen on Sept 2, 2016 22:33:32 GMT -5
This fourth cycle ends on September 8. After that, it rewinds the clock to episode #561 yet again. At this point, I am at my wits end. I am hoping October 3 will be the start of the final three months of the show. USA Network would have NEVER done this. You mean they've aired the same series of episodes four times in a row? Oh, I agree with you. Acquiring the final three months of the series must be much harder than we all thought it would be! If GSN has a professional relationship with Buzzr, they should just come right out and say so. I'm surprised that they haven't shared the series per se, because if they had, it probably would have been off of GSN by now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2016 5:22:16 GMT -5
This fourth cycle ends on September 8. After that, it rewinds the clock to episode #561 yet again. At this point, I am at my wits end. I am hoping October 3 will be the start of the final three months of the show. USA Network would have NEVER done this. You mean they've aired the same series of episodes four times in a row? Oh, I agree with you. Acquiring the final three months of the series must be much harder than we all thought it would be! If GSN has a professional relationship with Buzzr, they should just come right out and say so. I'm surprised that they haven't shared the series per se, because if they had, it probably would have been off of GSN by now. Buzzr has nothing to do with the reason why they can't acquire those final three months. Simply put, it is the duration of the contract that has to run its course before fresh content can be acquired. If Buzzr was the reason for GSN not being able to acquire the rights to Fremantle's classics, why on earth did we get a fresh lease of Jim Perry's Card Sharks in July 2015, one month after Buzzr launched? And why on earth did we get ten episodes each of What's My Line? and I've Got a Secret last December? Just goes to show. As for why GSN still airs Press Your Luck, and Buzzr also airs it, it's because Buzzr has a long way to go to catch up to where GSN is at this point. GSN is focusing on 1986, while Buzzr is currently into February 1984. Some of the episodes of Match Game '78 that Buzzr has aired are also in GSN's current lease, which could imply that Buzzr uses the studio masters held by Fremantle for their broadcasts, while GSN uses the copies held at CBS, which can be assumed that GSN acquires Press Your Luck through CBS and Fremantle, which could also make acquiring network game shows a little bit more costly than syndicated classics, but GSN can afford it either way.
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Post by WarioSajak on Sept 3, 2016 11:29:11 GMT -5
I am hoping to see the final three months of the series [on GSN] in the fall. Given it would only be about 60 episodes 62, yeah, assuming the show did in fact end after 758 episodes (I vaguely remember reading some rumors that there were more episodes taped, which CBS didn't air).
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Post by vahan on Sept 3, 2016 12:18:54 GMT -5
I am hoping to see the final three months of the series [on GSN] in the fall. Given it would only be about 60 episodes 62, yeah, assuming the show did in fact end after 758 episodes (I vaguely remember reading some rumors that there were more episodes taped, which CBS didn't air).None of them sound true. They (the PYL crew) said it was the end of the season for them, the moment they taped the episode slated to air on September 26. Plus, a woman named Elaine Edgar says she was on the second-to-last episode filmed. She also says that she used to have a copy of it, but whoever she gave it to, never returned it to her.
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Post by jasonlarsen on Sept 3, 2016 12:38:13 GMT -5
62, yeah, assuming the show did in fact end after 758 episodes (I vaguely remember reading some rumors that there were more episodes taped, which CBS didn't air).None of them sound true. They (the PYL crew) said it was the end of the season for them, the moment they taped the episode slated to air on September 26. Plus, a woman named Elaine Edgar says she was on the second-to-last episode filmed. She also says that she used to have a copy of it, but whoever she gave it to, never returned it to her. Is this why Press Your Luck wasn't given a proper series finale?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2016 14:33:46 GMT -5
None of them sound true. They (the PYL crew) said it was the end of the season for them, the moment they taped the episode slated to air on September 26. Plus, a woman named Elaine Edgar says she was on the second-to-last episode filmed. She also says that she used to have a copy of it, but whoever she gave it to, never returned it to her. Is this why Press Your Luck wasn't given a proper series finale? Well, I did see an image on Facebook last spring or earlier in the summer that had a contestant named Jason, which was supposedly from the final month of the series. Jason was a more common name for boys born in the 70s more than in the 60s, so I wondered if a final Back-To-School week was scheduled for the first week of September 1986, and the final three aired weeks may have been taped previously, and Back-to-School week might have been the last weekend of tapings? If so, Back-to-School week may have been promoted through CBS promos to any surviving affiliates that still aired the show then. Elaine Edgar may have been a young contestant on said week, which may have aired on September 4, 1986. There was no proper finale because, according to Rick Stern, the producers didn't know the end was coming. And I wonder if the Jason who was on Press Your Luck may have been Jason Hernandez, and he didn't want to reveal it to the public until GSN was to air them?
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Post by vahan on Sept 3, 2016 14:56:42 GMT -5
Jason Hernandez was born on September 10, 1983 (also PYL's first tape date as a series; he even says so on his PYL page), so the answer is "No".
All mysteries will be revealed should GSN obtain those final three months.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2016 16:50:15 GMT -5
Jason Hernandez was born on September 10, 1983 (also PYL's first tape date as a series; he even says so on his PYL page), so the answer is "No". All mysteries will be revealed should GSN obtain those final three months. So, if Jason Hernandez was born in September 1983, how on earth could be compose a Whammy poem that was read by Peter Tomarken on the February 1, 1984 episode? There's no way he could write a poem when he was 5 months old.
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