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Post by vahan on Dec 2, 2016 11:21:04 GMT -5
You want it? You got it. An episode of the Australian version of Press Your Luck.
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Post by vahan on Dec 2, 2016 11:46:20 GMT -5
Now that I've seen it, let me make some observations:
* The placement of Whammy spaces in Round 2 is identical to that of the bulk of the Fall 1983-Winter 1984 episodes.
* A trip to Australia as one of the round 2 prizes? Was it for a tour of the whole country?
* I don't hear Bill Carruthers' harmonized voice for the Whammy animations, and they didn't even credit him and Bill Mitchell for developing the original U.S. format. They did keep Rick Stern's voice for The Great Whamini.
* Notice the Olympic Torch Whammy. Well, it was 1988, and 1988 was the year of the Summer Olympics in Seoul.
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Post by WarioSajak on Dec 2, 2016 13:52:26 GMT -5
WOOT
A few observations of my own: * It seems the intro began with a clip montage like the American version, but only the very end of it is present here. * Round 1's values range from $30 to $490. Round 2's values range from $100 to $1500, but then there's $4000 + One Spin too. I'd have dropped that to $2000 to fit better with [4]'s other values in R2. * Interesting that they had a $16,000 car on offer for five-game champs. * Lose A Whammy [OR] $200 + One Spin is quite possibly the strangest space I've ever seen in relation to this show. * ...Good lord was that ending rushed.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2016 15:21:54 GMT -5
Finally, my wish has been fulfilled! Really cool to see the Australian version of Press Your Luck after all the decade that YouTube has been online.
Looks like I can finally create board rotation files for PYL Expert Edition as early as this weekend. However, there may be some new slides that will have to be created. As for Lose-1-Whammy or $200 + a Spin, I can improvise by using a standalone $200 + a Spin or create a $200 or Lose-1-Whammy slide.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2016 18:09:07 GMT -5
* Notice the Olympic Torch Whammy. Well, it was 1988, and 1988 was the year of the Summer Olympics in Seoul. Yes vahan, But If PYL stayed past 1986, They Could've brought back the Olympic Torch Whammy in '88 when the 1988 Summer Olympics will be held in Seoul and the Debut $400 + One Spin in Square 18 on Round 1 (and not to mention the return of the Olympic Phone to celebrate the '88 Olympics in Seoul after a 4 year absence that happened in Los Angeles site of the 1984 Summer Olympics). However I will like to more PYL episodes from Down Under being surfaced, soon. #CantWait
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Post by aaaa on Dec 5, 2016 17:23:26 GMT -5
There was a weekly syndicated version of Tattletales in the 1977-78 season. No episodes from it ever turned up in the game show trading circuit, and GSN never aired the series. The episodes are assumed to exist. The beginning of this batch of commercials from 11/28/1977 posted by 80scommercialvault today shows the last 13 seconds of a syndicated Tattletales(Richard Dawson and friend look to be among the celebs). www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSPB-IWolrA
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Post by vahan on Dec 5, 2016 17:46:20 GMT -5
There has been speculation that the reason GSN has never aired the Syndicated version is because Bob Newhart and his wife Ginny said "No" to clearing their appearances, and due to being on most of the Syndicated episodes, GSN doesn't see fit to air this version.
Bob and Ginny were also on Super Password in November 1986 and May 1988. There was speculation that they said "No" to clearing their appearances on that, too, when their first appearance didn't air on GSN. But it turned out to be nothing more than possible tape damage, as their second appearance aired.
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Post by aaaa on Dec 5, 2016 18:55:56 GMT -5
Ginny may have been the Newhart who didn't want her game show appearances cleared, as GSN did air a few episodes of Marshall Squares with Bob Newhart, appearing without Ginny, as a guest.
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Post by carpetcrawler on Dec 7, 2016 13:56:24 GMT -5
It's been said before, but the celebrity clearance thing is more than likely, "they never saw the request letter" rather than them replying with a flat out "no".
That is Jody Donovan.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Dec 8, 2016 17:43:16 GMT -5
It's been said before, but the celebrity clearance thing is more than likely, "they never saw the request letter" rather than them replying with a flat out "no". It's been years, but I could have sworn I read elsewhere that the Newharts didn't know about their clearances on certain game shows not being cleared.
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Post by carpetcrawler on Dec 13, 2016 3:16:02 GMT -5
It's been said before, but the celebrity clearance thing is more than likely, "they never saw the request letter" rather than them replying with a flat out "no". It's been years, but I could have sworn I read elsewhere that the Newharts didn't know about their clearances on certain game shows not being cleared. Jimmie Walker said the same thing about his syndicated Match Game episodes.
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Post by aaaa on Dec 24, 2016 21:01:41 GMT -5
Jamie Locklin's TV Game SHow Vault has 32 game shows up for viewing. Click on each gift box to see what show is at each number 1-32, at least one quite rare show from the quick looks of things. tvgameshowvault.com/wordpress
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Post by vahan on Jan 4, 2017 19:33:33 GMT -5
A pilot for the 2006 revival of Chain Reaction with Tim Vincent. Two pilots were taped on March 29, 2006, and this was one of them. Another addition to Daniel's Sold Pilot Theatre.
But... there's only one problem with this upload, and D Heine points it out: Audio out of sync half way through.
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Post by WarioSajak on Jan 4, 2017 23:52:12 GMT -5
There's a lot of differences from the series, but (and here's the kicker) they're all good. Much like Monopoly over a decade earlier, the series is a noticeable downgrade...but at least Merv and King World had an excuse! Two pilots were taped on March 29, 2006, and this was one of them. Actually, per a taping report on The Game Show Forum, there were three...and said report suggests this is #3. Already done, and thanks for letting me know about the sync issue (I hadn't noticed it).
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Post by aaaa on Jan 5, 2017 7:20:53 GMT -5
Michael Davies produced the 2006-07 version of Chain Reaction, presumably including the pilots. Davies was producing Millionaire when contestant John from this pilot AKA John Castellano won $250K on Millionaire in 2004. John appeared with his family on Ray Combs nighttime Feud in February 1990 and was earlier on TPIR and Pyramid in the 70s.
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