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Post by aaaa on Aug 9, 2022 0:10:07 GMT -5
Question. How many times did someone manage to hit the top in under 30 seconds during the runs of (New) $25,000 and $100,000? I know of these on $100,000: Linda Simon in October 1986 (10/9, if the guides I'm seeing are correct) and Lynn Davis on 9/2/87, both qualified for their tournaments in 29 seconds. (Just saw Lynn's episode, which inspired this post.) And then the 87 tournament would be won in an even faster time: 27 seconds, by M.G. McCormick. For that series, it's probably just those three, isn't it? Off the top of my head, I can't think of any from (New) $25,000. Probably a good chance that if there were any, I haven't seen those episodes. Florence Henderson had a 29 second win in 1982 on $25K IIRC.
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Post by Mike on Aug 9, 2022 0:39:24 GMT -5
Florence Henderson had a 29 second win in 1982 on $25K IIRC. Double-checking that week - 27 seconds actually! Was 12/8. So much for not having seen any super-fast times on that side - I just, clearly, haven't committed those to memory.
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Post by pyramidfan on Aug 9, 2022 7:44:21 GMT -5
Question. How many times did someone manage to hit the top in under 30 seconds during the runs of (New) $25,000 and $100,000? I know of these on $100,000: Linda Simon in October 1986 (10/9, if the guides I'm seeing are correct) and Lynn Davis on 9/2/87, both qualified for their tournaments in 29 seconds. (Just saw Lynn's episode, which inspired this post.) And then the 87 tournament would be won in an even faster time: 27 seconds, by M.G. McCormick. For that series, it's probably just those three, isn't it? Off the top of my head, I can't think of any from (New) $25,000. Probably a good chance that if there were any, I haven't seen those episodes. I found five instances of 29 seconds on the daytime show: Richard Kline in July 1983, Michael McKean in November 1983, Billy Crystal in July 1984, Teresa Ganzel in May 1986, and Janis Paige in June 1986. I didn't find any times of 28 seconds or less, other than the aforementioned Florence Henderson win.
Linda Simon's $25,000 win in 29 seconds happened on Wednesday, October 8, 1986. Other than hers, Lynn's, and M.G.'s, there were no other wins in less than 30 seconds.
The shortest time on the 1991 version was Jennifer Heftler's $10,000 win with Barry Jenner. They did it in 31 seconds the day before the fourth tournament started.
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Post by Mike on Aug 9, 2022 15:57:00 GMT -5
I found five instances of 29 seconds on the daytime show: Richard Kline in July 1983, Michael McKean in November 1983, Billy Crystal in July 1984, Teresa Ganzel in May 1986, and Janis Paige in June 1986. I didn't find any times of 28 seconds or less, other than the aforementioned Florence Henderson win. Yup, definitely not remembering the daytime instances like the nighttime ones. Richard Kline's is July 4 - the only one of those five where the celebrity + timing pair immediately rings a bell, as I haven't yet seen any of the other four. Nor have I yet seen any Michael McKean or Janis Paige episodes for that matter, while Billy Crystal and Teresa Ganzel I just haven't seen any from those respective weeks.
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Post by pyramidfan on Aug 9, 2022 18:22:25 GMT -5
I found five instances of 29 seconds on the daytime show: Richard Kline in July 1983, Michael McKean in November 1983, Billy Crystal in July 1984, Teresa Ganzel in May 1986, and Janis Paige in June 1986. I didn't find any times of 28 seconds or less, other than the aforementioned Florence Henderson win. Yup, definitely not remembering the daytime instances like the nighttime ones. Richard Kline's is July 4 - the only one of those five where the celebrity + timing pair immediately rings a bell, as I haven't yet seen any of the other four. Nor have I yet seen any Michael McKean or Janis Paige episodes for that matter, while Billy Crystal and Teresa Ganzel I just haven't seen any from those respective weeks. The Teresa Ganzel one is below. I'm on the fence as to whether it's 29 or 30 seconds, but I think the main word is said when the clock is on 31.
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Post by Mike on Aug 9, 2022 23:12:53 GMT -5
Other things I'm surprised by: Where if two (opposing) contestants know each other outside of the game, they can still play against each other. (And the two would be regular people and not other celebrities like on special weeks.) Granted they're always against each other during a given episode, which makes that separate from when Keefe Ferrandini (Keefe? Kief? Guessing there. ) had to take a week off in November 1987 because she knew Terry Lester outside the game - but that very thing, a contestant already knowing a celebrity, is the only comparison. This comes up from 3/13/87 on the daytime show, where champion Karen ended up playing against Tammy, who it turns out is Karen's son's girlfriend.
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Post by pyramidfan on Aug 10, 2022 7:34:57 GMT -5
Other things I'm surprised by: Where if two (opposing) contestants know each other outside of the game, they can still play against each other. (And the two would be regular people and not other celebrities like on special weeks.) Granted they're always against each other during a given episode, which makes that separate from when Keefe Ferrandini (Keefe? Kief? Guessing there. ) had to take a week off in November 1987 because she knew Terry Lester outside the game - but that very thing, a contestant already knowing a celebrity, is the only comparison. This comes up from 3/13/87 on the daytime show, where champion Karen ended up playing against Tammy, who it turns out is Karen's son's girlfriend. Actually, Karen's son was dating a different young woman. Check the intro at the link below.
I did find it odd that twin brothers were opponents on the current version a few weeks ago.
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Post by pyramidfan on Aug 17, 2022 14:48:36 GMT -5
I found some more celebrity substitutions in newspapers. These are all for the 1982-1988 "$25,000 Pyramid."
10/11/82: Vicki Lawrence listed instead of Betty White 7/4/83: Patty Duke listed instead of Linda Kelsey 12/10/84: Mike Farrell listed instead of Henry Polic II
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Post by Mandoli on Dec 1, 2022 14:37:35 GMT -5
Moved some Pyramid threads into the AP one.
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Post by Mike on Dec 23, 2022 14:53:05 GMT -5
I found some more celebrity substitutions in newspapers. These are all for the 1982-1988 "$25,000 Pyramid." 10/11/82: Vicki Lawrence listed instead of Betty White 7/4/83: Patty Duke listed instead of Linda Kelsey 12/10/84: Mike Farrell listed instead of Henry Polic II One from the $100,000 - 12/9/85: Stuart Damon is announced on 12/6 for this week instead of Howard Morton. Which is interesting considering Stuart would appear on the $25,000 the week after that. On top of that, I'm seeing that that $25,000 week was taped November 21, while his actual first appearance on $100,000 (week of 1/6/86, with Florence Henderson) was taped November 15. (For full measure, 12/6 where he was announced was taped October 18, the week of 12/9 was taped October 25.)
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Post by ivoryface86 on Dec 23, 2022 15:15:35 GMT -5
No wonder why the $100,000 Pyramid doesn't mention who next week's celebrity guests are on the air during the Friday episode of the week too often. We find out of those in on-air promos only. Hey, here's something to interest you, on episode #455(the episode prior to Tournament #10), the lady champion went on to retire undefeated but also is attempting to clinch a Tournament spot, whose time mark did she had to beat to get that Tournament spot?
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Post by Mike on Dec 24, 2022 5:42:32 GMT -5
No wonder why the $100,000 Pyramid doesn't mention who next week's celebrity guests are on the air during the Friday episode of the week too often. We find out of those in on-air promos only. Hey, here's something to interest you, on episode #455(the episode prior to Tournament #10), the lady champion went on to retire undefeated but also is attempting to clinch a Tournament spot, whose time mark did she had to beat to get that Tournament spot? Terri Mitchell, whose time was 40 seconds, which she did not beat.
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Post by mike on Dec 30, 2022 0:57:12 GMT -5
It's been awhile since I posted. But, something came to mind:
The Category THINGS YOU CONSIDER
I have struggled to come up with any good clues for it. What does everyone think?
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Post by vahan on Dec 30, 2022 1:56:24 GMT -5
pyramidfan two questions: 1) Because GSN did not show the Anne Bloom & Ed Begley, Jr. week, I wonder: Did Anne fare much better that time? She had no wins during her week against Chris Lemmon. 2) I might have asked this before, but was May 1988 when it was announced that The $100,000 Pyramid would not be returning for the 1988-1989 Season? If so, was that why they did the tournament at the end of August, instead of in September, as somewhat of a season opener?
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Post by pyramidfan on Dec 30, 2022 8:42:59 GMT -5
pyramidfan two questions: 1) Because GSN did not show the Anne Bloom & Ed Begley, Jr. week, I wonder: Did Anne fare much better that time? She had no wins during her week against Chris Lemmon. 2) I might have asked this before, but was May 1988 when it was announced that The $100,000 Pyramid would not be returning for the 1988-1989 Season? If so, was that why they did the tournament at the end of August, instead of in September, as somewhat of a season opener? 1. Anne only won three of her games that week, but she did have a $10,000 win in Wednesday's first round. Later in the year, it was seen in the intros, paired with a Vicki Lawrence win from September. She also had a $5,000 tie-breaker in Monday's second round.
2. For the previous two years, that version had started its new seasons around the second or third week of August, so doing it for the third season was nothing unusual. I found it odd that they started their season earlier than most syndicated shows, but it may have been that way so that a tournament would air during November sweeps.
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