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Post by carpetcrawler on Jan 29, 2016 12:48:56 GMT -5
I hate it, I hate it, I hate it when people post a blatant watermark in front of the videos. I thought Wink Martindale and his team would never do that, but then something happened that made them starting doing them. "Wink Martindale" implying that Wink is anything more than figurehead-level involved in his Facebook/YouTube/Twitter, which is your first mistake. |
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Post by WarioSajak on Jan 29, 2016 17:46:56 GMT -5
Yeah, the YouTube channel's pretty much John Ricci and Caleb Nelson's joint account, with special guest Wink Martindale. (John and Caleb each have their own YouTube channels as well, which are also worth a look.)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2016 19:19:56 GMT -5
Pretty cool to see the first two episodes of $1M COAL. It turns out, on the second episode, a player got stung... by a B, as they say. $1M COAL is a pretty good game show, and it was the first game show to offer one million dollars, if I recall. This was long before Who Wants to be a Millionaire, the latter of which had a lengthy run. Plus the game played in the same fashion as Wheel of Fortune, only with no wheel, and features a gigantic computer and keyboard, and up to six clues for each puzzle. The winning family had won the $10,000, and were only one show away from winning the million. |
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Post by couponboy on Jan 29, 2016 21:34:13 GMT -5
I have to say that the $1,000,000 chance of a lifetime and the late 1980s British run of Sale of the Century were polar opposites. The former was way ahead of its time, not only offering a million dollars but also not making it ridiculously hard to win. All you had to do was win 3 games and 3 bonus rounds and the bonus rounds they have on Wheel of Fortune nowadays is MUCH harder than their bonus round. However, 1980s British Sale felt ridiculously cheap from the start. Most of its "prizes" were absolutely crap to the point that I wouldn't buy most of them even for their "Sale of the Century" price. You could clearly see that the contestants thought the same, to the point that they only ever bought instant bargains whenever Peter offered a cash incentive to go with it. The only good prizes were the trip and the car, but you had to win 5 to 7 consecutive games just to win one of them, which is a MUCH taller ask than winning three games of Chance of a Lifetime considering you have to beat out two opponents in each game instead of 1.
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Post by vahan on Jan 30, 2016 0:29:10 GMT -5
The British $ale had some kind of rules and regulations about cheaper prizes, something the Aussie and American versions never had (except the American Temptation, of course). This was famously made fun of by The Benny Hill Show.
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Post by couponboy on Jan 30, 2016 10:57:04 GMT -5
The British $ale had some kind of rules and regulations about cheaper prizes, something the Aussie and American versions never had (except the American Temptation, of course). This was famously made fun of by The Benny Hill Show. They still could've offered MUCH better prizes leading up to the car and trip. See Bullseye, Play Your Cards Right and even the 1970s British Sale of the Century for proof. And don't Sky couldn't afford it, as they even had pretty good prizes on their daytime version of The Price is Right around the same time Sale was airing! |
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Post by walker7 on Feb 5, 2016 4:49:51 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2016 17:30:43 GMT -5
That's actually the very first episode I ever got to see. I even remember the stinger choices. The "B" strikes again! This series was aired on WJBK in Detroit in prime time after the CBS Evening News until Press Your Luck at 9:00 a.m. ET was dropped in June 1986, and this series moved into Press Your Luck's former time slot until September 1986. WJBK aired the local game show Jackpot Bingo in this show's original time slot as a placeholder until Superior Court premiered that fall. |
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Post by walker7 on Feb 7, 2016 4:42:45 GMT -5
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Post by WarioSajak on Feb 7, 2016 21:10:39 GMT -5
To elaborate on the above links: the first two are a late-1988 show from a 1994 USA repeat. The rest are from February-March 1989 and were uploaded by Christopher Ryan, who has 22 discs of Scrabble episodes recorded from USA repeats...and he's uploading the whole lot of 'em a little at a time (based on his comments over on Facebook, he's only on Disc 3; might be on Disc 4 by now, not sure on that). Unless I've missed something over the years, of the 21 23 episodes he's put up so far I've seen a total of two on YouTube beforehand -- Battle of the Soaps Day 3 (albeit as an eight-part upload), and Battle of the Soaps Day 5 (albeit with only a partial intro and nothing of the first game or Sprint). tl;dr -- If you like Scrabble, keep an eye on this guy.  |
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Post by walker7 on Feb 8, 2016 5:38:53 GMT -5
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Post by vahan on Feb 8, 2016 11:29:01 GMT -5
To elaborate on the above links: the first two are a late-1988 show from a 1994 USA repeat. The rest are from February-March 1989 and were uploaded by Christopher Ryan, who has 22 discs of Scrabble episodes recorded from USA repeats...and he's uploading the whole lot of 'em a little at a time (based on his comments over on Facebook, he's only on Disc 3; might be on Disc 4 by now, not sure on that). Unless I've missed something over the years, of the 21 23 episodes he's put up so far I've seen a total of two on YouTube beforehand -- Battle of the Soaps Day 3 (albeit as an eight-part upload), and Battle of the Soaps Day 5 (albeit with only a partial intro and nothing of the first game or Sprint). tl;dr -- If you like Scrabble, keep an eye on this guy. I find it hypocritical that USA would skip over the Christmas/New Year's 1985 episodes of Press Your Luck that had host Peter Tomarken promoting the timeslot change, yet they had no problem showing the 1989 episodes of Scrabble that had host Chuck Woolery do the same thing. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2016 6:39:57 GMT -5
^ Maybe USA skipped Christmas/New Year's 1985 of Press Your Luck because they aired periods of two or three months over a period of six months, perhaps? It would make sense, since USA may have been airing April to at least early-June 1986 for a period in 1994.
I think we can safely rule out holiday themes and promotion of time slot change as the reason for USA's decision to skip certain ranges of epusodes.
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Post by vahan on Feb 19, 2016 13:58:52 GMT -5
An episode of The Dating Game with Chicago's Bozo the Clown out of character (rest are side-barred). The uploader says that this was recorded completely at random. So good thing they got it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVPkM0tT0qU |
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Post by WarioSajak on Feb 22, 2016 2:33:00 GMT -5
Update on Christopher Ryan's Scrabble uploads: remember when he was at around 35 or so? Yeah, now he's up to over 130, and they're not all from 1989 (for instance, SCR-132 is from 1984 and SCR-133 is most of the '93 debut). He's also posted a comment in the discussion section of the "SCR-132-133" upload: In case you want to watch all the Scrabble stuff he's been uploading (as I will, eventually), I've put together a playlist here. |
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