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Post by wildjackmonroe on Oct 3, 2014 6:24:19 GMT -5
Out of curiosity, I wonder why they changed the earlier concept of the board (the one with the famous faces)?
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Post by WarioSajak on Oct 3, 2014 10:23:33 GMT -5
Actually the color scheme and number font change started on yesterday's GSN airing. That said, the black lettering on the Money Cards only lasted a week -- they'll change to blue on Wednesday's airing. A few episodes from this point have been around for a while (including the episode aired yesterday), hence how I'm aware of this. For whatever reason, at the start of Season 2 the Money Cards changed back to the yellow/red colors. |
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Post by Chameleonwhammy on Oct 3, 2014 10:42:40 GMT -5
Interesting.
As you can tell, I haven't seen these episodes before.
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Post by thekid965 on Oct 3, 2014 15:52:21 GMT -5
Out of curiosity, I wonder why they changed the earlier concept of the board (the one with the famous faces)? The closest I've ever gotten to a plausible-sounding explanation for that change was that the staff thought the faces were silly, but even that's probably apocryphal. (Obviously, the parent Australian version kept the faces on the board for the duration, so this was a purely American quirk as far as I know.) For myself, I always thought it looked awkward from a television perspective to have photos on both sides of the flip panels. |
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Post by WarioSajak on Oct 3, 2014 19:38:26 GMT -5
Interesting. As you can tell, I haven't seen these episodes before. Hey, that's cool -- most people haven't, especially since USA stopped airing repeats about 20 years ago.  And if you happen to miss an episode (of this or Press Your Luck), they tend to pop up on YouTube within a day or two. Out of curiosity, I wonder why they changed the earlier concept of the board (the one with the famous faces)? The closest I've ever gotten to a plausible-sounding explanation for that change was that the staff thought the faces were silly, but even that's probably apocryphal. Just a theory on my part: maybe they had to pay to use the photos, and opted to cut the middleman? (Obviously, the parent Australian version kept the faces on the board for the duration, so this was a purely American quirk as far as I know.) Yeah, the US version is the only one I'm aware of that changed from faces to numbers, and on that note the only one I know of to use the PYL-esque method of selection. Some versions, including Germany, just used the numbers from the start. |
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Post by mdcswildcats86 on Nov 12, 2014 10:23:30 GMT -5
Was the "Ed" who appeared on today's (November 12, 2014) rerun the same Ed from the Michael Larson episodes of PYL? He sure looks similar to me.
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Post by gamecrazyh on Nov 15, 2014 9:13:34 GMT -5
First off, i would like to say that I'm a new member to this forum, but i know a lot about game shows, so thanks for making me a member. Now, i would like to know everybody's preference in terms of Sale of the Century's 3 endgames. There's Shopping (Let's Go Shopping in Australia), the Winner's Board and the Winner's Big Money Game. Which one is your favorite? Personally, i like the WBMG, but that's me. Which one do you like the best?
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Post by agm828 on Nov 16, 2014 7:16:02 GMT -5
Shopping & The Winner's Board
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Post by WarioSajak on Nov 18, 2014 1:17:11 GMT -5
I actually liked how the Australian Sale handled their Winner's Board, retaining the growing Cash Jackpot rather than freezing it at the base $50,000.
Regarding the 1980s American era, though, I've seen opinions fly in all three directions -- shopping because it fit the title, Winner's Board for reasons I don't remember off the top of my head (instant gratification?), and the Winner's Big Money Game because it was an actual endgame.
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Post by gamecrazyh on Nov 18, 2014 8:51:33 GMT -5
Yeah, and not a lot of people liked the WBMG. They say it was what got Sale cancelled.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Nov 21, 2014 16:01:30 GMT -5
Can't say for sure that the WBMG caused the show to actually take away so much interest in it that it was canceled as a result, but it is my least favorite out of them. I'd say the Winner's Board was my fave.
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Post by gamecrazyh on Nov 21, 2014 16:22:01 GMT -5
A lot of people liked the Winner's Board, as they did the Shopping.
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Post by tpirrules1972 on Nov 21, 2014 18:27:00 GMT -5
WBMG is definitely my least favorite as...well, come on, $otC isn't a Bob Stewart token word game. But I doubt it contributed to its cancellation. By 1989, daytime network game shows as a whole were on the decline...we weren't that far from TPiR being the last man standing in that department. In terms of NBC itself, Super Password was cancelled, Wheel jumped to CBS...writing was on the wall.
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Post by gamecrazyh on Nov 21, 2014 18:36:32 GMT -5
That's true. Even i don't think the WBMG was the final nail in the coffin for Sale. Sale had been on NBC for almost 7 years. It lived it's life.
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Post by gamecrazyh on Nov 21, 2014 22:40:33 GMT -5
The difference between the NBC daytime Shopping format and the nighttime syndicated Shopping format is the way the structure is set up. On NBC, the step between the car and the lot was the cash jackpot. LOTS of people stopped with the cash jackpot, which is why Barbara Phillips was the only one to win the NBC daytime lot (her final total, including instant bargains and fame game prizes, was $151,689). Syndication, on the other hand, placed all 6 major prizes (referred to by Jim Perry as all of the prizes on the stage) in between the car and the lot, and so far, on the GSN reruns i saw, FOUR contestants won the lot, John Goss ($156,339), Helaine Lowery ($142,974), Alice Conkright ($140,406) and Tim Holleran ($166,875).
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