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I'm trying to a create a Break The Bank episode guide & I'm using whatever reruns I'm able to find of the show online and other game show related sources as source material. Below is what I got so far, which contains a list of the stars that were on that week as well as the first names of the pair of contestants that were introduced on said episode. Hopefully, this will come out as a good research tool and feel free to add on (or correct an error) as the weeks progress.
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Week 1
Celebrities: Abe Vigoda, Alice Ghostley, JoAnn Pflug, Dick Gautier, Jan Murray, Lynda Carter, Liz Torres, Robert Heyges, and Marjoe Gortner.
1. 4/12/76: Marly vs. Ralph
2. 4/13/76: ("Lost" episode)
3. 4/14/76: Barbara vs. Ralph
4. 4/15/76: Barbara vs. Ralph (again!)
5. 4/16/76: Ralph vs. Ann
Week 2
Celebrities: Anson Williams, Lee Meriwether, Liz Torres, Alex Karras, Jan Murray, Ja'Net DuBois, Sandy Duncan, Tom Bosley, & Pat McCormick.
6. 4/19/76: Ralph vs. Glenda
7. 4/20/76: Glenda vs. Fred
8. 4/21/76: Fred vs. Dixie
9. 4/22/76: Fred vs. Jill
10.
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I'm trying to a create a Break The Bank episode guide & I'm using whatever reruns I'm able to find of the show online and other game show related sources as source material. Below is what I got so far, which contains a list of the stars that were on that week as well as the first names of the pair of contestants that were introduced on said episode. Hopefully, this will come out as a good research tool and feel free to add on (or correct an error) as the weeks progress.
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Week 1
Celebrities: Abe Vigoda, Alice Ghostley, JoAnn Pflug, Dick Gautier, Jan Murray, Lynda Carter, Liz Torres, Robert Heyges, and Marjoe Gortner.
1. 4/12/76: Marly vs. Ralph
2. 4/13/76: ("Lost" episode)
3. 4/14/76: Barbara vs. Ralph
4. 4/15/76: Barbara vs. Ralph (again!)
5. 4/16/76: Ralph vs. Ann
Week 2
Celebrities: Anson Williams, Lee Meriwether, Liz Torres, Alex Karras, Jan Murray, Ja'Net DuBois, Sandy Duncan, Tom Bosley, & Pat McCormick.
6. 4/19/76: Ralph vs. Glenda
7. 4/20/76: Glenda vs. Fred
8. 4/21/76: Fred vs. Dixie
9. 4/22/76: Fred vs. Jill
10. 4/23/76: Barry vs Jill
Week 3
Celebrities: Rosie Greer, Beverly Garland, Liz Torrez, Bill Dana, Joey Bishop, Fannie Flagg, Mary Ann Mobley, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Arte Johnson
11: 4/26/76: Jill vs Kent
12: 4/27/76: Jill vs Bill
13: 4/28/76: Jill vs Dennis
14: 4/29/76: Hal vs Danielle
15: 4/30/76: Hal vs Pat
Week 4
Celebrities: Lonnie Shorr, Elayne Boozler, Jaye P Morgan, Craig Stevens, Joey Bishop, Meredith MacRae, Liz Torrez, Buzz Aldrin, Jimmie Walker
16: Jim vs Maggie
17: Jim vs Leah
18: Leah vs Dan
19: Margaret vs Dan
20: Margaret vs Jim
Week 5
Celebrities: Lonnie Shorr, Shari Lewis, Della Reese, Dick Gautier, Jan Murray, Dodie Goodman, Ron Pallilo, Liz Torrez, Marjoe Gortner
21: Jim vs Karen
22: Jim vs Nancy
23: Lavera vs Russell
24: Ron vs Irene
25: Irene vs Ben
Week 6
Celebrities: Avery Shrieber, Alice Ghostley, Liz Torrez, Bob Crane, Jimmy Walker, Ja'Net Dubois, Rue McClanahan, Micky Dolenz
26: Irene vs Barry
27: Irene vs ?
28: Connie vs Duan
29: Connie vs Bill
Week 7
Celebrities: Anson Williams, Lee Meriwether, Liz Torres, Alex Karras, Jan Murray, Ja'Net DuBois, Sandy Duncan, Tom Bosley, & Pat McCormick.
30: Connie vs Alan
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Week 8
Celebrities: Ave Vigoda, Gunilla Hutton, Liz Torrez, Greg Mulavey, Jan Murray, Gail Fisher, Jaye P Morgan, Buzz Aldrin, Foster Brooks
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36: Bill vs Jan
37: Jim vs Myrna
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I can help with what I had from the GSN airings. The 6th week gets sticky as supposedly they only taped/aired 4 eps. And I didn't have ep 27.
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I can help with what I had from the GSN airings. The 6th week gets sticky as supposedly they only taped/aired 4 eps. And I didn't have ep 27.
ABC aired "The American Woman: Portraits in Courage" from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on 5-20-1976, pre-empting R&R, $20K Pyramid and BTB. Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/20/archives/television.html (https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/20/archives/television.html)
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Wait. What’s up with week 5? Seems like stuff is out of order there.
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Wait. What’s up with week 5? Seems like stuff is out of order there.
Fixed. Copypasta error.
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Wait. What’s up with week 5? Seems like stuff is out of order there.
Fixed. Copypasta error.
I know that was a typo but I still got a chuckle. 😁
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Does your database distinguish between the ABC and syndicated shows?
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It does, but the syndicated shows are harder to assign an episode or sequence number to. The syndicated series tape days had a morning panel and an evening panel, each panel on for 3 shows. The exception being the second tape day where the panel was on for all 6 episodes.
I have 3 GSN aired episodes -
Debbie vs Jeffrey - Tape day 1, Morning Panel
Elaine vs Carl - Tape day 1, Afternoon Panel
Kay vs Duane - Tape day 4, Morning Panel
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Announcers (or as Wikipedia calls them, narrators) I'm assuming Johnny Jacobs, then Ernie Anderson. Jack Barry did some fee plugs on syndie
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Announcers (or as Wikipedia calls them, narrators) I'm assuming Johnny Jacobs, then Ernie Anderson. Jack Barry did some fee plugs on syndie
IIRC, Johnny Jacobs was only the announcer for the ABC Daytime series, while Ernie Anderson announced for the syndicated run. I don't think they subbed for each other.
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IIRC, Johnny Jacobs was only the announcer for the ABC Daytime series, while Ernie Anderson announced for the syndicated run. I don't think they subbed for each other.
Ernie did some daytime shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYHnrfBRG_o
-Jason
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Announcers (or as Wikipedia calls them, narrators) I'm assuming Johnny Jacobs, then Ernie Anderson. Jack Barry did some fee plugs on syndie
My recollection was that the shows that Jack himself did the plugs on were later season reruns after all the originals had made their rounds.
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Bumping this thread back up to note that GameTV should be running episode 30 on Monday, which means from here on out should be shows not seen since they were originally broadcast.
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Thanks for putting the episode guide together.
I just want to add that the GameTV airings of LIV Golf give me serious nostalgia vibes of when USA would preempt the afternoon block of games for U.S. Open Tennis.
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Week 1
Celebrities: Abe Vigoda, Alice Ghostley, JoAnn Pflug, Dick Gautier, Jan Murray, Lynda Carter, Liz Torres, Robert Heyges, and Marjoe Gortner.
3. 4/14/76: Barbara vs. Ralph
4. 4/15/76: Barbara vs. Ralph (again!)
Not surprising; remember, BtB was one of those shows where the champion went first, and if the champion won before the challenger could select a space on the board, the challenger stayed on for another game. Note that if the challenger's first selection was a blank, and the champion won on the next turn, the challenger did leave.
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Week 1
Celebrities: Abe Vigoda, Alice Ghostley, JoAnn Pflug, Dick Gautier, Jan Murray, Lynda Carter, Liz Torres, Robert Heyges, and Marjoe Gortner.
3. 4/14/76: Barbara vs. Ralph
4. 4/15/76: Barbara vs. Ralph (again!)
Not surprising; remember, BtB was one of those shows where the champion went first, and if the champion won before the challenger could select a space on the board, the challenger stayed on for another game. Note that if the challenger's first selection was a blank, and the champion won on the next turn, the challenger did leave.
Correction: the challenger went first, and the champion could stay if the challenger won on their first turn.
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Bumping this in hopes someone in the know might be able to update the guide. I'm hoping to organize recording copies that were so kindly made available to us. I'm happy to share copies I have or point those in want in the right direction for copies, too, via PM.
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Copying the guide from earlier in the thread and continuing onward from #31.
Week 1
Celebrities: Abe Vigoda, Alice Ghostley, JoAnn Pflug, Dick Gautier, Jan Murray, Lynda Carter, Liz Torres, Robert Hegyes, and Marjoe Gortner
1. 4/12/76: Marly vs. Ralph
2. 4/13/76: Episode appears to be lost
3. 4/14/76: Barbara vs. Ralph
4. 4/15/76: Barbara vs. Ralph (again!)
5. 4/16/76: Ralph vs. Ann
Week 2
Celebrities: Anson Williams, Lee Meriwether, Liz Torres, Alex Karras, Jan Murray, Ja'Net DuBois, Sandy Duncan, Tom Bosley, & Pat McCormick
6. 4/19/76: Ralph vs. Glenda
7. 4/20/76: Glenda vs. Fred
8. 4/21/76: Fred vs. Dixie
9. 4/22/76: Fred vs. Jill
10. 4/23/76: Barry vs Jill
Week 3
Celebrities: Rosie Greer, Beverly Garland, Liz Torres, Bill Dana, Joey Bishop, Fannie Flagg, Mary Ann Mobley, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Arte Johnson
11: 4/26/76: Jill vs Kent
12: 4/27/76: Jill vs Bill
13: 4/28/76: Jill vs Dennis
14: 4/29/76: Hal vs Danielle
15: 4/30/76: Hal vs Pat
Week 4
Celebrities: Lonnie Shorr, Elayne Boosler, Jaye P Morgan, Craig Stevens, Joey Bishop, Meredith MacRae, Liz Torres, Buzz Aldrin, Jimmie Walker
16: Jim vs Maggie
17: Jim vs Leah
18: Leah vs Dan (Avila!)
19: Margaret vs Dan
20: Margaret vs Jim
Week 5
Celebrities: Lonnie Shorr, Shari Lewis, Della Reese, Dick Gautier, Jan Murray, Dody Goodman, Ron Palillo, Liz Torres, Marjoe Gortner
21: Jim vs Karen
22: Jim vs Nancy
23: Lavera vs Russell
24: Ron vs Irene
25: Irene vs Ben
Week 6
Celebrities: Avery Shrieber, Alice Ghostley, Liz Torres, Bob Crane, Jimmy Walker, Ja'Net Dubois, Rue McClanahan, Micky Dolenz
26: Irene vs Barry
27: Episode appears to be lost
28: Connie vs Daun
29: Connie vs Bill
*Only 4 episodes taped this week
Week 7
Celebrities: Rip Taylor, Meredith McRae, Mary Ann Mobley, Soupy Sales, Jan Murray, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Jaye P. Morgan, Anson Williams, Dick Gautier
30: Connie vs Alan
31: Alan vs. Renee
32: Denise vs. Jack
33: Betsy vs. Monique
34: Bob vs. Susan
Week 8
Celebrities: Ave Vigoda, Gunilla Hutton, Liz Torres, Greg Mullavey, Jan Murray, Gail Fisher, Jaye P Morgan, Buzz Aldrin, Foster Brooks
35: Episode appears to be lost
36: Bob vs. Ellen
37: Bill vs Jan
38: Carolyn vs. Jim
39: Jim vs Myrna
Unaired test episode: Karen vs. Ron - testing the rule awarding a box to the opponent after a wrong answer. Ultimately implemented week 10
Week 9
Celebrities: Jack Jones, Judy Carne, Anson Williams, Joan Collins, Abe Vigoda, Liz Torres, Jan Murray, Dody Goodman, Marty Allen
40: Jim vs. Mary
41: Jim vs. Linda
42: Linda vs. Rob
43: Linda vs. Fred
44: Mike vs. Catherine
Week 10
Celebrities: Robert Hegyes, Joan Collins, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, Alice Ghostley, Avery Schreiber, Liz Torres, Jack Carter, Cathy Rigby, Dick Gautier
45: Episode appears to be lost
46: Episode appears to be lost
47: Corinne vs. Russell (invited back from episode 23)
48: Dorothea vs. Frank
49: Dorothea vs. Michael
*Format update beginning this week: an incorrect answer automatically awards the box to the opponent, except when the box would win the game for the opponent. Each new game now adds $250 to the bank instead of $500
Week 11
Celebrities: Rip Taylor, Dody Goodman, Dick Gautier, Lonnie Shorr, Beverly Garland, Jaye P. Morgan, Robert Reed, Judy Carne, Bobby Riggs
50: Dorothea vs. Ken
51: Mary vs. Gene
52: Gene vs. Diane
53: Episode appears to be lost
54: Diane vs. Bruce
Week 12
Celebrities: Avery Schreiber, Jo Anne Worley, Marilyn Michaels, Ken Berry, Dody Goodman, Rip Taylor, Pat Carroll, Bill Macy, Rick Hurst
55: Bruce vs. Pam
56: Mike vs. Debbie
57: Joey vs. Michael
58: Michael vs. Nancy
59: Episode appears to be lost
Week 13
Celebrities: Lonnie Shorr, Jaye P. Morgan, Rip Taylor, Kent McCord, Dody Goodman, Dick Gautier, Robert Hegyes, Rip Taylor, Fannie Flagg, Marilyn Michaels
60: Michael vs. Ann
61: Bianca vs. Barry (invited back from #26)
62: Episode appears to be lost
63: Ken vs. Susan
64: Roxie vs. Jim
Week 14
Celebrities: Jimmie Walker, Wolfman Jack, Jaye P. Morgan, Lonnie Shorr, Jan Murray, Robert Hegyes, Liz Torres, Elayne Boosler, Barbara Sharma
65: Dick vs. Jean
66: Jean vs. Robert
67: Jean vs. Michael
68: Peter vs. Virginia
69: Peter vs. Virginia (continued)
Week 15
Lonnie Shorr, Joyce Bulifant, Soupy Sales, Donny Most, Bill Cullen, Jan Murray, Jo Anne Worley, Jaye P. Morgan, and Elke Sommer
70: Virginia vs. John (Hatton!)
71: John vs. Lynn
72: Eileen vs. Jonathan
73: Episode appears to be lost
74: Episode appears to be lost
Well, those 64 are indeed it. Still a nice haul, thankful for the treat we did get.
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Thank you so much for compiling this!
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Also of note, starting with week 11, Tom stops showing "what a typical board may look like" and goes right into the game. It does make for some interesting changes in the commercial break pattern for the show.
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Shows with the new rules make the game much faster and much more exciting. Episode 47 contains such a game.
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Shows with the new rules make the game much faster and much more exciting. Episode 47 contains such a game.
I like the games where lots of boxes were revealed. There seemed to be more of those types of games once the rules changed.
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Also of note, starting with week 11, Tom stops showing "what a typical board may look like" and goes right into the game. It does make for some interesting changes in the commercial break pattern for the show.
I recently watched an episode where they showed "a typical board", and it looked to me they would "rerun" the same clip showing all of the boxes slowly being reveale
d as there was just enough of the celebrity names along the top that did not match with the celebrities on the show I watched. I guess this would count in a previous thread for shows that used "recycled" video clips in multiple episodes.
When the show went into syndication with Jack Barry, they simplified it with the handheld board facsimile.
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For any that've been following along, a correction was made; we're back to 6 skips instead of 7.
Episode 55 is not a skip after all, I was probably looking at the end of the wrong prior episode.
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For any that've been following along, a correction was made; we're back to 6 skips instead of 7.
Episode 55 is not a skip after all, I was probably looking at the end of the wrong prior episode.
With the number of available episodes yet to be aired, we should get at least one episode from the final week - hopefully more.
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I can't see that it's been mentioned yet in this thread, but the contestant "Dan" from week 4 is Dan Avila, the fellow who came so close to winning a great big pile of money on Greed.
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Just two skips remaining!
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In re-watching these shows now, I'm surprised at how many of the celebrities' jokes were bleeped out - it must have happened at least a dozen times by now. I'm pretty sure those bleeps are on the master tape - in the episodes that GSN aired in the '90s those same bleeps are there.
Pretty raunchy at times for daytime TV!
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In re-watching these shows now, I'm surprised at how many of the celebrities' jokes were bleeped out - it must have happened at least a dozen times by now. I'm pretty sure those bleeps are on the master tape - in the episodes that GSN aired in the '90s those same bleeps are there.
Pretty raunchy at times for daytime TV!
For me, the bleeps have been a fun exercise in practicing lip-reading. Maybe one day I'll put together a documented translation of what it appears to me they're saying. One example that immediately stands out involves Dick Gautier and the phrase "riding each other's asses."
Even stuff that wasn't bleeped has been a riot, like Jaye P's joke bluff the other day about the woman learning to sit on her own tongue. Yowza ;D
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Just curious to those who've been watching the eps,
Regarding what written material is given to the celebs, ep. 6 has the disclaimer "Celebrities have been furnished with the questions and answers. Comedic material has been made available to some of the celebrities." I remember seeing an ep a long time ago where neither celeb gave a correct answer, Tom stammered briefly before a buzzer sounded and he said that neither celeb gave the correct answer. How often has that occurred? And if they are given questions and answers, did they just forget their line at that moment?
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Just curious to those who've been watching the eps,
Regarding what written material is given to the celebs, ep. 6 has the disclaimer "Celebrities have been furnished with the questions and answers. Comedic material has been made available to some of the celebrities." I remember seeing an ep a long time ago where neither celeb gave a correct answer, Tom stammered briefly before a buzzer sounded and he said that neither celeb gave the correct answer. How often has that occurred? And if they are given questions and answers, did they just forget their line at that moment?
So far if I recall correctly, the question was discarded for lack of a correct answer only once, which happened during the first week.
I think there have been two other occasions in which the question was buzzed because one of the stars gave an indication they were bluffing.
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Just curious to those who've been watching the eps,
Regarding what written material is given to the celebs, ep. 6 has the disclaimer "Celebrities have been furnished with the questions and answers. Comedic material has been made available to some of the celebrities." I remember seeing an ep a long time ago where neither celeb gave a correct answer, Tom stammered briefly before a buzzer sounded and he said that neither celeb gave the correct answer. How often has that occurred? And if they are given questions and answers, did they just forget their line at that moment?
What intrigues me is how are the celebs furnished with the right/bluff answers?
In an April episode I watched, I see Tom uses colored question cards, which I assume represents each of the celebrities in the top row. I saw Avery Schreiber "put away" the same colored card after the question was played.
So do they predetermine on the celebs cards what to answer (right or bluff answer) or is it just a joke answer or both. Or are their two answers written on a cue card not seen by the players and the celebrity can pick which answer to go with?
Knowing how they relayed the info to the celebs may solve how they occasionally get two bluff answers leading to the scratch buzzer, or in one ep aired on GSN, Alice Ghostley "having a spell" and using the same answer as the other celeb ‐- this led Tom to explain that her answer was already taken and she had to come up with another answer, which was obviously a bluff answer as the other celeb gave the right answer.
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Milton Bradley released a home version of BTB using questions from the TV show. I wish I still had mine. The lowest price I saw on eBay was $50. The Bert Parks home version is going for as low as $12.
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Well, if there are still 2 skips remaining, looks like we'll only be getting 3 out of 5 from the final week. Boo!
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Well, if there are still 2 skips remaining, looks like we'll only be getting 3 out of 5 from the final week. Boo!
Yep - I'm thinking we might not get the finale, unless the remaining skips are very early in the week.
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A skip happening to land on the finale would certainly be quite the whammy. I do find myself wondering if these missing episodes are truly lost or just didn't digitize well.
For example, there's a week of Match Game '77 (not in general circulation) that's never aired on GSN or BUZZR due to highly noticeable video quality issues that get worse as the week progresses.
There have even been some episodes from Game TV's new batch of $100K Pyramid that, to me, look more like they came from SP mode VHS than a master tape. Kind of blurry.
Perhaps someone out there knows?
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Neat coincidence today, future Blockbusters champion John Hatton is a contestant on today's show and Bill Cullen is on the panel.
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Neat coincidence today, future Blockbusters champion John Hatton is a contestant on today's show and Bill Cullen is on the panel.
It was the Monday episode of the final week. If the stated 64 existing is indeed correct, we only get two more episodes of this final week.
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Week 15
Lonnie Shorr, Joyce Bulifant, Soupy Sales, Donny Most, Bill Cullen, Jan Murray, Jo Anne Worley, Jaye P. Morgan, and Elke Sommer
72: Eileen vs. Jonathan
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Well...if that was indeed the last existing Kennedy episode it means we won't get the finale. Bill Cullen didn't even get to play as all thru the series, it seems the boxes on the bottom row were the least called-on.
Just a note...not that I really care about these things...but some people do. The Jonathan from today's episode was also a contestant on Joker's Wild during the 77-78 season. It's only because I've seen the first season probably more than the others and recognized his name.
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Week 15
Lonnie Shorr, Joyce Bulifant, Soupy Sales, Donny Most, Bill Cullen, Jan Murray, Jo Anne Worley, Jaye P. Morgan, and Elke Sommer
72: Eileen vs. Jonathan
73:
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Well...if that was indeed the last existing Kennedy episode it means we won't get the finale. Bill Cullen didn't even get to play as all thru the series, it seems the boxes on the bottom row were the least called-on.
Just a note...not that I really care about these things...but some people do. The Jonathan from today's episode was also a contestant on Joker's Wild during the 77-78 season. It's only because I've seen the first season probably more than the others and recognized his name.
Do you happen to remember if the finale was acknowledged? The cancellation was made public several weeks before the last shows were taped.
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The week has gone on like any other week, I actually get the sense that there wouldn't be much of an acknowledgement since the weekly syndie version would also imminently enter production. I envision Tom simply giving a vague "see you next time". But of course,.this is all just a sense I get so what do I know? ;D
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Do you happen to remember if the finale was acknowledged? The cancellation was made public several weeks before the last shows were taped.
The finale was acknowledged. They ran out of time in the middle of a game and a bell sounded. Tom explained it was the last show and the contestants would alternate picking boxes without answering questions until someone had three of a kind.
Tom did a quick goodbye at the end and said something like "we'll see you soon".
At the time I was hoping it meant it would pop up in the once-weekly checkerboard slots - although I had no knowledge it would actually do that until I got the Sept 4, 1976 TV Guide and it was listed on Friday night at 7:30.
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Do you happen to remember if the finale was acknowledged? The cancellation was made public several weeks before the last shows were taped.
The finale was acknowledged. They ran out of time in the middle of a game and a bell sounded. Tom explained it was the last show and the contestants would alternate picking boxes without answering questions until someone had three of a kind.
Tom did a quick goodbye at the end and said something like "we'll see you soon".
That's my memory as well. Tom obviously knew that the show would be back that fall in once-a-week syndication, even if he wouldn't be hosting.
I "taped" the last episode (by holding my Take 'n' Tape recorder equivalent up to the speaker in our console TV); the tape is long gone.
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Was holding out until today to see if the number was off, but nope.
So unless someone can sneak into SPE's storage cloud to see if the "lost" ones really are missing, the ABC guide's now as complete as it gets!