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gsnstooge:
What happened on the last episode of a straddled game show?  For example, on the last episode of Jim's Card Sharks, $5,000 was awarded to the last winner without playing the money cards due to short time.

ChuckNet:

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On the last CBS TJW, time ran out in mid-game, so Jack annouced the contestants would get to keep the money they'd earned at that point (final score was $100-$450, IIRC). Same thing happened on the Trebek DD finale.

On the last BtB '76, they stopped asking questions, and just had the contestants call out numbers to finish the last game.

On both Battlestars finales as well as MG 7X's, they made absolutely no finale concessions...the game was simply stopped in mid-play w/no further explanation, as if they expected to pick it back up on Mon.

On the CBS daytime Password finale, since they didn't have time to play 2 games w/new contestants, they simply had the 2 contestants from the last pair of games team up for a "stars vs. civillians" match.

On the Password '75 finale, they had extra time, so 4 staff members played the game. A similar technique was used on the Shoot for the Stars finale 2 yrs later...since no one had ever, in the series' brief run, won a bonus round that required 9 phrases to be solved, Geoff and celeb Bill Cullen gave it a shot (for the record, they almost made it, but time ran out).

Any others I've missed?

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

TheInquisitiveOne:

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Allow me to help. On the final Super Passowrd, the maingame was played until a whistle blew. When the whistle was blown, play immediately stopped and the player with the higher money total played the "Super Password" round, which was $10,000 at that time.

If anyone knows how Tic Tac Dough ended, I sure would like to know. Thanks in advance.

The Inquisitive One

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Dec 18 2003, 10:32 PM\']

On both Battlestars finales as well as MG 7X's, they made absolutely no finale concessions...the game was simply stopped in mid-play w/no further explanation, as if they expected to pick it back up on Mon.

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 The second run of Battlestars did have hints that the last show really was the finale, as Alex said that the New Battlestars soon will be the Old Battlestars at some point during the show.

The NBC Marshall HS finale had the two contestants pick a celeb and both won a bonus prize.

All-Star Blitz's finale started a match, and the winner of the one game of it that they had time to play won the piano which was traded away in the last bonus round for a extra spin of the Wheel. Outside from that, there was really no mention that it was the finale.

gameshowguy2000:
[quote name=\'gsnstooge\' date=\'Dec 17 2003, 04:25 PM\'] What happened on the last episode of a straddled game show?  For example, on the last episode of Jim's Card Sharks, $5,000 was awarded to the last winner without playing the money cards due to short time. [/quote]
 And he said every single question was Sudden Death.

If every single question was Sudden Death, how could they play the remaining questions/cards?

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