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Straddled ends
Ian Wallis:
--- Quote ---On the last BtB '76, they stopped asking questions, and just had the contestants call out numbers to finish the last game.
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Too bad that episode hasn't been seen since 1976. It will likely never see the light of day because GSN is unlikely to ever air it.
I remember that episode - Tom Kennedy's last words were "we'll see you soon" (maybe he was referring to the upcoming syndie version)
Don Howard:
--- Quote ---I remember that episode - Tom Kennedy's last words were "we'll see you soon" (maybe he was referring to the upcoming syndie version)
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Just before Tom had the players simply pick numbers to determine who
would break the last $5000 bank, he said, "This is our last show on ABC
Television", so the subtle implication was there that the show would be
back somewhere--and two months later, there were Jack Barry and his
shades being checkerboarded once a week on syndicated line-ups all
across the land.
--- Quote ---The NBC Marshall HS finale had the two contestants pick a celeb and both won a bonus prize.
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The first who chose picked Wayland & Madame and won an ice cream freezer. The second who selected went for George Gobel and after George said, "I may never get to do this again", Peter Marshall said, "Oh, sure you will, in the fall when we're doing
our shows from Vegas at the Riviera", which prompted George to say, "I'm not
sure I'm even going". And then Mr. Gobel announced that the player had just
won $5000.
ChuckNet:
--- Quote ---And what was described for the SP finale was also done on Password Plus. Instead of trying to get to an Alphabetics, they just played the main game till the end, and whoever was in the lead got $5,000.
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No, he meant that on SP, they only played a single $100 puzzle for the final game before the whistle sounded, and the winner of that went on to play the Super Password round.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
HYHYBT:
--- Quote ---Why must you guys continue to feed this guys information knowledge? He never has said "thank you", and his requests always seem to be open-ended.
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These (very) open-ended questions have led so far only to very interesting threads.
Adam Nedeff:
--- Quote ---Why must you guys continue to feed this guys information knowledge?
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Name another type of knowledge.
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