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Ian Wallis:

--- Quote ---So, the car that said contestant saw on the first day would (more times than not) not be the car that he or she would eventually end up winning. The Winner's Board was a different case because it was not known when the contestant would win the car (or any other of the week's prizes).
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What I've always wondered about is how "Sale" was edited during the "shopping era".

When it first went on the air, the Friday champion was told "if you decide to come back, you'll be shooting for a prize comparable to this" at the contestants' level.  They just showed the current prize, and stated it would change.

Later in the run, the Friday champion was shown the exact prizes.  My guess is either they completed the whole show with the exception of the final prize descriptions, then had the contestant come back on the next tape date to show the actual prizes and finish taping for that show; or maybe they only taped four shows one tape day so that the Friday show would have the new prizes.  I'm thinking that they wouldn't stop tape to change all the prizes just to tape a two-minute segment on the last show of the tape day, would they?

Anyone know for sure?

uncamark:
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Dec 22 2003, 09:22 AM\']What I've always wondered about is how "Sale" was edited during the "shopping era".

When it first went on the air, the Friday champion was told "if you decide to come back, you'll be shooting for a prize comparable to this" at the contestants' level.  They just showed the current prize, and stated it would change.

Later in the run, the Friday champion was shown the exact prizes.  My guess is either they completed the whole show with the exception of the final prize descriptions, then had the contestant come back on the next tape date to show the actual prizes and finish taping for that show; or maybe they only taped four shows one tape day so that the Friday show would have the new prizes.  I'm thinking that they wouldn't stop tape to change all the prizes just to tape a two-minute segment on the last show of the tape day, would they?

Anyone know for sure?[/quote]
Seems to me that they would just insert the relevant plugs in post-production.  Between all of the pre-produced prize presentations and adding SFX, sweetening and probably some music and voice-overs in post-production, "$OTC" in its 80s incarnation had to be one of the first game shows that wasn't really "live-on-tape."

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