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zachhoran:
[quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' date=\'Dec 25 2003, 11:21 AM\']
Time is Money on TPIR early on had the $500 voucher format. Later on, of course, this was removed to add more time to the game and make it easier. [/quote]
The voucher lasted two playings. The original Punch-a-Bunch format, played twice c. 1978, had the numbers 1-10 under the letters in Punchboard(old gameboard design, the current one debuted c. 1996), and one of the words ONE, TEN, HUNDRED, or THOUSAND in the 50 $ slips. Each punch allowed a player to pick on letter and one $ slip, the numbers were multiplied together to determine the prize, which they could then take or risk to try to win more.
SRIV94:
[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Dec 25 2003, 12:42 AM\'] Of the shows you can think of, which ones made either subtle or major changes early in their broadcast run? Two I can think of right off the bat are Scrabble dumping the "pot format" in the main game and playing for a flat $500 starting in the program's second week. Another that comes to mind is Wordplay calling their bonus game The Speed Round for the first show only. After that until the show's premature finish it was Double Definitions. What others can you think of? [/quote]
Well, if anyone wants to count GONG, the minimum time of an act before it could be gonged went from 15 seconds in the Barbour week to 20 seconds in the first Barris week to 30 seconds a bit later to 45 seconds a couple of months after that (where it remained for the duration).
Doug
Starkman:
Thanks about the team names, suprised i didnt notice that it was season 2 since season 2 also dropped the toss up puzzle and added the god awful physical challenge type power surges in round two rather than all power surges being a side puzzle or consentration type game like they were in season 1.
Game Show Man:
Whammy! originally did not spot the players a $1,000 bankroll during the early episodes. It wasn't until the second or third week when it was instituted.
"Game Show Man" Joe Van Ginkel
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'Game Show Man\' date=\'Dec 25 2003, 02:06 PM\']
Whammy! originally did not spot the players a $1,000 bankroll during the early episodes. It wasn't until the second or third week when it was instituted.
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Maybe the first couple of weeks of taped shows didn't spot the contestants the $1K. The show premiered in April 2002, but it wasn't until late June 2002 that said episodes were first seen.
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