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That Don Guy:
I assume this was a repeat airing of Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal on GSN on Sunday night (12/28), although I couldn't find any references to it when I did a forum search, so pardon me if this has been brought up before; however, I did notice that there were two words missing from that show:

Second Chance.

I can only wonder how many patterns, if any, the board on that game used.  (It would have been easier to get around whatever they called the Whammies on SC, as they never changed positions during a round.)

(And why was it subtitled "The Press Your Luck Scandal"?  What was scandalous about it?  It's not as if anybody cheated...)

-- Don

PeterMarshallFan:
Perhaps SC was left out because no eps exist other than that poor-quality pilot that many traders have.

I seem to recall reading that there was only one pattern on the board, and a contestant once took it for $60,000 in a Larson-like run [reported by those who spoke to Jim Peck at a GSC a while back]

BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'That Don Guy\' date=\'Dec 29 2003, 03:39 PM\'] I assume this was a repeat airing of Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal on GSN on Sunday night (12/28), although I couldn't find any references to it when I did a forum search, so pardon me if this has been brought up before; however, I did notice that there were two words missing from that show:

Second Chance.

I can only wonder how many patterns, if any, the board on that game used.  (It would have been easier to get around whatever they called the Whammies on SC, as they never changed positions during a round.)

(And why was it subtitled "The Press Your Luck Scandal"?  What was scandalous about it?  It's not as if anybody cheated...)

-- Don [/quote]
 I'm guessing they considered it a scandal because of the controversy it caused at CBS, and how they were afraid it was set up another quiz show scandal.

HSquares2003:
This documentary is at least a minute old, first run was March 2003. And the 2 full episodes of the Larsen fiasco were run of Feast of Favorites Thanksgiving Day.

gameshowguy2000:
Those Larson episodes were first aired on GSN in June 2003, exactly 19 years since Larson's shows original airings on CBS.

USA Network was prohibited from airing those shows.

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