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Also, was this version daily or weekly? If it was daily, that could be the reason for a lower budget.
BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'TV Favorites\' date=\'Jan 18 2004, 11:12 PM\'] Also, was this version daily or weekly? If it was daily, that could be the reason for a lower budget. [/quote]
It was daily, but so was the mid-80s version, and they were at least able to get Big Deals around $10K.
Also, does anyone have any screengrabs from this show? I've always wanted to see something from LMaD80.
dheine1971:
The 1980 LMAD from Vancouver used Let's Make a Deal play money with Monty Hall's face on it!
clemon79:
[quote name=\'dheine1971\' date=\'Jan 20 2004, 07:00 AM\'] The 1980 LMAD from Vancouver used Let's Make a Deal play money with Monty Hall's face on it! [/quote]
Actually, that was real Canadian money at the time. ;)
clarkh:
Vancouver LMAD was the first semi-big-time (non-local) TV show I got to attend. Catalena Productions hired Grey Line Tours to bus audience members/potential contestants from Seattle. Its budget was predicated on being officially a Canadian production for tax/subsidy purposes. This meant only a limited number of key employees could be non-Canadians. That, apparently, was why Jay and Carol weren't invited to reprise their original roles.
Anyhoo: Half the bus passengers wore LMAD-contestant costumes; the rest of us were content to be mere spectators. It took three hours each way on the road to see a single half-hour episode. As soon as we were herded off the bus at the suburban studio (which I believe later housed the "X-Files"' two or three standing sets), the show's writers met us and had us all scream our best "Pick Me, Monty" scream. The screamiest and/or best-costumed screamers got to sit in the "Trading Floor" section. The rest of us were herded into the upper-tier bleachers. A brief warmup speech by one of the producers, and the show promptly began. Hall read everything off of cue cards. The "doors," except during the Big Deal finale, used vertical curtain-slats. They opened promptly on cue; but they took forever to fully close. Stagehands had to periodically run onstage and turn the slats to fully opaque mode before the next prize could be installed behind them. Despite this, the show was taped in "real time" with no stopdowns other than the two-minute commercial breaks.
Someone on our bus won a small prize; so we all had to wait while she was in the production office filling out eligibility documents.
It was a pleasant day.
Yrs.,
Clark H.
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