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colonial:
The local food pantry thanks you for the year's supply of Rice-a-Roni.
JD
Ian Wallis:
--- Quote from: BrandonFG on November 13, 2024, 02:37:52 PM ---TJW had a similar situation about a year earlier. Guy named Joe Dunn won a bunch of money and Jack said anything over $50K was donated. I think Joker and Tic Tac aired on CBS O&O’s right after Thom’s run ended.
Off the top of my head, not too many other syndicated shows of the era allowed you to win more than 50K as a returning champ, so the O&O rule prolly didn’t need to be a thing. Case in point, looking over J-Archive, most of the first season undefeated champions retired with about 40K.
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I remember that sometime during Joker's Wild's first syndicated season, Jack said something to the effect of "when we were on the network we were bound by their winnings limit, but we have no winning's limit now so if you can win $100,000, go ahead and win it".
I was puzzled when Joe Dunn was "retired" because that went against what he earlier said. I guess it wasn't on an O&O when he said it.
Casey:
--- Quote from: BrandonFG on November 13, 2024, 02:37:52 PM ---
--- Quote from: TimK2003 on November 13, 2024, 02:00:58 PM ---Were there other shows that fell into this situation?
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TJW had a similar situation about a year earlier. Guy named Joe Dunn won a bunch of money and Jack said anything over $50K was donated. I think Joker and Tic Tac aired on CBS O&O’s right after Thom’s run ended.
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Joe Dunn had to quit the game when he went over the winning limit, right? The excess he won was donated to charity but he didn't get to keep playing? It sounds like on TTD, a person could just play and play and play until they were defeated and could potentially end up donating lots to charity. I'm not sure how I feel about that if that's the case.
BrandonFG:
I believe you’re right; Joe automatically retired at 50K.
TLEberle:
--- Quote from: Casey on November 13, 2024, 02:55:16 PM ---Joe Dunn had to quit the game when he went over the winning limit, right?
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No, he continued to win as there were discussions about how high the limit could be--if it ended up at $75,000 Joe could have plugged along but it was moved up from $25,000 keep $35k to $50,000.
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