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25K Pyramid Request
mmb5:
Saw this on reddit, not sure if anyone can help. Please let me know if you can:
I am looking for any help I can get to find a recording of the 10/5/1977 episode of $25,000 Pyramid, which featured Kate Jackson and Mike Farrell. We believe this was the episode my dear friend Dave Frankel appeared on as a young man. Dave went on to become an Emmy Award winning broadcaster and Weatherman in Philadelphia, and later a lawyer. He and I were law partners and dear friends. Dave is very sadly at the end of his life now with end stage dementia and is in hospice at home. I am trying to find this episode as part of a tribute his family is doing for him. It would really lift their spirits. Do you have any suggestions for how I might obtain a recording like this? Thank you so much!
Eric Paddon:
That's not one of the Cullen Pyramids that circulates unfortunately.
Matt Ottinger:
That would be from the Bill Cullen syndicated run. I think most collectors only have those grainy episodes recorded off air (from a distance) from a Long Island station that showed them in reruns years after they had gone out of production. There are at least 29 floating around out there and there might be more. I checked my stash and I don't have that one.
I was told years ago that Viacom had saved them all, but whether they are still around (and who anyone would talk to about them) after the various mergers I don't know.
Eric Paddon:
29 Cullens (a couple are just partial) is the total that's out there for now. A couple from the first season are archival copies but the rest are all off-air recordings, most from the 1985 WLIG reruns. I think only about 3 episodes were recorded off-air during the course of the show's original run (The Lockhart-Shatner partial, the Duncan-Cavett one that was recorded in LA and the Vicki Lawrence-George Maharis one that surfaced on YT last year from WCBS).
Adam Nedeff:
--- Quote from: Eric Paddon on February 20, 2025, 10:10:10 AM ---29 Cullens (a couple are just partial) is the total that's out there for now. A couple from the first season are archival copies but the rest are all off-air recordings, most from the 1985 WLIG reruns. I think only about 3 episodes were recorded off-air during the course of the show's original run (The Lockhart-Shatner partial, the Duncan-Cavett one that was recorded in LA and the Vicki Lawrence-George Maharis one that surfaced on YT last year from WCBS).
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The Duncan/Cavett episode was actually originally recorded by Bill’s wife Ann. I got the original Umatic tape she used and was going to dub a first gen copy for myself, but the tape actually snapped and disintegrated in the machine.
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