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Wink Tic Tac Dough - Sun Apr. 20 on GSN

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BillCullen1:
I saw the ep where Thom was finally defeated. The "Women in Film" category did him in. But what a winning streak, over $300K including eight cars. He had nothing to hang his head about.

A Wink Martindale story. In 1978 when I was in Lala Land, I attended a taping of TTD. It was taping at CBS Television City. My friends had opted to see TPIR that evening. But I had already seen that so I opted for TTD. IIRC Jay Stewart was the announcer and they did three shows. It was the syndie version. Because of the technology of that time, when there was a tied game, they would stop tape, reset the monitors and put new questions in Wink's podium. There were a couple of stopdowns but Wink and Jay kept us informed and entertained. A good experience.

Coming out of the studio after a long taping day, Wink signed autographs and talked to fans. He told us "You stayed for the whole taping? I should be asking for your autograph ." I then asked the CBS pages about the TPIR taping. They said they were still taping, and this was about 10:30 pm. My friends told me everything that could go wrong did. So apparently I made the right choice about what show to see.

SuperMatch93:

--- Quote from: BillCullen1 on April 20, 2025, 08:47:29 PM ---Because of the technology of that time, when there was a tied game, they would stop tape, reset the monitors and put new questions in Wink's podium.

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I kind of suspected that, given that there was a jump cut between Wink introducing the nine new categories and the shot of them popping up on the board.

Were there multiple daytime/nighttime Price episodes taping that night? I'm surprised they went that late.

TLEberle:
Do we hsve a list of what was audited? I think I grabbed just the first two shows.

BillCullen1:

--- Quote from: SuperMatch93 on April 20, 2025, 09:40:03 PM ---Were there multiple daytime/nighttime Price episodes taping that night? I'm surprised they went that late.

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My friends told me the TPIR crew had just gotten back from vacation that day, so there were kinks and bugs they had to work out. But Bob and Johnny O handled it like pros. They taped two hour-long shows that day, when all was said and done.

Allstar87:

--- Quote from: TLEberle on April 20, 2025, 09:40:49 PM ---Do we hsve a list of what was audited? I think I grabbed just the first two shows.

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The eight episodes aired today were:

1980-3rd season premiere, Thom vs. Candy
1980-Thom vs. Laurie
1980-Thom vs. Erik (Thom is defeated)
1980-Erik vs. Mary
1980-Matt vs. Lee
1985-Wendy vs. Eddy
1985-Victoria at Dragon, then vs. David
1979-Over 80 Tournament finals [Day 8]

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