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Budgeting Question on Luck-Based Shows
JasonA1:
--- Quote from: rebelwrest on September 29, 2025, 09:59:12 PM ---Was this an example of cause and effect?
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I think it had to be. I understand wanting to change something about the original Money Cards in order to meet a TV landscape that was already bigger and bolder than the one Card Sharks premiered in with Jim Perry. But they obviously got snake bit real fast.
-Jason
TLEberle:
Somewhere in the GSN/Buzzr section there was a discussion about the Money Cards and the fact that the first six weeks in 1978 were a bit of a slow boat by comparison.
I was a keen viewer and pasteboard reprobate aged six but I did not remember the original change card rules, and I don’t think the money round was worse for the change. That’s about all you can do—it’s not like you’re going to pull the car prediction or have Bob talk to to audience after coming back from breaks.
Card Shark:
Somewhere soon into the run of CS '86, they had more commercials to limit the number of money cards rounds played per episode. The '78 version tried to jam pack the number of questions asked and move the show along. The '86 version ended up being a somewhat slower pace.
TLEberle:
You don’t even need that. You direct Bob to string out the explantations of why is it higher than fifty-five divorcees, or setting up the situation with the cards.
snowpeck:
I don't think the commercial load changed. Bob did get more chatty and they added things like the audience polling groups to eat up time.
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