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Title: 80s Pyramid Question
Post by: GSRebich on July 10, 2010, 07:20:56 PM

The New $25,000 Pyramid started having flashback intros of previous "Winner's Circle" wins on September 19, 1983 (same day Press Your Luck aired), but how come there were no flashback intros on The $100,000 Pyramid?

Title: 80s Pyramid Question
Post by: NickS on July 10, 2010, 07:59:54 PM

[quote name=\'GSRebich\' post=\'243901\' date=\'Jul 10 2010, 06:20 PM\']The New $25,000 Pyramid started having flashback intros of previous "Winner's Circle" wins on September 19, 1983 (same day Press Your Luck aired), but how come there were no flashback intros on The $100,000 Pyramid?[/quote]

Because... the producers didn't want to?
Because... it was the first show and didn't have any flashbacks to go to?
Because... the DVE was broken and you couldn't do the cool Wayne's World flashback sfx?

/oh - not THAT flashback

Title: 80s Pyramid Question
Post by: CJBojangles on July 10, 2010, 10:31:45 PM

[quote name=\'TeppanYaki\' post=\'243902\' date=\'Jul 10 2010, 04:59 PM\']Because... the DVE was broken and you couldn't do the cool Wayne's World flashback sfx?[/quote]
I'd pay a large sum of money to see Dick Clark skating across the screen going "Doodly-loo, doodly-loo, doodly-loo!"

Title: 80s Pyramid Question
Post by: BrandonFG on July 11, 2010, 12:29:22 AM

[quote name=\'GSRebich\' post=\'243901\' date=\'Jul 10 2010, 07:20 PM\']The New $25,000 Pyramid started having flashback intros of previous "Winner's Circle" wins on September 19, 1983 (same day Press Your Luck aired), but how come there were no flashback intros on The $100,000 Pyramid?[/quote]
Although I like the two answers above me, I'd guess that maybe they wanted to differentiate from the daytime show. Either that or maybe the producers thought it would be cheesy to do that on the big-money version, esp. since during tournament time, they even cut out the bonuses and went for a straight-forward game.

Title: 80s Pyramid Question
Post by: Vahan_Nisanian on July 11, 2010, 12:43:07 AM

I'd say that simply put, there weren't that many $100K wins to make a lot flashback intros, so that home viewers wouldn't be bored. Even the $50K version and the new $100K version never had those.

Title: 80s Pyramid Question
Post by: TLEberle on July 11, 2010, 01:43:19 AM

[quote name=\'gameshowlover87\' post=\'243918\' date=\'Jul 10 2010, 09:43 PM\']I'd say that simply put, there weren't that many $100K wins to make a lot flashback intros, so that home viewers wouldn't be bored.[/quote]And the $20k and $25k versions showed $10,000 and $15,000 "under" payouts. A winner's circle win is a winner's circle win. Who the hell knows why $100k didn't do it.

Title: 80s Pyramid Question
Post by: Mike Tennant on July 11, 2010, 10:20:22 PM

My suggestion:  A syndicated show had more commercial time than a network show (I think; correct me if I'm wrong); hence the intros were dropped in the interest of having as much time for actual content as possible.

Title: 80s Pyramid Question
Post by: MTCesquire on July 11, 2010, 10:28:50 PM

^^
Yeah, that's true.  That's why when some popular sitcoms would make it into syndication, scenes would be cut short or even completely omitted to fit the time alloted.