The Game Show Forum
The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: geno57 on March 15, 2011, 11:56:54 AM
-
Don't know if this has been posted here before, and I have no idea how long it's been up. I just stumbled onto it, while looking for something else ...
http://www.life.com/image/3207388/in-gallery/41132#index/0
-
Dick Clark...politely but firmly reminds you that he has earned your respect. (http://"http://www.life.com/image/3207388/in-gallery/41132#index/21")
-
Okay. Somebody had to call it out (http://"http://www.life.com/image/3207388/in-gallery/41132#index/12"):
[indent]In 1972, The Price Is Right was revamped to include several mini-games and the episode-closing parade of prizes called the "Showcase Showdown."[/indent]
*sigh*
-
Yep, I saw that too. I was wondering how long it would take someone here to bitch about it.
Even less time than I thought.
-
re: TPiR; Always weird to see the .05 and .15 spaces black...
-
Dick Clark...politely but firmly reminds you that he has earned your respect. (http://"http://www.life.com/image/3207388/in-gallery/41132#index/21")
So that's where they got the idea for Regis's poses...
-
re: TPiR; Always weird to see the .05 and .15 spaces black...
I'd forgotten they ever were. When GSN ran the '75 hour-longs a decade ago, it really surprised me. I thought they were green from the start.
-
re: TPiR; Always weird to see the .05 and .15 spaces black...
I'd forgotten they ever were. When GSN ran the '75 hour-longs a decade ago, it really surprised me. I thought they were green from the start.
VH-1's I Love The 70s (1978) had a segment on The Price is Right and they showed a clip which featured the Showcase Showdown when the wheel had the black .05 and .15 spaces.
-
re: TPiR; Always weird to see the .05 and .15 spaces black...
I'd forgotten they ever were. When GSN ran the '75 hour-longs a decade ago, it really surprised me. I thought they were green from the start.
VH-1's I Love The 70s (1978) had a segment on The Price is Right and they showed a clip which featured the Showcase Showdown when the wheel had the black .05 and .15 spaces.
If I'm not mistaken, was the change made because they served as $5,000 bonus spaces? I don't think that was instituted from the wheel's inception...
The Inquisitive One
/good slide show from Life. Way to make us never forget.
-
re: TPiR; Always weird to see the .05 and .15 spaces black...
Were the episodes from the "trial run" week (September 1975, I think) ever rerun on GSN? The "Big Wheel" was just a standard-sized clockwise-spinning wheel back then.
-
Were the episodes from the "trial run" week (September 1975, I think) ever rerun on GSN? The "Big Wheel" was just a standard-sized clockwise-spinning wheel back then.
September 8-12 (#158xD), and as far as I'm aware the earliest Season 4 episode GSN aired was the first permanent hour show.
Barring a master copy of #1581D (with a serious quality drop for the second half), nothing from that period seems to have showed up in any form until the DVD set's #1585D, #1651D (October 27), and #1652D (October 28).
(As an aside, the staff doesn't seem to have felt too confident in the experimental hour format -- the slates for #1581D and #1585D have a message held up by a stagehand once Johnny finishes, with #1581D's being something like "Welcome aboard the Titanic!" and #1585D's being "This is #5. We made it. AMEN!" {to which Johnny replied "Amen, brother"}.)
-
I sat in the booth behind Marc Breslow while he directed #1585D. Got to meet Janice Pennington, Bob Barker, and some guy with horn-rimmed glasses -- I forget his name. Rodney Dodgermitts or something?
I had the script and floor plan, too, until my late, beloved mother THREW THEM OUT!!!
And thanks to one of our members for taking the suggestion to put #1585D into the DVD.
-
If I'm not mistaken, was the change made because they served as $5,000 bonus spaces? I don't think that was instituted from the wheel's inception...
The Inquisitive One
Right. When Hour Power first became permanent, they weren't green because there was no bonus spin. You got the thousand bucks if you hit a dollar and that's it. The 1.00 spot was highlighted but a different color combination at the start.