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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: bradhig on April 11, 2004, 12:39:41 AM
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I remember seeing ads for Strike it Rich showing three rows of monitors on the set but all the episodes I have seen they only had two. Was there a format change at some time?
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[quote name=\'bradhig\' date=\'Apr 10 2004, 10:39 PM\'] I remember seeing ads for Strike it Rich showing three rows of monitors on the set but all the episodes I have seen they only had two. Was there a format change at some time? [/quote]
Maybe the ads were from the pilot?
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[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' date=\'Apr 10 2004, 11:40 PM\'] [quote name=\'bradhig\' date=\'Apr 10 2004, 10:39 PM\'] I remember seeing ads for Strike it Rich showing three rows of monitors on the set but all the episodes I have seen they only had two. Was there a format change at some time? [/quote]
Maybe the ads were from the pilot? [/quote]
All depends...the only print ads I've seen for Strike it Rich were all sketched.
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Sketched or not, it sounds like a pilot episode photo to me. But at least the 2 row format was MUCH better & easier to deal with.
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says you.
"Strike It Lucky", the UK version, was far more successful than ours, running for years with Michael Barrymore...
It had three teams with a pretty spiffy set filled with monitors, and was hardly difficult to figure out.
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Apr 11 2004, 10:53 AM\'] says you.
"Strike It Lucky", the UK version, was far more successful than ours, running for years with Michael Barrymore...
It had three teams with a pretty spiffy set filled with monitors, and was hardly difficult to figure out. [/quote]
Very true, although I assumed it was popular because it was half an hour of Barrymore larking about with contestants and oh! there's a game somewhere too.
I never really enjoyed it to be honest.
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Very true, although I assumed it was popular because it was half an hour of Barrymore larking about with contestants and oh! there's a game somewhere too.
That was my take, as well...seemed to me almost like a half-hour of Barrymore chatting it up w/the contestants, w/the game thrown in as an afterthought.
I must, however, give him credit for maintaining the energy level needed on a show like that...the UK version had one player from each team running the arches, w/the others at stage right podiums for the toss-up questions, which meant a lot of running back across the stage during the game.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Apr 11 2004, 05:53 AM\'] says you.
"Strike It Lucky", the UK version, was far more successful than ours, running for years with Michael Barrymore...
It had three teams with a pretty spiffy set filled with monitors, and was hardly difficult to figure out. [/quote]
You might want to clarify that SIL had three rows of monitors in the end game - at least it did in the one episode I saw (I think in 1994).
Also, didn't the UK version have questions hidden behind one of the monitors in each column (it counted as "good" or "bad" - I can't remember what exactly the SIR monitors had - depending on whether or not they gave a right answer)?
-- Don
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[quote name=\'That Don Guy\' date=\'Apr 11 2004, 09:20 PM\']
Also, didn't the UK version have questions hidden behind one of the monitors in each column (it counted as "good" or "bad" - I can't remember what exactly the SIR monitors had - depending on whether or not they gave a right answer)?
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If you're talking about the US Strike it Rich from 1986, the category and five answer choices were displayed on a computer screen to the right of the contestant area. At the end of each team's row of screens, there was a question holder with the final questions which would win the team the game upon answering one. As far as what the monitors did upon a team giving a right answer, I don't recall. The screen displaying the answer choices would say "Champions: (team member one and team member two)" when a team won the game.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 07:46 AM\'] [quote name=\'That Don Guy\' date=\'Apr 11 2004, 09:20 PM\']
Also, didn't the UK version have questions hidden behind one of the monitors in each column (it counted as "good" or "bad" - I can't remember what exactly the SIR monitors had - depending on whether or not they gave a right answer)?
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If you're talking about the US Strike it Rich from 1986, the category and five answer choices were displayed on a computer screen to the right of the contestant area. At the end of each team's row of screens, there was a question holder with the final questions which would win the team the game upon answering one. As far as what the monitors did upon a team giving a right answer, I don't recall. The screen displaying the answer choices would say "Champions: (team member one and team member two)" when a team won the game. [/quote]
Ummm........Zach, the last post specifically says "the UK version". Once again, PJTP.
Tyshaun
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[quote name=\'tyshaun1\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 10:48 AM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 07:46 AM\'] [quote name=\'That Don Guy\' date=\'Apr 11 2004, 09:20 PM\']
Also, didn't the UK version have questions hidden behind one of the monitors in each column (it counted as "good" or "bad" - I can't remember what exactly the SIR monitors had - depending on whether or not they gave a right answer)?
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If you're talking about the US Strike it Rich from 1986, the category and five answer choices were displayed on a computer screen to the right of the contestant area. At the end of each team's row of screens, there was a question holder with the final questions which would win the team the game upon answering one. As far as what the monitors did upon a team giving a right answer, I don't recall. The screen displaying the answer choices would say "Champions: (team member one and team member two)" when a team won the game. [/quote]
Ummm........Zach, the last post specifically says "the UK version". Once again, PJTP.
Tyshaun [/quote]
I know PJTP, but I saw SIR and thought he meant the US version of the show(not to be confused with the UK version, Strike it LUcky)
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 08:56 AM\'] I know PJTP, but I saw SIR and thought he meant the US version of the show(not to be confused with the UK version, Strike it LUcky) [/quote]
And on top of that, you weren't even close to answering the question asked.
According to the UK Game Show Page:
"On the thirty screens would be 10 Arrows (a free move), 10 Questions (True of False questions which turned into free moves or Hot Spots) and 10 Hot Spots. The computer would jumble everything up and then blank out the screens. The contestants now had to guess Top, Middle or Bottom for each of the ten columns of screens, and if it was a free move or they got a question correct they would win 5% of the money they were playing for. If they got a Hot Spot they lost one of their "lives". This would keep going until they got to the end or they ran out of chances."
It also says that they preselected how many Hot Spots they would be allowed to hit, the options being 2, 3, or 4, and of course, the fewer you chose, the more money you could win.
(By the way, on the US show, the arches contained dollar signs and bandits.)
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I remember seeing ads for Strike it Rich showing three rows of monitors on the set but all the episodes I have seen they only had two. Was there a format change at some time?
Those pictures you saw in the ads, are from the pilot. 33 C64 computers in total. Three rows of 10 screens in blue, green, yellow, and 3 for the contestant podiums at the end of the arches. Paul Fullwood pulled it all off.
The format was altered because Richard Kline wanted a front and end game on every episode. The game structure at the time, along with Joe's pacing...it was taking too long to finish a front game. So the game was retooled and condensed down to two couples and seven screens.
If you look at the monitor facades on the shows that went to air, you will notice the hints of the yellow and blue facades...as those were eventually painted over in white.
-Dan
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I actually liked the UK version, just for the fact that once the game got started, it moved briskly. The US version seemed to plod along. Of course, that could have to do with the fact that the game in the UK version doesn't start til nearly 8 minutes in.
Does anybody know where I could find a pic of the pilot?
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Does anybody know where I could find a pic of the pilot?
From Broadcasting magazine, page 3 or so. (http://"http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC%201986/BC-1986-03-24.pdf")
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Does anybody know where I could find a pic of the pilot?
From Broadcasting magazine, page 3 or so. (http://"http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC%201986/BC-1986-03-24.pdf")
Two pages down from there is an ad for Break the Bank. It says that Joe Farago and the new format raised ratings by 30% in New York...am I correct that the show was off the air in the fall?
Since it was from the same syndicator, were they looking to pair these up, or was Strike it Rich being groomed as the replacement?
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Two pages down from there is an ad for Break the Bank. It says that Joe Farago and the new format raised ratings by 30% in New York...am I correct that the show was off the air in the fall?
Since it was from the same syndicator, were they looking to pair these up, or was Strike it Rich being groomed as the replacement?
Correct. Break the Bank was one and done. Not sure if Blair wanted to pair the two shows together, but it makes sense.
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If you go down to page 35, in the ad for Hour Magazine, it's interesting that 6 of those 10 shows in the list are still in production 25-years later in some way, shape or form.
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Since it was from the same syndicator, were they looking to pair these up, or was Strike it Rich being groomed as the replacement?
Correct. Break the Bank was one and done. Not sure if Blair wanted to pair the two shows together, but it makes sense.
Blair also distributed Divorce Court in the 80s. Maybe they knew Break The Bank was a dead duck and wanted to pair Divorce Court with Strike it Rich. FWIW, Cleveland did get BtB and Divorce Court in the 4-5 PM hour on WJ(K)W.
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Since it was from the same syndicator, were they looking to pair these up, or was Strike it Rich being groomed as the replacement?
Correct. Break the Bank was one and done. Not sure if Blair wanted to pair the two shows together, but it makes sense.
Blair also distributed Divorce Court in the 80s. Maybe they knew Break The Bank was a dead duck and wanted to pair Divorce Court with Strike it Rich. FWIW, Cleveland did get BtB and Divorce Court in the 4-5 PM hour on WJ(K)W.
I still don't know who aired BtB in my area. I do know that Divorce Court and Strike it Rich were airing on the same channel, but in different timeslots (one was on in the noon slot that was eventually taken over by a local newscast) and Divorce Court was on in the 4-5 hour following Superior Court.
(Odd little coincidental fact: the post-Jeopardy slot went between three Jims during 1985- Divorce Court (Peck) begat Name that Tune (Lange) and was begat itself by the second season of the syndie Sale (Perry).)
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(Odd little coincidental fact: the post-Jeopardy slot went between three Jims during 1985- Divorce Court (Peck) begat Name that Tune (Lange) and was begat itself by the second season of the syndie Sale (Perry).)
There was a second season of the syndie $ale? I didn't realize that...
JakeT
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There was a second season of the syndie $ale? I didn't realize that...
My appearance was the last week of the first season, and at the time they weren't sure there was going to be a second. They told us all that whoever won the Friday show would be given the option of returning just like any other episode, but if the show was not picked up, they'd end up taking home whatever prize they turned down. (Implied: No matter how stupid.)
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Syndie SOTC was a mid-season replacement, much like The Simpsons. First season, a partial one ran for about 3 or 4 months, and the second one, a full one began in September.
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Syndie SOTC was a mid-season replacement, much like The Simpsons. First season, a partial one ran for about 3 or 4 months, and the second one, a full one began in September.
Considering Sale never went into reruns wouldn't that number be eight, considering the show debuted in January of '85?