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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: johnnya2k3 on December 20, 2003, 06:18:15 AM
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On Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough, they offered trips to "beautiful and exotic Iran." Well, Iran wouldn't be beautiful and exotic for long, because by the time they were aired, the Shah was out and the Ayatollah Khomeini was in. And in the finals of the 1978 TJW $100,000 tournament that was shown during the "Feast of Favorites" on Thanksgiving, the fall trip (among the seasonal trips Frank Dillon won) was to Morocco, where "you'll experience its mystery and charm" according to Jack Barry. Hey, what's so mysterious and charming about Morocco? Fearing for your life?
Meanwhile, I read one of the prizes on the Canadian Supermarket Sweep was a trip to CUBA!! If this was the American show, that prize would definitely be avoided at all costs.
Let's hope TPIR won't offer trips to "sunny, dangerous Baghdad" anytime soon!
Jonathan Allen
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Yeah, and then they'd show the oddest and poorly shot film they had about the country. Like Morocco would have a bellydancer and the colors would be all wrong and it would look really dark and it made me afraid to travel anywhere when I was a kid.
Ah, fond memories. :)
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[quote name=\'inturnaround\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 10:01 AM\'] Yeah, and then they'd show the oddest and poorly shot film they had about the country. Like Morocco would have a bellydancer and the colors would be all wrong and it would look really dark and it made me afraid to travel anywhere when I was a kid.
Ah, fond memories. :) [/quote]
You forgot the exotic music as well. :)
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Although i forget the locations, i remember the Marshall squares eps GSN aired having some oddball locations for secret square prizes.
As for TPIR anyone else cringe when they offer those safaris to kenya! Signapore is another place id avoid that they often send ppl to.
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Doesn't exactly compare to Iran, but the trip to Sedona, Arizona was a rather interesting locale for a destination recently on TPiR...
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How about the trips to the Roseland "Dude Ranch" (http://\"http://www.geocities.com/laughtershock/roseland.html\") -- in Stanfordville, NY! (That's about 45 minutes from here, and there ain't nothin' dude ranchy about this part of New York.
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[quote name=\'Starkman\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 10:59 AM\'] As for TPIR anyone else cringe when they offer those safaris to kenya! Signapore is another place id avoid that they often send ppl to. [/quote]
Why would I cringe at a Safari or Singapore? That makes no sense. Just because you may not like those places doesn't mean that they are cringe-worthy.
And is it really that hard to type out words to where you have to use "ppl?"
Brandon Brooks
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Well, let's discuss the first half of the title of this thread. On the topic of odd trips in general, the first thing that immediately came to mind was a lady who was on TPIR a few years ago. She was visiting L.A. from Washington D.C. Well, as luck would have it, the game she played was for a trip from L.A. to Washington D.C. She won this trip. You could just sense the excitement.
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[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 06:18 AM\'] Meanwhile, I read one of the prizes on the Canadian Supermarket Sweep was a trip to CUBA!! If this was the American show, that prize would definitely be avoided at all costs. [/quote]
Until at least Castro's regime folds or communism in Cuba dies, no trips to Cuba will ever be offered on any U.S. program.
While on this topic, has any U.S. game show offered a trip to Cuba? Obviously this scenario would've had to occur before the late 50s.
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[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 06:18 AM\'] On Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough, they offered trips to "beautiful and exotic Iran." Well, Iran wouldn't be beautiful and exotic for long, because by the time they were aired, the Shah was out and the Ayatollah Khomeini was in. And in the finals of the 1978 TJW $100,000 tournament that was shown during the "Feast of Favorites" on Thanksgiving, the fall trip (among the seasonal trips Frank Dillon won) was to Morocco, where "you'll experience its mystery and charm" according to Jack Barry. Hey, what's so mysterious and charming about Morocco? Fearing for your life?
Meanwhile, I read one of the prizes on the Canadian Supermarket Sweep was a trip to CUBA!! If this was the American show, that prize would definitely be avoided at all costs.
Let's hope TPIR won't offer trips to "sunny, dangerous Baghdad" anytime soon!
Jonathan Allen [/quote]
Wheel of Fortune once offered a vacation to Portsmouth, Virginia, mainly to advertise for a new hotel built in downtown Portsmouth. What Portsmouth has to offer is beyond me, considering 1) the hotel is literally across the river from downtown Norfolk (which offers much more), and 2) Virginia Beach is a very popular summer resort town, in the midst of their remodeling campaign.
ObGameShow: Wheel shot two weeks of shows in Norfolk, back in 1995.
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I may be mistaken, but didn't the original Press Your Luck offer some odd trips? I recall seeing a trip to Scottsdale, AZ on the board at one point, and I vaguely remember a trip to Knott's Berry Farm on there as well. Any other ones I missed from PYL?
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[quote name=\'DaneFromKansas\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 03:09 PM\'] I may be mistaken, but didn't the original Press Your Luck offer some odd trips? I recall seeing a trip to Scottsdale, AZ on the board at one point, and I vaguely remember a trip to Knott's Berry Farm on there as well. Any other ones I missed from PYL? [/quote]
I, for one, would greatly enjoy a trip to Scottsdale during spring training of baseball season.
And Knotts kicks the crap out of Dizzyland if you're older and you like more adult rides. (Neither hold a candle to Magic Mountain, tho.)
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I have on tape of a Sale of the Century episode where a trip to Russia is shown, that sounds odd, but it may be a cool place to visit?
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[quote name=\'DaneFromKansas\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 05:09 PM\'] I may be mistaken, but didn't the original Press Your Luck offer some odd trips? I recall seeing a trip to Scottsdale, AZ on the board at one point, and I vaguely remember a trip to Knott's Berry Farm on there as well. Any other ones I missed from PYL? [/quote]
PYL also offered trips to Lake Powell, Concord, Calif., and Montana(ski trip), locales I can't recall seeing on other shows.
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The old-school Dating Game(ABC primetime) gave away trips to Timbuktu, as per Walt Case.
WOF is the only game show I can recall to give away an expedition to Antarctica(circa late 80s).
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[quote name=\'Fedya\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 01:46 PM\'] How about the trips to the Roseland "Dude Ranch" (http://\"http://www.geocities.com/laughtershock/roseland.html\") -- in Stanfordville, NY! (That's about 45 minutes from here, and there ain't nothin' dude ranchy about this part of New York. [/quote]
And that's the destination of the "RANCH VACATION" given away on Whammy.
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[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 07:42 PM\'] [quote name=\'Fedya\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 01:46 PM\'] How about the trips to the Roseland "Dude Ranch" (http://\"http://www.geocities.com/laughtershock/roseland.html\") -- in Stanfordville, NY! (That's about 45 minutes from here, and there ain't nothin' dude ranchy about this part of New York. [/quote]
And that's the destination of the "RANCH VACATION" given away on Whammy. [/quote]
I'm pretty sure I saw it on WinTuition as well. I'm guessing GSN has/had some sort of deal with the ranch?
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 05:26 PM\'] PYL also offered trips to Lake Powell, Concord, Calif., and Montana(ski trip), locales I can't recall seeing on other shows. [/quote]
Trips to the Napa Valley wine country are given away all the time on game shows. Concord, CA is part of that area.
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[quote name=\'DJDustman\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 05:27 PM\'] I have on tape of a Sale of the Century episode where a trip to Russia is shown, that sounds odd, but it may be a cool place to visit? [/quote]
I don't know if a trip to the Soviet Union would have been so cool since one probably would have had to spend too much time with the Intourist guides/minders, but I studied in St. Petersburg just after the fall of the Soviet Union and had a blast.
I don't remember seeing much in the way of game shows on Russian TV, though.
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I remember one time on Trivial Pursuit, the winner of the bonus round on one trip could have a nice trip to SAN ANTONIO, TX!..."Why?", I asked myself. So special about San Antonio (besides the Spurs). Pretty cheap if you ask me.
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[quote name=\'Fedya\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 02:46 PM\'] How about the trips to the Roseland "Dude Ranch" (http://\"http://www.geocities.com/laughtershock/roseland.html\") -- in Stanfordville, NY! (That's about 45 minutes from here, and there ain't nothin' dude ranchy about this part of New York. [/quote]
Pinegrove Dude Ranch in Kerhonkson NY is better then that place.
Anyway, to the topic... I remember showcase prizes on TPiR recently being trips to Space Camp and some colonial place in Mississippi (Hopotong maybe?) Who would want to go to either?
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[quote name=\'JayC\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 09:15 PM\'] TPIR offfered a trip to some colonial place in Mississippi (Hopotong maybe?) [/quote]
It might have been a trip to the Natchez, Mississippi old time mansion resort given away a few times on Whammy! last season
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 09:17 PM\'] [quote name=\'JayC\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 09:15 PM\'] TPIR offfered a trip to some colonial place in Mississippi (Hopotong maybe?) [/quote]
It might have been a trip to the Natchez, Mississippi old time mansion resort given away a few times on Whammy! last season [/quote]
Yeah, that's it. Thanks! Hopotong is a town in NJ actually, I dont know why I was thinking that was the name.
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[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 03:18 AM\'] Meanwhile, I read one of the prizes on the Canadian Supermarket Sweep was a trip to CUBA!! If this was the American show, that prize would definitely be avoided at all costs. [/quote]
My father went to Cuba a couple of years ago (Americans are allowed to travel there under certain circumstances) and enjoyed the trip. Although it's possible he only enjoyed it because of the cigars.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 09:17 PM\'] It might have been a trip to the Natchez, Mississippi old time mansion resort given away a few times on Whammy! last season [/quote]
A mansion or a plantation?
Yay, a damn plantation. All black men love to go to visit those things.
Brandon Brooks
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[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 10:45 PM\']
A mansion or a plantation?
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It's the Monmouth Plantation Bed and Breakfast in Natchez, Mississippi.
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[quote name=\'JayC\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 09:15 PM\']Anyway, to the topic... I remember showcase prizes on TPiR recently being trips to Space Camp and some colonial place in Mississippi (Hopotong maybe?) Who would want to go to either?[/quote]
Thousands of people (although not me) want to go to Space Camp, trips to which have been a game show staple for years and years.
And the Mississippi trip sounds fine. Hey, as long as I'm not worried about taxes, a dangerous neighborhood/city/country, finding time to take the trip, or not having something resembling a hotel to stay in, most any trip you can think of will be peachy keen by me.
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Thousands of people (although not me) want to go to Space Camp, trips to which have been a game show staple for years and years.
Yeah, trips to U.S. Space Camp/Space Academy have been offered on the Nickelodeon game shows as the top prize.
The ironic thing was the Double Dare obstacle course winners flew to Space Camp on Eastern Airlines, which would go under in the early '90s. I'm not sure if Fun House offered Space Camp as their "Power Prize" (maybe somebody at Stone-Stanley could delve into their library -- that is, if they've cataloged the FH episodes somewhere next to The Man Show, The Mole, Fame, Shop 'Til You Drop, Legends of the Hidden Temple, The Joe Schmo Show, Popstars, College Mad House, Loveline, Winning Lines, Free-4-All, Quicksilver, Big Deal, and whatever else shows they've produced over the years), but I know travel to them was provided by Delta Airlines.
And of course, there's another odd trip Nick offered--A RETURN TRIP TO UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FLORIDA!
Jonathan Allen
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[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Dec 21 2003, 05:33 AM\'] Yeah, trips to U.S. Space Camp/Space Academy have been offered on the Nickelodeon game shows as the top prize.
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FYI, Space Camp is located in Huntsville, Alabama, near the famed Redstone Arsenal, where the early rocket tests took place in the 1950's.
www.spacecamp.com
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[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Dec 21 2003, 05:33 AM\'] And of course, there's another odd trip Nick offered--A RETURN TRIP TO UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FLORIDA!
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Yeah, I always thought that was really weird when I was watching as a kid. "Gee, I get to come back?"
I think the Space Camp prize was the top prize back in the Philadelphia WHYY days. Once they moved to Universal Studios Florida (before the park opened IIRC), then the top prize became a trip back.
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[quote name=\'inturnaround\' date=\'Dec 21 2003, 08:41 AM\']
I think the Space Camp prize was the top prize back in the Philadelphia WHYY days. [/quote]
That or a Disney world Trip or a Busch Gardens Fla. trip(on the syndie run), or a mini racing car.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 08:31 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 05:26 PM\'] PYL also offered trips to Lake Powell, Concord, Calif., and Montana(ski trip), locales I can't recall seeing on other shows. [/quote]
Trips to the Napa Valley wine country are given away all the time on game shows. Concord, CA is part of that area. [/quote]
Not quite (and I should know this, having worked in Concord from 1984 to 2001 and currently living 10 miles from there). Concord is in what's usually called the "East Bay" part of the San Francisco Bay Area, but it's on the other side of a range of hills from better-known cities like Oakland and Berkeley; it's one of San Francisco's "hot spots" as it gets above 100 degrees on hotter days. The "wine country", on the other hand, consists primarily of Sonoma and Napa counties, which are at the northern shore of San Francisco Bay. (Most trips to the wine area that I've seen given away (usually TPIR's balloon rides over the area) are usually based either in San Francisco or at some B&B in the Napa area itself.)
Outside of Concord Pavillion, where a number of big-name music concerts take place, I can't think of anything about it that would attract tourists (unless you're a WWII history buff and want to see the site where the Port Chicago Explosion took place). "The subway station is there; trains run to San Francisco every 15 minutes. Just be warned that they can get quite crowded on the way back."
However, the strangest trip I've seen was on the old Dennis James TPIR; it was a trip to San Francisco - but it was by train, and "you get to keep the train" afterwards (they never did make that clear just what you won).
-- Don (and didn't Bob explain once what happens if you win a trip to your own hometown? At the very least, you get round-trip planefare to LA and a hotel stay at the hometown hotel...)
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[quote name=\'inturnaround\' date=\'Dec 21 2003, 08:41 AM\'] [quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Dec 21 2003, 05:33 AM\'] And of course, there's another odd trip Nick offered--A RETURN TRIP TO UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FLORIDA!
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Yeah, I always thought that was really weird when I was watching as a kid. "Gee, I get to come back?"
I think the Space Camp prize was the top prize back in the Philadelphia WHYY days. Once they moved to Universal Studios Florida (before the park opened IIRC), then the top prize became a trip back. [/quote]
At your own cost. This would also fit in the "cheapness" thread, because, IMO, it was a terrible prize--but at least you got a mid-sized car rental in the deal. :)
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[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Dec 21 2003, 01:29 PM\'] [quote name=\'inturnaround\' date=\'Dec 21 2003, 08:41 AM\'] [quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Dec 21 2003, 05:33 AM\'] And of course, there's another odd trip Nick offered--A RETURN TRIP TO UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FLORIDA!
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Yeah, I always thought that was really weird when I was watching as a kid. "Gee, I get to come back?"
I think the Space Camp prize was the top prize back in the Philadelphia WHYY days. Once they moved to Universal Studios Florida (before the park opened IIRC), then the top prize became a trip back. [/quote]
At your own cost. This would also fit in the "cheapness" thread, because, IMO, it was a terrible prize--but at least you got a mid-sized car rental in the deal. :) [/quote]
Weren't contestants also given spending money, or am I thinking of the actual bonus prize from Make the Grade?
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Actually, one of the more popular 8th obstacle prizes in the early years (especially '86) was a trip to Walt Disney with this incredibly long spiel that Harvey had fun trying to fit in the short prize cue. I think the name of the hotel was mentioned already. I can't remember it for the life of me.
Anyway, other prizes include the aforementioned Space Camp trip, mini racing car, Apple II computer, Busch Gardens and some other theme park in Texas. By '89 they threw in trips to Puerto Vallarta and other locales.
Of course, the bottom 7 prizes were funny. By "Family Double Dare," they got as ridiculous as a <Harvey>whhhite willow pic-a-nic basket</H> and bowling balls.
-Jason
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the strangest trip I've seen was on the old Dennis James TPIR; it was a trip to San Francisco - but it was by train, and "you get to keep the train" afterwards (they never did make that clear just what you won).
Either (a) a model train was included in the prize, or (b) they joked about the railroad industry, which was teetering towards economic collapse at the time (Remember "Penn Central"?).
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[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Dec 21 2003, 03:43 PM\'] Either (a) a model train was included in the prize, or (b) they joked about the railroad industry, which was teetering towards economic collapse at the time (Remember "Penn Central"?). [/quote]
At last, I get to be the Zach Horan of railroading: back in the Dennis James TPIR days, Amtrak was new enough that they still had a lot of surplus passenger equipment that had been cast off by the former passenger-carrying railroads, and they were gradually retiring most of it, keeping only the best stuff. So it's theoretically possible that the winner would have gotten to keep the train...
...but highly unlikely, for what should be fairly obvious reasons. (That would indeed have been right around the time of the Penn Central bankruptcy, which was the largest corporate bankruptcy in American history at the time, big enough that the Federal government bailed them out by creating a new freight railroad called Conrail.)
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Actually, one of the more popular 8th obstacle prizes in the early years (especially '86) was a trip to Walt Disney with this incredibly long spiel that Harvey had fun trying to fit in the short prize cue. I think the name of the hotel was mentioned already. I can't remember it for the life of me.
"The Buena Vista Palace, in the heart of Walt Disney World village". :-)
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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"The Buena Vista Palace, in the heart of Walt Disney World village". :-)
Wow thanks, that's it! And why not, I'll drag out a tape and transcribe the entire dealie.
Marc: "...do that in 60 seconds or less and you're gonna win this!"
Harvey: "A fabulous Disney vacation! The luxury Buena Vista Palace an official Walt Disney World hotel located in the heart of Walt Disney World village. You'll dine in award winning restaurants (and) enjoy unlimited transportation throughout the vacation kingdom!"
And in finding that I saw the whole saga in '88 of "Mr. Kay Bee" a sort of parody of Geoffrey the Giraffe being put on obstacles when the prize was a Toys R Us gift card. They always found ways to mutilate or insult the doll. I wonder what Kay Bee did... :)
-Jason
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For the trips back to Universal studios ill never forget this one quote from Marc Summers
"Well if you win here you win a trip...right back here...but at least you won't have to play double dare, you can do ummm whatever you want"
Summers could take veiled pot shots at the producers when he wanted to quite well ;)
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 07:53 PM\'][quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 07:42 PM\'] [quote name=\'Fedya\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 01:46 PM\'] How about the trips to the Roseland "Dude Ranch" (http://\"http://www.geocities.com/laughtershock/roseland.html\") -- in Stanfordville, NY! (That's about 45 minutes from here, and there ain't nothin' dude ranchy about this part of New York. [/quote]
And that's the destination of the "RANCH VACATION" given away on Whammy. [/quote]
I'm pretty sure I saw it on WinTuition as well. I'm guessing GSN has/had some sort of deal with the ranch?[/quote]
I remember seeing Roseland on other cable shows--and perhaps on New York-based shows back in the 70s or something similar (seemed to me that both "Concentration" and "$OTC" offered that prize at one time or the other). As a quick weekend getaway from New York, it's plausible as a lower-priced trip option.
And of course, whenever "Concentration" did a themed trip/travel game, one of the gag prizes was "SUBWAY TO BROOKLYN."
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Dec 22 2003, 03:57 PM\']
And of course, whenever "Concentration" did a themed trip/travel game, one of the gag prizes was "SUBWAY TO BROOKLYN." [/quote]
Not to be outdone, a Zonk on one of this weekend's GSN airings of 70s LMAD was a $33(at the time) bus trip from Hollywood to Tijuana.
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[quote name=\'DaneFromKansas\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 05:09 PM\'] I may be mistaken, but didn't the original Press Your Luck offer some odd trips? I recall seeing a trip to Scottsdale, AZ on the board at one point, and I vaguely remember a trip to Knott's Berry Farm on there as well. Any other ones I missed from PYL? [/quote]
Banff, where ever that is. I also seem to recall trips to San Diego, and LA Chinatown.
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[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Dec 24 2003, 06:17 AM\']Banff, where ever that is.[/quote]
Banff (http://\"http://www.discoverbanff.com/\") is in Alberta, Canada.
On F Troop, it was pronounced "Ban-f-f" when Agarn's lookalike relative hid out in Fort Courage, pursued (on a dogsled!) by everyone's favorite center square, Paul Lynde, who accused Agarn's twin of being the "Burglar of Ban-f-f" and claimed himself to be the "Singing Mountie," out to catch this menace to society. In the end, the real Singing Mountie showed up on his own dogsled and unmasked Lynde's character as the real Burglar of Ban-f-f.
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How about the trips to the Roseland "Dude Ranch" -- in Stanfordville, NY! (That's about 45 minutes from here, and there ain't nothin' dude ranchy about this part of New York.
That was also offered as the Power Prize trip on Fun House, and was the grand prize at least once on the Travel Channel's 1990 entry, The Great Getaway Game.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Dec 24 2003, 11:48 AM\']
That was also offered as the Power Prize trip on Fun House, and was the grand prize at least once on the Travel Channel's 1990 entry, The Great Getaway Game.
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It also was offered on WOF in the shopping days and on the studio version of Trivial Pursuit.
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[quote name=\'JasonA1\' date=\'Dec 21 2003, 04:40 PM\'] Anyway, other prizes include the aforementioned Space Camp trip, mini racing car, Apple II computer, Busch Gardens and some other theme park in Texas. By '89 they threw in trips to Puerto Vallarta and other locales.
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The theme park was "Six Flags over Texas"; they also gave away an occasional trip to the park in St. Louis, which I think is "Six Flags Mid-America".
I seem to recall a trip to Aspen being given away on TPiR in the mid 90s...
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I could swear I remember a game show offering a trip to Israel, which wouldn't be fun to visit at this current time (even though the beaches are gorgeous). Was it Marshall HSQ?
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[quote name=\'1978-Jeopardy\' date=\'Mar 5 2004, 06:21 AM\'] I could swear I remember a game show offering a trip to Israel, which wouldn't be fun to visit at this current time (even though the beaches are gorgeous). Was it Marshall HSQ? [/quote]
Marshall HS may well have offered a trip to it at one point. The USA version of Jackpot offered a trip to Israel as the final "riddler contest" prize in the final season(10 week riddler contests offered $10K to the contestant who solved the most riddles in a week, but 6 week riddler contests offered a trip)
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Inspiration Please, a 95-97 Biblical quizzer on F&V (later Oddysey, now the non-religious Hallmark Channel) also offered a trip to the Holy Land as their grand prize.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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On the '89 Jackpot, I won a one-week trip to the Murietta Hot Springs and Resport, transportation not included.
That was a decaying hotel that was struggling to remain open. (Apparently, promotional mentions on Jackpot were not enough to save it, and it closed not long afterward.) We got some nice massages, but it included breakfast, lunch and dinner every day in the hotel's health food restaurant, and there wasn't much else around for many miles, so we had far too many meals of lentils and rice. Bored to tears on the fourth day, we drove two hours to go to Disneyland one day, which was five minutes from where I actualy lived, and then dutifully drove back to our free hotel room for two more days of isolation.
On a more positive note, I just won a trip to Italy on Pyramid, and it turns out to be a five-night deluxe stay in Montecatini Terme, a resort spa town in Tuscany about 50km from Florence. At least if they force us to eat lentils and rice, I'm sure the Italians will make it taste good...
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This is more a case of bad timing than anything else, but near the beginning of Season 30, TPiR offered a trip to D.C. in a showcase about shapes. I think we all remember what happened to Washington's most prominent shape around that time. The topic was so touchy that they didn't air the episode until halfway through November.
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[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Mar 5 2004, 06:11 PM\'] This is more a case of bad timing than anything else, but near the beginning of Season 30, TPiR offered a trip to D.C. in a showcase about shapes. I think we all remember what happened to Washington's most prominent shape around that time. The topic was so touchy that they didn't air the episode until halfway through November. [/quote]
In fall 2001, they also offered a trip to New York, and on the mural, still had the Twin Towers. I remember someone at ATGS asking whether that could've been edited out.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 04:53 PM\'] [quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 07:42 PM\'] [quote name=\'Fedya\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 01:46 PM\'] How about the trips to the Roseland "Dude Ranch" (http://\"http://www.geocities.com/laughtershock/roseland.html\") -- in Stanfordville, NY! (That's about 45 minutes from here, and there ain't nothin' dude ranchy about this part of New York. [/quote]
And that's the destination of the "RANCH VACATION" given away on Whammy. [/quote]
I'm pretty sure I saw it on WinTuition as well. I'm guessing GSN has/had some sort of deal with the ranch? [/quote]
Ah (semi) beautiful Roseland Ranch near Kingston, NY (not far from the original Woodstock) was a prize on all those shows and many more because they all used the same prize broker. Art Alisi and Dan Fox are the principals in Promotional Consideration Inc. and are two of the nicest guys ever in gameshowdom. Art is a producer in his own right and worked the original Hollywood Squares. He's still remembered at the Posada Vallarta Hotel in Puerto Vallarta by virtue of the booze fests that hotel hosted for Art that included some of the original HS celebs.
Like PIC-TV, Game Show Placements, Creative Television Marketing, Exposure Unlimited and other brokers past and present (referred to as "shlockmeisters" in 1950s TV terminology), Promotional Consideration has their regular clients. Art and Dan did the prizes for Wintuition and Russian Roulette among other GSN originals. Read copy for enough shows and often you can actually figure out which prize broker each show uses.
Strangest trip destination I ever read... BELIZE. I think it was a damn war zone when I was growing up!
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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On a more positive note, I just won a trip to Italy on Pyramid, and it turns out to be a five-night deluxe stay in Montecatini Terme, a resort spa town in Tuscany about 50km from Florence. At least if they force us to eat lentils and rice, I'm sure the Italians will make it taste good...
LOL...and how much is $50K in lira? :-)
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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Also, would you guys count the trip to hoosin and bakersville offered in the 4/1/87 episode of the price is right? :)
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tvrandywest wrote:
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Strangest trip destination I ever read... BELIZE. I think it was a damn war zone when I was growing up!
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Randy, do you mean that it's strange now or strange then? I hear it's a nice place to go these days.
Cheers,
Ryan :)
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[quote name=\'vtown7\' date=\'Mar 6 2004, 06:31 PM\'] Randy, do you mean that it's strange now or strange then? I hear it's a nice place to go these days. [/quote]
I have no idea what Belize is like. Before the country's tourism board sends me an anthrax letter, let me say I'm sure it's a fine Carribean vacation destination... especially if the trip is free ;-)
From thinking that I heard the name Belize on news broadcasts as a kid, my first reaction upon seeing it in the copy as a prize on Trivial Pursuit was that it's gotta be similar to winning a trip to Vietnam or Iraq! It's probably a mistaken impression, but it sure got laughs with the studio audience during a commercial when I joked about it. You know, that the show should probably provide the winner with a bulletproof vest and an uzi. That the winner should be sure to lie down on the beach because that way he's a smaller target for enemy fire. That the trip only included one-way airfare because there was no chance of the winner getting back alive, etc., etc..
And that's what Belize will always bring to my mind ;-)
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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From thinking that I heard the name Belize on news broadcasts as a kid, my first reaction upon seeing it in the copy as a prize on Trivial Pursuit was that it's gotta be similar to winning a trip to Vietnam or Iraq! It's probably a mistaken impression, but it sure got laughs with the studio audience during a commercial when I joked about it.
Which is better than joking about it on-air, the way John Davidson did when a trip to Korea was the Mystery 7 prize on a $100K Pyramid ep from 1991.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")