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The original Family Feud game board (was computerized!)
TLEberle:
--- Quote from: jlgarfield on February 07, 2020, 12:12:19 PM ---And in case you are wondering whether the same board was used in the later Combs version, it was NOT. Randy West states that Mr. Goodson paid about $250K for a faster, souped-version of the Ferranti-Packard board for Combs' FF.
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Stipulate that a production company wants to keep their properties on the air even if the host is an Olympic medallist pain in the neck--the Feud game board is a rather large bit of kit to keep around waiting for some network to come to their senses. There's also the notion that technology is continually improving so it makes sense that a game board from 1987 will be markedly better than one from 1976. $250k seems like a lot but as a part of the budget it was well spent and gets to be amortized over six years.
Casey Buck:
The original board was still used on the Combs pilot that Buzzr aired a few years ago, which of course meant that Goodson ordered the faster board after it got picked up for series.
chris319:
--- Quote from: jlgarfield on February 07, 2020, 12:12:19 PM ---And in case you are wondering whether the same board was used in the later Combs version, it was NOT. Randy West states that Mr. Goodson paid about $250K for a faster, souped-version of the Ferranti-Packard board for Combs' FF.
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More fiction from the fertile imagination of Randy West.
The Jacquard computer was replaced with a faster IBM PC and that's it. The character modules were $100 per character. This comes from Mark Bowerman, a more reliable source than Randy West.
The first year of FF was taped at 1313 N. Vine street, where a lot of the Barris shows originated as well as Shenanigans, the Don Rickles and Joey Bishop shows. The show later moved to the ABC lot at 4151 Prospect.
After its ABC run, the FF set was stored outdoors at 4151 Prospect where some of the wooden pieces warped, such as the "double" and "triple" signs.
mparrish11:
It was THIS model. https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=527
One of the commenters mentioned that he was the company's tech support for 2 years of the show's run--and was on-site during the tapings.
chris319:
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