Received an email from a contestant from the first show of Pass The Buck from 1978...I won't release her name on this board, but I thought you might all enjoy what she remembered about the show. Nothing earth-shattering, but I know I enjoy these first-person accounts. If you are enough of a detective, you can probably figure out who she is, but I would hope you have better ways to spend your time!
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She said:
I was working for an airline at the time.. and I did tickets for the Bob
Stewart Productions office. My contact told me about the upcoming new
show.. and I had to go try out to become a contestant. I wish I could
remember the young new director's name.. he referred to me as a "virgin".. I
had never been on a game show before. Many of the potential contestants
made a vocation of the game show circuit. It was a Saturday we tried out..
all day.. time tests.. name so many things in a category.. it was fun. And
I got the call that afternoon that I was chosen to be on the first show.
They were to film the whole week on that Saturday.. I was to bring change of
clothes in case I was on more than one show. They had a group of ten or
twelve of us.. and had us walk the set.. I guess they liked my suit because
I was asked to be on the first show. Bill Cullen couldn't have been nicer.
I was pretty thrilled to meet him since I had watched him for years on many
different shows. I had never known he had a limp. They situated him off
camera. He tried to relax us before taping.. told a couple of jokes. I
liked him very much.
I won the 5000.00 round.. and I was pretty excited. I did not do too well
on the next show .. I was so happy to have won. I also got a vacuum cleaner
that I had for years, a waffle iron that we still use.. and pilot pens. It
was a wonderful experience..
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(She originally emailed me to ask for a copy of her premiere episode.)