Author Topic: For those that were around in 1975 (Read 6169 times)

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #15 on:** August 21, 2007, 01:24:29 AM »

[quote name=\'ActualRetailMike\' post=\'161467\' date=\'Aug 20 2007, 11:13 PM\']When did the Any Number game go from having the word "Piggy Bank" on the display, in the same font as the other prizes, to having a likeness of one mounted to the board? I recall at least once, with the text option, a model shook an actual piggy bank during the game's introduction.[/quote]
The text and physical piggy bank were both present on the fourth episode and were both gone by the tenth episode. I can't pinpoint exactly when they changed, because GSN didn't run episodes 6 and 8.

[quote name=\'ActualRetailMike\' post=\'161467\' date=\'Aug 20 2007, 11:13 PM\']One other set change, unless it was just my imagination: did there used to be these metallic-colored dollar signs hanging from the ceiling over the audience?[/quote]
Definitely your imagination.

chris319 · « **Reply #16 on:** August 21, 2007, 02:59:43 AM »

The asterisk is definitely NOT a "Goodson-Todman thing". It wasn't used on any shows besides TPIR to the best of my knowledge, and they were all over the Mike Douglas set long before TPIR used them.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #17 on:** August 21, 2007, 03:49:50 AM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'161478\' date=\'Aug 20 2007, 11:59 PM\']
The asterisk is definitely NOT a "Goodson-Todman thing". It wasn't used on any shows besides TPIR to the best of my knowledge, and they were all over the Mike Douglas set long before TPIR used them.
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Sounds more like just a sign of the times than a trademark. Flower power and all that jazz?

Brandon Brooks · « **Reply #18 on:** August 21, 2007, 08:32:06 AM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'161475\' date=\'Aug 20 2007, 11:35 PM\']
I wouldn't call the asterisk just a Goodson thing. Mike Douglas and The Dating Game used them on-set as well.
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I thought it was just a remanent from the Cullen version. Nothing more.

Neumms · « **Reply #19 on:** August 21, 2007, 11:13:29 AM »

I, too, recall the flower-power asterisk lighting up on the winner's display. On Cullen's version, an asterisk lit up when the player froze, this when they had many bids, not just one. Has anyone ever heard that they considered doing more than one bid on the IUFBs on the remake?

Also, the asterisks on the floor used to look a lot better when they were part of a square grid, originally yellow. It made the area in front of contestants' row look less like plain old studio floor. Anyone know why they got rid of the grid, and why they bothered to keep the out-of-place asterisks down there?

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #20 on:** August 21, 2007, 11:22:06 AM »

[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'161493\' date=\'Aug 21 2007, 11:13 AM\']
I, too, recall the flower-power asterisk lighting up on the winner's display. On Cullen's version, an asterisk lit up when the player froze, this when they had many bids, not just one. Has anyone ever heard that they considered doing more than one bid on the IUFBs on the remake?
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Yes. When everybody overbids the first time.

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #21 on:** August 21, 2007, 05:46:45 PM »

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Of course, I also freaked a little bit out when "Price" dropped "New" from its title.

Do we know exactly when that was? I know they were still calling themselves "New" after the March 1973 time change. I think I have an episode from around June '73 where "New" is still there as well. It obviously happened before they started taping the second season of Dennis' run.

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #22 on:** August 21, 2007, 10:37:47 PM »

Hmm...were they still "New" on the Double Digits episode? That's the latest show I can think of that we know the exact date of until the Lucky Seven premiere.

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #23 on:** August 22, 2007, 05:51:30 PM »

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Hmm...were they still "New" on the Double Digits episode? That's the latest show I can think of that we know the exact date of until the Lucky Seven premiere.

Yes. The May 8, 1973 ep with Double Digits was still The New Price is Right. According to the GSN graphic, it was taped in Apr 73. I also have a later episode with Any Number, Keep/Give & Double Prices. GSN's graphic states it was taped in May '73, and it's still NEW then too.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #24 on:** August 22, 2007, 05:53:21 PM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'161406\' date=\'Aug 20 2007, 06:53 PM\']
The Joker's Wild set change in 1978 (along with the Hal Hidey music) I liked very much. Still do.
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The slanted chase lights at the entrances were cool, but I'm more partial to the neon update from c. 1981. Maybe it's because the set (and neon joker rotation) is one of my earliest childhood TV memories...

ActualRetailMike · « **Reply #25 on:** August 22, 2007, 08:42:59 PM »

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Yeah - I wonder how our members would've taken the orange-to-blue transition on the Pyramid back in the day.

I actually remember an episode of Pyramid in which, at the shows opening, Dick Clark commented that we'll notice that this place is slowly turning blue. The backlit frames behind where the contestants sit were still orange on that show, but some weeks later they would make like the chameleon as well.