[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'190267\' date=\'Jul 8 2008, 06:45 PM\']
[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'190266\' date=\'Jul 8 2008, 06:40 PM\']For many years, independent UHF station Channel 43 in Cleveland ran a program called the
Prize Movie, a clip of which I posted within this forum a year or so ago yet I'm too lazy to find (typing Prize Movie into the YouTube search engine ought to turn it up...or into the Invision search engine for that matter)[/quote]
I got ya covered, my Buckeye brother.
Here it is.
/420!
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Thanks for that memory. If you want to talk about a low-budget game show farce, Prize Movie takes the cake.
I'll just add that if someone did guess the movie right, they won the jackpot, they showed a longer clip of the winning movie (which usually included a shot of an actor which would give the movie away), then the next mystery clip would premiere during the next call. They would also show a still of the movie clip with the movie name for a few days after the movie was guessed as a bumper going into commercials.
Also, the big wheel would hold pictures of famous faces that you would see on Channel 43, including local personalities -- all you had to do was to guess the name of the person or the show they were on. If you didn't know, they would try to give you such obvious clues, and yet people would still choke.
Some of their better known prizes were Cody Stetson cologne, Dupont/Stren fishing line, and IMHO the best prize of them all -- A box of Flair Squares -- The Prize Movie's answer to Z-Brick!