Your Holy Grail of game show episodes or footage

[TLEberle]

Oh, it be PROOF ye wantin', eh, lad?

Golly, that's a lot of game show goodness. Reminds me of growing up in the mid-eighties and having all sorts of choices through the morning.

/oh yes I went there.

[Clay Zambo]

Mine is the Australian episode of $ale of the Century where the champion won the lot plus the record-setting [color="#0000FF"]$508,000[/color] cash jackpot.

My friend Sandy Mumbach was a $20K Pyramid winner--that hardly describes it; she won sixteen consecutive front games before getting to the top of the pyramid.  I'd love to be able to show her that appearance.

My goodness! How close was she to the $20000 limit when she finally swept the Winner's Circle and increased her winnings to that amount?

I'll have to ask.  I do remember that she was invited back for a tournament of champions--and, yes, won that, too.

[PYLdude]

I was reminded of this thing for a second when we were talking about color broadcasting.

[Clay Zambo]

It was a legitimate question, Clay. Come on.

Part of the reason why I asked was because of the format those Pyramids employed- one loss and out, win the Pyramid once and retire- and how the eps would straddle, so I thought there might've been an ep or two where they could conceivably get three games into one episode.

There really wasn't. You weren't going to get more than that in the way of content. There's a reason that the pattern became two games daily. The three winner's circles was a total rarity.

Fair enough.  I didn't mean to be a jerk; I wasn't thinking of the odd straddling possibility.  It was eight days, though, as I said, I don't remember whether she started on a Thursday or Friday and finally won on a Monday or Tuesday.

[chris319]

I have a TV Guide from May 1964 that lists "Jeopardy!" as being in color; I think it's a lot more likely that it was in color from the beginning than that it switched from black-and-white to color a month and a half into its run.

Oh, it be PROOF ye wantin', eh, lad?

The same day Get the Message debuted and Missing Links moved from NBC to ABC. Dorothy Kilgallen on Missing Links? That would be worth collecting.

[PYLdude]

Fair enough.  I didn't mean to be a jerk; I wasn't thinking of the odd straddling possibility.  It was eight days, though, as I said, I don't remember whether she started on a Thursday or Friday and finally won on a Monday or Tuesday.

No problemo...I just felt the possibility of three wins in one episode needed to be entertained somewhat. Then again, perhaps it wasn't the best place to do so.

[Fedya]

Oh, it be PROOF ye wantin', eh, lad?

Golly, that's a lot of game show goodness. Reminds me of growing up in the mid-eighties and having all sorts of choices through the morning.

Geek that I am, I was more dismayed by how much Channel 9 would have had to cut out of Suspicion (a 99-minute movie in a 90-minute commercial time slot).

[MyronMMeyer]

I have a TV Guide from May 1964 that lists "Jeopardy!" as being in color; I think it's a lot more likely that it was in color from the beginning than that it switched from black-and-white to color a month and a half into its run.

Oh, it be PROOF ye wantin', eh, lad?

I'd like to see one of those very early Jeopardy!s which were apparently more humor oriented. (Or is that an urban legend?)

Also, as I mention before in a similar thread to this one, the Art Fleming Celebrity Jeopardy in which Wizard of Odds host Alex Trebek was a player.

-M

[MrBuddwing]

Speaking of "Seven Keys," someone has posted the opening of one episode on YouTube - and it's videotape, no less:



(Now, how about the rest of it???)

[BrandonFG]

Oh, it be PROOF ye wantin', eh, lad?

Gee, I wonder if I've seen *that* particular episode of "I Love Lucy" on Channel 8. :-P

[Mike Tennant]

Oh, it be PROOF ye wantin', eh, lad?

Gee, I wonder if I've seen *that* particular episode of "I Love Lucy" on Channel 8. :-P

Doggone it! I was just about to post almost exactly the same thing.

[Matt Ottinger]

I'd like to see one of those very early Jeopardy!s which were apparently more humor oriented. (Or is that an urban legend?)

In The Jeopardy Book, Merv said that in development, they hoped to mine humor from having contestants trip over their tongues to make their questions grammatically correct, but they quickly realized that wouldn't work.  I saw a test episode that was probably produced pretty close to the premiere, and not only was that approach not funny, but it made Fleming look like an anal-retentive jerk.  The example that's stuck with me is a Comic Strips category.  The clue is "In the 25th Century" and the player responds with "Who is Buck Rogers?".  He eventually gets credit for it, but not before he's goaded and chided into saying something like "When does the action in Buck Rogers take place?"  The correction added nothing to the game, certainly not humor, and really just came across as a pain.  

The idea that Jeopardy originally aimed for humor in its content may have come from Maxine Fabe's old book.  She mentions the old Steve Allen "Answer Man" routine (similar to what Carson would do later with Carnac the Magnificent) and then claims, without any substantiation, that NBC was expecting Merv's show to be funny too.

Also, as I mention before in a similar thread to this one, the Art Fleming Celebrity Jeopardy in which Wizard of Odds host Alex Trebek was a player.

That (like the Sondheim shows) is one that people even outside our fandom would probably find interesting.

[Pyramid20000]

The entire run of $10,000 and $20,000 Pyramid that is it for me

[Mike Tennant]

I'd like to see one of those very early Jeopardy!s which were apparently more humor oriented. (Or is that an urban legend?)

In The Jeopardy Book, Merv said that in development, they hoped to mine humor from having contestants trip over their tongues to make their questions grammatically correct, but they quickly realized that wouldn't work.  I saw a test episode that was probably produced pretty close to the premiere, and not only was that approach not funny, but it made Fleming look like an anal-retentive jerk.  The example that's stuck with me is a Comic Strips category.  The clue is "In the 25th Century" and the player responds with "Who is Buck Rogers?".  He eventually gets credit for it, but not before he's goaded and chided into saying something like "When does the action in Buck Rogers take place?"  The correction added nothing to the game, certainly not humor, and really just came across as a pain.

That explains why the first edition of the home game has these rather odd types of responses. Under the category "Battles," for example, is this answer: "This country won the great sea battle of 1588." The correct question, according to the booklet: "What did England do to the Spanish Armada?"

[SRIV94]

I have a TV Guide from May 1964 that lists "Jeopardy!" as being in color; I think it's a lot more likely that it was in color from the beginning than that it switched from black-and-white to color a month and a half into its run.

Oh, it be PROOF ye wantin', eh, lad?

Not to threadjack, but which edition is this?