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JasonA1

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« Reply #285 on: April 17, 2013, 05:23:28 PM »
Wasn\'t the Winner\'s Board in response to NBC wanting each of its daytime shows to feature an actual bonus game offering wins, or is that urban legend?
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« Reply #286 on: April 17, 2013, 05:28:10 PM »
For a long-time, I was under the impression that NBC was trying to conserve their budget, hence why they changed the bonus round so quickly: First with the Winner\'s Board in 1984, then with the WBMG in 1987. 
If you were going to conserve your budget would you change your last act to one where your champion could win a guaranteed $3,000; $10,000; or a luxury car everyday? And those prizes weren\'t at risk until two weeks out. There\'s consecutive episodes on Youtube where the winners take home the $10,000 and car.

Exciting to watch and fun if you\'re at home and it isn\'t you that has to answer to the accountant? Sure, I guess. If that\'s what they were doing to conserve money it was sure a strange way to do it.
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Vahan_Nisanian

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« Reply #287 on: April 17, 2013, 05:32:37 PM »

Well, it was kind of a step back (though not much as the WBMG) with the winner\'s board, where the cash bonus went from a progressive jackpot (started at $50K, increased by $1K each time it was not claimed), to a flat $50K.


 


In contrast, the Aussie version had shopping for 9 years, from 1980-1989, and then the Winner\'s Board after that, only their version was 12 numbers instead of 20.


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« Reply #288 on: April 17, 2013, 05:37:19 PM »

If you were going to conserve your budget would you change your last act to one where your champion could win a guaranteed $3,000; $10,000; or a luxury car everyday? And those prizes weren\'t at risk until two weeks out. There\'s consecutive episodes on Youtube where the winners take home the $10,000 and car.




Exciting to watch and fun if you\'re at home and it isn\'t you that has to answer to the accountant? Sure, I guess. If that\'s what they were doing to conserve money it was sure a strange way to do it.

Yes, you could win the car or $10,000 on the Winner\'s Board but in order to win either prize before day 9, you had to match it up with a WIN card.  There was only one car and one $10,000 on the Winner\'s Board.

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« Reply #289 on: April 17, 2013, 06:39:15 PM »
I know this ,at be nitpick but in the episode on GSN that aired on Tuesday during the WBMG the clues were \"SHOW\" \"FEATURES\" \"LARRY\" \"DARRYL\" \"BROTHERS\" ... The contestant rang in and said \"Bob Newhart Show\". The correct answer is \"Newhart\" but they had given credit for it.gave it. Jim never said anything other than it was correct. I wouldn\'t normally think it was an issue but since The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart were two different shows I\'m surprised they didn\'t say that was incorrect or ask for further clarification.


I\'m loving seeing Sale on GSN, I forgot how much I enjoyed this show and how well Jim hosted it.
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« Reply #290 on: April 17, 2013, 07:11:01 PM »

That\'s a very tricky one, especially since Newhart itself was still airing in first-run, and the 70s sitcom had long since ended. I wonder if they simply didn\'t even think of the 70s version. Either way, a bad question for that reason.


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« Reply #291 on: April 17, 2013, 08:29:28 PM »
If they had reinstated shopping and used the bonus game to build a cash jackpot that could be cashed out on day seven, but the contestant was still choosing to take a prize or risk it for a better prize, that would have been really neat, especially to eight-year-old me. If they have a twelve-day stretch of no joy in the bonus game, I suspect they might have had a line item in the ledger for hookers/blow where \"prize budget\" useta be.

So essentially Temptation?

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« Reply #292 on: April 17, 2013, 08:46:04 PM »
That was the idea, yes.
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« Reply #293 on: April 18, 2013, 08:02:16 PM »

I wonder how many Temptation Dollars changed hands to secure this gig.


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« Reply #294 on: April 18, 2013, 08:22:07 PM »
None.  But they exchanged lots of love.
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« Reply #295 on: April 19, 2013, 12:24:43 AM »

Was I the last person to notice that Patty on True Romance week was back as a champion a few shows later (in GSN time) with her name spelled differently?


 


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« Reply #296 on: April 19, 2013, 12:37:13 AM »
Did she win her semi-final game on the romance salute?
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« Reply #297 on: April 19, 2013, 12:54:49 AM »
Did she win her semi-final game on the romance salute?

She might have had she not fluffed the speed round.

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« Reply #298 on: April 19, 2013, 05:05:52 AM »

Jim didn\'t say when she was on the show, but mentioned that a mistake was made during her game that may have been a disadvantage to her and she was brought back.


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« Reply #299 on: April 19, 2013, 10:05:04 AM »

The PDFs earlier in this thread stated that ep. #066 of Press Your Luck would be skipped over, but they showed it after all.


 


Maybe snowpeck was right after all, when he said the entire CBS daytime lineup was preempted on 1/2/84.


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