Game Show Changes

[dickoon]

The first episode of (British) Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? had a couple of tiny little changes from those which followed: specifically, there was a physical cordless phone which was used (possibly as a prop, possibly as required technology) when the contestant phoned a friend, and the "ding-ding-dong" locked-in-answer sound effect for the 64,000 pound question was very slightly more elaborate, possibly described as "ding-ding-dong orchestral slide". We only ever heard this more elaborate sound effect once. Incredibly incidental and inconsequential, but rather fun.

Twiddly-dee,
Chris

[Fedya]

[quote name=\'ChrisLambert!\' date=\'Dec 25 2003, 09:38 AM\'] Of course, you could literally fill a book with all the changes to The Joker's Wild during the show's first few months of life.

You often expected Jack to say "now, this is the way we did things during the last segment, but starting right now we're a charades show. No, wait, we're done with that..." [/quote]
 Hmmm....  I always thought The Joker's Wild was a game of definitions.

Ted ducks

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it!

[SRIV94]

Wasn't it a week into TRIVIA TRAP's run that the Trivia Race round made all questions after the 10th worth $200 instead of $100?

Not to mention TATTLETALES' radical change from "give a one or two-word answer" with an occasional "quickie" to a pretty much all-quickie format (that was pretty early in the run, was it not?).

Doug

[gameshowguy2000]

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 25 2003, 01:08 PM\'] [quote name=\'Game Show Man\' date=\'Dec 25 2003, 02:06 PM\']

Whammy! originally did not spot the players a $1,000 bankroll during the early episodes.  It wasn't until the second or third week when it was instituted.

 [/quote]
Maybe the first couple of weeks of taped shows didn't spot the contestants the $1K. The show premiered in April 2002, but it wasn't until late June 2002 that said episodes were first seen. [/quote]
 In addition, the font for each square was smaller on the board.

[Ian Wallis]

Not to mention TATTLETALES' radical change from "give a one or two-word answer" with an occasional "quickie" to a pretty much all-quickie format (that was pretty early in the run, was it not?).

"Tattletales" premiered in February 1974 and started experimenting with the "quickie" format by early June 1974.  They went to that format permanently later that month.