* Children\'s specials occurred with some regularity. Jack notes they happen at Christmas, New Year\'s, Easter, and in the summer, all attempting to catch the young audience when they\'re out of school. These episodes are slated with a C after the show number. The events typically last a few days, not the whole week. Two such specials also occurred for the show\'s third anniversary.
* On these specials, young children play for points, trying to reach 500 first, and win a $500 educational bond. The winner ascends a special platform so they\'re at Jack\'s height to play the end game. They play the first end game where they spin three prizes and decide whether to keep those, or take another spin, to a maximum of three. The losing player receives a $100 bond and prizes, like a World Book Encyclopedia, tickets to Marineland, etc. At Christmas, the losing contestant also got to pick an age-appropriate gift from under a Christmas tree on the set.
* A frequent prize offered to the kids was a huge stuffed animal that was taller than Jack. While Johnny described the first two prizes, Jack retrieved the animal from the wings and handed it to the winner, who tried in vain to carry it off stage.
* Any children that don\'t get to play a game receive the loser\'s gifts and sit on stage with Jack on the final show of the event for a quick interview.
* In addition to potential clearance issues with the music categories that may have prevented GSN from showing these, the children\'s shows featured categories where kids watched clips from popular cartoons or Disney movies, and had to answer a question about them.
* Another special done multiple times was Senior Citizens, including the first week of September \'74 and the first week of October \'74. A moment from one of these shows made it into a promo that circulates, where an 80-year-old woman does push-ups center stage.
* To commemorate the third anniversary of the show\'s premiere, a promotion started on the week of September 16th. Special http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5498/10598533776_d86bf636e0_o.png\'>\"Jackpot Jokers\" were placed on the wheels - regular jokers with the word \"jackpot\" across them like a pageant sash. If a player could spin up all three Jackpot Jokers, they won a 45-day trip around the world worth almost $4,000. In addition, they got a cash jackpot that started at $250, and grew $250 for each day it did not come up.
* Starting on January 8th, 1975, the show started its \"Lucky Hundreds\" promotion. In the weeks leading up to it, Jack touted the fact one player could win over $10,000 with one spin of the wheels. Much like the Jackpot Jokers, contestants could win a trip around the world and a cash jackpot - but this time the chance was in the endgame. All http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7345/10598775683_55714ed47f_o.png\'>$100 spaces were marked \"Lucky.\" If they got \"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3778/10598529636_cba9d21b28_o.png\'>Lucky 100s\" in all three windows, they won the bonus round with a natural triple, plus the $7200 trip, plus a $3000 cash bonus. Starting with episode 579 (air 1/15/75), they began adding $100 a day to the cash bonus, and the trip was now billed as being worth $7600. The cash would grow until the trip was won, or the total prize package reached a value of $15,000.
* On the week of March 3rd, 1975, an audience game was introduced. All members of the studio audience were fitted with a pink Price is Right name tag. After every Face the Devil, Johnny Jacobs called down one lucky audience member to play the Face the Devil for the same prizes from a duplicate large handle located at the foot of the audience. On the first pull of this handle, Jack discovered it wasn\'t properly built to stop when pulled, and kept his leg against it for the rest of the game. If a player spun the devil, they won a merchandise prize as consolation.
* The audience game returned in a different form on March 31st and continued for the next three weeks. This time frame was my favorite stretch of shows because it was so nuts. The three days prior to this was a children\'s special for Easter, during which Jack was explaining there would be a second children\'s special soon (4/23 and 4/24) because different schools were taking different vacations in 1975. Then he played clips from the first audience game to promote its return on Monday. When we fade up on Tuesday, Jack walks by a scale and a pile of envelopes to reach his podium. It turns out the scale is part of the first Face the Devil prize package, where the champion played for a trip to Las Vegas, plus $10 for every pound they weighed. For your edification, that female champion weighed 120 pounds.
* In the second audience game, the winner of the main game tried to earn a member of the studio audience spins of the Joker machine. If the game winner hit a devil on their first spin, no audience game was played. If they spun less than $500 (whether they kept it, or lost it to a devil) the audience player got 3 spins. If they spun a total of $500-$975, the audience player got 4 spins. If the stage player won Face the Devil, the audience player got 5 spins.
* Jack presented the contestant with a choice of three envelopes each containing the name of an audience member. The chosen player met Jack and the champion at the audience slot handle, while a \"Foggy Mountain Breakdown\" type track played. Now the wheels contained jokers and devils a\'la the second CBS endgame. If they spun Joker-Joker-Joker on the first spin, they won $100 for themselves and $100 for the stage contestant. Each subsequent http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3771/10601918516_a1ec911623_o.png\'>Joker-Joker-Joker doubled the money for a maximum reward of $1,600. If http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5472/10601908514_28dc087c16_o.png\'>a devil came up, they both lost their money, and the audience member got a consolation prize.
* For this audience game, the audience was fitted with custom pink nametags - a rectangle with a joker logo in the upper left, and their name hand-written on the rest.
* During the crawl of episode 605, Johnny Jacobs intoned: \"23 million Americans have it and half of them don\'t know it. High blood pressure. The silent killer. What causes it? Scientists are trying to find out. Help them with a gift to the Heart Fund.\"
* During the crawl of episode 606, Johnny Jacobs intoned: \"Every 47 seconds of every hour of every day, someone in the United States dies of a heart attack. It doesn\'t have to be that way. Give to the Heart Fund - now. Thank you.\"
-Jason
