So, was going through some more of the never-ending gift of VHS tapes courtesy Chris Lambert, and I came upon something. On December 24, 1993, and again one week later on 12/31, CBS aired a half hour of $25,000 Pyramid on their daytime schedule. The two episodes aired were 1/10/83 (on Christmas Eve), and 1/11/83 (on New Years Eve)
I'm curious if anyone knows what led to CBS running Pyramid on these particular days, and specifically, why Pyramid. The show hadn't aired in first run in two years, and hadn't been seen on CBS in over five. The show was doing reasonably well on USA (and the two shows are from the portion of the run USA was airing at the time), but it just seems like an incredibly random thing for a broadcast network to do, particularly given how otherwise terrible the genre's fortunes were on broadcast TV at the time.