Author Topic: The "I wish I was the seller" GS eBay item du jour (Read 9790 times)

Match Game Nut · « **Reply #15 on:** February 04, 2004, 04:19:30 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Feb 4 2004, 01:17 PM\']This just really strikes me as mondo bizarre. I know we have some ticket collectors on the forum. Are Match Game '7X tickets really so rare as to command over a hundred dollars?[/quote]
Well, a few years ago(not sure exactly when, not more than two), I was active in collecting tickets off eBay, including Match Game(no surprise there, look at my user name!). Anyway, I have six of them, and I KNOW I didn't pay more than $50 for any, and I can't even remember paying over $20. I dunno, maybe there wasn't a market back then. I know, as much as I want one, I refuse to pay big $$$ for one of the 70's MG home games, because when I was still searching eBay for them, they always seemed to be expensive. Ah well...

chris319 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 04, 2004, 05:06:35 PM »

[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Feb 4 2004, 11:09 AM\']~320 seats in 33
x 2 tape days per aired week
x 52 weeks/year
x 9 year run (approximating)
= about 300,000; not counting tickets which weren't used or excess tickets printed up by CBS.

Also take into account how many of those tickets were thrown away or are in anything less than pristine condition.[/quote]
26 weeks per year, Mr. Math Teacher. When you tape two weeks of shows in one weekend you only tape every other weekend.

150,000 tickets x $285 = $42,750,000. For tickets that are not supposed to be sold.

joshg · « **Reply #17 on:** February 04, 2004, 06:20:37 PM »

...and look what poor Allen Ludden and Betty White are getting:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=2593588395

There's also an autographed-by-Gene Rayburn home game that's a little steep:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=3382831505

I'm looking at these at the thought of the 'shill' bid comes to mind...

JOSH

P.S. I have a few "Price Is Right" props I will be posting to eBay later. The starting price for autographed "$1002" pricetag I have will be the GNP of Nerdocrumbesia multiplied by the number of members online right now minus 3. @:-)

MikeK · « **Reply #18 on:** February 04, 2004, 08:24:37 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Feb 4 2004, 05:06 PM\'] 26 weeks per year, Mr. Math Teacher. When you tape two weeks of shows in one weekend you only tape every other weekend. [/quote]
But weren't there two sessions per tape day, one for the M, Tu, W shows and one after everybody got liquored up, when the Th, F, and MG PM shows were taped?

I wasn't implying that they taped 52 weeks per year. I meant that there were 52 weeks of shows taped per year. Maybe this slight alteration of my original equation will make more sense...

~320 seats in 33
x 2 tape sessions per week of shows and MG PM
x 52 weeks of shows per year
x 9 year run (approximating)
= about 300,000

I stand by my original approximation. Sorry if my original reply was vague.

zachhoran · « **Reply #19 on:** February 04, 2004, 08:32:50 PM »

[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Feb 4 2004, 08:24 PM\'] [quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Feb 4 2004, 05:06 PM\'] 26 weeks per year, Mr. Math Teacher. When you tape two weeks of shows in one weekend you only tape every other weekend. [/quote]
But weren't there two sessions per tape day, one for the M, Tu, W shows and one after everybody got liquored up, when the Th, F, and MG PM shows were taped?

I wasn't implying that they taped 52 weeks per year. I meant that there were 52 weeks of shows taped per year. Maybe this slight alteration of my original equation will make more sense...

~320 seats in 33
x 2 tape sessions per week of shows and MG PM
x 52 weeks of shows per year
x 9 year run (approximating)
= about 300,000

I stand by my original approximation. Sorry if my original reply was vague. [/quote]
From 1979-82, once the show left CBS Daytime and went to daily syndication, 35 weeks of shows were done a year, not 52.

chris319 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 04, 2004, 10:52:15 PM »

~320 seats in 33
x 2 audiences per taping day
x 2 taping days per weekend
x 26 weeks of tapings
x 9 year run (approximating)
= about 300,000

MikeK · « **Reply #21 on:** February 04, 2004, 11:25:57 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Feb 4 2004, 10:52 PM\'] ~320 seats in 33
x 2 audiences per taping day
x 2 taping days per weekend
x 26 weeks of tapings
x 9 year run (approximating)
= about 300,000 [/quote]
Same difference. I'm glad we could see eye-to-eye on this one, Chris. :-)

I had a hunch my math wasn't that bad. ;-)

uncamark · « **Reply #22 on:** February 05, 2004, 03:52:10 PM »

[quote name=\'matchgame\' date=\'Feb 4 2004, 06:20 PM\']...and look what poor Allen Ludden and Betty White are getting:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=2593588395[/quote]
The information on the ticket regarding the taping jogged my memory--it's for a week of shows where they had the show's all-time (or ABC run) champion (whose name is on the ticket but obscured by the autographs, or I'd write the exact name) team up with Elizabeth Montgomery against a new team of celebs every match (it would seem to me that they had gone to the best-two-of-three game format by this time). I seem to also remember that all of the winnings that week went to charity. An interesting little twist, although unless the shows were later in the month it wasn't exactly a sweeps stunt (if they were even doing those back then).

zachhoran · « **Reply #23 on:** February 05, 2004, 07:53:14 PM »

[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 03:52 PM\']
The information on the ticket regarding the taping jogged my memory--it's for a week of shows where they had the show's all-time (or ABC run) champion [/quote]
Lou Retram I believe was the name of the all time champion in ABC Password history, winning around $10K, as we reported on Usenet years back.

chris319 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 06, 2004, 03:11:09 AM »

Lou Retram wanted to be a writer for P+. He showed up at the first writers' meeting not having written any material (a writers' meeting is where the producer meets with the writers and goes over the material they have written). He then came up with the notion that he alone should write the show and that there was no need for any other writers. Howard Felsher summarily fired him.

ChuckNet · « **Reply #25 on:** February 06, 2004, 07:31:34 PM »

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Lou Retram I believe was the name of the all time champion in ABC Password history, winning around $10K, as we reported on Usenet years back.

Didn't this achievement qualify him for a spot on Password All-Stars?

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

zachhoran · « **Reply #26 on:** February 06, 2004, 07:34:50 PM »

[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Feb 6 2004, 07:31 PM\']

Quote

Lou Retram I believe was the name of the all time champion in ABC Password history, winning around $10K, as we reported on Usenet years back.

Didn't this achievement qualify him for a spot on Password All-Stars?

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby") [/quote]
He did indeed do a week of Password as a celeb, ISTR it being reported on Usenet that it was during the All-Stars run.

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #27 on:** February 06, 2004, 07:56:27 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Feb 6 2004, 03:11 AM\'] Lou Retram wanted to be a writer for P+. He showed up at the first writers' meeting not having written any material (a writers' meeting is where the producer meets with the writers and goes over the material they have written). He then came up with the notion that he alone should write the show and that there was no need for any other writers. Howard Felsher summarily fired him. [/quote]
If the guy had tried to pull that stuff in today's penny-pinching, multi-tasking environment, he would have been asked to replace all the writers and Howard Felsher.

calliaume · « **Reply #28 on:** February 06, 2004, 09:06:24 PM »

[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 03:52 PM\'] The information on the ticket regarding the taping jogged my memory--it's for a week of shows where they had the show's all-time (or ABC run) champion (whose name is on the ticket but obscured by the autographs, or I'd write the exact name) team up with Elizabeth Montgomery against a new team of celebs every match (it would seem to me that they had gone to the best-two-of-three game format by this time). I seem to also remember that all of the winnings that week went to charity. An interesting little twist, although unless the shows were later in the month it wasn't exactly a sweeps stunt (if they were even doing those back then). [/quote]
Aired in June 1973, judging by Aaron Handy's Password Page.

According to that page, stunt weeks became more and more frequent until Password All-Stars came along:

3/72 -- Tournament of Champions
7/72 -- Championship Round
4/73 -- Four-Celebrity Charity Week
7/73 -- Celebrity Charity Week
10/73 -- Celebrity Rematch Week
10/73 -- Second Quarterly Contest Week
12/73 -- Rematch Week
1/74 -- Four-Celebrity Charity Week
1/74 -- Third Quarterly Contest Week
3/74 -- Celebrities and Their Children/Mothers Week
4/74 -- Fourth Quarterly Contest Week
4/74 -- Third Annual Contest Week
7/74 -- Monty Hall guest hosts
7/74 -- Four-Celebrity Charity Week
9/74 -- Celebrities and Their Children Week
9/74 -- Celebrities and Their Wives Week
9/74 -- Four-Celebrity Charity Week
9/74 -- Four-Celebrity Charity Week
10/74 -- Celebrity Husbands and Wives Week
10/74 -- Four-Celebrity Charity Week
10/74 -- Winners From Past Years Week
10/74 -- Winners From Past Years Week
11/74 -- Producers & Writers Charity Week
3/75 -- Betty White guest hosts

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #29 on:** February 07, 2004, 12:47:53 PM »

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He did indeed do a week of Password as a celeb, ISTR it being reported on Usenet that it was during the All-Stars run.

Another champ that did "Password All Stars" was Martha Peukert. I remember reading TVGuide that week and thinking "who's she?"

I'm don't think Lou's name was mentioned in the TVGuide listings.