Spin-Off page updated

[DjohnsonCB]

I finally was able to add some much-needed information about the show from someone who actually got to see it most of the time.  Also, regarding the link to my page posted by Curt Alliaume at Game Shows '75, it has a URL I no longer use; the current one is http://dpjohnson1.tripod.com/spinoff.html

I know the site hasn't been updated for a while, most likely with good reason, but I hope you can at least fix the link when you have time.  As for the opinion of the show, to each his own.

[Jimmy Owen]

I liked Spin-Off and while they share the same game, for me, today's televised poker games are not an acceptable substitute.

[ChuckNet]

I've never even seen it, having been born in 1979, so I'd have no objections if GSN were somehow to pick it up.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'DjohnsonCB\' date=\'Mar 7 2004, 04:06 PM\'] I finally was able to add some much-needed information about the show from someone who actually got to see it most of the time.  Also, regarding the link to my page posted by Curt Alliaume at Game Shows '75, it has a URL I no longer use; the current one is http://dpjohnson1.tripod.com/spinoff.html

I know the site hasn't been updated for a while, most likely with good reason, but I hope you can at least fix the link when you have time.  As for the opinion of the show, to each his own. [/quote]
 I loved Spin-Off. Thanks for the link.
By the way, during its brief run, Johnny Jacobs was absent for one week.
Subbing for him at the announcer's mike was Jack Clark.

[PeterMarshallFan]

I wouldn't mind seeing it again either.

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Mar 7 2004, 06:22 PM\'] I've never even seen it, having been born in 1979, so I'd have no objections if GSN were somehow to pick it up.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby") [/quote]
 They haven't picked it up, but we now know the series is largely intact. The Spin-Off tapes were found when WCBS cleaned out part of their offices in 2000(the CBS TJW episodes were of course also found there)

[The Ol' Guy]

Nice job, Mr. Johnson - not only on the Spin Off material, but I also found your Ideal games section. As a fellow game lover, I also have fond memories of many of those - still have an original Mouse Trap (though horribly beat up), Hands Down, Tip-It and Mystic Skull around, and used to have Panic and Crazy Clock. Checking an overstock book store today, I saw a collection of Rube Goldberg cartoons. Kids buying Mouse Trap today have no idea of the fella, I imagine.  Ideal didn't do too badly in the game show realm in the early 60s as well - Seven Keys, Your Surprise Package, Stump The Stars and Double Exposure were pretty decent, overall. Thanks for the efforts. Well done.

[1978-Jeopardy]

They haven't picked it up, but we now know the series is largely intact. The Spin-Off tapes were found when WCBS cleaned out part of their offices in 2000(the CBS TJW episodes were of course also found there)

Give-n-take and Gambit came from about the same time as TJW and spin-off. Does anyone know if they exist?

[GSWitch]

Wonderful new info about Spin-Off.  Too bad KHOU never had the show as I indicated on his webpage.  But I did get to watch a few episodes in New Orleans.

You had an idea of combining Seven Keys & Spin-Off.  What is it?

I told the webmaster that my Spin-Off idea would play ala Blockbusters (solo vs family pair).

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'1978-Jeopardy\' date=\'Mar 7 2004, 08:19 PM\']

They haven't picked it up, but we now know the series is largely intact. The Spin-Off tapes were found when WCBS cleaned out part of their offices in 2000(the CBS TJW episodes were of course also found there)

Give-n-take and Gambit came from about the same time as TJW and spin-off. Does anyone know if they exist? [/quote]
 The tapes of G-n-T and Gambit have not been found. However, MGM might well have some episodes of Gambit, as Filmways syndicated reruns of the original Gambit in the late 70s. We do not know as yet.

[DjohnsonCB]

[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Mar 7 2004, 08:40 PM\']

You had an idea of combining Seven Keys & Spin-Off.  What is it?

 [/quote]
 It's right here; a link appears on the second page.

http://dpjohnson1.tripod.com/page3.html

[Ian Wallis]

The tapes of G-n-T and Gambit have not been found. However, MGM might well have some episodes of Gambit, as Filmways syndicated reruns of the original Gambit in the late 70s. We do not know as yet.

Although the complete three-year network run of "Joker's Wild" was found at WCBS, the last year of the show was always known to exist.  GSN even stated as much.  

Since reruns of "Gambit" were seen in the late '70s - a year or two after "Joker's" went to new episodes - I think it's a good bet that at least the last year or two of "Gambit" is still around somewhere.  Even if it is, I'm not sure how we'd ever see it again as GSN doesn't seem likely to pick it up.  

Only one episode of "Give-N-Take" is known to exist.

[ChuckNet]

I loved Spin-Off. Thanks for the link.
By the way, during its brief run, Johnny Jacobs was absent for one week.
Subbing for him at the announcer's mike was Jack Clark.

Jack also filled in for Johnny  during a week on The Gong Show just 2 yrs later.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[ChuckNet]

Only one episode of "Give-N-Take" is known to exist.

And that ep, which I have, is enough for me...the game seemed kinda dull and rather repetitive, although I did enjoy Stan Worth's awesome theme music w/the "wank" guitar, and Johnny Jacobs' remarks to the audience during the opening slate on said ep are worth a chuckle.

One item of note is that GNT's theme was later reused for an unsold 1981 pilot, Temptation, which also used a theater-in-the-round staging similar to the former's.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Mar 8 2004, 02:49 PM\']

I loved Spin-Off. Thanks for the link.
By the way, during its brief run, Johnny Jacobs was absent for one week.
Subbing for him at the announcer's mike was Jack Clark.

Jack also filled in for Johnny  during a week on The Gong Show just 2 yrs later.

 [/quote]
 And he filled in for Johnny (Gilbert) for a week on Go.
It's only fair considering how often John covered for him on The New $25,000 Pyramid.