Of The Theme Songs That Spanned Multiple Shows...

[TimK2003]

Never thought the use of the TPIR losing horns cue (sans the first two notes) was a good fit for the Bust cue on Card Sharks either.   

[Chief-O]

And it *still* makes me go "Huh?" every time I hear one of the CONCENTRATION cues used as prize music on TPiR, and vice-versa. "Splendido, I love you, but stay in your lane!"

I got quite used to hearing the "Concentration" car cue---as later (and more famously) heard on TPIR---during the Buzzr run of that series. I don't know if their airings got to the point when the TPIR cues started making appearances, but I'm sure I'd have had the same reaction re. "Splendido".

Never thought the use of the TPIR losing horns cue (sans the first two notes) was a good fit for the Bust cue on Card Sharks either.

Well, for Perry's version at least. Did prefer them reinstating the missing notes for the Eubanks/Rafferty run, and despite its association with TPIR, it just worked perfectly on CS as well.

[clemon79]

While we're in the Jackpot! well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6lWuaeGmWY&list=WL&index=8

I don't know what I just watched, but I suddenly have an uncontrollable urge to go buy a camera.

[Ian Wallis]

Thought of an odd one:  Break the Bank '76 and Soap World in '82.

Soap World was a M-F syndicated strip that focused on soap stars and their hobbies.  It started in Sept 1982 but I think it was gone by Christmas.  I tried searching for it online and there doesn't seem to be much of it out there.

The theme works much better on a game show rather than a talk/reality type show.  Soap World was produced by Barry-Enright and I guess they really liked that theme!

EDIT:  there is a clip with the show close included here:

[BrandonFG]

The theme works much better on a game show rather than a talk/reality type show.  Soap World was produced by Barry-Enright and I guess they really liked that theme!

Outside of the clip you added, when Charlie O'Donnell died someone made a Youtube video of the intros of every show he announced including Soap World. I've tried to find that video for years, to no avail.

And I agree the theme didn't fit there, unless you looped the strings part over and over again, similar to what TJW did for its million dollar tournament in the early-80s.

[steveleb]

Let’s not forget that that jackpot opening which was used by Kodak (explain to the millennials what that was) was also used for the dramatic opening of Pass the Buck.

[SuperMatch93]

Over in Australia, "Gathering Crowds" (the closing theme from TWIB) was used in promos for Ford Superquiz in the early 80s.

I don't know of any full eps circulating, but it fits the high-class vibe that the show was trying to portray.

[gamed121683]

Not the first time Barry & Enright recycled a game show theme. Didn't they also use the Play The Percentages theme for Nipsey's version of Juvenile Jury in the early '80s?