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golden-road

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« on: September 29, 2004, 09:32:34 AM »
How was it different than the Daytime version? How was the bonus played? Did anybody win the $25,000? Since Metromedia distributed it, does that mean 20th Century Fox Television own the rights (OT, same with The Cross-Wits, & Bob Barker's Truth or Concenquences)?

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« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2004, 09:56:44 AM »
>> Since Metromedia distributed it, does that mean 20th Century Fox Television own the rights (OT, same with The Cross-Wits, & Bob Barker's Truth or Concenquences)?
Doubt it. If these tapes exist at all, they're probably in Sony's hands.
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« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2004, 10:00:25 AM »
golden-road: I would suggest that , instead of wasting bandwith with 100 threads on a single question, you lump all your queries into one thread. Trust me, it'll make things easier as well.

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« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2004, 10:02:59 AM »
[quote name=\'golden-road\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 08:32 AM\'] How was it different than the Daytime version? How was the bonus played? Did anybody win the $25,000? [/quote]
 Art wore a tux, and there were some lights added to the set to make the set more 70s and nighttime-centric. Other than that, the bonus round was the big difference. Originally, winning contestants picked a square on the J! board and won whatever prize was behind it. As per a post on ATGS, they later awarded the champion a prize based on how much money they won in the maingame, the more money won, the bigger the prize, ranging from a low-end mid-70s econobox to $25K in cash.

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« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2004, 10:50:07 AM »
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 09:02 AM\'] As per a post on ATGS, they later awarded the champion a prize based on how much money they won in the maingame, the more money won, the bigger the prize, ranging from a low-end mid-70s econobox to $25K in cash. [/quote]
 I assume "econobox" refers to the subcompacts America was churning out in those days, yes?

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« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2004, 10:52:40 AM »
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 09:02 AM\'] [quote name=\'golden-road\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 08:32 AM\'] How was it different than the Daytime version? How was the bonus played? Did anybody win the $25,000? [/quote]
Art wore a tux, and there were some lights added to the set to make the set more 70s and nighttime-centric. [/quote]
That was the time when many of the nighttime shows had their hosts wearing tuxedos. And often they were quite loud. Peter Marshall wore some real winners on nighttime The Hollywood Squares. Once after Kenny introduced him and he was wearing this.....blue.....thing....., Pete said "I'm ready to lead the band". Tom Kennedy wore a tux for a season or two on The $100,000 Name That Tune as did Alex Trebek on nighttime High Rollers, Geoff Edwards for the full run of both versions of Treasure Hunt and Jim Lange, in addition to a perm, wore a let's-make-sure-the-color's-working-on-your-TV-set tux on late 70s Dating Game.
« Last Edit: September 29, 2004, 10:54:54 AM by Don Howard »

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« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2004, 10:57:51 AM »
[quote name=\'rigsby\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 09:50 AM\']
I assume "econobox" refers to the subcompacts America was churning out in those days, yes? [/quote]
 It refers to a low-end compact car from any decade, these days it's the Chevy Aveo or several Kia models.

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« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2004, 12:08:31 PM »
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 09:02 AM\'] the bigger the prize, ranging from a low-end mid-70s econobox to $25K in cash. [/quote]
 Hmm... how much had to be won to get $25k? And was it ever reached?

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« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2004, 04:50:53 PM »
[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 09:52 AM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 09:02 AM\'] [quote name=\'golden-road\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 08:32 AM\'] How was it different than the Daytime version? How was the bonus played? Did anybody win the $25,000? [/quote]
Art wore a tux, and there were some lights added to the set to make the set more 70s and nighttime-centric. [/quote]
That was the time when many of the nighttime shows had their hosts wearing tuxedos. And often they were quite loud. Peter Marshall wore some real winners on nighttime The Hollywood Squares. Once after Kenny introduced him and he was wearing this.....blue.....thing....., Pete said "I'm ready to lead the band". Tom Kennedy wore a tux for a season or two on The $100,000 Name That Tune as did Alex Trebek on nighttime High Rollers, Geoff Edwards for the full run of both versions of Treasure Hunt and Jim Lange, in addition to a perm, wore a let's-make-sure-the-color's-working-on-your-TV-set tux on late 70s Dating Game. [/quote]
Speaking about game show hosts that wore tuxedos, when Price is Right did their series of primetime specials in 1986(their first foray in this), Bob Barker wore a tux on each special as did announcer Rod Roddy.
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« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2004, 05:33:32 PM »
[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 09:52 AM\'][quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 09:02 AM\'] [quote name=\'golden-road\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 08:32 AM\'] How was it different than the Daytime version? How was the bonus played? Did anybody win the $25,000? [/quote]
Art wore a tux, and there were some lights added to the set to make the set more 70s and nighttime-centric. [/quote]
That was the time when many of the nighttime shows had their hosts wearing tuxedos. And often they were quite loud. Peter Marshall wore some real winners on nighttime The Hollywood Squares. Once after Kenny introduced him and he was wearing this.....blue.....thing....., Pete said "I'm ready to lead the band". Tom Kennedy wore a tux for a season or two on The $100,000 Name That Tune as did Alex Trebek on nighttime High Rollers, Geoff Edwards for the full run of both versions of Treasure Hunt and Jim Lange, in addition to a perm, wore a let's-make-sure-the-color's-working-on-your-TV-set tux on late 70s Dating Game.[/quote]
And so did Chuck Barris on "The Gong Show"--if you could say that wearing a tuxedo shirt and a bow tie that got taken off sometime during the middle of the show with a Phladelphia Phillies warmup jacket a "tuxedo."  (He did wear the tuxes straight in the early days, before "Gong" got *really* crazy, although the ties were being taken off fairly early in the run.)

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« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2004, 05:42:08 PM »
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 10:02 AM\'] [quote name=\'golden-road\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 08:32 AM\'] How was it different than the Daytime version? How was the bonus played? Did anybody win the $25,000? [/quote]
Art wore a tux, and there were some lights added to the set to make the set more 70s and nighttime-centric. Other than that, the bonus round was the big difference. Originally, winning contestants picked a square on the J! board and won whatever prize was behind it. As per a post on ATGS, they later awarded the champion a prize based on how much money they won in the maingame, the more money won, the bigger the prize, ranging from a low-end mid-70s econobox to $25K in cash. [/quote]
Hmm...I'm not really familiar with this version of Jeopardy!.  Was the bonus round done after FJ! or in place of FJ!?
« Last Edit: September 29, 2004, 05:47:44 PM by Steve Gavazzi »

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« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2004, 07:40:13 PM »
[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 04:42 PM\']
Hmm...I'm not really familiar with this 1974-75 nighttime version of Jeopardy!.  Was the bonus round done after FJ! or in place of FJ!? [/quote]
 After FJ!

That Don Guy

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« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2004, 09:05:56 PM »
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 09:02 AM\'][quote name=\'golden-road\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 08:32 AM\'] How was it different than the Daytime version? How was the bonus played? Did anybody win the $25,000? [/quote]
Art wore a tux, and there were some lights added to the set to make the set more 70s and nighttime-centric. Other than that, the bonus round was the big difference. Originally, winning contestants picked a square on the J! board and won whatever prize was behind it. As per a post on ATGS, they later awarded the champion a prize based on how much money they won in the maingame, the more money won, the bigger the prize, ranging from a low-end mid-70s econobox to $25K in cash.[/quote]
In the "pick a number" end game (called the "Jeopardy! Jackpot Board"), they didn't use the actual game board, but a smaller one with 30 slips of paper; the top prize was $25,000, but you had to find two slips, one with the top half of "$25,000" on it and the other with the bottom half.
The later end game (the "Championship Stakes board") originally had:
$5 to $995 - Chevrolet Vega
$1000 to $1495 - Chevrolet Caprice
$1500 to $1995 - $10,000 cash
$2000 and up - $25,000 cash
Later, the top two amounts needed were raised to $2000 and $2500.  (Originally, the contestants were daytime winners; I think they stopped this when they raised the amounts, but I'm not entirely certain.)

There was one other thing they didn't use on the daytime version: the first contestant to run a category won a bonus - in the Jeopardy! Jackpot Board days, it was a Vega (and at least one person won two, one for the sweep and one in the end game), and when they switched end games, it was a London holiday package (British Airways coach round trip, plus six nights' hotel and two tickets to two London shows, assuming it's the same as the one I went on in 1987).

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