Anybody remember Paul Lynde on mid-70's Pyramid?

[AmazingErikZ]

First, I have to say it's great to be back in this forum! This past June, every time I tried to get in, I kept getting "page not found" and I've been looking for this site since.

Anyway, now that I'm back my first new topic is about Hollywood Squares' Paul Lynde on 1975 Pyramid. Although the eps are gone forever, I'd like to know if anyone knows what he was like on it.

[The Pyramids]

You're saying he defintely was on it?

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Nov 24 2004, 03:57 PM\']You're saying he defintely was on it?

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He was--I'm pretty sure I saw him on it.  However, I can't really remember what his game-playing ability was, which probably meant that he was simply competent (you tend to remember only the really clueless, like Jimmie "J.J. Kid Dyn-O-Mite" Walker, or the really good).

Or if you're Dick Cavett, you're known on "Pyramid" just for giving Dick Clark hell all the time.

[pyrfan]

According to some reliable sources, Paul won 10K at least once that week in January 1975 for one of his contestant partners. The contestant gave the clues to Paul. Apparently, that win was featured in the opening montage for a while.

As long as we're on the subject, if anyone remembers who his opponent was for that week, please let me know. TV Guide lists Marcia Wallace, but the info is almost certainly erroneous.


Brendan

[AmazingErikZ]

[quote name=\'pyrfan\' date=\'Nov 24 2004, 06:34 PM\']According to some reliable sources, Paul won 10K at least once that week in January 1975 for one of his contestant partners. The contestant gave the clues to Paul. Apparently, that win was featured in the opening montage for a while.

As long as we're on the subject, if anyone remembers who his opponent was for that week, please let me know. TV Guide lists Marcia Wallace, but the info is almost certainly erroneous.


Brendan

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[/quote]Yes, it was Marcia Wallace. It happened the week of January 13-17, 1975.

Oh, I just learned some fantastic Pyramid trivia! The highest tie-breaker outcome in Pyramid history was 45-44! It happened on July 4, 1975 and the celebs were Lucie Arnaz & Anson "Potsie Weber" Williams. Who'd ever think it could get THAT high?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'AmazingErikZ\' date=\'Nov 25 2004, 12:08 PM\']Oh, I just learned some fantastic Pyramid trivia! The highest tie-breaker outcome in Pyramid history was 45-44! It happened on July 4, 1975 and the celebs were Lucie Arnaz & Anson "Potsie Weber" Williams. Who'd ever think it could get THAT high?

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So you figure it was decided in the fourth tiebreaker. Wow.

[TwoInchQuad]

For the life of me, I can't remember who the celebs were (though I'm thinking it's either Dave Letterman and Sandy Duncan) but GSN has shown an episode of "Pyramid" that had a score that was fairly close to that-- I'm fairly sure that both final scores were in the 40's.

[Craig Karlberg]

Thank goodness Pyramid modified its tiebreaker format to save time or we might've seen more scores in the high 20's 30's & maybe 1 or 2 40's scores.

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' date=\'Nov 26 2004, 04:14 AM\']Thank goodness Pyramid modified its tiebreaker format to save time or we might've seen more scores in the high 20's 30's & maybe 1 or 2 40's scores.

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It should be noted that the Osmond Pyramid didn't reset the scores during a tiebreaker as the 1982-91 versions did. If the two teams played to more than one tiebreaker, only one was shown on air.

[pyrfan]

Erik, did you see this week when it aired? I ask because I have reason to doubt that it was Marcia on the show that week. We talked about it on the board a while ago. Here's what I said then:

1. Marcia was not listed in the 1987 list of celebs that "Pyramid" showed for their 15th anniversary. Granted, though, many other stars were conspicuously absent from that list.

2. Marcia also was not on a list of celebs who had been on "Pyramid" that appeared in a 1976 Variety ad celebrating the show's Emmy win.

3. On her 1987 appearance on the 25K, Marcia herself said that she had never done the game before, calling herself a "Pyramid virgin."



Brendan

[Jay Temple]

[quote name=\'TwoInchQuad\' date=\'Nov 26 2004, 02:46 AM\']For the life of me, I can't remember who the celebs were (though I'm thinking it's either Dave Letterman and Sandy Duncan) but GSN has shown an episode of "Pyramid" that had a score that was fairly close to that-- I'm fairly sure that both final scores were in the 40's.

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That would be Sandy Duncan and Nipsey Russell, in 1978.  That show and the next day's are available on the trading circuit.  (The second show starts in the Winner's Circle with the winner of game 2.)