[quote name=\'Michael Brandenburg\' date=\'Dec 22 2004, 08:59 PM\']The final episode of
Dream House on ABC (which aired on January 2, 1970)awarded a new car to the day's winning couple in addition to their other game winnings -- who, interestingly enough, had won five previous games up to that time, which would have entitled them to an
airplane, the prize the last 5-game winner had won on a program that aired only eight days before. (By that time on the show, a couple who had won for five consecutive days could either take the airplane -- worth about $15,000 at that time -- or try to win two more games for either the house they were playing for, or an alternate prize of $20,000 in cash.)
With only six programs left before
Dream House would be replaced on the ABC schedule by "a new program in this time period," the producers intended the car to be awarded to the winners of the final game on the last show, regardless of the number of games the couple had won up to that time, since there wouldn't be enough programs left for another house win -- but it just happened to work out that way!
And after that car was awarded, the show broke for its final commercial break, and then host Mike Darrow returned to sing "The Party's Over," and, after a few more comments, the show ended, with Darrow going over to NBC to be the announcer on
The Who, What, or Where Game.Thirteen years later, the
Dream House game show returned (on NBC this time around), but it simply wasn't the same in its second incarnation, IMO. Meanwhile as for that "new program" in
Dream House's former time period that debuted on ABC on January 5, 1970…
Michael Brandenburg
(…incredibly, it's going to celebrate 35 years on the air next month! Too bad I don't have any children of my own who might have enjoyed it during all that time.)
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I remember the ABC version. The NBC version wasn't shown in Cincinnati.
Brian
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