[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 09:57 AM\'][quote name=\'TLEberle\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 08:45 AM\']If anyone remembers anything about the show, I'd love to hear from you.
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Just like the Hal March era, the questions began at $64 then doubled until you reached $512, increased to $1000 and then doubled to $64000.
Here is where some changes were made. First of all, the outcomes were not "controlled". Also, the consolation prize was $1 if you missed through the $4000 question, a car if you busted on $8000 or $16000 and the consolation prize if you missed at $32000 or $64000 was $16000, so the $32K query was a free question. Depending on what level question being asked, you were allowed to make a mistake on a multi-part isolation booth question and were then asked a make-up question. For the $64K question, no mistakes were allowed.
All $64000 winners (there were four in the 1976-77 season--the only year of the show televised in Cleveland) competed in a season-end tournament. The top scorer in a format which escapes me {forgive me; it has been close to 28 years} won the additional $64K for a total of $128,000. I believe the winner the first season was Don Chu. True Don Chu.
One contestant's name was Susan B. Anthony and her category of expertise was......Susan B. Anthony. I don't recall how she fared.
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For the first season, there was a three-week preliminary game, where the four $64,000 winners accumulated points for correct answers to questions in their respective categories. Each player got an equal number of questions asked, and the correct answers for week number one were worth one point, the second week-- two points, and the third week--three points. Then, the two highest scorers came back the fourth and final week of tournament play, and had to be the first to get six correct answers, with an equal chance at doing so.
IIRC, the Susan B. Anthony contestant, by name and by category; tried for, but failed to win on her $64,000 question.
I don't recall how the second season tournament played, but I think only TWO contestants made it to the playoffs.