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AH3RD

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« on: May 04, 2005, 05:14:37 PM »
MAY 6, 1974

 

The $10,000 Pyramid
, created and produced by Bob Stewart and hosted by Dick Clark, returned on ABC @ 4:00pm (Eastern) with celebrity guests Anne Meara and Soupy Sales, after a mere absence of just five weeks following the abrupt demise of the CBS version (to make way for Goodson-Todman's Now You See It).

The ABC version yielded a 6-year hit, spinning off a once-a-week nighttime $25,000 Pyramid version for syndication in the prime-access time slot emceed by Bill Cullen on local stations in September  1974, adding a new feature, "The Big 7", in December 1974, winning Emmies left and right, increasing the top dollar value to $20,000 in January 1976, and airing 1,808 episodes (including the ones on CBS) until June 1980.
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ChuckNet

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« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2005, 08:48:47 PM »
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The $10,000 Pyramid, created and produced by Bob Stewart and hosted by Dick Clark, returned on ABC @ 4:00pm (Eastern) with celebrity guests Anne Meara and Soupy Sales, after a mere absence of just five weeks following the abrupt demise of the CBS version (to make way for Goodson-Todman's Now You See It).

Incidentally, Soupy was also one of the celebs on the final wk of that first CBS run... on the last show, he told Dick during the close that he thought Pyramid "was a great game, and I hope it comes back soon". (Little did he know...LOL).

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« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2005, 11:27:38 PM »
Also, let's add....
MAY 4th 1987:
The premiere of Classic Concentration.