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.
