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« on: August 02, 2005, 01:34:43 PM »
I taped a Christmas Week '79 episode of the Monty Hall version two years ago, as well as an episode with Jackie Gleason last weekend, and was wondering, how did the Narz/Wood & Non-Celebrity Monty Hall versions played, compared to the version seen on weekends?

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« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2005, 02:22:11 PM »
[quote name=\'golden-road\' date=\'Aug 2 2005, 10:34 AM\']how did the Narz/Wood & Non-Celebrity Monty Hall versions played, compared to the version seen on weekends?
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It's been too long since I've seen Narz/Wood, but the Monty Hall version played exactly the same with celebritied as without, save for the money going to charity instead of in their pockets: a few stunts worth money, then the Bonus Shuffle to determine who played the bonus and for how much, then the Bonus itself.

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« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2005, 04:44:41 PM »
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I taped a Christmas Week '79 episode of the Monty Hall version two years ago, as well as an episode with Jackie Gleason last weekend, and was wondering, how did the Narz/Wood & Non-Celebrity Monty Hall versions played, compared to the version seen on weekends?

Narz/Wood:  Two couples would play on each episode, doing two stunts each.  Each completed stunt earned a trip to the "Cash Board" (letters in the show's title) for up to $200.  If a stunt was completed quickly, then the couple could try to do it again for bonus money (usually $10 each repetition).  They would also win $50 if they could guess whether a celeb could complete a stunt or not, and the final stunt of the show was a head-to-head with the couples competing for a bonus prize.

Non-Celeb Hall:  Two head-to-head stunts and two "beat the mark set by the other team" stunts were played by two couples each show (that's a lot of twos!) for $500 each stunt (it was $250 for the celeb version).  The "Bonus Shuffle" and "Bonus Stunt" were played with the same rules as the celeb version, except no money went to the audience and the couples kept all their money, as Chris said.

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« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2005, 06:14:37 PM »
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When was the last time GSN aired these versions on the daily schedule?

The Hall version last aired on weekends before the "Dark Period" at a time in the morning where the only time I would see it is to set the VCR...:).  I'm pretty sure the "Dark Period" ended this version's regular appearances.

After the "Dark Period," the Narz/Wood version was back on weekend mornings, but I don't remember when it stopped.  I know the last time I saw it was in high school, so I'm going to make a conservative guess and say it stopped around 2001.

Can somebody confirm/correct these things?  Right now, I'm about as sure of myself as I am of winning the Lotto this week...:)

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« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2005, 12:05:27 PM »
During the Non-Celeb Hall days, did anybody win $10,000?

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« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2005, 04:00:34 PM »
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The Hall version last aired on weekends before the "Dark Period" at a time in the morning where the only time I would see it is to set the VCR...:). I'm pretty sure the "Dark Period" ended this version's regular appearances.

After the "Dark Period," the Narz/Wood version was back on weekend mornings, but I don't remember when it stopped. I know the last time I saw it was in high school, so I'm going to make a conservative guess and say it stopped around 2001.


I've kept lists of the first seven or eight GSN schedules, and you're exactly right about the Hall "Beat the Clock".  Aside from the Christmas episode, it hasn't been on the schedule since Oct 1997.  However, the Gene Wood version was taken off the weekend schedule in April 1999, and as far as I know hasn't been regularly aired since.
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« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2005, 09:16:43 PM »
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However, the Gene Wood version was taken off the weekend schedule in April 1999, and as far as I know hasn't been regularly aired since.

Thanks for the correction.  I did get one thing right, though:  I was in high school when it ended, though I was only a freshman as opposed to a junior...:)

So, we haven't seen color BTC episodes as regular scheduled appearances since 1999?  Wow; I didn't realize it was that long ago.  That's a real shame, especially since I always liked the Narz/Wood version over the other versions (not that I don't enjoy them, of course).  Adding in the "duel" and celebrity stunts was a nice touch, and, since the prize money wasn't so high, you just had two couples competing mainly for some laughs and to have some fun.  Plus, you had to love it when somebody would complete a stunt quickly enough to be able to try it again for more money (a very nice touch, IMO).

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« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2005, 10:38:44 PM »
However, I've seen some clips from the Gene Wood's hosting episodes of BTC from As Seen On, but of course when it came to As Seen On Theatre, they show us a full-length episode of the show when the clip was on ASO that week particularly from ASO Season 2's game show clips and color BTC's will eventually come back to regular showings if/when either by GSN launches Color Rarities overnight(that's of course rarely happens), or when the fall schedule is announced.

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« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2005, 10:44:03 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2005, 11:00:43 PM »
[quote name=\'Robair\' date=\'Aug 4 2005, 10:44 PM\']I lost you at "However".
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« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2005, 04:32:21 PM »
A quick point:  In the first New York season of the Narz "BTC," there was no cash board--the couples won prizes for every stunt.  The cash board didn't come along until the move to Canada.

And the race stunt didn't come along until Wood replaced Narz--until then, one couple did one more stunt than the other on each show, iwth the celeb solo stunt appearing in the second segment.  Occasionally, they would do a big group stunt or a game called "Beat-O" for the third segment (no, not Plinko--this was a combination of Bingo and a scavenger hunt where an item would be revealed on a bingo board and whichever couple could find it in the studio audience first got the square and $10, IIRC).

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« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2005, 09:32:33 PM »
From watching BTC, the cash board ranged from $25 to $200 and even with Gene Wood taking over, the format didn't change in the first part because what you saw was that when the second couple was introduced, they would be the first couple to do a stunt and then Gene introduces a celebrity of the week. In the 1971-72 season in the third segment, there was a game of intuition, on Monday-Thursday shows, 3 girls from the studio audience would participate with 2 on-stage ladies would also be participating in this intuition, Jack asks up to 5 questions with 2 choices of answers and a celebrity had to point to an answer card but can't say anything and we can't see the answer until Jack asks the 5 ladies say what will be the answer to that question, everytime a celebrity points at the answer that at least 3 ladies answered, the 2 couples would get $25. On the Friday shows, Jack and the celebrity sits down and Jack asks a celebrity where a celebrity was born, when was a celebrity born in and where did the celebrity graduate, now while Jack has a conversation about the celebrity, Gail sent the 2 couples backstage and when Jack and the celebrity was done conversating, Gail sent the 2 couples back onstage and Jack asks the couples a question, if they know the answer was, all they did was raise their hand and if the couple gets the correct answer, that couple gets $25 per correct answer and BTW, the 3 ladies from the studio audience recieved a prize for participating in the Monday-Thursday intuition and at the end of the show, 3 or 4 members of the audience had to play a quick stunt for $20 for each repetition they do succesfully and then total up the final cash totals the couples had to take home. At the end of the Friday show, Jack/Gene had to announce a new celebrity for the next week's shows and there were no returning couples on this show unless there was an error on the total of the money a couple took home.

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« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2005, 10:02:57 PM »
[quote name=\'irismason42\' date=\'Sep 20 2005, 09:32 PM\']From watching BTC, the cash board ranged from $25 to $200 and even with Gene Wood taking over, the format didn't change in the first part because what you saw was that when the second couple was introduced, they would be the first couple to do a stunt and then Gene introduces a celebrity of the week.[/quote]
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« Reply #13 on: September 20, 2005, 10:26:14 PM »
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« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2005, 02:37:24 AM »
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