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gsnstooge

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« on: December 11, 2004, 11:51:21 AM »
What were the following winning limits on these shows? (I know there a lot of them, but I am just interested)

Rodeo Drive
Scattergories
Pictionairy '97
The Last Word
Love Me, Love Me Not
Blackout
Blockbusters '87
Home Shopping Game
Hit Man
Yahtzee
Double Talk
Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak
Your Number's Up
Strike it Rich '86
Pitfall
Catch Phrase
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BrandonFG

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« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2004, 12:10:39 PM »
[quote name=\'gsnstooge\' date=\'Dec 11 2004, 11:51 AM\']What were the following winning limits on these shows? (I know there a lot of them)

Rodeo Drive
Scattergories
Pictionairy '97
The Last Word
Love Me, Love Me Not
Blackout
Blockbusters '87
Home Shopping Game
Hit Man
Yahtzee
Double Talk
Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak
Your Number's Up
Strike it Rich '86
Win, Lose, or Draw (NBC daytime version)
Pitfall
Catch Phrase
Chain Reaction '80
Break the Bank (ABC)
The Better Sex
Showoffs
Rhyme and Reason
and Password '75
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(raises an eyebrow) Are you serious?

Anyways, I'm guessing most of the syndie shows had 3 or 5-day limits (the ones that allowed returning champions). ABC's limit was $25,000 (at least in the 70s), and AFAIK, NBC had a set number of days that champs could stay. Even though you don't have any CBS shows, their limit was $25,000 (allowed to keep up to $35,000), and have been raised over the years.

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Ian Wallis

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« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2004, 12:45:04 PM »
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ABC's limit was $25,000 (at least in the 70s),


True about ABC - but I think once you passed $20,000 you were forced to retire at that point, although you could keep up to $25,000.
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« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2004, 02:55:10 PM »
Perhaps you should just tell us which shows you aren't asking about.
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tvwxman

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« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2004, 03:00:33 PM »
21 year olds should be thinking about far many more important things than this, even after 36 hours.

I'm not making a joke here. I'm completely serious.
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« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2004, 03:55:30 PM »
[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Dec 11 2004, 02:55 PM\']Perhaps you should just tell us which shows you aren't asking about.
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SHHHH!  Don't say that.  He might open a copy of the Encyclopedia and take you seriously.
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« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2004, 04:08:44 PM »
[quote name=\'gsnstooge\' date=\'Dec 11 2004, 03:15 PM\']The ones I DO want to know the most are:
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zachhoran

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« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2004, 07:48:12 PM »
[quote name=\'gsnstooge\' date=\'Dec 11 2004, 11:51 AM\']What were the following winning limits on these shows? (I know there a lot of them, but I am just interested)

Rodeo Drive
Scattergories
Pictionairy '97
The Last Word
Love Me, Love Me Not
Blackout
Blockbusters '87
Home Shopping Game
Hit Man
Yahtzee
Double Talk
Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak
Your Number's Up
Strike it Rich '86
Pitfall
Catch Phrase
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Rodeo Drive, Scattergories,Blackout, Home SHopping Game, Hit Man, Double Talk, Hot Streak, Catch Phrase: five shows.

Last Word: Two out of three games won a match, and a player who won two matches became the champion and the other player was eliminated. A player was undefeated when they defeated five opponents.

Pictionary: Early on there were returning champions IIRC, but then it was one show per contestant.

Love Me, Love Me Not: A contestant who won the car or the trip in the bonus round was retired IIRC.

Blockbusters 87: ten matches

Yahtzee, Pitfall, Strike it Rich: I don't recall if there was a limit.
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Monarx

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« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2004, 08:44:02 PM »
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 11 2004, 07:48 PM\'](la la la...) Pitfall (...): I don't recall if there was a limit.
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Since they couldn't pay up, I think the limit was $0. :-)
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« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2004, 12:27:04 PM »
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 11 2004, 07:48 PM\']Hit Man: five shows.
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Flag on the play.  The correct answer is 10 shows.
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« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2004, 02:42:00 PM »
About Love Me, Love Me Not...

I believe that if the contestant won the trip, they still played in the next game when they  had the opposite sex play the game where they tried to "capture" the three players on the left side

e.g. Men in the booths, women trying to capture them on the right side..

Then if that champ who won the trip won, I believe they got a shot at the car. If it was won, they did retire. However, if not won, they kept playing until they lost or won the car.

BTW, early in the run originally the player that would be going for the trip would receive $100 per petal of that daisy and if they caught the person their money was doubled..

I can remember some of it from Prime's airings in the late 90s/ early 2000s(it used to air on there, along with the Canadian Supermarket Sweep.
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« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2004, 04:46:26 PM »
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21 year olds should be thinking about far many more important things than this
If I had the sex drive of a 21-year-old I wouldn't spend my weekends thinking about winning limits of obscure game shows, you betcha Skippy.

That's going to be my signature from now on. Look:
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« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2004, 04:53:37 PM »
Recalling my own 21st birthday, it began on a Thursday night and ended in the wee hours of Monday morning. It wasn't easy going to class that day.
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ChuckNet

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« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2004, 06:42:26 PM »
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I can remember some of it from Prime's airings in the late 90s/ early 2000s(it used to air on there, along with the Canadian Supermarket Sweep.

They also aired The Next Line and The New Liar's Club, as well.

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J.R.

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« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2004, 08:33:04 PM »
I'm kinda curious: Why did networks put-in winnings and appearance limits?

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