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  • i think Jim Perry's head exploded at the end of the round.

  • When did this originally air?

  • @JonSea31 According to my calculations, April 11th 1984.

  • Question if the champion purchases a prize in the shopping era, do they keep the leftover money? Or is the champion gets defeated do they lose all the banked money?

  • @danbarker39 i think they keep the banked money, but don't quote me on that

  • NBC loved $100,000 wins, CBS were cheap with the limits.

  • @danbarker39

    At Least Until the $100,000 win on press your luck.

  • I like the Syndicated Sale of the Century, where you need $750 or more to Win all the Prizes on the Set, Plus the Cash Jackpot.

  • I freakin loved this show.

  • Is David the first big winner under the speed round format?

  • Duh!

  • i like how Perry gets into it, yelling "thats right!" really fast lol

  • well with $109,000 on the line i don't blame him

  • Jim Perry was doing this show; thus, Bob Eubanks did the revival of Card Sharks.

  • hey i heard a blooper around :08-:09. Listen to what Jim Perry says about the cash jackpot

  • I did when I got this 5 years ago and I wondered if anyone else ever caught it. He said $109 and he meant $109,000.

  • It was a minor error. He was talking too fast at the time.

  • Did you know that this was the biggest single-day all-cash prize anyone's ever won on a network daytime show?

    Natalie Steele's $106,000 on Super Password is much too short.

    Michael Larson's $104,950 on Press Your Luck is much too short.

    John Hatten's $120,000 on Blockbusters was the only one that beat it (he only got it in 20 days). The McCarthys' $120,000 was just split evenly.

    Leland Yung's $122,000 on Password Plus and Blockbusters was only won in separate days and separate game shows.

  • @TVLubber true, but with "pay the rent" on the price is right now, someone could break david's record with a win+at least $11,000 on the wheel

  • but i can understand david walking away with the cash jackpot it was a lot of money to pass up. but with bill fogel i was confused out of my mind

  • i can understand that. although i wasn't sure whether another $1,000 would've been added

  • In the Daytime version of the show, if the contestant chose to play on then the Jackpot would increase by another $1,000 each night until the champion gained enough points to take out all the prizes and the cash jackpot. (This could be done in the matter of, say, one or more episodes)

  • i'm not sure, but isn't there 1 clip on here where some1 picks the $10 money card in the fame game?

  • and had he passed that up another $1,000 would've been added right?

  • wait a second, y did they leave out the actual prizes from his total?

  • Nobody has ever topped that cash jackpot after this.

  • o i get it, $655 was enough 4 the cash jackpot alone right?

  • ya the daytime version 650 just bought the jackpot, 750 bought that and the stage. nighttime: 650 all the prizes 750 all+cash. Daytime it only happened once Barbara phillips during the non speedround era: $68,000 Cash Jackpot, $151,689 total

  • Does anybody know where we can find a video (not audio) clip of that victory?

    Also, you got it all wrong. $760 is what someone needs to win everything in the daytime show. $640 is for all the prizes (jackpot not included) in the syndicated version, and $750 is for everything, including the jackpot in the syndicated version.

  • I heard Barbara Phillips in 1983 was the only person in the daytime shopping format to win everything on the stage including the cash jackpot of $68,000 giving her a total of over $151,000 in cash and prizes.

  • here's my take on this format of the rules. $650 should be for all the prizes on the lot minus the cash jackpot, $760 should be for everything cause more people would go for that. Cause if you notice when everything was the other way around people just stopped at the cash jackpot.

  • It is likely that we'll see much bigger wins than this when "Temptation" premiers in the U.S. this Fall, "Sale" is coming back, BABY!

  • then the game show god is not dead

  • Yes here's hoping it's good...Family Feud's improved so hopefully Fremantle has most of its monkeying out of its system by now. I don't know much about the guy who they are going to have hosting, but let's hope he's not all looks and no talent.

  • who's the host?

  • You know, if David went onto win everything, he would've won over ready for this? $187,000 in cash and prizes for a daytime game show.

  • Plus the stuff he won on the instant bargains and fame games, he would have had a little over $200,000

  • Yeah, but he probably thought that $109,000 was a whole lotta money to risk, so all he said was "Let's take the money and run!".

  • Indeed...virtually all champs during the NBC shopping era who made it that far opted to quit w/the cash jackpot, since most weren't willing to risk that much money to add prizes which, more often that not, added up to less than the value of the CJ!

  • Not Barbara Phillips. She went all the way. Besides, I think the syndicated version did the right thing changing the shopping format a bit. Reducing the required amount a bit and making it so that the only way to win the cash jackpot is to win everything!

  • Do you know anybody that has Barbara Phillips lot winning episode?

  • Someone should have it.

  • Barbara didn't go all the way. On the show before her lot win, she had $644, $6 short of winning the money. Her $120 in the final game carried her over the top (winning only on the last question even). Had she won with less than the $120, she might have quit with the $68,000.

  • But that counts as going all the way.

  • If you think that Barbara would have opted to play on, well, it's your dime. She won by a fluke, and by getting twenty right in her last episode.

  • Well, just so you know, I heard that the $760 rule wasn't around until the Speed Round was introduced, and thus $540 was needed to win just the jackpot, $650 for the entire lot at the time Barbara won the big one.

  • I had forgotten that the amounts were lower pre-speed round. That still means that Barbara was able to vault over the last two levels in one episode.

  • @TVLubber i think it was $510 and $600, but you're right otherwise

  • In the 6 years SotC has been on $109,000 if the largest it has ever been, and hasn't been reached again in the US.

  • Marc is exactly right. During that time the shopping format was in place, and accumulating $650 would be worth the cash jackpot ($540 for the car and $760 for everything plus the jackpot). It later changed to a car at $530, every prize on the stage minus the jackpot at $640 and everything and the jackpot at $750. Then came the winner's board, and the winner's big money game in '88.

  • i hated the big money game it made it too like GSN game shows, cheap.

  • In David's multiple wins, he racked up enough score money to buy the cash jackpot. If he wanted to, he could have passed it up and try to win some more cash to buy everything on stage, plus the jackpot.

  • Considering he only needed $80 to cash in the lot, I would've went along, took the money and ran!

  • I forgot the setup of the SOTC rules, didn't they play a bonus round before the big prize? How did he get 109k for just winning the main game?

  • I've never seen that show in years, but I still remember "$ale of the Century" back when I was a kid. I missed watching that show when it was on NBC during the daytime. "$ale of the Century"was an excellent game show hosted by Jim Perry of "Card Sharks". If it's a good idea if I can write to GSN and complaining to bring "$ale of the Century" back. I do see "$ale of the Century" coming back to GSN anytime soon.

  • SotC is coming to GSN, musicradio? I don't think so, GSN is more closely to reality shows now, so I don't think so.

  • Two things here: Jim stated at the start of the speedround that the jackpot was $109. And 2, he was really a bit high-strung into the speedround during that time, shouting "that's right" on many occasions.

  • I agree, but who else wouldn't be high-strung, when a contestant is on the verge of winning over $100,000 in cash? (And that was a LOT back in the early 80s!)

  • Jim Perry always had a knack for understanding the magnitude of a situation like a speed round. He never held back on his emotions as a host, and always rooted for the contestants to succeed. He never tried to make himself a star (pat sajak), he made his contestants stars ( type in "card sharks norma" to understand ).

  • very awesome! check out my video attached to this message if you haven't seen it already.

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