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  • I do recall this round when younger. This was the most exciting / anxious part then, as it is today. With a more exciting front-game, I'd give this a watch if redone in a modern format. Got to give Eubanks credit where due though.....he made these wins quite exciting, even for a 4-5 yr old as I was then. Sure, i didn't get why he and the players were all excited, but the strobe lights and "NBC win siren" FX were enough to tell me what happened. Thanks for the memories.

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  • The odds weren't incredibly slim. If you removed no numbers, the odds were 1 in 64. If you answered enough questions to have only 3 numbers on each line, the odds were 1 in 27. If you had only 2 numbers on each line, the odds were down to 1 in 8.

  • So how did this work? Did the winners have to buy the plot of land they built the house on or was that included in with the house?

  • @guilttascharged They added $15,000 to the total for land.

  • It would definitely make for a very interesting montage to see all the house winners. There seems to be at least 11 on record. There is a page that lists ten winners, and one in the above clip (the second win by games) does not match any of them, confirming an 11th.

  • @HuusAsking Make that 12 house winners on record. One of the Dream House clips here is also a house win but does not match any of the wins in the aforementioned list, nor does it match the odd one out from this clip (it was combination win in the instance I'm describing).

  • I wish someone would put a video on of Dream House in Lego. (I've seen on here Price is Right in Lego)

  • WOW! You just won a GIANT LOGO!

  • @nightfly776

    Not just a GIANT LOGO, but a GIANT LOGO with strobe lights!

  • Eubanks was awesome on this show. This was a pretty good show while it lasted.

  • Orginally, you had to win 7 games in a row. Then the producers changes it to 5 days.

  • All that's missing from these house wins are balloons, confetti, any (maybe) pyrotechnics!

  • @kgrkid If they ever did do a remake of Dream House, I could see them using balloons and confetti, but not pyro.  Too much of an insurance risk.

  • Dream House is still fun to watch after all this time! I think this kind of concept should be revived!

  • I remember watching this show when I lived in Kingsville off Corpus Christi's NBC affiate, as well as seeing on KNSD San Diego (dec83) LV and off KOAA in SPrings. I think thetime is right for the show to return, may be the best to give away a few homes that are sitting now.

  • HOLY ____!!! THERE'S THE BIG LOGO IN THE BACK!!! I've only seen it 3 times, with the last time in 1984!!!

  • I live in New York. WNBC channel 4 aired this great show at 11:30 am, which was up against.... The Price Is Right. Any resaon why the show got canceled? Good show. Great drama. Bad time slot.

  • You answered your own question... nothing could compete against "The Price is Right" back then and many networks tried!

  • @MrBlackSW Maybe if this was in syndication, it may have run a bit longer

  • "Dream House" aired in my area on WTVK-TV Channel 26 until the swapped thier NBC Affiliation for CBS then on Septemer of 1989,WBIR in Knoxvile became THe New NBC station.The Former WTVK moved to Channel becoming WVLT or"Volunteer TV" here.

    Hope this helps you! Brainy

  • Interesting and i do get to keep internet but loose phone and Cable service.Thanks for posting.Brainy

  • I got to watch the entire series run of Dream House,but don't recall The Time-Release bar ever malfunctioning or getting stuck-just the one minute delay.

    I would have liked Bells and sirens like those used on TPIR if they win or "Loosing Horns" if they lost.

    Mabe Comcast will put GSN back on lower channel c able in my area so i can watch if they show it here.Brainy

  • Fat chance ! !

    That's the reason why we dumped Concast one month after the move and to Dish Network and then DirecTV were we have far more channels then cable

  • On what station brainman214?

  • How many homes did that show give away during it's short run. I remember the show quite well and I thought it should have been on longer

  • Those dream homes are now foreclosed lol

  • 24:1 shot :p

  • like anyone notice because it got beat up by the price is right by like a 4-1 margin

  • I like to imagine IF someone were to bring back this show (like they did password) what the set could be for the final round.

  • It's so funny to look at now. I watched this when I was a kid and loved the excitement of this final round, but to see that set expand with just a larger version of the logo behind it seems so, well, underwhelming. However, I suppose they had to show something when the doors opened. Thanks for posting this.

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  • dream House was a great series on NBC! I loved watching the doors light up and open! Although if the wrong entry was done,i hoped they use the"Loosing Horns "Theme from TPIR on this show to indicate a loss.Lots of memories with this clasic Don Reid Tresure of the past on NBC! Thanks for posting!

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  • I LOVED this show!!! and I remmebr the last one too!

  • On the very last Dream House, they won the house. Bob Eubanks announced that it was the last show, and he literally threw the combo billfold away. When they returned from the ad break, Bob was sitting in the audience, and they said their goodbyes. It was a wonderful show well missed by me.

  • I remember watching that first couple shown. They won the main game in a complete shutout over their opponents $1,150 to zip! Doesn't get luckier than that! How many couples won the house altogether during Dream House's run?

  • Is that true?

  • Jim and Debi, the second couple, are my parents! :] hehe so funny to watch. Does anyone know where the full episodes are? I have them at home but would love to see them right now!

  • I would like to see Full Episodes of Dream House on YouTube.

  • once i go back home i'll have to download them!

  • Is that true?

  • of course it's true!

  • I meant to ask that question to Elkahatchee9 about the story of the guy breaking into the ultra-high-tech security system and his wife burning the house down.

  • Uh...no. I was just bored and trying to find some way to amuse myself. Sorry.

  • While I'm not the original poster, I *am* the one who made the original videotape many years ago (I recognize the tracking problem at the bottom of the screen as being from my Betamax recorder). The only segments I taped were the bonus rounds, except when the couple used the Circuit Breaker for an automatic win. So I don't have any complete episodes.

    What I want to know is: did you grow up living *in* the Dream House your parents won? I'd love to hear about their experience on the show.

  • I only have the episodes we taped YEARS ago straight from the tv. they're pretty ghetto haha, but i'll download them soon!

    i only lived there until i was about 2. .but, i was born in 1987. and i'm pretty sure the house was built around 1982 or 83 or 84 lol. So they got a pretty good use out of it! It's funny to drive passed it now!

  • I hope you could download these episodes of Dream House on YouTube soon.

  • Please put the bonus rounds for Dream House on YouTube. I would like to see them.

  • Could you please put the bonus rounds for Dream House on YouTube. Thanks!!!!

  • You've just won YOUR DREAM HOUSE...and as we open the golden doors, IT'S ON FIRE OH NO!!!!! BYE BYE DREAM HOUSE!!! Great show and the best buildup but couldn't they have the inferno one time to be like the Dream House Zonk!!!

  • LMFAO That would've made this show great.

  • I went to a fan site of "Dream House". Does anybody have the Christmas episode that a couple won their "Dream House" as the best Christmas present that they ever have.

  • I would like to see a Christmas Episode where the couple won their Dream House as well. Does anyone have this video?

  • This was such a fantastic show! The excitement started when the 3rd set of lights came on around the doors since only 2 sets would light if the combination was wrong. Great stuff!!

  • I had forgotten all about this show. Thanx for posting! :)

  • They should bring this show back

  • Great game show from back in the days.

  • Dream House was the first game show that I ever saw in person. It was lots of fun to be in that studio. This brings back memories of being a 15 year old kid again. Thanks for posting!

  • Wheeloffortunefan999 that was from the first format because I don't see the "Money Machines" on the podiums.

  • the clip at 2:30, was that during the 1st format or the 2nd format (the one with the money machine)

  • I miss this game show! I used to watch it in 1984

  • I wonder if the show had the NBC audience sound effect that goes: Yeah, Ooo? Because it was used on numerous of NBC game shows from the 1980s.

  • Scrabble used that winning sound effect whenever someone won 20K in the Bonus game, I think. Plus "Sale of the Century" also used it when a player won every prize on-stage plus the cash jackpot (which started at 50K and went up 1K every time it wasn't won). And "Hollywood Squares", though syndicated, used it in late 80's (John Davidson) when a player won a car. Like Dream House, a HS player had to "open" the car (with a key); DH had the players figure out a safe-like combo but same concept hehe

  • No, the "Hollywood Squares" player had to start the car with the key.

  • Well yeah I remember now..when the player turned the key, and the engine revved up, that indicated a win...otherwise, a cacophony of sounds mimicking "nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah!" happened. I guess in my last message, I was just making an attempt (dry, hehe) at humor, by saying that the car had to be "opened" (started) with the key, akin to someone using a key to open the doors on DH.

  • That's not how it works in Hollywood Squares. You just either hear some sorta losing horns or "OH, NO!".

  • Can you post the game show opening please?

  • That siren was used on Scrabble when the contestant won 5 or 10 scrabble sprints to either wina bonus of $20,000 or $40,000 then for the $100,000 tornament then the Bonus Sprint.

  • It was also used on the John Davidson version on Hollywood Squares when a car was won.

  • This show seems to have got lost in the vaults of Game Show Haven..... Anyone have the intro?

  • I think "Wheel of Fortune" should used the winning siren if there's a $100,000 win in the bonus round.

  • Wow - I thought Dream House was one of the most exciting game shows from that period. I used to get all anxious listening to the "door" music. LOL!

  • I'm glad that the couple won their Dream House on their first day. I hope a LOT of people would win their Dream House. This was neat!!!

  • I know Tubewings is looking for a file of either of the theme songs, but does anyone a clear file of the winning siren?

  • Man this clip brought back some memories (watched it on WMAQ Ch. 5 in Chicago). I bet alot of couples had to pray to the most high to get the right combination on the first try. I hope GSN do a remake of this.

  • I can't tell, but were the correct numbers in the combination flashing?

  • The front game of Dream House wasn't all that exciting, but that end game was probably the most dramatic that game shows can get. I'm surprised that no-one has picked up on the format since.

  • There was not an episode of Dream House in Detroit that aired on WDIV it aired Tic Tac Dough with Wink Martindale at 11:30 am. I watched it on WTVG (then NBC) in Toledo and for one week in August 1983 when I was on Vacation in Lake Brevort on WPBN/WTOM in Northern Michigan.

  • Same for San Antonio station KMOL, which had Happy Days reruns instead.

  • I got Dream House on WXII (channel 12, Greensboro-Winston-Salem NC), which ironically was notorious for NBC preemptions back then..they never even aired "Sale of the Century." I had to whip out "wabbit ears" to get a snowy WPTF-28 (now WRDC, MyNetwork) from Raleigh, to watch whatever NBC shows 'XII knocked off. Of course, with NBC's daytime "lineup" virtually just "Today", guess there's nothing that a station "affiliate" can pass up on anymore...unless "Regis & Kelly" makes more bucks than Today

  • Huggyface, did WXII air all the NBC game shows except Sale Of The Century? I want to know did any other NBC shows at 11:30 am et had passed on WXII during the 1980's and noon eastern had newscasts or not.

  • Actually, from what I recall, WXII passed on the airing of the NBC game shows that aired in the 10-11AM slot, at least during the season "Dream House" aired (1983-84), which included "Sale" (I think that came on at 10:30). 'XII carried "Wheel" and "Dream House" from 11-noon, and yes they had a local noon newscast. WXII also never carried "Hot Potato", which was picked up by then ABC station WGHP (now FOX). Potato was rejected by many stations, as NBC wanted it aired at noon...local news time.

  • WXII is our Greensboro station and we get some of it here.

  • Does that mean that Dream House didn't air on ANY Detroit station? Just curious.

  • Couldn't they have aired TTD at night? (After nightly network news but before prime-time lineup) The stations I grew up with did, but maybe Detroit had another money-maker on its stations in the evening...sad that stations back then tended to preempt network shows in favor of shows that usually weren't as popular, though I liked TTD. Guess TTD made WDIV more money in ads?

  • Yes WDIV aired Tic Tac Dough at 7:30 pm as of April 4, 1983 when this game show premiered. Probably, when the nighttime Wheel of Fortune (WDIV's mainstay syndicated game show along with Jeopardy!) premiered, WDIV moved Tic Tac Dough to 11:30 am which may or may not cause WDIV in Detroit pull the plug on Dream House midway through the run.

  • Huggyface, did Detroit WDIV air Tic Tac Dough at night in 1983? I'm positive about when it moved to a new time 11:30 am on Septmeber 19, 1983. I think Detroit WDIV aired Dream House because at first there wasn't a nighttime Wheel of Fortune until that September where Tic Tac Dough ws showing.

  • Oh, yeah, I remember now...nighttime Wheel started in '83. (I knew it was somewhere, either 82 or 83) But several NBC stations passed on Dream House...mine didn't, but rejected "Sale of the Century", which I had to get from a more distant channel, and eventually on USA when they had reruns of game shows.

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  • That Siren is the siren which Signalled a big win on $ale of the Century or Scrabble from NBC as well.

  • And if NBC had used that siren on Just Men!, I would've thrown a fit!

  • Oh please.

  • Why is fraziergorge's Account Suspended or Closed?

  • I heard ABC is reviving this show.

  • ABC had 1960's version of Dream House before.

  • If they revived the show...the big prize would be foreclosed homes valued at over $1,000,000!

  • Does anyone have a file of either of the theme songs?

  • It'd be great is GSN got rights to Dream House with Bob Eubanks

  • I've always wanted to see this since i was 16, Also remember hearing this show was replaced by one of my favorite game shows (SCRABBLE)

  • y did she knock? Lol

  • Too bad this show only lasted one season on NBC; these moments vere very intense indeed!

  • The women always did the punching of the buttons! They should've restricted the husband to answer the questions. Between Dream House opposite a DOUBLE SHOWCASE win on TPIR, it was pandamoninum.

  • Bob himself can do it.

  • Actually, sometimes the men did, or Eubanks did.

  • It's one of the most dramatic bonus games ever, The tension and climax of each game keep you on the edge of your seat, I loved it!

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