$20,000 Pyramid - Tony Randall

[aldoreshgaramok]

1:20 I doubt that's the first time Tony Randall has heard a woman scream that at him :D

[zwartepiet412]

every time an icon like tony randall passes away, i feel like i age a couple of years

[Lava1964]

Tony was a cool customer.

[whh01]

Reminds me of my grandfather. Too cool.

[MrWilliamtom]

Tony Randall was not a man that would jump up and down with excitement. But deep down, he loved to win for the contestant. He is well missed.

[kw9920]

Tony Randall: literate, bright, cultured, personable, compassionate . . . one of a kind! We miss you and hope that your example will resound!

[dspecoraro]

They once played a gag on Tony Randall by using answers that were written in an Asian language. Does anybody have that one to post?

[MrMatteNWk]

I guess the judge likes to let Tony get by with illegal clues: At 0:21, you can hear him say, "You're close..."

[catholicpriest1]

Tony was born at the beginning of the 1920s and Dick was born at the end of the 1920s.

[myrabradwell40]

Tony randall didn't seem excited

[excuseyou77]

Heh, seriously. There's another instance on the nighttime version with Bill Cullen where this lady he played with went NUTS after winning the $25k and he just sat there and laughed.

[sethpac]

A shake.... BUUZZZ!!!!

[terjer01]

Just another day in the office for Randall. He definitely was a Pyramid player par excellence indeed along with Nipsey Russell, Adrienne Barbeau, Dick Cavett, Bill Cullen, these folks were pros indeed.

[landrykkb]

I got a kick out of how she knew what a stripper would use.I also loved Tony Randall's fresh man clue.We don't refer to them that way nowadays.This was during it's 6 year run on ABC.Tony Randall's a great Pyramid player.

[richie19190]

Was Tony Randall on the new $25,000 pyramid as a guest on CBS?

[excuseyou77]

No, the last version he appeared on was the $50,000 one.

[richie19190]

Thanks for the info! I knew that he did the $50,000 Pyramid, but I also thought he did the CBS version of Pyramid. Thanks again for the information!!!

[SlideItEarl]

Possibly, although when I look at the video again, it seems that the clock clue instantly gave it to her, after Tony had coupled it with the malt clue. When this show was taped, I wonder what percentage of alarm clocks were still the wind-up kind. People tended to shake those when they ran down. Tony's clue made me think of "Lawrence of Arabia," during which Anthony Quinn shakes a larger (mantel?) clock and listens for the ticking before he smashes it in disgust.

[WrestlingHeretic]

But never shake a baby.

[colBoh]

That goes without saying.

[colBoh]

Tony Randall, that smug b*st*rd...

You shake a clock?

[SlideItEarl]

Whatever it takes to get the clock running again.

[colBoh]

Then why didn't Tony say "a broken clock" or "a stopped clock" or something along those lines? Not that it was necessary...

[SlideItEarl]

Maybe she was responding more to his first clue, "a malt," than to the clock clue.

[colBoh]

Well, THAT'S obvious...

[UmedaRaton]

Gotta love Elaine Joyce!! She ran up to offer a bit of distraction from Tony Randall's cockiness (Hey, it's Tony Randall being Tony Randall--gotta love that too!!) The contestant wanted to celebrate and cheer, but oh well...

I will say one thing though, she most likely missed out on having her win replayed in the beginning of another show (lol)!!

[excuseyou77]

There's another clip from a $10,000 opening where he does the same thing. He's one of the calmest players I have ever seen.