Rod Roddy Announces $25,000 Pyramid (1/4)

[luxioification]

nowadays clerks give you plastic bags for your groceries

[luxioification]

menus nowadays are laminated

[tpir1972]

well, Rod did triple duty in 1985, $25,000 YRAMID, pRESS yOUR Luck both on CBS and Love Connection.

[gameshowguy2000]

@tpir1972

You can make that quadruple duty, as he also auditioned for The Price Is Right, after Johnny Olson's death.

[johnissoevil]

Rod seemed to announce for every packager around this time, I'm surprised Barry & Enright didn't approach him to fill in on TTD and TJW whenever Charlie was absent. Taking nothing away from Johnny Gilbert, of course, he was great too :-)

[1mikie19]

Reading Rainbow was a very very good show it ended last year in August.

[usa02]

The only announcers who announced "The $25,000 Pyramid" (CBS) and "The $100,000 Pyramid" (Syndication) were the late Jack Clark, Jerry Bishop (now the voice of "Judge Judy"), Dean Goss, Johnny Gilbert ( the voice of "Jeopardy!"), Charlie Tuna ( a popular DJ in LA and the voice of "Scrabble"), Bob Hilton, Charlie ("Wheeeeeeeeel of Fort-uneee!") O'Donnell and of course, the late great Rod Roddy.

[memorysticky]

Damn this show sucks.  Might as well give the damn answers to your partner.

[jhzenor61481]

This would have been before Rod Roddy took Johnny Olson's place announcing The Price is Right!

[bphutchins]

@jhzenor61481 well duh, Rod Roddy replaced Johnny Olson, because Johnny Olson died lol

[jhzenor61481]

@bphutchins i meant 2 say would be lol

[ShaDeed329]

Hey! Rod Roddy did pretty good announcing the intro!

[RealTime88]

@ShaDeed329 As always!!

[Sonic3000]

Imagine rich fields announcing pyramid

[Julius121081]

Does anyone have the episode that had the clip with Denise Millier at 0:08 ? If so, would it be possible that someone could post the entire episode in parts?

[retroguy1976]

never knew rod annouced this show I guess this was b4 the price is right era

[PTH4Fun]

Hey, ClassicTVFan47... Have you got Gene Wood announces The $25,000 episode, Yet?

[bjp20]

Gene never announced on Pyramid.

[PTH4Fun]

Why not?

[TVLubber]

He never did announce on the show! He was too busy with other shows to work with Pyramid.

[PTH4Fun]

Well, actually Gene Wood might've announced The $25,000 Pyramid, Possibaly.

[TVLubber]

He did not! What makes you think that he did?!

[PTH4Fun]

Well, According to SuperShow 8000 page The pyramid page said it was Gene Wood announced.

[TVLubber]

Don't believe that webpage. They often have a tendency of lying. I looked at nearly every game show tape trading collection, and not one sign of any Pyramid episode with Gene Wood. So, therefore, you are entirely wrong.

[PTH4Fun]

But The SuperShow 8000 page said it..!

[supersaver87]

Or maybe Gene announced a week nobody has in their collection. Hard to believe, but there are a few episodes nobody has. :P

Don't call someone "entirely wrong" when you don't have enough proof. It makes you look bad.

[TVLubber]

But he can't prove that Wood announced Pyramid, either. That makes him look worse.

[TVLubber]

Besides, in the 70's, 80's, and early 90's, he was only allowed to announce on Goodson-Todman shows.

[supersaver87]

I know he doesn't cite it, but perhaps Xanfan's got some encyclopedia that listed Wood as a $25K Pyramid announcer. (Mine doesn't, but mine is an older book)

Also, Gene did announce Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak and Your Number's up, so that puts the kibosh on the G-T theory.

[TVLubber]

All those non G-T shows were short-lived. Besides, I know he did not do any Bob Stewart shows.

[supersaver87]

Um...yes, they were short lived. Not sure what that has to do with the G-T theory, but whatev.

My encyclopedia lists shows that Gene announced, and it does not list any Bob Stewart shows. If that encyclopedia's right, then you're right.

[tvtimetravel]

Other non-Goodson game shows Gene Wood announced for are Win, Lose or Draw, Love Connection, and the Baby Races which was his last game show he announced full-time, and was hosted by the recently departed Fred Travelena.

[TVLubber]

@tvtimetravel

Actually, Family Challenge was Gene's last job.

[DannyBkyn]

Yes, that's Denise MIller. She also co-starred in "Fish" the Abe Vigoda show spun off from "Barney Miller".

[bigweezey]

Bob Eubanks was a better host of Newlywed game than Carnie Wilson is. She is only there to look good for all the men. Doesnt matter tho. love the pyramid music.

[tvtimetravel]

A grim note of irony, on the day before, Johnny Olson suffered the stroke that would eventually be fatal to him the following Saturday, Oct 12. The Price is Right was scheduled to tape that week but were canceled that week due to Olson's stroke.

[mbsjrcc06]

Rod Roddy also announced on "Press Your Luck" and "Love Connection" at this time.

[BenJabituya]

R.I.P. Rod Roddy.

[vnisanian2001]

Is that Denise Miller ("Archie Bunker's Place") in the 2nd flashback clip

[gameshowluvr86]

Yup, yup...

[KidsTVCentral]

Well then, who's that in the first one?

[gameshowluvr86]

Lynn Redgrave. :-)