Bullseye | Bonus Island

[vgmc7650]

I remember several times when they had trouble keeping the Bonus platform from crashing into the far wall. Did those clips ever make it onto TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes?

[fugitivefrminjustice]

I thought you also won if you amassed $1000 or more without hitting the lightning. Does anyone know if this is correct?

[tpir1972]

Has anyone ever gotten 3 bullseyes in one spin, and what happens?

[crich812]

@tpir1972 I think it has happened a couple times, as a matter of fact. But the reward (as far as I know) was the same as for making it through 10 "safe" spins, which was a $5,000 win + prizes. It's too bad I can't find any of those particular episodes here, though.

[uofmrules1]

@tpir1972 I think you got $5K and the prizes right off the bat.

[beachgrad98]

She got ripped off for the 4th spin it showed $200 in the window and then changed to $100.

[TheRaker55]

I think this show was on GSN's Viewers choice special.

[Amisbro]

has anyone gotten 3 bullseyes on the first spin?

[jskf622]

The Lightning on Bullseye and the Dragon on Tic Tac Dough use to scare the Hell out of me as a child. Now I know that they weren't scary at all.

[5780talon]

@jskf622 Don't forget the Devil on the Joker's Wild

[jskf622]

@5780talon I'd probably would be scared of the Devil, if you heard a Devilish laugh after he appeared.

[5780talon]

@jskf622 The Devil's face is bad enough and mean enough and there is a Joker's Wild slot machine in Atlantic City that has that Devilish laugh if he comes up on it

[zangazoo2007]

I can't remember if anyone ever got 3 bullseyes on the first spin. Oh and in doing some research I found that Jim Lang is a native of Minnesota. (From Wikipedia): "Lange began his radio broadcasting career in the Twin Cities after winning an audition as a teenager. He graduated from St. Thomas Academy high school, before going to the University of Minnesota."

[eshaw2115]

I wonder if anyone ever got lightning in the 1st spin.

[mtiller2006]

@eshaw2115 Yes, it happened

[storrs19]

Thanks for uploading this. I loved Bullseye and remember watching it in the 1980's (which seems so long ago now). Jim was a great host on here as well as The Dating Game.

[nextbarker]

How often did a player get 3 bullseyes in one spin?

[emlsox4life]

I haven't seen it accomplished when I watched this show as a kid.

[emlsox4life]

The gameboard was the #1 reason I loved watching BULLSEYE.The funny thing is in the earilier episodes Jim would cover his eyes and turn away if lightning struck but in 1981 when Judy struck lightning,Jim would hang the mike down and also hang his head down.

[limanator77]

To hear that Helen has no luck in the Bonus or Bullseye Island for 4 bonus games that is quite a shame.

[cyanoftyr]

Did anyone playing the bonus round ever actually stop and take the money? It seems like once you have one window frozen with a bullseye, the odds are in your favor to just keep going for 10 spins or the remaining bullseyes.

[emlsox4life]

Judy did.Check out Bullseye Contestant Finale pt 3 on youtube.

[JMFabianoRPL]

This was early on, note: the different music going to BE, and the different SFX of the information spinning (also heard on Dream House)

[dnm72863]

Drat that lightning!

[emlsox4life]

Or as Jim Lange would call it in later episodes--"Rotten lightning"

[Hawqis1]

Bullseye was the 1st game show i can recall from when I was a toddler.

[ben1245689]

a michael who was the biggest winner on this game show before celebrity bullseye came around

[NCC1017]

hey mtiller can you post more Bullseye episodes with the main game & the bonus round from the celebrity edition also. And more original episodes too. By the way I remember seeing a clip on Bullseye during an episode where someone spun lightning in the bottom window & jim lange walked over and said: there goes the blinds. Have you come across anything like that before ? Please send me a reply. ASAP!!! Your Friend, NCC1017

[CadillacL]

I LOVE this show. I looked forward to watching it, when I got home from schoo.

[warriorsorochiman]

The sound effect for the dizzy swirls also came from the 21 pilot is used for the CPU in the bonus game.

[Hondo20132]

She was the first contestant to win a car on that show.

[yaywhewclips242]

That guy in the Lane furniture print ad: Jesus, talk about the blowdryer look. We had poofy hair in the late 70's/early 1980's. i know i did.

[johnissoevil]

For some reason, as soon as that lightning hit, I heard the TPIR losing horns go off in my head.

[BenJabituya]

Another B&E bonus game that involves the dreaded bad guy. TTD had the Dragon, TJW had the Devil, PTP had the zero, and Bullseye had lightning. Earlier episodes of Bumper Stumpers had the Stop Sign.

[SuperGamer7]

Correct me if I'm wrong but, Hot Potato was a B&E show. Didn't Hot Potato have a non-bad guy bonus game. It was pick the right answer to a question, out of two possible answers.

Nope, no bad guy there.

[warriorsorochiman]

Don't forget the 21 pilot in 1982 when the bad guy was the computer who the opponent wishes that the CPU doesn't have a higher number than the opponent's own, but he/she can make the CPU bust to win the package.

[5780talon]

@SuperGamer7 Neither did Play the Percentages.. Break the Bank's bad phrase was the word "Bust" and if anyone picked it in the bonus game they lost their money that was accumilated to that point. Play the Percentages' bonus game was not picked the answer that had no respone to a question at all and if anyone had picked that answer as Geoff Edwards would say "your out of business".

[schenk12]

also bullseye is the best gameshow in the 1980s era.......besides play the percentages,hot potato and tic tac dough of course......

[schenk12]

bullseye had a nice set......

[robdon33]

This was the "NBC Bullseye" set. No difference except it aired at the NBC Studios in Burbank - the same exact studio where "Scrabble" and "Hit Man" were produced.

[BenJabituya]

Was that announcer Jay Stewart?

[kyhistoricalsociety]

jim lange from the dating game

[gshowguy]

Yes, Jay Stewart was the announcer in the clip.

[AlbieGray]

Yes, it is indeed. :)

[gpciie]

This is my first time seeing any footage of Bullseye whatsoever. What a freaking cool game!

[dylanbob89098]

in the later shows, we heard a different bonus round cue, and Jim also held a spare microphone for the champ to talk into.

[BeAStarEnt]

Also, Charlie O'Donnell was the announcer for the later shows.

[gamshwfan]

THe bonus round is enough to make you dizzy. It's true to Barry & Enright being straight luck; although I think it has more strategy in it. It's similar to FACE THE DEVIL in TJW but the difference is that you can freeze a slide & risk getting more money. Even though it's a gamble I don't know if anyone would really leave the windows open if Lightning was still out there. The level of difficulty is non-existant because with probabilty everywhere it's unpredictable. THe bonus round is 4 stars.

[WillWatchAnything]

This must've been a playing from one of the earlier shows. The music cues and sound effects were much different later on.

[GreenArrowM]

We have a CLASSIC gameshow over here in the U.K called Bullseye that ran from 28th September 1981 to 8th July 1995. But it was a darts game. It has now bin remade since 2007.

[dylanbob89098]

sounds like mr. tiller has a lot of new game show clips in store for us.

[juan833blue]

Bad Luck, oh well.

[johnissoevil]

Way to spoil the outcome. Some would like to actually see this without knowing what happens.

[megamanj2004X]

exactly.

[Tubewings]

OH!