Press Your Luck Pilot

[TheAlexander9]

this is godawful. good thing they fixed it for the other episodes

also...... the music/board sound on PYL for the wii aint god awful. its fixed like the music and board sound on the future episodes

[MSUHitman]

So that's where Ludia got that awful theme for their version of PYL on Wii, PS3, PC, and IDevices. It was the original, original theme. The version they went with was much better.

[thewakkydude]

@MSUHitman Actually, the PS3 had a cool remix of the ACTUAL music.

[badams900]

they use this music on press your luck for wii

[Narrator007]

How the heck does a VHS tape get de-sync'ed?

[PYLrulz1984]

I've got this on tape, the problem is that it's buried in one of my boxes in my attic somewhere.

[saber1ification]

this may sound stupid but I think this music is something from the super bowl

[jimbo2346]

Two thoughts:

1. How ironic is it that one of the contestants on the pilot of Second Chance, the predecessor to PYL, was on the pilot of Press Your Luck?

2. The Press Your Luck logo on here looks cooler than the one they would always use after, IMO.

[jjlucash]

@jimbo2346 I love the famous logo (it's supposed to be mocking the buzz-in buttons), but this pilot logo is more fitting. It makes me think of money.

[PYLrulz1984]

@jimbo2346

on #1, Two of them no less (Jack and Maggie)

[JHollowayNetwork]

It was also used as the theme for CKVR Total News.

[mediadude08]

The theme music from this is also on the Wii game!

[David9788]

does anyone have the full episode

[mediadude08]

Jack Campion was also on one of the Trebek pilots for "Jeopardy!"

[Oakswarrior]

@mediadude08 He was also on the pilot for "Second Chance," the predecessor to "Press Your Luck," as was Maggie Brown.

[gameshowguy2000]

Thorn-EMI Video (which later became Thorn-EMI/HBO Video and then later became HBO/Cannon Video) used the pilot's theme music in their promos for Australia and New Zealand.

[nextbarker]

It's not god awful music,dexj1, it's just a different theme then what was actually heard and used when it came to air in September.

[nextbarker]

GenerationYM has the full pilot episode, and mtiller2006 has the premiere CBS episode.

[RingtailStudios]

I've looked but I can't find the Pilot episode anywhere.

[gamshwfan]

5 Star Pilot.

[dexj1]

"godawful music"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????­?????? Are you and I listening to the same theme music? Who gave you the right to say this was a bad theme song and "godawful" at that? Get the hell out of here with that bullshit!!!!!

[JMFabianoRPL]

It's not AWFUL...unless you hear the full version...in which it transitions into some infomercial-sounding muzak. The part we hear just sounds like a remixed version of the theme we all know and love. And one with not as much punch.

[donmccullen]

Well that is what a Pilot is all about. Keep the intro music and tell the music scorer to compose a better piece. Well you got it.

[jjlucash]

@donmccullen It was actually stock (library) music. The real theme was sort of a remix of this.

[themurph2000]

Actually, this music was lame. The theme they eventually used was way better.

[666Brago]

@dexj1 Don't be ripping on the best game show from my childhood!

[dexj1]

@666Brago i wasn't. why would i be ripping on PYL?

[gameshowguy2000]

According to the Closing Logos page..this was used to promote Thorn-EMI Video movies in Australia (of course, Thorn-EMI Video then became Thorn-EMI-HBO Video and finally HBO-Cannon Video..and they all shared the same music).

[GarfieldnPyramid]

Could you or someone post the full pilot?

[afj102979]

Question: A Carruthers Co. Presentation is in a what library of what game show production: By itself, A Reg Grundy Productions, A Fremantle Media Productions, or A Mark Goodson Television Production.

[MGG75]

I loved whenever Peter would always say the following, "And now, let's hear from the dulcet tones of one Mr. Rod Roddy"..LOL!!!

[Hondo20132]

No; they DID show her 2 1984 apperances, however. I should know; I have them on tape.

[southernfratdude]

Announcers have certain ways of changing their voices just like any other people. It is Rod Roddy...remember Rod didn't start on the Price is Right until like 1985?

[bwitz72]

Sounds like the spinning beep came from the old Radio Shack TRS-80

[tommy76tx]

Peter Tomarken says thank you Rod Roddy but that is not him announcing in this episode. Don't know who that is doing the announcing?

[AnnacondaVice]

It totally is.

[djmarkcotter]

i noticed that too, it might have been him? he was an announcer? im sure he did more then one show in his career, not just the price is right

[MrBlackSW]

Yes. That was the great Rod Roddy. Before he announced TPIR, he was the narrator on the sitcom 'Soap', and did other games such as NBC's Hit Man (ironically, Tomarken's 1st show), and CBS' WHEW! hosted by Tom Kennedy.

[gameshowguy2000]

And he announced during H2's First Game Show Week (featuring "the master" Peter Marshall, who would host only one show that week).

[yellowhaze1492]

you belong on WHEEL OF FAGGOTS!

3 strikes MOMIES WHORE!

[gameshowguy2000]

STRIKE TWO.

[djmarkcotter]

Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy (September 28, 1937 October 27, 2003) was an American radio and television announcer.[1] He is known primarily for his role as the announcer on both CBS game shows, Press Your Luck, and most notably, The Price Is Right, a role he assumed after the death of that show's previous announcer, Johnny Olson, in 1985.

[quiznationrules]

Minor note: Robert JAY "Rod" Roddy is the name.

[crispinh1]

Minor note to the minor note: It's Robert RAY "Rod" Roddy

[quiznationrules]

Oh; you're right. My bad.

[666Brago]

@quiznationrules It's Robert Ray Roddy.

[ShadowLinkxMaster]

I have the Pilot.

Jack Campion wasn't happy when he hit whammys.

He didn't look good when he got whammied out.

[Hondo20132]

Upload it, please.

[NinjaBlackDragon18]

What's ihat in the bottom right corner in R2?

[NinjaBlackDragon18]

In'83 and even some in '84-'86, the contesants just said "Stop!" instead of some dialougue behind it

Example, Karen Martin: "Make me Rich! Whammies you can drop dead! STOP!"

[NYNYRaider]

Wow this didn't last long at all b/c by the end of 1982 the Whammy buzzer sound was added, the title design was changed, slides had more colors, and the board sounds sped up and matched the pace of the selected squares (actually that might have been in 83 sometime. Peter's later hair (1984-86) was much better too, he still looks 70's with that due.

[palmercomm]

PYL premiered in 1983. This pilot must've been from early 1983.

[PYLrulz1984]

Correct. If I am correct, the pilot was filmed in the late spring of 1983 (June approximately).

[campsports]

the money slides are not only blue and green but also purple

[SwordsBypass]

Wait? Jack Campion from Second Chance pilot?

[teamguido555]

Jack Campion was in several pilots. JEOPARDY!, Card Sharks, Blank Check, Second Chance, Press Your Luck, etc...

[zekepig]

I saw that same guy a few months ago on "Now You See It", but that might have been a non-pilot. Nice second job!

[kief0120]

jack and maggie both appeared on a show in the 70's that press your luck is based off second chance

[2005dave]

The episode of Second Chance that's in circulation is the pilot episode. Bill Carruthers must have liked using the same runthrough contestants, of which Maggie and Jack are probably the two most prolific.

[PYLrulz1984]

Maggie and Jack were pretty much Gameshow ringers, going on pilots and such all the time. They were on plenty of other pilots as well, not just PYL and Second Chance.

[NinjaDragon22]

All the money slides are blue and green

[NinjaDragon22]

Note none of the Whammy slides are the same, hey change each rotation

[VIEWMANCY]

R.I.P. PETER TOMARKEN!

[burr1aj]

i love how on the regular episodes, the theme music is basically the same, except for a few notes are switched around and it changes the whole deal.

[NinjaDragon22]

Weird..... Then again so are all pilots, I guess.

[WillWill45]

The intro music is used for Thorn-EMI Austraria and a logo of Ivings Disturbison.

[palmercomm]

I also heard it used for Radio Rentals Cable Television in 1980.

[tomgreentwin]

Very Atari! Gotta love (or maybe hate) the 80s for that transition to "high tech". What's with her hair???  Again...the 80s were strange (early 80s anyhow).

[Jnelson09]

"Virtually no limit to how much money a player can win." Well, isn't that ominous?

[guspolly]

The title, the music, and the board sound are all awful cause it's a pilot. Most pilots are awful in that respect, cause the purpose of a pilot is just to pitch the format. Cosmetics can be taken care of if the series gets picked up.

[ieeeeeeeeeeeee]

and even the whammies are different!

[the06bug]

Fluid animation, my friend

[the06bug]

Thet shoulda kept the graphics from the pilot. As in, look at Matt's whammy moment and you'll get it

[Frankie2Jersey]

Funky intro altogether

[tomarkenfan]

This entire series should be on DVD God Damnit!

[Frankie2Jersey]

Is there the whole Pilot episode?

[McKay4429061]

Nice clip! Rod hardly sounds like the Rod from the actual series, or TPIR for that matter!

[domirules28]

here rod sounds like he did when he was the voice over for the series soap...

[1985Nebraska]

I would like to see the whole episode of the Press Your Luck Pilot here on YouTube. If you think about it, they have the whole episode of Press Your Luck with Michael Larson posted onto YouTube.

[Luigifan1091]

not anymore

[WillWatchAnything]

Watch very closely at time index 1:23 and you'll see the Micheal Larson pattern. (2-10-17-7-4).

[Shawn2Dragon]

How about us seeing the whole thing, huh?

[DrLove0378]

This video came the original "Press Your Luck" Homepage -- that was a time long before YouTube... and a time when servers didn't have infinite space, and digital video files had to be cut down significantly.

[DNS67665]

This music was stolen from NFL Films...it was used in the Washington Redskins' 1982 highlight film.

[davemock]

It was also used in a New York Times radio ad from this era. A number of industrial pieces have gotten several re-uses. I heard the in-show highlight music from the first five years of "This Week In Baseball" everywhere as a kid. The killer was hearing some upbeat fun music from "TWIB"'s previews of the 1979 baseball season - and remembering it had been on a commemorative baseball album on Yankee Stadium's first half century, five-plus years earlier.

[1cpw]

Jack and Maggie were in like evry game show pilot.

[Unit545]

Jack was also in a unseen Jeopardy pilot too.

[WhatsAYak]

Yeah, Jack had quite a pilot record...J! (Trebek), Second Chance, Blank Check, $otC, Card Sharks (Perry), and God knows how many more...

[smashwhammy]

They both appeared on PYL's predicecer, Second Chance. Maggie appeared on a aired PYL episode.

[zcat68]

Maggie was a champion, not just making an appearence.

[tomarkenfan]

I love this clip! i also like my whammy KING SIZED... I wish that I could see the whole thing....