Let's Make a Deal : Game Shows 1980

[maryatvan]

I was on this show in Vancouver. It was shot at the Folkstone Way Studios. I dressed as a bunch of grapes and made it into the grand price showcase. I gave away a workshop complete with all the tools for door number 3. Monty Hall gave me 2 Norco road bikes, some honey. My sisters were behind in the upper audience and for whatever reason I got to sit in the participating audience. Friends and family saw this show in Ontario and Ohio. It was very exciting.

Thanks for the memories Monty

[rodz0r]

My mother was on this show sometime in the 70's, Vancouver, Canada.

[gladfan1989]

I know that KTXL in Sacramento was running it in first-run syndication, then KFCB in Concord ran it through 1985 in reruns.

[jnadle1]

I've been told Wayne Brady's version will be back for another season, but due to expenses of taping in Las Vegas, it will be shot at Sunset Bronson Studios, Hollywood (AKA Tribune Studios). Family Feud will now tape at Universal Studios, Orlando. If you ever go to that theme park, be sure to drop in for a taping with Steve Harvey.

[rsb97060]

Is there a clean recording of the theme anywhere?

JC, I too made a few audio recordings of this version of LMAD (VCRs were still too expensive at the time.)

[skynetvideo]

@rsb97060 No clean recordings of the Canadian version of the Let's Make A Deal theme that I know of. I contacted Monty Hall and he didn't even remember who wrote this version of the theme. Maybe one day a clean version will pop up somewhere.

[rsb97060]

@skynetvideo Interesting. I remember it was also used for the ticket plug on TANLMAD. Thanks for checking into it, skynetvideo!

[rksncu]

What TV stations in the U.S. aired the 1980 version of "Let's Make A Deal"? Please respond.

[skynetvideo]

@rksncu I don't know what stations in the U.S aired the 1980 version of Let's Make A Deal. I do know that I used to watch it on WSMW Channel 27 in Worcester, Massachusetts. They have since changed call letters and are now a Univision station.

[johnnyafairbanksak]

@skynetvideo The 1980 LMAD rarely got any syndication clearance in the States, except for in the larger markets who were lucky enough to see it (they were on mostly independent stations). But it still aired in reruns well into the much better 1984-86 version.

[skynetvideo]

@johnnyafairbanksak The show aired near me in a small market. It was on WSMW Channel 27 in Worcester Massachusetts. It was followed by Pitfall with Alex Trebek. Now it's a Spanish station with different call letters. This version of Let's Make A Deal also aired for a short time on Channel 25 in Boston. Now a Fox affiliate.

[rsb97060]

@rksncu KICU-TV 36 San Jose was running it as late as the summer of 1983.

[a1cjlock]

I wish Wayne Brady much luck on this new stint of LMAD

[viddykiddy18]

If you thought the Worldvision Home Video sequence was scary, the Rhodes Productions sequence is as scary.

[sugarbear522]

The last few seconds had me suprized. I'm thinkin WTF??? I did not know it was a jingle for a closing logo.

[johnnyafairbanks]

Yes, that was the Rhodes Productions jingle at the end, which means that MGM (who owns the assets of Filmways who owned Rhodes Productions) may have possession of LMAD '80. Now if they can let GSN finally run those...

[heine71]

Isn't MGM/Filmways/Rhodes now owned by Sony or 20th. Century FOX?

[johnnyafairbanks]

I think it's Sony.

[heine71]

Sony owns the Hollywood Squares (Peter Marshall/John Davidson/Tom Bergeron versions) game show but couldn't air on GSN now due to the 1/2 ownership of Sony and Liberty Media owning GSN and GSN has to lease 1-2 seasons of a Sony owned game show.

[jimlange]

GSN doesn't have this run of LMAD at all. Hatos-Hall still has the rights to this version, but it is unknown where the tapes from this version are. Don't expect it to turn up anytime soon. The last know place for tapes is Global television Network in Canada, as they repeated this version in the late '80s.

[heine71]

Maybe the Canadian equivelent of GSN called Game TV could pick up 1980 LMAD.

[jimlange]

Assuming GTN still has the tapes.

[heine71]

What's GTN?

[jimlange]

Global Television Network

[heine71]

I thought it stood for GAME TV (GTV not GTN).

[QBCNetwork]

They had this show in Houston on KHTV-39 (now KHCW).

I remember that one of the Big Deal prize cues was atune called "Sexy" recorded by MFSB (who also did TSOP-Soul Train).

[TheJCNetwork]

Yes you are right. I was a 12 year old with a tape recorder at the time. This is a clip that I found stashed away on an old tape.

[heine71]

This was an audio from TV recording, I think.