Uncle Sam better not touch one damn red cent of that guy's earnings either! >:( .....The sucky part is?, i bet Uncle Sam did anyway.....Damn! I wish that they'd give the contestants their full pay / winnings & no taxes taken out of it. Wanna bet DC got some of this guy's loot? :(
6:11 - Maury wasn't careful here IMO, that emphasis on *your* might've outed the fact that his adversary also used hers. Probably a minor detail, that said.
they probably canned it because of low ratings and they game away too much money. $100,000 just for winning one game is a little excessive. Should be $10,000 a game and $21,000 for the bonus round
@gsparkway324 They did change the format after a few weeks to having the first game worth $25,000, then the second game worth $50,000, the third worth $100,000, fourth--$250,000, fifth--$500,000, sixth--$750,000, seventh--$1,000,000, with the cycle repeating starting with the eighth game.
@Tubewings that was actually done the following week, (i remember maury stating that jason, (the guy who defeated rahim in his 5th game would be playing his 2nd game not for fifty thousand dollars but for TWO HUNDRED FIFTY thousand dollars.)
@gsparkway324 yeah right, twenty one was popular in the 50s BECAUSE of the fact that it was a big money game show, (the payoffs weren't this big, but by comparison, $10,000 in the 50s was not considered chump change)
@supersaver87 same here, this was actually the last episode i watched on the night of its original broadcast, (the rest i had to wait until the day AFTER it aired.) (it kinda affected my schoolwork.)
Uncle Sam better not touch one damn red cent of that guy's earnings either! >:( .....The sucky part is?, i bet Uncle Sam did anyway.....Damn! I wish that they'd give the contestants their full pay / winnings & no taxes taken out of it. Wanna bet DC got some of this guy's loot? :(
001GenLee 2 weeks ago
What do u think iz gonna happen? you'll find out tonight on TWENTY ONE!
bennyadams2008 3 months ago
6:11 - Maury wasn't careful here IMO, that emphasis on *your* might've outed the fact that his adversary also used hers. Probably a minor detail, that said.
yabbaguy 5 months ago
@megamanmaniac And don't forget that FOX aired Greed also.
cutemimi25 6 months ago
@cutemimi25
And CBS had the short-lived Winning Lines, and FOX also had It's Your Chance of a Lifetime, which was a direct rip-off of Millionaire.
gameshowguy2000 6 months ago
@gameshowguy2000 Winning Lines was actually kinda of a good show.
As for Chance for a lifetime is okay but Winning Lines was a better show.
cutemimi25 6 months ago
@gameshowguy2000 And Greed had a Millionaire-style prize ladder as well.
JeopardyandWheelFan 4 months ago
cant believe this was over 11 years ago, in the year twenty hundred
Slacktoo 7 months ago
@BluescreenODeff They did this back in 1950s version, but not anymore.
prmarsh 11 months ago
When it comes to this question....Rahim....you ARE correct!!!
pjc858 11 months ago
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karmel411 1 year ago
I heard Maury was a fan of the original 21 with Jack Barry.
TomtheUSATiger 1 year ago
@TomtheUSATiger yes he was. i know that for a fact.
Wheeloffortunefan999 3 months ago
Well leave it to NBC to screw up really good shows. If NBC didn't have its way, Maury would probably have been taken more seriously than he is now...
tktru 1 year ago
they probably canned it because of low ratings and they game away too much money. $100,000 just for winning one game is a little excessive. Should be $10,000 a game and $21,000 for the bonus round
gsparkway324 1 year ago
@gsparkway324 They did change the format after a few weeks to having the first game worth $25,000, then the second game worth $50,000, the third worth $100,000, fourth--$250,000, fifth--$500,000, sixth--$750,000, seventh--$1,000,000, with the cycle repeating starting with the eighth game.
Tubewings 8 months ago
@Tubewings Yeah, admittedly, the second format was a lot more profitable.
Hondo20132 8 months ago
@Tubewings that was actually done the following week, (i remember maury stating that jason, (the guy who defeated rahim in his 5th game would be playing his 2nd game not for fifty thousand dollars but for TWO HUNDRED FIFTY thousand dollars.)
Wheeloffortunefan999 3 months ago
@gsparkway324 yeah right, twenty one was popular in the 50s BECAUSE of the fact that it was a big money game show, (the payoffs weren't this big, but by comparison, $10,000 in the 50s was not considered chump change)
Wheeloffortunefan999 3 months ago
I remember watching this episode first-run. Hard to believe it's been 10 years already!
supersaver87 1 year ago
@supersaver87 same here, this was actually the last episode i watched on the night of its original broadcast, (the rest i had to wait until the day AFTER it aired.) (it kinda affected my schoolwork.)
Wheeloffortunefan999 3 months ago