The $20,000 Pyramid ***studio master taping*** (1976) PT. 5 (A)

[269848]

Amen,terjer01! Credit crunches suck!!

[gobux113]

That little girl is probably close to 40 now!

[SueBeaWho]

That was sooo fun. I love how the oldest daughter was chewing gum and almost blew a bubble in the camera. Ah, I miss the innocent days! Way before contrived reality shows. This is how REAL ppl act. And the winner was funny "I don't know these ppl, they obviously want my money!" LOL Dick whispered to her "good one" Love this episode!

[tnawcwvictoria]

Hey, New York and LA Days are better no matter how you look @ it.

and BTW, Dick Clark and Bill Cullen are the Kings of Pyramid and BETTER than John Davidson and Donny Osmond.

The New York Era and the CBS Era have better themes than Donny's, b/c Donny's was considered too clubby.

[PsYcHoFaB]

This was just great! Even I was sweating and ringing my hands for her. =]

[gameshowluvr86]

Actually, I'm gonna correct that one. Loretta Swit was the Shelly Smith of '70s Pyramid. Both she and Loretta had about the same brilliance in game play. :-)

[Noveltooner]

With apologies to Bob Stewart, the Pyramid lost most of its energy when it moved to Los Angeles. From the sanitized paraphrased theme music to the contestants and audience, it achieved a blandness not found in the original explosive spontanaeity of the New York shows. From his days from creating and producing "The Price is Right" for Goodson-Todman through "Pyramid", NYC and native son Bob Stewart seemed to feed off each other.

[gameshowluvr86]

I think that during both the '70s and the '80s, Pyramid really had its day.

[GarfieldnPyramid]

Where did you get this episode? I through the early ABC episodes were all erased?

[PsYcHoFaB]

ABC only recycled the shows from G-T. Also, Bob Stewart productions saved their own copies (probably), so that's probably how Pyramid was salvaged.

[GarfieldnPyramid]

What happened to the ABC 10k episodes and CBS 10k episodes it is said those are lost to.

[PsYcHoFaB]

They're probably tucked away in some vault, like The Joker's Wild was.

[GarfieldnPyramid]

I hope so. Spin off was tucked away to. So hopely they will show up soon.

[Julius121081]

I really don't think they are lost.

[catholicpriest1]

@Noveltooner But they had a much cooler set at CBS Television City in Hollywood and they didn't have to build the set around the proscenium arch anymore.

[fkd1963]

@Noveltooner I totally agree. When the show moved to LA all of the contestants seemed bland, well-groomed, and perky. The show lost the flavor of the contestants, the music, the set, and the excitement. The one plus for the LA show is the change where a contestant lasted for 2 games and the one who won the most came back the next day.

[gamshwfan]

This was a great episode. When someone goes for the big money everybody (I hope) wants the contestant to win. All contestant should be someone we can pull for and that they can win money. Clifton and Loretta were good celebrities and I wish we could have people like them every week. For now gamshwfan (salute with 5 fingers for stars) so long.

[retroguy1976]

this aired the week I was born cool I was born on july 8th nice

[retroguy1976]

I remember at the end of american bandstand in the 70's he would always say I'll see you on the pryamid next weeks

[ahoneanatwo]

All hail Major Houlihan, Head Nurse of the 4077th M*A*S*H and Queen of the Pyramids!

[michaeltstroud]

I don't know what other people think, but Bob Clayton sounded oftentimes like his mind was racing ahead of his mouth. Note the rapid burst at the beginning of the fee plugs and his stammering at points later. Perhaps Bob Stewart should have considered placing some plugs mid-program instead of all of them at the end, so Clayton wouldn't have felt pressured, as he obviously is in this clip.

[gameshowluvr86]

They should have gotten Johnny Gilbert. :)

[bluebear1985]

I think he was already working in L.A. by this time.

[chrismc410]

@gameshowluvr86 They did later for the $25,000 and $100,000 Pyramid, though having him for the $10,000/$20,000 would have been intresting.

[ccie12933]

In this example, I think it's just the sheer amount of text they had him read.

[terjer01]

It's so cool to see the fee plugs at the end of a classic game show - full screen and with the original audio! It's a shame a certain cable station geared for game shows video squeezes them and clips the audio on them. (Yeah! I talking about GSN)

[tvpirate05]

That annoys the crap out of me too, not just on GSN, but any cable network. I understand networks have to make money too, but they're also in the business of entertaining and satisfying their customers (the viewers).

[Ivoryface]

Say, gameshowluvr86, do you have TJW 9th season debut episode from 1985 in your possession?

[nawidfan01]

1976 pyramid

[megamanj2004X]

What was clifton Davis doing the month That's My Mama! ended?

[ShaDeed329]

Rev. Clifton Davis on here??

[megamanj2004X]

The Rev. from Amen and previously of That's My Mama! Yes that sure is!

[gameshowluvr86]

Yep, that's him, about a decade before Amen. :)