If memory serves me correctly, Lionel Goldbart hit a daily double during Double Jeopardy in the semi-finals in the 1986 Tournament of Champions. He risked everything said the right answer but the one fateful mistake was he didn't phrase it in a form of a question. :(
IIRC, all 10 episodes of this ToC had their fee plugs updated replacing the 10-second ad plugs when these episodes were rerun in July-August 1987 which GSN got these from. I think the same can be said about the inaugural Teen Tournament with Curt King, Michael Galvin etc. when it was rerun in August '87 and had the helvetica font being placed in the closing credits. Now did the inaugural Seniors Tournament have the summer rerun or no?
@jmaxx112714 It doesn't take a decoder ring to learn Becker's total winnings as it was revealed @ 2:26. But no, he is a 4-time champ defeated on day 5. His total is higher than the other 4-timers b/c he mopped the floor with his opponents on day 4 earning as much money as he did on his first 3 days combined! Theoretically, he could've given Chuck a run for his money for record winnings in season 2. I forget where he finished on day 5, and what his potential earnings could've been.
That's how the 2nd tourney was structured that year. 5-timers earned the position of the champions' podium. Becker in the middle, while his winnings were greater than Giardina's, Gary was in the 1st position b/c Gary was undefeated.
The premier season crowned 15 5x champs, resulting in a tournament structure that still holds today. A week of 1/4 finals, 3 semifinals, & a 2-day final. Since then, Jeopardy never crowned as many 5x champs per season again. In 1985, only 5 5x champs. That really impacted the symmetry of the previous tournament structure, which would've thrown that format into the ash heap.
So with a deficit of 5xers, 4xers filled in the gap, & then teen/senior/college tourneys were developed to help mollify the imbalance of 4xers over 5xers (& provide some excitement for Sweeps periods, which didn't excite me b/c those special tourneys suffer from the preliminaries of a week of 1/4 finals).
Think about it... 4, then later 6 weeks of a respite in programming from agonizingly common contestants who had difficulty winning 2 games much less 4-5 games, and hyped by Trebek as the future best and brightest meant 6 fewer weeks of watching lackluster game play in a vain attempt to fill even 12 seats with undefeated champs, but to no avail.
It would've looked ridiculous to hold a tourney with only 5 5-timers. If you include Becker in the 6th seat for the highest 4-time total, the optimal tourney structure would likely consist of no quarterfinal, 2 days for the semifinal--2 winners plus 1 wild card, and a 3-day total point final just to complete 1 week of shows.
Donald Burgo's $26,180 is the smallest winnings of any 5-time champion, 1984-present. And Gary Palmer's $18,400 is the smallest winnings of any player who's made it to the Tournament of Champions.
(Gary Palmer is also in the video of the guy fainting during Final Jeopardy.)
Interesting how at 6:54 Alex is tucking the Final Jeopardy! partitions down under the podia...so that's how it was done then. When I was on the show in 2003, they were separate pieces that were brought in from backstage and inserted into slots.
Still, that was a HARD Final. I'd need more than just 30 seconds to figure that one out...
Chuck Forrest looks like a KID!!! Of course, that was "back in the day". The one former Jeopardy Tof C champ I remember the most (outside of Ken Jenningss) was Bob Verini. He was the actor who knew how to impersonate certain celebrities---he even did a send-up of Alex himself once! Funny guy:)
Gary Giardina was one of the more memorable players, especially since he was also a player on another Alex Trebek-hosted show in the short-lived "Double Dare" from 1976-77.
I used to be a huge Jeopardy! fan. I remember watching this entire Tournament on GSN back in Dec. '98. Chuck was the Ken Jennings of his day. I was obsessed with the Jeopardy! champions just like some kids are obsessed with their favorite athlete or musician. I think brad Rutter is the best I've seen,but my all-time favorite is probably Tom Nosek(Season 9 TOC & $100,000 TOC winner.) I always thought it would be cool if they could release these episodes on VHS or DVD as sort of a best-of.
So far to date, my favorite champions on Jeopardy! are this guy Chuck Forrest, Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, Jerome Vered, Frank Spangenberg, and Bob Harris...
A side note...if nobody has found it yet: Jared Eisenstat was a contestant on NBC's Twenty-One. IIRC, he won one match for $100,000. I'm not 100% sure on that one.
In Semi-Final game #3, Lionel Goldbart didn't play Final Jeopardy! because he forgot to phrase the to winning a race response in the form of a question on that Daily Double in the Horses category.
As I heard, Super Jeopardy! didn't have the fee plugs but this ToC had end of the episode fee plugs, so you said you didn't include the closing credits but I hope you have the end of the episode fee plugs from this ToC and GSN has shown all of these end of the episode fee plugs from this ToC.
Nice to see you post these videos from this ToC thegreatwhamini since the first time that GSN reran this ToC which was set back to December 1998. I wonder if you could post the full closings from this ToC just like GSN did in Dec. '98.
Can't. As the years rolled on, I compartmentalized. Intros, some complete games sans closing credits, and some final Jeopardies. The rest have been erased to oblivion. Sorry.
If memory serves me correctly, Lionel Goldbart hit a daily double during Double Jeopardy in the semi-finals in the 1986 Tournament of Champions. He risked everything said the right answer but the one fateful mistake was he didn't phrase it in a form of a question. :(
d2damas2000 1 month ago
what font is used for the contestant's names?
blozier2006 8 months ago
@blozier2006 I believe it's Korinna.
Ian16545 5 months ago
Chuck was the most impressive player I've seen til Ken Jennings.
bobzani 9 months ago
IIRC, all 10 episodes of this ToC had their fee plugs updated replacing the 10-second ad plugs when these episodes were rerun in July-August 1987 which GSN got these from. I think the same can be said about the inaugural Teen Tournament with Curt King, Michael Galvin etc. when it was rerun in August '87 and had the helvetica font being placed in the closing credits. Now did the inaugural Seniors Tournament have the summer rerun or no?
Ivoryman1986 10 months ago
Did Harvey Becker became a 5-time undefeated champion with a cash winning total of $55,400.
jmaxx112714 1 year ago
@jmaxx112714 It doesn't take a decoder ring to learn Becker's total winnings as it was revealed @ 2:26. But no, he is a 4-time champ defeated on day 5. His total is higher than the other 4-timers b/c he mopped the floor with his opponents on day 4 earning as much money as he did on his first 3 days combined! Theoretically, he could've given Chuck a run for his money for record winnings in season 2. I forget where he finished on day 5, and what his potential earnings could've been.
thegreatwhamini 1 year ago
That's how the 2nd tourney was structured that year. 5-timers earned the position of the champions' podium. Becker in the middle, while his winnings were greater than Giardina's, Gary was in the 1st position b/c Gary was undefeated.
thegreatwhamini 1 year ago
The premier season crowned 15 5x champs, resulting in a tournament structure that still holds today. A week of 1/4 finals, 3 semifinals, & a 2-day final. Since then, Jeopardy never crowned as many 5x champs per season again. In 1985, only 5 5x champs. That really impacted the symmetry of the previous tournament structure, which would've thrown that format into the ash heap.
thegreatwhamini 1 year ago
So with a deficit of 5xers, 4xers filled in the gap, & then teen/senior/college tourneys were developed to help mollify the imbalance of 4xers over 5xers (& provide some excitement for Sweeps periods, which didn't excite me b/c those special tourneys suffer from the preliminaries of a week of 1/4 finals).
thegreatwhamini 1 year ago
Think about it... 4, then later 6 weeks of a respite in programming from agonizingly common contestants who had difficulty winning 2 games much less 4-5 games, and hyped by Trebek as the future best and brightest meant 6 fewer weeks of watching lackluster game play in a vain attempt to fill even 12 seats with undefeated champs, but to no avail.
thegreatwhamini 1 year ago
It would've looked ridiculous to hold a tourney with only 5 5-timers. If you include Becker in the 6th seat for the highest 4-time total, the optimal tourney structure would likely consist of no quarterfinal, 2 days for the semifinal--2 winners plus 1 wild card, and a 3-day total point final just to complete 1 week of shows.
thegreatwhamini 1 year ago
Donald Burgo's $26,180 is the smallest winnings of any 5-time champion, 1984-present. And Gary Palmer's $18,400 is the smallest winnings of any player who's made it to the Tournament of Champions.
(Gary Palmer is also in the video of the guy fainting during Final Jeopardy.)
unfasten 2 years ago
I LOVE Chuck! He is my fave Jeopardy champ. Cute as a button. Chuck, where are you now?
lnghrnfn 2 years ago
@lnghrnfn In 2005, he lived in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but I don't know if he still does.
nlafavore 2 years ago
Chuck cracks me up. Haha. That kid was so awesome...and brilliant.
Bluedybluedyblue 2 years ago
Interesting how at 6:54 Alex is tucking the Final Jeopardy! partitions down under the podia...so that's how it was done then. When I was on the show in 2003, they were separate pieces that were brought in from backstage and inserted into slots.
Still, that was a HARD Final. I'd need more than just 30 seconds to figure that one out...
InfernoCouchemar 2 years ago
Mark Leinwand was also on Tic Tac Dough.
mullethead201 2 years ago
Chuck Forrest looks like a KID!!! Of course, that was "back in the day". The one former Jeopardy Tof C champ I remember the most (outside of Ken Jenningss) was Bob Verini. He was the actor who knew how to impersonate certain celebrities---he even did a send-up of Alex himself once! Funny guy:)
meowfit 3 years ago
And her daughter I have contact with right here on YouTube!
Hondo20132 3 years ago
Why, yes you do. :)
Dad was also on Joker's Wild, Double Dare and People's Court.
And he's still a stamp dealer.
mshinkman 2 years ago
By the way, was Marvin a 4- or 5-time champion?
nlafavore 3 years ago
4-time champion
csifan18 2 years ago
That's the same Mark Leinwand we saw on Bullseye and Tic Tac Dough if I am not mistaken.
juan833blue 3 years ago
Gary Giardina was one of the more memorable players, especially since he was also a player on another Alex Trebek-hosted show in the short-lived "Double Dare" from 1976-77.
megamanj2004X 3 years ago
He was also on Tic Tac Dough
Gameshowboy 3 years ago
I used to be a huge Jeopardy! fan. I remember watching this entire Tournament on GSN back in Dec. '98. Chuck was the Ken Jennings of his day. I was obsessed with the Jeopardy! champions just like some kids are obsessed with their favorite athlete or musician. I think brad Rutter is the best I've seen,but my all-time favorite is probably Tom Nosek(Season 9 TOC & $100,000 TOC winner.) I always thought it would be cool if they could release these episodes on VHS or DVD as sort of a best-of.
brerbunny7 3 years ago
So far to date, my favorite champions on Jeopardy! are this guy Chuck Forrest, Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, Jerome Vered, Frank Spangenberg, and Bob Harris...
csifan18 3 years ago
I like how people are actually 'Oooh'ing at Chuck Forrest.
tktru 3 years ago
A side note...if nobody has found it yet: Jared Eisenstat was a contestant on NBC's Twenty-One. IIRC, he won one match for $100,000. I'm not 100% sure on that one.
SSiG94 3 years ago
In Semi-Final game #3, Lionel Goldbart didn't play Final Jeopardy! because he forgot to phrase the to winning a race response in the form of a question on that Daily Double in the Horses category.
animfan1 3 years ago
Really? So he got minus because he didn't say what is?
teamguido555 3 years ago
As I heard, Super Jeopardy! didn't have the fee plugs but this ToC had end of the episode fee plugs, so you said you didn't include the closing credits but I hope you have the end of the episode fee plugs from this ToC and GSN has shown all of these end of the episode fee plugs from this ToC.
Ivoryface 3 years ago
This is not a GSN repeat, this is a first-run in syndication. Note no local or network bugs.
thegreatwhamini 3 years ago
Do you have 1st Season?
bellybutton4 3 years ago
no.
thegreatwhamini 3 years ago
Nice to see you post these videos from this ToC thegreatwhamini since the first time that GSN reran this ToC which was set back to December 1998. I wonder if you could post the full closings from this ToC just like GSN did in Dec. '98.
Ivoryface 3 years ago
Can't. As the years rolled on, I compartmentalized. Intros, some complete games sans closing credits, and some final Jeopardies. The rest have been erased to oblivion. Sorry.
thegreatwhamini 3 years ago