Let's Make A Deal: 1980 Part 4

[millenniumman75]

It was interesting to note the the '84-'86 Big Deal cues were from this version! Monty really recycled tunes through the years.

Thank you for posting this episode!

[WhatsAYak]

There are plenty of game shows that got cheap later in the run:

- Diamond Head, according to Bob Eubanks' book, which started out offering luxury cars, was later reduce to giving away trips to exotic Palm Springs, and w/no airfare!

- Rafferty CS originally offered luxury autos in the car game, later sports cars, and finally the same econoboxes offered on Eubanks' version, as well as removing all maingame cash cards but the $500 one

- Pitfall slashed its grand prize from $5K to $2.5K

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

Never saw the 1980 version before, and this was the version you don't see on GSN in the light of day due to Catalena's distribution bankrupt.

[rsb97060]

Supersaver87, thank you so much for posting this episode from 1980. I haven't seen one from this series since the summer of 1983 when reruns were being shown on KICU-36 in San Jose. Kudos to you!

[oaklandfan2k9]

Just for the Record in 1984, the show moved from KICU-TV 36 in San Jose to KGO-TV 7 in San Francisco for the All New Lets Make A Deal.

[supersaver87]

I don't wanna.

[JokaPlaya]

this version must of stunk since the big deals was $4,000.......? The old version had deals of 9 - 12 thousand and the $20K Super Deal...Wow.

[gladfan1989]

It was Canadian law that prohibited game shows from offering huge amounts like we're used to here in the States. It was evident in other game shows that came along after this revival. Chain Reaction, for one.

[Tubewings]

Oh, so now we can blame the Parliament for the Canadian game shows being so damn cheap!

[georgef551]

There was a Canadian game show with a giant prize of $2,000, back in the late '80's. which proves Canadian shows were dirt cheap. Makes me wonder if all GSN shows are done up there. :)

[SuperGamer7]

Stop it!

Many GSN shows have very good Prizes!

[georgef551]

They are cheap. Not to say prizes aren't anything good.

The GSN payouts are hiddeous, but that's because they don't have the massive funding the big networks have.

$5K on "Chain Reaction"? That was about $2K back on the Bill Cullen version in 1980.

Even The Pricve is Right is getting cheap.

[SuperGamer7]

Sorry but you are wrong! Seriously, you're wrong!

While it is true GSN has had some "cheap" shows,

they have also had shows with Top Prizes of $25,000, $50,000 and $100,000! That, my friend is a good Prize! Gsn will probably have more shows with good top prizes later on!

Oh, and :The Price is right is getting cheap! Uh, no. Just NO!

TPIR gives away over $10,000,000 in cash and prizes on average per season! Seriously, you must be watching a different show.

[georgef551]

@SuperGamer7

Price rarely ever gave away pricing game prizes valued less than $5,000. As of late, it happens at LEAST once a week. They got cheap. They gave away about 6 $3,000-$4,000 prizes last week, which hardly ever happened at all last year.

They DID step up the showcases recently, as they cheaped out the end of last season (hardly any going over $20K). Those are back to normal.

[SuperGamer7]

You're Still wrong in every way, and you know you're wrong

TPIR AlWAYS GIVES AWAY GREAT PRIZES!!

[georgef551]

@SuperGamer7

I gave you instances where the game shows cheaped out, yet you have not given ONE instance where this is false.

I'll give you one, "The Money List", which used to be "The List" on FOX, with a $50K jackpot per rotation. Then again, it was $150K when FOX aired it.

$25,000 is good? It was, back in 1990. It's worth crap today.

[heine71]

$250 in the COOKIE JAR!

[Hondo20132]

Nice to see an old version of the jar.

[QBCNetwork]

I remember on this version of LMAD, one of the prize cues used is "Sexy", recorded by MFSB, the same band that recorded TSOP (Soul Train).

[bluebear1985]

Interesting version of the show. Too bad Catalena Productions went bankrupt and cut short this version, as well as "Pitfall" with Alex Trebek.

[johnnyafairbanks]

By the way...Rhodes Productions, who distributed the nighttime Hollywood Squares, was also the U.S. syndicator to LMAD '80 and Pitfall. I remember years ago hearing audio of an LMAD close with the Rhodes jingle at the end.

[2005dave]

I saw like one second of "Pitfall" at the end... cool

[jimlange]

This is the rarely seen 1980-1981 syndictaed version.

[Wheeloffortunefan999]

not what i meant. a $4000 big deal in the 80s? come on

[palmercomm]

If you think this version was cheap, try "Trato Hecho". It had Big Deals ranging from $3K-$5K... and it was in the 2000s!

[Wheeloffortunefan999]

this was from the 80s???

[supersaver87]

Well, the very start of the 80's, anyway. There were still traces of the disco decade left over. :)

[tvpirate05]

And the voiceover during the credits mentions "Who's The Boss" and "Perfect Strangers", which puts this at no earlier than 1986.

[tvpirate05]

CLARIFICATION: a rerun of LMAD that aired no earlier than 1986.

[supersaver87]

Good catch! :)

This version was rerun in Canada in the mid-80s; I think all the copies on the trading circuit come from those reruns.

[heine71]

Will Canada's GSN, Game TV, ever rerun 1980 LMAD someday?

[supersaver87]

I hope so!

Catalena Productions went bankrupt around 1982, I don't know who'd have the LMAD masters today.

[palmercomm]

Monty Hall might.

[bluebear1985]

Yeah, who knows? Kind of makes you wonder if anybody has the masters for the other show they produced, Pitfall. Alex Trebek wouldn't for sure, because he's called the show one of the great tragedies of his life.

[johnnyafairbanks]

Rhodes Productions distributed LMAD '80 and Pitfall in the States; they were owned by Filmways...whose assets are owned by MGM, which means *THEY* may have those tapes!

[catnap1972]

It's debatable who actually has possession of those episodes (assuming they still exist)...Warner Brothers, who syndicated the 1984-86 version; Sony, who owns the MGM properties; or Fremantle, who owns the format rights to LMAD