Press Your Luck 1983 Part 4

[danbarker39]

At one time there were 3 BAHAMAS slides on the board

[Dodgerfn5]

@danbarker39 What would happen if you landed on it twice then?

[danbarker39]

Is Dave the first player to hit the BIG BUCKS square?

[nextbarker]

Why did Shirley pass so fast?

[entertainme3000]

@nextbarker she must've been afraid of whammying.

[nextbarker]

Am I right about that, the whammy SFX was introduced the week later?

[nextbarker]

I beliegve the whammy SFX was added.... a week later?

[DorvellTStewart]

This lacks the whammy sound affect!

[parlet]

Love the off-white $2000 spaces!

[nextbarker]

I don't want to spoil anything, but was Robert the first player to exceed $25,000?

[wschmrdr]

I think it was Randy West.

[Frankie2Jersey]

Nope it was Robert he retired the next day NAD he was first to be on 4 shows

[RingtailStudios]

He probably was, because the next show available among traders is Episode 7, which shows three new players.

[LoticaStudios]

This board seems a bit buggy for some reason, it doesn't kind of react quickly to the buzzer somewhat. If you look closely, you'll see what I mean.

[reader41]

notice that at 1:30 - 1:30 when the board starts to spin it shifts very oddly

[nextbarker]

Players passed very quickly during the eraly months of PYL.

[scottof83]

Yes, and the players also spun alot faster too.

[BeeGeesFan]

Hard to believe its 25 years that Press Your Luck Was On CBS i was 9 and i love it watch it with my Grandma Who not here anymore!

RIP Peter!!!!!

From Kirsten

[nextbarker]

I think it was a week after the show the whammy sound debuted.

[Luigifan1091]

anyone notice how at 2:39, when that spin started, square 9 was black? what would have happened if he stopped it on the black square?

[ipothereader]

they would stop tape and do it again i think

[eleljep]

Was it around 84 when they also changed the buzzers?

[nextbarker]

funfling day?

[Tekkin58]

I love that board sound. It should have been used for the entire series.

[TheVGC]

Only from the pilot until the end of the first season was that board sound pitch used. It was raised a little for the rest of the show's run.

[nextbarker]

There was no whammy noise yet when the whammy was hit. when did that debut?

[supremetaco]

Probably along with everything else in November 1983.

[MarioLaker]

What happened the the losing music once u hit the Whammy?

[nextbarker]

I think the pass sound here is the CBS sound here on most CBS game shows

[leslielove]

1983 wasa good year

[PYLFan2007]

Is that pass sound the ding from the $100,000 Pyramid?

[supremetaco]

And The Price is Right, and about a million other shows.

[barber747]

That's because they were CBS game shows; CBS always used that sound effect; it's their signature sound effect.

[newyorkfan16]

Nice board sound!

[supremetaco]

Used on the pilot and on the regular series until November 1983.

[SLJ83]

Thanks nextbarker for posting this early episode of PYL!!! I really enjoyed watching it. This is my favorite gameshow, but I was just about 4 months old when these premiere episodes were on the air.  If you could, please post more earlier episodes, so I could watch them (for me, it will be the first time). Once again, thanks!!

[randytheraccoon]

VERY interesting! I'm hungry for more of these '83 eps myself! It's a lot of fun to see the early days of the show!

[PhillyV2006]

It prolly turned bright green because both the $1000 (blue) and the whammy were shown in the same screen. But yeah it's different.

[nextbarker]

When Dave spun, did the $1000 turn white during his 2nd spin?

[PhillyV2006]

You can tell that the board was really problematic at that point. Squares were out once in a while and the light pattern changed erratically, especially when Robert takes his spin at 4:41, you can see the light jump to a new pattern.

[Fear316781]

You can also see a light jump at 3:42.

[barber747]

Light jump?

[Fear316781]

As in the light jumping from one pattern to another in the middle of the pattern.

[barber747]

where are u looking?

[Fear316781]

Okay, there are 5 patterns of 18 squares, each being hit once before a new pattern begins.

[Fear316781]

With the top left corner as square #1 and going clockwise, Pattern #1 is:

11,6,10,12,1,4,14,16,2,9,17,8,­13,15,3,7,18,5

[Fear316781]

Pattern #2:

18,16,10,5,11,9,2,13,17,7,4,15­,12,8,6,3,1,14

[Fear316781]

Pattern #3:

5,18,11,13,3,6,15,7,1,9,14,16,­10,2,4,12,17,8

[Fear316781]

Pattern #4:

17,10,15,13,2,8,18,16,12,3,5,1­1,7,4,1,9,14,6

[Fear316781]

Pattern #5:

3,16,13,10,18,8,6,14,7,5,15,11­,17,2,12,1,9,4

(sorry for doing it this way, Youtube won't let me put it all together)

[Fear316781]

The spin taken at 3:43 starts off with the 11-6-10-12 pattern (pattern #1, in this example). It goes for 7 squares, then when it's at square #14, it switches to the middle of the 5-18-11-13 pattern (pattern #3). It goes from square #14 to square #15, also the 7th square in the sequence, and continues to square 7, 1, 9, 14, etc. until Robert stops on square #4, for $4,000 + a spin.

[PhillyV2006]

There were only a few more spaces with extra spins in round two than there were in round one.

[OA276]

u dont see 1200 any more neither 1500 2000 2500 in #8 instead of 500+ 750+ 1000+ or white squares

[nextbarker]

None yet

[dkblazer24]

I know the 1986 Vids are hard to find too do you have any of those?

[nextbarker]

I guess from September to Late october, no idea.

[nextbarker]

sorry, right nw I have no more 1983 episodes currently.

[nextbarker]

I will, but these 1983 episodes are hard to fine.

[rgates1983]

When did they have the red background behind the contestants?

[megamanj2004]

are you talking about the backwall on the set behind the board or that short time they had red tiles in the audience behind the players in the PYL Rounds?

[johel84]

Waooo thank you,put more please!!!