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@Lupton2000 I should mention that the set was still fairly impressive, although the contestants area with the two couples and the blue wall at floor level was rather dull, especially compared with the massive original two-story set with gracefull curved staircase from the contestant game area wit...

@altfactor They may have been dubious about it because of the show's relatively short run of only eleven months. It was ABC's immediate successor to Bud Collyer's "Beat the Clock," which had eneded its long run at the Ritz Theater..

I hope the folks at FremantleMedia glance at these blogs occas...

By the early 1980's, gasoline had become so expensive and the bus gas mileage so inefficient, the entire fleet was retired and replaced with big, noisy diesel buses. The once-convenient service through the Historic Area had to be dropped and the current route along the outside perimeter was estab...

That was pretty much how NBC executives felt about the "Goodsonization" of NBC's own product, "Concentration." However, rather than see the series be syndicated to CBS stations, the network rather reluctanly picked up "Classic Concentration," so in a way, packager Jim Victory "syndicated" it to N...

@whewfan It's entirely possible. The original NBC version of "The Match Game" used to take polls at 30 Rock from audiences at "The Tonight Show," "Snap Judgement," "Jeopardy!", "Concentration," and "Eye Guess" in their respective studios after show tapings. Since multiple episode tapings were don...

@GEORGETOWN93 For that reason, a return to the show's original format from after 1968 together with updated features and a Super Match with a bonus match instead of the original Audience Match where the two teammate contestants on the winning team attempt to match their celebrity team captain hea...

It was probably to appease George Schlatter and Ed Friendly, the producers of "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," who pitched a new game based on "Laugh-In" called "Letters to Laugh-In" that featured series regulars. The ratings ultra-crashed, critics villified it and the series was gone in a few week...

@WarioBarker88 It was taped at New York's Metromedia Center, 205 E. 67th Street in Manhattan, home of WNEW-TV Channel 5 (now the Fox Television Center and home of WNYW-TV Fox 5). "Beat the Odds" was a Bing Crosby-produced revival in Los Angeles and aired Monday thru Friday in New York on WABC-TV ...

The "beaten" clock cartoon at the end of the opening was a colorized version of the cartoon opening of the ABC version in the latter years of Bud Collyer's original "Beat the Clock." Incidentally, the Ritz Theater, where both the original "Beat the Clock" and "The Price is Right" breathed their...

Pearson and FremantleMedia really know how to turn treasure into trash. Mark Goodson would have been furious to see his name associated with this garbage which is right up there with their tasteless and cheap 1998 version of "Match Game" and their horrendous 2000-2001 revival of "To Tell the Trut...

This version was produced after Mark Goodson's death and after his company and properties were produced by Pearson/Fremantle Media. Goodson was probably causing earthquakes in Los Angeles spinning in his grave over this garbage revival. Only Jay Wolpert had any connection to Goodson (The New Pric...

Producing this version of the show with the cost of moving to supermarkets all over the country today would be fantastically expensive, especially when coupled with the cost of fuel today. Although this meant that virtually all the contestants would be coming almost exclusively from the Los Angel...

@ChihuahuaboyDH Bill Malone passed away in the late 1990's. The series' last season saw "Supermarket Sweep" relocate to a Florida shopping mall with a revamped format and re-titled "Supermarket Sweep presents 'The Honeymoon Race.'" Newlywed couples went racing around the mall in golf carts in a h...

Monty did more in a half-hour than the current Fremantle/CBS version does in a full hour. Also, all the previous versions had two traders going for the Big Deal, not just one. Just Fremantle going for cheap again. I think Wayne Brady's a terrific host, Jonathan Mangun a great announcer/foil, and ...

@Jessyleppert I watched "Let's Make a Deal" from its inception. LMAD moved from NBC to ABC in early 1968. LMAD was being trounced by "The Dating Game" when NBC cancelled it. ABC had seen the value of LMAD after all of the angry reaction of viewers to the cancellation of "The Price is Right" in 19...

One of his most finest roles was as the main heavy in Alfred Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent." The scene after the plane bombing with him swimming with the survivors was that much more remarkable in that he had lost a leg in World War I. You'd really have to watch carefully when he walked to s...

@lemonrind That's only because this is a fiming of an image from a TV monitor. I saw this show on its original broadcast on a then rare color TV and a roof antenna. If NBC still had the original color videotape well-preserved today, believe me, it would be just as clear as anything today. The NBC...

@videoarchives1000 Don't forget their other western series, "Branded," that starred Chuck Connors.

Growing up, I always wound up identifying "Pomp and Circumstance" with "Queen for a Day!" Before anyone tells I should have gotten a life, I would like to offer my deepest apologies to the great composer, Edward Elgar. This show was the unfortunate predecessor to today's reality shows (like "Str...

It should be noted that long before Bill Cullen's "Child's Play" preceeded Bob Barker's "The Price is Right" on CBS daytime, Bill Cullen's "The Price is Right" preceeded Bob Barker's "Truth or Consequences" on NBC daytime.

When Johnny and Rich laugh, it's Johnny Carson in full stereo!

@Mcnzlea NBC actually picked up LMAD because they realized they had made a huge mistake in letting "The Price is Right" jump to ABC. Both shows catered to the same audience and LMAD did adapt some early TPIR bonus game formats for some deals. ABC later picked up LMAD for the same reason when they...

Bob Stewart was extemely careful to make sure TPIR was on the straight and narrow, especially with the game show scandals that started with "Dotto." That's why the providers of the prizes had to verify their retail sales price (or suggested retail prices in the case of prizes directly from manufa...

@altfactor Let me clarify that Paul Alter was the only director to have directed episodes of both versions (Mike Gargiulo and Max Miller the other directors of the original)

The theme music in this early episode was Bob Cobert's "Window Shopping," the second theme of "The Price is Riight" that was cancelled in September of 1965. TPIR producer/creator Bob Stewart grabbed it back for Bill Leydon's and Bill Cullen's short-lived "You're Putting Me On." (Leydon died durin...

This was my favorite of all the "Pyramid" sets, with the plexiglass podium, the deep blue desks contrasting with the expanded backdrop, and that great gold pyramid. (This set was later used for "The $50,000 Pyramid.") The L.A. set had some nice features but it really did nothing for me; the blue...

Look for a clip on YouTube of Johnny's old ABC game show, "Music Bingo," of which I was a huge fan. Johnny is a terrific singer. After "Music Bingo" was cancelled, "The Price is Right" moved to ABC and Johnny replaced Don Pardo as the announcer, just as he later did with the syndicated "Jeopardy!...

This was a reunion of a group from "The Price is Right" lhat left ABC and New York on September 3rd, 1965. After nearly 15 years, Bill Cullen, announcer Johnny Gilbert, and proucer/creator Bob Stewart were all together again!

The enormous success of the revival of "Tic Tac Dough" demonstrated to NBC that they had made huge mistake in selling the rights back to Jack Barry outright instead of leasing them as they did with "Concentration." That is why NBC will not reliquish "Concentration." Royalty cash continues to pour...

Note the name of the one of the stage managers near the end of the roll: Jim Narz. I wonder if it was an inside joke, as Jim Narz is the real name of Tom Kennedy.

It's a shame that none of the ABC shows were televised in color (the network couldn't afford it at the time) because the ABC set was in reality the series' most colorful. That was probably because Goodson-Todman expected a really long run on ABC to the point when would finally switch to color. (T...

@Melodwiz One Disney song I hope you will record is the beautiful "Love is a Song," the Oscar-winning main title song and theme from "Bambi." In all honesty, I really believe you are the only person and your's is the only voice that could really do it justice. Take care! :)

Of course, most people over the last fifty years associate this song with Gene Kelly from the 1952 film of the same name. A very clever move by M-G-M when they revived movie musicals for a new golden age (with Arthur Freed at the helm, of course) was to refer back to their seemingly endless song ...