The Money Maze Pilot2.flv

The Money Maze was an American television game show seen on ABC from December 23, 1974 to June 27, 1975. The show was hosted by Nick Clooney and was announced by Alan Kalter (Chet Gould announced the pilot). It was produced by Daphne-Don Lipp Productions, of which Dick Cavett was a principal.

The object of the game was to negotiate a large maze built on the studio floor. A contestant would direct his or her spouse from a perch above the maze; the spouse would need to find his or her way to a push-button on the side of a tower inside the maze.

Clooney hosted Money Maze concurrently with his local daily talk show, The Nick Clooney Show, on then-ABC affiliate WKRC-TV in Cincinnati (now a CBS affiliate). In fact, WKRC scheduled Money Maze on a delay at 10:30 AM, immediately before Nick Clooney at 11:00.

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[Jiltedin2007]

I remembered that the person leaving the $10,000 Maze had to hit "The Birthday Cake", which was a tall tower shaped like a Wedding Cake, on the way out in order to win the money that they have found in the Money Maze.

[StukInBuf]

(As the Money Maze is concluding... for the NYC metro viewers...)

Stay tuned next for "The 4:30 Movie," here on channel 7!

[shooster11]

With this being the pilot episode, there were changes made before the series got rolling. The biggest difference I can remember is that when the runner got all of the $10,000 numbers in the maze, he or she had to run back out and hit the "birthday cake" before the buzzer sounded. The birthday cake was simply a button that lit everything up. In the pilot, as you may notice, the runner simply had to run through a paper banner like thingy. Oh well, thanks again for posting this episode!!

[ccie12933]

Great, great stuff.  Thanks so much!

[cicholdebannan]

He could see over the wall so he really didn't need his wife's directions. They need to make the walls at least high enough that he'd have to jump to get a peek.

[namk19]

i can so see the finders keepers romp music being played to this run

[zachhoran]

The series was actually seen until July 4 1975, but the last week of this and Big SHowdown(also having the same airdates as this show) were reruns.