Let's Make a Deal : Game Shows 1980

Lets Make a Deal audio clip from Vancouver Canada. This version was rarely seen in the US, but it had great theme music for a Game show.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Game
• shows
• Let's
• Make
• Deal
• Monty
• Hall
• LMAD

[TheJCNetwork]

Yes you are right. I was a 12 year old with a tape recorder at the time. This is a clip that I found stashed away on an old tape.

[a1cjlock]

I wish Wayne Brady much luck on this new stint of LMAD

[skynetvideo]

@johnnyafairbanksak The show aired near me in a small market. It was on WSMW Channel 27 in Worcester Massachusetts. It was followed by Pitfall with Alex Trebek. Now it's a Spanish station with different call letters. This version of Let's Make A Deal also aired for a short time on Channel 25 in Boston. Now a Fox affiliate.

[johnnyafairbanksak]

@skynetvideo The 1980 LMAD rarely got any syndication clearance in the States, except for in the larger markets who were lucky enough to see it (they were on mostly independent stations). But it still aired in reruns well into the much better 1984-86 version.

[maryatvan]

I was on this show in Vancouver. It was shot at the Folkstone Way Studios. I dressed as a bunch of grapes and made it into the grand price showcase. I gave away a workshop complete with all the tools for door number 3. Monty Hall gave me 2 Norco road bikes, some honey. My sisters were behind in the upper audience and for whatever reason I got to sit in the participating audience. Friends and family saw this show in Ontario and Ohio. It was very exciting.

Thanks for the memories Monty

[rodz0r]

My mother was on this show sometime in the 70's, Vancouver, Canada.

[gladfan1989]

I know that KTXL in Sacramento was running it in first-run syndication, then KFCB in Concord ran it through 1985 in reruns.

[rsb97060]

@rksncu KICU-TV 36 San Jose was running it as late as the summer of 1983.

[rsb97060]

@skynetvideo Interesting. I remember it was also used for the ticket plug on TANLMAD. Thanks for checking into it, skynetvideo!

[jnadle1]

I've been told Wayne Brady's version will be back for another season, but due to expenses of taping in Las Vegas, it will be shot at Sunset Bronson Studios, Hollywood (AKA Tribune Studios). Family Feud will now tape at Universal Studios, Orlando. If you ever go to that theme park, be sure to drop in for a taping with Steve Harvey.

[skynetvideo]

@rksncu I don't know what stations in the U.S aired the 1980 version of Let's Make A Deal. I do know that I used to watch it on WSMW Channel 27 in Worcester, Massachusetts. They have since changed call letters and are now a Univision station. 

[skynetvideo]

@rsb97060 No clean recordings of the Canadian version of the Let's Make A Deal theme that I know of. I contacted Monty Hall and he didn't even remember who wrote this version of the theme. Maybe one day a clean version will pop up somewhere.