Sale Of The Century Part 1

Part 1 of an episode of the NBC game show "Sale Of The Century", hosted by Jim Perry and assisted by Sally Julian. Jay Stewart is the announcer.

This is the episode that has the opening segment elsewhere on my channel.

Audio should be in sync this time.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• sale
• of
• the
• century
• game
• show
• jim
• perry
• jay
• stewart
• sally
• julian
• nbc

[Tubewings]

Just out of curiosity, va1k, did you tape this yourself, or did you get this in a trade?

[videoarchives1000]

@Tubewings I taped it myself when it originally aired.

[Tubewings]

You know, I'd like to hear some of those obscene limericks from Seth.

[bluebear1985]

@Noveltooner I think another reason it switched to the couples format because at the time, Gambit, which was over on CBS, had couples competing, and it got fairly good ratings. I guess SOTC changed the format so they could compete.

[onedollarphilistine]

Umm, anybody else disturbed by the king sized brass crib at 0:19?

[AaronBruceLadner]

@estestim Which Sound Effect are you Talking about?

[Noveltooner]

@5star555555555 Those were the shows toward the end of the series; NBC thought that re-making "$ale" as a couples game would boost ratings, and the revamped single level set was far less expensive than the original enormous bi-level department store-style set in Studio 8H. For the most part, "$ale of the Century" was originally played just like this version with three contestants and instant bargains, whose prices all ended with 95 cents. Jack Kelly of "Maverick" was its first host.

[Noveltooner]

ON the original "$ale" set in New York, a graceful curved staircase brought the champion to a huge grand prize floor on its main level.

[Noveltooner]

I was a bit disappointed with this version, not because of the show itself and certainly not because of Jim Perry, one of the finest and classiest hosts ever to grace the airwaves. Usually the L.A.-transplanted versions of New York shows had really superior sets. That was not the case here. The original "$ale" was taped in Studio 8H (a.k.a., Peacock Theater) and had a monster two-floor set with the contestants and instant bargains on the top.

[morgan8757]

thanks you for you tubing this 

[5star555555555]

I have a theory as to why the prices are so low. Not only were they still finding themselves this month, but they were experimenting with the prices quite a bit during this year. Those prices were closer to the ones that had been available on the $ale of the ¢entury in 1973 or so, just a decade earlier. In fact, one of two clips online of $ale from that era was that of Bill Wendell announcing a trip to Paris for $279 and a car for $289; the couple were playing for both prizes at the time.

[mrpersonality0784]

This probably one of the clearest episodes of Sale I've ever seen!!! Keep up the good work!