Bingo At Home A.K.A Money Makers (1969)--Early Jim Perry game show

Howard Felscher was the producer of this game show which originated in Canada but was syndicated in the USA for 13 weeks. Basically 5 contestants, each representing a letter in the word B-I-N-G-O, competed for the whole week to answer general knowledge questions worth 1 - 9 points. A correct answer resulted in them placing their marks on a game board resembling a bingo card. The first contestant to achieve a bingo won the sum of the numbers contained on the line in which they bingoed.
This might actually be the show's pilot, but it could also be from very early in the run. I never have received confirmation on that.

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Entertainment

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• Jim Perry
• gameshow
• 1969

[PRuss34]

How did you find this video and what year is this from?

[blanquepage]

It's from 1969. No comment on how or where it was found.

[someguy23475]

@someguy23475 Have to take that back. I found my complete copy of this episode, and a zero pops up once.

[dagdogg]

Didn't Felschergo on to produce Dawson "Family Feud" in the 1970's?

[johnissoevil]

Jim Perry looks lllike a teenager here.

[BlaqC]

I have fond memories, as a child in the '60s, of being fascinated with Québec game show Cherchez Le Magot, airing on Télé-Métropole. (Now TVA) I loved it, but was too young to accurately remember it. Watching this clip, it became obvious that CLM was actually a French version of Money Makers. blanquepage, thank you for allowing me to finally learn the rules to CLM.

The game had an interesting conundrum: do you place numbers to maximize your award, even if they're on an already-populated line?

[NakedReporta]

@edvideo1978 It's the hair. Not only is he sporting the slick Vitalis look, but he's going prematurely grey. He had grey hair throughout most of the '70s as a Canadian TV personality (check him out hosting "Miss Canada 1973 Part 5. - Final Walk, Crowning Moment" at age 39), but dyed it back to brown just before getting the Card Sharks gig.

[Nickle98499]

@edvideo1978 True, he did look a lot different then from when he hosted those two shows; however, oddly enough he sounds the same here as well as when he hosted Sale and Card Sharks; I guess his voice didn't change that much between 1969 and 1978(when Card Sharks debuted).

[fatmanfiftythousand]

@BlackwoodCompany How?

[MrLogoman007]

He looks kinda like Paul Simon at 0:46.

[streetcarjay]

This was before Jim started hosting game shows in the US and Canada. He just started hosting the Miss Canada Pageant. The Canadian game shows he hosted were Definition and Headline Hunters

[gilberttorres57]

I once watched The Money Makers[The New Bingo At Home] in the New York metropolitan area on then Metromedia Television affiliate WNEW-TV/5 New York City when i was 12 years old!