Let's Make A Deal: 1980 Part 4

Now it's time for the Big Deal of the day, worth over $4,000! Will anyone win it?

Notice that some of the cues here would be re-used for the 1984 revival of LMAD.

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Entertainment

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• Let's
• Make
• Deal
• 1980
• Monty
• Hall

[Wheeloffortunefan999]

this was from the 80s???

[supersaver87]

Well, the very start of the 80's, anyway. There were still traces of the disco decade left over. :)

[millenniumman75]

It was interesting to note the the '84-'86 Big Deal cues were from this version! Monty really recycled tunes through the years.

Thank you for posting this episode!

[WhatsAYak]

There are plenty of game shows that got cheap later in the run:

- Diamond Head, according to Bob Eubanks' book, which started out offering luxury cars, was later reduce to giving away trips to exotic Palm Springs, and w/no airfare!

- Rafferty CS originally offered luxury autos in the car game, later sports cars, and finally the same econoboxes offered on Eubanks' version, as well as removing all maingame cash cards but the $500 one

- Pitfall slashed its grand prize from $5K to $2.5K

[georgef551]

@SuperGamer7

I gave you instances where the game shows cheaped out, yet you have not given ONE instance where this is false.

I'll give you one, "The Money List", which used to be "The List" on FOX, with a $50K jackpot per rotation. Then again, it was $150K when FOX aired it.

$25,000 is good? It was, back in 1990. It's worth crap today.

[SuperGamer7]

You're Still wrong in every way, and you know you're wrong

TPIR AlWAYS GIVES AWAY GREAT PRIZES!!

[georgef551]

@SuperGamer7

Price rarely ever gave away pricing game prizes valued less than $5,000. As of late, it happens at LEAST once a week. They got cheap. They gave away about 6 $3,000-$4,000 prizes last week, which hardly ever happened at all last year.

They DID step up the showcases recently, as they cheaped out the end of last season (hardly any going over $20K). Those are back to normal.

[SuperGamer7]

Sorry but you are wrong! Seriously, you're wrong!

While it is true GSN has had some "cheap" shows,

they have also had shows with Top Prizes of $25,000, $50,000 and $100,000! That, my friend is a good Prize! Gsn will probably have more shows with good top prizes later on!

Oh, and :The Price is right is getting cheap! Uh, no. Just NO!

TPIR gives away over $10,000,000 in cash and prizes on average per season! Seriously, you must be watching a different show.

[georgef551]

They are cheap. Not to say prizes aren't anything good.

The GSN payouts are hiddeous, but that's because they don't have the massive funding the big networks have.

$5K on "Chain Reaction"? That was about $2K back on the Bill Cullen version in 1980.

Even The Pricve is Right is getting cheap.

[SuperGamer7]

Stop it!

Many GSN shows have very good Prizes!

[georgef551]

There was a Canadian game show with a giant prize of $2,000, back in the late '80's. which proves Canadian shows were dirt cheap.  Makes me wonder if all GSN shows are done up there. :)

[oaklandfan2k9]

Just for the Record in 1984, the show moved from KICU-TV 36 in San Jose to KGO-TV 7 in San Francisco for the All New Lets Make A Deal.