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[JasonA1]

The High Rollers thing isn't that hard. The contestants always sat down on the Trebek version, and stood up to roll the dice in the revival. Observe. Chris is right insofar as the color pictures I could punch up were from 78-80, and the black & whites were all from the first run.

-Jason

[clemon79]

gameshowlover87, on 29 June 2012 - 10:26 AM, said:

Unless, of course, the pictures of them sitting down are from the pilot for the 1978 revival.

Well, the second one isn't, at least, because Ruta's there playing croupier. (At least, I think that's sufficient evidence.)

EDIT: Oh, and rolling dice. Note the table faces her and the contesti are sitting along the long side.

[chris319]

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At some point, I think he just wandered the halls at NBC Burbank looking for shows to be on.

You've got him confused with Scatman Crothers. Seriously. Scatman used to hang out at NBC, roaming around, schmoozing with the guards. We'd finish taping at 6 pm and there he'd be.

[40onTheBlue]

WhirlieBird74, on 29 June 2012 - 09:12 AM, said:

To whomever wanted to see rare pictures of the 1974 and 1978 versions of High Rollers, here you go:

http://www.gettyimag...ers+game+show#8

Ask and ye shall receive!

That would be me. Thank you very much. :)

[PYLdude]

JasonA1, on 29 June 2012 - 11:37 AM, said:

The High Rollers thing isn't that hard. The contestants always sat down on the Trebek version, and stood up to roll the dice in the revival. Observe. Chris is right insofar as the color pictures I could punch up were from 78-80, and the black & whites were all from the first run.

-Jason

And the more I thought of it the more I couldn't remember any time where I saw the contestants standing either...so thank you, Jason, for confirming that I know way too much minutiae about things. :)

[40onTheBlue]

DjohnsonCB, on 29 June 2012 - 08:16 AM, said:

40onTheBlue, on 26 June 2012 - 07:21 PM, said:

MisterX, on 26 June 2012 - 05:50 PM, said:

Here's some interesting shots of Jack Barry's Tic Tac Dough from 1956. There's behind the scenes shots of the rotating category board too!

The photo of the board from behind fascinates me. Building and maintaining it must've been quite a feat of engineering. It'd be great to hear the story from whoever created it. Now, if there were photos somewhere of the other side of the original Concentration and Jeopardy! boards, you'd have to peel me off the floor.

Back in the '70s, NBC had a Saturday Morning kids show called "Go".  No, not the game show, this was a show that took its cameras to various places of interest.  One show went behind the scenes at NBC and they showed the "Jeopardy!" board from the rear, with guys quickly lifting the money and answer cards out of their slots as the contestants called them.

That particular episode would be a real treat to see. I can only guess, however, that the master tapes of many Saturday morning children's shows were probably also subject to mass erasure back then, weren't they?

[clemon79]

40onTheBlue, on 08 July 2012 - 12:15 PM, said:

That particular episode would be a real treat to see. I can only guess, however, that the master tapes of many Saturday morning children's shows were probably also subject to mass erasure back then, weren't they?

Probably a whole lot less likely, since that content had already proven itself to have value on a secondary market.