Are there any anecdotes, details, stories etc about the development of the '10,000 Pyramid'? I don't think I've ever seen anything discussed about its development.

I know this story has been told to death, but the poster may not know the story. The Winner's Circle I've heard was supposed to have 10 subjects instead of 6. Talk about an impossible bonus game, lol. Thankfully they got the hint and put a big thing of plywood covering the bottom part of the Pyramid.
Although not related to the development per se, early on, episodes did seem to straddle. I've seen one where the episode started in the MIDDLE of a game.

Not really about the development, but TV Guide had a blurb on page A-1 in the March 3, 1973 issue about Y&R, Pyramid and Hollywood's Talking joining the CBS lineup March 23. In it Richard K. Doan noted "Curiously, CBS failed to identify a single performer for any of the shows, giving rise to the suspicion that the new entries were hastily mounted."

Everything I've read says that Bob Stewart originated the "Pyramid" idea with an unsold project called "Cash on the Line". IIRC, the endgame became the "Pyramid" main game.

It's a YouTube clip, but I think it's a fitting reply for this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmHNq_iUyEM
Bob Stewart starts talking about the development of Pyramid at 17:45. And if you have a day to call, I actually recommend the whole thing. It's a great interview.

EDIT MADE: That's the correct link now.

Wow, I didn't know Bob Stewart was in the WWF!!

Huh....I didn't know Bob Stewart was a WWF guy.
:)

Y'know, Badnewsbrownrolled doesn't have the same ring to it.

Aww, crap!...Well, it's the weekend, and for those of you who might be snowed in and unable to get to church, I figured The Brother Love Show might be close enough.

For those of you who wanted the Bob Stewart interview, the correct link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmHNq_iUyEM. Again, 17:45 is when talk of Pyramid starts.

What I had heard was that the original original Winner's Circle was the front game; describing ten items that belonged to a single category in sixty seconds. It was only after the change was made to having the guesser determine the subjects that the ten-in-sixty became impossible.

And this is some ex-rectum speculation here, and I've only had "your probably right" rather than actual confirmation. The end-game to Cash on the Line may have been very similar to what the end game to Pass the Buck was, but at a much larger scale -- eight rows instead of four. Again, I repeat, I could be absolutely freaking wrong on this.


--Mike