What's the name of the display used to display scores on the Australian versions of our US game shows produced by Reg Grundy?

I dunno. Looks more like a Ferranti display to me. Except the "3" looks a little different from the "3" on the US "Family Feud" from 1988-95. If you wanna know what I mean, visit Chris Powney Australian Game Show Page, and check under either "The Price is Right" (1993 version) or "$ale of the Century" (2001 season), and look under "photos".

And yes, the Aussie "$ale of the Century" isn't the only show to use this font. The Aussie versions of "The Price is Right" and "Now You See It" also use this font, as well as other Nine Network game shows from the Grundy library. And, just recently, the Aussie "Wheel of Fortune" on the Seven Network used this font to display scores. The Aussie version of "Hot Streak" on Seven also used this font.

Chris, I thought you'd find this link interesting since we're talking about these displays. Don't know if you've ever seen this before.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/gessler/topics/displays.htm

I hadn't, that's very interesting! Thanks! :)

And according to that site and many others, Ferranti-Packard (not Ferranti-Packer) is the name of the company who produced flip-disc variable character displays like the ones used in Family Feud. Someone tell me if I'm wrong on this.

It's entirely possible. I screw up that name all the time. In my defense, so does Ryan. :)

No criticism expressed or implied. :-)

That's entirely possible. I think one question that should be pointed out is which device is responsible for how the characters are formed, the actual modules as pictured in the link or the driver (controller) itself. The reason I point this out is because of the number of times the character formations changed during Family Feud's original run. They changed the character set from the pilot to the premiere, then went back to the pilot character set in mid-76, then changed it back to the premiere character set, then changed it again in later years. It would make more sense to assume it's controlled at the driver end but you know what happens when you assume.

Also, anyone got any fonts from foreign versions of our game shows, like the "Ferranti"-type font I mentioned used on Aussie game shows from the Grundy library (and casinos in Reno, NV)?

If you need fonts of characters made up of dots, let me know what you're looking for and I can make you the fonts. Just show me how the characters are made up.

Uh... an example of that font would've been found on Chris Powney's Aussie GS Page, but the site's gone down for now. So that means I can't help for now, but maybe later.