This is probably a really dumb question for the people here, but what were the 90s Pyramid pilots that I hear so often with the word "suck" next to it? I could have sworn there were webpages for it before, but I can't seem to find them.

There WERE webpages, but they were on Randy Amasia's old site.

Didn't Chuck Woolery host one of those pilots?

-Joe R.

Yes, and Mark Walberg hosted the other.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020202220906/...unications.com/

If anyone wants to tell more abou them please do.

I still think "This could grow on me/Like a mole...?" is one of the best comments I ever heard.

Straight from the horse's mouth, courtesy of your friends at Google:

Pyramid 96 pilot

And from other ATGSers:

Osmond Pyramid pilots

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

Speaking of 90's Pyramid pilots. Was there a pilot done in 1990 for the John Davidson revival? I figured something must have been done with John hosting the game before it was sold into syndication.

Didn't USA Today report Willard Scott did a pilot(or at least was under consideration) for what would become the 1991-92 version?

Thanks for all of the information for those of us who were not on these boards in the Nineties.

I'm not sure how I would have liked the '96 pilot.

The '00 pilot sounds like the version that sold (although there was never a million dollar tounament).

When did the Chuck Woolery version come, and was it closer to the all-star show or the faithful remake?

November 1997 IIRC (although he was already doing the Dating Game). Might've been 1999, after DG was cancelled. As far as I know, it was more faithful to the original, except no tournament.

And finally were any of these versions made for NBC as I believe the 'Game Show 75' site mentions?

The pilot for WOolery Pyramid was done in Fall 1997, as per a check of ATGS on Google.

And a further ATGS search says November 16, 1997.
The post

Not to throw this thread too far off topic, but if you don't like the current google beta layout, you can use the classic layout here:

http://groups.google.ca/advanced_group_search?hl=en

No pilot was taped for the Davidson version, and Willard Scott was just under consideration.

Thanks for the information Brian.

If Willard Scott had hosted Pyramid, nobody under age 100 would have watched.

I think the million dollar Pyramid was for NBC...wasn't Jason Alexander tapped for that one? However, I want to say NBC might've been involved in a syndie daytime pilot, perhaps to have aired with daytime WL?

Then again, maybe not.

For those who may be interested, I just found a very brief 1997 article mentioning Chuck Woolery possbily being the new Pyramid host.

CNN CHUCK WOOLERY

Probably because, as you would know if you'd bothered to read back in the thread, he'd done a pilot for same in - gasp - 1997.

Ummm, I believe that I did read this thread and I DID see it was mentioned about Woolery on Pyramid, but I thought I'd like to back that information up even more with an article from CNN.

You are SO missing the freakin' point.

How could Chuck host Pyramid...he's still hosting Wheel.

Can't you host 2 shows at the same time?

Sure, you can host 2 shows at the same time. Bill Cullen did Hot Potato and The Joker's Wild in 1984 at the same time. Heck, in Early 1991, Alex Trebek did Jeopardy, Classic Concentration, AND To Tell The Truth at the same time!

I think it's all dependent upon how the host feels about working so much.

WHOOOOOOOSH!

Ryan :)

I'm hosting 2 shows at the same time RIGHT NOW.

HP was off the air a few months before his tenure on TJW began.

Sinatra's near death?! Oh no, say it isn't so!

Now that is an old piece.

Well, THAT one seems to have gone over about as well as a fruit salad at a chocolate convention.

The point, Whooshes and Whooshettes, was *not* the 2 shows at one time thing...it's the REST of the sentence

I said that?

(research, research)

Jesus, I gotta update more often. The 2002-2004 went by without a mention.