Saw this....and I did not seet it on Mike Burger's page....Line 'Em Up hosted by Rick Campbell. 16MM.
Unopened "Mr. Game Show"....currently at $125.
A ticket to the pilot? of The Joker's Wild...ticket date is December 8, 1968.
Just what everyone needs....a 4 pack of Win Lose or Draw board games for $10. Give them to your friends. They'll thank you forever.
Something that I don't see that often at all....Finders Keepers board game. Factory sealed, only $9.99
Early listing for "The Price is Right" DVD game...$20.50. Don't have a K-Mart near me....does anyone recall what the shelf tag price was there?
This one closes soon, but 2 tickets to "Musical Chairs", the ticket has a pic of Adam Wade on it....did any other shows do it?
And, one for the "Moneymaze" as well.
An acceptance letter sent via Western Union to a gentlemen selected to be a contestant on "Professor Quiz"
An unused ticket from 10/26/88 when they taped at Radio City Music Hall. Ticket is unused, and still has stub on it.
Something our resident alumnus from Northwestern might be interested in....a homecoming pin from 1977 bearing the likeness of Paul Lynde
Program Sheets from the 1980s version of Hollywood Squares...something TV stations apparently pick up, often...perhaps someone can elaborate more on their use.
Finally....what every potential TPiR contestants needs...a master price list! The seller boasts that he has prizes from the pencil erasers to the Viper.
Good grief.

The obvious problem with that price list is that the information is already obsolete, being for last year's shows. We'll have to wait and see if the Hot Pockets are still $2.37, or the Pop Tarts still in their old packaging.

On the other hand, the car listings are probably for the base model; that's why they have options to tinker with.

I'm all for the free market, and what happens to a fool and his money, but I'm glad no one has gone for this.

Hmm. lots of stuff to check out:

I always wondered what a contestant invitation looks like, but nothing like a telegram. I usually think of something like that in the form of a standard form letter

That 1968 TJW ticket sure looks like it was a pilot episode. If it was, how come it took 4 years before it became an actual series anyway?

Good grief is right on that price list. Anyore can be dumb enough to fall for something like that. Besides, I think there's a web page that ACTUALLY does this & merely serves the same purpose from $.55 Lifesavers to a $100K motorhome. Can't remember what site that page was from.

(speculation, I know nothing of this, just my two copper Lincolns)
Prolly because CBS just wasn't interested at the time. Just like it took about 5 or 6 years and about 4 pilots before the most recent "Pyramid" finally went to air (First pilot was 1996--the show debuted in 2002). IIRC, wasn't 1968 around the time CBS stopped doing daytime game shows, up until '72 with "Amateur's Guide to Love"?
(end speculation)

Besides, at least the TJW DID become a series.

Suggested retail is $30, though presumably it'll be less on the shelves. With hefty shipping, the Ebay buyer is paying $26.90, but he does seem to be getting an advance copy.

It's out. Someone told me they saw it on shelves at the store the other day. I was meaning to post to see if anyone had one yet and what they thought.

I know I've been scarce for the past few months, but we actually do have Northwestern alumni here.

But in my case, the answer is...I'm not $24.99-plus-shipping worth of interested.

Well I'm better looking, so nyah!

:-)

Brandon Brooks

On golden-road.net there are some initial impressions from users in the forums. Strangest thing I've heard so far is that the prize descriptions are taken from actual shows, but not all from a single announcer. So on the DVD you get to hear the dulcet tones of four Price announcers (Rod, Randy, Rich, Burton).

I've placed my order on target.com Saturday afternoon. It's been shipped and should be here by week's end.

Curt

Horrors! I'll have to hide my eyes!

The "TJW" ticket is from the pilot, which had the celeb panel format (each one represented a category and answered the questions, not the players).

I can't think of any other instance where any host had their picture on a ticket--perhaps Don Kirshner slipped a little extra money to CBS for the favor.

And the signature on "Professor Quiz" is that of the famous broadcaster Robert Trout in a more informal mode, before he became a noted anchorman and reporter. Since he started out as an announcer, it's not surprising that he would be a quizmaster (and it seems to me that there were several "Professor Quiz"es during that run of that show.)

And if anyone's noticed the URL on the Paul Lynde item--jeez.

Actually (and I'm sure there might be a grand total of three people who care), Robert Trout was the announcer on the Professor Quiz series. So what that telegraph has is signatures from both Professor Quiz and Robert Trout.

While there might have been others for a brief time, Craig Earl was the Professor for the vast majority of the run. In fact, it's pretty much his only claim to old-time radio fame.

As someone who likes to know the exact dates shows were either taped or aired, this is a big help. At least we can pin down an exact date the pilot was shot.

Now, I gotta ask the question: did any of you guys actually have this thing at one time or another? If so...how exactly did it work?

Seeing as our humble moderator Mr. Ottinger is posing with his on the front page of his website, I'm guessing he might be able to tell you a little more about how it worked, but basically you plugged question cartridges into it, there were several buzzers around the base of the unit, and there were a few different games you could play which had the dude asking the questions and announcing the scores.

I don't want to think about how old that picture is, but the shoulder in the bottom left of the shot was a student who has since graduated from college...

Chris had it mostly right. Three games were built into the unit, two hangman variations and a quick-reflex test. Ontly the fourth, a trivia game, required a cassette, and YOU had to provide the cassette player! (More cassettes were proposed, but as far as I can tell, only Trivia Tracks was ever released.) The games were ordinary; the appeal of the device was the host figure itself, whose arms, neck and lower jaw moved as he chatted (in his pre-programmed way) with the players. The game was pricey in its day (1986) but is even more valued now as a collectors item.

BTW, my particular Gus Glitz character is featured on TWO web sites. They all look the same, of course, but trust me when I say that this guy is mine too.

Not true. See below.

Intro is from a typical show. Todd Newton does most of the voiceovers You can do the following:

Contestants row

Write down bids on 4 cards. Person who wins, takes remote and goes on to a pricing game.

Pricing games

Some games include IUFB. Prize descriptions are not read by the same announcer in each game. Prizes & grocery items are rotated. Some prizes for games are used in others (for example Shopping Spree in Most Expensive)

12 Pricing games (The most popular on the show according to the manual)

Lucky Seven
Most expensive
Push Over
Danger Price
Plinko
Golden Road
Pass The Buck
Grand Game
Cliffhangers (choice of 4 prices, instead of inserting your own price)
Safe Crackers
Shell Game (No chance for $500 bonus)
5 Price Tags

Showcase Showdown

You can spin as many times as you'd like. It doesn't stop after 3 people spin. You have to go to the main menu to end the spinning. However, your 2nd spin starts on .90 every time.

Showcase

You determine who the top winner is. The top winner plays the 1st showcase. You can bid or pass. You have a choice of 6 prices. Showcases seem announcer consistent. After the showcase is over, footage from the show is shown. You can catch a glimpse of the Hollywood turntable.

Bugs

Awarding $10,000 for landing on .95 in the bonus spin.
Saying I was wrong immediately after I just answered correctly to win a shell.

Some notes:

Graphics are computer generated as opposed to digitized footage from the show as I would have liked.

There seem to be more music and price reveal delays than I expected.

Some games are not musically authentic (Grand game winning cue for example)

There are sound bites from Rich, Randy, Burton, Rod, Daniel, Boland, Sanders, Bishop and Rose. (possibly Thornton. Haven't heard him yet)

The DVD skipped a few times before Todd introduced a game.

Claudia, Heather, and Nikki make appearances which was a surprise.

I hope there are some decent, if any, easter eggs.

I definitely expected more pricing games. Not bad, but all things considered, I expected better.

That looks like Mark Walberg to me. Is there something you need to tell Claudia?

Popular? Yeah right. Because people always whoop about winning a lemonade stand, a rolltop desk, and a daybed. :)