It's a bit haunting looking at those "Sweet Pickles" commercials, and a bit sad too remembering this was roughly 40 years ago. The video almost looks like it could've been recorded yesterday, but I'm looking back 40 years. :-| So much has changed since then and not necessarily for the better.
Are you kidding?! That's me! I won! WOW. Just typed in Grand Prix All Star Show to see if it was on YT. Imagine my shock when the only one I see here is the one I appeared on with Jenilee Harrison! THANK YOU!!!!! We auditioned in Mel Brooks' home in the Hollywood Hills and Jay Johnson was kind enough to give me a ride home back to LA from City of Industry.
My pleasure Darin. I wish more episodes were available by other contestants but I'm glad you found my copy of your episodes. I'd like to know more behind the scenes information like how long did an episode take to shoot? It seemed to go from sunny to overcast by the last event. Also, did you keep in touch with your competitors?
Bob Hilton wasn't even that bad; he was a hit and miss through compared to Gene Wood. At least, Bob Hilton put the "and" article before the fourth contestant like the perms did.
Mollie's name has an unusual spelling, but I think that's the way Kirstie Alley (May she rest in peace) spelled it too in the Look Who's Talking trilogy.
I guess I’d have moderate OCD… I do clean and move stuff A LOT, but it takes me 15 minutes to leave the house sometimes bc EVERYTHING has to be in the CORRECT place/position… it’s HORRIBLE, it hurts inside physically if I do t do this stuff
I used to skip school to watch this. They used to show this at 8:30 in the morning and Battle of the Planets at 8 and I had to be in school at 7:30. I would just stay home.
I’m very surprised to learn that TXL is not only the computer friend to Sam Crenshaw, but she’s also the one introducing each episode of today’s special and in this episode relaying to the viewers what happened in part one of our story.
If I were to revive this game show, it would be like this: Host: Jeff Davis Announcer: Jim Thornton Network and frequency: Syndication (daily half-hour) or ABC (weekly hour) Opening spiel: (cue clips of previous millionaire couples from the original show, and the current) "These teams have all become instant millionaires in one of the richest games in television! Tonight, two more teams will compete for a chance to win over $1,000,000 in cash and prizes, including two brand-new automobiles, all on The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime! Ladies and gentlemen, the man with the millions, Jeff Davis!" Gameplay: Same format as the original, except the dollar amounts are inevitably increased. $250 for round 1, $500 for round 2, $1,000 for round 3 and beyond. Instead of just married couples, it's family teams of three. Plus, the star is eliminated from the keyboard to avoid throwing off contestants, lest it be the stinger key, and the non-letters in the puzzle are already revealed, with money for the round already added to the puzzle bank for each. As usual, hit the one stinger key on the board, you lose your turn. The player is allowed to guess at any time during their turn rather than wait until they hit two keys. There are two gold spaces in each puzzle, thereby doubling the amount of that square, and if the player solves the puzzle immediately after putting a letter in a gold space, their team wins double the amount of the bank. Instead of a correct answer adding money to the player's score, it adds to the bank. Solve the puzzle, keep the bank, regardless of whether or not they win the match. If time is running out, the rest of the unrevealed letters in the puzzle are revealed one by one, with the gold spaces still in play, until a team guesses correctly to claim the last bank of the match. As usual, the team with the most money at the end wins the match and plays the bonus round. All runners-up receive consolation prizes along with their cash. Bonus round: The team picks one of three categories and is taken to the soundproof booth. They have 60 seconds to solve six words relating to the chosen category. Each word solved gives them $1,000, but solving six wins the bonus round. Bonus round winnings: Daily: Three levels (no risk, all reward): 1: $25,000, 2: $50,000, 3: $1,000,000 in cash and prizes, including three luxury automobiles, 20 round-trip flight tickets, furniture, and over $800,000 in cash (plus an extra $100,000 each time the bonus round is not won). Lose the bonus round, stay on the level you're on until you win it, or lose the main game. Weekly: One bonus round win will make the team over $1,000,000 richer. Failure to win the bonus round, as before, results in the team returning next week for another shot. Again, $100,000 more to the jackpot for each bonus round loss. Closing spiel: "This is your announcer Jim Thornton saying come back next time/next week for more millionaire fun on The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime! See ya." "This has been a Warner Bros. Television Production."
This was on every morning after StarBlazers. Back in like 1982 probably. I really can't understand why I watched it. I like Baxster but I remember even as young kids we rendered to him as bastard. Becuase somehow that was a bad word we knew.
OMG, I was just browsing through Jason Cranmer's list of episodes that he has of this show, each of which has an airdate listed, and given the fact that this aired on February 26, 1986, it aired exactly one week after Kim & George Britton's win, which aired exactly a week after that of Connie & Steve Rutenbar. Had Marcia & Perry won, that would have been three $1 million wins on three Wednesdays in a row. It still is, however, three $1 million attempts on three Wednesdays in a row, which means each couple's first day was on a Monday, thus kicking off a week. (And according to the list all three started off on a day on which both couples were new, unlike Cheryl & Bill Gilmore, who started off as challengers against returning champions Marci & Rudy Vulner, back for their second day.
28:30 Pat: I'm Pat Sajak. Vanna: And I'm Vanna White. Pat: And we'd be happy to help that couple on the show you just saw make up for that tragic $1,000,000 loss by suggesting that one of those two should try out for our show, Wheel of Fortune. We have a million dollar space on our wheel so he or she would get a second chance to try for a million if the wheel lands on that space and he or she guesses a letter and it's in the puzzle and he or she picks up that wedge and he or she makes it to the bonus round with that wedge still intact. We're good people that way and we also show our contestants that there are no hard feelings if they don't win the million on our show either, especially since we still guarantee them at least $1,000 if they didn't score at all in the main game. Of course, that's not what he really said in that promo, but since it came on right after Chance of a Lifetime was over, I thought it would sound quite fitting.
