This episode is unusual because there's no winner montage, and there's enough dead space at the beginning that it wasn't a matter of starting the tape too late.
if I remember correctly, each episode of this version, from the premiere to the finale, and no matter how poorly edited, had a winner's montage from other episodes. It looks like the uploader has a fade in effect or something at the beginning.
It aired October 12, 1977. This video was given to me by one of the contestants, and she confirmed that date. The imdb listing for the show in 1977 confirms there was an episode aired the date she says.
@@michaelnovrocki6567 The Two Guys Easter sale was the reason I mentioned it. Michael, you were the guy around my age who wrote to TV Game $how Magazine in Fall 1986 during its seven issue run(aug 1986-feb 1987) about $20K Pyramid, not knowing at the time it aired that it taped in NYC and you lived in Pennsylvania at the time, correct?
I checked some old TV listings, and the station in my area that carried $25,000 Pyramid during this season, WDAU (now WYOU) Scranton, PA (CBS affiliate), aired the episodes first run on Tuesday nights at 7:30pm. In a 39 week span, they would air the 30 episodes and every so many weeks in a 39 week span, over nine times they would air some special show or presentation in that slot- like a Billy Graham revival for example that would cover this slot (and sometimes the time slot before it too). Then for 13 weeks in the summer, WDAU would air a summer replacement series in the Tuesday 7:30pm time slot and moved Pyramid to Saturday nights at 6:30pm for the summer, making the case that they did re-run episodes. Since these episodes were bicycled around, I’m supposing a station would get some of the episodes a second time on the bicycle route? Lol.
THIS CONTESTANT PLAYED WITH THE VERY SAME PARTNER: VICKI LAWRENCE. It was way before the partners had to switch celebrities. And besides, I had seen the THINGS MADE OF LINEN subject before. ( $20,000 PYRAMID, DICK CLARK WITH PHYLLIS GEORGE, 1976. KENNETH HUANG. 6/13/24.
Yes, that's him. He worked at WCBS through the mid-80s, then had a brief short-lived stint on the CBS Morning program in 1987, then went back to local NY news at WWOR-Channel 9 for a number of years after that.
Original Broadcast CUllen $25K Pyramid. Nice. Quite a few Cullen Pyramids surfaced on the trading circuit or RU-vid coming from 1985-86 reruns from WLIG Long Island, but this is IRC only the second one to come from original broadcast.
