Here is something I got through email. I thought it was very rare to see something from the $50,000 Pyramid and actually a $50,000 win! Enjoy! To watch in High Quality, enter &fmt=18 at the end of the web address at the top.
This was the last game show to be taped in New York City if I am correct. This was from 1981. Bob Stewart was the last producer to move to the west coast partly due to Bill Cullen's desire to remain in New York City and Cullen hosted several Bob Stewart shows.
@snuffereet Their are only very few 10K Pyramids tapes that have not been destroyed. The only 20K pyramid tapes that are available are from 1978-1980. 50K Pyramid only ran for 1 year. Mostly the 25K and 100K are only available
This format was the worst among all incarnations. I really like Pyramid, but the $50,000 version was pointless. Clock counts up instead of down...(For tournament reasons yes, but still...) no bonuses in the front game, Only $5000 for a trip to the Winner's Circle?! And to top it off, you didn't have to win a game to qualify for the $50,000 tournament, you just had to have the fastest main game time. So, in essence, you didn't actually have to go to the WC AT ALL to qualify?! Just Ridiculous.