This episode is from NBC Affiliate KSTP-TV channel 5 in Minneapolis MN with Host Tom Ryder and it is from 1977 first the promo than the station ID and the show enjoy!!!
I remember seeing this show in 1960s on my local station KTLA channel 5 in Los Angeles. It was with a different host so I think each station had their own version of the show. It was franchised out as opposed to being syndicated the usual way.
Wow! I'm glad I ran into this! I used to watch Bowling for Dollars as a teenager every night it aired on channel 5! Diamond Lake Lanes, where this show was taped, was only 6 blocks from the house I grew up in! I used to bowl at this bowling alley when I was growing up. I'm so happy I could watch this again!
I thought that this would be KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles. They did have Bowling for Dollars on KTLA-TV Channel 5 - Los Angeles back in the Early to Mid 70’s with Chick Hearn.
Bowling for Dollars debuted on KSTP-TV in the summer of 1973 and became a huge hit for the station, average about a 40 share of the viewing audience. The show would eventually air three times a week and saved Tom Ryther's career. When he left the station, he was replaced by Johnny Canton and it ran for another year before it was finally canceled.
@@chriskelly509 Yes your rite. Paper maps weren't invented yet either, so back in 1978 people would have to ride their horses around the city calling out a person's name in order to find them.
Excuse me, Folks... At age 47, I believe it would work today not only as good as it did 40 years ago, but with MINIMAL changes, this would be a local SMASH HIT. It seems that you may have fallen for this 21st century million-dollar reality TV foolishness that wasn't around back then... but you may not be old enough to know about the '70s...
Also, because the show was franchised, you could be a contestant if your local station ran the show. Sure, the money is paltry, but just being on TV with the *chance* at a thou, there was never a shortage of applicants.
