Combination Lock|Marc Summers Pilot 

What was Marc Summers like?

It’s a shame this show never went forward. It looks so promising!

Why did not show get picked up. It looks good & perfect to be on tv.

@@GCBlues45 It says in Wink's description above.

Terrance is a good guy. This pilot deserved to go farther than it did.

Gotta keep that $185,000 EXTRA safe!

true but the top prize would have to be reduced by at least 80%

@@nintendonerdsvideos4727 maybe but nearly 20 years ago they had Russian Roulette which offered a top prize of 100k .

Some of them I got. The one with the 357 I sort of cheated and looked at my keyboard, but I was pretty sure of it anyway.

Me too. I was with Sprint at that time.

I used to work at a Walmart old school format department store (before they converted them all to supercenters with a grocery wing). We had a sweet natured woman who ran the Cingular kiosk in our store. Miss Etta, wherever you are, I hope you're doing well. 💖

IKR. It merged with AT&T in about 2007.

@@jdcnow most of our Walmarts in Little Rock back then had Alltel Wireless kiosks until they added the wireless department in the electronics department.

It does merit another chance. However I felt the $185,000 question was a bit easy.

Marc's a great guy. I also know about his OCD, which I also have so I feel for him. Glad he has been able to work on it.

​@@sha11235I have OCD like Marc

No one would know that unless you knew the right answers. ;)

Or Temptation...

Chain Reaction was running around that time wasn't it? I could see it being ran in an hour slot with that maybe. The budget would have to be very much reduced though....which may have hurt it given the high stakes of the end game. Not sure if it'd have played the same.

@@ajk yes Chain Reaction was on GSN in 2006. Seeing this show in a hour format would be nice.

@@LittleRockElevators No I meant, running it alongside it back to back in a one hour slot.

Thanks. The show was not scripted. The only thing that was, was the end game. We wanted to show a win. The whole show was played for real. I had people in my industry slam us because the first question went unsolved by both teams. But we were determined to play it straight, because, as you so wisely noted, you can smell a set-up a mile away. Wish it sold too! ;)

"Combination Lock" was to be paired with a revival of "The Joker's Wild", just like sister shows WOF & Jeopardy

It was just a pilot. The presentation was supposed to just be in the office, when then decided to do it on the Wheel stage.

@@jrjgames I'm guessing that explains Marc's energy, or sorta almost lack of it a little bit? Particularly at the end with the big $185k win? I felt like it was quite subdued, but it'd make sense as to why. Interesting they used the Wheel stage too..would the big screen they played on have been the same one that was/is otherwise used as a backdrop for the contestants there? I would assume so.

@@ajk I agree with you. The reaction for such a huge win seemed rather subdued by everyone except Angel (who kinda reminds me of Adrienne Houghton from The Real). Even Rico looked like 'I ain't getting excited over fake money' lol

Thank you very much.

That's the dumbest thing I ever heard! LOL. It's a test show, are you serious?

They are paid... ...actor's wages, because that is what pilot contestants are.

Sometimes they still get paid.....just nowhere near the announced prizes.

I felt like the whole "Did they do it" thing from Marc got a little repetitive personally, as far as the delivery/pacing of things went. And as to the Rounds......I think a speed round format coulda been interesting to close. Have the 3 categories as normal, but instead of 3 numbers with each one corresponding to one of the numbers in the combination, have 2 already put in place for the contestants, and then 3 other numbers for them to choose from and attempt to complete it. First team to buzz in and correctly do that, would get the cash value of the code in that round. Then you'd move on to the next one, and the next one and so on until either time ran out if they used a clock, or a signal was heard to indicate the game was over.

On the prize budget. Especially if the series was like a GSN original or a web series ( possible in todays enviroment) If the show became a thing i would make the main game stakes half and the bonus round 10k with the jackpot beginning at 25k with 1,000 added until won. However the piilot format with these stakes COULD work as a weekly offering as part of ABC Fun and Games during the summer.

Usually when the show sells, they do change part or all of the set. It would've worked back then.

2007 as it says in the description. Maybe you don't have enough smarts. I got some of the stuff right.

It's a pilot.

@@jrjgames a great pilot on top of that. I wonder if it did made it to series, would the show be on daily or weekly like primetime?

Marc explains if you had paid attention, that it was a rolling jackpot. Would start at $100,000 and go up $5,000 each day till won. Nothing more to it than that.

@@LittleRockElevators It was meant to be a daily show.

@@gameshowgospel cool.

It's a pilot