It really helped Gil in the third word they allowed him to see the J in the second set of letters. Of course, he picked it and it made a dead giveaway because it couldn't be function. You didn't get that J in any of your four letter pairings. Made a huge difference.
Reminded me of Byron Harvey’s third day at the Sprint trying to get WITNESS a year later. Didn’t get the W until later on, until Joel Friedman (the one who beat him) got the W in the second pair and nailed it. Coincidentally for both Eric and Byron, BINGO was their first Sprint word and they unfortunately lost their Sprint those days too.
@"shreknhavoc", yes, back then, 1989's "Scrabble" game show had Mr. Charles "Chuck" H. Woolery as its previous host just as his former studio announcer there was late Mr. Arthur W. Ferguson [though professionally known as "Charlie Tuna"!
9:42 is a rare Emerson Boombox with an AM/FM radio, 5 1/2 B&W TV and dual cassette deck. I saw it on eBay and it goes to $350, and I’m not getting it. In addition, you can add a converter box to get your TV station, or a video game console like an NES to play on it.
16:16 is his mother talking about a schedule change for their NBC daytime lineup including “Scrabble” at 10AM, “Classic Concentration” at 10:30AM, “Wheel of Fortune” the daytime version at 11AM, and “NewsCenter 3” on middays depending on your local NBC affiliate including New York City which was WNBC-TV (channel 4). “Scrabble” was the only game show made by Reg Grundy after “$ale of the Century” ended its 7-year run, and “Super Password” ended its run after five years. The show was based off the popular Hasbro IP, they also owned the Marvel/Sunbow content including “My Little Pony” G1, “The Transformers” G1, “GI Joe”, and “Jem and the Holograms”.
I won’t lie…. 89 really brought some of the zaniest, craziest, and even weirdest Contestants in Scrabble’s history. Don’t get me started with some Contestants rocking their Nicknames on their nametags…
