Ah, memories of sitting in the living room on a hot summer vacation day as I watched this! Windows open - the sound of traffic coming in - and fan going because running the central AC didn't seem necessary!
+kamil douglas The sound effects alone were the reason I remembered this from my childhood. Watching the reruns they aired on USA back in the late 80's and early 90's is when I first saw this.
Took me forever to find this, I always remembered the ticking and little bell sound as the letters popped up but did not know the name of the game for the life of me lol
@@mitchellries256 It’s a little harder to follow than the other shows mentioned. The other games are easy to follow without paying closer attention. Or maybe I’m slow ;)
My girl and I were staying in a hotel room downtown, I'd just got laid off and was getting unemployment benefits and she worked at the phone company, I'd watch this every day then go fill out applications then hit the bar for a couple drinks, for a couple of months that was my routine.
TcheQ _ probably regular. If the show was on now, I probably have sweet and spicy chili flavor. By the way, I remember watching the show more when it was on the USA network in reruns rather than on NBC itself.
This is nothing alike to the classic board game and I'm a Scrabble aficionado. However, I find this is a very original way of adapting it to a game show. I'm sorry that I haven't lived at the time this show existed. I agree with those who want it back in our days. Furthermore I want to play, It's very entertaining!
They weren't very strict with that particular buzzer. In fact, they eventually got rid of it in later episodes (with Chuck instead asking the contestants to either use the other letter or take two more tiles).
Freemantle media (owners of buzzr network) own the reg grundy library (amonst many others) that this show was a part of. Why in hades won't they put this on? I'd much rather watch this then endless match game and family feud reruns on the weekends.
Steve's words in the second sprint were pretty easy, especially WEDDING, which I had before any of the letters popped up. Chick wasted too much time on CONTACTS.
It seemed like the person on the left always lost. I remember as a kid when the set would turn them away from the audience, I was freaked out because I thought they were being dumped into a hot furnace for some reason. Childhood sure was a confusing time!
okayyy, how the hell did Steve NOT get his 2nd clue in the 2nd sprint round from the CLUE alone? (that one was pretty easy, (especially since I have to assume that he was paying attention to and remembering the unchosen letters that were appearing in the little monitor.) although I have seen episodes with words whose clues made them complete and total giveaways. (one of them was a front game word with 5 letters. they were building on the letter O, the clue: A real deal maker." the answer: Monty.
LOL "Either you're the greatest poker player in the world or you were going for that bonus." The only reason I put the "LOL" before i quoted that is because to me it seemed as though Chuck pretty much ended up repeating the first part of that sentence with the second thing he said in it.
Margann Laurissa I have a generic comment on this: Smiles are never out of fashion 😊 people generally don't smile nowadays. If someone smiles, he/she'll be outstanding
Back then you had a limited amount of time to give an answer. Once that time expired, you got that double buzz and could no longer answer, forcing you to either use the other letter or take two more tiles. Eventually they did away with that buzz.
At some point in March 1985, they started having both players play the same three words in the Sprint. There was a two week tournament of champions in February 1985 also, which started either February 4th or Feb 11th(other NBC game shows of the time Super Password and $ale of the Century also had tournaments that month)
Jeff was in that February 1985 TofC, so this episode predates that TofC. Looking at January or early February 1985 here. SUper Password's TofC started on 2/4/85.
Seeing this sort of debunks a misconception for me... I'd always assumed that the change to 5-time champions winning a grand total of $20,000 (as opposed to $28,000) came at the same time as the change to both players in the Sprint playing the same three words. Now I'm a bit curious as to when the payouts were altered... ?
@@slapshot68 This is the original "straddle" format of the show that didn't have that round. The major differences: champion never played crossword again (only sprint), and crossword games never ran out of time, they would just move on to the next show. In this version, they have 2 sets of words, but later they played the same words (champion went in isolation). The version with 4 players (including champ playing crossword again and bonus sprint at the end) didn't start until a tournament a year or two later from this show.
If this episode has the spelling rule -- that is, the three words in each round the players try to guess must be spelled out -- then this would date from the spring of 1985. If so, Michael would have had to spell out "B-R-U-I-S-E-S" and then say the word.
There have been faster, including a lady named Jacqui in 1989 who got 11.1 seconds (with 4 words instead of 3): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E2EQ4-6L2sM.html
NBC Daytime was The Place to Be $ale of the Century, Wheel of Fortune, SCRABBLE, Super Password and the Wild Card Classic Concentration God Bless the 80's and God Bless the late Brandon Tartikoff Today's NBC Daytime is GARBAGE which all they play is Days of our Lives and 4 Freakin' Hours of The TODAY Show which I haven't watched since Ann Curry got FIRED
