12:25 sound effect used for Super Password to introduce the Cashword. Also used on Wordplay as the timer on the bonus game went up. It was last used on the 2000 To Tell the Truth as the audience votes were recorded.
Cool to finally see this. Seems like the love child of Now You See It and Alex Trebek's Double Dare. I dig Score Productions' jazzy take on the ABC song though. Thanks, Wink!
The sound effect at 20:55 where they timer was set was later used in "Wheel of Fortune" during a bonus round where a contestant can call out the puzzle to win.
Of course, Bill Anderson would also co-host "The Better Sex" with Sarah Purcell, and would host "Fandango" for The Nashville Network for 6 years in the 80s. He would also help the TNN competition show "You Can Be A Star" working to help the inner workings of the show.
According to a more recent interview with Bill Anderson, he claimed that this show didn't make it to air because of a number of technical problems with the computer used for the show. It looked pretty good, but it may have been a few years ahead of its time.
This, I believe, is the first usage of the 7-segment electromechanical 'vane' display on a game show. That display would be used on more game shows during the 1980s. Catchy theme song, as well. Thanks again, Wink! :D Cheers.
A few sound effects we know...the second set winning chimes from Card Sharks with Jim Perry before mid-1979; the right card prediction bell from Card Sharks as well as the miscall buzzer, and a right answer from Match Game/Hollywood Squares and even Scrabble with a "chuck buck" dealt out. And...the old timer from Wheel of Fortune pre-1989...only going 60 seconds. And even a losing horn.
There is no resemblance between Now You See It and Chain Reaction. Unfair comparison, There were no clues in Chain Reaction. Plus you were just guessing words linked together that came out one at a time which is how it had to be played. However, yes it does look like the semi final/qualifying game of Now You See It
Referring to the letters in the mystery word revealed one letter at a time. The clue in Chain Reaction was the revealed word above or below the mystery word at play.
I think it should have sold. It's easy enough for the younger generation, so maybe it would sell today. Bill Anderson could probably host today, but nowadays people wouldn't respect him enough.
@@PatrioticPirate considering the Fremantlemedia North America/Fremantle USA owns the Goodson-Todman game show library they can get it to sell and air in primetime on either CBS or ABC.
The audience deal would have to be re-worked. "The woman with the striped shirt and white pants etc." was too convoluted. There would have to be some number system or something.
CHRISTOPHER DUNNE Perhaps they should've done what the Joker's Wild did: have Gene Wood call out three contestants to submit two answers of their own. The champion's celebrity partner would submit one answer and would submit another answer if they reject the audience member's answer.
I believe this could have worked. Granted, the whole game was basically the "Elimination Round" of "Now You See It" being played out for a half-hour, but it could have worked. Also, did anyone notice the name tags on the contestants? They're the same ones used on Family Feud.
So I wonder what would have happened if one of the teams didn't reach $500 after two rounds, as two rounds took up all the time allotted for the front game. I guess the episodes might have straddled.
. . . holycrap we're hearing Oldskool Wheel's extended ten-second cue in a Goodson-Todman show... ...Was that really the property of NBC before Wheel went syndie?
A lot of the shows I've seen on Wink's channel looks like they could potentially be modernized if rights were given, and with a little reworking to some of the rules... Stinks to see so many good shows done for a couple years then tossed to the wayside...
15:56 - 16:06 Don't listen to the audience, Debralee! They may want you to win; they might even want to hop into your shoes and go, "If I were you, I'd do that," but it's NOT their money.
Keith Evers they had nothing to lose.. if they went for it and missed, they'd lose 600 to 0 instead of 500 to 0.. but, if CNR missed it, they'd be behind 400-200
This is another example of later shows from Goodson-Todman not doing as well as newer versions of their classic shows. It might not have been a bad show but for whatever reason it didn't make it.
I love Debralee but this was screaming for Brett instead. Interesting concept but definitely relying on the celebs to boost things. Not sure how I feel about Bill Anderson as a host, but nice to see him get a second chance after The Better Sex, particularly in the Goodson-Todman stable.
His second chance for a show that actually made it to air didn't happen until cable channel The Nashville Network put "Fandango" on in 1983. Anderson would do that show for six years.
Bill Anderson was a passable host both here and The Better Sex. Not great, not horrible. Nipsey Russell was a great panelist but terrible host in all of his pilots and shows.
Agreed. It was interesting but I couldn't see this lasting and course the default standard $5,000 prize for the end game was getting a little stale at this point. It was 1978 and $5,000 wasn't what it used to be early 70s. Cheapos.
