They often had issues with the spinners. I recall a few times when contestants had a chance to play again due to malfunctioning spinners. The show went off the air around September 1975.
I was really too young to understand the proceedings, as I was only 5 years old back then, but I was intrigued by any and all game shows, so I didn't think it "blew."
Although it was a decent game in my view, I didn't really like the fact that this replaced "The Joker's Wild", but after this, we got something worse in "Give & Take". After that, "The Price is Right", my all-time favourite, expanded to one hour.
The original pilots for "Spin-Off" were taped on Sunday, April 13, 1975 at CBS Broadcast Center's Studio 41 on West 57th Street in Manhattan. The host was Jim Lange, but its announcer was Chet Gould. When the series was picked up by CBS in June 1975, as a replacement for "The Joker's Wild", production instead was done at CBS Television City in Los Angeles. Lange still hosted, but Johnny Jacobs became its announcer instead.
When this show aired, it was on CBS at 10am. It only lasted three months though. It competed in a time slot opposite "Celebrity Sweepstakes" on NBC. When this show was cancelled, it was replaced the following Monday by "Give-n-Take", which was also hosted by Jim Lange.
Looks like a pitchfilm for a syndicated run after it was cancelled... maybe this has something to do with why it was found in the archives at WCBS New York when Joker's Wild was. It seems based on what I've read on other websites that Nicholson-Muir did try to mount at least one syndicated run sometime between 1975 and 1980. I would love to see more of this show finally surface one day, or even a revival somehow. It's a lot of fun just to watch this clip.
I certainly agree! Looking at this clip, you haven't seen that much excitement since that episode of "Gambit" when the Livingstons hit 21 and won a new car:)
Local CBS affiliates were really bad about covering up the 9am (CT) hour with some really cheap and really bad programming (but they kept all.the ad revenue). Our area lost years of Pyramid due to a really ugly local Bingo show.
@@DIYDaveOK Our CBS affiliate (WSBT in South Bend, IN) would air the CBS schedule on Eastern time half the year and Central time the other half. Consequently, we'd get the 10 - 11 a.m. CBS shows from Oct. to April, but they'd be pre-empted from April to Oct. (we wouldn't switch our clocks, we'd switch our tv schedules!).
Someone out there has possession of all episodes of "Spin-Off" somewhere. I read that the entire series was discovered in a vault at WCBS in New York. Now, if they could post some episodes here.... :-)
You said it :-) . This is a really special rarity to finally see in action. Thanks so much, jricci9! I would be highly surprised if there was an uploader who would post Seven Keys (1960-1965) since only three episodes are known to exist.
That was cool I see that was one of gameshow flops in the 1970's but still it was a fun concept and I loved the set a nice colourful rainbow I'm from Australia and thank u it was a bit before my time I was born in 1982!!!!
+MattTheSaiyan Now, the question is... who should've hosted the Aussie Spin-Off? Seems like something Jimmy Hannan, "Ugly Dave" Gray, Stuart Wagstaff, or Barry Creyton could've hosted...
why not ugly dave gray stewart wagstaaf and barry creyton could they were all on blankety blanks well udg hosted play your cards right thats card sharks and tattletales too!!!!!!!
And what the heck, since you mentioned that there should've been an Australian version of Spin-Off, I think there should've been an Australian version of The Joker's Wild as well. Who would've been great as host of an Aussie Joker?
@@facebook51ify I am one of them! As I've said in previous posts,who needs 3-4 hours of news? Los Angeles switched The Drew Barrymore Show to 9am and Let's Make A Deal to 2pm.
I used to like Spin-Off! It was a neat game show. I never thought of it as any relation to Yahtzee, until I read more about it online. I've also read that all of the episodes exist, thankfully. I would like to see someone upload the series to RU-vid sometime. BTW, I still think that Yahtzee would make a great game show someday.
Yahtzee was aired from January to September in 1988 with Peter Marshall as the host, which very few episodes exist on RU-vid. It would be cool to see a revival of both Yahtzee and Spin Off.
@@davec5090 I don't know about Yahtzee with the way that it was done in 1988. It was a poor Match Game clone. I'd personally like to see a newer version of Yahtzee that would be closer to the actual game. I also wish that someone would air all of the Spin-Off episodes in a marathon form.
I considered it more of a variation of draw poker. With 6 numbers though, I guess it was like Yahtzee too. It was more Yahtzee than the Match Game type game show Yahtzee.
"....requires a high-intensity viewing audience." I literally dozed off watching this and still managed to keep up with what's going on. Nice try, Announcer Man.
This was the kind of game show that was only good if you were really, really, really high. The set was cheap, the game was stupid, and the prizes were cheap. But a couple of Delta 9s would make it compelling TV.
No episodes are available to the public that I know of, but unline most of its contemporaries the show itself is apparently still intact. Its 50 episodes were found when the CBS Joker's Wild was in the early 2000s. EDIT: I was mistaken to a point, there is at least one episode available but it is audio-only. I do not know of any video episodes.
