Thanks, Wink. I don't know why this pilot was passed on. I liked the categories and pre-Internet, they seem very challenging. I like how the host had to work up a sweat during the bonus game. The one takeaway: the audience helping out the contestants by inadvertently acknowledging some of the correct answers in advance (I Was A Teenage Werewolf, The Grassroots). I know they were excited, but they should have just keep silent and let the contestants figure out whether any of the answers were right or wrong. However, the host did address that near the end of the game.
Did a little research on Tony Hernandez (I'm sure it's the same guy) and found an interesting story: he played a commentator in Rocky III, they initially offered him $300 for it, but he'd have to join the screen actor's guild. He found out it would cost him $250 to do that so he turned it down. They bumped the offer up to $600 so he accepted. To this day, he still gets royalty checks for a few bucks calls it "lunch money". 😅
Shouldn't have been a surprise Mary knew "A votre sante" since she's from Montreal. I always thought Baklava was a Greek dessert not a Turkish dessert but still a wrong answer for game purposes.
I enjoyed this concept. Yeah it needed some tweaks (they should let the contestant move the answers in the bonus round ala The Race Game from TPIR instead of screaming at a harried Tony Hernandez). But I found myself engaged.
Great to finally see this in full. I enjoyed this pilot and would have watched as a series, however it has flaws, the main one of course being the host switching the answers in the bonus round instead of the contestant. This wasted too much time. The other flaws were a prize not revealing when it should have, and the audience shouting answers. I would assume this would have been taken care of had it gone to series, but you don’t leave errors in a pilot. Tony Hernandez was a little stiff at times, but he ran the game well and there were hints of his personality showing through. I think he would have had a chance to loosen up and be a decent host had this sold.
That's certainly a fabulous prize for a very winnable bonus round. On Wipeout you had to get six instead of five, and they weren't giving away Corvettes.
I saw the Wipeout pilot, and the bonus round was quite literally the same format, 10 answers, with 5 right and 5 wrong. But of course, the contestant did their own running back and forth.
@@jeffboettcher2531 they also gave the contestant hoops to hang instead of the magnets they did hear cause it looks like that could have caused issues. They further fixed it in the series with the touchscreens.
Would have made a good show with some tweaking. Tony Hernandez did a really good job overall, although having him run around during the bonus round wasn't the best idea. He probably got more exercise than some of the athletes whose games he broadcasted.
Taken, in part, from an episode of the Canadian children's TV series, "The Waterville Gang", aired in that country in the 1972-73 season, which can be found here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XFZpQHAFtFc.html (the music was provided by Score Productions, Ltd., and can be found at 5:37).
I kind of see the flaw with the bonus game (tuckering out that poor game show host like that) but nonetheless, I think this game show pilot should've sold and definitely keep that host. He's good.
This was from Bud Austin, who produced Jay Wolpert's Whew and the Pandemonium pilot. Also produced the Leave it to Beaver reunion movie Still the Beaver. Also from Chester Feldman's Castle Drive Productions. The longtime Goodson-Todman producer and creator of Card Sharks amongst others.
This one was pretty good and honestly the concept is kind of similar to Wipeout, the one Peter Tomarken hosted in the late '80s. In the sense that you have to find the right answers out of a board of answers that are right and wrong.
Not bad. I would tweak a few things to make it work. Its a little disorganized and I don't like some aspects of the main game but nothing that can't be fixed before its picked up. The one big issue that has to be changed though is the final round. The host of the show slapping cardboard onto a board as the contestant is yelling at him what she wants on there is ridiculous. Give the contestant control over that. Not the host. I've never seen something more silly and unfair in my life. He was like what? And the cards were falling off the board and the audience was yelling as the host was looking for what she said? That was ridiculous. That would have to have been changed if the show was picked up. Sadly it wasn't but it had potential.
I had the same thoughts. The concept was used in Wipeout, as I think you've seen in other comments by now. Contestants had full control of the bonus game, there was no "toss up" question which was just a weird thing to have in comparison to what Wipeout did, and though the prize board was cool in concept, I think it slowed the game down somewhat, so glad they didn't do that in Wipeout. Didn't hurt that Wipeout had a more than capable host in Peter Tomarken, as well.
Three fingers brown was a bit deceiving, there was also a baseball player Mordecai "three finger" Brown: A pitcher from the early 1900s who lost parts of 2 fingers in a farming accident. Twinkle Toes Selkirk incidentally is also a baseball player.
There should have been a better way to move the answers between the two boards. It’s not fair to depend on the host fumbling with the tiles and wasting time.
The other two groups are Stealer's wheel (best known for "stuck in the middle with you") and I think the dolls which was the original name of the New York Dolls. Cold Duck is a wine, Alice B. Toklas was an American writer.