If I knew how to work a VTR back in the day and I was 10 years older, I would have this wonderful series along with the daytime shows with Dick Clark! Too bad I don't 😣
Like most of Dick Clark's 1970's Pyramid shows, Bill Cullen's $25,000 Pyramid was taped in New York City. Bob Clayton was the announcer for the New York shows.
To put a $25,000 win in 1974 into context: In 1973, The New Treasure Hunt had a $25,000 jackpot and rightly described it as “TV’s richest treasure.” This was only the second game show since the Twenty One scandal in the 50’s to have a prize that big. Also remember, there was no lottery anywhere, and there were no casinos anywhere in the United States except for Nevada.
By 1974, a few states/U.S. terriroties did run scratch ticket lotteries - in order of earliest to most recent by '74, Puerto Rico, U.S Virgin Islands, NH, NY, NJ, MA, CT, MI, PA, MD, DE, IL, ME, OH, RI. had tickets. All in the northeast or midwest. No states in the south, upper midwest or west had anything sans Nevada. For a modern comparison with how much the $25,000 prize was, according to the CPI inflation calculator, $25k in July 1974 is the same as $139,974.19 in October 2021. Whew!
Most all of the beautiful homes on the Cul De Sac in Knots Landing were built in 1973/74.... and they were all between 60,000 and 70,000$ brand new. So this kind of a win is a LOT of money back then.
Anne said "rhyme, dime" for "words that rhyme" surprised she didn't get buzzed for that EDIT: I lied lol. She really said "lime, dime", not "rhyme". D'oh! Or in the first round, "the circus man who lifts weights" would likely got buzzed later on
I slowed it down, and listened VERY carefully... she didn't say "Rhyme".... it was hard to tell because he was talking over her and giving the correct answer while doing it, but she said "Lime..... Dime".
@@brockreynolds870 I think you may be right. The contestant says "rhyme" almost the same time Anne says "lime" - her strong Brooklyn accent definitely didn't help matters. 🤣😛
If you look closely, you can see that they had actually planned to have ten categories in the bonus game. Then somebody realized that it would be way too difficult to get ten in one minute.
It baffles me that this series hasn’t been rerun since the 80s. Maybe ownership by Sony and distribution by CBS Media Ventures (successor to Viacom) is preventing it? Seems odd considering it’s the same arrangement in place with Wheel/Jeopardy…
It mostly depends on the source material itself. If the raw video captures and preserves interlaced video, I will deinterlace and double the frame rate via YADIF in Virtualdub2, resize to 4:3 aspect ratio, and then compreas to h 265 in handbrake. I've been trying it out now with avidemux as well for some light video editing, brightness, contrast, etc.
Anne Meara said "the circus man who lifts weights" is not a illegal clue on the first round for playing $10,000 at the pyramid because an illegal clue shows any thing that is not necessary to use. Here are some examples, and they are using hands, synonyms, antonyms, rhyming, saying the first word on the card (using part of the word), or giving a prepositional phrase. So, the word "who" is not a preposition, and the judges did not buzz her if she said "the circus man who lifts weights over his head," and the result would be a disqualification for giving a prepositional phrase. [$25,000 Pyramid Reference]
