As you probably know, Dan Daniel. The voice you may recognized as announcer has died back on Monday. He was the only game show announcer who did "The Big Showdown". Before that, he was a NYC radio legendary DJ when he started at WMCA in the 1960's as one of the original "Good Guys" and then went to WHN, WNBC and then to WYNY in the 1980's when it was a country station and finally ended up at WCBS-FM in the 1990's until 2002. His final radio appearance was 7/7/12 where CBS-FM celebrated its 40th anniversary. We will be surely be missed. RIP: Dan Daniel 😰
Actually, "Triple D" (as "Dandy" Dan Daniel was also known as) had been at WYNY (originally 97.1 and later 103.5) from 1980 (when it was adult contemporary) until 1996 when it became the still-current WKTU-FM, joining CBS-FM initially on Sundays in 1996 and then taking over in September 1997 middays from Ron Lundy when Ron retired (I believe Ron may have actually had to retire due to his health) until 2002 when he retired from full-time only to return for a brief period in 2003.
Yes, back when USA network was the place to go to, my routine was the Court Shows, the Game shows, and cartoon express...in that order. Maybe even an episode a made for TV movie, or USA's up all night.
@@damienchance2622 Because it combined great elements of skill and chance. The question material was fun to play along with, and the front game had strategy too which was an added bonus. Jim Peck was one of the most underrated game show hosts of all time.
@@willmack5909 Yeah...he was slated to take over for the Joker's wild after Jack Barry's passing...but the O&Os show still carried it wanted a face...so they chose Bill Cullen instead.
It's pretty much Jeopardy. All Jeopardy did different was change how you had to answer the question. Everything else is pretty much the same, except no dice rolling
Jim Peck got strict with the people in the audience who were accused of whispering. This episode of "The Big Showdown" was aired the first half of 1975 on ABC. Peck's other ABC game shows which didn't last so long were "Hot Seat" (1976) and "Second Chance" (1977). I admired Jim Peck as an ABC game show host when I was little (between 4 and 7 years of age).
If he got strict, I don't blame him thereto-- the name of the show is The Big Showdown, and when you have a game named like that, everything about it is bigtime and demands the utmost concentration and attention.
If this was from Hollywood, CA., I would assume they would use the eggcrate scoreboards in all of the boards instead of the solaris numbers (from Pyramid and Shoot for the Stars) and the Family Feud'ish eggcrates.
There is another way that $10,000 can be won. If the champion rolls the target number 20 times at $250 apiece and then rolls ShowDown, they would win $10,000. Saying that $250 x 20 = $5,000 + $5,000 for rolling ShowDown = $10,000.
Jimmy Sanders Even though Peter Tomarken's WIPEOUT had different elements working in it, I think this show laid the groundwork for Tomarken's program later.
