HUGE thanks for uploading this, even as incomplete as it is. I've been curious about the Meadows version of "Price" after seeing it pop up in a few Aussie TV retrospectives, and Reg Grundy did an *amazing* job with copying the American version's set and music. I also love the logo, which looks identical to the American one minus the dollar sign, which I guess Grundy didn't know how to upsize. I find it to be a charming variant. :)
The girl displaying the office desk & motorbike was Jacqui Mertens. She disappeared in 1992 in mysterious circumstances, leaving a husband and 3 children. She has never been found. Today 15 August is her birthday. Where are you, Jacqui?
@@ClapHurts That indeed was the conclusion the police came to. Charlie Bezzina was the policeman in charge of the investigation. He wrote a book ‘The Job’ (2011) about many of his bigger cases. Chapter 16 is devoted entirely to Jacqui’s disappearance. An investigative reporter, Jon Silvester, wrote the story too (drawing much from Bezzina), in an online series called ‘Underbelly’. It’s in No 6, chapter one, entitled ‘The Beauty and the Beast’. The two also collaborated in a podcast about it.
Today 15 August 2023 is Jacki’s (another spelling she used) birthday. She is - or perhaps more accurately would have been 75. Once more I wonder where she is and what happened to her…
UK version similar. Interesting thing really. See it with many game shows too....ones with long/never ending runs here don't tend to last elsewhere as much and vice versa
@@ClapHurts They had to be, IPA rules limited the budgets back then. The original UK version of Price was even taken off the air for a bit its' first year because of going over it to much in part. This all lifted in 94, hence when you watch Bruce's Price from after that, the budget was much larger and more on par with what the US run had always had.
I was wondering how you came across this footage? My partners grandmother was a contestant in the 70’s and has now passed away. We would love to track down her episode to watch with the family.
This is Awesome! Does anyone know where to see more of these? My Dad won the showcase apparently about a month before this episode and we would LOVE to be able to see it.
Old clips of this episode was on the game show special the last game they played was the clock game. I am guessing all the episodes were destroyed or copied over.
I think that's how they referred to what prizes they won. Network Ten's preservation of shows from this period was sub-par at best, so we may have to keep guessing.
@@quizmaster85 I certainly hope so. I know Grundy used the term "Prize Bank" for Time Machine. On that show, you had to win the "timing game" in order to have the prize put in the Bank, and then win the Time Capsule round in order to win your Prize Bank.
Surely he meant what the contestants had already won by that point... or at least that’s what I’m thinking. Wouldn’t it be good if the whole episode was on here... or existed for that matter
