I’ll be honest. When I first started watching that I thought it was going to be kind of cheesy and silly. However as I watch the show I found myself really enjoying it. I think it would have become a classic at it survived. I certainly would have washed it. And with Jim Perry as the host how could this have lost? It just makes you wonder how many really good shows never got picked up and slip through the cracks.?
Totally agree Comache! I've never heard of this one before. This was so fast paced and found myself laughing multiple times. I wonder how this didn't become a classic either. And $10,000 was a very decent prize for 1982. There's gameshows in 2023 that still give less 😆
a couple flaws to it. In one of the episodes, Jim mispronounced a word in the bonus game causing confusion that costed the couple playing for $10,000 2 or 3 critical seconds.
A lot of recycling here, the theme music, the music while the puck slides, the music during switches was also used for an unsold pilot Eye Q, the question format was later used on Your Number's Up, the bonus game format was used on $50,000 a minute. Bob Stewart just couldn't let an idea go if it got rejected.
Well, he would land the hosting gig on "$ale of the Century" shortly after this. As much as I liked him on "Card Sharks" and this, I liked him even better in that.
The marathon I think you're referring to had: Cop Out, Get Rich Quick, The $10,000 Sweep, Dollar a Second, Second Guessers, Says Who, Twisters and The Riddlers. (Not necessarily in that order)
It's(to me, anyway) rather interesting, that Canadian Mr. Perry("Definition")is hosting a show, where gameplay(with the PUCK, he said)looks like, yes, hockey...and, curling, also!(P.S., I liked this. I'd have watched.)
@@rsb97080: I did not know that. Funny, that he ended up, first, in Toronto, hosting(the cheesy, like most of our game shows but, this one was kinda fun)"Definition." Thanks, for edifying me. Oops, forgot one...Mr. Perry, also, did "Headline Hunters", up here; that was an excellent game show! What's a little humorous, too...here, in Canada, he had(before Card Sharks and, SOTC)GREY hair...
The theme music used in this pilot would later become the theme for USA Network's version of "Jackpot!" which lasted three years on that channel. There was supposed to be a fourth season, but it never aired.
It's a shame this show never aired because it looks great. Maybe if someone hit the car space, it would've looked more interesting because it's always exciting to see someone win a car. I wonder what network it would've aired on.
this looks like it would be a good show, I would have watched it. I have noticed watching these unsold pilots, they passed up some good gameshows and went with just awful concepts
Good thing this pilot didn't sell. What if it did? Jim Perry might not have been taped to host the revival of "Sale of the Century". The first taping was in December 1982; this pilot was taped in October.
That is the same thing I say with David Letterman and the Riddlers. While Dave was good as a guest in Password and Pyramid...he was an even better late night host.
You never know. It was rumoured that Jim never turned down work and he had hosted three different games at once before . Headline Hunters was on it's last season, so I could see him doing Twisters, Sale, and Definition.
I love that the viewer never knows who will ultimately win, until the end of the game, because a new contestant can occupy the hot spot if they stump the person standing there.
@26:11 On answer “A Face-Lift”, Alan gave part of the answer and then a second later got the cuckoo sound and the other contestant answered before the word is thrown out like in the Pyramid series.
ROY SCHEIDER played in jaws he was never in KING KONG lol still a good game though (i heard this wrong i have been corrected) still loved the show back in the day
@@libertubey2199 your correct i went back and listened again after i saw your comment i heard it wrong it was like 3 am when i was watching lol my bad thanks
+Joel Franco Actually it was first used on Shoot The Works which was renamed Shoot For The Stars which replaced the original Jackpot, both were hosted by Geoff Edwards in the 70s. The Jackpot you are thinking of is the Canadian remake that came out after this in the 80s for 3 years with Mike Darrow which aired here on USA Network and then moved back to the US for one season again with Edwards
He did a few other shows, mostly in Canada: Definition, Headline Hunters, It's Your Move, Bingo at Home and he would eventually get Sale Of The Century. I hear he almost got wheel of fortune after Chuck Woolery left.
Here is a link to the full pilot, including the footage that was cut at the beginning: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V3LE96XyBQ4.html
0:49 - I wonder if that is Melanie Vincz who would later appear on Let's Make a Deal in 1984. She acted on several shows including two episodes of Three's Company, Who's the Boss?, and Hart to Hart.
The intro is missing, but here's how it went: PLAYER #1: "Which television game has 10 players..." PLAYER #1: "...and shows you one half of the question..." PLAYER #3: "...for $10,000 and a brand new car? The answer is... ALL PLAYERS: "'TWISTERS'!" JACK CLARK: "'Twisters' is right, and here's your host, Jim Perry!"
fuck that deadly cycle like of from doing something on the mi smooth nxt for there retired for 22 grown up marshal teller go for James Murray with sal volcano helping of some like the games during for that of noggin that drake sponk and where in time is carmen dammed please goddamn?
I'm sorry to be a downer, because most commenters here seem to really like this pilot. I personally think it's a piece of crap! I love Bob Stewart, but he can do much better than this. Twisters is just Jackpot! recycled with a shuffle board added. The set looks really cheap (plywood with christmas lights), and the camera never gets a shot of the puck traversing the shuffle board. It never even gets a shot of the tracer lights with the numbers on the front panel of the shuffleboard. The close up of the puck SHOULD have been the singular exciting visual element of the show and it's never even attempted. The whole presentation is just so darn ODD. Nothing gels here. I know it's just a pilot but so many basic elements of an exciting show are missing. Bob Stewart had a long history of recycling game ideas and production elements in his pilots and his actual aired shows. Maybe he thought nobody would remember Jackpot! from ten years earlier, or the music when he concocted Twisters. Perhaps he underestimated the passion of his game show viewing audience. Thank goodness he cemented his place in game show history with Password and Pyramid, because most of his other shows were quite marginal remakes of their predecessors from just a year or two earlier. Even Pyramid (his masterpiece) was a redo of Password, with a clock added. I'm not disparaging Bob, just giving an honest critique of his shows in context with one another. It was thrilling to see him actually on the set in person when I saw tapings of Pyramid at The Elysee Theater (ABCTV-15) in 1979, and again at Television City (Studio 31) in 1991 with John Davidson hosting. Clearly Bob never phoned it in. He was a hands-on producer for sure. That's admirable. He obviously loved his creations. He cranked 'em out decade after decade.
Thumbs up if you thought the contestants were going to take off their shoes and get onto a mat with colored circles. If this game show had succeeded, there would have probably been a trademark lawsuit.
