Lineup: Danger Price, Range Game, Hole In One, Double Prices, Bonus Game, Temptation. The original commercials are also present, which is always an appreciated bonus.
Danger Price uses the square formation for its price podiums, moving that change up from late April 1980.
Did Bob know a refrigerator was going to be offered as a One-Bid prize? Hm.
And there is the uploader!
"What's the most exciting thing so far?" "Getting married!" "I know the feeling!" Bob was clearly far happier while Dorothy Jo was in his life, which may be why I enjoy this period so much.
"The Feud" remains a very good car cue, even when Goodson-Todman was using it on another show.
I shall avoid the overplayed joke regarding the Hole In One car price...and hello, $500 flower.
The grocery cue during Hole In One...how is that outdated? Also, rather painful to trip up at the last hurdle of the grocery lineup due to a difference of 10 cents.
I do not recall the audience ever booing Bob for failing to make the Inspiration Putt.
"People who aren't into Chex cereals...have never
tried Chex cereals." Wow, what a short-sighted and imbecilic thing to say, commercial narrator.
I feel as if something was cut out right before the first Showcase Showdown, possibly a ticket plug.
I MUST DIG! ...And what a lackluster little pink graphic.
...A KFC advert consisting solely of African-Americans, minus Colonel Sanders himself. I admit to feeling slightly disturbed by that, given the stereotypes that had permeated society by 1980.
The Double Prices podium does not have a question mark in the center, which was present following the 1975 set overhaul. Wonder when that changed...
After the fourth game, we finally get a network promo, more specifically for the primetime lineup "tonight":
WKRP In Cincinnati,
Last Resort,
M*A*S*H, and
House Calls. The
M*A*S*H episode in particular pins this as indeed having aired February 4, 1980.
I do not wish to hear about tampons, thank you.And during the same commercial break, we get a
Steve Edwards Show promo and a local station identification: KNXT, the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles (now KCBS).
The interaction between Bob and Carl before the eighth calldown was quite fun.
Always fun to see Bonus Game play out like that.
...The ever-famous Coca-Cola commercial with Mean Joe Green?!
A Temptation gift worth $42? Also, "I said I'm gonna use those knives on the audience!"? ...Oh, dear.
An advert for Diet 7-Up with Don Rickles. Do I truly need to say more?
More network promos following the second Showcase Showdown, this time for
The Young & The Restless (now at an hour) and a
CBS Reports on teenage sexual intercourse this Wednesday.
Showcase #2 is an amusing little skit: "Little Dian and her Fairy Godmother", in which Johnny O is...asleep at his podium? While telling the story? ...Did Jay Wolpert write this before he left in '78?
One can
tell that Dian is flaunting her body after getting out of the second prize...not that there is anything wrong with that, mind you.
We have gotten all this far, perhaps this episode has no fur coat after all-oh, there it is as the next-to-last prize of the show. Well, on it goes to the banned list...
...Neither Showcase has a vehicle, and only a single trip between them? What a concept!
And Holly, still in her fairy godmother dress, takes a tumble during the credits. Twice!
We end with a network promo for the Wednesday Night Movie
The Boy Who Drank Too Much, starring Scott Baio, during which the tape cuts out. The last five minutes are simply a blue screen.
Overall...a very good episode! A considerable shame the fur coat, as this would have been a worthy addition to any classic
Price collection had it aired on GSN (and indeed, it still is if you know how to download the videos, although I suggest removing all but the first second of blue screen at the end).
