On the 6pm show with Bill Cullen, they added the first of the classic turntable colors on the turning panel. I wonder why they delayed changing the whole scheme at one...it looks really bizarre and out of place.
Maybe whoever made the decision to change the set planned on changing the turning panel only, and then when it was apparent that it looked better than everything else, the rest of the turntable was changed. I don't know for sure.
I’ve seen several playings of Trader Bob where the “Don”t show the price!” comment happens. I think it became kind of a running joke with Bob and the models in this game. I know of at least one playing where a price got revealed early because the models accidentally ran two of the prize podiums together and a price cover fell open. (If memory serves, the run together happened behind the game board and the price was hanging open when the model wheeled the prize on stage). I’m not sure if there was another instance of something like this happening or not.
After more than 40 years, today was the first time I noticed that someone could've known they were about to play Trader Bob prior to the prize reveal (a la Grand Game). Anyway, a rare occasion of something that was overdone in my opinion.
It's been nearly 40 decades, but that Punch A Bunch feels "fresh" in my mind. That was a pretty painful bailout. As mentioned by Bob to Janice and company, no one was going to make it to $10,000 for the 4th punch after $5,000 from the 3rd punch. Little did they know...
Is bailing at $500 with 2 punches to go the best move though? $500 is good any day, no matter who you are. I think bailing with $500 in 1982 is okay on the 2nd punch, but I don't know if it's the right call if that had occurred today (or since 1996)
Edited to apologize for the double post. I tried to edit my previous post with a more concrete post. Received an error message, then after four more attempts, it just vanished. Not sure what happened. Maybe I missed the time allotted for an edit; sorry about that!