An Entire Week of the Canadian "Jackpot"! Full Game Show Episodes
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2020
- Watch a whole WEEK'S worth of the Canadian revival of "Jackpot," hosted by Mike Darow, where contestants quizzed each other with riddles in search of a massive prize!
Discover more about Canadian game shows: canadasgameshows.com
“Jackpot!” had already been a hit TV game show south of the border 10 years earlier when it was brought back to life in Canada.
Airing from 1985 to 1988 on Global Television in Canada, the revived version also aired on American cable channel USA.
The show featured a large number of contestants - 16 in total - who played for an entire week in hopes of winning the Jackpot.
One contestant was chosen as the King or Queen of the Hill and would then ask one of the other 15 players in the bleachers for a riddle. If the King or Queen could correctly answer the riddle they kept playing and the money in the Jackpot grew. If they found the player who was holding the Jackpot! card and correctly answered that riddle, both that contestant and the player holding the riddle split the pot.
The contestant continued on until they got a riddle wrong in which case the contestant who read the riddle got to move to the King or Queen spot.
Contestants could also win a Super Jackpot if the number in their Jackpot reached a Target Number determined at the beginning of the game.
“Normally contestants are competing with each other to get the prize. In this show it seemed to be that contestants were rooting for everybody on the show,” says Bill Elliott, who directed the Canadian version of “Jackpot!”
“It was like all the contestants banded together to win the Jackpot and it was something I’d never seen before in any kind of other game show that I ever did.”
The Canadian version was hosted by the late Mike Darrow, which allowed the revival to be considered Canadian content. The production also saved money by filming in Canada as the prize money was worth less with the country’s weaker currency.
Following its Canadian run, “Jackpot!” continued to air in California until 1990.
i just love so much how friendly and how much energy everyone has and put into the show because when i watch shows like this now or jeopardy, it just doesn’t feel the same. like majority of the average person in society today, their light and aura dies out throughout the years or something. is that just me LOL
I was on Jackpot in, I think, early 1987. Prize money wasn’t huge as most Canadian shows didn’t have big prizes, but winning some money is better than nothing. If nothing else, it was a fun experience. I recall the audition process really well, more so than the show itself.
I so remember watching this as a child, my mother was a game show fanatic.
My father made it onto this show back in the day and got the riddler contest win!
Wait...so all the shows I watched on USA Network in the 80s as a kid...were Canadian? That's irony...Bumper Stumpers, Jackpot, was Chain Reaction Canadian too?
This run of Jackpot, the most successful of its appearances on television, was indeed produced in Canada, but the show was originally created in the USA by American television producer Bob Stewart.
Bob Stewart was a television game show pioneer who originally worked for the famed Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions and created some of their most iconic programs including Password, To Tell The Truth, and The Price is Right.
He left Goodson-Todman in the early 1970’s to form his own company, Bob Stewart Productions.
Probably his best known independent television project (besides Jackpot!) was creation the “Pyramid” game show series such as the $25,000 & $100,000 Pyramid.
Interestingly To Tell the Truth and Price is Right, two of Bob’s creations, has the distinction of being on the air for the last seven consecutive decades. And the current U.S. iteration of Price celebrated it’s 50th anniversary on CBS this year.
What an absolute beauty show, holy smokes such a classic!
This version was shown on the USA cable network in the United States.
I think it was also syndicated to individual TV stations in the U.S. as well.
I thought original host Geoff Edwards hosted the second season of this revival.
You might like to know that the Welsh language broadcaster in Wales (S4C) showed their version of this back in the 1990's and that it even appeared in a Welsh / English language comedy show "Pobol y Chyff"
This was one of the better Canadian game shows
I always preferred the original NBC version of Jackpot to this later one. Geoff Edwards was a bit more real, "Jet Set" was the iconic theme for the show, and the multiplier (5 to 50 in multiples of 5) made for some very large Super Jackpots. The largest Super Jackpot ever won was $38,750, and that show is somewhere else here on RUclips! [Corrected for accuracy]
$38,750....just do a search, jackpot 38750, and voilà!
Not quite an entire week with the Thursday episode omitted, yet cool to see consecutive shows.
If you have any more episodes of Jackpot, please put them up!
As Krusty would say...TEN GRAND!
Loved this version of Jackpot.
It was okay, but I always felt the original by NBC was the best version of the show in every way possible - host, theme and setting the jackpot.
Jackpot! aired here in the UK in the early 90s on now defunct Cable channel Lifestyle and also on Sky One.
Lifestyle had some of the best brandings, yet wasted potential.
If only we could have had this gameshow in the U.S. It looked like so much fun :)
They aired this on the USA network in the mid 80s
It actually originated as an NBC show in the mid 70s with Geoff Edwards hosting. Sadly, it got meddled with and promptly sank (they got rid of the riddles, because a focus group said "We don't like riddles" despite that being the whole point!) in 75. Producer Bob Stewart tried a few times to revive it, and finally got this version on the air, as a co-production with Global in Canada and the USA Network in the US (then a young network desperate for low-budget programming). It was so successful, he rebooted another short-lived show, Chain Reaction, with the same structure (USA Network and a Canadian station, in this case CFCF-12 in Montreal) from 1986 to 1991 (with Edwards becoming host shortly into the run).
@@TimothyMischka And when Jackpot was rebooted for syndication right after the USA Network run ended in 1989, Edwards was brought back as host; it had potential alright and thought it was going to last another four years…that is, had they went with Worldvision, Tribune, Multimedia, or even 20th Century Fox as their distributor (Palladium Entertainment went bankrupt during that short run).
Nonetheless, Jackpot is the only game show to have been produced in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles over those years (and maybe Atlanta when it gets rebooted again).
If your a fan of Jackpot look up on RUclips the game show Hollywood Showdown, which was created by Sande Stewart, son of Bob Stewart, the creator of Jackpot and air originally on the Game Show Network here in the USA. It has a similar idea of players challenging one another while building up a pot of cash.
Geoffrey Bruce Owen Edwards (February 13, 1931 - March 5, 2014)
Mike Darow (born Darow Myhowich; January 8, 1933 - December 7, 1996)
Lisa is totes adorbs
I auditioned to get on this show. I scored perfect on their written exam, but never got called. I figured they didn't want people who were too knowledgeable.
i applied at walmart once...
@@DavidSmith-rv2hw HAD A GREAT TIME HOW OLD WERE YOU
Bob Hultquist RIP 4/17/2018
A caterpillar is not an insect, is it? Anyway, this is a delightful show!
It is.
Gotta love that 80s audio quality
May 🅱️ from bad VCR or conv 2 digital‼️
I preferred the original 1974-75 format.
You can tell they spent every penny of that $17.30 set budget.
They have the answers on cue cards and liquor for the contestants.
According to English auto Generated, Lisa at 28:07 works for a major sweetie poutine!!
“We have for anyone…an automobile.”
Is that a jump cut?
Hey, Global, since you've got all the episodes in your archive in Toronto, why not post some more of them?
It's a good possibility they don't. I was at the Ontario Lottery years ago dubbing Wintario draw show tapes from back then. The OLC didn't keep a lot their shows as draw tapes from Global were sent to Kenya to students studying video. So they were taped over. Because there were 647 Wintario tapes...only 50 of those existed in 2001. Global only kept a handful in case they needed them for news items or any shows that were of importance. In the case of Jackpot, unless the Game Show Network bought them up through Global or a distributor of the show, they may not have been kept. Best thing is to write Global and ask. You never know, shows like Just Like Mom were kept by CTV for years however.
@@derekbrown1237 Sony probably has the tapes now, since they acquired Bob Stewart's company in the early 90s.
32:50 oh no i'm finnish but i didn't even get that
Where's the Thursday episode?
Lots of target number near-misses in these episodes of Jackpot!
That was something that always bugged me about all versions of the game! I wish they had used questions with multiples of $25 instead of $5 for a better shot at target number matches but maybe they considered that when designing and testing the show. If they redid the show today, they could have a direct plug: "And, as always, the target number is sponsored by Target - Pay Less, Expect More." 😆
This was filmed in Ontario and the prize was a trip to Quebec. Canadian game shows are always so cheap.
So true, they even split the jackpot prize between the player and the person that has the riddle instead of giving it to them both.
They get it from across the pond! Canada, coming from "the crown", took its influences from the UK, where big money was rare from games until "Millionaire" became a sensation. We had cheap budgets in the States also, but largely because of the infamous Game Show Scandals of the 50s. Jack Barry's "Twenty-One" which epitomized that time was featured in the Robert Redford-directed film "Quiz Show." Budgets were kept intentionally low for years until "The $10,000 Pyramid" appeared on CBS in the early 70s.
when "price is right" would offer a trip to toronto in the showcase, i would laugh
@@DarrinsDen2023 That was the way the NBC paid out, as well as the U.S. syndicated version. The Super Jackpots were much larger, however, with a potential $50,000 on NBC, and $25,000 in syndication. That said, giving away $3,000can or so each day (which would have happened in the 1st episode with a correct answer) is $15,000 a week, not including a Super Jackpot win, if any. For a cable network show, that wasn't awful, it just paled in comparison to the U.S. Big 3 networks.
Airdate for the USA network in the US for these four shows(Mon, Tue, Wed, and Fri) are 10/13, 10/14, 10/15, and 10/17/1986, repeated on 4/13,4/14,4/15 and 4.17/1987. The person who answered the most riddles this week wound up winning the $10K Riddler contest on the 12/5/1986 episode IIRC.
Dig the oversized glasses worn by a couple of the female contestu!
me to a seen both shows the american and canadian
A hare is not a rabbit!
looney tunes = baby kangaroo
This aired on USA network from Sep 30 1985-Dec 30, 1988 in the US and was originally a US show from Jan 1974-Sep 1975 on NBC
Right you are!
In Ontario, Jackpot aired on Global. In Montreal, it aired in the summer of 1986 on CFCF.
@@CanadasGameShows And the U.S. version returned from September 1989 to Match 1990.
Well, BUZZER will not put Jack Pot because I saw Bob Stewards name at the end of the credit.
I bet that was the original NBC version.
Distrubuted by Sony PIctures Television Studios
I mean George Bell won the MVP in 1987, why is he doing this shit
hey wait a second they should have answered the riddle about soldiers riding on a machine EITHER a jeep or a tank because soldiers can ride on tanks
Firefighter good. On to the game . We don't care anymore about Bob. But not in today's formats
Bob Hopeless?
You mean Bob Hulquist (RIP)