Wonderful to see this. Thanks a million Wink and David! I was surprised even though it was taped in a real market, how very much it still looked and felt like the actual series itself (especially the sweep itself). It even had the same theme song and sound effects!
This is an amazing find Mr. Martindale! Wish it was in better quality but beggars can't be choosy after all. Still great to see how it all began though.
Actually, they're bringing it back. Fremantle has just purchased the rights to the format from Al Howard, and they're planning to air a revival for ABC's prime time schedule with Leslie Jones hosting and executive producing.
Great pilot! But the show was better once they got picked and moved production to a sound stage at Hollywood Center Studios, with a full mock supermarket built. David's just as great here as he was on the show.
In 1990-1992: Hollywood Center Studios Hollywood, California In 2000: Santa Clarita Studios Santa Clarita, California In 2001-2003: NBC Studios Burbank, California
THIS is WONDERFUL!!!!!~WISH they would put the WHOLE series in ORDER from pilot and ALL 14 years on DVD.....me and my daughter NEVER missed this on original episodes!!!!!.....anyone have a channel list in order from this pilot with all the 14 years worth of episodes?????.....THAT would be GREAT!!!!!.....
Well, at least all 9 years... they stopped shooting in 1994 and put it in reruns, but then brought it back in 1999. I guess Buzzr has some of the episodes at least.
My friend and I were on the show back in the 80s and I would Love to see that episode again! Nancy, I would like to see the whole series in order as well!
Wow, seeing the pilot of the show is great enough, but what really sells it for me is that it features footage from the original ABC version, which sadly, is really hard to find, due to most of it being wiped by ABC.
The one 60s episode I found is so poor it's unwatchable and it's hard to tell what's going on. I guess it must've been a kinescope that survived because ABC wiped them all otherwise.
If someone brought this game back, I'd love to see 2 things: 1. Prize increases to 10k. 2. Every team during the Sweep is partnered with their hometown food bank, and every dollar they win in the sweep is matched with a donation to a local food bank. (I think the most anyone picked up in a sweep once was $1800, that's not impossible.)
@@NEPatriot Furthermore, a full fledged revival for ABC's prime time schedule with Leslie Jones as host and executive producer is due to air sometime in the future.
BTW, the version of the theme used here was used on the show after bonus round wins or losses IIRC. A regular version of the theme was composed when it went to series, and stuck until 1993, when the logo was redesigned and theme was remixed.
This pilot was very much like the series after it got picked up. One of this version's unusual features was that you could lose time if you had an incorrect answer.
Andrew Hain And in the actual Big Sweep, instead of multiple Bonuses (w/pennants with the amounts shown) scattered throughout the market and teams each allowed more than one, there were only 3 Bonuses (raised to 4 in '93) (w/the amounts hidden and not revealed until after the Sweep), and only one was allowed to a customer.
Looking at the registers, I see that the subtotals before they added the meat prices was in whole dollars. Also, I noticed that the middle meat price ($20.38, $23.89, $27.17) wasn't equidistant from the lower and high prices, so I'm guessing that they priced it by the pound there. And obviously, you could tell Team #1 wasn't going to win because they had a subtotal of $570 before they added in the final item, since Team #2's subtotal was $660 (Team #3's subtotal, just for the record, was $470). P.S., I vaguely recall seeing footage of the pilot in some promos when I used to watch the show on Lifetime all those years ago.
4:10 It's interesting to see a format from "The Price Is Right" on the pilot episode of "Supermarket Sweep" history. Back then, I think Bob Barker would've sued David Ruprecht of copyright infringement.
Supermarket Sweep says that to ask any item, And it has commanded in the full TV Series like “Okay, you’re on!” It clamored in a pilot episode of Supermarket Sweep ‘cuz it sounded too much like “Come On Down!” to be sounded too much like “Come On Down!”
this was one of those shows that just endured and was a fun filler of time...I know from being at Jeopardy it's remembered very fondly by Johnny gilbert (he references it whenever he can...in his very loud SUP-ER-MARKET SWEEP! voice)....this pilot was terrible...shocked it made it but GLAD it did...was a classic and fun show...note the original 60s version they allude to WAS always taped in a different supermarket...so this was more faithful to the original...dunno if I like the one bid games instead of the pricing puzzles they settled on for the actual series which was actually a shrewd game with lots of strategy...good find
Did you know that Kevin and Julie (one of the teams in this episode) would later appear on the actual Supermarket Sweep in '90? (they appeared early in its run and won their Big Sweep, but didn't win the $5K; they later returned for a Sweep of Champions and won the Big Sweep again, but still didn't win the $5K)
I heard the news that Supermarket Sweep is coming back. Now, just in case they didn't win $5,000.00, it carries over to tomorrows show (worth $5K, $10K, $15K, etc.).
It ran on Lifetime in new episodes from February 5, 1990 until June 16, 1995, with reruns airing on the network until August 14, 1998. PAX aired reruns of the Lifetime version from April 5, 1999 until March 31, 2000. Then PAX started making new episodes of the show, running from April 3, 2000 until May 23, 2003, with reruns airing until March 26, 2004.
Given how GSN always crunches the credits of almost every show it broadcasts in order to squeeze in more commercials, it's better off airing on Buzzr, instead. And now that it's actually now owned by Fremantle, the idea is actually quite feasible.
@@nolancain8792 Yup, for the actual series, the show was taped at Hollywood Center Studios in Hollywood from 1990-1995 and 2000-2001 and at NBC Studios in Burbank from 2001-2003.
Punky Brewster! He was the reverend that married off Brandon the Wonder Dog. Mr. Ruprecht also appeared in another Punky Brewster episode where he was the host of a radio show contest that Punky, Cherie and Margo won. That same episode also featured Jason Hervey, of ABC's The Wonder Years as well.
James Bonnen full house, 1994 when he interviews uncle Jesse during the final season. He was also on small wonder and the finale of three's company in 1984
@@Rlotpir1972 Plus, none of the food products were actually usable because it was either expired (in the case of a majority of the food) or phony props (in the case of the meat and cheese.) Furthermore, host David Ruprecht said in an interview that because a production season of _Supermarket Sweep_ would take five months, the products would be reused very often for The Big Sweep.
It's interesting to see Wink (YOU ROCK, WINK!! =D) showing this off, considering he hosted a show that would air right after Supermarket Sweep. Speaking of which, I wonder if someday soon, Wink will share the pilot of Debt. I'm curious to see what the original show looked like before it's first episode, complete with the Visa credit card like logo.
Only in repeats, though. When "Supermarket Sweep" first aired on Lifetime, it was initially paired with "Rodeo Drive" for the first season, before being paired with "Born Lucky" during the second season. For the rest of the show's first run, it was paired with "Shop 'til You Drop."
If the show is still on the air and not taken off of the air like in 1967 please I would like to see if I can play the game show if the tickets are available if it were on a b c and not lets make a deal besides my mother was turned down and nobody else can do that to my mother and my uncle and get away with it that new host won't know this but guess who going to be there instead of a certain old woman who shal be nameless and in the audience of the game show if were bribed not to take part of the game show I might think of it
If the show is still on the air and not taken off of the air like in 1967 please I would like to see if I can play the game show if the tickets are available if it were on a b c and not lets make a deal besides my mother was turned down and nobody else can do that to my mother and my uncle and get away with it that new host won't know this but guess who going to be there instead of a certain old woman who shal be nameless and in the audience of the game show if were bribed not to take part of the game show I might think of it and this time no cheating or rigging on the game show
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Given how casual the actual show was, it's weird to see David in a suit. Great to see the pilot of one of my faves. :)
Also before he wore a shirt and tie in the series, in the earlier episodes, David wears sweaters.
Well, believe it or not, Bill Malone always wore a suit whenever he hosted the original 1965-1967 version on ABC.
Wonderful to see this. Thanks a million Wink and David! I was surprised even though it was taped in a real market, how very much it still looked and felt like the actual series itself (especially the sweep itself). It even had the same theme song and sound effects!
This is more like the original 60s version as for how they earn seconds.
@@raymondswenson5529 I liked that. I do enjoy the games played in series as well.
This is an amazing find Mr. Martindale! Wish it was in better quality but beggars can't be choosy after all. Still great to see how it all began though.
Pilots are almost always weird even if they are good.
I used to watch it every night with my parents when it was on PAX. I wish they'd bring it back! I loved it!
travis7310, I used to watch that show before Shop Til You Drop on PAX TV.
Actually, they're bringing it back. Fremantle has just purchased the rights to the format from Al Howard, and they're planning to air a revival for ABC's prime time schedule with Leslie Jones hosting and executive producing.
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THIS IS GREAT! Thanks, Wink and David, for giving us this TV gem!
Great pilot! But the show was better once they got picked and moved production to a sound stage at Hollywood Center Studios, with a full mock supermarket built. David's just as great here as he was on the show.
In 1990-1992:
Hollywood Center Studios
Hollywood, California
In 2000:
Santa Clarita Studios
Santa Clarita, California
In 2001-2003:
NBC Studios
Burbank, California
For those saying it should return...it has on buzzr. And Fremantle is trying to revive it
I grew up on Supermarket Sweep. :)
Me too excited to see the new version in October
The potential was there in the pilot. Just some cosmetic changes and the move to the studio made this into 14 years of shopping madness.
That's the best way to kick off the show. I just wish the show were still being made.
Wink, this is fantastic! May we re-post this to our Supermarket Sweep Fans! channel?
Wow! THIS IS GREAT! Thanks, Wink and David, for giving us this TV gem!
David, you still look as handsome today as you did back then. There's always something about game show hosts that I find attractive.
He can sweep my supermarket anytime - yummy!
i really wish that supermarket sweep can be on the game show network
I know for sure you can find it on Buzzr.
@@danwicht402 And it's better off on Buzzr than on GSN, because unlike GSN, Buzzr doesn't generally edit out fee plugs or crunch credits.
It’s on netflix
THIS is WONDERFUL!!!!!~WISH they would put the WHOLE series in ORDER from pilot and ALL 14 years on DVD.....me and my daughter NEVER missed this on original episodes!!!!!.....anyone have a channel list in order from this pilot with all the 14 years worth of episodes?????.....THAT would be GREAT!!!!!.....
Well, at least all 9 years... they stopped shooting in 1994 and put it in reruns, but then brought it back in 1999. I guess Buzzr has some of the episodes at least.
My friend and I were on the show back in the 80s and I would Love to see that episode again! Nancy, I would like to see the whole series in order as well!
Nice to see this gem, Dave and Wink. Here's to 25 more great years of keepin' on Sweepin' on!
Wow, seeing the pilot of the show is great enough, but what really sells it for me is that it features footage from the original ABC version, which sadly, is really hard to find, due to most of it being wiped by ABC.
The one 60s episode I found is so poor it's unwatchable and it's hard to tell what's going on. I guess it must've been a kinescope that survived because ABC wiped them all otherwise.
If someone brought this game back, I'd love to see 2 things:
1. Prize increases to 10k.
2. Every team during the Sweep is partnered with their hometown food bank, and every dollar they win in the sweep is matched with a donation to a local food bank. (I think the most anyone picked up in a sweep once was $1800, that's not impossible.)
Now that it’s back in Primetime for 2020, it’ll probably be $50,000 at least with 4 clues.
Now in today's era $5000 in 1989 would become $100,000 in terms of jackpots
I wish THIS would return to TV. I would love to play on this game show! Awesome video and I'm only 22 seconds in!
Well...you're about to get your wish (FremantleMedia recently became the new proud owner of Supermarket Sweep)!
And even more, BUZZR is going to air the 1990's run starting in January.
@@NEPatriot Furthermore, a full fledged revival for ABC's prime time schedule with Leslie Jones as host and executive producer is due to air sometime in the future.
It comes back this month.
I wonder what store they were at during the pilot?
Thanks for sharing, Wink! And David...
Happy 76th birthday, David Ruprecht.
I remember seeing promos on Lifetime that included clips from the pilot. God Bless You Wink Martindale and David Ruprecht. You two are my heroes!!
That was fun to watch.
That was tight Wink!!!!!
I want one of those shirts they wear in the Big Sweep.
BTW, the version of the theme used here was used on the show after bonus round wins or losses IIRC. A regular version of the theme was composed when it went to series, and stuck until 1993, when the logo was redesigned and theme was remixed.
This pilot was very much like the series after it got picked up. One of this version's unusual features was that you could lose time if you had an incorrect answer.
Plus the mini sweep is missing
That looked fun! I'm so glad you included this in your vault! Thank you!
WOW!!!! What a treat this is to see!!! :D
Glad to see many things got ironed out before the show made it to air.
I still fancy the old one over the new one.
22:29 The closing slogan was used as well in the (aired) UK version, hosted by the late Dale Winton.
Wow this is awesome. I prefer this than the syndicate version.
The show was never syndicated. It aired from 1990-1995 on Lifetime and from 2000-2003 on PAX.
In the actual series, they never subtracted time for wrong answers.
Andrew Hain And in the actual Big Sweep, instead of multiple Bonuses (w/pennants with the amounts shown) scattered throughout the market and teams each allowed more than one, there were only 3 Bonuses (raised to 4 in '93) (w/the amounts hidden and not revealed until after the Sweep), and only one was allowed to a customer.
+Andrew Hain Although during the "This or That" game, for a wrong answer, they gave 10 seconds to the other teams.
Looking at the registers, I see that the subtotals before they added the meat prices was in whole dollars. Also, I noticed that the middle meat price ($20.38, $23.89, $27.17) wasn't equidistant from the lower and high prices, so I'm guessing that they priced it by the pound there. And obviously, you could tell Team #1 wasn't going to win because they had a subtotal of $570 before they added in the final item, since Team #2's subtotal was $660 (Team #3's subtotal, just for the record, was $470).
P.S., I vaguely recall seeing footage of the pilot in some promos when I used to watch the show on Lifetime all those years ago.
I always wanted to do a shopping spree!
4:10 It's interesting to see a format from "The Price Is Right" on the pilot episode of "Supermarket Sweep" history. Back then, I think Bob Barker would've sued David Ruprecht of copyright infringement.
To be fair, the pricing part of the pilot was actually from the 60s version of Supermarket Sweep.
I think you meant Mark Goodson suing Al Howard for copyright infringement.
"Come on, you're on" had to be changed because it sounded too much like "Come on Down"!
Supermarket Sweep says that to ask any item, And it has commanded in the full TV Series like “Okay, you’re on!” It clamored in a pilot episode of Supermarket Sweep ‘cuz it sounded too much like “Come On Down!” to be sounded too much like “Come On Down!”
I've never seen people put items back, lol
looks like a lot of fun !
Wow, David looked so young.
this was one of those shows that just endured and was a fun filler of time...I know from being at Jeopardy it's remembered very fondly by Johnny gilbert (he references it whenever he can...in his very loud SUP-ER-MARKET SWEEP! voice)....this pilot was terrible...shocked it made it but GLAD it did...was a classic and fun show...note the original 60s version they allude to WAS always taped in a different supermarket...so this was more faithful to the original...dunno if I like the one bid games instead of the pricing puzzles they settled on for the actual series which was actually a shrewd game with lots of strategy...good find
Did you know that Kevin and Julie (one of the teams in this episode) would later appear on the actual Supermarket Sweep in '90? (they appeared early in its run and won their Big Sweep, but didn't win the $5K; they later returned for a Sweep of Champions and won the Big Sweep again, but still didn't win the $5K)
I heard the news that Supermarket Sweep is coming back. Now, just in case they didn't win $5,000.00, it carries over to tomorrows show (worth $5K, $10K, $15K, etc.).
And you never seen an audience during the sweep for some reason.
The game show host looks Handsome
The show is currently on Netflix in the USA.
My childhood was made thanks wink
Well that pilot went perfect
Unlike the series, the "Supermarket Sweep" pilot used "cart cams" during the Big Sweep.
David looked so young in the pilot.
BTW, David saying it lasted 14 years.. that includes the rerun years on Lifetime and PAX, as it reran very well. Why hasn't GSN picked this up?
They'd rather play 20 episodes of Family Feud. They're great at killing off cool shows and playing stupid junk like Skin Wars.
It ran on Lifetime in new episodes from February 5, 1990 until June 16, 1995, with reruns airing on the network until August 14, 1998. PAX aired reruns of the Lifetime version from April 5, 1999 until March 31, 2000. Then PAX started making new episodes of the show, running from April 3, 2000 until May 23, 2003, with reruns airing until March 26, 2004.
Given how GSN always crunches the credits of almost every show it broadcasts in order to squeeze in more commercials, it's better off airing on Buzzr, instead. And now that it's actually now owned by Fremantle, the idea is actually quite feasible.
In the bonus round, it sounds like the producers loved Cheers...
I always wondered if the contestants were really picked at random or did they know ahead of time?
Did U know Ruprecht once voiced on the Hanna Barbera Cartoon, Yogi's Treasure Hunt?
@@peterjszerszen He was the one that married Janet in the final episode.
2:03 Jiffy Peanut Butter, Mandela residue.
Miss you
Food Network should pick Supermarket Sweep back up in its Flavortown Market set.
Looks like it was filmed in an actual supermarket.
Shawn Smothers it was for the pilot.
@@nolancain8792 Yup, for the actual series, the show was taped at Hollywood Center Studios in Hollywood from 1990-1995 and 2000-2001 and at NBC Studios in Burbank from 2001-2003.
Fun trivia: can you name what last episode David Ruprect appeared on?
Punky Brewster! He was the reverend that married off Brandon the Wonder Dog. Mr. Ruprecht also appeared in another Punky Brewster episode where he was the host of a radio show contest that Punky, Cherie and Margo won. That same episode also featured Jason Hervey, of ABC's The Wonder Years as well.
Wow I did not know that. I was thinking of another show actually he was on the last 4 episodes of a very famous sitcom
James Bonnen full house, 1994 when he interviews uncle Jesse during the final season. He was also on small wonder and the finale of three's company in 1984
Three's Company!
He married Janet.
Were the contestants allowed to keep the groceries after the show?
@@Rlotpir1972 Plus, none of the food products were actually usable because it was either expired (in the case of a majority of the food) or phony props (in the case of the meat and cheese.) Furthermore, host David Ruprecht said in an interview that because a production season of _Supermarket Sweep_ would take five months, the products would be reused very often for The Big Sweep.
I guess the reason the pricing game was not used was because it was VERY identical to TPIR.
nice
17:59, he got 6 rubbing alcohols
Why david ruprecht has gray hair like bob Barker
What year was this
It was 1989.
When I first saw it, I was like... Nope. Never gonna watch a show in B&W.
Then I was like... That's better.
Maybe Buzzr'll air SS, since Fremantle owns it.
it's going to air on buzzr starting january 15, 2018 at 10 P.M. Eastern
0:52 Supermarket Sweep
It's interesting to see Wink (YOU ROCK, WINK!! =D) showing this off, considering he hosted a show that would air right after Supermarket Sweep.
Speaking of which, I wonder if someday soon, Wink will share the pilot of Debt. I'm curious to see what the original show looked like before it's first episode, complete with the Visa credit card like logo.
Only in repeats, though. When "Supermarket Sweep" first aired on Lifetime, it was initially paired with "Rodeo Drive" for the first season, before being paired with "Born Lucky" during the second season. For the rest of the show's first run, it was paired with "Shop 'til You Drop."
1989
September 17
If the show is still on the air and not taken off of the air like in 1967 please I would like to see if I can play the game show if the tickets are available if it were on a b c and not lets make a deal besides my mother was turned down and nobody else can do that to my mother and my uncle and get away with it that new host won't know this but guess who going to be there instead of a certain old woman who shal be nameless and in the audience of the game show if were bribed not to take part of the game show I might think of it
If the show is still on the air and not taken off of the air like in 1967 please I would like to see if I can play the game show if the tickets are available if it were on a b c and not lets make a deal besides my mother was turned down and nobody else can do that to my mother and my uncle and get away with it that new host won't know this but guess who going to be there instead of a certain old woman who shal be nameless and in the audience of the game show if were bribed not to take part of the game show I might think of it and this time no cheating or rigging on the game show
I never liked this game, but this wasn’t bad.
ABC is currently airing the hour-long nighttime revival hosted by "SNL" alum Leslie Jones.