The History of Press Your Luck
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Small correction: The three way tie between Joe, Wayne, and Dorothy was in fact one of two ties at 0 on CBS’ Press Your Luck. Another one happened two years prior
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Press Your Luck is one of my favorite game shows, so I thought it'd be fun to go over the history of the show. Various incarnations have aired over the last 45+ years, from Second Chance to Whammy to the Press Your Luck on ABC today.
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Fact: CBS' Gameshow Marathon when they did Press Luck Game, after the closing credits, it was dedicated in memory of Peter Tomarken.
GOD, I LOVE PRESS YOUR LUCK! I'm hoping we can get a millionaire soon, hopefully this season later this year.
I've been wanting to see someone win the million on Press Your Luck for a long time. I hope someone wins the million this coming up season.
ABC might air a special episode of Press Your Luck with Elizabeth Banks featuring Paul Michael Larson Jr., the son of the late Michael Larson, taking on his late dad's former opponents Ed and Janie.
Due to modern technology seen with Elizabeth Banks, it is impossible for anyone to emulate Michael Larson's trick.
Todd Newton mentioned that on the Larson rematch special on his version of the show.
Another fun fact about abcs bonus round, the chance of whammying increases significantly the further you go in the bonus round. its about 1 in 6 in round 1 by the big bucks bonanza its about 1 in 4. So bigger risks bigger rewards.
Myke Horton, who later was known as "Gemini" on American Gladiators, also appeared as a contestant on Press Your Luck.
Small correction on the prize palooza space, You get every prize visible at that time. Not all of them on offer.
It was very unfortunate for someone who lived in Ottawa, Ontario, that the then CBS affiliate in Rochester (or as Jim Rome called it Crap-chester) NY, WHEC-TV decided to pre-empt PYL. Instead, the station decided to air syndicated game shows like 'Love Connection'. The only way I ever got to see PYL was when I visited my grandparents in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario where the CBS affiliate the cable company aired the show. When GSN aired episodes, as embarrassing as this sounds, I treated it like a first-run episode.
Another prominent celebrity (from a Canadian perspective) who appeared as a contestant on PYL in the 1980's was 'Body Break' host Hal Johnson.
I remember seeing those Body Break segments quite a bit. Hello from Thunder Bay, Ontario. 😀
35 minutes of noteworthy facts and figures about OUR favorite show. Keep it up bro💪🏾
(I’m still waiting for that ABC Press Your Luck episode too because it would’ve aired on my bday while i was in Disneyland. I’d watched it on DVR like I did for Big Brother because it had a double-evict that night too)
There are a couple of other contestants who would end up being celebrities of sorts in later years. For instance, Mike Horton, who unfortunately didn't win his game, would later be Gemini on the popular 90s show "American Gladiators".
There was also Ralph Strangis. He won $7,431 during his appearance. He would end up becoming the play-by-play announcer for the Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League in 1990. He continued doing games for them when they became the Dallas Stars in 1993, and would remain in his position until 2015.
Ya, I think the ABC show will last a long time. It's the same reason why I love The Wall. The suspence is unreal, and I would love to be in the audience on either show. I also watch the big moments over and over again
New season starts this September.
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This is an awesome video, man. Deserves more views.
If I go on Press Your Luck, I will so say small bucks.
100th like. How do you have less than 500 subs? This video was amazing. I can clearly tell you put so much work into this video, and I loved watching every second of it. Keep up the good work.
THE SMALL BUCKS BIT MADE IT IN
YEEEEEEAAAAHHHH
they kicked you out
There was actually another 3-way $0 tie on PYL in November 1984 between Chris Kaas/Dom/Diane and on Dom’s final spin, he stopped on a whammy causing the 1st 3-way tie
that one’s on me, just updated the description
The 12 o'clock hour made it difficult for shows be seen in the east coast to see. The networks gave up on that time slot after they realized that the news aired on the stations there.
I remember that too well. Fortunately, "Family Feud" during the 1980's got moved to syndication for the daytime.
Should have stayed at 10;30 est. It's timreslot rivalry with Sale Of The Century was one of the best in daytime
20:58 STOP AT DOUBLE YOUR MONEY AND A SPIN!
20:59 They kicked me out…
THAT GOT ME SOOOO GOOOOOOD😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Regarding your rant at the end, GSN seems to have conversion issues for some reason on some shows. A similar problem has started happenening when they re-air the Regis Philbin era of _Who Wants to be a Millionaire._
On the new Press Your Luck, they had a contestant from Whammy the all new Press Your Luck on the show.
I've loved all the versions of PYL, but I do have one criticism: the bonus round is too long for me. Having a bonus round take as long as the main game makes the game a little predictable due to having to either stretch to fill the one hour or if a contestant is just going into round 5 and there is only three minutes left, you know he is stopping. My idea would be to do something like what the original did for the final day of one of it's at-home contests. At the end of the week, the champion picked one card and faced an all cash-board. What he landed on was multiplied by the number of spins earned in the final round. Have the winner face the board and multiply the cash by the number of spins they earned during the entire game. Oh, and have returning champions too.
Impressive documentary I would say. But, there are a few nitpicks that I have:
1) Contrary to popular belief, the producers did not change the patterns immediately after the Michael Larson episode, rather 4 months after. In between that, they would try with two "emergency patterns", which were 5 patterns that were different. It wasn't until September 17th that the newest patterns would debut(32 to be exact)
2) You did bring up about playing "against the house" and the comparison with Jeopardy. But similar with Jeopardy!, there was a all-lose rule. Should any contestant playing against the house Whammy out, then no one would return the very next day(The closest that rule came into effect was a college episode from late 1984/early 1985, where the contestant playing against the house had 3 whammies and won just $500).
3) The $0 win did happen three times on the Peter Tomarken run, once before the Larson episode and twice after(There were even two cases where a player did not take a 2nd round spin and still won the game outright).
4) And lastly, co-champions. It happened twice with three players(Chris/Dom/Diane from 1984 and Dorothy/Wayne/Joe from 1986), but there also did exist a two-way tie with $0(Warren and Andrea), back in 1983, in one of the first 50 episodes(Cannot remember what episode, but I believe it was the 17th episode).
Yea someone brought up #4, I don’t really have an excuse for missing that one, but someone else already brought it up so I corrected myself in the description.
As for your point about Larson, I just said they did work on the patterns after Larson’s game. Didn’t mean to imply that they went straight to 32 patterns immediately after his taping day
It was Warren vs. Miriam from Ep. 20.
Correction: The Whammy already made it's game show debut in odd 60s show "Beat the Odds"....granted he was a ghost named Sammy the Whammy.
Also, Shoot for the Stars did not replace Name That Tune. It replaced Stumpers. Name that Tune and Shoot for the Stars both debuted the same month.
When it's their 40th anniversary, imma binge watch the classic and now fr this time.
Another one, celebrity that ended up on PYL was the guy who became Gemini on American Gladiators.
25:43 and this was broken because in the season following, someone landed on a $248k Bentley in their final spin of the bonus round
12:10 *WHAT’S UUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!!*
On October 14, 1983, Warren and Miriam had a double $0 tie. On October 17, 1983 Warren and Miriam battled again and face Betty, and Miriam won the rematch and won over $14,000 including a trip to New York, and won $1750 in cash on October 18, 1983, and lost on October 19, 1983 battled Tom and Draya and won over $16,000 in cash and prizes.
28:40 episode finally aired on January 25th, 2024
The Elizabeth Banks version of "Press Your Luck," they have the Prize-a-Palooza square in the bonus round. They have The Big 40 square commemorating the 40th anniversary of "Press Your Luck." Why not bring back the Big Bank square in the Banks version to make it more interesting?
The Big Bank was one of the reason the Todd Newton version of the show failed. If you didn't answer the question correctly, you essentially lose a spin.
31:30 The most painful whammy
Can you do "the history of Legends of the hidden temple"? Thanks.
As long as someone reaches $500,000 to become a millionaire OR hit that Prize-A-Palooza space, ill be satisfied
Usually, if its pre-empted, it gets aired with the following seasons on press your luck.
When I heard ABC was rebooting PYL with Elizabeth Banks as the host, I was apprehensive about her as the host. Not that I dislike her, I just never thought of an actress like her, a game show host. But, boy, was I wrong, she won me over super fast. She is very respectful & encouraging to all the contestants & very rarely makes a wisecrack.
6:08 I Know The Good Mythical Morning Video
KLAS-TV Channel 8 Las Vegas Nevada
Had To Pre-empt PYL In September 1984
Because They Brought The $100,000 Name That Tune Jim Lange
And Then Brought Back The Price Is Right Bob Barker
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I REALLY did not like how the 00s version of PYL's board was much harder to read :(
34:05 GSN, how do you expect to have viewers follow along with the show if it is aired like this?
Gsn hd sucked.
Talks to fast. Some good information on my favorite game show, all 3 remakes !!
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I see Take the lead & One spin as a PYL sin...
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i am not really a fan of the ABC bonus game due to its Deal or No Deal-esque symptoms...
in my opinion, bringing back the $15,000 round from S1 should make the game faster and increase(?) million-winning chances
nope caused more whammies to be hit before the big money was on offer. Thats why it was scrapped. They wanted more people to see the big bucks bonanza.
Don't forget syjak hosted press your luck in 1980
Taking God's name in vain is wrong.
take the religious bs some where else please and thank you.
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