The Money Maze (with commercials) - hosted by Nick Clooney. Filmed March 1975 at ABC Studio in NY.
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- This is a recording of an episode of The Money Maze that was filmed around March 1975 and aired around April 1975.
This version includes the intro and the televised commercials.
I will get into the back story of how this copy came to light in a comment in the near future. : )
Enjoy!! There's only a few episodes available publicly. The pilot is on RUclips and apparently Andy Warhol recorded another episode on his recorder kept at the Paley Center for Media in NY. Here is another episode for folks to enjoy.
From Wikipedia about the show:
The Money Maze is an American television game show seen on ABC from December 23, 1974, to June 27, 1975.[1] The show was hosted by Nick Clooney and was announced by Alan Kalter. It was produced by Daphne-Don Lipp Productions, of which Dick Cavett was a principal.The object of the game was to negotiate a large maze built on the studio floor. A contestant would direct his or her spouse from a perch above the maze; the spouse would need to find his or her way to a push-button on the side of a tower inside the maze.
Gameplay:
Two married couples played against each other for the right to enter the maze. Three regular rounds were played. Each round had a particular topic, with eight related clues. Two clues would be shown on a screen; one couple would select a clue for the other to attempt to answer. A correct answer scored a point, and that couple would then select from two clues (a new clue plus the one they didn't act on before) for their opponent. An incorrect answer gave the opponents a chance to answer instead. If they did so, they won the round and had a chance to answer as many of the remaining clues as they could; if they were also incorrect, play would continue in the round. If the two couples each answered four clues in the round, a tiebreaker would be played where two additional clues were shown. The first couple to activate a buzzer would select a clue to answer for one point, then try to answer the other for two points. If they were wrong on either, the other couple got a free attempt.The winning couple in each round would then send one member into the maze, with the other directing from above. The "runner" would have 15 seconds to find a phone-booth-size "tower" with push-buttons on each side. Pressing the lit button before time expired won the prize and three points. Later in the show's run, couples were given the option of trying to also reach a second tower within 25 seconds for a $500 bonus and three additional points; if they accepted the risk but couldn't reach both towers, the prize and the cash bonus were both lost.
Catch-Up Round:
Clues proceeded as in earlier rounds, except that the couple trailing in score at that point of the game would do all the answering and the leading team would select the clues. The first clue was worth one point, the second worth two, and so on. If the trailing couple incorrectly answered at any time before their score surpassed their opponents, the round was over and the other couple won outright. If the trailing couple tied or passed the leading couple's score, the leading couple, now trailing, received only one chance for a final clue that would win the game.The winner at the end of this round would play "The $10,000 Dash," a final maze run for a prize of up to $10,000. Both couples kept their money and prizes. If both couples were tied going into the Catch-Up Round, they each ran the maze for $10,000.
The $10,000 Dash:
In the final run, five of the towers (out of eight available) would be lit. Four of them would have zeroes on top, and the fifth would have a "1" lit. The runner had 60 seconds to activate the "1" and hit the button at the maze exit to win anything at all. To win the $10,000, the runner had to activate all the push-buttons, exit the maze and push the button within one minute. The total prize was determined by how many "zeroes" were reached in addition to the one: the 1 plus three zeroes won $1,000, the 1 plus two zeroes won $100, and so on. However, if the contestant activated only zeroes or failed to stop the clock, they won nothing.
Champions were retired upon winning the $10,000 Dash or after appearing for three days.
So underrated. Deserves to be revived.
Nick Clooney (father to George) was an underrated host
Good Luck with that. 😅
I agree with you.
Thanks a million! I waited years for this! I used to watch "The Moneymaze" whenever I could (I was in the fourth grade at the time and was stuck in school). I liked the gameplay, the theme song, the music cues, and the sound effects.
So glad to see it. I am literally the only person I know who remembered this.
I remember watching this show, too... same age - 4th grade! Ha! 😃
I used to watch this show in high school. Could not wait to get home to watch it
First of all...THIS IS A BIG FIND for game show nerds like me. Second, wonder if Nick's son knows anything about the existences of this short-lived cult classic. Third...for the way the champs wound their reign up in a blaze of glory to quote the late Jim Perry, $22,200, when put into the inflation calculator comes out being...$105,798.27! And I heard Nick say "there's your house" to the champs. Well...at least a sizable down payment as according to the US Census Bureau the median price for a house in March 1975 was $38,800, while the average was $42,100
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My continued reboot idea. This would be a limited run series. 10 1 hour episodes for 20 games all together. There would be no returning champions. This could be done over two weekends to save production costs. There would be no need to change the maze after each game. My previous post listed the various values in the dash but this can always be adjusted based on the prize budget. For example 100 000 top prize using 6 prize towers. One tower with a 1 and then 5 towers with a 0. The time limit would be 70 seconds. Again this would be up to the producers. ABC has been rebooting old game shows and this would be a good one to put back on the air.
Without question!!
I had forgotten about this game show. Love the commercials too! Don Paoli resembled a young Dick Clark.
I loved this game show so much that, even though it barely lasted a season, the theme music has been stuck in my head for all these years.
I heard that former announcer Alan Kalter passed away ,another of the great voices of my youth gone ,rest in peace Alan .
I knew that announcer sounded familiar. Former voice of the USA Network and then, of course, announcer of the Late Show with David Letterman.
Hey! I think that was legendary Alan Kalter, the "old-school voice" of USA Network and former announcer for the Late Show with David Letterman, as announcer for this short-lived ABC game show.
And you would be correct, sir! FYI, he was also the announcer for "To Tell The Truth" for hosts Joe Garagiola and Robin Ward.
Kalter also announced some New York "Pyramid" shows at ABC after Bob Clayton died.
Sad 😔 to report that Alan Kalter passed away today at age 78 in Connecticut. RIP Alan, you are in a city where the streets are gold and not concrete 😢.
You can definitely see the resemblance between Nick Clooney and George Clooney here.
The newborn baby that was announced at the top of the show is about to celebrate her 46th birthday.
On WABC-TV Channel 7 New York, the Money Maze aired at 4:00pm. The 4:30 Movie was next, followed by the 6:00 Eyewitness News w/ Roger Grimsby & Tom Eillis (from Boston), and then at 7:00pm came the ABC Evening News w/ Howard K. Smith & Harry Reasoner.
@charles allan That's right. It aired at 3:30pm.
One Life to Live had the 3:30pm time slot.
Bill Beutal was away for less than year hosting the ill-fated, short-lived, and GMA predecessor, “AM/ AMERICA”.
I love Nick's leisure suit!! It's so 1970s that it hurts.
If you look at a lot of Game Shows from that era, quite a few of the top emcees donned leisure suits (Geoff Edwards wore them frequently) or aviator type leisure suits (Allen Ludden wore them a lot) i also remember an LMAD from this era where Monty Hall donned a similar suit and joked that if "my contestants can dress the way they do i can wear this suit" .
George's father....looks exactly like him
I thought he looked alot like his mother, that is, until I saw his dad here.
All right! At long last, a clean (and non-pilot) episode of the Money Maze. Thank a billion!!!
I think ABC was still in the process of using the wiping technique cuz they wanted to revive and reuse all those videotapes
It’s so exciting on tv but when your their in person OMG in the studio audience I never forget it 💕
Now Nick Clooney is proudly watching his son George get a Kennedy Center Honor just this past Sunday.
Kenneth Huang 12/6/22.
I remember this game show when I was in the fourth grade. When the show would come on, Nick Clooney would start the show with a song called “Life’s A Chance “
I distinctly remember this episode it first aired. When i first saw this episode air back in 1975, I recognized Don Paoli resembled a young lookin Chuck Woolery. and it was an awesome episode. thank you for uploading it. Memories
I thought he looked like an Italian Donny Osmond. The winning couple is '70s hot!
Did you remember anyepisodes where the "1" was in a far tower and the beacon needed to toggle it was on the far side of the stage?
@Nathan Milliron that I do not remember. As I recall the 1was always in the middle of the maze. The 0 were placed in corners and hard to reach if a 10,000 win was not desired by the producers
I loved this show when I was a kid. Wish they'd bring it back.
R.I.P. announcer Alan Kalter
The voice of the “old” USA Network *and* was later announcer for The Late Show with David Letterman
11:49 - Actress Holland Taylor ("Two and a Half Men" among a lot of film and TV Credits) in the commercial for Lemon Fresh Joy as the old classmate, Joan, and Casey Kasem as the VO announcer at the end of that ad.
Good thing there wasn't a dog dying in the ad
@Sammy Reed I do believe you're right. Keith Charles...
Not only are the episodes lost to history but no one can seem to find the music tracks. Score Productions did the music for the show. Probably a lot of different breakdowns and edits on those master reels.
Epic find! Thanks so much for unearthing and posting this episode of an incredibly fun and feel-good game I haven't seen in a long time.
Great music cues for this game too
This was an awesome gameshow. ABSOLUTELY loved it. Heard it was a nightmare to make, sets broke, took forever...
You're not wrong. It was a pain to configure the mazes for 5 episodes a day.
Don is so lucky, Mary is a super gorgeous lady, with eight seconds left, they win $10,000, total winnings $22,200! The Money Maze is a super magnificent 1975 game show!!
My idea for a reboot. The first three rounds would stay the same. Three trips to the maze for three prizes using today's value. The third trip could be for a car or a super vacation. The question phase would be the same as on the 1974 show. 15 seconds to the prize tower with an additional 10 seconds for a second tower with a cash prize of 2,500.
The dash portion would be different. All 8 towers would be in play. The amount won would be based on the number of towers reached. Eight towers would win 500,000. Seven towers 250,000. Six towers 100,000 and decreasing amounts for fewer towers. The maze runner would again have to get out before time expired ie hitting the birthday tower.
My time limit would be 90 seconds based on watching the show where it took between 50 and 60 seconds to get 5 towers for 10,000 and get out of the maze. The producers can have some control as they can decide which side of the tower the player had to get to.
Any thoughts on this let me know in a response.
I saw how emotional Mary was after the 10,000 dollar dash. She was in tears after the big win. It was good to see even Nick started to cry when she did
I'm surprised ABC didn't try changing the time slot before canceling; I know it was SO expensive to set up the show, but heck this show just pulls you in being so huge!
Why couldn't they have tried it in prime time instead? Why?
@@jnadle1 At the time, executives at the big three networks didn't think game shows belonged in prime time. In fact, there were no network game shows in prime time (except a few limited summer runs) between 9/1971-8/1999. The Moneymaze could have tried to mount a syndicated run, but what station would buy a show that failed in daytime.
Knowing their budget, I'm surprised NBC didn't pick it up when ABC cancelled. Seeing what NBC seemed willing to allow shows like $ale to give away, they could have easily tried to do this show.
@@brianinct4631 Yeah but they were in the early days of TV and even into the 60's.
Plus there may have been syndicated game shows scheduled in prime time by local stations.
If you live in reality, you'd realize you can't expect everything to be scheduled in a good time slot.
Nice you kept the commercials on this one. I recognized David Doyle from Charlie's Angels on the cat food commercial and Gene Wood on the Drano commercial.
The commercial for Lemon Joy, the lady visitor is Holland Taylor. She played Mom in Three and a half men.
I thought so too! She's currently married to acclaimed actress Sarah Paulson. I recognized Holland's voice immediately. I've seen this episode with the commercials hundreds of times but didn't recognize her until just now that you've pointed it out. Anybody doing detective work on these comments? I just dropped a bombshell.
I wonder if anyone will notice
The bombshell is NOT that those actresses are married. Please don't comment on that well known factoid! There appears to be no editing option on these comments. I think there used to be. This is my first time commenting in several years. Sorry for the ramble!
@@DaveMcdon I didn't know that...
Dick Cavett and Don Lipp were behind the production on this game show...
Don Lipp also coproduced another shortlived game show for ABC("The Big Showdown") and Jackie Gleason's CBS game show "You're In The Picture", which got cancelled after only one episode! A week after it aired, Jackie publicly apologized for the program!
Nick, of course, had one of the most popular sons in the world, but also a very famous sister, the amazing singer Rosemary Clooney.
I betcha money the Paoli's are still married to *this very day.* You could just *FEEL* the love between them! When his wife cried for joy, he did, too! They were adorable and I'm so, so glad they won!
This proves that--like with its sister show, The Big ShowDown--a basic montage of bonus-round wins was eventually used for the open.
This was common on a number of ABC shows of the era (1974-1976) the later seasons of original Newlywed used clips from previous shows to open as did LMAD which set bits of clips to the shows theme. And most famously the Pyramid.
I was in the audience on the last show the big showdown I was 12 Return the big showdown 💕
RIP Alan Kalter.
5:35 look that ad with the great Gene Wood, the ORIGINAL voice of Family Feud and many other classic Goodson-Todman shows.
5:13, that sound effect would later be reused in the opening of Kentucky Educational Television’s (KET) General Educational Development (GED) series in the 80’s and 90’s.
The mink coat that Mary's wearing is a very fun prize that they have ever won, as much as them winning $10,000 on the show’s $10,000 dash.
However you found this, especially in such great shape, THANK YOU!!!
I do wonder if this was the episode Andy Warhol recorded. IIrc, I read that on wikipedia and other (forgotten) places.
Nice to see Gene Wood in this Draino commercial! Thank you for updating this video as well as sharing it!
I thought that was him.
@@devares2006 His voice and face are too unique. 🤓
I think it's Casey Kasem's voice in the Joy commercial.
And Cuckoo Friend and Ollie in the Tootsie Roll commercial
@@zachhoran 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That guy in the yellow polyester suit looks like one of the Osmonds.
I remember watching the moneymaze on ABC TV in the mid 1970s.
Nick Clooney did a Saturday afternoon high school dance show in the early sixties at WKYT-TV in Lexington, Kentucky. He also did weekend newscasts at WKYT and was the morning man at WLAP radio in Lexington.
I loved this show in high school. Would love to see a reboot. Its exciting watching people run through a maze for cash and prizes. I am sure with all of the game show reboots going on that this could be done. Did the couple who won stayed together after all these years.
I don't know who owns the company currently. You could ask the people from ABC and find out. I would love to see a $100,000 top prize.
They seem like a very nice couple. Last I heard (around 10 years ago) they were together. A friend of mine was in contact with them.
@@Rlotpir1972 Dick Cavett owned Daphne Productions, though I'm not sure if he owns MONEYMAZE now.
A second one? You're spoiling us.
This is simply an update; contains commercials and the opening. 👌
I wish the soundtrack to this show would unearth itself! 😊
I sure missed this show a lot
Goes to show you that the person navigating the maze is only as good as the person giving the directions.
7:18 Cute and adorable kitten playing or fighting with their Little Friskies Kitten Food.
12:44 Casey Kasem's voice-over.
13:23 Guy wore glasses looked like David Doyle, before "Charlie's Angels."
13:34 Cute when a cat in the cuckoo clock surprised a woman. Who is that woman?
23:08 Think that man in a Drano commercial was Gene Wood.
West of the Rockies, we get Best Foods. The Hellmann's mayo is for markets east of.
Those kittens seemed more interested in knocking the food around than in actually eating it. But yes to David Doyle and yes to Gene Wood. Fun fact: Alan Kalter did the same style "in supermarket" interviews with customers as Wood did there for Bufferin.
Unquestionably Gene Wood.
that was also Holland Taylor in the Joy commercial. She would later play the Mom on Two and A Half Men.
Nick Clooney's Wardrobe furnished by Andrew Pallack the same wardrobe worn by Wink Martindale on Gambit and the men of Batman Adam West, Burt Ward, Alan Napier & Neil Hamilton
Anyone recognize Holland Taylor (of Bosom Buddies & Two & a Half Men/the mother) @ 12:31 ?!
Remembers the show from living in Auburn AL at age 7.
Don & mary both did excellent. 😀👍
This looks like an amazing show! I love seeing what the ads looked like back then too - Thank you for uploading :)
13:25 David Doyle just a couple years before CHARLIE'S ANGELS.
There was an inquiry about where one can watch all the episodes of The Money Maze on the other version of this video that is posted by "All fun and games"... I am re-posting my reply here. Just in case anyone else is wondering about the basic status of this show... ... ... The tapes do not exist. The show was recorded on either one-inch or two-inch videotape. I'm not sure which one. Either way, videotape was a new innovation. The appeal to the networks was that this new invention of videotape was reusable, therefore cheaper than film in the long run. So the networks never archived the episodes in the first place. They simply re-used the same videotape stock week after week, therein erasing whatever was previously recorded on the tape. There was no concept at the time that a network game show would ever be a viable product for reruns. There were only three networks, and syndication was in its infancy in 1975. Only the production companies Goodson Todman and Heater Quigley had the insight to preserve and archive their daily episodes, at great expense. Most of the Heater Quigley shows have never resurfaced. For example, the original Hollywood Squares is believed to be permanently erased. Network daytime game shows were reinvented every season, produced en masse, and considered disposable products after one airing. Sad but true, and understandable as a business decision at the time. There are only three known existing episodes of The Money Maze. This episode, the pilot, and one episode archived at The Paley Center in New York, which was gifted from the Andy Warhol estate. Andy had an early version of a home Betamax in 1975 and luckily recorded one episode. I recently went to the Paley Center while on vacation in New York and watched it. It's available for public viewing. It's a superb example of the show and equally enthralling as this episode with Don and Mary Paoli as the big winners. Any fan of The Money Maze who is in New York should go there and watch it. It is not on RUclips or anywhere else. The Paley Center has it exclusively.
Just looked up the audience ticket address, 1330 Avenue of the Americas (aka Sixth Avenue) is now a business center w/ an AT&T Store, home furniture store, currency exchange, etc., across the street from the Hilton between 53rd and 54th Streets.
wow,, how did you find this.? This in incredible to see 45 years later. I was 15 when this show originally aired on WABC Channel 7 in New York.
@Paul Bruni(open): I was 4 or 5 years old; IIRC, *The **4:30** Movie* aired after *The Money Maze.*
This guy was a huge navigator.
Compliance. 😉😁
Have you seen Nick Clooney's interview where he said that it got well...quite heated at times?
OMG, Where did you find these? I know that most of these shows were not saved and have only seen one really bad copy of the pilot. Thank you so much for posting these, I loved this show and Nick Clooney!
Enjoyed this show as a kid. BTW- the MC is George's dad and Rosemary's brother!
23:09 *GENE WOOD SIGHTING!!*
I love this host “I want you to know you can get 8 in a row and win the game still” next answer “you’re wrong game over” 😂🤣😂🤣
Imagine if there had been a home game version!!!!!!!!!
Nick Clooney is younger version of his son George
Wow, I haven’t though of this show in decades!
Bring it back please
Interesting thing about this is the fact that Clooney was still hosting his local show in Cincinnati on WKRC-TV, which at the time was an ABC affiliate..
The story I read once was that Nick taped his "Money Maze" episodes on the weekends.
I heard that they intentionally pre-empted the Money Maze to the morning time so they could pair both shows together. Kinda smart to do that.
Loved this show seen is in person at abc studios here in nyc 1975 💕💕💕
I love the money maze. RIP Nick Clooney
He's still alive.
This was such a great show!!! Loved it (and THE PRICE IS RIGHT) whenever I had a day off from school when I was in special ed class during my 2nd Grade year like sick days or school holidays. ;) ;) :) :)
Totally watched this show. I thought it was so cool yet so easy.
Don’t worry, America! A television time machine could restore all the “Money Maze” episodes.
I could see ABC doing a reboot of this show, only the big moneymaze dash will be up at least to $100,000 cash in the bonus round.
@charles allan You mean, The Big Show Down.
This will never be rebooted. The set's a bear to put together and take down, all within a rented studio, and a bear to shoot. Think American Gladiators on even more steroids than they were on.
@@wschmrdr An even cheesier (possibly more sensible) idea, do a seasonal series of specials using corn fields and drones!
If the premise were similar to "Cha$e", you might be able to pull it off. Can't have buzzing in, though, since connection lag could play a factor.
Either that, or maybe they should’ve add $1,000,000 for the bonus round with an additional 30-second time limit and it will make it 90 seconds instead of 60.
I'd be curious if they hold the all time money record of 22200 on this show. Since you were retired if you won the 10k on day 1 or 2. The musical clues are wonderful. Great upload.
26:51: When the bonus music bed's horns kick in, it's very '70s ABC. Love it.
6:40 Boy, don't those kids look excited! :)
Those leisure suits... good lord!
I remember this from being home from school sick...
Doesn't Tony Paoli's voice remind you of Joe Pesci?
Also, at the 26:09 mark, notice how the camera cuts synchronize with the audience's countdown. It adds to the buildup.
The show was directed by a fine director named Arthur Forrest. Look him up. He’s done tons of stuff. He used to point an Electronicam at Jackie Gleason, among other things.
I don't know how I never realized thats George Clooneys dad ...they look a lot alike
Apparently in 1975 everyone had glass pipes. It must have been fun watching someone flush a glass toilet with glass pipes. I'm just saying, according to the commercials.
Didnt the director of this show also direct the Jerry Lewis Telehthon?
Yes the legendary Arthur Forrest, whose career goes back to the 1950's when he was one of the camera operators on The Honeymooners.
I do remember when money maze premeird
They should put this and Big Showdown both on Buzzr.
2 problems with that.
1. They're not a Fremantle property.
2. Almost all of the episodes have been wiped (thank you, 1970s).
@@devares2006 It was reported by Adam Nedeff or Matt Ottinger that the episodes are intact but in poor quality.
@@zachhoran Huh, was not aware of that. The original source of this episode copy does appear to be a U-matic tape in dire need of baking.
How about asking Game Show Network to put this and The Big Show Down on their schedule?
@@pernelldh They're too busy with their own new crapola
Love the old commercials
23:07 Past GS host & future announcer Gene Wood in the Drano commercial.
This might or might not have been the inspiration for the 2023 game show "Raid the Cage".
A very rare video from a short-lived game show, The Money Maze.
Maybe it should be revived, probably for syndication. 📺
This looks like a 70's Exit List (A Dutch format that got exported to the UK, A pilot for the US didn't get ordered)
This show was hosted by Nick Clooney, brother of Rosemary and father of George.
The clothes!! OMG
I wonder how old George was when his dad hosted this show.
He was 13 at the time the show began and was 14 when the show went off the air.
You never know maybe an ep of rhyme and reason might show up.
Hopefully, it's the final episode where they trash the set.
Didnt know Donny & Marie osmond was on this show.
A Kukla, Fran and Ollie commercial! WOW!!
if ABC brought this back, here’s how I pictured this. I know it could be either a couples format, or a family, or more than likely, it would be a contestant/star format, where the contestant would be the one running the maze, and the star gives the directions. of course there would be smaller prizes like the show, and maybe a 1000 dollar money tower. the seconds would increase to an even 30 if they should choose to go for both prize and money tower. the final round would be a 100,000 dollar dash. if they were to do a primetime version or special, then that could increase to 1,000,000 dollars. for the bonus, just so they can say they came out with something in the bonus, the buttons would still be 5, but the dollar value would be increased, and you’d have to follow a set path to reach the top prize. the first button would start at 10,000, then the second would be 15,000, then 25,000, then 50,000, then 100,000, with the last button being the finish line.
Well, explains why skipper Glenn ryle got rid of him after they cancel the money maze and his talk show.
10:01-original name "Whammo"; before a tradmark infringement suit changed the name to "Blammo".
This reminds me of Double Dare, not the Alex Trebek one, but the one on Nickelodeon with Mark Summers, questions, then physical challenge, questions again, physical challenge again, then the bonus round. But no maze, instead lots of slime, running, and other messy stunts to win the game.
Love the music cues! And a bonus Gene Wood selling us Drano! Lol