I can remember one of the big prize winners didn't think much of the fact that the BMW had a warning for ice on the road. Not something that is a common problem in Australia.
While it's true that Australia perfected the format of this show, it was actually created in America. It debuted in its original format on NBC in September 1969 with Jack Kelly as host. He left the show in August 1971 and was replaced by Joe Garagiola. While the daytime version went off the air in July 1973, it came back in weekly nighttime two months later, and it ran like that for a year. It came back with the perfected format to NBC in January 1983 with Jim Perry as host. His original assistant was Sally Julian, but she was replaced within a few months by Lee Menning. Menning herself left in December 1984, and was replaced by Summer Bartholomew. In addition to the daytime version running until March 1989, there was a daily nighttime version that ran from January 1985-September 1986. It came back to America under "Temptation" with Rossi Morreale as host in September 2007, but it failed miserably, and was off the air by May 2008.
LOL! I know nothing about Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (who is on the Fame Game board), except that a couple of times recently, a small portion of the opening sequence was played on the American late night talk show "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". I've heard that Craig's show runs in Australia on Eleven.
Legend!
Cheers for posting. Takes me right back - and, YEP, I totally remember these episodes from when I was nine years old!!
Not to be confused with the polymath Barry O. Jones,
master of Pick-A-Box.
I can remember one of the big prize winners didn't think much of the fact that the BMW had a warning for ice on the road. Not something that is a common problem in Australia.
While it's true that Australia perfected the format of this show, it was actually created in America. It debuted in its original format on NBC in September 1969 with Jack Kelly as host. He left the show in August 1971 and was replaced by Joe Garagiola. While the daytime version went off the air in July 1973, it came back in weekly nighttime two months later, and it ran like that for a year. It came back with the perfected format to NBC in January 1983 with Jim Perry as host. His original assistant was Sally Julian, but she was replaced within a few months by Lee Menning. Menning herself left in December 1984, and was replaced by Summer Bartholomew. In addition to the daytime version running until March 1989, there was a daily nighttime version that ran from January 1985-September 1986. It came back to America under "Temptation" with Rossi Morreale as host in September 2007, but it failed miserably, and was off the air by May 2008.
Love the malfunctioning scoreboards!! LOL
omg that $16000 dinner set was so amazing.....!!!!!
LOL! I know nothing about Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (who is on the Fame Game board), except that a couple of times recently, a small portion of the opening sequence was played on the American late night talk show "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". I've heard that Craig's show runs in Australia on Eleven.
Good job, have you got episodes 1 and 2 please?
Did someone checked the the video on oztvheritage was flickering?
Tony looks like Don Adams
5:11; That must have been early in the $100 note's circulation. When exactly did they introduce those in 1984?
March 31 1984. The dollar coin followed a few weeks later on May 14.
this is the Australian version
$12,000 for a leather lounge in 1984? That was a lot of clams back then!
31:27 Reg Barry(AKA Samuel Ball)!!!!!
Did you compete in any championships since then?
There is a newspaper clipping where he was listed as a competitor in the _Ashes_ tournament in 1986.
Classic
how old were you in 1984
Did they actually say who made the guitar?
42:02; What, no seizure-inducing cutaways?
Tubewings Only when someone got the $25 csrd
Was this the same guy that was the Pick a Box champ during the '60s?
+Stu Pidity No...
This guy's from W.A. The famous Barry Jones was from Victoria.
Okay.
41:08; WORLD RECORD SCORE LOL.
@bencalebrod 49:26 ANOTHER WORLD RECORD SCORE! STEVE'S ON FIRE! xD
46:00 - Waste of an electric guitar for an acoustic number.
Superfluous to say about a game show host perhaps but Tony really was a cheesy ham.