@@1985OldSkool MY reboot version would've had 10 celebrites and the rules would be capturing all celebrities deciding who or neither gave a correct answer and the contestant either picks one of the answers or rejects them and comes up with one of their own in order to win and play the bonus round when they can break the bank by capturing all celebrities by answering true-false statements in 60 seconds.
@@Rlotpir1972 Did they really get in trouble with Heatter-Quigley? It's not very surprising if that's true. Problem is, at least to the best of my knowledge, there aren't any articles out there anyone knows about that report any legal action or something similar taken by Heatter-Quigley.
This is one of the greatest game show theme songs ever! It's a song that says, at least to me, "a huge gala event is underway, and you're the guest of honor!"
+KentB3 However, my thoughts on the "huge gala event" could come from hearing this song used on The Joker's Wild $1,000,000 Tournament of Champions" in 1980. At the time, this was largest prize offering in TV history (the contestant won $500,000, and the other half went to the contestant's favorite charity).
I can definitely hear the "guest of honor" part, though. It kind of sounds like a 1970's version of the "Sale of the Century" big win cue when balloons would fall from the ceiling.
@@KentB3 You have the essence of it correct -- the total prize purse was $1,000,000, the winner won half that, and that $500K was split between the contestant and the favorite "nationally recognized charity".
The Game Show Network aired this show during its "dark period" from October 11, 1997 to April 18, 1998. Also in late 1997, GSN aired a few episodes of the syndicated Barry version. The reason why it was called the "dark period", it's because at that time, GSN's rights to broadcast the Goodson-Todman shows expired which took affect on October 11, 1997, except for The Price Is Right and the 1994-95 Family Feud episodes (CBS), which were both on a separate contract.
Sad to say, looking back now I wonder if the "Dark Period" really was all that dark... sure, there were a lot of lackluster shows on at the time but we still had The Price is Right and we got shows like this that weren't rerun again after, plus the Barry-Enright, Barris and Stewart libraries that are nowhere to be seen today. Maybe hindsight from the end of 2020 is skewed though since there was no Buzzr to run the Goodson shows in 1997.
I have to agree with draxx77. This is the best game show music ever composed. It has the highest play count on my entire Itunes library, and it is the ONLY game show theme in my library! In other words, I love this song more than any other song in my entire music collection. I always dreamed of composing a symphony concert of all game show music. This song would require no new arrangement. It already IS symphony music. I LOVE this song, I always have, and am thrilled to read that others do too.
"Tonight these 8 Champions embark on a tournament to crown the ultimate champion....And that Champion will win.......TWO MILLLLLLION DOLLAR$.....from Hollywood....This is The Jokers Wild Tournament of Champions.......And now your Host.........Jack Barry!"
Revive it with 10 celebrities in a diamond-shaped game board with 25 monitors (diamond shape). Capture 10 celebrities (agree with either celebrity or disagree and answer) win the game. In the bonus round, capture 10 celebrities (true-false format) in 60 seconds to 'break the bank'. Have both MGM and Sony distribute it since it's basically a 'Hollywood Squares' format.
Interestingly, all episodes may exist. GSN skipped the April 13 and May 18 episodes for unknown reasons, then dropped the show after a final Barry episode (Kay vs Dwayne) in the early 2000s. Various syndicated episodes were shown in memorials of Jack's passing. The syndie series was then rerun completely on some station (slipping my mind atm) in 1990.
Break the Bank was A Jack Barry & Dan Enright Production Producers of The Joker's Wild, The NEW Tic Tac Dough, Hot Potato, Play the Percentages & of course, The awesome BULLSEYE BTB was also Videotaped @ ABC Television Center Hollywood, CA the home to The Better Sex, That's My Mama, Barney Miller, Welcome Back Kotter, SOAP, Who's the Boss?, Benson, Password, Double Talk, Trivia Trap, and of course, Let's Make a Deal, Family Feud with the King of Feud-The Late Richard Dawson and Dick Clark's American Bandstand
Jack Barry: "Adrianne Barbeau has the BUST card". Also: Jaye P getting off when someone broke the bank and hugging the other celebrities in the Barry version.
Break the Bank was a TRUE Classic Game Show that deserved a longer run, Tom Kennedy as usual was great and plus, he LOVED interacting w/the celebs and he continued to do so like he did on To Say the Least, Password Plus, Body Language, Word Play and many other shows, Jack Barry on the other hand, he was great on The Joker's Wild, but he was too stiff when it came to interacting w/the celebs and even though I LOVE the B&E Bonus Games, BTB's I didn't care too much for, and so abc > syn. ANYDAY!
Needed because of the set; the top row of celebrities forced him to look into the glare of the studio lighting. Also a reason why Tom Kennedy wore tinted prescription glasses that were also prominent when he hosted "Name That Tune."
Yes it is. When Silverman worked for CBS, he killed Password & To Tell The Truth, keeping the network gameless for 4 years. Just think of his as Raid! Kills game shows dead! (RAAAAAAAAAAIIIDDDDD!!!! BOOM!!!!!!!)
Well, it makes sense now. I'm guessing it was his idea to pre-empt "Password" for a press conference on the Vietnam War in 1966. This of course caused a lot of people to switch to ABC to watch the premiere of "The Newlywed Game". "Password" was cancelled a year later by CBS.
I remember Break the Bank from the mid 70s and I thought it was a very funny show that should have deserved a longer run. ABC killed the show after 15 weeks because they wanted to expand their soap operas One Life to Live and General Hospital. The network should have moved Break the Bank to an earlier time period or producers Jack Barry and Dan Enright could have pitched it to the other networks.
Or did like they did with "Tic Tac Dough" and "The Joker's Wild," and syndicated it as a daily show (with Kennedy hosting, of course, as "Name That Tune" was a weekly show).
What happened was that I stumbled on a video collage that PCMusic75 posted on UA-cam by the Hollies. The song was called 'I Can't Tell the Bottom From the Top.' The info on that video said "Copy and paste '&fmt=18' at the end of the URL then refresh to get a stereo sound" and it worked! From then on, I've been trigger happy on breaking alot of videos into Stereophonic from Monaural (alot of them will break into stereo, but some of the older ones will not).
They did the same with the Goodson-Todman produced "The Better Sex". What ABC ended up doing was expanding "One Life to Live" and "General Hospital" to 45 minutes. By coincidence, Fred Silverman was president of the network at the time. He would be responsible for cancelling three game shows on NBC to make room for David Letterman. Go figure.
CBS stopped wiping game shows during the middle of 1972. ABC ended their reign as of January 1, 1978. I'm not too sure about NBC. Rumor has it that they were still wiping past 1980, but I heard that the first two or three years Sale Of The Century episodes (1983 to 1989) might be erased.
BTB was not cancelled because of ratings,it was the No.3 show in all of daytime tv at the time.the reason ABC cancelled it was to make room for a crappy soap opera!
Really dumb decision to kill a top rated show, because SOAP OPERAS. If I had been in the big chair at ABC Daytime, I woulda changed the time slot, and if the ratings fell drastically, THEN I woulda cancelled it.
you know what's funny? I've only watched the episodes of this on UA-cam and every time I hear the theme I can't help but start drumming to it! What do you think the chances are of us EVER seeing this back on the GSN schedule? I say not very likely sadly :(
Just paste &fmt=18 at the end of the URL and listen to it in stereo! There are two versions of this theme song. They are both the same, but this is the "Game Show Theme Songs" version. I got "The Best of TV Quiz & Game Show Themes, Volume 2" and 'Break The Bank' is on there also. The stereo mix is different, but it had alot of tape hiss. Plus the 'zipping' synthesizer came in a second early at the start of the tune.
Why does the melody sound like a Fifth Dimension Song (Beautiful Baloon)? IMO, I think THIS version of Break The Bank should be primed fo a comeback (with the same 20 boxes used to create a better bonus round). What do you think?
Silverman seemed to cancel good shows whichever network he was at. Once he got to NBC, he axed Hollywood Squares, Chain Reaction, and High Rollers for The David Letterman Show, which only lasted a few months.
David Letterman really made it big on late-night TV once he moved to CBS in the summer of 1993, and became the Late Night King of the early 21st Century
Three of these boxes will break the bank worth over $10,000 in prizes. Is this one of them? Or is it this one? Or this one? We'll find out in a moment in this game of hide and seek as these nine celebrities: Zsa Zsa Gabor Funny Man, Buddy Hackett Singer & Comedienne, Jaye P. Morgan From The Jeffersons, Isabel Sanford Greg Morris George Hamilton Robert Reed Patty Duke And From Happy Days, Anson Williams All join us in playing Break the Bank! Now meet our host, JACK BARRY!!!
OK, here’s my idea for daytime and primetime should they revive this. Daytime: 1 of these 5 boxes could break our bank of over $150000! Is it this one? Or this one? Or even this one? We’ll find out on the classic game of hide and seek, as these 9 stars ... Crystal Lewis! Cree Summer! Amanda Sealles! Lin Manuel Miranda! Phillipa Soo! Jasmine Cephas Jones! Jaina Lee Ortiz! Morris Chestnut! And Pat Sajak! Join us as we play ... break the bank! Primetime: tonight, one of our contestants will have a chance to go into our vault and break our brank containing over $100000, and a cash prize of $1000000! Who will it be? Join us now, along with these 9 stars! Jimmy Kimmel! Michael Cole, Dwayne the rock johnson! Steven Colbert! Renee Young, Renee Goldsbery! Jasmine Cephas Jones! Phillipa Soo! And Daveed Digs! All here on ... break the bank!
So the Daytime would be like the original 70s run and the nightime the 86 revival? I've seen episodes of both and if you want my opinion I preferred the format from Kennedy/Barry but as long as the stunts are a part of the Nightime (which killed the Rayburn part of the revival for me) I can work with it
3 of these boxes will break the $?,000 bank. Is this one of them? Or is it this one? Or this one? We'll find out in a moment in a game of hide and seek as these 9 celebrities, (insert celebrity names), all join us in playing Break the Bank! Now meet our host, Tom Kennedy!
If the tapes are available, be advise a number of game were deleted so that some networks can re-use the video tapes. What a horrible disasterous mistake.
Stu Levin's theme for 'Break the Bank' is quite energetic and real fun to listen to. I never get tired of it. I can play it over and over.
Stay tuned for one life to live next on ABC
Criminally underrated show that deserved a far longer run than it got. It's easily one of B&E's best.
should have been on until at least 1983 or 84
Problem is it played similar to "Hollywood Squares" and Barry-Enright got into trouble with Heatter-Quibley.
@@1985OldSkool MY reboot version would've had 10 celebrites and the rules would be capturing all celebrities deciding who or neither gave a correct answer and the contestant either picks one of the answers or rejects them and comes up with one of their own in order to win and play the bonus round when they can break the bank by capturing all celebrities by answering true-false statements in 60 seconds.
@@Rlotpir1972 Did they really get in trouble with Heatter-Quigley? It's not very surprising if that's true. Problem is, at least to the best of my knowledge, there aren't any articles out there anyone knows about that report any legal action or something similar taken by Heatter-Quigley.
@@milesmorris9333 I have to say, I'm not familiar with any circumstances like that, either.
Tom Kennedy did a marvelous job hosting despite the short run of the show!
Best game show on television.
Jack Barry took over, for that ABC show.
You can definitely thank the late Fred Silverman for cancelling such a good show just so he can expand Daytime Soaps from 1/2 hour to 3/4 hours
Tom Kennedy (nee Jim Narz) did the daytime version of the show for ABC while the game show's producer Jack Barry did the syndicated nighttime version.
@@tnawcwvictoria Fred Silverman was henpecked by women who don't respect game shows.
Tom Kennedy has passed away at age 93. RIP.
This is one of the greatest game show theme songs ever! It's a song that says, at least to me, "a huge gala event is underway, and you're the guest of honor!"
+KentB3 However, my thoughts on the "huge gala event" could come from hearing this song used on The Joker's Wild $1,000,000 Tournament of Champions" in 1980. At the time, this was largest prize offering in TV history (the contestant won $500,000, and the other half went to the contestant's favorite charity).
I can definitely hear the "guest of honor" part, though. It kind of sounds like a 1970's version of the "Sale of the Century" big win cue when balloons would fall from the ceiling.
@@bradgandy02 Except with a MUCH slower tempo.
@@KentB3 You have the essence of it correct -- the total prize purse was $1,000,000, the winner won half that, and that $500K was split between the contestant and the favorite "nationally recognized charity".
R.I.P. Jack Barry
The Game Show Network aired this show during its "dark period" from October 11, 1997 to April 18, 1998. Also in late 1997, GSN aired a few episodes of the syndicated Barry version.
The reason why it was called the "dark period", it's because at that time, GSN's rights to broadcast the Goodson-Todman shows expired which took affect on October 11, 1997, except for The Price Is Right and the 1994-95 Family Feud episodes (CBS), which were both on a separate contract.
Sad to say, looking back now I wonder if the "Dark Period" really was all that dark... sure, there were a lot of lackluster shows on at the time but we still had The Price is Right and we got shows like this that weren't rerun again after, plus the Barry-Enright, Barris and Stewart libraries that are nowhere to be seen today. Maybe hindsight from the end of 2020 is skewed though since there was no Buzzr to run the Goodson shows in 1997.
This is my favorite game show theme, along with THE PRICE IS RIGHT.
Love that sax solo at 1:46.
I have to agree with draxx77. This is the best game show music ever composed. It has the highest play count on my entire Itunes library, and it is the ONLY game show theme in my library! In other words, I love this song more than any other song in my entire music collection. I always dreamed of composing a symphony concert of all game show music. This song would require no new arrangement. It already IS symphony music. I LOVE this song, I always have, and am thrilled to read that others do too.
"Tonight these 8 Champions embark on a tournament to crown the ultimate champion....And that Champion will win.......TWO MILLLLLLION DOLLAR$.....from Hollywood....This is The Jokers Wild Tournament of Champions.......And now your Host.........Jack Barry!"
Tom Kennedy's version was short lived, but Jack Barry's version, was longer and very successful year.
Sony needs to revive this show, with the theme music intact!
And the host in mind?
Revive it with 10 celebrities in a diamond-shaped game board with 25 monitors (diamond shape). Capture 10 celebrities (agree with either celebrity or disagree and answer) win the game. In the bonus round, capture 10 celebrities (true-false format) in 60 seconds to 'break the bank'. Have both MGM and Sony distribute it since it's basically a 'Hollywood Squares' format.
Todd Wacha Let it air on ABC's Summer Fun and Games
Might I suggest Todd Newton?
Interestingly, all episodes may exist. GSN skipped the April 13 and May 18 episodes for unknown reasons, then dropped the show after a final Barry episode (Kay vs Dwayne) in the early 2000s. Various syndicated episodes were shown in memorials of Jack's passing. The syndie series was then rerun completely on some station (slipping my mind atm) in 1990.
If victory and triumph could be put to music, it would sound like this
Break the Bank was A Jack Barry & Dan Enright Production
Producers of The Joker's Wild, The NEW Tic Tac Dough, Hot Potato, Play the Percentages & of course, The awesome BULLSEYE
BTB was also Videotaped @ ABC Television Center Hollywood, CA the home to The Better Sex, That's My Mama, Barney Miller, Welcome Back Kotter, SOAP, Who's the Boss?, Benson, Password, Double Talk, Trivia Trap, and of course, Let's Make a Deal, Family Feud with the King of Feud-The Late Richard Dawson and Dick Clark's American Bandstand
ABC Television Center In Hollywood Home of That’s My Mama, Barney Miller, Welcome Back,Kotter Soap & Benson right!!!!!
The only game show where the HOST regularly wore sunglasses. 🤔😎
Well yeah, those lights at the ABC television Center in LA were quite bright.
Richard Dawson wore sunglasses as the host of "Family Feud".
Jack Barry had a hand-held microphone, and Tom Kennedy hand a microphone pin.
Just want to enter a room like Tom or Jack with the theme at 1:25.
Jack Barry: "Adrianne Barbeau has the BUST card". Also: Jaye P getting off when someone broke the bank and hugging the other celebrities in the Barry version.
Break the Bank was a TRUE Classic Game Show that deserved a longer run, Tom Kennedy as usual was great and plus, he LOVED interacting w/the celebs and he continued to do so like he did on To Say the Least, Password Plus, Body Language, Word Play and many other shows, Jack Barry on the other hand, he was great on The Joker's Wild, but he was too stiff when it came to interacting w/the celebs and even though I LOVE the B&E Bonus Games, BTB's I didn't care too much for, and so abc > syn. ANYDAY!
Jack Barry in those funky glasses lol
Needed because of the set; the top row of celebrities forced him to look into the glare of the studio lighting. Also a reason why Tom Kennedy wore tinted prescription glasses that were also prominent when he hosted "Name That Tune."
Jack Barry had a microphone, on his podium.
A variation of this was used for the Barry-Enright pilot “Double Cross”.
Yes it is. When Silverman worked for CBS, he killed Password & To Tell The Truth, keeping the network gameless for 4 years.
Just think of his as Raid! Kills game shows dead! (RAAAAAAAAAAIIIDDDDD!!!! BOOM!!!!!!!)
This TV game had a short run. I did get a chance to see it, though.
Well, it makes sense now. I'm guessing it was his idea to pre-empt "Password" for a press conference on the Vietnam War in 1966. This of course caused a lot of people to switch to ABC to watch the premiere of "The Newlywed Game". "Password" was cancelled a year later by CBS.
This was taped in the same studio as Family Feud.
I remember Break the Bank from the mid 70s and I thought it was a very funny show that should have deserved a longer run. ABC killed the show after 15 weeks because they wanted to expand their soap operas One Life to Live and General Hospital. The network should have moved Break the Bank to an earlier time period or producers Jack Barry and Dan Enright could have pitched it to the other networks.
Or did like they did with "Tic Tac Dough" and "The Joker's Wild," and syndicated it as a daily show (with Kennedy hosting, of course, as "Name That Tune" was a weekly show).
Jack Barry's version was syndicated.
You can definitely thank Fred Silverman for that one
Surprisingly, The TV Theme Players recorded an updated version on its 2009 Game Show Themes album.
This was also used in the intro of The Joker’s Wild during is $1,000,000 Tournament of Champions in 1980
What happened was that I stumbled on a video collage that PCMusic75 posted on UA-cam by the Hollies. The song was called 'I Can't Tell the Bottom From the Top.'
The info on that video said "Copy and paste '&fmt=18' at the end of the URL then refresh to get a stereo sound" and it worked!
From then on, I've been trigger happy on breaking alot of videos into Stereophonic from Monaural (alot of them will break into stereo, but some of the older ones will not).
They did the same with the Goodson-Todman produced "The Better Sex". What ABC ended up doing was expanding "One Life to Live" and "General Hospital" to 45 minutes. By coincidence, Fred Silverman was president of the network at the time. He would be responsible for cancelling three game shows on NBC to make room for David Letterman. Go figure.
Thank his wife.
The serials went from 45 to 60 minutes when "The Better Sex" was cancelled.
CBS stopped wiping game shows during the middle of 1972.
ABC ended their reign as of January 1, 1978.
I'm not too sure about NBC. Rumor has it that they were still wiping past 1980, but I heard that the first two or three years Sale Of The Century episodes (1983 to 1989) might be erased.
I thought Jack Barry hosted the show before Tom Kennedy, but it's the other way around.
BTB was not cancelled because of ratings,it was the No.3 show in all of daytime tv at the time.the reason ABC cancelled it was to make room for a crappy soap opera!
Really dumb decision to kill a top rated show, because SOAP OPERAS. If I had been in the big chair at ABC Daytime, I woulda changed the time slot, and if the ratings fell drastically, THEN I woulda cancelled it.
@@andyleclerc3600 Thank the women who don't respect game show and want to waste time watching soaps that don't make sense.
you know what's funny? I've only watched the episodes of this on UA-cam and every time I hear the theme I can't help but start drumming to it!
What do you think the chances are of us EVER seeing this back on the GSN schedule? I say not very likely sadly :(
cool
Just paste &fmt=18 at the end of the URL and listen to it in stereo!
There are two versions of this theme song. They are both the same, but this is the "Game Show Theme Songs" version. I got "The Best of TV Quiz & Game Show Themes, Volume 2" and 'Break The Bank' is on there also. The stereo mix is different, but it had alot of tape hiss. Plus the 'zipping' synthesizer came in a second early at the start of the tune.
Was this theme used on the 1982 talkshow "Soap World"?
I Wish They Play This Game Show On GSN Late-Night?
Why does the melody sound like a Fifth Dimension Song (Beautiful Baloon)? IMO, I think THIS version of Break The Bank should be primed fo a comeback (with the same 20 boxes used to create a better bonus round). What do you think?
Is this the same Fred Silverman that also tried to ruin the NBC daytime schedule by cancelling "Hollywood Squares" among other shows?
Nothing. One Life & Hospital are the only soaps to be on for 45 minutes from July 1976 to January 1978.
Silverman seemed to cancel good shows whichever network he was at. Once he got to NBC, he axed Hollywood Squares, Chain Reaction, and High Rollers for The David Letterman Show, which only lasted a few months.
David Letterman really made it big on late-night TV once he moved to CBS in the summer of 1993, and became the Late Night King of the early 21st Century
Three of these boxes will break the bank worth over $10,000 in prizes. Is this one of them? Or is it this one? Or this one? We'll find out in a moment in this game of hide and seek as these nine celebrities:
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Funny Man, Buddy Hackett
Singer & Comedienne, Jaye P. Morgan
From The Jeffersons, Isabel Sanford
Greg Morris
George Hamilton
Robert Reed
Patty Duke
And From Happy Days, Anson Williams
All join us in playing Break the Bank! Now meet our host, JACK BARRY!!!
No. One Life came on @ 1:30 while General Hospital came on @ a bizarre time of 2:15.
BTB with barry went el cheapo on contestants :P Almost no cash awarded on the show at all
9 celebrities?
I think he's still pissed about Split Second being cancelled.
Gawd, I loved "Split Second." Hell with "Card Sharks," bring THAT game back to prime time.
OK, here’s my idea for daytime and primetime should they revive this.
Daytime: 1 of these 5 boxes could break our bank of over $150000! Is it this one? Or this one? Or even this one? We’ll find out on the classic game of hide and seek, as these 9 stars ... Crystal Lewis! Cree Summer! Amanda Sealles! Lin Manuel Miranda! Phillipa Soo! Jasmine Cephas Jones! Jaina Lee Ortiz! Morris Chestnut! And Pat Sajak! Join us as we play ... break the bank!
Primetime: tonight, one of our contestants will have a chance to go into our vault and break our brank containing over $100000, and a cash prize of $1000000! Who will it be? Join us now, along with these 9 stars! Jimmy Kimmel! Michael Cole, Dwayne the rock johnson! Steven Colbert! Renee Young, Renee Goldsbery! Jasmine Cephas Jones! Phillipa Soo! And Daveed Digs! All here on ... break the bank!
So the Daytime would be like the original 70s run and the nightime the 86 revival? I've seen episodes of both and if you want my opinion I preferred the format from Kennedy/Barry but as long as the stunts are a part of the Nightime (which killed the Rayburn part of the revival for me) I can work with it
3 of these boxes will break the $?,000 bank. Is this one of them? Or is it this one? Or this one? We'll find out in a moment in a game of hide and seek as these 9 celebrities, (insert celebrity names), all join us in playing Break the Bank! Now meet our host, Tom Kennedy!
If the tapes are available, be advise a number of game were deleted so that some networks can re-use the video tapes. What a horrible disasterous mistake.
Parts of this song sound very similar to "Pressure Cooker" by Keith Droste. Was it the inspiration for this song?
Tom Kennedy was the better host of Break The Bank 76-7. Jack Barry seemed too ill at ease and uncomfortable.
Agree. He was much better hosting "Joker's Wild" - this was between the CBS and syndicated Joker versions. Those sunglasses creeped me out too.
Tom Kennedy was hosting Name That Tune so he couldn't host the Syndicated version
Not to mention, celeb-themed shows were better-suited for Tom than for Jack...
No, that's Tom Kennedy.
R.I.P. Jack Barry