One day after my first son was born, he became so obsessed with game shows, cartoons and all other kinds of shows and movies on TV, but the one show my son used to watch the most was the 80s Pyramid (the $25K and $100K versions) when it aired on CBS, first-run syndication, USA and GSN. Pyramid all started on March 26, 1973 on CBS as The $10,000 Pyramid with the late Dick Clark as host (and Bob Clayton as announcer), but low ratings and the Watergate hearings forced The $10,000 Pyramid to move to ABC on May 6, 1974. Towards the end of 1974, The $10,000 Pyramid moved to 2:00pm, and for the next three seasons, it was the third-highest rated game show behind Wheel of Fortune and Match Game. On January 19, 1976, ABC and Bob Stewart decided to double the endgame's top prize, becoming The $20,000 Pyramid, but two years earlier, Stewart struck a deal with Viacom to distribute a weekly syndicated version titled The $25,000 Pyramid with Bill Cullen as host. When the show's announcer Bob Clayton passed away in 1979, that marked the beginning of the end of the New York Pyramid era, coming to an end on June 27, 1980 (the weekly syndicated $25,000 Pyramid was canceled a year earlier). The final Pyramid game show taped in New York (until 2016) was The $50,000 Pyramid, which ran from January to September 1981. A year later, Bob Stewart elected to bring Pyramid back to its old home (CBS) as The (New) $25,000 Pyramid, premiering on September 20, 1982 and taping from Los Angeles full-time at CBS Television City's Studio 33 (a.k.a. The Bob Barker Studio). Three years later, a third syndicated version of Pyramid was launched (as The $100,000 Pyramid). When both versions were cancelled in 1988 to make room for the Ray Combs-hosted revival of Family Feud, Pyramid was brought back three more times with John Davidson, Donny Osmond and Mike Richards as hosts, respectively. Today, the Pyramid legacy still lives on with current host Michael Strahan, a former defensive end for the New York Giants.
Dana Long I'm the same way! I was born in 1989 but grew up with the USA Network reruns (and The Family Channel reruns to a lesser extent) of game shows. I loved Press Your Luck, Sale of the Century and Scrabble but my all-time favorite will always be The (New) $25,000/$100,000 Pyramid.
In fact, for 11 years, game show reruns, along with Tuesday Night Fights, WWF All-American Wrestling (and its successor WWF Action Zone), the US Open (tennis), The Masters and the USA Cartoon Express, as well as Hollywood Insider, were a staple of USA Network!
It doesn't have Dick Clark, but if you can live with that fact, it's as good as you could possibly hope (at least for a show that doesn't readily lend itself very well to a video game!)
RIP Dick Clark and Bob Stewart, the two masterminds behind Pyramid! BTW, this game would've been better if "Tuning Up" was included in the game, had it not been for copyright issues!
31:04, "Well, Mark, we're just gonna have to say goodbye to you, but at least you'll be leaving us with $2,100, a Magnavox TV and a trip to Hawaii and our many thanks for being with us."-Dick Clark. "My pleasure."-Mark Stengen. "And Alex, look at you! $26,100 and a trip to London. A whole bunch of dough right there and you're coming back tomorrow, and who knows? You might win another $25,000 and retire as champion once you reach CBS' $50,000 winnings limit. You think you can handle that?-Dick Clark. "I can handle that."-Alex Florentine. "Ernest Borgnine, you're coming back tomorrow as well and so will Joan Van Ark and you viewers and our entire crew, so join us again tomorrow and every day right here on CBS. For now, Dick Clark. So long."-Dick Clark. "(Announcer describes Mystery 7 prize) Some of today's departing contestants will receive (insert fee plugs)."-Pyramid announcer.
1:57, "Good luck to both of you. The Winner's Circle awaits you, and as many of you know by now, if you make it there the first time, you'll be playing for $10,000 and if you make it there the second time, you'll be playing for $25,000, but in order to get there, you must conquer the small pyramid to my right. These are the subjects: (host announces categories). Remember, we have the 7-11 up there somewhere. Alex, you're the challenger. Which subject do you want first?"-Dick Clark.
16:27, "Alex, here you are again at the Winner's Circle, and this time you are partnered with Airwolf's Ernest Borgnine. Now Ernest, YOU chose to give, and just like Joan Van Ark did earlier, you must give a list of items that fit the subject. Remember, Ernest, don't use your hands or give any illegal clues or Alex loses his chance at $25,000. You set? Good. I wish both of you the best of luck. Audience, complete silence. Deep breath, and for $25,000, here is your first subject. Go!"-Dick Clark.
There's so many things wrong with this... one of the main ones being YOU GET A MILLION EVERY TIME YOU WIN THE WINNERS' CIRCLE. Couldn't you have just built up to the million? Like this... 1st: $50,000 2nd: $100,000 3rd: $250,000 4th: $500,000 5th: $1 Million (This is what I think the road to the million should be. Feel free to make your own ideas, I won't bash you if you disagree with this one.)
0:58-1:14, the following Pyramid opening lines: First few weeks of 1973-80 version: "Keep your eye on this spot. You're about to see one celebrity and one contestant win $10,000 in less than a minute. Ladies and gentlemen, this is The $10,000 Pyramid! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). And here's your host, Dick Clark!" Rest of 1973-80 version: "(clips of winners circle wins shown) This is The $10,000/$20,000/$25,000 Pyramid! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). And here's your host/your host is Dick Clark/Bill Cullen!" 1981 version: "This is The $50,000 Pyramid! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). Your host is Dick Clark!" 1982-88 Daytime Version: "(clips of winners circle wins shown) From Television City in Hollywood, this is The (New) $25,000 Pyramid! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). Your host is/And now, here is your host, Dick Clark!" 1985-88 Nighttime Version: "From Television City in Hollywood, this is The $100,000 Pyramid (tournament week)! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). Your host (is)/And now, here is your host, Dick Clark!" 1991 Version: "This is the Winners Circle. This is where someone is guaranteed to win $100,000. From Television City in Hollywood, this is The $100,000 Pyramid! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). And now, here is your host, John Davidson!" 2002-04 Version: "(celebrities announced), today on Pyramid! And now, here is the host of Pyramid, DONNY OSMOND!!!!!!" 2012 Version: "From Studio City, this is The Pyramid! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). And now, here's your host, Mike Richards!" 2016 Version: "This is The $100,000 Pyramid! Tonight's special guests are (celebrities announced). And now, here's our host, MICHAEL STRAHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!"
8:20, "Joan and Alex, here we are at the Winner's Circle, and Alex, since this is your first time here, you'll be playing for $10,000. Joan, during the commercial break, you chose to give, so you're only allowed to give Alex a list of items that fit the subject, and don't use your hands or give away the essence of the answer, otherwise you'll forfeit your chance at the big money. Audience, complete silence. For $10,000, here is your first subject. Go!"-Dick Clark.
What bothers me most about this game is that they couldn't be bothered to make the bonus round anything more than just the two characters. It's just so lazy!
One day after my first son was born, he became so obsessed with game shows, cartoons and all other kinds of shows and movies on TV, but the one show my son used to watch the most was the 80s Pyramid (the $25K and $100K versions) when it aired on CBS, first-run syndication, USA and GSN. Pyramid all started on March 26, 1973 on CBS as The $10,000 Pyramid with the late Dick Clark as host (and Bob Clayton as announcer), but low ratings and the Watergate hearings forced The $10,000 Pyramid to move to ABC on May 6, 1974. Towards the end of 1974, The $10,000 Pyramid moved to 2:00pm, and for the next three seasons, it was the third-highest rated game show behind Wheel of Fortune and Match Game. On January 19, 1976, ABC and Bob Stewart decided to double the endgame's top prize, becoming The $20,000 Pyramid, but two years earlier, Stewart struck a deal with Viacom to distribute a weekly syndicated version titled The $25,000 Pyramid with Bill Cullen as host. When the show's announcer Bob Clayton passed away in 1979, that marked the beginning of the end of the New York Pyramid era, coming to an end on June 27, 1980 (the weekly syndicated $25,000 Pyramid was canceled a year earlier). The final Pyramid game show taped in New York (until 2016) was The $50,000 Pyramid, which ran from January to September 1981. A year later, Bob Stewart elected to bring Pyramid back to its old home (CBS) as The (New) $25,000 Pyramid, premiering on September 20, 1982 and taping from Los Angeles full-time at CBS Television City's Studio 33 (a.k.a. The Bob Barker Studio). Three years later, a third syndicated version of Pyramid was launched (as The $100,000 Pyramid). When both versions were cancelled in 1988 to make room for the Ray Combs-hosted revival of Family Feud, Pyramid was brought back three more times with John Davidson, Donny Osmond and Mike Richards as hosts, respectively. Today, the Pyramid legacy still lives on with current host Michael Strahan, a former defensive end for the New York Giants.
Dana Long I'm the same way! I was born in 1989 but grew up with the USA Network reruns (and The Family Channel reruns to a lesser extent) of game shows. I loved Press Your Luck, Sale of the Century and Scrabble but my all-time favorite will always be The (New) $25,000/$100,000 Pyramid.
In fact, for 11 years, game show reruns, along with Tuesday Night Fights, WWF All-American Wrestling (and its successor WWF Action Zone), the US Open (tennis), The Masters and the USA Cartoon Express, as well as Hollywood Insider, were a staple of USA Network!
It doesn't have Dick Clark, but if you can live with that fact, it's as good as you could possibly hope (at least for a show that doesn't readily lend itself very well to a video game!)
RIP Dick Clark and Bob Stewart, the two masterminds behind Pyramid! BTW, this game would've been better if "Tuning Up" was included in the game, had it not been for copyright issues!
Not really, given this is based on the insipid 2002 revival even though the game's logo is based on the ones from the mid-80s runs.
31:04, "Well, Mark, we're just gonna have to say goodbye to you, but at least you'll be leaving us with $2,100, a Magnavox TV and a trip to Hawaii and our many thanks for being with us."-Dick Clark.
"My pleasure."-Mark Stengen.
"And Alex, look at you! $26,100 and a trip to London. A whole bunch of dough right there and you're coming back tomorrow, and who knows? You might win another $25,000 and retire as champion once you reach CBS' $50,000 winnings limit. You think you can handle that?-Dick Clark.
"I can handle that."-Alex Florentine.
"Ernest Borgnine, you're coming back tomorrow as well and so will Joan Van Ark and you viewers and our entire crew, so join us again tomorrow and every day right here on CBS. For now, Dick Clark. So long."-Dick Clark.
"(Announcer describes Mystery 7 prize) Some of today's departing contestants will receive (insert fee plugs)."-Pyramid announcer.
30:58, Alex celebrates his $25,000 win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1:57, "Good luck to both of you. The Winner's Circle awaits you, and as many of you know by now, if you make it there the first time, you'll be playing for $10,000 and if you make it there the second time, you'll be playing for $25,000, but in order to get there, you must conquer the small pyramid to my right. These are the subjects: (host announces categories). Remember, we have the 7-11 up there somewhere. Alex, you're the challenger. Which subject do you want first?"-Dick Clark.
16:27, "Alex, here you are again at the Winner's Circle, and this time you are partnered with Airwolf's Ernest Borgnine. Now Ernest, YOU chose to give, and just like Joan Van Ark did earlier, you must give a list of items that fit the subject. Remember, Ernest, don't use your hands or give any illegal clues or Alex loses his chance at $25,000. You set? Good. I wish both of you the best of luck. Audience, complete silence. Deep breath, and for $25,000, here is your first subject. Go!"-Dick Clark.
7:58, "Joan and Alex, let's go to the Winner's Circle!"-Dick Clark.
Best game show ever.
And it has the second-most Emmys won for a game show, second only to the Merv Griffin-created Jeopardy!
Well, at least you can win 1,000,000 fake dollars by NOT playing Who Wants To Be A Millionaire!
There's so many things wrong with this... one of the main ones being YOU GET A MILLION EVERY TIME YOU WIN THE WINNERS' CIRCLE. Couldn't you have just built up to the million? Like this...
1st: $50,000
2nd: $100,000
3rd: $250,000
4th: $500,000
5th: $1 Million
(This is what I think the road to the million should be. Feel free to make your own ideas, I won't bash you if you disagree with this one.)
0:58-1:14, the following Pyramid opening lines:
First few weeks of 1973-80 version: "Keep your eye on this spot. You're about to see one celebrity and one contestant win $10,000 in less than a minute. Ladies and gentlemen, this is The $10,000 Pyramid! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). And here's your host, Dick Clark!"
Rest of 1973-80 version: "(clips of winners circle wins shown) This is The $10,000/$20,000/$25,000 Pyramid! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). And here's your host/your host is Dick Clark/Bill Cullen!"
1981 version: "This is The $50,000 Pyramid! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). Your host is Dick Clark!"
1982-88 Daytime Version: "(clips of winners circle wins shown) From Television City in Hollywood, this is The (New) $25,000 Pyramid! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). Your host is/And now, here is your host, Dick Clark!"
1985-88 Nighttime Version: "From Television City in Hollywood, this is The $100,000 Pyramid (tournament week)! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). Your host (is)/And now, here is your host, Dick Clark!"
1991 Version: "This is the Winners Circle. This is where someone is guaranteed to win $100,000. From Television City in Hollywood, this is The $100,000 Pyramid! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). And now, here is your host, John Davidson!"
2002-04 Version: "(celebrities announced), today on Pyramid! And now, here is the host of Pyramid, DONNY OSMOND!!!!!!"
2012 Version: "From Studio City, this is The Pyramid! Today's special guests are (celebrities announced). And now, here's your host, Mike Richards!"
2016 Version: "This is The $100,000 Pyramid! Tonight's special guests are (celebrities announced). And now, here's our host, MICHAEL STRAHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!"
8:20, "Joan and Alex, here we are at the Winner's Circle, and Alex, since this is your first time here, you'll be playing for $10,000. Joan, during the commercial break, you chose to give, so you're only allowed to give Alex a list of items that fit the subject, and don't use your hands or give away the essence of the answer, otherwise you'll forfeit your chance at the big money. Audience, complete silence. For $10,000, here is your first subject. Go!"-Dick Clark.
bro they should list this as found in the lost media wiki..
The $10,000 Pyramid does belong ABC and GSN
So that NFL legend michael strahan's not hosting and voicing in this game, oh well.
That's because it was made before The $100,000 Pyramid returned to TV. ;)
And speaking of Pyramid hosts, our favorite and mine will always be the late Dick Clark. Who’s YOUR favorite Pyramid host?
@@danalong1237 Long live Mr. American Bandstand and New Year's Rockin' Eve.
And long live Mr. Pyramid!
Am I the only one who noticed that the clue giver used "fire" for "Things associated with a fireplace" in the first Winner's Circle?
What bothers me most about this game is that they couldn't be bothered to make the bonus round anything more than just the two characters. It's just so lazy!
I prefer Donny Osmond.
9:51, Joan and Alex win $10,000!!!!!!!!!
Oh god the whole game is awful. The set looks exactly like Pyramid
The Pyramid set was designed by Jim Ryan (with the assistance of Dick Bernstein) from 1973-81, Ed Flesh from 1982-91 and several others.
He means the awful 2002 pyramid
I think at 16:50 is "lap" 18:15 was thing that "sting"