ABC's The Money Maze with Nick Clooney Tribute, "Tickler"
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- This video collage that I made is from the short-lived game show, "The Money Maze" that aired on ABC from December 23, 1974 to June 20, 1975.
The host was Nick Clooney.
The theme is called "Tickler" by Charles Fox (thank you Dave Volsky). This was a musical cue used on the show (thank you 2005dave for the correction).
The pilot (titled The Moneymaze) and at least one of the 135 episodes from the series exist in ABC's archive. Like with most other daytime game shows on the networks other than CBS from that era, the tapes were erased after broadcast for reuse due to their great expense at the time.
The pilot exists among tape traders and a small clip of the show aired in 2004 when Chuck Barris and George Clooney (Nick Clooney's son) were promoting Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Another 1975 episode, recorded on an early home VCR by artist Andy Warhol, exists at the Paley Center for Media.
I remember standing in line on a gray, cloudy Autumn day in NY to see this show.
THE MONEY MAZE (ABC) was one of my all-time favorite game shows when I was all of seven years old!! (I was born in 1967 and so I'm 50 years old now.) I'd always look forward to watching this and other shows like it such as SPLIT SECOND on ABC, THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES on NBC, and THE PRICE IS RIGHT on CBS during my days off from school--like during school holidays or when I was home sick. I personally liked everything about MAZE--especially the "$10,000 Dash" bonus round. I've ALWAYS had the theme from MAZE stuck in my mind since my childhood!!! And this was the first time (May 18, 2018) since 1975 that I've heard it--and the first time I've ever heard the whole theme!! Thank you lots, Stratman '78 for posting this!! I must say, though, that I sometimes kinda wish they'd revive THE MONEY MAZE someday. That would be GREAT!! Though it's a pity the original series was wiped. AUGH!!! I just hope George Clooney realizes how great a man his father is! I've ALWAYS had a special place in my heart for Nick Clooney!!! :-) :-)
Race for the Pennant and The Guinness Game brought me here. “HBO Sports presents… Race for the Pennant!”
Vastly underrated, fun, and inventive gameshow.
It was one of my favorites too, even though it was short-lived...
Mine as well!
Nick couldn't deny George even if he wanted to.
I remember one particular episode where the husband was in the maze, and his wife had gotten him to find the "1" and three of the zeroes.. The clock was rapidly running out, and the husband had come out one side of the maze and stopped by the "birthday cake" button (that stopped the clock); the wife was screaming at him to keep going, but the husband had a look on his face as if to say "screw it"; he hits the button, they win $1,000, and Clooney could not stop laughing..
Mike Shaver, the Record Saver hey, at least $1,000 was better than nothing at all.
At least he wasn't like a moron husband named Warren, who I remember well. Warren the first time hit a couple zeros and came out WITHOUT HITTING THE "1" so that meant they won NOTHING! Nick was in a state of dumbfounded shock. The NEXT time Warren went in, he hit the "1" first then a zero and came OUT so that they had winnings of (as Nick then intoned) TEN BUCKS! The audience then serenaded Warren with the most sarcastic applause I have ever heard in my life and it's stayed with me even though I was only six when I saw it.
@@epaddon You know, I hope you checked out Nick's interview on the subject. As it turned out, the wives were *_pissed_* if they lost in the maze.
"This has been a Merrill Heater-Bob Quigley Production. Stay tuned for Love of Life over most of these CBS stations!"
Amazing how much Nick Clooney and George Clooney look alike !
Thanks, this show stays in my head even today for some reason. Left a big memory from my childhood. Would blow my mind to see clips today. lol
I used to love this Game Show when it was on.
1:14 and the very beginning were the pieces of music used while the people were running through that maze, I believe...
HBO ended up using the music in the early 80s for their series "Race for the Pennant", which was their baseball equivalent to Inside the NFL. I didn't know it was used for a game show!
And it was also used for The Guinness Game and Disney Channel promos in the 80s and 90s!
i think it went like this: "Life's a chance, a happenstance, walk with me, and wander free, try my way, and you'll be on top...all the time" i used to watch this after school and also the fun factory with bobby van
money maze was a great game.short lived,they need to put it on dvd, the game show vanished,
never seen repeats of any episode any hwere
I miss the money maze game show I was 12 years old in The Bronx New York.
My gosh, does George Clooney ever look like his dad...
Nice vid, by the way :).
Out of pure curiosity (coupled with bad weather boredom on a Sunday) I did some hunting around and found there are assorted short clips of The Money Maze out there, but the challenge is getting in touch with the owners of these clips. All of them are on ancient equipment (read - AMPEX) so a lot of conversion would have to be done. Remember, most of this type of equipment outputs on 300 ohm twin lead! It's that ancient!
Where or where does someone find this kind of stuff? I know people (like myself) who own old audio and tape machines to play those ancient recordings.
There's $1,000,000 at stake each time our audience shouts...5, 4, 3, 2, 1, GO! Welcome to the magical mystery of the Moneymaze! And now, here's our star, the master of the Moneymaze, Megan Batoon!
Wrong! "There's $10,000 at stake every time our audience shouts... (5... 4... 3... 2... 1... GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!) Welcome to The MoneyMaze! And here's the master of the maze, Nick Clooney!"-Alan Kalter.
One million dollars would probably take up the better part of a whole half-hour episode of MAZE to try and win in a single "million dollar dash", Kasey. Besides, I don't think, even today, that TV production companies or networks could afford to give out $1,000,000 every day if they tried. LOL!! BTW, Kasey. Is there anyone in your family named "Travis?" Because I went to school for many years with a guy named Travis Westbrook in La Mesa, California. Just wondering. :-)
I wish this show would/could resurface and be shown on Buzzr.
ABC unfortunately erased every episode of The Money Maze, meaning it will NOT be seen in reruns, the only way to see episodes are if someone has episodes recorded from the original broadcast. There is a series episode on UA-cam
Nick Clooney had a cup of coffee as a news anchor in Buffalo
He reported the news here for a time in 1993 and 94 on WGRZ, co-anchored with Laurie Lusowski.
However, he'll most likely be remembered as being George Clooney's dad.
Uh, three more partial episodes were found in 2008, I believe dug up in someone's home that had an early monster-sized VCR (back when the cartridges were by AMPEX or something like that). The only reason I know this is because I know the person who found them. When I watched the tape I remembered this show. And that famous line "Let's go to the maze!"
Also, The Paley Center (formerly The Museum of TV and Radio) has an episode on file. Also the pilot is out on the game show trading circuit.
@QBCNetwork That would make it 4:00PM in New York. After this show, WABC, Channel 7, would air "The 4:30 Movie."
Great video. A discussion in The Game Show Forum says a tv network in France is getting to revive The Money Maze. When asked for a comment, the original producer, Ron Greenberg, jokingly said the idea of reviving the Maze was nice - after 35 years of waiting. I liked Nick Clooney, but he was a bit off base inserting himself into the Jack Abramoff scandal. He could have stuck up for George's right to make jokes without going off on his own political tangent.
Alan Kaltar: "There's $10,000 at stake everytime our audience shouts...."
Audience: "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Go!"
Alan Kalter "Welcome to The Money Maze! And here's the master of the maze, Nick Clooney!!!!"
Any body heard about France reviving the show. We should see this show again someday
Cool! It's just too bad that they can not redo this Game Show again.
According to Nick, the show took more time and money to set up than anything.
@devares2006 And the one more episode is on file at The Paley Center for Media (Formerly The Museum of TV and Radio) both here in Beverly Hills and in New York City.
Loved this game show. I was lucky to see that shiw @ the deadly 3:00 CST time slot. Some ABC affiliates didn't have it (WFAA-8; Dallas) while some did (KTRK-13; Houston),
As Vicki Lawrence would call it, The Monkey Maze! (LOL)
I could here a little family feud theme
The person is about 1500 miles away from me and is very reclusive. He has a lot of vintage video clips that I suspect are one-of-a-kind. Original Carson, many live TV performances, etc. That said, good luck getting them out of him. I remember the AMPEX unit - it was a reel-to-reel unit that used tape like a movie rather than the cassette cartridge you and I know. It was also black and white. Sorry.
@CraigFoye80 Nick is George's dad. Rosemary was George's Aunt (most people know that by now, surprised you didn't).
@devares2006 I've posted about this - there are actually a number of short clips out there, but you're at the mercy of trying to get them from their owners. There used to be some "game show exchange" areas before GSN became popular, but they have pretty much dried up. A few people with pre-VHS era tape machines have clips, and will only be able to recover them if their equipment is still working. I know one person, but he won't part with his clips.
@gshowguy And he also did the news here in Los Angeles on KNBC 4 in mid-80's.
@Matsuto77: Just like him to the T.
Good luck, I hope you succeed.
Clooneys have strong genes....
That is of course a cue used on the show, not the main theme.
@theshatnerman4242 That's because ABC wiped all of them except two, the pilot and one more episode.
Is Nick Clooney related with long-time "ER" actor George Clooney??
Yes. He's George's dad, actually. And besides doing this show, was a popular news anchor in Cincinnati.
What was that song that Nick Clooney sang at the beginning of each episode? It started with "Life's a chance, a happenstance..."
This sounds like something from Charlie Brown
@CraigFoye80 Father = Nick, son = George
@tritonrocks Can't say I blame him. It was a good show in a bad time slot.
You can watch the pilot at veoh . com veoh(dot)com