Probably because Goodson-Todman's legal team thought their couples' format, guessing the percentage was too similar to the poll question main game on Card Sharks...To avoid any legal action, they simply went to a one-on-one format, with the contestants picking their favorite category (out of a series of predetermined categories) and a catch-all 'Potluck' category, which was a jump-in question. Near the end of the run, all questions were jump-in, speeding up the game. Champion Tom was the biggest winner of the second format, winning eight games and over $20,000 in cash and prizes, until the series folded.
+Woodie B. Another B&E game show that had some similarity to a Goodson-Todman/Mark Goodson game show would be "Hot Potato," which had a survey-type question with seven answers and a three strikes = out feel from "Family Feud."
Seems like all of the B&E game show themes had the disco-techno sound; from TJW and TTD all the way up to Hot Potato, with Bullseye's theme being the most prominent.
Dick Clark: "and now, to kick off this edition of American Bandstand, it's a theme to a Game Show from Barry & Enright, this is Hal Hidey and the theme to Play the Percentages" (Kids Screamin' and Dancin') Dick Clark: "That was the theme to Play the Percentages by Hal Hidey and now, let's meet the man that will be hosting the show which will debut in 1980, as a matter of fact, it's THE 1st NEW Game Show of the New Decade, Ladies and Gentlemen please greet a Dear Friend to the show Mr. GEOFF EDWARDS!" Mr. Clark: "Hello Geoff" Mr. Edwards: "Hi Dick" (Handshake) Don Cornelius: "and now, here we go here on the Soul Train with Hal Hidey with a theme song that's gonna makes ya wanna move, it's called Play...the...Percentages" (Everyone Dancin' and Movin') Don Cornelius: "and that was Hal Hidey and the theme to Play the Percentages and that's one of the NEW Game Shows for 1980 to be debuting on many stations across the country and around the world, and now, let's meet the host of Play the Percentages, a man that has hosted other Game Shows including Shoot for the Stars, The NEW Treasure Hunt and even Jackpot, Ladies & Gentlemen, please give a warm Soul Train Welcome to Mr. Geoff Edwards" Don: "Geoff?" Geoff: "Hi Don, nice to be here" (Handshake) Dick Clark: "and now, here's a Game Show that's coming to Cable TV's BET-Black Entertainment Television this fall, it's The Return of an Old Classic, it's called the Juvenile Jury and here to talk about it is the host of the show, Ladies & Gentlemen, please greet my Dear Friend, "The Poet Laureate of Television" Mr. NIPSEY RUSSELL!" Nipsey: "Hey, Hey!" (audience clapping) Mr. Clark: "Nipsey?" (Mr. Clark and Nipsey Russell Shaking Hands) Nipsey: "If You Owe Too Much on American Express and Your Diners Club Notes are Too Hard, Take a Loan on Your VISA and Pay it Off with your Mastercard" Mr. Clark Smiles and Laughs Don Cornelius: "and now, I wanna introduce you to a man that's going to be hosting the Return of an Old Classic, it's called Juvenile Jury, it will air This Fall on Cable's Black Entertainment Television, Ladies & Gentlemen, "The Poet Laureate of Television" Mr. Nipsey Russell" Nipsey: "Hey, Hey!" (Everyone claps) Don: "Hello Sir" (Shaking Hands with Nipsey) Nipsey: "Each Day We Turn Another Page, You Know You're Reaching Middle Age when your Pimples and Your Rashes Turns to Wrinkles and Hot Flashes" Don Smiling and Laughing
When this debuted in 1980, I thought it was an outstanding game. It was educational, and rather exciting. Then the giant % sign on the floor broke, and they amended the jackpot to being won during the main game (first mistake). Then they eventually changed formats again and just made it a 1 vs 1 game (second and most fatal mistake). The first few shows with that giant percent sign and a target percentage to win a $25,000 progressive jackpot was awesome...
What would have been awesome was if PTP used the bonus round format from the 1979 pilot episode. The winning couple started with 100 percentage points, and had to determine the percentages to five questions. The percentage sign recorded their guess on the lower right circle, and the actual number was revealed on the upper left circle. For each number, he/she was off, one point was taken away. If the couple had any points left after three questions, they received $500. They could stop, or go for the fourth question--if they still had points, they received $1,000. They could risk the grand for one final question worth $3,000, if they succeeded in maintaining at least one point at the end. The couple also received a big cash jackpot if their percentage guess matched exactly to any of the five questions. Some of the pilot audio commercials I heard had jackpots of $25,000...or more--some even mentioning $48,000!
The biggest problem was that Dan Enright was the executive producer for PTP, not Jack Barry. Enright did well for Tic Tac Dough (although it was most likely that Barry was calling the shots), but everyone was still leary of Enright until the day he died.
@Dodgerfn5 I agree with you on that. I could see myself posting a video of me doing a mock game show using this theme, Without them saying Play the Percentages.
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Play The Percentages is a Jack Barry & Dan Enright production
Columbia/TriStar Television Distribution or Sony Pictures Television
This really is a fantastic piece of music.
2 people who disliked this can't seem to stay away from the zero.
Also used on Nipsey Russell's Juvenile Jury in the early days of BET, ( I MEAN REALLL EARLY DAYS!!!) LOL
@Dodgerfn5 Hal Hidey seemed to do that with a few of his theme songs...I know his "Joker's Wild" and "Strike it Rich" themes ended abruptly as well...
we all love Jack Barry
Great game show host. Rest in peace...
He was a Genius and a legend Rip
And America could use more Judge Von Eric, too... :D
Play the Percentages basically became Twenty-One by the end of its run.
Probably because Goodson-Todman's legal team thought their couples' format, guessing the percentage was too similar to the poll question main game on Card Sharks...To avoid any legal action, they simply went to a one-on-one format, with the contestants picking their favorite category (out of a series of predetermined categories) and a catch-all 'Potluck' category, which was a jump-in question. Near the end of the run, all questions were jump-in, speeding up the game. Champion Tom was the biggest winner of the second format, winning eight games and over $20,000 in cash and prizes, until the series folded.
+Woodie B. Another B&E game show that had some similarity to a Goodson-Todman/Mark Goodson game show would be "Hot Potato," which had a survey-type question with seven answers and a three strikes = out feel from "Family Feud."
RIP Jack Barry, Dan Enright and Geoff Edwards.
And Jay Stewart
I miss the good old game shows that contestants can 💰 cash, prizes and a new 🚗 car.
is it me or does all these old game show theme music sound very disco to you.
Seems like all of the B&E game show themes had the disco-techno sound; from TJW and TTD all the way up to Hot Potato, with Bullseye's theme being the most prominent.
@@rwboa22 Kudos to Hal Hidey for them... :-)
I think even Hollywood Connection's theme was like that, too.
ELOVE4U Very disco and very clear
This may be the only theme song ever that you didn't know when the end of the song was. Great theme though.
"Nipsey-russell's juvenile-jury hosted-by the poet-lauret of television himself mr. nipsey-russell".
Dick Clark: "and now, to kick off this edition of American Bandstand, it's a theme to a Game Show from Barry & Enright, this is Hal Hidey and the theme to Play the Percentages" (Kids Screamin' and Dancin')
Dick Clark: "That was the theme to Play the Percentages by Hal Hidey and now, let's meet the man that will be hosting the show which will debut in 1980, as a matter of fact, it's THE 1st NEW Game Show of the New Decade, Ladies and Gentlemen please greet a Dear Friend to the show Mr. GEOFF EDWARDS!"
Mr. Clark: "Hello Geoff" Mr. Edwards: "Hi Dick" (Handshake)
Don Cornelius: "and now, here we go here on the Soul Train with Hal Hidey with a theme song that's gonna makes ya wanna move, it's called Play...the...Percentages" (Everyone Dancin' and Movin')
Don Cornelius: "and that was Hal Hidey and the theme to Play the Percentages and that's one of the NEW Game Shows for 1980 to be debuting on many stations across the country and around the world, and now, let's meet the host of Play the Percentages, a man that has hosted other Game Shows including Shoot for the Stars, The NEW Treasure Hunt and even Jackpot, Ladies & Gentlemen, please give a warm Soul Train Welcome to Mr. Geoff Edwards"
Don: "Geoff?" Geoff: "Hi Don, nice to be here" (Handshake)
Dick Clark: "and now, here's a Game Show that's coming to Cable TV's BET-Black Entertainment Television this fall, it's The Return of an Old Classic, it's called the Juvenile Jury and here to talk about it is the host of the show, Ladies & Gentlemen, please greet my Dear Friend, "The Poet Laureate of Television" Mr. NIPSEY RUSSELL!"
Nipsey: "Hey, Hey!" (audience clapping)
Mr. Clark: "Nipsey?" (Mr. Clark and Nipsey Russell Shaking Hands) Nipsey: "If You Owe Too Much on American Express and Your Diners Club Notes are Too Hard, Take a Loan on Your VISA and Pay it Off with your Mastercard"
Mr. Clark Smiles and Laughs
Don Cornelius: "and now, I wanna introduce you to a man that's going to be hosting the Return of an Old Classic, it's called Juvenile Jury, it will air This Fall on Cable's Black Entertainment Television, Ladies & Gentlemen, "The Poet Laureate of Television" Mr. Nipsey Russell"
Nipsey: "Hey, Hey!" (Everyone claps)
Don: "Hello Sir" (Shaking Hands with Nipsey) Nipsey: "Each Day We Turn Another Page, You Know You're Reaching Middle Age when your Pimples and Your Rashes Turns to Wrinkles and Hot Flashes"
Don Smiling and Laughing
Play the Percentages was taped at KTTV, where Soul Train taped.
When this debuted in 1980, I thought it was an outstanding game. It was educational, and rather exciting. Then the giant % sign on the floor broke, and they amended the jackpot to being won during the main game (first mistake). Then they eventually changed formats again and just made it a 1 vs 1 game (second and most fatal mistake). The first few shows with that giant percent sign and a target percentage to win a $25,000 progressive jackpot was awesome...
What would have been awesome was if PTP used the bonus round format from the 1979 pilot episode. The winning couple started with 100 percentage points, and had to determine the percentages to five questions. The percentage sign recorded their guess on the lower right circle, and the actual number was revealed on the upper left circle. For each number, he/she was off, one point was taken away. If the couple had any points left after three questions, they received $500. They could stop, or go for the fourth question--if they still had points, they received $1,000. They could risk the grand for one final question worth $3,000, if they succeeded in maintaining at least one point at the end. The couple also received a big cash jackpot if their percentage guess matched exactly to any of the five questions. Some of the pilot audio commercials I heard had jackpots of $25,000...or more--some even mentioning $48,000!
The biggest problem was that Dan Enright was the executive producer for PTP, not Jack Barry. Enright did well for Tic Tac Dough (although it was most likely that Barry was calling the shots), but everyone was still leary of Enright until the day he died.
+Woodie B., that pilot bonus round you just mentioned sounds a little like the "Lucky Seven" pricing game on TPIR.
"Play The Percentages" is a Sony Pictures Television Production. This is Rohan Padiyar speaking.
The center of the PTP set where the percentages were revealed during the main game looks like the NBC logo.
RIP Geoff Edwards.
I hope the percentages are always in your favor.
"Play the percentages & nipsey-russell's juvenile-jury is a jack-barry dan-enright production".
@Dodgerfn5 I agree with you on that. I could see myself posting a video of me doing a mock game show using this theme, Without them saying Play the Percentages.
"Play the percentages is a jack-barry dan-enright production this is jay-stewart speaking" 🇺🇸📺🎤🤔🎤🤔🎥.
PLAY THE PERCENTAGES
"Play the percentages originates from the historic lyman-howe studios stage-e in millerville-city luzerne-county ioml" 🇺🇸📺🎬🎙️🧑💼🎤🧑💼🎤🤔🎤🤔🎤🤔🎤🤔🎥.
"Play the percentages taped on stage-e @ the kaufman-astoria studios in millerville-city luzerne-county northeastern & central ioml" 🇺🇸📺🎤🤔🎤🤔🎥.
"My fantasy@ home with greg-winslow john david miller & his invisible-troupe inside the abandoned acme-market on route-61 west in shamokin land-of messopotamia northumberland-county ioml" 🇺🇸🤠📻.
play the percentages
Am I the only one who thinks Hal Hidey's music sounds like that of Hoyt Curtin?
Anyone know who singing the 1st 3 words at the beginning?
Play the Percentages/Juvenile Jury closing
What are the rules
Parting Contestants will receive. A $250 Arch Gift card good at any McDonald's location & a supply of Oxy Clean just don't clean it Oxy Clean it today. Closed captioning brought you by Oreo Cookies Milks Favorite cookie & Commercial consideration paid for by, Star Kiss Tuna taste the goodness in Star Kiss Tuna. Due to an error in reading of a question in the game it was replaced & did not affect the outcome of the game. This Johhny Gilbert, Play the Percentages is Barry Brothers Production in association with Sony Televison Production
Play The Percentages is a Jack Barry & Dan Enright Production.
Rohan Padiyar,you forgot one part. Play The Percentages is a Jack Barry/Dan Enright Production this is Jay Stewart speaking