Ah, memories of sitting in the living room on a hot summer vacation day as I watched this! Windows open - the sound of traffic coming in - and fan going because running the central AC didn't seem necessary!
+kamil douglas The sound effects alone were the reason I remembered this from my childhood. Watching the reruns they aired on USA back in the late 80's and early 90's is when I first saw this.
Took me forever to find this, I always remembered the ticking and little bell sound as the letters popped up but did not know the name of the game for the life of me lol
@@mitchellries256 It’s a little harder to follow than the other shows mentioned. The other games are easy to follow without paying closer attention. Or maybe I’m slow ;)
TcheQ _ probably regular. If the show was on now, I probably have sweet and spicy chili flavor. By the way, I remember watching the show more when it was on the USA network in reruns rather than on NBC itself.
My girl and I were staying in a hotel room downtown, I'd just got laid off and was getting unemployment benefits and she worked at the phone company, I'd watch this every day then go fill out applications then hit the bar for a couple drinks, for a couple of months that was my routine.
Unlikely, seeing how Hasbro won't release rights to even rerun this version, as it's such a departure from how their board game is played, never mind that they approved a revival in 1993.
This is nothing alike to the classic board game and I'm a Scrabble aficionado. However, I find this is a very original way of adapting it to a game show. I'm sorry that I haven't lived at the time this show existed. I agree with those who want it back in our days. Furthermore I want to play, It's very entertaining!
Freemantle media (owners of buzzr network) own the reg grundy library (amonst many others) that this show was a part of. Why in hades won't they put this on? I'd much rather watch this then endless match game and family feud reruns on the weekends.
Steve's words in the second sprint were pretty easy, especially WEDDING, which I had before any of the letters popped up. Chick wasted too much time on CONTACTS.
They weren't very strict with that particular buzzer. In fact, they eventually got rid of it in later episodes (with Chuck instead asking the contestants to either use the other letter or take two more tiles).
It seemed like the person on the left always lost. I remember as a kid when the set would turn them away from the audience, I was freaked out because I thought they were being dumped into a hot furnace for some reason. Childhood sure was a confusing time!
LOL "Either you're the greatest poker player in the world or you were going for that bonus." The only reason I put the "LOL" before i quoted that is because to me it seemed as though Chuck pretty much ended up repeating the first part of that sentence with the second thing he said in it.
Back then you had a limited amount of time to give an answer. Once that time expired, you got that double buzz and could no longer answer, forcing you to either use the other letter or take two more tiles. Eventually they did away with that buzz.
Margann Laurissa I have a generic comment on this: Smiles are never out of fashion 😊 people generally don't smile nowadays. If someone smiles, he/she'll be outstanding
@@slapshot68 This is the original "straddle" format of the show that didn't have that round. The major differences: champion never played crossword again (only sprint), and crossword games never ran out of time, they would just move on to the next show. In this version, they have 2 sets of words, but later they played the same words (champion went in isolation). The version with 4 players (including champ playing crossword again and bonus sprint at the end) didn't start until a tournament a year or two later from this show.
At some point in March 1985, they started having both players play the same three words in the Sprint. There was a two week tournament of champions in February 1985 also, which started either February 4th or Feb 11th(other NBC game shows of the time Super Password and $ale of the Century also had tournaments that month)
Seeing this sort of debunks a misconception for me... I'd always assumed that the change to 5-time champions winning a grand total of $20,000 (as opposed to $28,000) came at the same time as the change to both players in the Sprint playing the same three words. Now I'm a bit curious as to when the payouts were altered... ?
Jeff was in that February 1985 TofC, so this episode predates that TofC. Looking at January or early February 1985 here. SUper Password's TofC started on 2/4/85.
There have been faster, including a lady named Jacqui in 1989 who got 11.1 seconds (with 4 words instead of 3): th-cam.com/video/E2EQ4-6L2sM/w-d-xo.html
NBC Daytime was The Place to Be $ale of the Century, Wheel of Fortune, SCRABBLE, Super Password and the Wild Card Classic Concentration God Bless the 80's and God Bless the late Brandon Tartikoff Today's NBC Daytime is GARBAGE which all they play is Days of our Lives and 4 Freakin' Hours of The TODAY Show which I haven't watched since Ann Curry got FIRED
okayyy, how the hell did Steve NOT get his 2nd clue in the 2nd sprint round from the CLUE alone? (that one was pretty easy, (especially since I have to assume that he was paying attention to and remembering the unchosen letters that were appearing in the little monitor.) although I have seen episodes with words whose clues made them complete and total giveaways. (one of them was a front game word with 5 letters. they were building on the letter O, the clue: A real deal maker." the answer: Monty.
If this episode has the spelling rule -- that is, the three words in each round the players try to guess must be spelled out -- then this would date from the spring of 1985. If so, Michael would have had to spell out "B-R-U-I-S-E-S" and then say the word.
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Man growing up in the 80's and 90's watching game shows there was nothing better. So many memories.
RIP Chuck, my favorite game show
Ah, memories of sitting in the living room on a hot summer vacation day as I watched this! Windows open - the sound of traffic coming in - and fan going because running the central AC didn't seem necessary!
Brings back memories of mornings during summer vacation as a kid. This and Sale of the Century.
thefly21 Or on days off, holidays and sick days.
yes
:)
They are both Reg Grundy Productions.
"Summer, summer, summer it's a merry-go-round. Turn you up side down" 🎶
huge fan, remember this when I was a kid. great shows I wish they could bring this back.
That's up to Hasbro Studios to decide
I remember this game, I loved this as a kid
This takes me back.....haven't seen this in over 20 years
Damn I miss this show I lov the sound effects
+kamil douglas The sound effects alone were the reason I remembered this from my childhood. Watching the reruns they aired on USA back in the late 80's and early 90's is when I first saw this.
me too lol
Took me forever to find this, I always remembered the ticking and little bell sound as the letters popped up but did not know the name of the game for the life of me lol
I like the sound the letters make when they put them into their bin or whatever
@@odom2142 yup Bing bing bing😂😂
WOW!
I used to watch this show when I was in elementary school! THANK YOU for uploading this it brings back wonderful memories.
Chuck Woolery is the unsung Game Show King it seems
RIP to Jay Stewart. One of the greatest announcers ever
RIP Charles Herbert “Chuck” Woolery (1941-2024). May he always be “naturally stoned”.
thsi show DEFINITELY needs to come back
Jeopardy, Wheel, Price is Right, Lets's Make a Deal are not junk. Jeopardy, Wheel, and Price is right have been aired for years.
Seriously?????? this is my first time watch it and it's AWFUL!!!
How is it awful?
@@mitchellries256 It’s a little harder to follow than the other shows mentioned. The other games are easy to follow without paying closer attention. Or maybe I’m slow ;)
@@odom2142 Might be easier if you saw an episode from 87-90. I remember seeing the old format for the first time and was a little befuddled.
I loved watching this show and I miss it too. Wish they would bring it back on the game show network like the have the match game
this is an absolute favorite one!! I wish this was back on!!
I love this game
as well other game shows in 1980s.
My family always played everytime.
Steve did excellent. 😀👍
Watching this show means I'm sitting on a stool in the back room of my grandmothers house with a big bag of Doritos chips for a snack after school.
What flavor doritos?
Watching this show means i'm home from school on a snow day, hoping my baking project comes out well so i don't get in trouble for using the oven.
TcheQ _ probably regular. If the show was on now, I probably have sweet and spicy chili flavor. By the way, I remember watching the show more when it was on the USA network in reruns rather than on NBC itself.
Great show. Great decade
RIP Chuck Woolery that hosted this game show on television.
My girl and I were staying in a hotel room downtown, I'd just got laid off and was getting unemployment benefits and she worked at the phone company, I'd watch this every day then go fill out applications then hit the bar for a couple drinks, for a couple of months that was my routine.
I loved this show when i was younger !!!
Chuck hasn't change in years!
Not a lot
I wonder if they’re gonna bring this back like they’re bringing other old games shows back.
Unlikely, seeing how Hasbro won't release rights to even rerun this version, as it's such a departure from how their board game is played, never mind that they approved a revival in 1993.
Add it to the buzzr lineup
This is nothing alike to the classic board game and I'm a Scrabble aficionado. However, I find this is a very original way of adapting it to a game show. I'm sorry that I haven't lived at the time this show existed. I agree with those who want it back in our days. Furthermore I want to play, It's very entertaining!
good times when usa had the great stuff
now it's all shit and Law and Order
I used to go nanners for the old usa gameshow lineup. This, press your luck, sale of the century, jokers wild, high rollers, bumper stumpers
I just realized this was uploaded on Willie Nelson’s 80th birthday!
I wish this was brought back
Buzzr is only hope
Or GSN.
Miss this show! How come there aren't old episodes being shown? I couldn't find it anywhere, so I had to look it up.
I remember the straddle format of the game shown here, but I didn't realize they didn't always play speedword on the 5th word.
That rule came at the same time that both players started playing the same sprint words.
I used to work at a workshop, but it was torn down.
RIP Chuck Woolery 1941-2024
This show does need a revival. Who would be a great host for this? I would say Marc Summers what about you?
Good episode!!
Cool aesthetic
god miss that show,
13 seconds flat?! That's gonna be tough to beat.
The last answer "(SIGNATURE") was said AFTER the buzzer!
The '84-'90 version of "Scrabble" was the ish. The '93 version wasn't too bad but you couldn't win a lot of money on that version.
I actually liked this show back in the day, even though I hated the board game itself. ❤❤
Which is why Reg Grundy adjusted the rules for the TV version, and made it better!
Wish there was a Wii game of this.
chuck looks n sounds the same from the lingo and greed days
Buzzr trying to get this game show on.
Freemantle media (owners of buzzr network) own the reg grundy library (amonst many others) that this show was a part of. Why in hades won't they put this on? I'd much rather watch this then endless match game and family feud reruns on the weekends.
Steve's words in the second sprint were pretty easy, especially WEDDING, which I had before any of the letters popped up. Chick wasted too much time on CONTACTS.
Me too ✋
Ready?
Ready.
Go.
Some of those correct guesses came in just after the buzzer went.
They weren't very strict with that particular buzzer. In fact, they eventually got rid of it in later episodes (with Chuck instead asking the contestants to either use the other letter or take two more tiles).
It seemed like the person on the left always lost. I remember as a kid when the set would turn them away from the audience, I was freaked out because I thought they were being dumped into a hot furnace for some reason.
Childhood sure was a confusing time!
The biggest winner of the show - Jacqui - sat on the left
I'm curious. Did you like this format with $40,000 after 10 wins or the bonus sprint era? I think both formats were good in their own way.
I guess I like the straddle better because there got to be far too much speedword in the bonus sprint era.
LOL "Either you're the greatest poker player in the world or you were going for that bonus." The only reason I put the "LOL" before i quoted that is because to me it seemed as though Chuck pretty much ended up repeating the first part of that sentence with the second thing he said in it.
They show should be brought back
Mallory Lauve They might, they’re bringing everything else back.
Susan looked good.......
this was 30 years ago, how would you know that?
Jeff competed in the Tournament of Champions did he not? (he was actually part of the final pair of 2 players, if i remember correctly.)
16:00, wow he instantly knew it! 🤣
Fairly easy clue.
I may be a huge fan of this game show but what does the double buzz in the crossword round mean?
Back then you had a limited amount of time to give an answer. Once that time expired, you got that double buzz and could no longer answer, forcing you to either use the other letter or take two more tiles. Eventually they did away with that buzz.
Steve looks like Seth Brundle from The Fly (1986).
sean vogt damn almost spot on lol
"Uh"
-Jeff Goldblum
Best sprint time ever?
bad show at 11:00. 4th word was going parallel when it should have been going perpendicular.
Jim looks more like Kelsey Grammer to me
Steve was cute... raaaaawwwrrrrr ;)
Margann Laurissa I have a generic comment on this: Smiles are never out of fashion 😊 people generally don't smile nowadays. If someone smiles, he/she'll be outstanding
Pretty sure Michael played Ellis in Die Hard
Negative
@@joeambrose3260 no, that's him. Or....it looks just like him, is what I mean. Literal Joe
@@daxmiller35 He's a doppelganger. Ellis was Hart Bochner from Canada. I've seem him in several films
@@joeambrose3260 I know, just giving you a hard time. He's really good in Die Hard, as that 80's coked-up businessman.
Is that the best sprint ever 13.0?
Nope -- Jacqui from 1989 did it in 11.1
why didn't the 1st guy play bonus sprint where u need to get 2 words in 10 secs?
@@slapshot68 This is the original "straddle" format of the show that didn't have that round. The major differences: champion never played crossword again (only sprint), and crossword games never ran out of time, they would just move on to the next show. In this version, they have 2 sets of words, but later they played the same words (champion went in isolation). The version with 4 players (including champ playing crossword again and bonus sprint at the end) didn't start until a tournament a year or two later from this show.
At some point in March 1985, they started having both players play the same three words in the Sprint. There was a two week tournament of champions in February 1985 also, which started either February 4th or Feb 11th(other NBC game shows of the time Super Password and $ale of the Century also had tournaments that month)
Seeing this sort of debunks a misconception for me... I'd always assumed that the change to 5-time champions winning a grand total of $20,000 (as opposed to $28,000) came at the same time as the change to both players in the Sprint playing the same three words. Now I'm a bit curious as to when the payouts were altered... ?
Bryce Lozier I think it happened after the "Tournaments of Champions" My guess is 1986.
I thought that was when they went to 5/10 win format to the Bonus Sprint format
Sorry, but the last question was late. He missed that one.
Steve Pettyjohn... interesting
It's signature
I think that George Carlin lookalike contestant was on Blockbusters a few years earlier, and Bill CUllen mentioned the Carlin resemblance.
Steve looks like George Stephanopoulos and Shadoe Stevens!
nice
Jeff was in that February 1985 TofC, so this episode predates that TofC. Looking at January or early February 1985 here. SUper Password's TofC started on 2/4/85.
Is 13 seconds a record?
There have been faster, including a lady named Jacqui in 1989 who got 11.1 seconds (with 4 words instead of 3): th-cam.com/video/E2EQ4-6L2sM/w-d-xo.html
I wonder how long he lasted as champion?
Steve looks like a young Tony Blair :S
NBC Daytime was The Place to Be
$ale of the Century, Wheel of Fortune, SCRABBLE, Super Password and the Wild Card Classic Concentration
God Bless the 80's and God Bless the late Brandon Tartikoff
Today's NBC Daytime is GARBAGE which all they play is Days of our Lives and 4 Freakin' Hours of The TODAY Show which I haven't watched since Ann Curry got FIRED
Those clues are always what you call brain-teasers.
Three "M".
2:30 It was at that moment that Jeff knew he was fucked.
okayyy, how the hell did Steve NOT get his 2nd clue in the 2nd sprint round from the CLUE alone? (that one was pretty easy, (especially since I have to assume that he was paying attention to and remembering the unchosen letters that were appearing in the little monitor.) although I have seen episodes with words whose clues made them complete and total giveaways. (one of them was a front game word with 5 letters. they were building on the letter O, the clue: A real deal maker." the answer: Monty.
Chuck Woolery's youthful looks you see in this vid was a contestant on Celebrity Bucket Kickers somewhere in the late 80s/early 90s
If this episode has the spelling rule -- that is, the three words in each round the players try to guess must be spelled out -- then this would date from the spring of 1985.
If so, Michael would have had to spell out "B-R-U-I-S-E-S" and then say the word.
Zach Galifianakis?
Who?
Talk about lucky....
They could bring this game back without the scrabble name and it would still be good.
Gardeners
This is my first time watching this (I'd never heard tell it before), but I didn't like it AT ALL! What did it, only last a week? lol
6 years, actually, from 1984-90... plus a revival for 6 months in 1993 (all on NBC).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_(game_show)
Looks like there was an edit in the first crossword game, i.e. a word inadvertently revealed or maybe two.
did you hear Chuck weathering say that he was going to go up against another young man. that's gay