$20,000 Pyramid Final Week Episode 5 6-27-80 Part 3
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- Episode 5 6-27-80 Part 3
This is an original recording from WABC in New York for the $20,000 Pyramid during it's last week, from June 23 to June 27, 1980. Guest stars are Lois Nettleton and Bill Cullen. This is a very sentimental goodbye, but contains a very funny LAST winner's circle. There are no commercials in this episode (sniff).
Classy ending to the show & thanks and appreciation to both Clark & Cullen!!
In the GSN repeat of the finale on New Years Eve 1999 after the closing we could also even have the Columbia TriStar Television logo with Charlie O'Donnell saying "Columbia TriStar Television".
I believe that he directed "Chain Reaction" though. That was done in Burbank.
You bet your bippy
I love when Dick loses it at "Hit Shows on NBC-TV" and "Things Kissinger Did Not Foul Up."
For "Hit Shows on NBC-TV": Password Plus, Wheel of Fortune, Card Sharks, David Letterman Show, Another World, Days of Our Lives.
announcer Steve o Brien also was a disc jockey on a NEW York radio station as well W y n y i think he was a night time disc jockey/
Less than half a year later, they'd come right back as $50,000 Pyramid.
Reason was the contract DID NOT expire until the next year. The $50,000 Pyramid was a WPIX-11 exclusive.
Under Mike's direction, when someone won at the Pyramid, there were cuts to the various cameras at different angles. When the top prize was one, there would be a several cuts from the celebration in and around the Winner's Circle to the flashing amount at the top of the Pyramid and back to the contestant with family and/or friends, celebrities from different angles including wide shots. If the last game ended in a win in the Winner's Circle, the end of the show and credits occured there.
Michael Strahan was probably mentored by Dick Clark to become the new host of the "Pyramid." Clark was the legendary host of the "Pyramid" and "American Bandstand", working 6 days a week on ABC. RIP Dick Clark and Bill Cullen.
Nothing ever compared to the original. Dick Clark was my hero. I wanted to be just like him. Sadly missed. Thank you Dick Clark for inspiring me as a young guy.
The director tried to get a close up of Bill Cullen during his comments about Dick but it just didn't happen. None of the four cameras were in a good position to do so.
He did return for the pilot and the first week of shows, but he did not like Los Angeles and did not feel the show would ever have the real excitement and explosive audience spontanaeity that the show had in New York. Under Bruce Burmester, gone were the wonderful quick cuts after Winner's Circle wins and the ending of shows in the Winner's Circle as well. Gargiulo occasionally retuned to L.A. to direct an occasional Bob Stewart pilot and early "That's My Line" shows for Goodson-Todman.
Under Bruce's direction in L.A., the shows always ended with the players and celebrities back at the desks and Dick Clark exiting the set. As one of the directors (with Paul Alter) of the original "The Price is Right," original director of "Password" and "To Tell the Truth" (all Bob Stewart shows for Goodson-Todman). Mike Gargioulo always kept an element of a family-type gathering and always capitalized on spontaneity where Bruce Burmester's work seemed rehearsed and offish in comparison.
Dick in the 80s version exited the set around 95% of the time. Certain episodes of the 80s version ended at the Winner's Circle and him staying at the desks but those are hard to find.
The Davidson version: John ALWAYS exits the set, and the background version turns red to blue, which was a nice touch at the end of the episode. There were some exceptions though: the end of the second and fourth tournaments: Kris McDermott and Melia Kline left with John Davidson.
Some of you already know this, but the real joke behind the second gag category (Hit NBC shows" -- @ 0:34 ) was the fact that in the early 80s NBC was a distant third in the Nielsens.. Of course we can all thank Fred Silverman for that.
i was so upset by this when abc cancelled this version i was only 10 but i remember it very well at least there have been several other verisons over the years
I was 21 when the show ending. I watched it that day. I was.so sad to see it go off the air. what I do remember it never was the same when it came back on CBS. Missing something. .NOT the same excitment as the original.
I remember watching this very episode when I was only 7 years old and on summer vacation after first grade. As such, I was very upset when they cancelled this version, but was happy when The $50,000 Pyramid appeared on TV months later in syndication. It wasn't until I was in 4th or 5th grade when I found out The (New) $25,000 Pyramid was on the air on CBS.
so was i I think i cried for a week
I have to keep coming to 0:54 considering the occasion of today.
And again for today
The $20,000 Pyramid ended a week after the other Bob Stewart game show Chain Reaction on NBC hosted by Bill Cullen taped in Los Angeles.
Beautiful downtown Burbank that is
@@charlesallan-ks6gq NBC Studios in Burbank.
Mike only directed the pilot and the first four shows taped. After that he headed back to New York and Bruce Burmester took over.
It's very funny when the winner's circle mentioned early 80's NBC!!! 😄😄😄😆😆😆
Bill Cullen had just finished hosting Chain Reaction also produced by Bob Stewart which is on the west coast in Los Angeles on NBC Daytime.
Bill would later host "Blockbusters" on NBC for two seasons.
The world has lost a true gentleman and a fabulous host. Nobody will ever be able to match what he could do, hosting, producing, anything he set his mind to do. Dick, it's not goodbye, it simply "so long".
the 50,000 pyramid didnt air in my area of Boston. No one locally never picked it up. Never saw it til it aired on youtube.
This episode aired on my mom's 39th birthday living in East Keansburg, New Jersey
Dick Clark---R. I. P.
Four days of ABC commercial breaks in a row, and none for the final one, must've been a studio master then.
Whoa... that's a lot of forced laughter!
the crown jewel of the finale
Even though it was goodbye at this point, "The $50,000 Pyramid" would debut in syndication in January 1981.
Their contract didn't expire in New York so Bob Stewart brought it back and debut on WPIX-11 and on syndication.
the cameraman!
Hard to believe this is over 35 years ago! Thanks so much for sharing it with us. I think this was the last Network game show taped in NYC. Nice to see Bill Cullen and Dick Clark together here
Until 1999, that is, when Who Wants to Be a Millionaire debuted, coincidentally, on ABC.
And now 40 years later, Pyramid's back in New York and on ABC again.
Unfortunately it has moved again to LA.
Affirmative!
The music was changed...the opening and closing music was different. I wrote to CBS about the opening music and they never changed it. I cant beleive I wrote a letter about the theme music to CBS. thats how crazy i was addicted to the show back then.
The CBS update to "Tuning Up" was, in my opinion, better than the original version, which aired on the ABC versions of Pyramid. The original sounds way too "60s-ish" for me.
Scott Domenica So do you get upset at GSN when they cut the music off at the end of the shows? Lol I do!!! I even get mad at CBS for not showing the Extended Credit roll of TPIR.
I wanted the old music too. But the new theme grew on me gradually. Especially when the audience would clap along during the long crawl closing credits.😊👍
@@steve760 I disagree. The original Pyramid theme was the best. The new theme from 1982 sounded cheap in comparison. Just personal preference.
@@JZCRAZY I agree. It rivalled with Score Productions (Goodson/Todman).
This is one of the rare times he didn't sign off with "For now, Dick Clark.... so long".
Too bad original announcer Bob Clayton didn't live to see the final episode of The $10,000/$20,000 Pyramid. God bless Bob Clayton, Bill Cullen, Bob Stewart, Jack (no relation to Dick) Clark, Ed Flesh, Jack Stewart, Jerry Bishop, Charlie Tuna, Rod Roddy, Scott Vincent, Fred Foy, Henry Polic II, Charlie O'Donnell and Dick Clark, and may God rest your soul on all 14 of ya and I'll see y'all in Pyramid heaven one day!
It'd probably be called "The $1,000,000 Pyramid" with the original theme.
November 29, 2023 Celebrity Bucket Kicker reference at 0:55
@usa02 How long have they been married?
@PTH4Fun Can you take a guess?
@usa02 Where they divorced?
4:10-4:33, "It's an All-Star Saturday on ABC and five exciting reasons are The All-New SuperFriends Hour, The Krofft Supershow, Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics, The New ABC Weekend Specials and American Bandstand. ABC's All-Star Saturday begins every Saturday Morning at 8:00pm/7:00pm Central and Pacific, right here on ABC!"-ABC staff announcer Bill Owen.
I can think of a few hit shows on NBC in 1980.
Real People
Little House on the Prairie
CHiPs
Diff'rent Strokes
The Facts of Life
Quincy
Both of them were on the lower side of the soap ratings at the time. Plus, this was during the notorious 90-minute era of AW.
My parents got married the next day, June 28,1980 a day after "The 20,000 Pyramid" was canceled!
Question, did Mike Gargiulo return as director on CBS in 1982?
What were those quick cuts and ending of shows that you mean?
What about Days of our Lives, or Another World?
@PTH4Fun No, they're still married to this day.
Oops! I didn't realize that part
It will be 31 years this year, time flies!
Stay tuned for Ryan's Hope next on ABC
-Famous Japanese Rabbis
Bill Cullen: Ming-Toi Reubeniwitz (sp?)
ROFL! These days people would call that racist.