YouTube Find: The $10,000 Pyramid Blooper from 1974-75

[MrExclusive1989]

It has come to my attention that a blooper from The $10,000 Pyramid has popped up in a YouTube clip. This is believed to be from either 1974-1975, and yes the show was by that point moved to ABC. This blooper involves Tony Randall and it's believed this was never aired. The full episode of this doesn't exist as this episode was reportedly erased by ABC.

Here is the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iih5LjRHqdE

[Lingofan97]

I would want GSN to acquire The $10,000 Pyramid but with electronic whipping there aren't enough episodes left for a big lease.

[TheKid965]

Definitely seems like one of those clips that would be saved by the producers for the end-of-year wrap party, which is probably why it exists today when the episode it's from is long gone.

[Lingofan97]

I just actually saw the clip...and wow. Think about it. From 1975 to the mid to late 80's, the set doesn't look too different compared to how some modern game shows have changed over the year. There have definitely been some improvements from then, but that's just me just looking at it.

[TheKid965]

Pyramid did not change sets often, largely because Bob Stewart's purse strings were notoriously tight compared to other producers. A Bob Stewart-produced show was expected to make its toys last a while, for there would be no significant alterations made for the duration of a series no matter how long it ran for, except in cases of extreme necessity; the fatal breakdown of a crucial prop, for example. Or take the example of Three on a Match during its last year or so, when it went to its "first to three games" championship format; an on-set tally of games won was needed, but rather than build an addition onto the contestant podia, the producers instead added some What's My Line?-style flip cards the contestants operated themselves!

In keeping with that tradition, the Pyramid set underwent only very slight cosmetic changes during its New York years, to the point where it was still using Solari-board scoring displays as late as 1981! Oh, the set went from orange to blue around 1976 (roughly concurrent with the $20,000 Pyramid upgrade, though I believe there may have been a few weeks of either a blue-set $10K or an orange-set $20K), but apart from that, it really only saw a complete overhaul when the show moved cross-country to TVC in 1982 -- and that set was more or less kept intact through the John Davidson incarnation.

Curiously enough, both sets saw upgrades to the main-game category board late in their lives; the original pullcards had given way to trilon boxes by '79, while the second and final season of the Davidson $100K version saw the board infamously adopt monitor screens. That was about as major as running set changes ever got for the Pyramid clan.

[JamesFF]

Look how much the Family Feud set changed from Richard Dawson to Ray Combs.

[catnap72]

it really only saw a complete overhaul when the show moved cross-country to TVC in 1982 -- and that set was more or less kept intact through the John Davidson incarnation.

Big pyramid (winners circle) was a recreation as the trilons were larger in the Davidson version and took up most of that space. Not sure if the rest of the set was also remade or was recycled.