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>>I was a contestant in late 1977 with Billy Crystal and Lynn Redgrave.
Any suggestions on where I could find clips from my show? I've
checked YouTube but couldn't find it. Any ideas are welcome!<<
Here is the general answer that I usually respond on this topic (particularly from inquiries in my private e-mail box sent usually), and probably the most frequently asked question coming from any contestant who has appeared on anyone of the 1970's Pyramid shows (especially on the network daytime edition). It has been reported and said amongst the game show fan community that almost all of the first five years of videotaped episodes from the CBS/ABC $10,000 and $20,000 versions have been erased and destroyed.
It has been determined that 14 episodes of the CBS edition from 1973, when the show was briefly taped in Los Angeles, have been saved and preserved in the vaults of Sony and their GSN cable network. There are also three early episodes (produced in New York City) found in the UCLA Film & TV Archive, and one in the tape collectors' trading circuit originally aired in June 1973.
As for the ABC daytime edition, only two known years from the show (1978-1979) are known to exist, and they too are in the possession of Sony and GSN. Very, very few complete episodes have survived from 1976, 1977 and even 1980, and they do float around in the tape trading circuit. Also, other versions of the Pyramid series, such as the Bill Cullen-hosted $25,000 (1974-79) and Dick Clark-hosted $50,000 (1981), are in the hands of other syndication distributors, but they are considered as "missing in action", since their master tapes may not necessarily exist in full or accessible to the viewing public at this time.
In terms of the Billy Crystal/Lynn Redgrave week from the fall of 1977, it was mentioned on-air by TV personality Bil Dwyer, when hosting an episode of GSN's 50 Greatest Game Shows mini-series in 2006, the studio master tape of the record setting win of Billy with his civilian partner at the giant pyramid was said to be destroyed. Only the brief video clip of that historic moment is known to exist, and it was partly because it was inserted in a completely saved 1979 episode (and seen on GSN four times) with Billy and his celebrity opponent Sal Viscuso.
So, that's the status of that particular $20,000 Pyramid episode that was asked, whose video existence is most likely not to have survived intact. That is the best answer that I myself could possibly given on this topic for now.
Sincerely,
William A. Padron
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>>I was a contestant in late 1977 with Billy Crystal and Lynn Redgrave.
Any suggestions on where I could find clips from my show? I've
checked YouTube but couldn't find it. Any ideas are welcome!<<
Here is the general answer that I usually respond on this topic (particularly from inquiries in my private e-mail box sent usually), and probably the most frequently asked question coming from any contestant who has appeared on anyone of the 1970's Pyramid shows (especially on the network daytime edition). It has been reported and said amongst the game show fan community that almost all of the first five years of videotaped episodes from the CBS/ABC $10,000 and $20,000 versions have been erased and destroyed.
It has been determined that 14 episodes of the CBS edition from 1973, when the show was briefly taped in Los Angeles, have been saved and preserved in the vaults of Sony and their GSN cable network. There are also three early episodes (produced in New York City) found in the UCLA Film & TV Archive, and one in the tape collectors' trading circuit originally aired in June 1973.
As for the ABC daytime edition, only two known years from the show (1978-1979) are known to exist, and they too are in the possession of Sony and GSN. Very, very few complete episodes have survived from 1976, 1977 and even 1980, and they do float around in the tape trading circuit. Also, other versions of the Pyramid series, such as the Bill Cullen-hosted $25,000 (1974-79) and Dick Clark-hosted $50,000 (1981), are in the hands of other syndication distributors, but they are considered as "missing in action", since their master tapes may not necessarily exist in full or accessible to the viewing public at this time.
In terms of the Billy Crystal/Lynn Redgrave week from the fall of 1977, it was mentioned on-air by TV personality Bil Dwyer, when hosting an episode of GSN's 50 Greatest Game Shows mini-series in 2006, the studio master tape of the record setting win of Billy with his civilian partner at the giant pyramid was said to be destroyed. Only the brief video clip of that historic moment is known to exist, and it was partly because it was inserted in a completely saved 1979 episode (and seen on GSN four times) with Billy and his celebrity opponent Sal Viscuso.
So, that's the status of that particular $20,000 Pyramid episode that was asked, whose video existence is most likely not to have survived intact. That is the best answer that I myself could possibly given on this topic for now.
Sincerely,
William A. Padron
wapadron@...
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