Jackpot! - 1989

[@seanmontgomery801]

That was awesome,to split a Super Jackpot of $14,500 and then win $640 for the regular Jackpot.Geoff Edwards was a fantastic host as was Nipsey Russell and Mike Darow.

[@Musicradio77Network]

WNYW-TV (channel 5) in NYC usually carried this show along with “Talk About” and “The Last Word”, and it was the last game show block to be shown on channel 5 which began at noon. After that came a rerun of “Gilligan’s Island” at 1:30PM and of course the weekday afternoon block of cartoons starting at 2PM.

[@DucNguyen0131]

When the show started in 1974 on NBC, some sounds that was heard that was borrowed from the original version of Jeopardy! with Art Fleming.

[@DucNguyen0131]

The Voiceovers Alternate Between John Harlan And Johnny Gilbert In the 1989 Run. The V/O On NBC's Run Was Don Pardo, By The Time Who Voiced Art Fleming's JEOPARDY!

[@JosephASobora]

Recorded on KTTV in 1989, I can tell from Beau Weaver's announcing at the end of the episode. I remember watching this for a while, Geoff Edwards was also the host for "The Big Spin", which also aired on KTTV.

[@anwarwashington5856]

In the syndicated ''Jackpot''s revival year 1989, 'the late-'Mr. Edwards doing 'Triple Duty', he was one of the first MC's to host 3 game shows in one time, hosting ''Chain Reaction'' in Montreal and hosted a weekly Saturday night California Lottery game show, ''The Big Spin'' in Sacramento(the lottery's homebase.)and also Geoff joined fellow Jerseyite Jim Perry(he has blood ties to Canada where he hosted both ''Headline Hunters'' and ''Definition'', two of Canada's long-running game shows.)and Alex Trebek as the MCs who hosted game shows here in the U.S. and to our up north neighbors, Canada.

[@WaltGekko]

And few know that Jim Perry before his game show fame was mainly a news anchor on MusicRadio WABC (77 AM) in New York during that station's heyday, usually doing news in the overnights as well as being a DJ in the early hours on Sunday mornings from 1970-'72 I believe.

[@mitchellries256]

And Monty Hall. Don't forget him. He hosted the 1987 syndicated version of Split Second which was also taped in Canada.

[@seanmontgomery801]

On the Edwards version of Jackpot ,,the men are Kings of the Hill and women are Queens of the hill,just like on Darow's and Nipsey's versions,but they were all fantastic hosts.

[@ericsamuelson5656]

If anyone has a full week of Jackpot episodes from this version, can you please post them ASAP

[@HarlemHyena]

IIRC, Kevin's currently working on Robot Chicken. He even did a sketch where his girlfriend broke up with him on the phone while he was taping WITICS!

[@DrakeFeatherwing]

VHS is always rough to make sure people can digitally hear... XP

[@jamesmoss3424]

I like jackpot and it should come back one day. 😀👍

[@paullarue2010]

I remember a hug from Sonya Barron.

[@seanmontgomery801]

Was there ever an episode of Jackpot that Geoff Edwards or Mike Darow hosted where both players had a chance to answer the Super Jackpot question.Men are Kings of the Hill and Women are Queens of the Hill.

[@louistenore3876]

i think i actually saw this on channel 5 in new york the frist week in aired

[@drummingdanny84]

Yup! Coupled with "Talk About".

[@Superion85]

@@drummingdanny84 And The Last Word

[@jhzenor61481]

So did I, it was on KDSM-TV Channel 17, the FOX affiliate where I live (Ames/Des Moines, IA)

[@danalong1237]

WBNA-TV carried it in the Louisville area every late night, the grave timeslot for game shows!

[@anniefinch6843]

I remember this game show.

[@SP84Fanatic]

Reeves Entertainment Group-the company associated with Wild & Crazy Kids and What Would You Do? on Nickelodeon in the early 1990's.

[@sophiamelki6958]

I believe Kevin later used his winnings to host "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?" on PBS. I wonder if he told The Chief about that "Jackpot" win?

[@ABCEasyas--]

I didn’t know it was that Kevin! Did they ever reveal the contestants’ full names?

[@zachhoran]

This was also the last game show announced by John Harlan.

[@douglasghiz1287]

R.I.P. Mike Darrow, Geoff Edwards

[@misstee101]

I used to love Jackpot!

[@drewconway7135]

3:55 You stroke a baby? And a violin??

[@ryanstrnad1852]

Im trying to think if this was John Harlan's last game show announcing job. But he was on several of Bob Hope Christmas specials in the 90's and narrated the Super Bowl 32 halftime show (in '98).

[@nextbarker2702]

Don't forget John Harlan announced on AG for a few seasons, too.

[@ryanstrnad1852]

@nextbarker 2 and I just realized that a week or two ago. Even though I really don't consider that a game show, but I really have been tuning in to this new series "the game show show" on abc and while they had a virtually whole episode dedicated to these "challenge" shows like American Gladiators, Survivor, Big Brother, etc. I did recognize Harlan's voice on AG. That's good that he got some legit work beyond '89. Je passed on not too long ago either (about 5-7 years ago) lived to I think 91.

[@imal25]

Watch Jackpot! Weekdays At 12 NOON ON FOX 5!

[@gameshowfreak2007]

I think this was actually premiere week.

[@GameShowGumbo]

Nope, this was from the first week.

[@Lupton2000]

Could this had been the final first-run show? Geoff said to the current King of the Hill that they will see him in the weeks to come.

[@ChuckD79]

This was actually the Friday show of the premiere week, and pretty sure Geoff said "week to come" (singular), as in the following week.

[@bpot22]

Yep from Where in time is Carmen Sandiego.

[@paullarue2010]

4 had that Jackpot.

[@tpir1972]

Was John Harlan doing AG, yet?

[@danielwestfall9578]

My only gripe with this version is that you had to get the riddle right to put the money in the Jackpot whereas the Darrow version automatically added the money. Seemed like this era of CBS game shows operated cheaply. The Goen Wheel even premired with $50 and $75 wedges

[@ABCEasyas--]

Maybe, but at least this episode showed contestants being given another chance to locate the riddle that would give them the target number.

[@DucNguyen0131]

Who's the voice? Johnny Gilbert or John Harlan

[@jnadle1]

John Harlan.

[@misstee101]

Wow!

[@jwgreek8606]

they should have found someone else to syndicate the show.

[@KrakenMan5853]

Should've been the same syndicator who did The $100,000 Pyramid.

[@JohnathanWilliamson849]

The show still would have been cancelled after a season or 2. Game Shows weren't doing too well during this time.

[@RobertoLopez-xb1mj]

JACKPOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@louistenore2185]

just like it was from the 1975 win

[@jameschristiansen5526]

Hey at the very end did it say a reg Grundy entertainment?

[@donaldpaluga]

REG-Reeves Entertainment Group

[@jhzenor61481]

I used to get scared when the Bob Stewart and Sande Stewart jumped up! Scared the crap out of me when I first saw it!

[@jhzenor61481]

logo that is

[@jhzenor61481]

+donald paluga I saw the reg logo at the end of Kate and Allie growing up

[@anwarwashington5856]

REG(Reeves Entertainment Group)was the former company of Alan Landsburg Productions best known for producing ABC's primetime reality show ''That's Incredible!" and sitcoms like ''Gimme A Break!", "Kate & Allie" and game shows like ''The Krypton Factor''(ABC aired the show for 5 weeks in the summer of '81 with ''Pyramid''s own Dick Clark hosting.)and ''The Pop & Rocker Game'' which ran in weekly syndication with Jon Bauman(without his ''Bowzer'' persona.)

[@misstee101]

Is that Kevin Shinick?

[@seanmontgomery801]

Sounds almost like a kid from the show "You Can't Do That on Television"Oh,Mistake,must be Kevin Schenk.

[@zachhoran]

There was a different announcer for the Ray Ban plug I couldn't ID.

[@kennykistler6735]

The questions on this show were geared toward elementary school kids. And half of these dumb contestants would get them wrong.

[@ABCEasyas--]

Yeah, I haven’t ever seen four wrong answers in a row

[@Ivoryman1986]

Hey Brandon, you should change this to September 22, 1989 because GameShowGarbage told you that this is from the first week.

[@Ephraim225]

stroke a violin. really.

[@jokerswildfan1972]

I liked Mike Darrow's version much better.

[@zachhoran]

They taped the last show before it was known it would be the last show. Geoff said the show would have been renewed for the rest of the season if the syndicator, Palladium Entertainment, didn't have legal/financial troubles. They taped 10 shows a day for this version(Bob Stewart did 10 shows a day of Pyramid from 1985-88 when $25K/$100K were both in first run)

[@KrakenMan5853]

Jackpot and Pyramid should've had the same syndicators. That is, if Pyramid was still on at the time.

[@JohnathanWilliamson849]

@@KrakenMan5853it wasn't.

[@JohnathanWilliamson849]

I still don't think it would have been renewed for another season just because of how the game show market was doing in 1989-1990.

[@zachhoran]

1990-91 had a whole bunch of new shows between networks and syndication, too, but none of them made it to 1991-92 except Davidson Pyramid, and that ended up running only for two half seasons. @@JohnathanWilliamson849