Monopoly RARE Game Show Pilot|With Special Guest Marc Summers

[@nathanroberson8206]

Marc Summers, in my opinion, is the best candidate to host a monopoly game.

[@marcpower4167]

Well he has the advantage right out of the gate that he knows the game like the back of his hand. The only minor mistake I noticed was when he said the rent for boardwalk was $50 when it was supposed to be $200 but he corrected himself right away. But in terms of the board game he would have been right.

[@bmhedgehog2]

I agree.

[@bk9509-o2o]

Marc was always a great host. Game shows, talk shows, food shows, he could do it all.

[@marcpower4167]

I always feel like beyond his involvement with kid's shows, he wasn't as successful as he should have been. Most of his adult shows were flops and that's unfortunate cause he was so good!

[@cevancarr]

​@marcpower4167 I would have liked to see him take over an established format or even a revival vs an original series like 1991's The $100,000 Pyramid, the 1990 revivals of Joker's Wild or Tic Tac Dough, or Daytime Wheel of Fortune after Sajak or Benirschke left even though Bob Goen was great). Or even Match Game 1990. A shame he didn't get to host a Mark Goodson show in particular.

[@interactii]

Very cool to see and great intro from Marc! The game itself is quite a mess I think haha but I love seeing these old pilots.

[@marcpower4167]

Monopoly is a tough one to adapt for TV just because the game is pretty complex by design, while TV games typically you have to keep it simple.

[@SapinskiMath]

"How do you turn a game that takes 14 hours to play into a 30-minute game show?" Easy, you don't. Marc was the only thing that actually worked here, because he's Marc and he's amazing, even back then.

[@jetnut89]

Well said. Never quite understood why producers gave him so much crap when he was starting out.

[@kidfrombrooklyn66]

They are NOT playing the game under the official games rules just like all the other versions. (after the introductions of players, game play explains , opening & closing credits & commercials -- actual game play is about 18-20 minutes

[@mauricesnell5886]

"Scrabble" sound effects. RIP Chuck Woolery.

[@BrandonSugiura]

He should host Scrabble. He was good during this time when the game show hosts were contestants

[@xSmootx]

Years ago I mentioned to Marc on Twitter about this pilot when Wink originally posted this years ago, to which Marc's response was "Why?". Glad to see years later you were able to get him to do a bit of a prologue for it.

[@HVACSoldier]

A “pilot” with a returning champion?

[@marcpower4167]

Not uncommon, they try to showcase it as a "typical" episode on the air.

[@dshire71]

This one was actually much better than I expected. It was a fun twist on Monopoly

[@STORMVISE]

LOL - I know this was for an example show, but in the bonus round when she rolls a 12, you can clearly see that it was staged based on where the dice 'originally' went. LOL

[@tanookimarketing]

I can see why this didn't get picked up. It's so damn confusing for a game show. Even if you know monopoly pretty well, it's just so random.

[@jph4852]

I think the contestants said about 10 words all combined. Most of the show was Marc explaining and the two assistants moving pieces. 1987 me would have enjoyed this show since that's around the period in my life when I played Monopoly the most.

[@MarkSinacori]

Do you have the rehearsals with Mario Lopez, George Hamilton, Todd Newton and Mike Richards before they did their test shows at The Price Is Right in 2007? I was there rehearsing with them as were 3 other CBS Pages. I believe they filmed it as the cameras were running and we saw ourselves on the TV screens. We were creating some fun characters!

[@ShaneSpear02]

Even in 87, we Americans are stunned at the very thought of 25 days off work 🤣

[@cogi4829]

if this is the pilot, im so curious why they said there was a returning champion

[@coachrobwille4176]

Good question

[@kidfrombrooklyn66]

This is to explain how to the game if played when there is actually is a returning champion (many game show pilots had someone designated as returning champion if that show going to have returning champions). This is to show how the game is played hoping to be picked up for FULL PRODUCTION + may have an adjustment in game play before going to FULL PRODUCTION . Just a designated returning champion (# of days as champion & prize winnings is made up from the shows producers = anything that might happening from previous fictional episodes)

[@JordanGenesis]

Compared to the Peter Tomarken pilot, this concept is actually not too bad. Mark Summers would've been great candidate as a host considering his love for the game. Very interesting on how Kingworld really wanted to push the Monopoly game into a game show.

[@marcpower4167]

Well Monopoly is so popular so it makes sense that they'd try to take advantage of the potential market. But Monopoly is a complicated game so hard to make it into a TV game show where typically things need to be simple.

[@BobPagani]

I think this is the first game show I've ever seen where the host had to explain a new rule at every turn.

[@imboredsoyoumustbeboredpar3054]

Who ever did the sweetening and extra sfx did an horrible job as it drowns out the announcer in the opening and some don't even fit the time period in which this was released. This almost seems Raymond Rohaueresque.

[@StrangeStephen85]

Some of the rules here are insane, complicated, or both.

[@georgef551]

Interesting way to play the game. With a few tweaks to the end game, that part survived into the aughts version of the game.

[@MyGuyJustinH]

I love watching these videos. That was an amazing pilot.

[@kingporter67]

Extremely rare, however, it is a great 1987 Monopoly game show pilot!

[@Michael_Knight823]

Didn't Peter Tomarken also do a pilot?

[@bk9509-o2o]

Yes. He did one that was meant for daily syndication in 1990, but it wasn't picked up. Supposedly, Tomarken didn't get along with the production staff, so when the show was ultimately picked up by ABC for weekly primetime, they went with Mike Reilly, a former Jeopardy! champion, as host.

[@PJade]

Different pilot and format, but yes.

[@willmack5909]

Yes in 1989 I think

[@matthewdempsey8852]

Yes, two years later.

[@bluebear1985]

He did do one intended for syndication. However, that was the one that became a weekly primetime series in the summer of 1990, and one of the contestants from that pilot became the host.

[@TimeSpinner]

Marc was the best host they could have chosen for this version of the game. He's so good at explaining complex rules in a simple way while making everyone feel invested. And the editing was tight (even if the audio balancing was all over) But the ruleset sunk this game. The rules were about as complex and frequently changing as Krypton Factor, and the rules they made didn't play into the clever question-writing. And that budget - $1000 corners! $30000 car spaces, dozens of prizes, $50000 final games! Not what you have in mind for a early-afternoon half-hour popcorn gameshow in the 80s. Interesting how "roll 5 times to pass Go" has stayed the endgame all the way until Monopoly Millionaires' Club.

[@xwhysquared]

How you can you have a returning champion on a pilot show?

[@marcusphilpot1376]

Cool and Don Morrow is the announcer.

[@ericvansickle4305]

I know there was another version of Monopoly that aired on ABC a few years after this pilot was made, but the rules were vastly different.

[@KrakenMan5853]

I thought this pilot was too complicated in the main game. The once around the block bonus game is mostly intact. I loved the Tomarken Griffin pilot much better.

[@tfinferno8611]

I liked this game! I wish it had been picked up.

[@ThandrieDavis]

Holy crap the wall of text to start this game, how did they ever think this would work? This is almost the opposite of Double Dare, which started a skit 5 seconds into the show.

[@bmhedgehog2]

I think I like this one better than what we got in the 90s. Hey Wink, can you try to dig up the 90s pilot of Monopoly with Peter Tomarken? The one that was rumored to be sabotaged.

[@silentbob3208]

This was cool.

[@ksonchannel5261]

I Think this show should've mashed up with Trivial Pursuit so we could have the following categories assigned to the following Color Groups of the Game Monopoly Light Blue: Geography Violet: Entertainment Orange: History Red: Arts & Literature Yellow: Science & Nature Green: Sports & Leisure However for Brown and Blue, Well I Don't Know.

[@TheTennesseeTornado]

Brown: Random Crap

[@marcusphilpot1376]

It had made it on the air but it's on every Saturday night on ABC in 1989 but different set and rules

[@spwash1000]

1990

[@dougmilesmedia]

Interesting concept, but probably was considered too complicated.

[@davidlevy706]

That's NumberWang!

[@davidfiddemon2193]

They should bring it back

[@SKRUBL0RD]

IF YOU LAND ON FREE PARKING YOU COULD WIN A CORVETTE STINGRAY??? WHY DIDN'T THIS SHOW GET PICKED UP!!!

[@nickalkire1187]

Marc Summers of Double Dare fame

[@kingofmadprops]

Interesting concept, but my goodness. Marc must have needed a gallon of water to drink during commercial breaks for all of his talking. WOW!

[@JonSchneiter-dg8bw]

How is there a returning champion if its the pilot??

[@hughrist6257]

I really liked this. Too bad it wasn't picked up.

[@wschmrdr]

Actually not too bad. I'm glad they got rid of the tokens and had everyone go around the board at the same time for the final show, but definitely should have kept the "acquisitions" to a random draw with the same "takeover" abilities in order to get more gameplay in there.

[@pigs18]

No attempt has been succesful. Monopoly doesn't lend itself to a game show.

[@parallaxish3187]

what a bizarre pilot, seems more like a playtest

[@antoinekarrsantiago2500]

I really hope that Monopoly has became the biggest board game, and for the reboot of the game show on primetime television, it must be a high tech studio, and we need a celebrity host like Marc Summers. For the CW version, I'm thinking it is hosted by Liza Koshy.

[@Wiley_Coyote]

That game was kind of a mess... but any attempt to adapt Monopoly to short form would be.

[@joelismymaster]

A corvette stingray in the 80's, that had to be a fake prize as well as fake actors just to show how the game works. I wouldn't say they would have gone bankrupt actually running this show at the time, but way too much prize money going around to be sustainable.

[@wschmrdr]

Happy golden anniversary, Marc!

[@accampbell]

This version just did not do the trick. Marc was a great host and should do a version if they would pick him up for it. The gameplay was just not there for me. I dont know how to make it interesting though because Monopoly is not an easy game to translate to TV. Other board games are absolutely easy to bring to TV but Monopoly just doesnt work in any real form on TV.

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

Whatever happened to Isie?

[@bob61976]

How clunky of an adaptation. Although, who was that young guy hosting the show? 🤣

[@bryanlaw9262]

Not bad

[@GameShowMike]

Marc Summers was also considered to host daytime Wheel of Fortune on CBS along with John Davidson, Chuck Henry, Bob Eubanks and Pat Finn, but Bob Goen was hired instead.

[@marcpower4167]

I hear they had a whole ton of names in consideration and several auditioned. Including tennis stars John McEnroe & Jimmy Connors.

[@Eminem200183]

@@marcpower4167Really? I could see Jimmy Connors doing, but McEnroe would be a second opinion. Then again, he did hosted The Chair

[@terryleemangrumii8566]

Bob Goen should have replaced the retired Pat Sajak on the nighttime show, not Ryan Seacrest!

[@ajk]

@@marcpower4167 I believe Connors and McEnroe were considered to replace Pat on NBC, before Rolf got the nod. Could be wrong tho.

[@PrideAndPerspectives]

Any show where action takes place in between segments is not going to be a success.

[@scottbakanumba1heathen313]

🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

[@marcpower4167]

The "other show" Marc was supposed to do for King World: If I'm right about which one that is and the whole story, wow did he get screwed!

[@matthewdempsey8852]

Combination Lock?

[@marcpower4167]

​@matthewdempsey8852 Not the one I was thinking of, but maybe there's a story there too? 🤔

[@viddykiddy18]

​@matthewdempsey8852 He was talking about Hollywood Squares. IMHO, I'm just as upset as anybody else, that Marc didn't get that job, but seeing Tom Bergeron host it, just about made us all feel better.

[@cevancarr]

"Hollywood Squares" with Tom Bergeron

[@megamanj2004X]

The other show for King World he was also given a chance to host was Hollywood Squares. In fact he was one of the finalists along with John Tesh of Entertainment Tonight and Tom Bergeron. John Tesh turned it down. Marc Summers didn’t gel well with Whoopi supposedly. Tom tested well and as they say the rest is history. Marc did praise Tom and also even hosted Tom on one of his Marc Summers Unwrapped podcasts as well.

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

This was the year before he made it big with Double Dare right?

[@viddykiddy18]

No, after

[@matthewdempsey8852]

Year after, Double Dare debuted in 1986.

[@wschmrdr]

After. Double Dare started in 1986.

[@willmack5909]

This was impossible to follow

[@matthewbaduria]

This is what might've been if had become a series.

[@timothysilva2409]

Well now I'm even more excited to watch this.

[@yaphettvazquez9796]

@@timothysilva2409 Yep!!!!

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

@@timothysilva2409go to jail game is over

[@kmsimedia]

The format isn't bad. If they would have kept the same format as when you fought for control of a monopoly in Rileys version to get control.

[@TheSupersilver2011]

Shame this version wasn't picked up. I honestly liked this version.

[@mentalrobb5062]

Way too many random and overly complicated rules.

[@someguy23475]

Marc and I are alike when it comes to the board game: played so much we can memorize the board and the rents. This is better than the actual series but there are still flaws besides the long rule explanation. One token would have been better, but I would stick to each person having a “turn”, with doubles of course extending it. This would keep the Luxury Tax (and I’m also assuming Income Tax), Chance and Community Chest features. The rents are different than the actual game, meaning unless you watch enough you don’t know what they are. I would hope the rent card would be displayed when a space is landed on as in the series. I would dump the free houses. If you land on an unbuilt Monopoly, it’s double the normal rent as in the board game. Let the player spend their bank to build up. Railroads are a very strategic monopoly to own in the board game, it’s sad what they’ve been reduced to in the show. I would have made them an actual acquirable monopoly. What happens if you land on a utility? Not a fan of Free Parking as I’ve always played by the traditional rules, but you have to include it or something similar to draw in eyeballs so I get why it’s there. Same for jail (in the real game you do collect rent in Jail, it’s actually strategic to stay in there as long as possible later in the game) Monopoly is just not a good game to put on TV, but Marc does a great job and had this format and him gone to series it would have at least been watchable.

[@JZCRAZY]

This may be the perfect example of why not all board games translate well into a game show. This was an incredibly boring game to watch. Nothing else can even be blamed but the game itself.

[@LeotheTiger1234]

Although I do like the format that actually aired better than this format, Marc was still an excellent host. Merv Griffin did have a history of handpicking the hosts himself, and choosing unknowns, but Pat Sajak was one rare case of being absolutely successful. The actual host, Mike Reilly? I don't know what became of him after Monopoly was cancelled.

[@kingsethos5108]

Far too complica5ed and hard to follow..

[@williambone7724]

Marc, I love you, but this show sucks!

[@calcio23]

This sounds more complicated than the board game. The show they eventually had was far simpler than this. I would’ve changed the channel before the game started.