PASS OR PLAY PILOT (1977)

From QUBE Programming Volume 12
with Dick Libertore

[@troytakesphotos]

7:42 Dick: "Read the first name on the list she gives you." (she hands off list) Tom: (sets the list down, picks up a completely separate piece of paper) "It's Gene Rayburn!"

[@dimitriberozny3729]

This was ahead of its time!! In the late 1990’s and later this would have scooped up by any of the networks!!

[@coachrobwille4176]

How did people play at home in 1977 .

[@jaycee330]

with the QUBE controller, if you had QUBE.

[@calliopivogiatzis2235]

The multiple choice question regarding"changes",was based on the actree,Jane Seymour

[@bluebear1985]

I think this was one of the earlier attempts of experimenting with cable TV. It was from a channel in Columbus, OH. Somewhere around here there's a couple of episodes of an interactive show they tried called "How Do You Like Your Eggs?". They managed to get Bill Cullen to host the few episodes produced of it.

[@marcpower4167]

bluebear1985 it was a test run for the Qube system which didnt take off, a primitive attempt at interactive TV, these days we can all just use our cell phones. There were actually a few different shows, pass or play, how do you like your eggs, across the board.

[@LittleRockElevators]

I almost fell asleep watching the first half. It was really low budget and I realized that is Mark Richards hosting (I know the name is different).

[@MrXminus1]

What was the correct answer to the book question?

[@kingporter67]

This is a extremely rare game show from 1977!!

[@petervance6777]

Gotta love the mile-wide 70s tie🥹

[@PREGO1966]

Actually Jackson was nicknamed because his division held firm when other confederates ran away during the early stages of Bull Run. Someone had said "look there's Jackson with his Virginians standing like a stone wall"

[@sha11235]

I can see why that didn't sell.

[@michaelfalkner1186]

Probably, more, the failure of that whole "play at home" technology and the like they had in mind for a number of these shows. That was all the rage at one point.

[@someguy23475]

Dick would later change his name to Mark Richards and host the first season of Starcade.

[@blind_t2]

someguy23475 waaaaaaaaaaaat! learn something new today!

[@benjaminkellog7311]

I thought he looked familiar! Considering how wooden he was during that first Starcade season, I'm not sure he was ever really cut out for this job.

[@LittleRockElevators]

someguy23475 I thought that was him.

[@88bigbear]

Produced by QUBE. A game show pilot

[@Nooki23]

They give him a can opener as a gift lol...and the big winner a pocket camera and a lantern...oh and a cheap watch...soooo cheap!!!

[@paullarue2010]

When Tom picked Gene Rayburn, he got confused, because Gene Rayburn was Game Show host.

[@rajo741]

Very funny stuff in a way. Dick Librator as a host’s name....really? It’s a good thing he changed his name as he probably got tired of being called Dick “Liberator”.

[@sha11235]

So what was the correct answer?

[@tirmyta]

"Changing" is a book by Liv Ullmann.

[@QHMCQ]

Yeesh. Pretty rough show. I love how the five people in the "audience" applauding that are actually present turn into hundreds through the magic of "canning".

[@paullarue2010]

Ok, Archie Bunker!

[@paullarue2010]

Gene Rayburn?!

[@paullarue2010]

The host of "Match Game"?

[@paullarue2010]

Contestant Tom picked Gene Rayburn. All I know, that Gene Rayburn was a game show host.

[@sha11235]

And now the Juice is a murderer who is in jail.

[@irenedow5665]

What’s wrong with this concept? To continue these number questions would get difficult after 10 shows. I would not envy the writers for even the Disney questions would get thin.

[@paullarue2010]

Which network had this show was on?

[@88bigbear]

QUBE - local cable TV in Columbus Ohio

[@MamaDeb62]

It wasn’t. This was a pilot for an unsold show

[@sha11235]

Do you think that was THAT Gene Rayburn?

[@paullarue2010]

sha11235 Gene Rayburn?! Wasn't he the host of "Match Game"?

[@witherblaze]

well, how many gene rayburns do think exist in this universe?

[@paullarue2010]

witherblaze I don't know. I know the one Gene Rayburn, which he was the host of "Match Game". You know that game show, is a "fill-in-the-blank".

[@benjaminkellog7311]

I'd assume there probably are at least a couple of Gene Rayburns in the world somewhere, but goodness knows how many were rich enough to possess a Qube system and sufficiently bored enough to play along right then. It does make for an interesting headcanon to imagine the Match Game stalwart being part of this madness.

[@paullarue2010]

Benjamin Kellog I don't know any other Gene Rayburns, except that late of game show host.

[@reedberry]

Not a very good game, not a very good host (seems stiff and uncomfortable,) and a set that looks like it was made by a high school shop class on a junior high budget. But it was the 1970s. The 70s and 80s produced a plethora of pilots because daytime TV was filled with game shows, and every production company wanted theirs to be the next big hit. I've been on five game shows over the years, most recently The Price is Right (yes, I won the showcase,) but the first show I was on was a short-lived Wink Martindale show called Headline Chasers. Back then, every thought or idea could be developed into a game. Some of the game shows I've appeared on, including Headline Chasers, are uploaded to my KZbin channel.

[@MrXminus1]

The home player involvement ruins the game.

[@cats0182]

HELP!!!!!! Awful. What production company was responsible for this?

[@MamaDeb62]

It was unsold so not sure who did the pilot

[@semplenyc]

This is so boring...