Pot O' Gold - Rare Art James Game Show Pilot

What happens when you take "Scene It" and add "Plinko"? You get Pot O' Gold starring Art James!

[@testpattern701]

Art James was a capable emcee who deserved to work more. R.I.P. Jay Stewart.

[@stephaniestavropoulos1639]

R.I.P. Art James.

[@ronflatter1235]

4:27 Look closely and see the hand releasing the ball, suggesting that the contestants were pressing placebo buttons.

[@rendragmedia]

Good catch, Ron.

[@nleggin]

Wink you are doing amazing work, preserving and sharing these for those who were not alive to watch in first run. You're one of my favorite subs on KZbin! I am so thankful for what you've shared.

[@rogermunyon6867]

Art spent the last years of his life developing and hosting formats designed for corporate training and entertainment. The Money Words pilot displayed an interesting side of Art, showing he had interests on the other side of the host podium. Still have filed away some of his humorous TV Guide articles, especially one about the foibles of having to pick up the occasional unemployment check between shows.

[@kevinvonfeldt4385]

We had two syndicators that wanted the show...Rhodes Productions (Let's Make a Deal, Second City Television) and Michael King from King World. Big mistake not going with Mr. King who at this point had only The Little Rascals. He soon would be one the most syndicators in the business. Clark Paylow was the line producer for Close Encounters of a Third Kind which I also worked on. We really had fun making this!! Art and Jay were the greatest!!!

[@KiddBloo86]

The theme is "Do It To It" by Doc Severinsen. Love this tune and anything Art James!

[@Jack21Spades]

I had to look it up... Good tune!

[@jerzeykowboy9425]

Yes! LP was "Brand New Thing" produced by saxman Tom Scott. Good album that didn't pander to disco back in 1977.

[@marcpower4167]

FYI, the theme music is "Do it to it" composed by Johnny Carson's long time bandleader Doc Severinsen

[@QHMCQ]

I liked Art James. Consummate host, unwitting participant in an all-time great live TV blooper, and wonderfully self-deprecating character in the film "Mallrats". Who else has THAT resume? :-D

[@RedStrikerBeetleborg]

when i see peter pan peanut butter, i always think of that blooper

[@bjhughes8402]

Love that they used the Cross-Wits conference bump for the bonus round. Always thought that was the best "think" cue ever :)

[@Jack21Spades]

THANK YOU. I was snatchin' myself BALDHEADED try'na figure out where I heard that!

[@ronflatter1235]

The contestant desks were so big that they could have been used for cooking shows. Or social distancing during the pandemic of 2020.

[@davidjackino8831]

Didn't Art see enough silver balls already on Magnificent Marble Machine?

[@sha11235]

For some reason, I expected to see a leprechaun in this show with this kind of title.

[@BenJabituya]

Hey, Wink! Rohan, here. Two of the gentlemen that announced some of your Tic-Tac-Dough episodes: Art James and Jay Stewart! So Jay was announcing and Art was hosting.

[@buchiklop110]

Man, all these actual clips would have made this show a nightmare to rerun.

[@Football-Sidelines-NO]

What a fun show involving two of my favorite subjects, now this should have made it to a network or syndication

[@chr028]

the ding you hear when the ball stops is also heard in tic tac dough during the bonus game.

[@ronflatter1235]

17:58 700 + 500 equal a total that the scoreboard could not show and one that Art could not correctly compute.

[@DBradshaw25]

Can't do this today with all the copyright stuff going on...

[@chriskennedy7642]

This is going to be totally rad!!! WOW!!! 😀

[@jesselockhart1230]

Although its a Von Feldt/Paylow Production, this has the feel of Barry/Enright written all over it.

[@PIXPromosMore]

All I can think of is 1992's "The Hollywood Game"; aired that summer on CBS, hosted by Bob Goen (after original host Peter Allen was too ill to host); It's the same basic game mechanics, minus the Plinko board

[@jayaldridge9520]

I loved this video.

[@drewconway7135]

Bye, Tom. Enjoy your sweeper, makeup, and oven cleaner! 🤪

[@georgef551]

Back when video screens were amazing, not an overused trope from the Aughts. Of course the brightness of the lights needed to make the cameras work made it unusable for TV, so they used Blue Screen over the actual blue display the video starts with, to zoom in fully to allow the blue screen magic to appear for home audiences. I'm impressed with the quality of the video, especially since the color demodulation was not cooperating at all. The recorder playback was a hare out of sync with the color signal, so you'd get that "Rainbow" effect when it lost the sync. Those demods are fickle things.

[@gameshowfanatic9311]

I liked this

[@AnErrorOccurred]

I love how they actually employed the Crosswits clock theme in the bonus round.

[@someguy23475]

Think music in bonus round is the conference music from Crosswits (looped poorly). What an odd jackpot- it goes up by a thousand when not won, but ends in $500? Perhaps it started at $2500, but still very odd. This would have cost quite a bit in licensing clips had it sold. It’s not horrible, but far from good.

[@marcpower4167]

They could have gotten around that by having rotating categories.

[@someguy23475]

The would have to change the set, since the two categories are embedded. Probably a good idea, since the audience as is would be narrow. I’m not a movie guy, so this game didn’t have much appeal

[@millenniumman75]

The Tic Tac Dough *ding*!

[@brandonlangley1009]

I love the theme of the bonus round.

[@willmack5909]

This had a Barry & Enright feel to it, so it was surprising to see it was not by them.

[@jeprice08]

I agree, especially when Art James mentioned that the champion will get their turn if the challenger should win the game.

[@sha11235]

Yeah, I was thinking that too, especially since 500 dollars won the game, like in Joker's Wild.

[@libertubey2199]

They may have worked for Barry-Enright, just like Bob Stewart worked for Goodson-Todman.

[@rodb9275]

@@sha11235 I was thinking the EXACT same thing. lol

[@roccot2]

Some of the staffers in the credits also were Barry and enright Staff members

[@gnirolnamlerf593]

I always liked Art James, from Say When!, and was a contestant on the 3W's with him. I am so sad that there is so little of that really good quiz game left on tape. He was a great host, though he threw me for a loop with a question about Jonathan Winters in the interview, when the contestant coordinator had told me he'd ask something else. He should have been behind a podium here, instead of having to juggle a pile of questions in his hands. You can hear some hesitation in his voice, as if he's not quite sure if the right clip is going to come up. Otherwise, I have two bones to pick: the contestants are sitting too far apart, or seem to be on the screen, anyway (think Match Game in contrast) and the game itself is too simple with the clips slowing down the pace.

[@daddy2299]

I loved this but if one wasn't into showbiz then it wasn't the greatest.

[@andrewschroy6368]

Am I the only one who thinks "Hollywood" should've been added to the show's title?

[@ryanstrnad1852]

I think this actually made it in first run syndication. I'm saying this because WISN-TV is Milwaukee once aired a show in 1976 I remember a set like this and a host that very well could've been Art James (reminded me of him). May've had a different name, but the series started out as an actual game show, but then just a couple months after, would only show clips from it's "game show" format (such as people winning) , as it would then revert to the host just being introduced on the set but would sit there only by in addition to showing us the past game show clips, also went on to show film clips as well. More of like a reformatted program. It would've only lasted for a season at best, 26 weeks more possible. Thing is, I never seen such a show listed in the Game Show Encyclopedia, hence the format change may've prevented it from becoming recognized as an actual game show.

[@Chainsawslots]

Impossible bonus game

[@rodney1279TheFlip]

Another Great Pilot. I do not see why it did not come on and make it a series. The only problem I had is with the Tie-Breaker. They should had have a 4 digit readout board if they were doing ties like that.

[@ajk]

They shoulda added a clock on screen somewhere too for the bonus game.

[@LittleRockElevators]

I bet if it did turned into a series, they would.

[@LogoMan7777]

Why have the $50,000 pot of gold to start with if the bonus game is going to be so cheap?

[@KiddBloo86]

The odds of the ball actually dropping in those two slots are astronomical, hence why a [super] bonus? My only suggestion.

[@jeprice08]

Well, as I understand it, the $50,000 was not that important to the game, meaning if someone lands on it (It almost happened twice.), their question and theirs alone if they get it right will win them that amount of cash but they still have to win the game. That $50,000 when won will be theirs to keep whatever happens.

[@binahentz]

The Pot 'o Gold would be the equivalent of the Super Jackpot on Jackpot!, something that would rarely be won but be a really big deal when it did happen.

[@TheRogerdc]

Looking at the way the board was arranged, the odds of dropping into the pot o' gold were extremely small. The bucket for $500 was under that gap. If a ball was moving fast enough to make it to the pot there was another shelf that would direct it to the center.

[@michaelfalkner1186]

@@KiddBloo86 One every thousand or so spins, as well as the fact the one knob over it would probably send it to the 500 instead.

[@jdayala-wright8875]

I am glad they used the two best pieces from Doc Severinsen's 1977 album "Brand New Thing" For $300 and the center box, Name those two songs from that album?

[@RogersRoyal]

Oops. How short sighted of the set designers. Only providing a 3 digit display in front of the contestants and not realizing you can go above that if it goes into tie breaker rounds. Anyway I didn't love this. I don't like leaving everything to chance with the values, the $50,000 is a troll as I don't even know if you can realistically land in there and it should be prizes, not a ridiculous amount like that. Anyway the game is just movie and tv trivia using a ball to determine values. Nothing too exciting sadly.

[@dougghiz8339]

R.I.P. Art James, Jay Stewart

[@MarkStevens-fh3wb]

A gameshow based around what would be Price is Right's most famous game, surprised it never took off.

[@whorefortheman]

The champ is really giving me 70s Tina Fey vibes.

[@GameShowFanMan]

She’s very cute!

[@JZCRAZY]

Jay Stewart was great. That voice adds excitement to any game show. However I have always felt that Art James was bland. He added nothing. The game itself was kind of cool. I like the chance element of the ball drops. However the ball dropping seemed unnatural to me. It's almost as if the ball was controlled by a magnet. It just stopped in weird places and didn't naturally bounce like in plinko. It just kind of hung on certain pegs. Not sure what to think about that. BTW...who looped the Crosswits bonus cue? Stevie Wonder with a razor blade? I didn't love this show. It was semi-ok if there was nothing else on to watch. Definitely not must see TV.

[@seanmontgomery801]

Wow!That lady is very smart ,made a tough bonus round look so easy.Must have had at least less than 10 seconds left.Mr.Art James is one of the greatest hosts ever,Concentration,Sale of the Century,Pot of Gold,Catchphrase ,Pay Cards and Super Pay Cards.Now 2 questions come to mind.One,is he related to Dennis James? and 2,Was that the movie "Mallrats" or the game show?

[@witherblaze]

That wasn't Art James on Sale of the Century. He was doing "Who What or Where Game"

[@blakerice6238]

Mall Rats is the movie.

[@ronflatter1235]

Does Art have enough cards in his hands?

[@ulknavcom054809]

Does anyone know the name of the theme music to this game show?

[@gilwood7530]

I like this game alot

[@gabrielhowell5861]

This is a nifty show! How did they get the permission to show all of these neat old movies, songs, and TV shows?

[@binahentz]

Hard to say to what extent they did get permission. Back then it was pretty standard to just take short clips of film or music and not worry about rights issues.

[@wschmrdr]

Good concept, could have been a good show to enjoy a decent run, just not sure about the execution of the package presented. The whole "pot of gold" seems like a gimmick that's thrown in there as yesteryear's version of "click bait"; not only is it secondary to what you're doing, but puts you at a disadvantage for the pure reason people go onto game shows, and that's to have fun playing the game.

[@centralayrproductions6454]

Woo Hoo

[@marcomacias3960]

what where the other films that she pass in the first bonus round. i only could name one of them ' The Day the Earth Stood Still'

[@sha11235]

Yeah, why didn't he mention them?

[@BlaqC]

The synth music playing during the ball drop comes from Jean-Michel Jarre's Équinoxe 6: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5akl3hjqJeCrZom21s

[@marcpower4167]

Any chance we could see the full pilot of winfall next?

[@kelperdude]

Not much room for mistakes in the bonus round as far as time goes.

[@GCBlues45]

Why was this not picked up

[@TheEggplantThatAteChicago]

Because it stinks.

[@Chainsawslots]

This game is so messed up. Whoever goes hits a big amount has a huge advantage. It looks like the 100 and 500 questions have same difficulty.

[@louistenore2185]

was this after that ridiculous game show he did

[@LittleRockElevators]

yep

[@TheEggplantThatAteChicago]

Wow. It's fun to see something new, but this is the worst pre-1988 pilot I've ever seen. You can win the game in just one question? Every question is about Hollywood? You can win $50,000 for accomplishing absolutely nothing? I'm embarrassed for Art James here.