Spin Off Game Show Clips

[@BriSchwa82]

I hope a full episode surfaces like it did with Second Chance. Jim Lange is masterful as usual and his enthusiasm is infectious.

[@DBR00]

Jim Lange was such a great game show host.

[@bluebear1985]

When this show aired, it was on CBS at 10am. It only lasted three months though. It competed in a time slot opposite "Celebrity Sweepstakes" on NBC. When this show was cancelled, it was replaced the following Monday by "Give-n-Take", which was also hosted by Jim Lange.

[@germanname1990]

I first heard about this show in the Game Show Encyclopedia. I'm glad to see it in action. Thanks for showing us.

[@alterman156channel]

They often had issues with the spinners. I recall a few times when contestants had a chance to play again due to malfunctioning spinners. The show went off the air around September 1975.

[@Valedc03ls]

You said it :-) . This is a really special rarity to finally see in action. Thanks so much, jricci9! I would be highly surprised if there was an uploader who would post Seven Keys (1960-1965) since only three episodes are known to exist.

[@wapadron3189]

The original pilots for "Spin-Off" were taped on Sunday, April 13, 1975 at CBS Broadcast Center's Studio 41 on West 57th Street in Manhattan. The host was Jim Lange, but its announcer was Chet Gould. When the series was picked up by CBS in June 1975, as a replacement for "The Joker's Wild", production instead was done at CBS Television City in Los Angeles. Lange still hosted, but Johnny Jacobs became its announcer instead.

[@DIYDaveOK]

This was basically TV Yahtzee.

[@jeopardy60611]

I saw Spin-Off back in 1975 when it was on TV. I was only 5 years old, so I really didn't understand what was going on. Now 41 years later I get it.

[@jeopardy60611]

I was really too young to understand the proceedings, as I was only 5 years old back then, but I was intrigued by any and all game shows, so I didn't think it "blew."

[@jhc1971]

gotcha and thanks

[@whammy850]

My eyes are seeing it but my mind doesn't believe it. Thanks for this rare treat.

[@gamesgalore4218]

Although it was a decent game in my view, I didn't really like the fact that this replaced "The Joker's Wild", but after this, we got something worse in "Give & Take". After that, "The Price is Right", my all-time favourite, expanded to one hour.

[@johnnysama]

Hey, the Sony ECM-51 (the Bob Barker microphone) were used on this show! Neat! :D

[@illustriousrocket4476]

Looks like a pitchfilm for a syndicated run after it was cancelled... maybe this has something to do with why it was found in the archives at WCBS New York when Joker's Wild was. It seems based on what I've read on other websites that Nicholson-Muir did try to mount at least one syndicated run sometime between 1975 and 1980. I would love to see more of this show finally surface one day, or even a revival somehow. It's a lot of fun just to watch this clip.

[@TheAverycross]

I certainly agree! Looking at this clip, you haven't seen that much excitement since that episode of "Gambit" when the Livingstons hit 21 and won a new car:)

[@QBCNetwork]

I saw this show in New Orleans.on vacation. When I came back to Houston, KHOU didn't have that show due to a local show called the Morning Show.

[@DIYDaveOK]

Local CBS affiliates were really bad about covering up the 9am (CT) hour with some really cheap and really bad programming (but they kept all.the ad revenue). Our area lost years of Pyramid due to a really ugly local Bingo show.

[@MDCSWildcats86]

@@DIYDaveOK KWTV Oklahoma City? They had a Bingo show for w hile that blacked out 25K Pyramid (saw most of what was pre-empted decades later on GSN)

[@tnate6004]

@@DIYDaveOK Our CBS affiliate (WSBT in South Bend, IN) would air the CBS schedule on Eastern time half the year and Central time the other half. Consequently, we'd get the 10 - 11 a.m. CBS shows from Oct. to April, but they'd be pre-empted from April to Oct. (we wouldn't switch our clocks, we'd switch our tv schedules!).

[@tjm3774]

Someone out there has possession of all episodes of "Spin-Off" somewhere. I read that the entire series was discovered in a vault at WCBS in New York. Now, if they could post some episodes here.... :-)

[@MountainHawkPYL]

Rainbows were popular in the 1970's. Back then, they didn't carry the connotation that they have today.

[@jhc1971]

So, basically they monetized Yahtzee?

[@cg0825]

Trivia meets yahtzee. Great concept

[@RogersRoyal]

They replaced Joker's Wild for this? What were they thinking?

[@PatrioticPirate]

They WEREN'T thinking!

[@jamesklatt]

Was it also going off against wheel of fortune in some markets?

[@facebook51ify]

Viewers are not satisfied with today's programs as of now.

[@georgemaster4225]

@@facebook51ify I am one of them! As I've said in previous posts,who needs 3-4 hours of news? Los Angeles switched The Drew Barrymore Show to 9am and Let's Make A Deal to 2pm.

[@MrMarcellolsilva]

deserves a revival.

[@TheBundychick82]

That was cool I see that was one of gameshow flops in the 1970's but still it was a fun concept and I loved the set a nice colourful rainbow I'm from Australia and thank u it was a bit before my time I was born in 1982!!!!

[@andrewschroy6368]

+MattTheSaiyan Now, the question is... who should've hosted the Aussie Spin-Off? Seems like something Jimmy Hannan, "Ugly Dave" Gray, Stuart Wagstaff, or Barry Creyton could've hosted...

[@TheBundychick82]

why not ugly dave gray stewart wagstaaf and barry creyton could they were all on blankety blanks well udg hosted play your cards right thats card sharks and tattletales too!!!!!!!

[@JeopardyandWheelFan]

And what the heck, since you mentioned that there should've been an Australian version of Spin-Off, I think there should've been an Australian version of The Joker's Wild as well. Who would've been great as host of an Aussie Joker?

[@Rlotpir1972]

The buzz-on sound was later used in 1980's "Play the Percentages" and 1990's "The 'New' Joker's Wild".

[@wisp2007]

From the footage, I think this might have been the pilot episode.

[@sugarbear522]

It looks like Spin Off had a Yahtzee vibe to it, but usin numbers and buzzers instead of dice.

[@toddwacha5108]

I used to like Spin-Off! It was a neat game show. I never thought of it as any relation to Yahtzee, until I read more about it online. I've also read that all of the episodes exist, thankfully. I would like to see someone upload the series to KZbin sometime. BTW, I still think that Yahtzee would make a great game show someday.

[@davec5090]

Yahtzee was aired from January to September in 1988 with Peter Marshall as the host, which very few episodes exist on KZbin. It would be cool to see a revival of both Yahtzee and Spin Off.

[@toddwacha5108]

@@davec5090 I don't know about Yahtzee with the way that it was done in 1988. It was a poor Match Game clone. I'd personally like to see a newer version of Yahtzee that would be closer to the actual game. I also wish that someone would air all of the Spin-Off episodes in a marathon form.

[@artkurtz9238]

I considered it more of a variation of draw poker. With 6 numbers though, I guess it was like Yahtzee too. It was more Yahtzee than the Match Game type game show Yahtzee.

[@jehobden]

I don't recall ever seeing this when I was a kid. I would've loved seeing this in color, but we just had B&W TVs in the house then.

[@GSGThailand]

i like that game show ^ ^

[@blozier2006]

The win graphic almost reminds me of what they used on the 1987-1988 season of High Rollers for Big Numbers wins

[@VahanNisanian]

This looks like a good show.

[@paullarue2010]

$200 was the amount, to win the game.

[@supersaver87]

It'd be neat to see this show rerun...or at least see an episode surface. It looks like it was fun! :)

[@MrRemark21]

I hope all the episodes of this program restores by the television time machine.

[@MrMarcellolsilva]

A wheel would also work instead of buttons.

[@briansheil9763]

Someone has a full episode of this show?

[@paullarue2010]

Drums for victory.

[@okc1975]

i would love to see a full pilot sohw of that

[@GeorgeMaster-xg7lg]

I think saw this in summer reruns.

[@andrewschroy6368]

And both shows had Johnny Jacobs as announcer.

[@TBONE_2004]

Hey John. you think Wink has the pilot episode sealed away in his vault? ;)

[@jrjgames]

+THE OFFICIAL TBONE2004 He does not sadly

[@georgemaster689]

Another candidate for Lost And Found on Buzzr, perhaps.

[@johnnyballenatl]

But the big question is: *Who currently owns Spin-Off?!* If not Fremantle, then perhaps any of the major studios (Sony, Disney, Warner Bros., NBCUniversal, Paramount, MGM) or an independent company.

[@witherblaze]

This is Kasey Kasem speaking, right?

[@paullarue2010]

Reminds me of In-N-Out menu.

[@Jiltedin2007]

You have 3 5's while the other couple is holding A Straight and you call?

[@cartoongameshowman]

Did this came from a game show document?

[@georgemaster9271]

Any episodes left?

[@illustriousrocket4476]

No episodes are available to the public that I know of, but unline most of its contemporaries the show itself is apparently still intact. Its 50 episodes were found when the CBS Joker's Wild was in the early 2000s. EDIT: I was mistaken to a point, there is at least one episode available but it is audio-only. I do not know of any video episodes.

[@wiedep]

nutz

[@Ian16545]

That narrator sounds like a cross between Martin Sheen and Jackson Beck to me.

[@goldenroad004]

Was this for a syndie run?

[@Rlotpir1972]

CBS.

[@Ebe4Feze]

post this show up

[@kingporter67]

This was from 1976, Spin Off was a very rare CBS game show hosted by the late, great Jim Lange!!

[@MTCesquire]

"....requires a high-intensity viewing audience." I literally dozed off watching this and still managed to keep up with what's going on. Nice try, Announcer Man.

[@ZACHERYalderton-s3h]

$ 10,000

[@Explore531]

im sorry but Jokers Wild is more fun

[@davidkendrick4453]

This was the kind of game show that was only good if you were really, really, really high. The set was cheap, the game was stupid, and the prizes were cheap. But a couple of Delta 9s would make it compelling TV.

[@danbarker3846]

Now that I've seen it I wonder why this was cancelled so fast, I didn't like Give-N-Take so much.