The New Tic Tac Dough premiere (September 18, 1978)

[@markgallon3185]

I was exactly one month old when this was on

[@chrismc410]

I wouldn't be born for another two years

[@khriscap]

Brings back good memories from childhood I used to watch tic TAC tough in the evenings with my mom,wink Martindale was a great host and was actually from Memphis a hour drive from me so that made him more easier for me to like

[@brandihilton8485]

I love this show!! I wish that they would play again. It's so fun. I heard the theme song & brought back great memories. ☺️

[@cutemimi25]

I heard they're going to bring back Tic Tac dough with Tom Bergeron as the host

[@friedchickenicedtea]

​@@cutemimi25 Bergeron said it's not gonna happen.

[@cutemimi25]

@@friedchickenicedtea either that's good or bad depending on how you look at it, bad because Tic Tac dough is a classic good because remember how bad the 90s version was?

[@actownsend7288]

@@friedchickenicedteaWhat a bummer I like Tom a lot and TTD!!!

[@ChristopherThompson-tf6fd]

😊August 2024 on Game Show Network, with Brooke Burns as host.

[@epacm50]

Gotta love those end/closing credits and product showcase(end of show). They zoomed the camera in and out during that period of the show. Those were the good old days of TV. Every now and then during that season and later you heard Jay Stewart's voice during the show. Rice-A-Roni was a staple during the showcase product announcement periods. TMC was their exclusive provider for all of their show prizes and showcase giveaways. Did Jay ever announce on the old Sandy Frank and Chuck Barris shows?

[@thewipsportstalkfan3160]

No Jay never did any Barris series, that mainly was Johnny Jacobs' area ( alongside Joker and the shows in early years of Jack Barry's return to tv) nor anything Sandy Frank did (mainly John Harlan)

[@PREGO1966]

Johnny Jacobs had the lock on Chuck Barris shows. Sandy Frank did not have many, John Harlan had the ones I saw

[@epacm50]

I sure miss "The Liars Club".

[@PREGO1966]

​@@epacm50so do I but what has that have to do with this discussion

[@jamesvernon1852]

I'm watching this and jokers wild in the 7pm hour remembering back in the day

[@todd4182]

The dragon roaring in the bonus round. An iconic sound effect.

[@HEMIpoweredherochao]

Plus the dragon looking a lot like Wink (or at least, as best they could)

[@coronaweeks4577]

This shows the early 80s were an extension of the 70s…I remember seeing shows as a kid in 1984 and the set was the same as this maybe the fashion different

[@ryandiggs750]

The jingle at 7:06 is a classic

[@Musicradio77Network]

It’s the classic think music, but I used it for my “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” tournament.

[@BenJabituya]

The shuffling sound reminds me of the "Jeopardy!" board filling sound from 1984. (Well, Johnny Gilbert announced this premiere episode and still announces "Jeopardy!" to date) .

[@ryandiggs750]

@7:06 it sounds like a remix of the Final Jeopardy theme

[@blindsportslover]

I wish Jeopardy! kept that original shuffling sound rather than changing it.

[@Musicradio77Network]

I hope maybe GameTV in Canada (since we don’t have it here in the US) might be getting the Wink Martindale episodes since they are carrying the Jim Caldwell episodes, along with the Thom McKee episodes which is a good choice for GameTV.

[@willmack5909]

This game show really needs to come back, with this set! Not the 1985-86 Jim Caldwell dreck, and not the 1990 Patrick Wayne fiasco. Would be so awesome if this came back again.

[@Rlotpir1972]

There were plans a few years ago, but never sold.

[@Anthony-pn4cl]

I liked this show back when.

[@bmasters1981]

Tomorrow will be the 45th anniversary of this premiere broadcast of the show that truly put Wink Martindale on the map.

[@PREGO1966]

He was no slouch with Gambit either

[@chrismc410]

​@@PREGO1966he's probably the reigning champion of hosts now with the passing of Alex Trebek and Bob Barker

[@PREGO1966]

@@chrismc410 Most likely since most emcees from Winston's era are long gone.

[@jmjfanss]

@@PREGO1966 and the short lived high rollers and debt.

[@PREGO1966]

@@jmjfanss actually High Rollers with Winston was a remake from the 70s

[@MTPromices]

The original dragon

[@Musicradio77Network]

It was and still is Spike from MLP, and according to the board game, it was “The Mean Dragon”.

[@nextbarker2702]

@1:30 nice to see Wink's desk, how did he know where to get the question from?

[@bmasters1981]

I think it was set up where there were individual compartments with the questions for each category (18 in all [9 for regulars on blue cards, and 9 for the harder center-box/two-part questions on pink cards]), and when the player in control selected a category to play, a light would come on above the proper compartment (there would be 9 indicator lights on top for the normal questions, and 9 on bottom for the two-parters that needed extra time), and Wink would draw the question and start reading it out.

[@samueljimson9837]

Wink and Richard Dawson has one thing in common they love kissing the female contestants

[@wschmrdr]

I've heard one southerner claiming that the area is descended from English aristocrats; given Chuck Woolery also does this (he's originally from KY and Wink from TN), it must be a cultural thing.

[@johnmiller8338]

"The kaufman-astoria studios in millerville-city luzerne-county ioml circa september-1978 stage-c the joker's wild stage-d tic tac dough & stage-j sesame-street".

[@marchoffman6878]

wink martindale hosts and johnny gilbert announces.

[@wturner777]

And both of them are still alive today.

[@Leahyummy]

​@@wturner777Yep. Wink has been uploading game show videos on his channel for Years.

[@wturner777]

@@LeahyummyTrue. I’ve always been a fan of his channel.

[@MrRemark21]

Aired on Los Angeles TV Station KHJ-TV Channel 9 on Monday, September 18, 1978 (first-run); Monday, June 18, 1979 (reruns). When it was a rerun on Monday, June 18, 1979, it was the first weekday of five in the non-SLDC five weekday vacation plus my first weekday of twelve of my retro daytime babysitter with Andrea Munns (Guillaume) (age 16).

[@BenJabituya]

June 18, 1979: THAT WAS THE DAY I WAS BORN!

[@Musicradio77Network]

It was aired on WPIX-TV (channel 11) in NYC back in 1978, just a week after I was born. And then it moved to WOR-TV (channel 9) in the early 1980’s.

[@roysanders7245]

I loved the game show

[@RJSchex]

Featuring the unused (presumably non-functioning) lockout buttons from the CBS version.

[@TheRenard10]

Only 1 person isn't a game show critic 😲

[@johnfenner5550]

According to a WPIX promo posted here, the show didn't premiere in NYC until September 25.

[@Musicradio77Network]

After two years, it moved to WOR-TV (channel 9) by 1980 where it remained until 1986.

[@MadMikeSportsYT]

Didn't this also air on WABC at one point?

[@DNSKansas]

The first time--and possibly last--someone completed Tic-Tac-Dough by claiming the center box.

[@PREGO1966]

Not the last, can't think of when but over 7-8 years, I'm sure it was done

[@mitchellries256]

I wonder if this show would've lasted longer if Wink hadn't left.

[@dirtyoldman7356]

Maybe, they should've left the original set alone. I always liked the wood look. It was popular in the late 70's thru the 80's.

[@mitchellries256]

@@dirtyoldman7356 I doubt that would've had anything to do with it ending. I think it was mainly because Jim Caldwell wasn't a great replacement. Peter Tomarken would've been perfect to takeover the show.

[@PREGO1966]

@@mitchellries256 Peter Tomarken was busy with and already associated with Press Your Luck at the time

[@mitchellries256]

@@PREGO1966 Press Your Luck was a daytime show. This was a syndicated program. He could've done both.

[@megamanj2004X]

Not really. Remember Wheel of Fortune (which started its nighttime version in the 1983-84 season) and Jeopardy! (Which premiered during Alex Trebek’s friend and fellow host Wink Martindale’s final season of TTD) was already clobbering this show, TTD’s sister show The Joker’s Wild (with Bill Cullen taking over for Jack Barry who died in May 1984) and Family Feud with Richard Dawson (which was the Number 1 game show from 1977-84) in the ratings. By May 1985, the nighttime syndicated Dawson Feud would be gone with the abc Daytime version following suit the next month. By May of 1986 Both TTD and TJW would be gone from the airwaves.

[@chrismc410]

0:04

[@marvinjohnson7523]

They’re bringing it back on GSN

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

I’m so excited about rebooting shows gsn and new host

[@AnErrorOccurred]

Confused about something… Didn’t they have the black box jump in categories at this stage? I see buzzers on the contestants podiums but they didn’t use the black category boxes for jumping in categories. When did those come about?

[@bmasters1981]

The black box jump-ins were only on the short-lived (abortive) daily CBS Daytime run from July 3 to Sept. 1; after that, they were no longer used on the syndie Martindale show (up until about Season 6 starting in '83, when they started to be used again as a red-box special category, albeit with a different buzz-in sound effect).

[@AnErrorOccurred]

@@bmasters1981 I thought so but wasn’t sure, I thought I remembered seeing them once at night time but wasn’t sure, and also on the CBS pilots posted on here I didn’t see them. I guess they came a little later. Thanks for the reply

[@justinbryant9419]

Johnny Gilbert sub announcing for the late Jay Stewart for the first few episodes of the shows premier week

[@megamanj2004X]

He also subbed on the original CBS Daytime version of The Joker’s Wild and the 1st season of the 1977-86 syndicated version of The Joker’s Wild.

[@momo7435]

Jay Stewart also subbed for Johnny Gilbert on "Blackout" for the last two weeks of the show due to Johnny battling an illness. It would be the last announcing duties for Stewart until his death in 1989.

[@todd4182]

Jay Stewart. Sale Of The Century.

[@ZACHERYalderton]

Johnny Gilbert The voice of Jeporady

[@PREGO1966]

and many more, the oldest of all announcers

[@michaelfagan7290]

quincy

[@nextbarker2702]

I wonder why the CBS TTD didn't last long but the syndicated show did

[@megamanj2004X]

Because it got hammered by NBC’s Card Sharks, which also premiered the same year that (The New) Tic Tac Dough returned.

[@IvoryM1986]

This episode's fee plugs were later re-dubbed by Jay Stewart in the Choice Shows selections in June 1979.

[@johnmiller8338]

"From kaufman-astoria studios stage-d in millerville-city luzerne-county ioml it's everybody's game of strategy knowledge & fun it's the new tic tac dough & now here's our host wink-martindale".

[@jokerswildfan1972]

I know they didn't start shuffling after each turn until 1979. What was the date that started?

[@theguywiththegames1594]

I don't think the exact date is known but it was an episode taped in February so most likely sometime in March.

[@PREGO1966]

@@theguywiththegames1594 Actually it was I believe the second season premiere that aired in September of 79

[@TomH7.22]

Why didn’t he choose the top middle one a correct answer would have given him two chances to win

[@bennetfox]

Wink you are supposed to shuffle the categories after each question!!!

[@PREGO1966]

Bennett not to embarrass you but you should read the posts above you that say the same thing and most of the time resolve them.

[@marchoffman6878]

host wink martindale announcer johnny gilbert

[@briancurry6602]

dragon slayer

[@marchoffman6878]

tic tac dough

[@Leahyummy]

can you not spam

[@DNSKansas]

Right off the bat, #6 is cursed in the bonus game. You would think each number would contain the dragon 11.1 percent of the time, right? I'd have to say #6 had it at least 28 percent, if not more.

[@leandar]

Even when I was a kid, I wanted to yell out "don't pick #6!"

[@suffix345]

When I was a kid, 4 was my lucky number, and it still is. I hated it when the dragon was behind #4. Early on, for at least the first year, the dragon was never behind numbers 5 or 9

[@marchoffman6878]

carla and logan didn.t do well with the broadway shows subject.

[@PREGO1966]

nor the nursery rhymes category

[@marchoffman6878]

since there.s the covid pandemic there are no broadway shows and there.s no broadway right now.

[@chrisarseneault5617]

Quality sucks

[@diamonddave45]

Well, considering it was probably on a very early Beta or VHS recorder at home. Not bad for 1978.

[@stopdeforestation]

If I can hear the video well, the quality is good. I can hear it fine.

[@Musicradio77Network]

I wish the original studio master version of this syndicated premiere is in the vault.

[@marchoffman6878]

tic tac dough

[@Leahyummy]

can you not spam

[@marchoffman6878]

tic tac dough