Shoot for the Stars|Monty Hall Pilot

Monty is having fun with the stars again, this time shooting them...I mean shooting for them...we'll you'll see! Enjoy!
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[@kingporter67]

Wow, Meg looks super gorgeous in this 1976 very rare Shoot for the Stars game show, this is also a very rare game show as well!!

[@giovannia5685]

This is cool! It’s basically Monty Hall trying his hand at Hollywood Squares with some elements of Match Game, made clearer in the bonus round. Surprised ABC chose Hot Seat over this; it would’ve made for a decent run. Monty Hall is Monty Hall, the cast is good, and I can’t get enough of those spinning balls. Doing great as always, Wink. Thank you so much. ❤️🙏🏿

[@sidkrantz9533]

I wondered when this was shot. If ABC indeed bypassed this for Hot Seat, that’s a shame. It would’ve likely aired before or after the original Family Feud. Regardless, fun show. Kinda like Hollywood Squares meets Card Sharks.

[@bryanloveseighties]

I think, since the questions were numerical ones, it's a cross between Hollywood Squares and The Price is Right. In the main game, the celebrities say a number of something and the contestant would guess if the right number was higher or lower, just like Price's Shell Game and Bonus Game, unless the celeb hit it right on the nose, in which case, the contestant would automatically get the points. The bonus game was played just like Price's Contestant's Row game, only 3 celebs would guess the number and the contestant would choose who is the closest to the right number, but it's ok for the number to be higher than the right number to be the closest or not.

[@someguy23475]

According to Monty, ABC didn’t even bother to look at this pilot or Talking Pictures.

[@gsnfan]

Nipsey Russell was a regular on Monty's version of Masquerade Party with host Richard Dawson. Also noticed the music is used on other Hatos/Hall shows.

[@johnnyballenatl]

Of the five stars (and Monty Hall) featured in this pilot, Jo Ann Worley is the only one still with us today.

[@stedco75]

It’s the Match Game/Hollywood Squares Half-Hour!

[@markstevens9249]

10 years too early, they give Rue McClanahan a question Blanche Deveraux could answer precisely!

[@sha11235]

Wasn't her character on Maude similar to Blanche?

[@MDCSWildcats86]

@@sha11235 That was Betty White as Rose Nyland. Bette and Rue switched once they realized their original roles were the same as earlier.

[@JonesDylan874]

Was a pretty nice pilot. This could've worked. Thanks for giving us the good stuff, Wink!

[@aviduser1961]

I think Jay Stewart was the best sounding game show announcer ever. And there were many excellent announcers during this period. But there was something about Jay's voice.

[@gameshowfanatic9311]

There was also Bob Hilton, Johnny Gilbert, Gene Wood, Rod Roddy, Johnny Olson, and Charlie O’Donnell

[@chriswahl4139]

interesting how not long after this there would be a game show with the same title from Bob Stewart with Geoff Edwards

[@RJSchex]

Title would later be used by Bob Stewart Prodiuctions for a 1977 NBC show hosted by Geoff Edwards (the pilot was titled "Shoot the Works").

[@diamonddog13]

I think Wink was referencing the SCTV sketch "Shoot At the Stars".

[@willmack5909]

I own a similar game based on this premise, it's simply called "Over/Under" and all of the answers are numeric. Translated to a pretty fun and funny 30 minute game show too. Thanks for sharing this!

[@KrakenMan5853]

I liked this game. Monty, as always, was fantastic as ever. There were some parts that needed to be tweaked. The end game had some suspense with those starred sphears. Over all, a good game.

[@user-uo6xu7dt7w]

Wink, another awesome unsold TV game show pilot!! I really liked it, went by really fast. Thanks so much for sharing with us!

[@DrummingWriterTrekfan84]

This is a really funny game show and it works! It really should have been picked up! And I like it a lot more than the carnival game show. This one is a lot easier on the eyes lol!

[@LordChristopherOfMidway]

Thanks for posting this! I see it as a combination of "Match Game," "Hollywood Squares," and "Card Sharks," and it probably could have sold. Maybe the point system on the front game was flawed, but that could have been tweaked.

[@sha11235]

Also Treasure Hunt where there is a hidden 25,000 dollars and Monty being like Emile knowing where it was.

[@ronflatter1235]

9:03 The same cue was used for the winner on Split Second.

[@kingchrisl89]

Uses the Vegas Deal commercial theme.

[@thetalkingarchive4795]

Fun show. I would have watched had it become a series. The plants in the background remind me of All Star Secrets' set.

[@wisp2007]

I’ve heard about this one . Glad to actually see it, thank you. And do I hear recycled music cues from Split Second? I think I do

[@williambone5678]

😂😂nice pilot. I'd call this Monty Hall's Hollywood Squares. Should have gotten picked up over Hot Seat.😅

[@anthonyguarino4242]

Thanks, wink for showing this!

[@lorddalek]

No relation to the Bob Stewart word association game of the same name.

[@funshine97]

@ 1:37 I hear a music cue from Let's Make a Deal!

[@ksonchannel5261]

The theme music will be recycled as a prize cue from Let's Make a Deal when the show moved to Las Vegas for the final season on Syndication and continued well into the 80's in Vancouver and in Burbank.

[@jjdvideo]

From 1976 🤩✌

[@KiddBloo86]

What an interesting concept!

[@mabus42]

What a bizarre show... Seems quite well polished for a pilot. Monty Hall as polished as ever - as if he's already hosted the show for years. He could host a PBS telethon (when he was still with us, RIP) and made it the most exciting spectacle ever. As is, I'll give this an A- for a pilot. The show obviously needed some tweaks to the scoring system, and the fact that they didn't remove the TV from the prize spheres after it had already been won are just two obvious ones. Thanks for sharing Mr. Martindale!

[@sha11235]

I think winning two color TVs is pretty good.

[@stevedeutsch1410]

Fun show. Nice to see Rue and Joannne.

[@jmiller297]

Cowboys fans *LOVE* this opening logo!!

[@Quartzquiz333]

Monty was looking to move on from Let's Make a Deal, so kudos for trying something new. Too bad this "new" show was Hollywood Squares Derivative #1,473. Monty would recycle many of these cues for his 1980 Canadian syndicated Let's Make a Deal.

[@ronflatter1235]

This pilot had some promise. Good pacing. Easy to play along. Some of the production elements were a little rough, but those would have been ironed out. And the set looked a little too daytimey. But this should have had some legs.

[@ChuckD79]

It would've been much better than Hot Seat, the mediocre husband/wife lie detector game that ABC picked up instead!

[@ebrenner5059]

If had the pilot sucedeed it would have been weird for it to have the same musical intro as Monty's entrance song on the Vegas Let's Make a Deal.

[@sha11235]

I thought there was another game titled this with Geoff Edwards hosting.

[@ronflatter1235]

1:31 Hey, Pat. You forgot something.

[@crisfleming1528]

It’s definitely better than It’s Anybody’s Guess

[@marcomacias3960]

i thought it was the pilot to the one where Double Talk spun off from

[@PREGO1966]

Nice change of pace for Monty. Thanks again, Winston. By the way folks, this is not to be confused with the Geoff Edwards "Shoot For The Stars" whose pilot was called "Shoot The Works"

[@accampbell]

First question of the game should have been for control of the panel. I would have awarded 3 points for a right answer on the toss up. Ask a panelist for an answer for a bonus. Then toss up again for 3 points. No points given to the other player for the wrong answer. I would have changed the end game to where they pick a panelist at the start, but not reveal the game winner prize until it was won. Then I would have had them pick their bonus and then would have done the final question. That's my notes.

[@williambone5678]

Should have made this a 20 point game.

[@joebradio]

The bonus round reminds me of WOF

[@LittleRockElevators]

Interesting pilot. The governor of Arkansas currently make over $158,000 a year.

[@sha11235]

Another show Monty created with Stefan Hatos.

[@JoshTaylor-qs2br]

Hello John how is your day been going

[@RedStrikerBeetleborg]

fast and easy game

[@rodney1279TheFlip]

This was a good pilot. I do not know why it was not picked up.

[@sha11235]

Too many levels?

[@AdamJ617]

You might at 16:21. The champion can easily win by doing nothing, while their opponent does more work, but still gets screwed.

[@sha11235]

Oh, they both started with 3 points, I couldn't see hers clearly at first. Also, how did they come up with her already winning that amount of money if it's a pilot?

[@wisp2007]

This was common among pilots. Sometimes they liked to pretend that there was a previous day’s show where a returning champion won something. Pilots are often staged and most likely no one received anything from them other than being paid a flat fee for appearing as contestant actors. This is why around this period you’d see people like Maggie Brown and Jack Campion in pilots often.

[@ronflatter1235]

23:54 Should be $3,078.

[@jeprice08]

One question: Why? Why didn't it sell? It's not because of Bob Stewart and Geoff Edwards, was it? Okay, that's three questions but still...

[@wisp2007]

No it’s because of the circumstances surrounding Break the Bank; One Life to Live and General Hospital expanded to an hour around this time. Suddenly space got limited

[@someguy23475]

According to Monty, ABC didn’t even look at the pilot. The same went for Talking Pictures. Fred Silverman hated game shows and apparently wasn’t a fan of Monty either.

[@nunyanunya4147]

monty HALL... i clicked expecting a montey Python pilot :( very disappointed.

[@LudoRex]

Wow. Was that sloppy. Missed audio cues. The winner won the same prize twice twice. The biggest laugh of the show (at 6:55) was unintelligible (Closed Captioning couldn't get it).

[@knagl]

Pat Harrington said that the marriage lasted, "about 350 calories."

[@ProWrestlingWeekly]

After listening back more closely than I probably should, I believe Pat Harrington made a callback to the previous question by saying, “Or a hundred and fifty calories.”

[@nextbarker2702]

Was this after LMAD ended?

[@markschildberg1667]

It seems to have been produced around the time that the network run of LMAD ended.

[@operator35]

Lots of recycled music in use here.