To this day, when I hear Dick Clark say, " here is your first subject, go!" it gives me chills. He was so good as a host.

Clark was outstanding on Pyramid, fun but serious about the game and his poker face here preparing us for bad news.... was PERFECTION.

Upon listening at x.25 speed, it is noted the buzzer beat her, so she would've been disqualified normally. However, noticing that there were one or two answers where the judges were too slow to give the bell (which may have disadvantaged her unfairly), they probably decided to award her the $10,000 due to their mistake(s).

'A lumberjack's shirt' would be my clue for 'Things Made Of Flannel".

The effortless and eloquent mastery with which Dick Clark explains the rules and then builds up the suspense before finally revealing the win and sending the contestant and the audience into delirium is what made him who he was. The largely talentless people that the networks use for game show hosts these days can't hold a candle to him, Bob Barker, Wink Martindale, Allen Ludden, Gene Rayburn, Peter Marshall or any of the other guys of the golden age who made hosting into the delightful art form that it was and still should be.

If you play it back at .25x speed, she was late. But someone pointed out that the $100 had a slight delay before flipping over and that time delay was much longer than how late her answer was. It was probably the right call.

I think the judges were in a good mood.

The only game show I ever watched religiously as a child. As I watch these really old re-runs,I realize how honest & generous the producers & Dick Clark were for being fair and honest to all contestants. There was also no nonsense blabbing. Very speedy show!!

Why did this bring a tear to my eye

If that word starts with anything other than an F or V, she doesn't get it. Being able to slur "of" and "flannel" get her the win.

Such a close one! I'm always relieved when the judges rule in favour of the contestants. The clues for flannel weren't as sharp as the others. "Nightgown" threw the contestant off, she immediately thought of a a sexy, silky nightgown - about as far away from flannel as you can get! A baby's blanket would have been better than baby's clothes. Pyjamas would have been the best clue to start with, followed by winter sheets and a lumberjack's shirt.

Right or wrong, the judges decision IS final folks.

Rip Dick Clark. Wow. What a game. Thanks for posting this.

No way could I go on playing after that, my nerves would have been shot I couldn’t get any words out.

Listened to it more than 50 times. Wrong call, the word started too late.

After further review, the ruling on the field stands.

Thanks for this clip, I remember this being uploaded on youtube a long time ago but I think it's been taken down since then. Can't get much closer than that as far as the finish goes!!!!

I think they got the call right, I think I hear her start the "Ffff" sound in Flanel just a tick before the buzzer. Remember this is 1983, no digital recordings, it's all tape. They have to make a call in a hurry, they can't wait all day. giver her the money.

What's funny os Dick described it the exact way it happened after the commercial, and the still gave it to her...

She got away with one there. It's so close as to be pretty much simultaneous-- but the buzzer does come in just before the beginning of "flannel".

Love the show and DC, was cheering for her... but she didn't even come close to getting it in time.

I don’t think there was ever any other game show where the joy of winning was absolutely infectious.

if you snap your fingers to the tick of the clock, you will see that she started saying Flannel before you snap to the buzzer

When a situation like this is so close that after listening five times you have to listen another five, then it’s bothing more than putting technicality before substance. At that point, just give the contestant benefit of the doubt. “Tie goes to the runner.”

Slowed down to .25 speed, the buzzer just starts before the key word.

I want every game show buzzer to sound like Dick Clark's "BAAAAAHHHHHH!!"

The episode with this contestant was played in the John Travolta/Lisa Kudrow movie Lucky Numbers

Now that's the way you make a decisive better decision.

The contestant said the word "flannel" concurrently with the buzzer... not before and not after. The buzzer itself takes up a certain amount of time. I wouldn't want to be the one to make the call on that.

She ought to have said "a lumberjack's shirt." 😃

OMG! This is was the moment that I've been waiting for.

The dramatic and exciting win can also be seen in flashbacks @ 2:09.

There are two similar ones that have that "keyword rule" "Things with a strap" (Teresa Ganzel) and "Things made of aluminum" (Anita Gillette) along with this one. I listened to all three and all three times the judges got it right. It's a real tough call. It's a hard call to overturn.

Y’know after having watched this and Teresa Gansel’s run I can now see the BAH rule in effect

FYI, Lois Nettleton appeared on the final week of the $20,000 Pyramid opposite Bill Cullen whose show at the time, Chain Reaction was eating their ratings up, both were cancelled before the second half of 1980.

Clearly the buzzer beat the word "Flannel".

If you slow it down, now available on KZfaq settings next to Closed Captioning, you can hear the original call was correct, she shouldn’t have won, but it was way too close.

She said flannel on the buzzer. That’s as close as it gets. I believe the call was correct, but if it is too close to call the contestant should get the benefit of the doubt. Good call. They would lose viewers if they went the other way.

I heard that in quick succession 5 times in a row & I heard "Fl __ anel", so I think the right call was made based on the rule (Though I recall a situation where the rule was if the contestant starts the correct answer before the buzzer even if said contestant completes it after the buzzer he/she wins).

Contrary to the ruling, she clearly was buzzed before saying "Flannel". I guess the judges don't have access to 0.25x speed!

I don’t think she got it, but they gave it to her anyway. They were in a giving mood that day.

There is a slight delay between the countdown clock on the screen reaching "0" and the buzzer. From what I can tell (and slowing it down as others have indicated) she does not say the "essence" of the response ("flannel") before the clock reached zero, but does manage to get the word "flannel" out before the buzzer.

It was interesting that the contestant thought of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet when the clues were "Ricky" and "long-running TV show". Yep, that makes sense too.

I listened to it a few times and I heard in your mind

Winter pajamas!

I think the buzzer actually sounded before she started to say "flannel," bit I say give it to her.

If only she had said flannel things...

I'm sittin' here biting my nails...

That was a gift...bit where's that funky theme 🎶🎵 after saying she won?🕺

I’m not sure I believe the ruling. My guess is that the judges knew it was late but that it was so close that it would have been a negative feeling regarding the show, so they gave it to her, totally unaware that something called KZfaq could eventually prove otherwise

This clip is why Dick Clark is the GOT, The Master. Michael Strahan could learn a thing or two.

Slow down the last two seconds to .25 speed. She wasn't even close to winning. I could hear that even at normal playback speed.

2:02 DICK CLARK: If you said, "Things made (imitates buzzer) of flannel", we wouldn't give it to you.

I'm curious to know how the rest of the game played out. It's great to give her the money, even though she DID ever so slightly get beat by the buzzer. But that has ramifications for her opponent. The one who gets the highest on the pyramid comes back for the next show. So if her opponent won the second game and scored $750 she would have tied this woman, but would have not been able to come back since they declared this woman won. The best solution would have been to give her the money, but considered her score $750 for the game purposes. Like what The Price is right did when they put fishing wire on the Plinko Board to guide all the pucks into the $10,000 slot for a commercial and then forgot to take the string off. They realized it after the contestant dropped 3 pucks, obviously winning $30,000. They stopped the taping, decided to give her the $30,000, but then also give her 5 more pucks and started the game up. Only the score from the last 5 pucks counted in terms of the order for the showcase showdown or the showcase. the other solution would have been to consider her score BOTH $750 and a victory. That was, if her opponent won the second game and she scored $750, it is a tie, and I thin they both come back under the rules. But if she won, they would ALSO consider it a tie and both would come back. That way, neither would be potentially screwed out of coming back

I go back to this clip to argue with myself for at least 30 minutes it seems BUT I want to see how many "eagle ears" we have The final box is "Things made of flannel" right? I know people use the 1 second delay about the box switching over but do this for me: Play the video at the 2 second (on the game clock) mark and watch when it counts down (and also do this at the slowest speed possible I have gone back and relistened to what the contestant says and here is the way it comes out to me "Things ARE made of flannel" So because of that extra word she says the buzzer goes off when she didn't get to the word they needed which SHOULD constitute a loss. I know we are arguing over a clip that is now...35 years ,5 months and 14 days old about the technicalities of it but this is something that started to drive me crazy so I slowed it down to make sure I heard everything right and it legitimately sounds like she added that extra word which is why she didn't make it to the word needed in time If I'm right in that then no matter if there was a delay on the box she should have gotten a loss

Of course $10,000 was a BIG amount of money in 1983.I mean it's not bad now!

A lumberjack's shirt

!0,000 back in 1983 is equal to around 30,000 in 2024.

Dick Clark's call is correct. She started the key word at 1 second and then the buzzer rang after that.

I thought the contestant was the celeb at first (1983 Mary Hart from a distance).

It came after the buzzer. Also the last clue was iffy, it sounded like she said "flanket".

1:06 did she get it on time? 2:07 she got it! 🎉

The more that I look t this and listen again. The Judges call was correct. She started the keyword about a half second before the buzzer sounded. The other one with Teresa Ganzel was also right. It's a tough call.

1:06 - She said Flannel after the buzzer

Hey Chad! 🎉 which game shows have you been on?

I can see why people think it was the wrong call, but I watched it in slow-mo and they got it

$10, O00 in that time would be about $ 40,000 in 2024

Wow, how did she guess the "BEACHES" one, only after ONE clue?? WHOA!!

she got it in time but barely the judge gave it to her

Listened at .25 times speed... hate to say it, but she should have lost. The buzzer sounded before "Flannel" was starter.

She could have said WARM clothes with all the other clues she said.

A decade too early to talk about a grunge rocker's stage uniforn.

What was the lady's name in the blue that said flannel?

Dick Clark is about 78 years old here?

heeeey that's Dorothy's friend!!

whew that was close

Would be like winning 31 thousand in 2024

A lumberjack's shirt.

the buzzer sounded as she was on the first L in Flannel.

Call REVERSED

1:06 said it all

Generous and wrong decision

Let me try something. Since made of flannel was the answer I think benefit of the doubt was given. She said made of before the buzzer.

I don't completely get the rule, because she was in the middle of saying it in a sentence. BUT according to the way Clark described it, she didn't say flannel in time. Again, I don't get it, because she was midstream of a fluid sentence. Also, seems like if you say it over the buzzer, it should still count.

For some reason,the judges always missed these calls!

Yes Girl!

does anyone know who the other celebrity contestant is that she hugs as well

The tv clock not same as studio

ALL RIGHT! 😄

A shirt John Fogerty wears often.

I knew she made up.

2:07 ❤❤❤ YAAAAAAAAASS!!!! ❤❤❤

Trickster !

Good thing technology sucked back then. Slowing down on youtube. She was off

My personal opinion, after rewatching this clip, is that the buzzer went before she said 'flannel." It was "Things made of(BUZZZZ)flannel. Just that close, less than a tenth of a second in fact. I imagine technology in 1983 was as such, that you couldn't make a 100% accurate call. But thanks to the internet, you can pinpoint exactly what happens, and make the call close to 100% correct. Still, happy that she won.

she didn't beat it

Is this the only $10,000 win to make the intros from the desk?

As much as I love seeing somebody win money on a gameshow...I believe the call made here was incorrect, based on this video. The buzzer had maybe beaten the contestent to the word "flannel" by a tenth of a second at most but it still beat her. I even went to the trouble of running the video at 1/4 speed and listening to it through studio headphones...and it is oh so painfully close, but...sadly, this lady shouldn't have won the $10K, going by the rules as explained shortly after by Dick. What I consistently heard was "Things that are made of" *BUZZ* "flannel!"

Sorry but she DID NOT get it per the rules.

Male celebrity is ?????