Portions not effecting the outcome of the game have not been edited :-)

I love seeing these rough cuts; it's so fascinating seeing what goes into making a TV show like this, and I enjoy "peeking behind the curtain," so to speak. I'm kinda hoping to see more of these at some point. Thank you for sharing this, Tom Kennedy -- I mean, Wink Martindale! (I just couldn't resist.)

Banko is an interesting combination of "Tic Tac Dough" and "Press Your Luck." Thanks for sharing!

Enjoyed greatly. This could have been a great little game show... I really enjoyed the front end game of word connections. As always Wink M. bring a pile of professionalism and class to whatever he does. Thanks for sharing.

"Portions of this program not effecting outcome have been edited for broadcast" makes more sense to me after watching this

What a ride THIS was...lol...interesting for sure, a good concept. Needed work though. Great to see the "rough cut" here. Thank you!

Interesting how this was a rough cut with mistakes.

26:18 Man, the stagehand had NO sense of humor. I mean, Wink saying "This is Tom Kennedy" is comedy gold.

Glad you kept the bloopers intact.

The cue-card guy is really working that chewing gum.

Love seeing raw unedited clips from game shows. Thanks, Wink!

Interesting pilot. The shuffle sound effect from Tic Tac Dough should've been used when the board was in motion. The contestant podiums look like a portion of Match Game from the Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour.

I love that this was a rough cut this is so cool! Thanks for sharing Wink!

Wink....loved you my whole life since I was a little boy watching Tic Tac Dough.....too bad this didn't make it....thanks again for everything

Thank you for posting Mr. Martindale, I think this show would have worked, but I guess that's showbiz, it definitely put a smile on my face

I appreciate that it was a rough cut. Very cool.

I always wondered how pickups, re-takes and technical glitches were handled during a live taping. Hosting really is harder than it looks.

I absolutely love this! Looking behind the curtain is so rare.

A really fun watch! I love the behind the scenes stuff!

Interesting that Kimberly didn't get "Rose" before the tech glitch, but she got it on the re-edit. :)

"Banko" is a Jack Barry-Dan Enright Production.

"Bank-O", I'd heard, was originally the working title for what would eventually go on air as "Jackpot!".

Interesting... there were no win cues or bumper cue or end theme. Also, I hope the Tom Kennedy read was joke. You did great for this show Wink.

This is 1 of only two pilot episodes of the American unsold game show "Banko" aired in December 1985. On this first pilot episode, Greg plays against Kimberly. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Thanks for sharing this, Wink.

Fascinating seeing the rough cut! Thanks!

I would've changed one thing on the bonus round. The winner should've gotten the amount for each box that was eliminated. Another words, if she eliminated 3 $600 boxes, it should've added $1,800 to the total - not just the original total of one box.

Wink, so awesome of you to post this will all the rough edges ... and for preserving so much game show history. The game board graphics look like the ones on Hot Potato™ [another B&E production]. Was the technology lifted from that show? And if anyone here knows, what kind of computers were running the board? [And one more thing: me about 18 years ago asked you for an autograph pic. I drew your name on the envelope to look like the High Rollers™ logo, and a couple weeks later came a signed pic of you on the set of Debt.™ Still have it. Thanks for making a game show fan happy. :) ]

That was awesome, Thank You!

It’s odd that the prizes aren’t shown while Charlie was describing them

The screens looked like the Tic Tac Dough screens from Wink's wonderful hosting of it.

Interesting that you read Tom Kennedy in the ending rehearsal. Was he the original pick I wonder?

Thank God this show never continued. They used the same screens from tic tac dough and tried to be a press your luck show

Pretty interesting game. To bad it wasn’t picked up.

Kinda has a TIC TAC DOUGH Stage like presence but i love it Wink :-)

At 5:24 a blooper, what happened on this case Wink? It's good to explain if this occurs on a live game show? And a difference with the pre recorded show?

I found the "Press Your Luck - Stumpers" hybrid interesting but you lost me with the home bingo cards.

Shades of Knockout and Press Your Luck.

The contestant looks a little like Kristen Wiig.

Love that 80s 8 bit game show technology.

As long as they pay the host for the pilot (as well as the series when it airs) that's no problem. (Alex Trebek told the cautionary tale of "Pitfall!" where that was the only job he took where the paycheck bounced on him)

I wonder if you can in any way categorize this as a prelude to all of those interactive game shows Wink would host in the 90's on that cable channel?

when I watch these pilots i never understand why there are returning champions when the show isnt even on tv

Here's my opinion... thanks for the post, BTW. With a few tweaks, especially to the end game, I could see this working. Front game, I would've changed it to start the player with 5 spins and show them the first clue. For each additional clue the player needed to solve the puzzle, s/he would lose a spin. The opponent could buzz in and try to steal the spins at any time with the rule that if they were wrong, the player in control would automatically get control. The star rule was great, although it could cause problems if hit too early with no prizes on the diagonal. The end game: give the contestant 60 seconds to solve as many puzzles as they can, with clues appearing approx. every 1-2 seconds. Each successfully solved puzzle gives them one turn. The object is to complete a Banko. Ten random squares will be filled in to give them a head start with the star in the center still being an automatic win, but needing at least two squares in any other direction. Things that worked well... the pacing was good, the emcee kept everything moving well (definitely keep him around for the series), and the home player concept was intriguing, but I would be worried about how many possible thousands of winning combinations could be hit at once. (The same problem Monty Hall's Bingo at Home had.) And that's my rant... thanks Wink, always a fan!

LOL tell Wink doesn't want to be there.... "This is Tom Kennedy...."

Who commissioned this? Was it for a network or syndication? The board-game portion of the main game required no skill or knowledge from the contestants and did not lend itself to home-audience play along. Enright should have kept his money.

that was so cool.

I guess there wasn't enough in the budget to bring in a sound technician.

Please, more gambit

YES YES YES YES!!!

How far away is the computer that controls the monitors ? Where does the controller sit and what does he have to do? Is the plunger really wired to the computer? Because didn't it stop once before he hit it..then awkwardly said banko?

1988

Forgive my ignorance, but I was under the assumption a pilot episode would have been the first show taped and aired. But in this pilot, there's a defending champion that lost the game and goes home with over 14 thousand in cash and prizes. How is that possible? With that said, this was an interesting game show!

18:51 Whadda we have to do to get Charlie to tell us about those prizes !?

Interesting idea. I think the bonus game needed to be tweaked. The home viewer game needed to be scaled back. $25,000 at most. No network would have supported $250,000 at that time.

So...basically it's what happens when you try to merge Press Your Luck with bingo and the Roadkill / Coinkydink round from You Don't Know Jack.

This pilot game show must be a blooper.

Wow Wink, with the one and only Charlie O'Donnell from Wheel Of Fortune

Wink, thanks for the old game clips. I was always a game show geek growing up. Did this pilot sell?

I got the feeling Wink really didn't like the whole show...a lot of glitches....no sound effects on different actions(plunger,round buzzers,at home thing flimsy) didn't catch my palet as a game show...love ya Wink.

Really curious about the mechanics of that re-cut at 6:06. He got Tahiti **before** the break, then there was a screwup. They came back and re-enacted it, he hit the plunger again, and... he hit Tahiti again. Did they just tell him to act it out, and then rig the board? If so, wouldn't that give people the impression that the whole thing is rigged?

the word banko should have been above the board

The game was ok, the set was GORGEOUS. Btw, was that same board used for Jeopardy!!???? It's so identical!

Tell sandy hello

How did he end up on Tahiti again during the retake? Can't be random.

Wonder if Greg or Kim watched this again lately?

Front game needed a sound effect for the board running, and maybe a cartoon character with a weird voice for the bad spaces... I do like the word game idea, the rest not so much. The bonus is the standard avoid the bad guy seen way too often with B&E. $250,000 in cash available to home players a week? How in the world could they afford that, especially with the cards free? Did they expect merchants to chip in that much for the right to offer cards? Was the plan for this to be in syndication? If so, would the phones have been manned 24/7, for those stations choosing to run this at 3AM? So many questions that make it completely understandable why this did not sell.

Personally, had "Banko aired I think Bill Caruthers would have gone sue crazy on Dan Enright for copyright infringement because "Banko" was way too close to "Press Your Luck".

Interesting show. I’m wondering if the Banko gameboard also ran on Apple computers as the 70s/80s version of the Tic Tac Dough board did

I thought you already posted this.

The other thing that kept bouncing around in my mind while watching is the most famous "NKO" game... PLINKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi wink

What is this, the master tape?

Honestly, not a fan of this game. But this was the same year I appeared as a contestant with my then-wife on "Headline Chasers." I enjoyed that show more , not just because were on it and won some money, but the game itself was more fun.

It’s kind of unfair that the home players can win more than the players in the game.

Please do the 2nd pilot of whammy

It sure feels shallow with no music and sound effects.

Zack Morris hairdo

If this is the pilot, how did Greg win the $14,800?

Game was horrible. But I love WINK!

Was this a real game show or just a promo

They should try something like this now. I think a game like Banko would work now.

Did some of these pieces come from The (Tic Tac Dough) board or other Apple II Computers?

Press Your Luck+Tic Tac Dough+Minesweeper+Bingo=an interesting '80s game show.

Meh this was okay... don't care for the yelling of Banko nor the dynamite plungers... tweaks here n there and it would be a good game

In the Barry Enright game shows The jokers wild had THE DEVIL Tic tac dough had THE DRAGON Bullseye had Lightning Play the Percentages had a ZERO. In this game show there was no way she could lose. Which is a great thing

$250,000!!!!!

This has to be the absolute worst game show I’ve ever seen! Right in the middle of the guy’s turn at 10:40 Wink randomly says “hey you want to give Kimberley her turn now or later?” What a dud of a show! Still cool to watch!!!

Another game show that never took off because it was too needlessly complicated. If the host has to spend most of the game explaining how it works it's doomed to fail. Boring!!