High Rollers - Carol vs. John (1986 Pilot Episode)

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Күн бұрын

The pilot was filmed in late 1986, intended for syndication for Fall 1987 where it debuted and lasted a year.

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@mailboy79 11 ай бұрын

This was a very exciting program after school as a kid on cable television in the 80s.

@drewski1535 4 жыл бұрын

I remember that big number board when I was kid this show is still awesome even in my adult years now

@chuckers40 5 жыл бұрын

A "High Rollers" revival would work for ABC's Summer fun of Games. The only tweak would be the Big numbers. Instead of $10,000, it would be $25,000 or $50,000 in cash

@mitchellries256 3 жыл бұрын

Charles allen jr Yeah. That show along with Hollywood Squares, Tattletales and Password Plus should be brought back next.

@PKMNwww411_MkII 3 жыл бұрын

Make that $100,000 'cause it's called High Rollers after all.

@MewtwoStruckBack 3 жыл бұрын

If the revamp of Press Your Luck can give like $200k-400k away an episode, they can put a quarter million on Big Numbers.

@ricknibert6417 2 жыл бұрын

Who owns the rights, MGM?

@juan833blue Жыл бұрын

@@PKMNwww411_MkII $100,000 for a Big Numbers win or if they lose they still earn $1,000 for each number knocked off.

@JL-bv4wg 2 жыл бұрын

I loved this one Wink Martindale did a great job on this game. I remember watching this game show.

@kristindell267 5 жыл бұрын

This version deserved a longer run than it did!

@mitchellries256 3 жыл бұрын

Kristin Dell Yeah. So did the original version with Alex Trebek (along with every other game show replaced by that stupid David Letterman show that didn't even last more than 90 episodes).

@MyGuyJustinH 3 жыл бұрын

I agree

@brich2929 3 жыл бұрын

I liked the Trebek version better

@friedchickenicedtea 3 жыл бұрын

Blame Merv Griffin. WOF and Jeopardy! we're becoming juggernauts.

@wecantfightgravity Жыл бұрын

Only had it removed the car mini-games which killed time for the main rounds and bonus rounds, this version would have lasted longer than the first two incarnations combined.

@aaronbruceladner1983 5 жыл бұрын

My Favorite Wink Martindale Game Shows are TIC TAC DOUGH, HIGH ROLLERS, and TRIVIAL PURSUIT

@candicerobinson5147 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely loved high rollers and trivial pursuit!!

@binhkhoiluuuc1718 4 жыл бұрын

And Gambit, don't forget.

@mauricesnell5886 3 жыл бұрын

How about "Debt"?

@howardcobb4992 4 ай бұрын

My favorate wink martindale game show is GAMBIT That aired on cbs.

@aaronbruceladner1983 Ай бұрын

@@howardcobb4992 It Came Back Later On, as LAS VEGAS GAMBIT on NBC

@alextorres9832 10 күн бұрын

Thanks Dean

@paullarue2010 4 жыл бұрын

I remember this game show, was on KHJ (KCAL) 9.

@plushbatfan 5 жыл бұрын

The flashing sequence pattern goes in this order (sort of Milli’s Pattern Power from Team Umizoomi): 4-7-2-9-3-5-1-8-6.

@markjones1184 5 жыл бұрын

Liked how the swung table for bonus

@RJSchex 4 жыл бұрын

For the second round, the colors of the numbers were shifted four places (i.e., purple was moved from 4 to 8).

@OGNoNameNobody 2 жыл бұрын

Quite the pilot episode. Very close to how the release version went.

@mattcrowley8993 Жыл бұрын

I would have loved for Alex Trebek to come back to this, if he was aware of it. (Nothing against Wink Martindale, who did good hosting this)

@therainmakerinsider Жыл бұрын

I believe Trebek losing High Rollers was a blessing in disguise.

@aaronbruceladner1983 2 жыл бұрын

I Went to BOOKS-A-MILLION One Day, and I Got some Golden Dice

@heatherb5671 3 жыл бұрын

Fiero... sweet!

@kenyattasimpson8468 4 ай бұрын

This pilot the way they filmed it should have been when the 1987 version came back

@nextbarker2702 Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised Jack Campion didn't appear in this pilot

@drewski1535 3 ай бұрын

The theme song is still my jam

@motee2802 13 күн бұрын

Absolutely!! I have the theme song in my iPod. Now if only I can get some of the music cues from the show too.

@matthewulanski217 7 жыл бұрын

As soon as the producers saw Lucky Numbers and figured out that this was what Alex Trebek wanted to bring back, they put this together instead. Good choice.

@matthewulanski217 Жыл бұрын

Many of the ideas that this pilot used were also put into the home game.

@paullarue2010 4 жыл бұрын

Humpty Dumpty was a Nursery Rhyme.

@pinedelgado4743 4 жыл бұрын

I shall never understand why THIS incarnation of HR with the "Winker" lasted such a short time. He was a WAY BETTER host for HR than Alex Trebek!! :) :)

@sabster74 4 жыл бұрын

I have to respectfully disagree. Wink was an excellent host, but I liked Alex too.

@brycelandon6387 4 жыл бұрын

If High Rollers ever came back, I'd love to see John O'Hurley get the gig.

@foxmccloud7055 11 ай бұрын

I think the reason why this incarnation of "High Rollers" lasted a year was because, by this point, talk shows were getting to be the rage, and by 1989 and 1991 they put a lot of game shows in both daytime and syndication (with the exception of "The Price Is Right, Jeopardy, and "Wheel of Fortune") out of business.

@DaveRod76 3 жыл бұрын

Funny how they made a profitable “legal” game show out of a game that they made “illegal” to play on the sidewalk with your buddies.

@freddiemartin699 2 жыл бұрын

Something only a true ghetto person would know

@blozier2006 9 жыл бұрын

+tvdude8509 Very observant :-) This pilot was indeed taped at ABC Television Center. Taped on October 21, 1986 to be precise.

@tnawcwvictoria 9 жыл бұрын

Bryce Lozier That's correct, it was INDEED Videotaped at the ABC Television Center in Hollywood which was not only the home to Dick Clark's American Bandstand and Family Feud w/the late Richard Dawson, it was also the home of Merrill Heatter's All-Star Blitz w/the Master of the Hollywood Squares and Wink's Buddy Peter Marshall It was also the home to The NEW Hollywood Squares with Former Square Himself John Davidson and it was also the home to That's Incredible

@meishahope5685 7 жыл бұрын

T-Bone Hubbar

@aaronbruceladner1983 4 жыл бұрын

When the Show was Picked Up, The Show Moved to CBS Television City

@JAldrich73 Жыл бұрын

I like those 21st Century phones!

@willmack5909 8 жыл бұрын

It's the Big Numbers on speed!

@josiegildersleeve1432 7 жыл бұрын

High rollers season 1 episode 1

@tvdude8509 11 жыл бұрын

Where was this pilot taped? I know the series taped at CBS Television City; this has an "ABC" feel to it, though. Or possibly Hollywood Center Studios.

@tnawcwvictoria 5 жыл бұрын

This was at the ABC Television Center in HOLLYWOOD the home to All-Star Blitz with Peter Marshall, Family Feud with the late great Richard Dawson and of course, Dick Clark's American Bandstand

@rmknicks 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't like the cheap set with the CGI game board but it's still High Rollers which is fantastic.

@bluebear1985 9 ай бұрын

It's decent for a pilot though. For most pilots, they want to show stations an idea of what the show will be like, even if it's not exactly to the detail of what viewers will see once it's on the air.

@tnawcwvictoria 9 жыл бұрын

Well just so ya know, 1986 was the year that Winker finished off his 1 year stint as host of his own creation Headline Chasers, but in 1987, Winker had a Heavy Schedule as he pulled Triple Duties that year While hosting High Rollers, he was also busy in Canada producing 2 Game Shows: 2nd Honeymoon which aired in the USA on Pat Robertson's CBN (1 year before it became The Family Channel) and Bumper Stumpers for USA Network (Co-Produced by Barry & Enright Productions of Tic Tac Dough, The Joker's Wild, BULLSEYE and Hot Potato among others) Alex Trebek who hosted the show in the 70's was busy pulling Double Duties as host of JEOPARDY! (which he still does to this day) and Classic Concentration for NBC Daytime I can understand if Winker had a Heavy Schedule b/c going back to forth from L.A. to Canada was tough Plus, the show didn't last long b/c of Heavy Competition against other Syndicated Shows like Nighttime Wheel of Fortune, the revived JEOPARDY!, The People's Court, Superior Court, Entertainment Tonight, Star Search, Donahue, Sally, Geraldo, Oprah, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and other cartoons, Soul Train, It's Showtime at the Apollo and America's Top 10 w/Winker's Late Friend Casey Kasem among others Plus, another problem with this version is that the Dice on Wink's Version were not as round as the 70's Version, plus the mini games took up too much time, however, the Golden Dice was a great concept for the Big Numbers, plus K.C. Winkler was a Great Model for the show and finally, this marked the final collaboration between Orion Television and Century Towers Productions who Co-Produced Just Men! w/Betty White and THE NEW Hollywood Squares w/John Davidson (both produced by "CHiPs" Creator Rick Rosner) and Merrill Heatter who produced HR had NOTHING to do with the John Davidson version of Squares as he called it a circus

@howardcobb4992 4 ай бұрын

he sure did... high rollers, tic-tac-dough and a revived gambit.

@nextbarker2702 4 жыл бұрын

Would this had been the only game show Wink did for ABC?

@fredmckinney8933 8 ай бұрын

This was actually a syndicated show.

@joeford860 5 жыл бұрын

Where can I get those phones?

@rmknicks 3 жыл бұрын

Beam back to 1986! They're fabulous.

@KiddBloo86 3 жыл бұрын

An estate sale these days.

@aaronbruceladner1983 3 жыл бұрын

I'd Like to Know Where I Can Get the Dice

@blozier2006 10 жыл бұрын

RJSchex wasn't the flashing number pattern here MUCH faster than seen in the series?

@tnawcwvictoria 8 жыл бұрын

+Bryce Lozier Yes indeed, I wish that it was Videotaped @ ABC Television Center instead of CBS Television City, but also, I wish that abc had picked this show up instead of Bargain Hunters

@cevancarr 3 жыл бұрын

Would have fit nicely between The $25,000 Pyramid and The Price is Right on CBS Daytime (even though it would have been at Card Sharks expense unless they replace the Bold and the Beautiful with an extra game). Or between Sale of the Century and Wheel of Fortune or Wheel of Fortune and Super Password on NBC (move Classic Concentration to 11:30AM if it's on after $OTC).

@drummingdanny84 11 жыл бұрын

You think so? I does have an ABC feel probably because of the cinematography and the stock sound effects.

@RJSchex 11 жыл бұрын

Most noticeable change for the series was on the Big Numbers-the "2" became darker red, and the "4" was changed to yellow. Also changed was the sequence of the flashing numbers at the opening: here, it was 8-6-4-7-2-9-3-5-1; for the series, it was 4-7-1-9-2-8-5-3-6.

@ericandy88 5 жыл бұрын

Also, a big change was no holdover of prizes from previous games. There would be new prizes in each game & only one for each column. I am guessing once this could only get syndicated, without the larger network budget, they had to scale back.