That was awesome,to split a Super Jackpot of $14,500 and then win $640 for the regular Jackpot.Geoff Edwards was a fantastic host as was Nipsey Russell and Mike Darow.

WNYW-TV (channel 5) in NYC usually carried this show along with “Talk About” and “The Last Word”, and it was the last game show block to be shown on channel 5 which began at noon. After that came a rerun of “Gilligan’s Island” at 1:30PM and of course the weekday afternoon block of cartoons starting at 2PM.

When the show started in 1974 on NBC, some sounds that was heard that was borrowed from the original version of Jeopardy! with Art Fleming.

In the syndicated ''Jackpot''s revival year 1989, 'the late-'Mr. Edwards doing 'Triple Duty', he was one of the first MC's to host 3 game shows in one time, hosting ''Chain Reaction'' in Montreal and hosted a weekly Saturday night California Lottery game show, ''The Big Spin'' in Sacramento(the lottery's homebase.)and also Geoff joined fellow Jerseyite Jim Perry(he has blood ties to Canada where he hosted both ''Headline Hunters'' and ''Definition'', two of Canada's long-running game shows.)and Alex Trebek as the MCs who hosted game shows here in the U.S. and to our up north neighbors, Canada.

On the Edwards version of Jackpot ,,the men are Kings of the Hill and women are Queens of the hill,just like on Darow's and Nipsey's versions,but they were all fantastic hosts.

The Voiceovers Alternate Between John Harlan And Johnny Gilbert In the 1989 Run. The V/O On NBC's Run Was Don Pardo, By The Time Who Voiced Art Fleming's JEOPARDY!

Recorded on KTTV in 1989, I can tell from Beau Weaver's announcing at the end of the episode. I remember watching this for a while, Geoff Edwards was also the host for "The Big Spin", which also aired on KTTV.

I like jackpot and it should come back one day. 😀👍

IIRC, Kevin's currently working on Robot Chicken. He even did a sketch where his girlfriend broke up with him on the phone while he was taping WITICS!

I remember a hug from Sonya Barron.

R.I.P. Mike Darrow, Geoff Edwards

If anyone has a full week of Jackpot episodes from this version, can you please post them ASAP

VHS is always rough to make sure people can digitally hear... XP

I used to love Jackpot!

i think i actually saw this on channel 5 in new york the frist week in aired

I remember this game show.

Reeves Entertainment Group-the company associated with Wild & Crazy Kids and What Would You Do? on Nickelodeon in the early 1990's.

So did I, it was on KDSM-TV Channel 17, the FOX affiliate where I live (Ames/Des Moines, IA)

Wow!

I believe Kevin later used his winnings to host "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?" on PBS. I wonder if he told The Chief about that "Jackpot" win?

4 had that Jackpot.

Was there ever an episode of Jackpot that Geoff Edwards or Mike Darow hosted where both players had a chance to answer the Super Jackpot question.Men are Kings of the Hill and Women are Queens of the Hill.

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Nope, this was from the first week.

3:55 You stroke a baby? And a violin??

JACKPOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep from Where in time is Carmen Sandiego.

I think this was actually premiere week.

My only gripe with this version is that you had to get the riddle right to put the money in the Jackpot whereas the Darrow version automatically added the money. Seemed like this era of CBS game shows operated cheaply. The Goen Wheel even premired with $50 and $75 wedges

just like it was from the 1975 win

Could this had been the final first-run show? Geoff said to the current King of the Hill that they will see him in the weeks to come.

The questions on this show were geared toward elementary school kids. And half of these dumb contestants would get them wrong.

Im trying to think if this was John Harlan's last game show announcing job. But he was on several of Bob Hope Christmas specials in the 90's and narrated the Super Bowl 32 halftime show (in '98).

Was John Harlan doing AG, yet?

Who's the voice? Johnny Gilbert or John Harlan

This was also the last game show announced by John Harlan.

stroke a violin. really.

they should have found someone else to syndicate the show.

Hey at the very end did it say a reg Grundy entertainment?

Is that Kevin Shinick?

Hey Brandon, you should change this to September 22, 1989 because GameShowGarbage told you that this is from the first week.

I liked Mike Darrow's version much better.

There was a different announcer for the Ray Ban plug I couldn't ID.

They taped the last show before it was known it would be the last show. Geoff said the show would have been renewed for the rest of the season if the syndicator, Palladium Entertainment, didn't have legal/financial troubles. They taped 10 shows a day for this version(Bob Stewart did 10 shows a day of Pyramid from 1985-88 when $25K/$100K were both in first run)