This looks like a fun and fantastic show! i really enjoyed watching it. very high energy show.

I’ll be honest. When I first started watching that I thought it was going to be kind of cheesy and silly. However as I watch the show I found myself really enjoying it. I think it would have become a classic at it survived. I certainly would have washed it. And with Jim Perry as the host how could this have lost? It just makes you wonder how many really good shows never got picked up and slip through the cracks.?

Fun show to watch. I'm surprised it didn't go anywhere.

It's a shame that this wasn't picked up. I think it would have been a hit!

Now here's a show that needs a reboot.

I had no idea this existed. I love it and, like a previous commenter, definitely, would have watched and, enjoyed this.

nice show, always enjoyed Jim as a host, surprised it wasnt picked up...might work today

Count von count would love this game show because of all the numbers. You know how much he loves to count. Awesome game show

Pretty good show. I would watch this. Maybe it needs a little refinement but for the most part, it’s a pretty fun show.

That was kinda fun. Reminiscent of Jackpot! (No surprise since both shows were done by Bob Stewart). It even uses Jackpot!'s theme song.

This looks great! Maybe they can revive it.

This show could have used Summer Bartholomew as well. I always thought that she was a good balance with Jim on sale of the century.

Thanks for finding and posting this!

Some of them won money other days. So the pilot filmed more than one episode. Fun sho. Thank you for sharing it.

This was a really fun game show, thanks for posting it! Also Alan seemed quite taken by Dee if you ask me :-P

I just realized Jim went from Instant Wins to Instant Bargains. Lol

I must be turning into a goldfish ... this upload has a lit thumbs up on it, yet I've no memory of having watched it before. Cooooool.

The theme music used in this pilot would later become the theme for USA Network's version of "Jackpot!" which lasted three years on that channel. There was supposed to be a fourth season, but it never aired.

I clearly recall GSN had something called Game Show Turkeys(pilots that didn't sell)one Thanksgiving in the late 90s.This show was one of them.

It's(to me, anyway) rather interesting, that Canadian Mr. Perry("Definition")is hosting a show, where gameplay(with the PUCK, he said)looks like, yes, hockey...and, curling, also!(P.S., I liked this. I'd have watched.)

It's a shame this show never aired because it looks great. Maybe if someone hit the car space, it would've looked more interesting because it's always exciting to see someone win a car. I wonder what network it would've aired on.

i dont know how that did not make it to television

I liked this, actually. I would've loved to see this get picked up.

wow what an interesting gameshow that was shortlived.

One of my top three pilots that didn't make it.

this looks like it would be a good show, I would have watched it. I have noticed watching these unsold pilots, they passed up some good gameshows and went with just awful concepts

Good thing this pilot didn't sell. What if it did? Jim Perry might not have been taped to host the revival of "Sale of the Century". The first taping was in December 1982; this pilot was taped in October.

Never heard of this!

This show has the same theme song as Jackpot!

Remember this from the GSN Elvira special of lost and dead game shows...

That song was from "Chain Reaction".

This appears like Jackpot!

surprised this one didn't get picked up back in the M-F TV slots.

It looks like they know what number it landed on before we see it.

I love that the viewer never knows who will ultimately win, until the end of the game, because a new contestant can occupy the hot spot if they stump the person standing there.

What kind of bird sings to the cops - I think they should have accepted his answer of "jailbird"

"Jackpot!" theme for "Twisters".

I wonder if they aired this show as part of Buzzr's Lost and Found.

@26:11 On answer “A Face-Lift”, Alan gave part of the answer and then a second later got the cuckoo sound and the other contestant answered before the word is thrown out like in the Pyramid series.

Much better than Jackpot

ROY SCHEIDER played in jaws he was never in KING KONG lol still a good game though (i heard this wrong i have been corrected) still loved the show back in the day

Dee is a Dee-lite!!!

I love that Alvin Show pre show segment called Flying High. I loved the part where the camera zooms into Daves mouth. Its funny.

Must've seem strange for Jim to do something else after Card Sharks ended.

Here is a link to the full pilot, including the footage that was cut at the beginning: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jJl8eJxnvd-mgWg.html

0:49 - I wonder if that is Melanie Vincz who would later appear on Let's Make a Deal in 1984. She acted on several shows including two episodes of Three's Company, Who's the Boss?, and Hart to Hart.

this theme was also used on jackpot

After watching this show with that contestant named Dee (she kinda stole the show), I have one thing to say....... I could've had a V-8!

Yikes .... easy questions.

This is kinda like Jackpot but without the riddles and rhymes

We dont know who #4 is. then at the end of the game at 28:12 , he has no nametag but all the others are still wearing it.

The theme song came from jackpot

Not a bad pilot. If it had been picked up they would have probably selected someone else to host Sale of the Century which would have sucked.

Meme is now a meme 🤣

Was Dee on other game shows?!?

This game same as Jackpot.

7:35 alanis morissette on her first molly after leaving the cult.

Gluttony?

is that the jackpot theme?

fuck that deadly cycle like of from doing something on the mi smooth nxt for there retired for 22 grown up marshal teller go for James Murray with sal volcano helping of some like the games during for that of noggin that drake sponk and where in time is carmen dammed please goddamn?

Marven(not Marvin as its often misspelled) Gardens is near Atlantic City, straddling Margate and Ventnor, the two towns south of Atlantic City.

although it's a stupid name it looked cool

Looks like they recycled the set for Hot Potato

Gluttony?! That is a sin.

The cuckoo sound came out.

I’m going to have a good time with my friend at work

I'm sorry to be a downer, because most commenters here seem to really like this pilot. I personally think it's a piece of crap! I love Bob Stewart, but he can do much better than this. Twisters is just Jackpot! recycled with a shuffle board added. The set looks really cheap (plywood with christmas lights), and the camera never gets a shot of the puck traversing the shuffle board. It never even gets a shot of the tracer lights with the numbers on the front panel of the shuffleboard. The close up of the puck SHOULD have been the singular exciting visual element of the show and it's never even attempted. The whole presentation is just so darn ODD. Nothing gels here. I know it's just a pilot but so many basic elements of an exciting show are missing. Bob Stewart had a long history of recycling game ideas and production elements in his pilots and his actual aired shows. Maybe he thought nobody would remember Jackpot! from ten years earlier, or the music when he concocted Twisters. Perhaps he underestimated the passion of his game show viewing audience. Thank goodness he cemented his place in game show history with Password and Pyramid, because most of his other shows were quite marginal remakes of their predecessors from just a year or two earlier. Even Pyramid (his masterpiece) was a redo of Password, with a clock added. I'm not disparaging Bob, just giving an honest critique of his shows in context with one another. It was thrilling to see him actually on the set in person when I saw tapings of Pyramid at The Elysee Theater (ABCTV-15) in 1979, and again at Television City (Studio 31) in 1991 with John Davidson hosting. Clearly Bob never phoned it in. He was a hands-on producer for sure. That's admirable. He obviously loved his creations. He cranked 'em out decade after decade.

The intro is missing, but here's how it went: PLAYER #1: "Which television game has 10 players..." PLAYER #1: "...and shows you one half of the question..." PLAYER #3: "...for $10,000 and a brand new car? The answer is... ALL PLAYERS: "'TWISTERS'!" JACK CLARK: "'Twisters' is right, and here's your host, Jim Perry!"

This has Bob Steward written all over it.

23:50: OUCH! Brutal burn by Alan! LOL

3:45 How can pigging out not be the right answer? Pigging out really is engaging in the act of gluttony.

4:28 Her nickname should be "Dank Meme" if that's how her name is spelled. 😂🤣

Stanley Zwick should get a cane, because of his old age.

Too complicated

22:45: Dee be my guest. Ouch.

Thumbs up if you thought the contestants were going to take off their shoes and get onto a mat with colored circles. If this game show had succeeded, there would have probably been a trademark lawsuit.

Joan was amazing in the $10000 round