Hard to believe that Geoff Edwards covered the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, and was interviewed by NBC's Tom Pettit after it had just happened...

@kevinfitzmaurice4072

2 жыл бұрын

...and Don Pardo read the first NBC television bulletin about President Kennedy being shot.

@witherblaze

2 жыл бұрын

proof. show vid proof

@epaddon

Жыл бұрын

@@witherblaze Right here at 2:07 of this video. kzread.info/dash/bejne/enaZltdvhseWfpM.html

@kidmack3556

Жыл бұрын

​@@witherblaze At first I thought you typed "2:07 Poof, video poof"

@witherblaze

Жыл бұрын

@@epaddon vid is gone

Too bad Geoff had to make that promo announcement for “another world” expanding to a one hour format. That’s the kind of change that eroded daytime and slowly took a number of game shows off the schedule.

@johnlewinski6359

26 күн бұрын

And talk shows were taking over too.

$38,750 in 1975 = $194,500 in 2021. Nice payout! And gawd those noo yawk / noo joyzee accents are the sound of my childhood. I miss those days. BONUS TRIVIA - the 1974-1975 season of Jackpot was shot studio 8H at Rockefeller Center. Just a few months later that would become the home of a brand new live-broadcast sketch comedy program currently in its 46th season on NBC

The guy who shouted "JACKPOT!" in the open held the Super Jackpot riddle. Coincidence?

I watched this show with my grandfather when I was younger and he actually wrote down all the riddles said on the show.

@chicman77

10 күн бұрын

Whatta awesome memory thanx for sharing

Sad that nearly all the mid-1970s "JackPot" shows from NBC were "wiped" (videotape was reused), and the original episodes are lost. This was actually a fun show to watch, and I loved when Geoff gave what should've been the correct answer when a contestant was wrong. If the answer Geoff gave seemed awful, the camera panned right in his face during a chorus of boos from the audience. Probably Geoff's best daytime series.

@charlestatumii

10 ай бұрын

I just commented elsewhere that this was my favorite series of his, and was arguably his best work. I might say "The New Treasure Hunt" was in second place, but sometimes the teasing could be eye-rollingly over the top. 🙂

They should revive "Jackpot"! It was a great game show...and the late Geoff Edwards and sixteen new contestants made it fun to watch every week:)

@PREGO1966

5 жыл бұрын

It WAS revised 2 times after this run, once with Edwards himself

@danalong1237

4 жыл бұрын

The 1985-88 version, aired on USA Network in America and Global in Canada, hosted by Mike Darrow (of Dream House and The $128,000 Question) and taped in Toronto (home of the 2019 NBA Champion Toronto Raptors, Renee Paquette’s favorite NBA team), is the best-known of the three incarnations!

@georgemaster6356

4 жыл бұрын

If Jackpot! Is rebooted, hopefully they'll use the original format and not anything new to kill it.

@OnScreenThatStudios

3 жыл бұрын

If 'Jackpot!' was revived, they should replace riddles and rhymes with straight yes-no, true-false, or multiple-choice general knowledge questions.

@newstarcadefan

3 жыл бұрын

@@OnScreenThatStudios Which to my knowledge, was done on this run, and killed it.

The theme music was also used in the sports show “This Week in Baseball” as intro bumper music.

I found this show (which I haven't seen in well over 40 years) to be exciting and laugh out loud funny. And watched the whole video without drifting off to some other clip. This should come back to TV ASAP!

This was amazing to watch in such great quality. In case anyone is wondering, with inflation that Super Jackpot was worth nearly $195,000 in 2021 dollars.

Jackpot! was taped in legendary Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center. This show has an air date of January 3, 1975, which means it was likely taped in late 1974. Saturday Night Live premiered in Late 1975 from 8H and has occupied the studio ever since. If you take the 30 Rock tour they take you to Studio 8H. Sometimes you get to go inside, and sometimes you can only look through the big window behind the audience risers up on the 9th floor. In either instance it's fun to see the giant studio, and envision the Jackpot! set with it's big blue cyclorama occupying that entire space. Think of how much fun those contestants must have had running back and forth in that legendary television production space. And they had no idea Saturday Night Live would soon call it home for the next 45 years.

@rockvilleraven

Жыл бұрын

Both shows used the incomparable Don Pardo as the announcer

@MrTechHistory

Жыл бұрын

What's really amazing is... Geoff Edwards was a DJ over KMPC Los Angeles and - he was also doing Treasure Hunt during this time out of LA. So, he had to commute 3,000 miles to do this show as well. WOW!

@bkman222

8 ай бұрын

I attended a taping of the show around that time. They would tape on weekends given Geoff Edwards busy schedule. There was a later run of the show taped in Los Angeles.

I remember watching Jackpot in 1974-75. 👏👏👏👏

I remember watching this show. I was about 15. this sure takes me back!

One of the greatest moments in tv history.

@hasinethorpe1686

3 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more Nathan 😊!

@nathanbyberg

3 жыл бұрын

Hasine Thorpe: Thank you!

@glenncox5695

3 жыл бұрын

@@nathanbyberg I take it, you're talking about the 2:00 minute mark! LOL!

@nathanbyberg

3 жыл бұрын

@@glenncox5695: No I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about the big money win

@glenncox5695

3 жыл бұрын

@@nathanbyberg Big money win - $38,750. "Fairies?!?" - Priceless! LOL! :)

I am happy the pair won close to almost $39,000 cash congrats 😊!

At 10:00, she goes from pure joy to looking like she's going to be physically ill back to pure joy again in less than a minute. Great clip.

YES! I saw this show on KZread one time a while ago, and never again. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT BACK!

Geoff Edwards was such a great host especially for this show.

Need to bring this game back with these same rules, (target number, multiplier, amounts added before riddle was revealed, and so on). This was a great game. Fun and exciting.

@KrakenMan5853

2 жыл бұрын

I would've started each game with $100 in the Jackpot. Also, a riddle in the Super Jackpot gateway wallet, so the expert must still solve two riddles: the one the player holds (Target match or Super Jackpot gateway) and the one Geoff holds, to win the Super Jackpot. Finally, Jackpot riddler and Expert switch places regardless of solving the riddle or not.

I hope she did have many happy years in that house.

@kidmack3556

Жыл бұрын

I was surprised when she said "Down payment" My father bought a huge house in '74 for approximately $29,000 I'm assuming that she is probably going to purchase a home in Queens or suburban Connecticut. Were they really that much, even back then?

For some reason, Geoff Edwards' explanation of the answer to the "Super Jackpot" riddle got clipped out. The riddle was "I'm a Carpenter and he's a Shepard, but we were both in the same line of work. What line of work were we in?". The answer was "Astronauts": Both Alan Shepard and Scott Carpenter were members of the Mercury 7. Shepard also landed on the moon in early 1971, when he hit a golf ball on the surface of the moon (he's best remembered for this). I don't think anyone at NBC knew this yet, I believe both Shepard and Carpenter would be involved in the network's coverage of the joint U.S. Russian Apollo/Soyuz space mission that summer; Shepard worked alongside Jim Hartz and John Chancellor on NBC television' while Carpenter worked with Jay Barbree an Russ Ward on NBC Radio.

all i can say is wow, imagine this show being back on the air again

Ending theme song was also used on This Week in Baseball

Biggest super jackpot I recall was 995 x 50 for $49,750. Not won. Great show, great concept. Indeed should be revived. RiP Geoff and Don. Both in 2014.

@christopherdunne7848

2 жыл бұрын

I read somewhere that if ever it was 995 X 50, it wpuld automatically be rounded up to $50K, because only 3 digits were in the target number.

This aired the same day the original Jeopardy with Art Fleming (and also announced by Don Pardo) ended it run of nearly 11 years.

@steve760

2 жыл бұрын

And on the subject of Don Pardo... SNL debuted this season!

NBC had the richest game shows of the 1970s, folks...like this one!

@tnawcwvictoria

5 жыл бұрын

I agree, I thought NBC Version was way better than the USA Cable Network Version and the syndicated version

Well....that gives new meaning to Friar...Tuck...

Exciting, yet downright hilarious. Thanks for uploading.

Good thing Jackpot! aired on NBC4 something WSM-TV was at that time.Unfortunately,the same couldn’t be said for Jeopardy! hosted by Art Fleming since the station didn’t give on its Noon show.

Gotta love the regional accents among the contestants. All gone today.

Thank you for uploading this , what a great quality copy too!! This was my favorite version of Jackpot!

Fantastic ep; thanks!

January 3, 1975 was also the same day that the final episodes of the original "Jeopardy!" with the late Art Fleming and "Name that Tune" hosted by the late Dennis James aired and were replaced by "Wheel of Fortune" by original hosts Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford and "Blank Check" hosted by the late Art James, three days later. RIP Geoff Edwards and Don Pardo

@jamesklatt

5 жыл бұрын

Worst mistake Lin Bolen made, along with the malfunctioning marble machine, the (not so) fun factory, and the gong show (which was too controversial for daytime audiences). Bringing back Jeopardy (for a short run) and the addiction of card sharks and a improved edition high rollers helped NBC get back their back to the top of the daytime ratings.

@martinfelsenfeld6012

5 жыл бұрын

And Wheel of Fortune has been on TV ever since--in case you forgot! Some-day You Tube will come up with all those other old Jackpot episodes from 1974, as another person requested. Note that the numbers turned from left to right, starting with a blank, followed by 1 to 9, and then to 0 (zero). That's eleven options for each rotating digit! Geoff Edwards also hosted Lucky Pair, a forgotten game show that aired in Los Angeles in the late 60's-early 70's!

The This in Week Baseball Theme?!? Who knew!

@christopherdunne7848

5 жыл бұрын

It's called "Jet Set," and should be available here on YT in full. I believe Bob Cobert wrote it, but I could be wrong.

@danalong1237

4 жыл бұрын

It was actually composed by Michael Vickers, formerly of Manfred Mann. Sample Opening: “How ya doin’? This is Mel Allen, and we got a baggage full of stuff ready for you! The defending World Series Champion Boston Red Sox are running out of time to repeat as World Champions, but has time run out for them? The Chicago Cubs are on a roll right now, but do they have what it takes to win their second World Series in 4 years? And Bryce and Kayla Harper become the proud parents of a new baby boy. We’ll have the latest on this late-breaking story. So get your baggage ready! Cause we got a cabin to go to right now on This Week in Baseball!”

Adjusted for inflation, if she answered the same "Super Jackpot" riddle in 2019, she'd have won over $185,000 dollars. No wonder she was SO excited on this one.

$38,750 in 1975 is worth $185,000 in 2020.

Sounds like they’re using the This Week in Baseball theme.

Bob Stewart's a Genius.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Jackpot ! ! !.

@markschildberg1667

Жыл бұрын

He was the single most creative talent in the history of game shows. Besides Jackpot, he created To Tell the Truth, The Price Is Right, Password, Pyramid, and many other great games.

The late Don Pardo was the announcer

THAT MUST BE THE BIGGEST “JACKPOT” EVER WON ON NBC: $ 38,750! HOW DID YOU FIND THAT??? RIP GEOFF EDWARDS. Kenneth Huang. 8/16/23.

8:30 Answer given was Baltimore Orioles, but wouldn’t St. Louis Cardinals have also been a valid answer?

@christopherdunne7848

3 жыл бұрын

Sure. No reason to get in trouble with lawyers here!

@VandelayIndustries61

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Two years too early for the Toronto Blue Jays though lol.

How the hell did you get this in such good quality?!

This needs a comeback. If I were host I'd wear that same Geoff Edward's outfit! Haha

"FAIRIES?!?!" #IMDEAD x-D x-D

@gladfan1989

5 жыл бұрын

ROFL, it floored me, too

Does anyone know the title of the theme music? It's canned music "Production music." This particular song was also used for a while on "This Week In Baseball" in the mid 70s.

@ccie12933

Жыл бұрын

"Jet Set"

The NBC Jeopardy aired its "Final Jeopardy!" on this date.

Was Before Six, a sister company to After Six? After Six was the wardrobe furnisher for Geoff Edwards when he hosted The New Treasure Hunt.

Average household income in 1974 in the US was $11,100. $38,750 was a life-changing sum of money then

this show was recently aired on USA during the 80's

@danalong1237

4 жыл бұрын

And in syndication (in that case, Louisville’s WBNA-TV Channel 21) from 1989-90.

@Drchainsaw77

4 жыл бұрын

That's recently? I mean, *I* remember it, but still!

In Philadelphia Pennsylvania this air on KYW TV Channel 3. Now CBS since 1995.

SUPER JACKPAAAAHHHT!!! 🤪 $38,000 back then would be about $210,000 now.

sounds like I am watching this week in baseball

LOVE IT

0:18 - An exciting sign of *more* excitement to come at 9:58...!

I remember seeing this game show in the summer of 1974 when I was 6 years old, but I couldn't remember the name of it. Thanks KZread!

It's from Friday January 3 1975 and also has a clip of gene Rayburn match game cbs on nbc one of the 1st time match game went on The same 2 stations a promo for whell of fortune was on this as well

@andrewpadaetz5549

3 жыл бұрын

Wheel replaced Jeopardy on the NBC schedule starting that Monday, 1/6/75.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

It's True.

NBC game shows (like this one) were much richer than those on CBS and ABC, which had winnings limits set back in the 1970s!

@angrybirdsfan2003

9 ай бұрын

Funny thing is that if this had aired on CBS, that $38,750 win would’ve obviously been over the $25,000 limit!

@herestoyoudoc

6 ай бұрын

@@angrybirdsfan2003the Expert and the panelist split the award so not necessarily

This was the last episode of JACKPOT with Geoff Edwards on NBC. The following Monday, WHEEL OF FORTUNE made its debut.

@samturner64

2 жыл бұрын

False. Jeopardy's last day was Jan 3. Jackpot continued until September.

2:00 HILARIOUS!!

SUPER JACKPOT!!!!

I understand only 2 episodes of this show survive? Also interesting is the fact that the theme music was later co-opted by the iconic syndicated "This Week in Baseball" show with Mel Allen that ran from 1977 into the 2000s.

@MountainHawkPYL

Жыл бұрын

And now it's time for this week's Volkswagen Quiz.

NICE!

That's about $203,000 today

9:58 SUPER JACKPOT!!!!!

A S T R O N A U H T !!??!

@Rlotpir1972

3 жыл бұрын

Funny that this episode is in its entirety but I can see reasons why. Two to be exact. The Super Jackpot win that is now in 2024 dollars $226000, and that fairy comment that gave me a hell of a chuckle. Can't believe that fairy got slipped by, and I know the SJWs will say it's offensive. Poppycock. I got a good laugh. Nothing wrong with it.

Would love for ABC to reboot this for their Fun and Games schedule. My choice for host/hostess would be Ali Wentworth, funny and cheerful.

This should come back as a kids game show

@ruthbarron625

Жыл бұрын

Great idea.

only on a game show can you get away with picking up a strange woman you don't know and give her a huge spinning hug!!

@christopherdunne7848

5 жыл бұрын

Truly one of my favorite game show moments....and you could tell it was spontaneous----no play-acting.

9:58 *SUPER JACKPOT!!*

I'm curious as to what this was recorded with. We all know NBC wiped the masters. And the first Betamax recorders didn't hit the market for another 4 months. Home recording was almost unheard of at this time.

@samturner64

2 жыл бұрын

Somehow the original master tape made it into the circuit. It's complete with the slate, "apparently" this is episode #249.

@artkurtz9238

Ай бұрын

@@samturner64 Yes. Good someone thought to save the master for the big win!

I’m guessing the jackpot wasn’t won on the show before this since it started at $1985 here with only 4 numbers gone.

This was rebooted in the early 1990s in syn

0:45 how emotional for geoff

Monday on NBC saw a brand new and popular game show still on today in nighttime.

My VERSION of Jackpot would be much different! I would have 2 contestants answer riddles correctly to spell the word JACKPOT! For each correct riddle & a letter is $1,000 & for all 7 letters $25,000 then to the bonus game for $100,000 & A NEW CAR!!

9:57 - Business is about to pick up.

R.I.P. Geoff Edwards

@jamesmoss3424

3 жыл бұрын

He was a good game show host ever. 😀👍

The gal @6:34 sounded like Edith and Gloria from all in the family

Too bad on Geoff Edwards other show The New Treasure Hunt that they couldn.t make the grand prize between $50,000 & $100,000.

Wonder what Kevin said that made Geoff laugh?!

Because most of these episodes were erased from NBC daytime, they could rescue all the “Jackpot!” NBC daytime episodes by the television time machine.

@christopherdunne7848

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but this as far as I know was the only full episode that survived "wiping," a common practice in television back then (see Wikipedia on "Wiping"). Also....later on, the riddles were gone and replaced with Hollywood Squares-style questions, which was their "jump-the-shark" moment. I watched this show, at least when I wasn't in school.

The two that hit the super jackpot did good and whatever happened to those two that won it.

@christopherdunne7848

3 жыл бұрын

Unless it’s on a separate YT clip (just the Super Jackpot part), I am 99% sure that Kevin posted comments here. Sad not to see them here now.

How many of you as a kid yelled "jackpot"

8:30 That riddle had two possible answers. Three years later, it would have three.

That blonde lady is frickin lucky

That's because NBC didn't have money limits back then.

Great day for game shows! Terrible day for men's wardrobe- especially for Geoff Edwards!

@byrd56

5 жыл бұрын

Blame that bad wardrobe idea on NBC daytime programmer Lin Bolen. As for Geoff, consider that he also wore tuxes on "The New Treasure Hunt" in weekly nighttime syndication during that same era.

@lsmftymf

2 жыл бұрын

Geoff Edwards' wardrobe is exactly what I remember the most about this game show. Made him look similar to then-American Basketball Association head coaches Larry Brown and Doug Moe.

9:57

“Gay guys… fairies” … oh dear. How dated are we!!

380,750

I call bull funky on that! #3 had $40???

Goff Edwards

i am the bear the others call whitey..polar bear?? SPIRIT bear !!

Is that the late Geoff Edwards?! Where.s his tuxedo from Treasure Hunt?! Or is that Paul Lynde.s twin brother?! By the way Robin Hoods FAIRIES?! HAHA 😂 I.ll bet Archie Bunker & Paul Lynde would of had a ball with that.

@christopherdunne7848

19 күн бұрын

That wardrobe was the result of a mandate by NBC’s head of daytime programming, Lin Bolen. She also meddled in the Jackpot! format, changing feom riddles to Hollywood Squares-esque questions. Within months, Jackpot! was history.

9:58 Super Jackpot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Real people

Look at how Geoff's dressed, what with that gold medallion. I'm sure it was that pain-in-the-ass lady executive at NBC who made him dress like that

@epaddon

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, Lin Bolen totally forbade him to wear a tie while hosting. All of his game shows after that, he went back to dressing normally again

This show should be brought back (with of course, with a new host) in it's original format, with two exceptions: Contestants wouldn't share the "Jackpots" and "Super Jackpots". Instead, for example, if a "Jackpot" is $1,700, both the contestant correctly answering the "Jackpot riddle" and the contestant asking it would each win $1,700; and if a "Super Jackpot" is $38.750, and if it's correctly answered, then both the contestant correcting answering a "Super Jackpot riddle" would each win $38,750. With inflation being what it has been since 1974-75, producers of the revival certainly could afford to do it. The second exception is that there would be a "Super Jackpot Riddle" every week, so every group of sixteen contestants would have a shot.

I saw a mistake! They got exited and forgot to add the $40! The Jackpot and the Target Number NEVER matched!

@wschmrdr

6 жыл бұрын

Didn't have to. This was not "target match" from the 80's. Just a straight Super Jackpot try.

@byrd56

5 жыл бұрын

7:30--Geoff mentions the possibility of an instant "Super Jackpot".

@warrenewell6265

5 жыл бұрын

9:57 Kevin screamed "SUPER JACKPOT!!!" because he had the $40 riddle that Pam was looking for. That matched the Target Number, but NO... I didn't see a $775 Jackpot. They owe that $40.

@warrenewell6265

5 жыл бұрын

...so that Jackpot should have been $40 more, or $1190.

@NickCMedia

5 жыл бұрын

Warren Ewell Wrong. He had the Super Jackpot card.