Thank you immensely for posting this. All three of you played exceptionally well; in fact, in just these two episodes, the caliber of gameplay was the highest I've ever witnessed in the American version of $ale.

I’m grateful as a quiz show fan but especially this game. This was flat out exciting and thank you for posting this!

Thank you for posting this. I hope your family is well. Bless you heart! :)

Thank you for posting and sharing your Sale of the Century journey with us! What a treat to see! Also congratulations!

Mort, this has been a pleasure seeing you play $ale during your 2 runs. Winning almost $250K in total is incredible. Cathy and Fran played a great game as well. As Jim said you can’t write a better script than this. It would be awesome if $ale was back on the air, Mort you would win over a million dollars

When we were living in Kingman, Arizona in 1983, I was a Senior at Kingman High School and during Thanksgiving break 35 years ago, we watched and witnessed you becoming the champion of champions winning almost $250,000 in cash and prizes, in the $ale of the Century 1983 Tournament of Champions with host Jim Perry on NBC. And you sure defeated your 2 opponents Cathy Powers and Fran Wolfe to become the grand champion, and not anyone else did what you have done yourself, long before Michael Larson walked away with $110,237 in cash and prizes on Press Your Luck with host Peter Tomarken on CBS. Thanks for posting the last two episodes of the finals Mort Kamins, you are always a game show champion!

35 years later, you're still the all-time American daytime game show winnings champion, including tournaments; nobody has unseated you! Thanks for sharing this with us!

@michaelfalkner1186

5 жыл бұрын

If that is still the record, it may never be broken. I mis-recalled, thinking that was an African-American woman I once saw and joked that the bouquet of flowers she was given made it a cool quarter-mil or whatever...

@jmjfanss

3 жыл бұрын

Until it was broken recently

Omg Mort Kamins, thank you so much for posting this. Also, saw you on both The Challengers and Double Dare

@aaronbruceladner1983

5 жыл бұрын

Plus JEOPARDY!

@richardcleveland6949

3 жыл бұрын

He was also on Win Ben Stein's Money. He defeated Ben and won his money

Mort, thank you for posting your incredible run to almost $250,000. TBQH, if I were you, there'd be tears in my eyes after winning.

So fun to watch this. I turned 16 that year. I was driving around in my parent's 1964 Buick Skylark. I kinda wished that the commercials had been left in the video; even those are now a part of historical TV.

Good to see this online - brought back memories. Fran Wolfe was the mother of someone on my Harvard College Bowl team; Lorin Burte (who won The Challengers TOC you played in) preceded me by a year on the U of Chicago College Bowl team; and Nathan Walpole (who participated in The Challengers TOC you played in) was one of my opponents in the 1985 J! Tournament of Champions. Small world, eh?

@mortkamins4943

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, those quiz show tentacles reach out in many directions. As for my Sale shows, I only found out after I posted them that they’re unavailable elsewhere so what was originally a personal indulgence became something of a minor public service

@gameshowfanatic9311

Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed it is a small world, Michael. Is it just me or does Tom Byrd back then look a bit like Marc Summers (host of both Double Dare and Double Dare 2000 on Nickelodeon and WinTuition on GSN)

i remember having to ditch school to watch this final match

God Bless You, Mort!!!

Can't beat that on Sale of the Century.

Great job! 👍

Wow way to go!

As stressful as it was just to watch this, I can't even imagine living it. I was petrified the Fame Game was going to screw it up at the end, even though I have nothing against any of the three players. It was beautiful to see such a solid performance so handsomely rewarded, and I'm grateful everyone has the opportunity again after over thirty-five years. Many happy returns!

I was going to guess that Mort won since he posted the vids, but he beat me to the buzzer.

Yay for Mort !!

Mort, thanks so much for sharing...dunno if you remember me, but we exchanged e-mails a few years back, where you told me all about your appearances on the show, in the tournaments here and abroad, etc (I'm the webmaster of the Illustrious Game Show Page, if that helps!). Nice to finally see these shows again!

@mortkamins4943

5 жыл бұрын

I do recall replying to your e-mail. Yes, I've been on quiz shows on 3 different continents (possibly the only American who can make that claim?). Anyway, it's good to see you're still around.

@ChuckD79

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for remembering me, and glad you're still around, as well...incidentally, someone else uploaded a couple of your Double Dare appearances off Buzzr! And yes, I think you're the only one who holds that title...LOL

OMG! So he won in total almost a quarter million 💵 worth of cash and prizes during your appearances on $ale back in ‘83. That’s a lot of freakin’ money and a new record. He made the biggest winner in the game show history IIRC. Congrats on your win!

"Welcome to Daaaaaays of our Sale of the Century."

Always great to see contestants share their experiences. Congrats, Mort!

@mortkamins4943

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I'm so glad Sale adopted the 60 second speed round to really make things suspenseful and not anticlimactic like the three mere questions were.

@timglende8869

3 жыл бұрын

The speed round was originally 90 seconds.

Fran getting the $25 money card on her last Fame Game pick could have changed the outcome of the tournament.

21:31, The Final Episode of the Tournament of Champions

The only episode with a quarter million $250,000 up for grabs😊

Way to go Mort I assume you were the biggest winner in the shows history

@mortkamins4943

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks- maybe I was the biggest winner but I defer to the experts on that.

@darrendoyle568

4 жыл бұрын

Mort Kamins it was definitely impressive SOTC was always one of my favorite shows and Jim seemed so cool and nice and this show deserves a reboot

Congrats

should have had speed round on final day

Wow! $18 dollars short of a quarter million dollars!

Fran Wolfe later teamed up with Alice Conkright in the finals of the 1985 USA/Australia championship on Aussie Sale.

@mortkamins4943

3 жыл бұрын

And I was there as one of the also-rans.

R.I.P. Jim Perry.

Champion Mort Kamins has Won Cash and Prizes Totaling... $249,982!

@tyrese3745

5 жыл бұрын

18 bucks shy of a quarter of a Million dollars!

42:06 balloon drop

I vaguely remember you also took part in Australia's World Championships; what did you think of that experience?

@mortkamins4943

5 жыл бұрын

I was there four times (mostly in Melbourne) so it was a series of experiences, mostly terrific. I enjoyed meeting fellow contestants from the UK, New Zealand and Australia--a lot of smart and quirky people. Everyone working for Grundy was pleasant and accommodating. I just wish I had played better.

You know, I'm surprised Wikipedia's article on this game show didn't talk about the special tournaments they did. I honestly didn't know there was a tournament of champions here. I also think they dedicated special weeks of shows throughout its later seasons.

@mortkamins4943

3 жыл бұрын

I think Wikipedia should, at the very least, mention who won the first American Tournament of Champions.

@blindsportslover

3 жыл бұрын

@@mortkamins4943 or at least do a rundown of who won the lot/winners board and how much each prize level was. I know that it mentions about the car and the cash jackpot and the ultimate prizes but it would've been nice for a complete list.

Mort was also a Jeopardy! champion in 2000

Do you have a copy of the episode where you won the Lot originally?

@mortkamins4943

5 жыл бұрын

I do, and I'll probably get around to posting it soon.

@TimothyMischka

5 жыл бұрын

@@mortkamins4943 Wow, thank you so much.

Thanks for responding to my last question. How would you have handled the Winners Big Money Game if you were on from 1988-89? You had to solve four puzzles in 20 questions to win.

@mortkamins4943

5 жыл бұрын

Brian, it's hard for me to answer that because I've never seen those shows and don't know what the puzzles consisted of. As a general rule, if it was a matter of general knowledge, I would probably just go for it on the theory of "live by the sword, die by the sword."

@TheEggplantThatAteChicago

5 жыл бұрын

@@mortkamins4943 You're not missing much. Those episodes are terrible.

41:55

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Great win Mr Kamins, do you regret not taking the gold panda coins?

@mortkamins4943

5 жыл бұрын

Not a chance--I would've been an idiot to buy those at that point in the game.

national championship

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Mort, but your single-network daytime game show winnings record was shattered on TPIR just today. Michael Stouber won $202K in Million Dollar Plinko, plus his Showcase and a progressive jackpot of almost $30K. Total: $262,743.

@mortkamins4943

4 жыл бұрын

I demand an inflation-adjusted recount!

@johnnyballenatl

4 жыл бұрын

Mort Kamins Well, records are meant to be broken; Thom McKee at the time of your win was still the all-time holder with $312,700, until Michael Shutterly won $500,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire with many others to follow.

Was this the highest amount ever won on this game show

@mortkamins4943

11 ай бұрын

I defer to the experts-I’m just the winning contestant, not a game show historian-but I believe it was the highest total amount.

I'm guessing that $50K was just enough to cover the taxes on everything else. 😁

@mortkamins4943

5 жыл бұрын

Sold a lot of stuff to raise cash, gave some to charity. Btw, other (enlightened) countries--Australia, New Zealand, e.g.--don't tax game show winnings.

And today, a contestant on TPIR wins $260K+, breaking this 36 year old daytime game show record.

you players need to listen to the questions before you answer...it'll save you points.

@mortkamins4943

9 ай бұрын

If you're playing against good players on Sale of the Century, waiting is a recipe for losers. You have to take chances, you have to anticipate, knowing that sometimes you're going to be wrong.

Mort, Did You Went to The Middle East, South America or Europe?

@mortkamins4943

5 жыл бұрын

Two or three trips to Europe (Spain, France, Italy, Monaco, UK)

$18 shy of a quarter million.

This is I believe still the biggest daytime game show winner of all time, 35 years later. Price is Right has offered bigger cash prizes thanks to Big Money week with Million Dollar Plinko, but no one on those gimmicks has hit the $200K slot even once.

@Rewindium

4 жыл бұрын

That finally happened on today’s episode of Price when they played million dollar Plinko. Contestant Michael landed one chip into the $200K slot. He went on to win the showcase with over $250K but adjusted for inflation Mr. Kamins has won more in 2019 dollars