Post by whammy007 on Oct 8, 2011 19:09:31 GMT -5
Daytime Wheel of Fortune: "Star Bonus" - Original Airdate 4/7/1978
Look at this studio, filled with thousands of dollars in fabulous prizes just waiting to be won today on WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE!
Let's meet our returning champion and his challengers
(briefly, because the interviews have been edited to shreds):
Scott Hostetler, perennial game show contestant and our returning champ with $4,900 in prizes
Peggy Pate, from Oneonta, Alabama (Chuck is tickled and interviews her with an Alabama twang in his voice)
Laurel LaFortune, whose name Chuck remarks upon for its French derivation
ROUND 1:
$500 is the top dollar value for our first round, but watch out for that black space, "BANKRUPT", because you'll lose your cash, but not your merchandise - because once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep. We also have on the wheel our special "STAR BONUS" which lets a player try for a spectacular prize at the end of the show. Here's our first puzzle, with something exciting and new: punctuation!
_ _ _ _ _ -
_ _ _ _ _
PHRASE
Returning champ Scott will start things off by spinning up $200 (just one peg short of Star Bonus), but there are no T's. Peggy can't find any S's for $450, so a flying start this ain't. Laurel can't put up any $400 N's, so you'd think that they could've edited this triple fail out and saved the interviews... but of course this is long before the modern editing policy. Scott hits one of the three $500s, but there are no R's either! There's some confusion when a ding sounds on Peggy's M call, but the buzz that follows clears it up. Finally, Laurel breaks through with an L for $125 - we have our first cash of the game! Not enough for a vowel though, so she must spin and finds no G's. There's no P's for Scott, so it's back to Peggy again, who finally gets some money with a $150 D. But no K's in the puzzle, so we're back to Laurel, who is screaming for joy over a pair of $300 Y's, but she clearly doesn't know it yet because she buys a bad U. Scott thinks he has a guess, but it's not right because he can't put up a Z. We get a little bit of a change of pace - Peggy hits LOSE A TURN, clearing the way for Laurel to buy the E's. Scott gets one more try, because Laurel gets LOSE A TURN too, but there's no B's... back to Peggy! There are two V's worth $250 apiece, and everything else is a vowel:
L _ V E Y -
D _ V E Y
PHRASE
Peggy ends the Round of Duds by solving LOVEY-DOVEY for $650!
Duds: T (Scott), S (Peggy), N (Laurel), R (Scott), M (Peggy), G (Laurel)
More Duds: P (Scott), K (Peggy), U (Laurel), Z (Scott), B (Scott)
Lose a Turn: Peggy, Laurel
Peggy goes shopping in the Bedroom and buys a table lamp for $133, towels for $40, and a satin quilt for $340 before putting $137 on a gift certificate.
Scott: just his winnings from yesterday
Peggy: $650
Laurel: nothing yet
ROUND 2:
$1,000 is the top dollar value in this round. We've also added a second BANKRUPT to make things more interesting.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _
_ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _
TITLE
Peggy will kick off round 2, spinning with the $650 lead. She'll start with a $350 T, then the logical next choices of H (a pair) and E (a whopping FOUR), before calling a bad S to leave $500 on the table. Laurel builds some cash - enough to buy a bad I, so it's Scott's turn now to miss with an M. Peggy picks up her $500 and runs with it... after the commercial. Turn your backs please!
_ H E _ _ E N / _ _
T H E / _ _ _ E N
TITLE
And we're resuming round 2 with Peggy's turn, but that quickly becomes Laurel's turn since there are no N's. Then Laurel's turn becomes Scott's courtesy of BANKRUPT. His second spin is a good one - he'll pick up the STAR BONUS! Good think it's safe from BANKRUPTs, because his next spin is just that unlucky. The rest of the round is all Peggy, and the rest of the letters are all vowels:
C H E _ P E R / B Y
T H E / D _ Z E N
TITLE
Cash certainly isn't any CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, but Peggy scores another $1,700!
Duds: S (Peggy), I (Laurel), M (Scott), N (Peggy)
Bankrupt: Laurel ($350), Scott ($150)
Peggy will go shopping in the Den this time and buy a chair and ottoman for $439, encyclopedias for $540, a picture frame for $243, a collection of serving pieces for $128, Arthur Murray dance lessons for $300, and then puts $50 on a gift certificate.
Scott: gooseegg alert, but he has the Star Bonus
Peggy: $2,350
Laurel: gooseegg alert
ROUND 3 (Partial Speedup):
$1,500 is the maximum on this round's wheel. Here we go!
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
EVENT
Laurel will start this round and hope for some good spins - she gets exactly one spin for a $300 T but then... DING DING, DING DING... it's time for the final spin of the day, with the board looking like this:
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ T _
EVENT
Chuck licks his finger, hauls off and spins - and he hits the big one, $1,500 (just barely - it almost flips over to Bankrupt)! Still Laurel's turn, but she can't find an S. When it gets back around to her, she forgets this fact and guesses EASTER PARTY - nowhere close. Peggy gets it back, calls for a pair of P's, and the board looks like this:
P _ _ _ _ _
P _ R T Y
EVENT
She could throw some kind of PAJAMA PARTY with $4,500!
Duds (post-speedup): S (Laurel), B (Scott), N (Scott)
Peggy will take all that money and shop in the Dining Room, purchasing silver serving accessories for $1,000, a baker's rack for $451, floor tiles for $300, crystal for $372, a soup tureen for $159, statues for $312, a gold bracelet for $690, Tiffany china for $500, an incense-burning lamp for $485, and artichoke plates for $21 before putting $210 on a gift certificate. Interesting to note here that she passes up the expensive $3,000 French Riviera trip in this showcase to take ten smaller prizes!
Scott: GOOSEEGG'D except for the Star Bonus
Peggy: $6,850 in prizes and gift certificates
Laurel: GOOSEEGG'D
It's not over though - Scott could still come back in the Star Bonus Round!
STAR BONUS ROUND:
The prizes increase in value corresponding to the difficulty of the puzzle. Today's "Easy" prize is a trip to Las Vegas worth $675, "Medium" gives a sterling silvewr coffee/tea set worth $2,303, "Hard" rewards him with a jewelry gift certificate (based on a diamond pendant) valued at $4,060, and the "Difficult" puzzle bonus is a Porsche 924 in the amount of a whopping $13,586!
Scott will have to go for the "Difficult" puzzle here - nothing else is worth enough for him to catch up.
Here's his Star Bonus puzzle:
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Scott must choose four consonants and a vowel - he picks BMWS and A:
_ A B _ _
_ _ _ A S S _
He has 15 seconds, and now he's told that this is a PERSON. He sounds out various combinations of the first word for half of his time before letting fly with JAMES ARNESS, BOBBY DEERFIELD, and CHUCK WOOLERY - none of which are even close - it's PABLO PICASSO. Scott will be retiring with his $4,900 that he won on the last program, and Peggy sweeps the game to become the new champion with $6,850!
Look at this studio, filled with thousands of dollars in fabulous prizes just waiting to be won today on WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE!
Let's meet our returning champion and his challengers
(briefly, because the interviews have been edited to shreds):
Scott Hostetler, perennial game show contestant and our returning champ with $4,900 in prizes
Peggy Pate, from Oneonta, Alabama (Chuck is tickled and interviews her with an Alabama twang in his voice)
Laurel LaFortune, whose name Chuck remarks upon for its French derivation
ROUND 1:
$500 is the top dollar value for our first round, but watch out for that black space, "BANKRUPT", because you'll lose your cash, but not your merchandise - because once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep. We also have on the wheel our special "STAR BONUS" which lets a player try for a spectacular prize at the end of the show. Here's our first puzzle, with something exciting and new: punctuation!
_ _ _ _ _ -
_ _ _ _ _
PHRASE
Returning champ Scott will start things off by spinning up $200 (just one peg short of Star Bonus), but there are no T's. Peggy can't find any S's for $450, so a flying start this ain't. Laurel can't put up any $400 N's, so you'd think that they could've edited this triple fail out and saved the interviews... but of course this is long before the modern editing policy. Scott hits one of the three $500s, but there are no R's either! There's some confusion when a ding sounds on Peggy's M call, but the buzz that follows clears it up. Finally, Laurel breaks through with an L for $125 - we have our first cash of the game! Not enough for a vowel though, so she must spin and finds no G's. There's no P's for Scott, so it's back to Peggy again, who finally gets some money with a $150 D. But no K's in the puzzle, so we're back to Laurel, who is screaming for joy over a pair of $300 Y's, but she clearly doesn't know it yet because she buys a bad U. Scott thinks he has a guess, but it's not right because he can't put up a Z. We get a little bit of a change of pace - Peggy hits LOSE A TURN, clearing the way for Laurel to buy the E's. Scott gets one more try, because Laurel gets LOSE A TURN too, but there's no B's... back to Peggy! There are two V's worth $250 apiece, and everything else is a vowel:
L _ V E Y -
D _ V E Y
PHRASE
Peggy ends the Round of Duds by solving LOVEY-DOVEY for $650!
Duds: T (Scott), S (Peggy), N (Laurel), R (Scott), M (Peggy), G (Laurel)
More Duds: P (Scott), K (Peggy), U (Laurel), Z (Scott), B (Scott)
Lose a Turn: Peggy, Laurel
Peggy goes shopping in the Bedroom and buys a table lamp for $133, towels for $40, and a satin quilt for $340 before putting $137 on a gift certificate.
Scott: just his winnings from yesterday
Peggy: $650
Laurel: nothing yet
ROUND 2:
$1,000 is the top dollar value in this round. We've also added a second BANKRUPT to make things more interesting.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _
_ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _
TITLE
Peggy will kick off round 2, spinning with the $650 lead. She'll start with a $350 T, then the logical next choices of H (a pair) and E (a whopping FOUR), before calling a bad S to leave $500 on the table. Laurel builds some cash - enough to buy a bad I, so it's Scott's turn now to miss with an M. Peggy picks up her $500 and runs with it... after the commercial. Turn your backs please!
_ H E _ _ E N / _ _
T H E / _ _ _ E N
TITLE
And we're resuming round 2 with Peggy's turn, but that quickly becomes Laurel's turn since there are no N's. Then Laurel's turn becomes Scott's courtesy of BANKRUPT. His second spin is a good one - he'll pick up the STAR BONUS! Good think it's safe from BANKRUPTs, because his next spin is just that unlucky. The rest of the round is all Peggy, and the rest of the letters are all vowels:
C H E _ P E R / B Y
T H E / D _ Z E N
TITLE
Cash certainly isn't any CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, but Peggy scores another $1,700!
Duds: S (Peggy), I (Laurel), M (Scott), N (Peggy)
Bankrupt: Laurel ($350), Scott ($150)
Peggy will go shopping in the Den this time and buy a chair and ottoman for $439, encyclopedias for $540, a picture frame for $243, a collection of serving pieces for $128, Arthur Murray dance lessons for $300, and then puts $50 on a gift certificate.
Scott: gooseegg alert, but he has the Star Bonus
Peggy: $2,350
Laurel: gooseegg alert
ROUND 3 (Partial Speedup):
$1,500 is the maximum on this round's wheel. Here we go!
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
EVENT
Laurel will start this round and hope for some good spins - she gets exactly one spin for a $300 T but then... DING DING, DING DING... it's time for the final spin of the day, with the board looking like this:
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ T _
EVENT
Chuck licks his finger, hauls off and spins - and he hits the big one, $1,500 (just barely - it almost flips over to Bankrupt)! Still Laurel's turn, but she can't find an S. When it gets back around to her, she forgets this fact and guesses EASTER PARTY - nowhere close. Peggy gets it back, calls for a pair of P's, and the board looks like this:
P _ _ _ _ _
P _ R T Y
EVENT
She could throw some kind of PAJAMA PARTY with $4,500!
Duds (post-speedup): S (Laurel), B (Scott), N (Scott)
Peggy will take all that money and shop in the Dining Room, purchasing silver serving accessories for $1,000, a baker's rack for $451, floor tiles for $300, crystal for $372, a soup tureen for $159, statues for $312, a gold bracelet for $690, Tiffany china for $500, an incense-burning lamp for $485, and artichoke plates for $21 before putting $210 on a gift certificate. Interesting to note here that she passes up the expensive $3,000 French Riviera trip in this showcase to take ten smaller prizes!
Scott: GOOSEEGG'D except for the Star Bonus
Peggy: $6,850 in prizes and gift certificates
Laurel: GOOSEEGG'D
It's not over though - Scott could still come back in the Star Bonus Round!
STAR BONUS ROUND:
The prizes increase in value corresponding to the difficulty of the puzzle. Today's "Easy" prize is a trip to Las Vegas worth $675, "Medium" gives a sterling silvewr coffee/tea set worth $2,303, "Hard" rewards him with a jewelry gift certificate (based on a diamond pendant) valued at $4,060, and the "Difficult" puzzle bonus is a Porsche 924 in the amount of a whopping $13,586!
Scott will have to go for the "Difficult" puzzle here - nothing else is worth enough for him to catch up.
Here's his Star Bonus puzzle:
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Scott must choose four consonants and a vowel - he picks BMWS and A:
_ A B _ _
_ _ _ A S S _
He has 15 seconds, and now he's told that this is a PERSON. He sounds out various combinations of the first word for half of his time before letting fly with JAMES ARNESS, BOBBY DEERFIELD, and CHUCK WOOLERY - none of which are even close - it's PABLO PICASSO. Scott will be retiring with his $4,900 that he won on the last program, and Peggy sweeps the game to become the new champion with $6,850!