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    Posted: 16 Jan 2016 at 10:23pm
Remember this episode of The Big Showdown from March 1975 when Jim Peck fell down on that one step while coming in on that staircase? He had an incredible line out of that: "Sure: you people would applaud a lynching!"

Outside of that, the game was, IMO, a very intriguing, involving and strategic game, in that, for one thing, blocks (you had to hit payoff points exactly, so if a certain category would put you over you were blocked off a question) could be strategically used to close up a deficit. 

See it for yourself here:
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Yeah! I like this show, although it was behind my time, I still know a lot about it.

Only the pilot episode and the "fall-down" episode exist, along with another bonus round clip. What a shame! This game should have gotten a second chance. (Game show fans will get the reference, as Jim Peck later hosted a game show galled Second Chance. It, too, was destroyed with only two episodes on video and one audio episode and an audio clip remaining.)
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Originally posted by videotapeguy videotapeguy wrote:

Yeah! I like this show, although it was behind my time, I still know a lot about it.

Only the pilot episode and the "fall-down" episode exist, along with another bonus round clip. What a shame! This game should have gotten a second chance. (Game show fans will get the reference, as Jim Peck later hosted a game show galled Second Chance. It, too, was destroyed with only two episodes on video and one audio episode and an audio clip remaining.)


That is a damn shame who was the idiots who were In charge of preserving the archives of this game show? Was it because it was controversial?
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No. It was because storing two-inch videotapes was costly.
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