ABC Carnival '74
Across the Board
Baloney
Bamboozle
Be What You Want
Beat The Genius
Beat The Odds (1962)
Beat The Odds (1975)
Bedtime Stories
The Better Sex
The Big Money
The Big Payoff
Big Spenders
Blank Check
Body Language
Body Talk
The Buck Stops Here
Bullseye
Call My Bluff
Card Sharks (1996)
Casino
Caught in the Act
Celebrity Billiards
Celebrity Doubletalk
Celebrity Secrets
Celebrity Sweepstakes
Chain Letter (1964)
The Challengers (1974)
Change Partners
Child's Play
The Choice Is Yours
Combination Lock (1996)
Comedy Club
Concentration (1985)
The Confidence Game
Cop Out
Countdown (1974)
Countdown (1990)
The Couples Race
Crossword
Decisions, Decisions
Dollar a Second
Duel in the Daytime
The Fashion Show
Fast Friends
$50,000 a Minute
Finish Line (1975)
Finish Line (1990)
Get Rich Quick
Going, Going, Gone!
Head of the Class
High Rollers
Hollywood Squares (1965)
Hollywood Squares (1985)
The Honeymoon Game
Hot Numbers
Hot Potato
House to House
How Do You Like Your Eggs?
Jackpot (1984)
Jeopardy (1977)
Jokers Wild
Jumble
Key Witness
Keynotes (1986)
King of the Hill
Let's Make a Deal (1963)
Let's Make a Deal (1990)
The Love Experts
M'ama Non M'ama
Match Game (1962)
Match Game (1973)
Match Game (1990)
Match Game (1996)
MatchGame (2008)
Mindreaders
Missing Links
Monday Night QB
Money Words
Money in the Blank
Moneymaze
Monopoly (1987)
Nothing But the Truth
Now You See It (1986)
Oddball
100%
PDQ
Party Line
People On TV
Play For Keeps
Play Your Hunch
The Plot Thickens
Pot O' Gold
Pressure Point
The Price Is Right (1972)
Pyramid (1996)
Pyramid (1997)
A Question of Scruples
Quick as a Flash
Razzle Dazzle
Riddlers
Run For The Money
Says Who?
Scrabble (1990)
Second Guessers
Second Honeymoon
Sharaize
Shoot for the Stars
Shoot the Works
Shopping Spree
Show Me
Showoffs
Simon Says
$64,000 Question (2000)
Smart Alecks
Smart Money
Spellbinders
Spin-Off
Split Decision
Star Cluster
Star Play
Strictly Confidential
TKO
Talking Pictures (1968)
Talking Pictures (1976)
Tell It to Groucho
Temptation (1981)
$10,000 Sweep
Three of a Kind
Tic Tac Dough
Tie-Up
Top Secret
Twenty One (1982)
Twenty Questions
Twisters
Up and Over
The Waiting Game
We've Got Your Number
What Do You Want?
What's On Your Mind
Wheel of Fortune
Whew!
Whodunit
Whose Baby
Wipeout
Word Grabbers
Write Your Own Ticket
You Bet Your Life (1988)
You Bet Your Life (1991)
You're Putting Me On
Show a Random Pilot
Show Unreviewed Pilots
Bob Stewart Flow Chart
Moneymaze
Producer: Daphne-Lipp
Host: Nick Clooney
Announcer: Chet Gould
Taping Info: 1974
Made it to Air: Yes, it replaced The Newlywed Game on December 23, 1974 and lasted until it was replaced by a revival of You Don't Say on July 4, 1975
Availability: It's on the trading circuit, but the copies are really bad.
There were a lot of game shows on the air in the mid-70s. Ideas were starting to run thin. I'm sure some of the brainstorming sessions must have been a hoot, and probably chemically-enhanced. One of these sessions probably brought out the idea of having adults run around in a maze. Nick Clooney, sister of Rosemary, father of George, and apparently not knowing what he was getting himself in to, was brought on for his one and only game show hosting job.
The show involved two sets of married couple. One member of the couple was up on stage answering questions, while the "better" half went down to the bottom and had to be ready to run a very large maze "including over 100 turns". Nick would identify a category (such as "abbreviations") and showed two questions. The question answerers alternated trying to stump the other person by picking the question for the other person to answer, with two seconds being added to a pot for every correct answer. When one person answered incorrectly, the other person won the round and could finish up the remaining questions for more seconds. The round winner could also decide to not run the maze and bank the seconds for a later turn.
Now the "better" half of the winning couple got involved. His or her job was to run a maze in the accumulated seconds to find a prize such as a mink or a TV. Since the maze was six feet tall, the runner couldn't find a prize, the question answerer gave instructions from a crow's nest that overlooked the maze. The first team to win three prizes won the game and moved on to the $10,000 dash.
The way to win the dash was to find the five numbered posts in the maze among the ten total posts with the direction of the spouse. However, the kicker was you had to find the one post numbered one. Failing to find that post and getting out of the maze in sixty seconds meant the couple won absolutely nothing. Finding any of the other four numbered posts meant the couple could win $10, $100, $1,000 or $10,000.
When the show went to air, some changes were made. First, Moneymaze was broken up into two words. Only three of the "prize" rounds were played with the seconds earned now doing double duty as points. In the fourth round, the team that was behind continued to answer questions, earning one point for the first, two for the second, three for the third and so on until they either missed a question or went ahead of the couple that was leading. The latter couple then had a chance to win back the game with one correct answer. The $10,000 Dash was then played.
Apparently, filming the show in New York City, with expensive union labor, tight and expensive studio space and the extra time it took to build and deconstruct the set caused the show to be more expensive than your average show. Secondly, ABC gave the show the dreaded 4:00 PM slot, which meant only O&Os and small stations carried it in pattern, although many stations would delay it to the next day since ABC didn't start until 11:00 AM. Still, it managed to last for 26 weeks plus some reruns, which for a game show in 1975 was par for the course.
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