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Jackpot was an American game show that was created by Bob Stewart and aired on NBC from January 7, 1974 to September 26, 1975.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20040404085839/www.gameshow-galaxy.net/jackpot.htm</ref> The show was hosted by Geoff Edwards (who previously hosted The New Treasure Hunt) and consists of 16 players solving riddles and building up a jackpot. The show was part of NBC's legendary daytime lineup that mainly consist of now famous game shows like Wheel Of Fortune, Hollywood Squares, Jeopardy! and Card Sharks. Although the show was short-lived, it was brought back a couple times in the 1980's, first with Mike Darrow as host and the last time with Edwards as host. The show produced and aired a total of 450 episodes during it's time on NBC and has never been reran after it's original run.
'''''Jackpot''''' was an American game show that was created by Bob Stewart and aired on NBC from January 7, 1974 to September 26, 1975.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20040404085839/www.gameshow-galaxy.net/jackpot.htm</ref> The show was hosted by Geoff Edwards (who previously hosted The New Treasure Hunt) and consists of 16 players solving riddles and building up a jackpot. The show was part of NBC's legendary daytime lineup that mainly consist of now famous game shows like Wheel Of Fortune, Hollywood Squares, Jeopardy! and Card Sharks. Although the show was short-lived, it was brought back a couple times in the 1980's, first with Mike Darrow as host and the last time with Edwards as host. The show produced and aired a total of 450 episodes during it's time on NBC and has never been reran after it's original run.


==Format==
==Format==

Revision as of 01:38, 27 May 2021

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The show's logo.

Status: Partially Lost

Jackpot was an American game show that was created by Bob Stewart and aired on NBC from January 7, 1974 to September 26, 1975.[1] The show was hosted by Geoff Edwards (who previously hosted The New Treasure Hunt) and consists of 16 players solving riddles and building up a jackpot. The show was part of NBC's legendary daytime lineup that mainly consist of now famous game shows like Wheel Of Fortune, Hollywood Squares, Jeopardy! and Card Sharks. Although the show was short-lived, it was brought back a couple times in the 1980's, first with Mike Darrow as host and the last time with Edwards as host. The show produced and aired a total of 450 episodes during it's time on NBC and has never been reran after it's original run.

Format

The show consists of 16 contestants (1 is the king/queen of the hill and 15 of them were in three-tiered bleachers numbered 1 to 15). The king/queen of the hill will choose a person in the bleachers and each person in the bleachers has a riddle (an amount was attached to the riddle and gets added to a jackpot) and the person asks the king/queen of the hill the riddle and if they solve it correctly, they remain the king/queen of the hill, if they guess incorrectly, the chosen person from the bleachers and the king/queen of the hill swap places. One of the riddles in the bleachers is a jackpot riddle and if they guess the riddle right, the person with the jackpot riddle and the king/queen of the hill split the current jackpot and a new game starts and the jackpot gets reset. A super jackpot is also up for grabs and has a three digit target number. In order for the super jackpot to be won, the jackpot has to match the target number attached to the super jackpot and the host asks the person with the super jackpot riddle and the king/queen of the hill one more riddle and if the king/queen of the hill guess correctly, the super jackpot gets split between the person in the bleachers and the king/queen of the hill, if guessed incorrectly the game continues.[2]

Availability

Out of the show's 450 episodes, only a studio master of an episode of the show's biggest super jackpot winner ($38,750) survives and has made it's way online in pristine quality. While many episodes exist via audio recordings, the only recording to make it online is from the show's finale. The show became a victim of NBC's practice of reusing tapes for future shows, which resulted in many shows on NBC's daytime lineup to become lost.[3]

Gallery

Videos

$38,750 episode. (The only episode that survives in video form)

Audio of the September 26, 1975 finale.

Pictures

References