TVWI: ABC picked up $50,000 a Minute in 1985

$50,000 a Minute is an unsold game show pilot hosted by Geoff Edwards and Meredith MacRae, announced by Jack Clark, produced by Bob Stewart and it was taped in 1985.

ABC however picked up the show, and it was considered to replace All-Star Blitz, but in the 11th hour, $50,000 a Minute was to replace repeats of the sitcom Angie. And as a result, the show aired at 11:00am, right before All-Star Blitz.

A few months after the show premiered, and after Jack Clark's resigning from Pyramid, Jack Clark was replaced as announcer by Johnny Gilbert, who also announced such other shows as Jeopardy!, The $25,000/$100,000 Pyramid and Headline Chasers. And as a result, $50,000 a Minute could be Jack Clark's last game show he announced for Bob Stewart Productions.

$50,000 a Minute
was canned on January 3, 1986, and it was set to replace the show with Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak, a Reg Grundy production.
 
Here's The Schedule from ABC O&O KGO in San Francisco from September 1985

9:00 am: AM San Francisco
Competing Stations airing Game Shows: Your Number's Up (Nipsey Russell) & $ale of the Century (Jim Perry) on KRON & The $25,000 Pyramid (Dick Clark) & Press Your Luck (Peter Tomarken) on KPIX
10:00 am: $50,000 a Minute (Geoff Edwards and Meredith MacRae
Competing Stations airing Game Shows: Wheel of Fortune (Pat Sajak) on KRON and The Price is Right (Bob Barker) on KTZO (now KOFY) despite KPIX didn't want that show for People are Talking (which is produced by Group W)
10:30 am: All-Star Blitz (Peter Marshall)
Competing Stations airing Game Shows: Scrabble (Chuck Woolery) on KRON and the 2nd Half of TPIR (Bob Barker) on KTZO
11:00 am: Ryan's Hope
Competing Stations airing Game Shows: Super Password (Bert Convy) on KRON and The Joker's Wild (Bill Cullen) on KTZO
11:30 am: Loving
Competing Stations airing Game Shows: Tic Tac Dough (Jim Caldwell) on KTZO
Noon: All My Children
Competing Stations airing Game Shows: The All-New Let's Make a Deal (Monty Hall) and Break The Bank (Gene Rayburn) on KTVU (Note: KGO Picked up the first season of The All-New Let's Make a Deal with Monty Hall on Syndication)

Note: Syndicated Programs in BOLD
 
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