VTR AIR Prod Notes/Description Grade/Source/Call Number

9/17/82

#4585D

 Barker’s Bargain Bar/Cliff Hangers/It’s Optional/Race Game/Grand Game/Any Number
(This episode features that “It’s Optional” screamer from TV’s Funniest GS Moments )

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

6/82

9/20/82

#4591D

 Blank Check/Double Prices (car)/Trader Bob/Clock Game/Ten Chances/Penny Ante
(Bob says it’s show #2254, but it isn’t…)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

10/1/82

#4605D

 Lucky Seven/Punch-a-Bunch/Most Expensive/Clock Game/Check-Out/Money Game

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

7/82

10/14/82

#4624D

 Barker’s Bargain Bar/Hole in One/Race Game/Squeeze Play/Cliff Hangers/Any Number
(A light bulb gets smashed during the pirates showcase)

B+/GSN/TA-2

10/21/82

#4634D

 Temptation/Check Game/Grand Game/Poker Game/Five Price Tags/Double Prices
(From 6/16/83 Summer Repeat)

B-/RPT+C/NM-147.05

9/82

10/26/82

#4642D

 Safe Crackers/Hole in One/One Right Price/Poker Game/Cliff Hangers/Money Game
(Bill Cullen appears to plug Child’s Play)

A-/GSN/TA-2
11/23/82 #4682D Shell Game/Barker’s Bargain Bar/Money Game/Poker Game/Check Out/Dice Game
Some interesting contestant names today – Homer, Heldor, Prudence and believe it or not, “Pumpkin”; Heldor’s originally from Estonia; Leslie has an interesting “pantsless” outfit		 A-/GSN/GS-541

12/14/82

#4712D

 Any Number/Check-Out/Take Two/Range Game/Most Expensive/Five Price Tags

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

12/15/82

#4713D

 Squeeze Play/Danger Price/Hole in One/Blank Check/Three Strikes/Cliff Hangers
(Contestant doesn’t understand “Blank Check”… as usual)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

12/16/82

#4714D

 Superball!!/Money Game/Safe Crackers/One Right Price/Grand Game/Dice Game
(Holly trips on a camera cable while bringing out ball #2 during Superball)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

12/17/82

#4715D

 Clock Game (car)/Hi-Lo/Most Expensive/Range Game/Switheroo/Barker’s Bargain Bar

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

12/23/82

#4723D

 Most Expensive/Temptation/Now and Then/One Right Price/Trader Bob/Any Number
(CHRISTMAS EPISODE)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

12/24/82

#4724D

 Lucky Seven/Safe Crackers/Punch-a-Bunch/Take Two/Three Strikes/Bullseye
(CHRISTMAS EPISODE)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

12/27/82

#4731D

 Blank Check/Hi-Lo/Ten Chances/One Right Price/Switcheroo/Range Game
(Another Blank Check headache)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

12/28/82

#4732D

 Superball!!/Barker’s Bargain Bar/Three Strikes/Poker Game/Any Number/Penny Ante

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

12/29/82

#4733D

 Lucky Seven/Most Expensive/Grand Game/Race Game/Temptation/Bonus Game

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

12/30/82

#4734D

 Shell Game/Card Game/Danger Price/Double Prices (car)/Check-Out/Money Game

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

12/31/82

#4735D

 Clock Game/Take Two/Hole in One (Not Complete)
(New Year’s Eve Show (Portion-Signal Loss))

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

1/3/83

#4741D

 Any Number/Plinko (DEBUT)/Most Expensive/Poker Game/Three Strikes/Pick-a-Pair
(PREMIERE of “Plinko” with “discs” instead of  “chips”)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

1/4/83

#4742D

 Temptation/One Right Price/Grocery Game/Take Two/Card Game/Give or Keep
(Another Samoan! A CLASSIC!)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

1/5/83

#4743D

 Double Prices/Hurdles/Lucky Seven/Blank Check/Secret X/Dice Game
(Music Director Stan Blits can’t even make the contestants understand “Blank Check”)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2
1/6/83 #4744D Range Game/Safe Crackers/Hole in One/Squeeze Play/Five Price Tags/Race Game
[Holly battles the appliances again]		 /GSN/D202.03

1/7/83

#4745D

 Bonus Game/Ten Chances/Barker’s Bargain Bar/Danger Price/Hit Me/Money Game

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

1/11/83

#4752D

 Squeeze Play (car)/Plinko (2nd playing)/Most Expensive/Safe Crackers/Check-Out/Any Number (Debut of the Plinko sign, in the back of the audience)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

1/12/83

#4753D

 Barker’s Bargain Bar/Hole in One/Danger Price/Double Prices/It’s Optional/Shell Game
(This is a show where nothing seems to want to work right, including the buzzer)

A/GSN/TA-2

1/14/83

#4755D

 Golden Road/Squeeze Play/Grand Game/Take Two/Five Price Tags/Range Game
(Blooper in Five Price Tags)

C+/GSN/TA-2

1/17/83

#4761D

 Superball/Most Expensive/Money Game/Barker’s Bargain Bar/Any Number/Hi-Lo
(Funny showcase with the models trying to meet the loves of their lives, Arnold, Tom Selleck, and Burt Reynolds)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

1/18/83

#4762D

 Blank Check/Hole in One/Race Game/Double Prices/Bonus Game/Three Strikes
(Instead of the usual contestant screw-up understanding the “Blank Check” game, Bob screws the whole thing up/Funny showcase with a witch doctor, snake oil included)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

1/20/83

#4764D

 Range Game/Plinko (3rd playing)/Take Two/Safe Crackers/Grocery Game/Dice Game

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

1/21/83

#4765D

 Lucky Seven/Punch-a-Bunch/One Right Price/Clock Game/Card Game/Pick a Pair
($10,000 Punch-a-Bunch win)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

1/25/83

#4772D

 Barker’s Bargain Bar/Plinko/Range Game (car)/Take Two/Temptation/Bullseye
(Holly is a mime in one showcase)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

1/26/83

#4773D

 Lucky Seven/Danger Price/Hit Me/1 Right Price/Blank Check/Five Price Tags

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

1/28/83

#4775D

 Shell Game/Double Prices/Ten Chances/Range Game/Grand Game/Dice Game
(Hilarious Dice Game screwup)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

2/2/83

#4783D

 Barker’s Bargain Bar/Superball/Dice Game/Take Two/Three Strikes/Grocery Game

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

3/1/83

#4822D

 Temptation/Squeeze Play/Cliff Hangers/Race Game/Pick a Pair/Any Number
(Salvatore looks like Colonel Sanders, but Bob thinks he’s Samoan; this is the clip you see on lots of clip shows)

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

3/16/83

#4843D

 New Card Game (Debut)/Bonus Game/Take Two/Double Prices/Check Out/Any Number
(The unveiling of New Card Game- and Holly knocks the microphone out of Bob’s hand)

A-/GSN/TA-2

3/25/83

#4855D

 Lucky Seven/Clock Game/Pick a Pair/One Right Price/Master Key/Range Game
(Master Key DEBUT)

A/GSN/TA-2

3/31/83

#4864D

 Lucky Seven/Hurdles/Clock Game/Poker Game/Punch a Bunch ($10K Win!)/Double Prices
(Hurdles FINALE, and it breaks, which is probably why it was retired)

A/GSN/TA-2

4/1/83

#4865D

 Five Price Tags/Blank Check/Danger Price/Barker’s Bargain Bar/Hit Me/Any Number
(Classic April Fools Day show with an April Fools showcase)

A/GSN/TA-2

4/11/83

#4881D

 Safe Crackers/Check Out/Dice Game/Poker Game/Squeeze Play/Five Price Tags
(Contestant memorizes 300 prices and, wouldn’t you know it, gets a bid exactly right)

A/GSN/TA-2

4/13/83

#4883D

 Check Game/One Right Price/Hole in One/Danger Price/Bonus Game/Three Strikes
(from 9/83 summer repeat, has Phone Home Game plug)

B/RPT+C/TA-2

4/22/83

#4895D

Give or Keep (blue set debut)/Deluxe Dice Game (debut)/Race Game/Squeeze Play/New Card Game/Hi-Lo

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

4/25/83

#4901D

 Master Key/Danger Price/Safe Crackers/Most Expensive/Check-Out/Money Game

1stGen/GSN/TA-2

4/27/83

#4903D

 Switcheroo/Barker’s Bargain Bar/Clock Game/Take Two/Grand Game/New Card Game
(Buzzer decides to go haywire again)

A/GSN/TA-2

3/16/83

4/28/83

#4904D

 Lucky Seven/Race Game/Hi-Lo/Blank Check/Five Price Tags/Squeeze Play
(Episode with a WILD winner in Five Price Tags, clip as seen on TV’s Funniest GS Moments)

A/GSN/TA-2

4/29/83

#4905D

 Superball!!/Poker Game/Three Strikes/One Right Price/Bullseye/Safe Crackers
(More new music to hear on this show)

A/GSN/TA-2

5/10/83

#4922D

 Squeeze Play/Poker Game/Hole in One/One Right Price/Any Number/Secret X
(Some of the music cues make some of their first appearances in this show)

A-/GSN/TA-2

5/9/83

#4921D

 Shell Game/It’s Optional/Safe Crackers/Barker’s Bargain Bar/Bullseye/Dice Game
(It’s Optional FINALE with a win!)

A/GSN/TA-2

6/29/83

#4973D

 Money Game/Race Game/Pick a Pair/Squeeze Play/Cliff Hangers/Dice Game
(Contestant who was on Truth or Consequences 17 years earlier plays Race Game/Michael Damian of Young and the Restless makes a cameo during Pick a Pair/Showcase salute to Y&R)

B/GSN/TA-2

8/22/83

#4981D

 Money Game/Secret X/Safe Crackers/One Right Price/Bullseye/Dice Game
(First mention of Phone Home Game/Dice Game is played slightly differently)

A/GSN/TA-2

8/24/83

#4983D

 New Card Game/Grand Game/Most Expensive/Take Two/Bonus Game/Three Strikes
(The 1st IUFB almost falls on Holly)

A/GSN/TA-2

8/26/83

#4985D

 Lucky Seven/Clock Game/Pick a Pair/Double Prices/Cliff Hangers/Any Number
(11th Season Finale/Cliff Hangers blooper, the mountain climber won’t go over the cliff)

A/GSN/TA-2