Summer Bartholomew Assistant as Assistant. Don Morrow Announcer as Announcer. Elaine Hobson Model as Model Lee Menning Assistant as Assistant Lynnda Herrick Model as Model Sandy Mielke Contestant as Contestant …. David Gibbs Model as Model. Gregorio Gaviati Model as Model. John Harlan Announcer as Announcer. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The player with the highest score could elect to use his score money to buy specially-discounted luxury items e.
Later in the show's run, the endgame's format changed, where champions chose prizes via a matching game; and again later by solving phrases within 30 seconds to win a cash bonus. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia Tim Hollerin of Connecticut was the show's biggest winner. It was at that same time that one of Tim's friends who congratulated him and wildly hugged Summer Bartholomew was indeed former "Saturday Night Live" alum and comedian Kevin Nealon. Goofs During the speed round, there are times you can hear a female judge yell "Time!
There are also times you can hear the same judge yell "Timer! Quotes Jim Perry : Going once But then again, that falls on the producers, who were reported to have done Marathon sessions of tapings, upwards of to shows a day because they wanted to beat the fast approaching writers strike that was happening in mid-november.
I don't talk much about the announcers for the show, since they normally range from mediocre to excellent, but in this case, I gotta mention Rolanda Watts. Her announcing style could be best described as that annoying hair stylist that talks a lot without saying mainly anything. Not only that, she's part of Oprah's Inner Circle, so whenever I hear of one of them falling hard, always gets me in good spirits. But Rolanda on this show always said the prizes that, "You know you deserve the quality and performance" or "Girl, it's all about the Gucci, Prada, you name it!
Let's talk Format. The format of the show was so haphazardly put together that it isn't funny. You'll see that it rips off no less than 5 other game shows. The show starts off with a speed round of questions, ripping off The Challengers usual start off point.
Wait, I'm sorry, there's no actual cash on this show. It's Temptation Dollars, which are non-transferrable outside of the soundstage they were on. So, already we're on the cheap. The speed round lasts for 30 seconds of straightforward questions.
The person in the lead after the speed round gets to buy an Instant Bargain, which instead of a few dings, which sounded good, is now just the last 3 notes of the theme song, making it cheaper than having another sound effect. The prizes themselves, were aimed towards the girl side of the spectrum. Mainly they were handbags, chocolates, dayspa trips, makeup. Not to mention, we get to hear Rolonda and her banshee voice talking about "I Feel Pretty about this makeup!
Another thing is that all of the the Instant Bargains had to have names or some annoying banner down below saying what they are. It also doesn't help that they over-price the bargain price by about 10 Temptation dollars at the start of the game. Also, you have Rossi reading taglines on his little card, making his hosting more disingenuous than before. For more cheap effects, you get this pathetic countdown clock.
It just doesn't have the same oomph and feel that Jim Perry's line does. After this, we have Ripoff moment The Fame Game. Now, the old Fame Game would have Jim reading a small bio about a person, place or thing in the third person The first person that would buzz in with the right answer gets a pick at the fame game board. What happens in this version? They rip off Wheel Of Fortune's Toss-up Puzzles with letters appearing on the board while Rossi blandly reads off facts.
The first person to solve the puzzle wins 15 temptation dollars. Ugh, I don't want to continue anymore. I need a commercial break. Apparently, since they couldn't be arsed to make money with a real game show, they rip off Every single home shopping game show from by selling prizes that would be featured on the show on their website called As Seen On Temptation or by simply calling a pathetic toll-free number.
It doesn't get any better when the next round is a big ripoff of another 80s classic in Wipeout. It rips off their Challenge round with 12 possible answers.
But instead of 8 right answers and 4 wrong ones. The winning player became the Sale of the Century champion, while the losers kept their final scores in cash in addition to everything else. Unlike most versions of Sale which used the Speed Round, the game was over once the clock finished, even if a contestant had buzzed in at the last second to answer a question. In addition, the clock was not stopped at any point in the game, even if a contestant answered before or when Jim called "Time" on a question.
The champion won a chance to buy a grand prize at a bargain price using their winning score. Six prizes were on display with the biggest prize being a brand new luxury car.
The champion could either buy the grand prize which they had enough money to buy with and leave the show or return on the next show with the money scored that day being added to the next day's winning score. In the version and in the Tournament of Champions, grand champions could buy more than one prize.
Occasionally in the s version, if a champion scored more than enough to buy the next prize in line while shooting for the intended target prize, then the champion had a choice of two prizes. In the Temptation revival, the contestant always had a choice of prizes regardless of their cumulative score.
In the version and in the Temptation revival, the highest-level prize the winning contestant could buy was a new car. By about mid-April , the prices were fixed to:. Beginning on the 16th episode January 28, , these were tweaked slightly to their more familiar structure:. In the later years of the 80s revival, the shopping format was dropped, and new bonus rounds were played.
Starting in October on the NBC version, and November 18, on the syndicated version, the winning contestant faced the Winner's Board. The Winner's Board consisted of 20 numbered squares. The champion picked off numbers to reveal the prizes; the first prize matched was the prize won. If at any time one of the WIN cards was revealed, the next prize revealed was the prize won.
To win either one of those, the player would first need to find one of the WIN cards, then find one of the biggest prizes. Should the two big prizes be left on the board, then only two numbers hiding those prizes would be shown. The catch in the latter instance was that the contestant, if they wanted the opportunity, had to put all 10 of the Winner's Board prizes up as collateral - essentially, it was a form of the player competing against the house.
Front game prizes were never at risk. However, if one of the contestant's opponents won, the champion lost all 10 Winner's Board prizes. Based on circulating episodes and fan recollections, all contestants who took the risk won their final game. Furthermore, there were at least six daytime contestants - Jeff Hewitt and Marguerite Newhouse both in , Tim O'Rourke and Dave Goodman , Judy Cahill , and Andy Ross - who opted to walk away after winning their 10th game.
In the transition from the Shopping to the Winner's Board, the champion at that point was given the option to leave with the prize offered, or keep the prize and continue as champion into the new format.
In both the daytime show and the syndicated series, the champion chose the latter. Debbie Morris, the champion on the NBC show kept a prize and on the first ever Winner's Board show the champion successfully defended her crown winning a TV. On December 28, , the bonus was changed one more time.
In the Winner's Big Money Game, the day's champion had to solve a series of six-clue word puzzles within the time limit. To start, host Perry gave the champion a choice three envelopes red, yellow or blue. Whatever the choice, the player started to hear and see the words of each puzzle appear one at a time; as soon as the contestant knew what the puzzle referred to, they would hit a plunger to stop the clock the clock started when the first word appeared. If the champ answered correctly, they won the puzzle and a circled check mark lit up on the winner's podium.
The champion could miss one time and continue, but two misses or time running out ended the game. The player could buzz in and opt to pass without penalty if they couldn't come up with an answer.
Losing that game meant the player left the show, but winning the car gave the champion the right to play one more game. At least three contestants Robin McKirahan in August , veteran game show contestant LaRae Dillman in January and Darrell Garrison during the last week of the show in March made it to the seventh Winner's Big Money Game, but lost when playing for the car.
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