| rdfs:comment | - Beat the Clock is a pinball machine produced by Williams. Machine has "over/under" mechanism to raise ball from below playfield to plunger. This allows you to play game one ball at a time, or as a multi-ball by raising more balls from below before first has dropped from the top.
- 1950-1961 Opening Spiel: "Sylvania! Pioneer of sight, light, and sound, invites you join the fun as we play America's #1 party game, Beat the Clock, starring America's #1 clock watcher, Bud Collyer!" 1969 Spiel: "Yes, it's Beat the Clock! Come on and join the action in a race against time. With guest star, (insert celebrity). Now, here's your host on Beat the Clock, Jack Narz!" 1972 Spiel: "It's time now for The New Beat the Clock. Fun, action, stunts, a race against time, with guest star (insert celebrity). And now, here's your host on The New Beat the Clock, Gene Wood!"
- Perhaps the granddaddy of stunt-based Game Shows, this Mark Goodson-Bill Todman creation has been around in some form since 1950. The premise is simple: Here's a clock. Here's a silly stunt. Can you perform the stunt before time expires? If you do so, you win. PAX brought back the show yet again in 2002 with Gary Kroeger as host, and tacked on a Bonus Round copied from The Diamond Head Game. In 2006, the original Clock was part of CBS' Gameshow Marathon with Ricki Lake.
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| abstract | - Perhaps the granddaddy of stunt-based Game Shows, this Mark Goodson-Bill Todman creation has been around in some form since 1950. The premise is simple: Here's a clock. Here's a silly stunt. Can you perform the stunt before time expires? If you do so, you win. The original version, which aired on CBS (1950-58) and later ABC (1958-61), starred Bud Collyer as host. Brought back for a five-a-week syndicated revival in 1969, the show was hosted by Jack Narz, who left in 1972 due to travel expenses eating up most of his salary. Gene Wood, then the show's announcer, was quickly promoted to host until 1974, making for one of his few non-announcing gigs. In 1979, Monty Hall of Let's Make a Deal fame hosted a one-season revival, again for CBS; this role was one of the few times he hosted a show he didn't create, and the only time he ever worked for Goodson-Todman. PAX brought back the show yet again in 2002 with Gary Kroeger as host, and tacked on a Bonus Round copied from The Diamond Head Game. In 2006, the original Clock was part of CBS' Gameshow Marathon with Ricki Lake. The format was exported to the United Kingdom in the 1960s, forming part of the popular variety series Saturday Night at the London Palladium. It was the first of many games hosted by Bruce Forsyth.
- Beat the Clock is a pinball machine produced by Williams. Machine has "over/under" mechanism to raise ball from below playfield to plunger. This allows you to play game one ball at a time, or as a multi-ball by raising more balls from below before first has dropped from the top.
- 1950-1961 Opening Spiel: "Sylvania! Pioneer of sight, light, and sound, invites you join the fun as we play America's #1 party game, Beat the Clock, starring America's #1 clock watcher, Bud Collyer!" 1969 Spiel: "Yes, it's Beat the Clock! Come on and join the action in a race against time. With guest star, (insert celebrity). Now, here's your host on Beat the Clock, Jack Narz!" 1972 Spiel: "It's time now for The New Beat the Clock. Fun, action, stunts, a race against time, with guest star (insert celebrity). And now, here's your host on The New Beat the Clock, Gene Wood!" 1979 Spiel (Pilots and Series): "Throw it. Tow it. Swing it. Fling it. (Grab it. Nab it. Snap it. Trap it. Hop it. Bop it. Smash it. Bash it.) That's the way... everyday. You can play...Beat the Clock! And now, here's the star of The All-New Beat the Clock, (Mr.) Monty Hall!" The All-New All-Star Beat the Clock (1979-1980): "Winning money today for the red section of our audience, (insert celebrities). And winning money for the green section, (insert celebrities). As they play The All-New All-Star...Beat the Clock! And here's the star of Beat the Clock, Monty Hall!" PAX Spiel: "You'll never know what people would do to Beat the Clock. And now from Universal Studios, Florida, he's America's #1 clockwatcher, Gary Kroeger." Television's first and longest-running stunt show produced & created by Mark Goodson & Bill Todman. Where couples play wacky & unusual stunts within certain time limits to win big cash & prizes.
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