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** Among the episodes GSN reran was a sixth taping from Back-To-School Week (August 1985) that was not seen during the show's original run or the repeats on USA. The episode itself is notable for being one of the few times a contestant played against the house. These were taped prior to the tapings of the 8/22 and 8/23 episodes, and made its GSN debut on September 4, 2004.
** #066 counts yet doesn't (see above for reason), hence GSN skipping it and #051.
* [[No Budget]]: A likely reason for the many changes during the final season, which proceeded to break Pick-A-Corner to the point of being ousted entirely on July 25, 1986.
** $2,000 and $2,500 spaces gave way to more $1,000 and $500 spaces. With an excess of $500 and $750 spaces with and without extra spins, R2 bore a strong resemblance to R1.
** Pick-A-Corner didn't suffer so much from the budget, but rather the ill-considered rearrangement of dollar values in the other three corners. It's amazing how many times PAC got hit and players witnessed the head-slappingly no-brainer choices between three cash values. Move One Space also suffered, at one point giving a choice of $1,500 or $500. Perhaps the producers were just experimenting with the template since the R2 board of 1985 went a long life without any radical changes, and was actually showing its age as many slides started fading from the hours under the heat of being projected by lamps. If anything, the R1 template could've used an overhaul. PAC worked best when the choices were basically some combination of moderate cash, lesser cash + One Spin, and a moderate prize. PAC was ''supposed'' to allow you to choose from the best of the board, not boring things like $1,400-$500-$1,400.
*** PAC also suffered from limited randomization. When $2,000 or Lose-A-Whammy was in #16, a Whammy was in #1, and #10 consisted of three prizes...it was perfect. By Spring 1986, it almost always seemed to result in a bunch of anticlimactic choices.
* [[Screwed by the Network]]: CBS moved it from 10:30 AM to 4:00 PM in January 1986 so they could debut a revival of ''[[Card Sharks]]''. Although the change was promoted in-show at the end of December 1985, certain comments from here onward appear to prove that the staff knew it was the end.
{{quote|'''Peter''' (''on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}nrZVJurTgLQ June 11, 1986], after the "N" fell off a "SPINS" placard''): Have we been renewed?}}
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