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* [[Development Hell]]: No fewer than ''ten'' pilots have been made since 1996.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: The John Davidson version is commonly referred to as "''The New $100,000 Pyramid''" to distinguish it from the 1980s run. In a [[Portmanteau]], Donny Osmond's version is nicknamed "''Donnymid''". [[This Very Wiki]] refers to each version by its dollar figure, as can be seen right below.
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** Bob Clayton hosted ''[[Concentration]]'' from 1969-73, and announced on it for several years prior.
** Steve O'Brien was a local disc jockey.
** Jack Clark announced on the 1960s ''[[Password]]'', and later announced ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' from 1980-88.
** Johnny Gilbert is best known as the current announcer of ''[[Jeopardy
** John Cramer announced on the NBC version of ''[[The Weakest Link]]''.
** Substitute announcers after Clayton's death included Alan Kalter (''[[To Tell the Truth]]'', ''The Late Show with [[David Letterman]]''), Fred Foy (narrator of ''[[The Lone Ranger]]'') and New York-based announcers John Causier, Dick Heatherton, Ed Jordan, and Scott Vincent.
** When Jack Clark was unavailable, substitutes included Rod Roddy (''[[The Price Is Right]]'', ''[[Press Your Luck]]''), Jerry Bishop (''[[The Cross Wits]]'', ''[[Judge Judy]]''), and Charlie Tuna (''[[Scrabble (TV series)|Scrabble]]'').
** Substitutes for Johnny included Charlie O'Donnell (''[[Wheel of Fortune]]''), Dean Goss (''[[High Rollers]]''), Bob Hilton (''[[Blockbusters]]''), and (on the Davidson version) Henry Polic II (''Double Talk'').
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]:
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** The Cullen ''$25,000'', the 1981 ''$50,000'', and the 1991 ''$100,000'' (plus certain episodes of ''$20,000'' from 1978-80) have never been rerun although they exist. GSN has aired three or four brief clips of a first-season Cullen episode with Shatner and Anne Meara.
** All fifteen shows of ''$10,000'' taped at Television City feature a big-winner clip montage from episodes believed to be gone. Same goes for Cullen's ''$25,000'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bEuBc5RJL0 pitchfilm], which showed ten wins (some from the aforementioned montages, others from subsequent tapings), all believed to be the only surviving footage from their respective episodes.
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: Bob Stewart developed the show under the working title ''Cash on the Line'' and taped a pilot on February 2, 1973; CBS hated everything about it except for the end game, which became ''Pyramid'''s main game. Originally, the Pyramid had 10 subjects (which is what TV Guide showed in its synopsis of the debut in the March 24-30, 1973 issue) but, two nights before taping the premiere, Stewart called CBS and said there was no way anyone could get 10 subjects in a minute. He had a two-by-four plank nailed over the bottom four boxes (awarding $25 each), which remained during the initial CBS run (taped at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York) and shortly into the ABC run.
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