That's the cleanest I've heard that theme in about 50 years. This might have been a pilot episode. Most sources seem to agree that the debut was March 30, 1964. This clip is dated March 4th.
@KCGenoАй бұрын
Art Fleming was the man. Always watched him as a kid and college student. He and Ken Jennings display the spirit and fun of Jeopardy.
@saulchapnick156611 ай бұрын
The Who What or Where Game ( 1969- 1974) aired on NBC with the final round called "Pot Limit".
@robymyers50263 ай бұрын
Just watched this full episode in 5 YT clips. Thanks for a look back in time for a Jeopardy fan who until now has never seen an episode older than 1984.
@marktabla54347 ай бұрын
I was surprised that the rules have not changed at all, in all this time. They were a bit more lax with the retries in stating it in question form. And a little more strict with the form of the question, itself. But the basic rules of scoring have not changed, at all. Remember, this was created and aired just after the big game show scandals almost shut game shows down for good. That is it has endured all this time is amazing.
@wayneday87269 ай бұрын
Love this version of Jeopardy, Art is such a cordial host :)
@Delivery_Boy_Roy8 ай бұрын
I think this was the debut of the familiar music called Think!
@jeffmooney58847 ай бұрын
I wish the current Jeopardy used this original music.
@davidbrandel1311 Жыл бұрын
Me too. When it did not, that was one of my greatest disappointments in the current show. I suspect that the reason that it was not is that it was not as well-known as Think (the Final Jeopardy! theme), which in turn was a function of the fact that the original Jeopardy! often did not have time to run the credits in full and play the full run of Take Ten. I remember being happy every time I watched and the full credits were run with Take Ten playing in full.
@garyeisenberg745 Жыл бұрын
This is from the un-aired pilot, essentially a practice session for the newly invented game. The official first broadcast was March 30, 1964. I'm very surprised none of them knew Dracula, and that Art thought [Count] Dracula was a Doctor. Stoker's book was from 1897, and there were many movies made from it - including Bela Lugosi's famous portrayal in 1931. The Abbott and Costello version was in 1948. 'Transylvania' is practically only ever uttered in reference to Dracula.
@kindablue1959 Жыл бұрын
Shocked is hardly the word for it. I've never read Dracula, but, as you say, where else is the word Transylvania ever mentioned? This wouldn't have been a final Jeopardy question today. Jeepers!
@MrJoeybabe25 Жыл бұрын
@@MrJoeybabe25 Apparently it was a good stumper back then. Obviously there's been a ton more exposure to Dracula, Vampires and Transylvania since 1964, but at least it's a literary question. A FJ question today might be more like "This is the color of Lizzo's toenails" /smh
@kindablue1959 Жыл бұрын
"Transylvania Station, track 29" is dialogue directly from 'Young Frankenstein' so the reference does come up in a non-Dracula context every now and then.
@johnh5259 Жыл бұрын
@@johnh5259 Obviously, Young Frankenstein was long after this 1964 taping. That Brooks decided to set Young Frankenstein in Transylvania is a cultural modernization, since most people nowadays picture all the scary gothic stuff happening there. But that's purely because of Dracula's popularity - Stoker's original 1897 story was set in Transylvania. The original 1918 Frankenstein book took place mainly in Geneva, Switzerland, and the 1931 movie took place in Bavaria, Germany. But Dracula has always been in Transylvania. Interestingly, Bela Lugosi, was Romanian.
@kindablue1959 Жыл бұрын
Transylvania University is located in Lexington, Kentucky
@oneblankspace491911 ай бұрын
I recall seeing some early episodes where at the end the words "A GRIFFIN Production" was in the same font as the credits-with GRIFFIN in caps-and Don Pardo intoning that at the close of the show.
@kurttoy5035 Жыл бұрын
When did Dracula become a doctor? He was a Count....
@fionam35542 жыл бұрын
The original Count Dracula was Jimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy, and he always disobeyed the dictators at Bob Evans, who always told the nasty, rotten crud NOT to flush his food down the toilet, but did so anyway, causing the toilet to severely stop up, and as a result, Bob Evans was under 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 feet of nasty, rotten, disgusting, dirty water for 23 years!! It never opened up again!!!
@joeykardos7602 Жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly 😂‼️ Duh ❓😀
@traceyarnsperger4120 Жыл бұрын
Definitely! Dr. Dracula?? Really! Count Dracula!!😊😊
@theastewart67219 ай бұрын
The first Final Jeopardy, and by 1964 the likes of Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee had already made the character a household name, and nobody, including Art Fleming gets the answer right! - Count Dracula!
@Crazcompart5 ай бұрын
Wow! This was a real treat! 😂 Thanx!
@curtpiazza168812 күн бұрын
Tha'ts a far cry from today's episode!!! That beard is something else!
@Rickshaw88111 ай бұрын
There was a character in an episode of "The Flintstones" called Doctor Dracuslab. So maybe there was something to this?
@bernhardwall68766 ай бұрын
Good hearing a clean cut copy of the original theme song, Take Ten.
@gsnfan Жыл бұрын
And seeing the full credits run. I don't think any of the other Fleming-era episodes contain credits runs (when, of course, the full Take Ten was played). And it was gratifying to see I remembered correctly that, until the last couple of years of the show, on credits runs, the opening script of the word Jeopardy! was in the same font as the credits.
@garyeisenberg745 Жыл бұрын
Something clicked for me as I watched this. For years, I would hum "Take Ten" because I so enjoy the melody. Inevitably, when I would hum it, I would hum the opening bar twice. But, you only hear it here once. So why was I so convinced, having watched Art Fleming's Jeopardy! for many years, that Take Ten repeats the opening bar? After watching the credits run here, I think I have the answer. Notice that the main Take Ten melody starts only after the credits have run quite a bit. It does not start until 3:47, but the credits start to roll at 3:39 (note that Jeopardy! is in the same font as the credits; it was only in later years that it was displayed in logo form at the start of credits runs). The first bar takes approximately eight seconds. My memory (hard to verify because the only surviving episodes lack full credit runs) is that Take Ten would start as soon as the credits began to roll. Assuming the rest of the credits run 27 seconds on most episodes as they do here (perhaps there were additional credits as the show went live, and there was time to display the Merv Griffin logo at the end), the rest of the Take Ten them would run as it does here - and the typical credits run would have two full opening bars. Perhaps I have solved the mystery.
@garyeisenberg745 Жыл бұрын
Amazingly different time from 1964 to 2023 A.D. ---- 3 people, all adults, did not know about Transylvanian or Dracula. I imagine that almost every contestant on a Jeopardy! game in the last 20 years would have got that "Final Jeopardy!" correct due to all the freaky, strange, psychotic, bloody movies and TV shows made since the mid 1970's / 1980's.
@gusloader123 Жыл бұрын
I think I read that they were told to write down different responses to show the possibilities as to how that part of the game would go. I personally think they all knew.
@jeprice0811 ай бұрын
Being the pilot, with no real prize money, I’m almost sure that the contestants were coached on what to write. However, I think that ONE correct response would’ve made better theater.
@christopherdunne78482 ай бұрын
Back then, players wagered not during but _after_ the commercial break; plus, there were no barriers between them while they wrote their responses.
@mutsortima174 Жыл бұрын
They sat awefully close together by today's standards 😭😀😂😘👍
@traceyarnsperger4120 Жыл бұрын
I always thought contestants were better read in the 1960s. Guess not. Love Art Fleming.
@robhaskins3 ай бұрын
on NBC in (1964)
@KirstenEarle9 ай бұрын
it's Cool
@KirstenEarle9 ай бұрын
🤯 Never knew the show's this old 😧
@Motown-1966 Жыл бұрын
comon,:now.... for real ❓Art effn Fleming ‼️❗❓🙂
@traceyarnsperger4120 Жыл бұрын
@@traceyarnsperger4120 Nope...🤷🏾♀never knew 🙆🏾♀
@Motown-1966 Жыл бұрын
It looks like wagers must be increments of $5. Also, had Jesse got the answer right, he would have been co-champions with Grace.
@chris.twentyeightt Жыл бұрын
Yes. Seems that the scoreboard’s final digit could only be a 5 or a zero. In the 1974-75 nighttime version (here on KZhead), special bonuses were awarded to the winner based in final scores. I saw an amount like something “to $995”.
@christopherdunne7848 Жыл бұрын
Yes but this was a pilot so it doesn’t count.
@anthonyguarino4242 Жыл бұрын
Johnny Galecki really is a vampire
@eaglewinnings80032 ай бұрын
Unaired Pilot 3/4/64 on March 4 1964
@devinjoseph55919 ай бұрын
Is it me, or did all three of the contestants clearly not get the premise of the game?
@robforrester372710 ай бұрын
Reminds me of The corruption of game shows back. There is no way none of those people knew that simple answer.
@sliceoflife422010 ай бұрын
$Texas
@johnnyramirez1632 Жыл бұрын
Jeopardy! Think Music From (1964-1997) on March 4 1964-July 18 1997
@KirstenEarle9 ай бұрын
This was just before my mom’s first birthday.
@lanceplaxton6967 Жыл бұрын
"Doctor Dracula"???
@bobswanson8464 Жыл бұрын
ого класс)
@anismaks6 ай бұрын
So this was the first ever final jeopardy round?
@Steventhe2nd Жыл бұрын
No. This was the pilot (test) show.
@christopherdunne7848 Жыл бұрын
At the start of the episode the host says Grace is the returning champion but I think it wasn’t recorded?
@klausing7114 Жыл бұрын
Funny i'm not sure it's ever occurred to me before watching this video what the title of the gameshow refers to...putting your earned totals in "jeopardy". Also - "Doctor" Dracula??
@rayc719210 ай бұрын
@ 0:47 And so it begins.
@funshine974 ай бұрын
Wheel of Fortune Kay Starr
@devinjoseph55917 ай бұрын
1960
@devinjoseph55919 ай бұрын
Good to hear "Take Ten" but the quality is very bad, even for a kinescope
@marksmith48288 ай бұрын
Doctor Dracula? Lol😂
@allenwilcox42826 ай бұрын
What is Dracula?
@philsmith2991 Жыл бұрын
Dr Dracula?
@johncoughlan1435 Жыл бұрын
to be fair, the Judges didnt know the answer either
@slarock00110 ай бұрын
How did they not get that
@Underscorejed Жыл бұрын
I don’t understand how they wrote down their questions. The answer (question actually) should just be the name of a person, not an action, as the contestants wrote down or as Art Fleming stated at the end. The question should be “Who is Count Dracula?”
@razmo21 Жыл бұрын
Yeah this is a very confusing event. Also how could they all be that ignorant. I mean there was nothing challenging about this question at all.
@ymmij388 Жыл бұрын
This was the test pilot for the show. If you watch the other parts to this episode on this channel, they seem to struggle with how to answer some and the host is kind of lenient, as this was a new thing at the time. As for Dracula, idk. He was surely known but maybe not to the extent we expect
@firestar1230 Жыл бұрын
Technically this is more grammatically correct to have a question that would actually “fit” the response like this. I think the Polish version went with that on air. But it really drags the show as you can see, so that didn’t stick. They’re given answers and ask questions, that was good enough.
@yabbaguy4 ай бұрын
@@ymmij388 Then Art Fleming called him DOCTOR Dracula!!!! Hahahaha!!!! I guess at that time Dracula was not as well known I guess????
@razmo214 ай бұрын
@@yabbaguy Yeah. Glad they worked out the kinks
@razmo214 ай бұрын
Think Vlad III ot Vlad Tepes would be acceptable? Those were both considered his real name
@chrismc410 Жыл бұрын
The category was fiction, so maybe not. If they didn't know Dracula, they probably wouldn't know either Vlad.
@tonyhamlin97605 ай бұрын
Can you help me
@zacheryalderton6741 Жыл бұрын
Unaired Pilot From 1960
@devinjoseph55917 ай бұрын
why is it so gray
@ninjapirate123Ай бұрын
What is fictions about
@zacheryalderton6741 Жыл бұрын
Anything made up; not real.
@jeprice0811 ай бұрын
How did no one guess Dracula?
@dr.heinzdoofenshmirtz35073 күн бұрын
I said renfeild. Dang it
@andrewyoung2796 Жыл бұрын
What is more pictfic I screwed up
@user-sg9rp4wz3w3 ай бұрын
Boy! They started off with SUPER hard puzzles. Good thing they decided to dumb things down or the show would have been cancelled within a month. Fortunately, we now have a show that doesn’t remind us all how stupid we are.
That's the cleanest I've heard that theme in about 50 years. This might have been a pilot episode. Most sources seem to agree that the debut was March 30, 1964. This clip is dated March 4th.
Art Fleming was the man. Always watched him as a kid and college student. He and Ken Jennings display the spirit and fun of Jeopardy.
The Who What or Where Game ( 1969- 1974) aired on NBC with the final round called "Pot Limit".
Just watched this full episode in 5 YT clips. Thanks for a look back in time for a Jeopardy fan who until now has never seen an episode older than 1984.
I was surprised that the rules have not changed at all, in all this time. They were a bit more lax with the retries in stating it in question form. And a little more strict with the form of the question, itself. But the basic rules of scoring have not changed, at all. Remember, this was created and aired just after the big game show scandals almost shut game shows down for good. That is it has endured all this time is amazing.
Love this version of Jeopardy, Art is such a cordial host :)
I think this was the debut of the familiar music called Think!
I wish the current Jeopardy used this original music.
Me too. When it did not, that was one of my greatest disappointments in the current show. I suspect that the reason that it was not is that it was not as well-known as Think (the Final Jeopardy! theme), which in turn was a function of the fact that the original Jeopardy! often did not have time to run the credits in full and play the full run of Take Ten. I remember being happy every time I watched and the full credits were run with Take Ten playing in full.
This is from the un-aired pilot, essentially a practice session for the newly invented game. The official first broadcast was March 30, 1964. I'm very surprised none of them knew Dracula, and that Art thought [Count] Dracula was a Doctor. Stoker's book was from 1897, and there were many movies made from it - including Bela Lugosi's famous portrayal in 1931. The Abbott and Costello version was in 1948. 'Transylvania' is practically only ever uttered in reference to Dracula.
Shocked is hardly the word for it. I've never read Dracula, but, as you say, where else is the word Transylvania ever mentioned? This wouldn't have been a final Jeopardy question today. Jeepers!
@@MrJoeybabe25 Apparently it was a good stumper back then. Obviously there's been a ton more exposure to Dracula, Vampires and Transylvania since 1964, but at least it's a literary question. A FJ question today might be more like "This is the color of Lizzo's toenails" /smh
"Transylvania Station, track 29" is dialogue directly from 'Young Frankenstein' so the reference does come up in a non-Dracula context every now and then.
@@johnh5259 Obviously, Young Frankenstein was long after this 1964 taping. That Brooks decided to set Young Frankenstein in Transylvania is a cultural modernization, since most people nowadays picture all the scary gothic stuff happening there. But that's purely because of Dracula's popularity - Stoker's original 1897 story was set in Transylvania. The original 1918 Frankenstein book took place mainly in Geneva, Switzerland, and the 1931 movie took place in Bavaria, Germany. But Dracula has always been in Transylvania. Interestingly, Bela Lugosi, was Romanian.
Transylvania University is located in Lexington, Kentucky
I recall seeing some early episodes where at the end the words "A GRIFFIN Production" was in the same font as the credits-with GRIFFIN in caps-and Don Pardo intoning that at the close of the show.
When did Dracula become a doctor? He was a Count....
The original Count Dracula was Jimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy, and he always disobeyed the dictators at Bob Evans, who always told the nasty, rotten crud NOT to flush his food down the toilet, but did so anyway, causing the toilet to severely stop up, and as a result, Bob Evans was under 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 feet of nasty, rotten, disgusting, dirty water for 23 years!! It never opened up again!!!
My thoughts exactly 😂‼️ Duh ❓😀
Definitely! Dr. Dracula?? Really! Count Dracula!!😊😊
The first Final Jeopardy, and by 1964 the likes of Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee had already made the character a household name, and nobody, including Art Fleming gets the answer right! - Count Dracula!
Wow! This was a real treat! 😂 Thanx!
Tha'ts a far cry from today's episode!!! That beard is something else!
There was a character in an episode of "The Flintstones" called Doctor Dracuslab. So maybe there was something to this?
Good hearing a clean cut copy of the original theme song, Take Ten.
And seeing the full credits run. I don't think any of the other Fleming-era episodes contain credits runs (when, of course, the full Take Ten was played). And it was gratifying to see I remembered correctly that, until the last couple of years of the show, on credits runs, the opening script of the word Jeopardy! was in the same font as the credits.
Something clicked for me as I watched this. For years, I would hum "Take Ten" because I so enjoy the melody. Inevitably, when I would hum it, I would hum the opening bar twice. But, you only hear it here once. So why was I so convinced, having watched Art Fleming's Jeopardy! for many years, that Take Ten repeats the opening bar? After watching the credits run here, I think I have the answer. Notice that the main Take Ten melody starts only after the credits have run quite a bit. It does not start until 3:47, but the credits start to roll at 3:39 (note that Jeopardy! is in the same font as the credits; it was only in later years that it was displayed in logo form at the start of credits runs). The first bar takes approximately eight seconds. My memory (hard to verify because the only surviving episodes lack full credit runs) is that Take Ten would start as soon as the credits began to roll. Assuming the rest of the credits run 27 seconds on most episodes as they do here (perhaps there were additional credits as the show went live, and there was time to display the Merv Griffin logo at the end), the rest of the Take Ten them would run as it does here - and the typical credits run would have two full opening bars. Perhaps I have solved the mystery.
Amazingly different time from 1964 to 2023 A.D. ---- 3 people, all adults, did not know about Transylvanian or Dracula. I imagine that almost every contestant on a Jeopardy! game in the last 20 years would have got that "Final Jeopardy!" correct due to all the freaky, strange, psychotic, bloody movies and TV shows made since the mid 1970's / 1980's.
I think I read that they were told to write down different responses to show the possibilities as to how that part of the game would go. I personally think they all knew.
Being the pilot, with no real prize money, I’m almost sure that the contestants were coached on what to write. However, I think that ONE correct response would’ve made better theater.
Back then, players wagered not during but _after_ the commercial break; plus, there were no barriers between them while they wrote their responses.
They sat awefully close together by today's standards 😭😀😂😘👍
I always thought contestants were better read in the 1960s. Guess not. Love Art Fleming.
on NBC in (1964)
it's Cool
🤯 Never knew the show's this old 😧
comon,:now.... for real ❓Art effn Fleming ‼️❗❓🙂
@@traceyarnsperger4120 Nope...🤷🏾♀never knew 🙆🏾♀
It looks like wagers must be increments of $5. Also, had Jesse got the answer right, he would have been co-champions with Grace.
Yes. Seems that the scoreboard’s final digit could only be a 5 or a zero. In the 1974-75 nighttime version (here on KZhead), special bonuses were awarded to the winner based in final scores. I saw an amount like something “to $995”.
Yes but this was a pilot so it doesn’t count.
Johnny Galecki really is a vampire
Unaired Pilot 3/4/64 on March 4 1964
Is it me, or did all three of the contestants clearly not get the premise of the game?
Reminds me of The corruption of game shows back. There is no way none of those people knew that simple answer.
$Texas
Jeopardy! Think Music From (1964-1997) on March 4 1964-July 18 1997
This was just before my mom’s first birthday.
"Doctor Dracula"???
ого класс)
So this was the first ever final jeopardy round?
No. This was the pilot (test) show.
At the start of the episode the host says Grace is the returning champion but I think it wasn’t recorded?
Funny i'm not sure it's ever occurred to me before watching this video what the title of the gameshow refers to...putting your earned totals in "jeopardy". Also - "Doctor" Dracula??
@ 0:47 And so it begins.
Wheel of Fortune Kay Starr
1960
Good to hear "Take Ten" but the quality is very bad, even for a kinescope
Doctor Dracula? Lol😂
What is Dracula?
Dr Dracula?
to be fair, the Judges didnt know the answer either
How did they not get that
I don’t understand how they wrote down their questions. The answer (question actually) should just be the name of a person, not an action, as the contestants wrote down or as Art Fleming stated at the end. The question should be “Who is Count Dracula?”
Yeah this is a very confusing event. Also how could they all be that ignorant. I mean there was nothing challenging about this question at all.
This was the test pilot for the show. If you watch the other parts to this episode on this channel, they seem to struggle with how to answer some and the host is kind of lenient, as this was a new thing at the time. As for Dracula, idk. He was surely known but maybe not to the extent we expect
Technically this is more grammatically correct to have a question that would actually “fit” the response like this. I think the Polish version went with that on air. But it really drags the show as you can see, so that didn’t stick. They’re given answers and ask questions, that was good enough.
@@ymmij388 Then Art Fleming called him DOCTOR Dracula!!!! Hahahaha!!!! I guess at that time Dracula was not as well known I guess????
@@yabbaguy Yeah. Glad they worked out the kinks
Think Vlad III ot Vlad Tepes would be acceptable? Those were both considered his real name
The category was fiction, so maybe not. If they didn't know Dracula, they probably wouldn't know either Vlad.
Can you help me
Unaired Pilot From 1960
why is it so gray
What is fictions about
Anything made up; not real.
How did no one guess Dracula?
I said renfeild. Dang it
What is more pictfic I screwed up
Boy! They started off with SUPER hard puzzles. Good thing they decided to dumb things down or the show would have been cancelled within a month. Fortunately, we now have a show that doesn’t remind us all how stupid we are.
0:45 thinking theme