FULL GAME SHOW EPISODE: Super Pay Cards with Art James!
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- Watch an episode of the Art James-hosted "Super Pay Cards," in which contestants competed in a game of poker and memory!
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Two contestants (always a man and a woman) sat facing a gameboard of 16 playing cards; the object of the game was for each player to build a better poker hand than his/her opponent.
Here is how each round was played:
In round 1, called "Five Card Draw", four of the sixteen cards were shown briefly to the players at the start of the round. Each player, on his/her turn, called out three cards, and if a pair (or better) was found, the player kept it and tried to complete that hand, with only one card called at a time on all subsequent turns (this selection method was also used for all other hands described below, except "Strategy").
In round 2, one of four different hands was played, each of which is described below:
"Four of a Kind": Similar to round 1, but hidden on the gameboard were four sets of four of a kind.
"2-3-4-5": The board consisted of two pairs, three of a kind, four of a kind and one hand of five cards; payoff for five of a kind was $300.
"Strategy": Three cards were uncovered at the start of the round and remained exposed for the duration; the players called two other cards each on their first two turns and selected two cards from the five that were showing. On their third turns (and any subsequent ones), they each called out one card.
"Seven-Card Stud": For this rarely-used variant, Mary Lou offered each player a choice of two sets of two cards, which were then placed in front of their podiums. The players used their own two cards and built their hand in the same method as round 1; however, the two extra cards were not revealed to their opponent until both players kept all five cards.
Round 3 was called "Wild Card Hand". This was played in a similar fashion to round 1, but there were several wild cards (or "jokers"), which made five of a kind possible; as in "2-3-4-5", payoff for five of a kind was $300.
Once a player successfully completed his/her hand, the other player had to complete his/her hand immediately with whatever cards s/he called off (NOTE: If neither player had yet completed their hand and time was running short during a round, both players were required to immediately complete their hand in this same manner).
At the end of each round, the players recieved payoffs for their hands (with the player who built a better hand recieving the aforementioned $50 "high hand bonus"); the player with the most money at the end of round 3 won the game and went on to play the bonus round. The losing contestant got to keep whatever money s/he had earned, and also recieved a copy of the "Super Pay Cards!" home game.
Bonus Round:
The bonus round was comprised of three levels.
Level 1: The champion was shown four cards on the gameboard for four seconds; Mary Lou held the same four cards in her hand, which the contestant would pick one of, then try to remember where it was located on the board. If successful, s/he recieved $50.
Level 2: Same as above, only the champion was shown eight cards for eight seconds, and successfully matching the one chosen from Mary Lou's hand was worth $500.
Level 3: Twelve cards for twelve seconds; matching the card here won $5,000.
If a contestant failed to match his/her chosen card on either of the first two levels, s/he lost the chance at $5K, but was given a second chance to complete that level with a new set of cards. While no second chance was offered on the final level if the contestant was unsuccessful, s/he still got to keep the $500 already earned.
NOTES:
This show was a revival of Nicholson-Muir's 1968-69 game show "Pay Cards!", which was also hosted by Art James; a 1973-75 revival was later produced in Montreal for Canadian TV, and hosted by Paul Hanover.
The theme song for this show was also used as the theme for N-M's short-lived 1975 game show "Spin-Off." The SPC theme, however, used a different arrangement: while Spin-Off's theme was all-synthesizers, the SPC arrangement used trumpets and trombones.
(the latter made infamous from an episode where MLB offered one to a less-than-enthused audience member)
It should be noted that the "audience participation game" segment was seen only on the Canadian airings; since Canadian televison has less commercial time than the U.S. does, it was used as a "filler" to close the time gap.
After SPC ended in 1982, Mary Lou Basaraba starred in two short films for the National Film Board of Canada: "The Last Right" (1984) and "The Concert Stages of Europe" (1985). Don't worry, though; neither movie featured crockpots!
But what else did MLB do after SPC? You can find out here when you read colleague Tom Hornikel's "Letter from Mary Lou"!
Someone needs to buy this program from Canada and install it in the USA....they would blow out Nelson!
This was early-1980s Canadian-based revival, late-1960s U S.-based original "Pay Cards" series which late Art James also hosted
Art James had such an incredible voice.
This was also shown in the United States as well. Distributed by Metromedia Producers Corporation (which is now Fox).
Nice to see this game show again.
R.I.P. Art James
Although taped in Canada, it was hosted by an American (Art James) and the contestants' hometowns weren't mentioned so this show could by syndicated to American TV stations and to viewers, it would appear to have been taped in New York or Hollywood.
U S. sta. which showed that Canadian-based "Super Pay Cards" revival series in early-1980s was Ch. 65-TV, Vineland, N.J. (l'ctd about 40 mi. from Phila., Penna., 110 mi. from City, Balto., Md./125 mi. from N.Y. City, N.Y.)
This is a hard game
This was shown in Atlanta in the early 80's on WATL 36.
Love this upbeat music!
It sounds like a combination of the main theme of "Gone With The Wind" and Jim Perry's Card Sharks a little bit.
Didn't know this show was Canadian, especially when this show was syndicated here in the U.S..
12:33 What the American viewers didn't see.
You had to go up to Canada for the Big Bucks ! Or maybe, if you got lucky, you would get the Samsonite luggage.
If you haven't seen the original 60's version, check it out! Also, go to Ebay and find a home game(60's)!
One of the toughest bonus rounds in game show history.
One of the very rare all-skill and very little luck bonus rounds too!
It's brutal when there's multiple of the same number and you have to remember suit!
This show is one of 2 Games Shows Art James Hosted The other was The Magnificent Pinball Machine which was on NBC.
Oh he hosted other shows too besides the original Pay Cards from 1968 and the Magnificent Marble Machine from 1975. He was a host of Concentration back in the early days of the series, The Who, What Or Where Game on NBC, Say When, also the syndicated Catch Phrase which sadly did not last very long, and Blank Check.
@@willmack5909 And It's Academic. Also he was a sub host on Concentration.
Don't forget "Catch Phrase ".
I wonder if they have any more episodes of this show
id like to know too
Great theme music 🙂
Nick Nicholson remixed the theme from Spin-Off into the Super Pay Cards theme.
I’ve been wondering if this theme is out there somewhere.
I know it and the show is likely harder to come by, but this theme really fits, and I enjoy any episodes of the show I can find.
@@suzannesstud oh i kno ive been looking for this theme too!!
The audience participation segment was not shown in later syndication.mary Lou had a very precise voice..very clear.
The AP game was only done in the Canadian version to comply with Canadian law.
Why this reminds me of classic concentration
The memory factor
@@witherblaze E. Roger Muir took over as the executive producer of "Concentration" when Jack Barry and Dan Enright were forced to sell their properties to NBC after the "Twenty-One" and nighttime "Tic-Tac-Dough" rigging scandals. Nick Nicholson was also at NBC as executive producer of "Howdy Doody Time." When they first partnered, they pitched a concept for a game involving newlywed couples and how well the spouses knew each other. It didn't sell and they gave up on it, selling it for a nominal fee to Chuck Barris. Barris developed it further and it became "The Newlywed Game." To his credit, Barris never took credit for anything that he did not create, so even though Nicholson and Muir had nothing to do with it, included in "The Newlywed Game's" credits was "Created by Nick Nicholson and Roger Muir." Nicholson and Muir did try a modified version of their original concept with the syndicated "Matches 'n' Mates" that tanked. When Nicholson-Muir Productions was created, Muir left NBC and "Concentration." "Pay Cards!" was easily their most successful production. It was a winning formula, a game show that came out of Nicholson's love for poker and Muir's days with "Concentration." Originally, a contestant could reject a pair on his/her initial pair instead of keeping them if he/she felt that there were higher pairs in the deck; that changed a month into the the rule that if a contestant called a pair, he/she had to keep those cards. Unfortunately, with the David Frost Show coming in and then the eventual return of Merv Griffin to Metromedia from CBS, "Pay Cards!" was squeezed out after only a single season. However, Whitman Publishing did very well with its two editions of the home version. Around the same time that CBS had picked up Nicholson-Muir's Yahtzee/poker combo game "Spin-Off," the original "Pay Cards" was rerun by CTV long after it had left the air, they approached Nicholson-Muir about bringing back an updated version of the game, hence, "Super Pay Cards!" Metromedia packaged its American run.
@@Noveltooner I like my answer better. Simpler to understand.
"Good luck....I think you'll need it."
Arnold Fox became a real estate broker with Colliers in Montreal
Any relation to Bud Fox on Wall Street
Does anyone have any information on the hostess here? I can't seem to find anything else about her.
Her name is Mary Lou Basaraba. A search should find info on her.
@@christopherdunne7848 I found nothing on her.
Canadian game show.
Did not air in Detroit not even CBET 9.
Well, it was a CTV show.
Do that guy arnold remind you of mark hamill... ( Use the force luke ) lol...
*Does not do.
He does seem like him come to think of it.
arts vs science episode
They pay you $300 for 5 of a kind?!! What kind of poker are they playin?! Welp, where I'm from that's the udead man's hand.. and he or she gets no money for doing that very thang!!! Hahahahaha, just kidding, this game show is pretty good reminds me of card sharks.
Janice v. Arnold is the episode and its already on CZcams
arts vs science
I hope Janice's art future played out better than her card sense. She played that first hand horribly.
@@Tiqerboy Not everyone studies the game before they come on the show, and the lights get to some players on game shows....