History Trivia / Pyramid

*** ''$10,000'' (CBS): Episode #3 is held by UCLA, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTL4C0OFOmA #5]] was uploaded by a contestant's relative in January 2011, June 13 (with Kaye Ballard and Richard Deacon) circulated for years and has been on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x6byISTyic YouTube]], and the three weeks recorded at Television City (aired November 1973) all exist, with GSN showing 14 of the TVC shows. 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'' [[https://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.

* EditedForSyndication: For international airings, the Strahan version, which is normally an hour long, is edited into standalone half-hour episodes, since the two games are not related to one another, and Strahan tapes multiple outros depending on whether it's the end of just that game, or the show as a whole. These versions air on Canadian network [=GameTV=]. A half-hour edit of a rerun was planned to air in the U.S. on ABC on Christmas Day 2017, but was scrapped.

** For unknown reasons, Season 3 of the ABC ''$100,000'' version has one unaired game. The second game of episode #310 (aired August 26, 2018) is an encore of the Season 3 premiere's first game. It is possible that this game may show up (or may have already) if Canadian network [=GameTV=], which airs reruns of this series edited to standalone half-hours, ever picks up Season 3. According to early press material for Season 3, the celebrities for this game were Kellie Pickler and Darrell Hammond. GSN airs the original hour version of the episode with the encore game.

** ''New $25,000'' almost didn't happen. Dick Clark was hosting a pilot for a CBS game show produced by Bob Stewart called ''Second Guess'', but the pilot didn't go as well as they hoped it would. After countless attempts to get it up and running, Dick said to Bob "Why don't you just revive ''Pyramid'' instead?"...and so, without the need for a pilot, the Television City era of ''Pyramid'' began production as soon as possible.

** 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; this is due to rights issues (the first was distributed by Viacom, so CBS technically owns the rights to that version; meanwhile, CPM Inc, the firm that distributed ''$50,000'', was [[http://www.golden-road.net/index.php?topic=6585.20;wap2 apparently a division of Colgate-Palmolive]], so presumably they own the rights there); Davidson's run was distributed by Orbis Communications, which was sold by then-owner Creator/CarolcoPictures to Multimedia Entertainment (the people who made ''Donahue'' and ''Series/JerrySpringer'' in 1992; Creator/{{Universal}} then bought out Multimedia in 1996, which means that [=NBCUniversal=] owns both Davidson's ''Pyramid'' and Pat Finn's version of ''Series/TheJokersWild''). GSN has aired three or four brief clips of the second Cullen episode with Shatner and Anne Meara. The Cullen ''$25,000'' was last reran in the mid-1980's and the 1981 ''$50,000'', on CBN in 1982.
*** In November 2020, The Bill Cullen Archive revealed that an effort was made by GSN to acquire the tapes for reruns many years ago. But the tapes were missing. Nobody knows where they ended up at.

** Regarding ABC's 2016 $100,000 version, one match with Peri Gilpin and Ice-T produced during Season 1 was shelved by ABC due to an extra, unplanned game with Rosie O'Donnell and Kathy Najimy being taped, which meant one game had to be bumped. The shelved game eventually aired as the second half of the August 27, 2017 episode (Season 2, Episode 11).
** For unknown reasons, Season 3 of the ABC Strahan version has one unaired game. The second game of the August 26, 2018 episode (Season 3, Episode 10) is an encore of the Season 3 premiere's first game. It is possible that this game may show up (or may have already) if Canadian network [=GameTV=], which airs reruns of the Strahan version edited to standalone half-hours, ever picks up Season 3. According to early press material for Season 3, the celebrities for this game were Kellie Pickler and Darrell Hammond.

** Regarding ABC's 2016 $100,000 version, one match with Peri Gilpin & Ice-T was shelved by ABC due to an extra, unplanned game with Rosie O'Donnell and Kathy Najimy being taped, which meant one game had to be bumped. The shelved game eventually aired as the second half of the August 27, 2017 episode in Season 2.
** For unknown reasons, Season 3 of the ABC Strahan version has one unaired game. The second game of the August 26, 2018 episode (Season 3, Episode 10) is an encore of the Season 3 premiere's first game. It is possible that this game may show up if Canadian network [=GameTV=], which airs reruns of the Strahan version edited to standalone half-hours, ever picks up Season 3 (they currently air Seasons 2 and 4).

* FanNickname:
** The Davidson version was packaged as "''The New $100,000 Pyramid''", and is still referred to as such to distinguish it from the 1980s run. The Strahan version is also being referred to as that name in certain ABC promos.
** In a {{Portmanteau}}, Osmond's version is nicknamed "''Donnymid''". Some have also used "''Mikeymid''" to refer to the Mike Richards-hosted ''The Pyramid''.
** Wiki/ThisVeryWiki refers to each version by its dollar figure.