History Trivia / LetsMakeADeal

** The 1980-81 series is also pretty rare, with only three episodes known to circulate and a fourth (#C-82, taped 11/30/80) held by UCLA. Two of the circulating episodes (one with a $5,863 Big Deal, the other with a $4,235 one) have an intro consisting of clips from the 1970s, including a $29,795 Super Deal win; the third, with a $4,187 Big Deal, has an intro consisting of clips from this version. All three circulating episodes are currently hosted by Canadian streaming service [=BonusRound.ca=]. Dozens more, in master quality, will be added in 2022.
** The 1984-86 version has been rerun on the Creator/USANetwork, [[Creator/ABCFamily The Family Channel]] and GSN, although the latter never aired any Season 2 episodes. Buzzr has started to run the show beginning on June 1, 2016.
** The 1990-2003 versions haven't been in reruns at all. The final two episodes of the 2003 run never aired.

* CreatorKiller: The 1990 revival's failure ended up being this for host Bob Hilton. Hilton had previously hosted the 1977-78 revival of ''Series/TruthOrConsequences'' as a replacement for Creator/BobBarker[[note]]who had just begun hosting the syndicated version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' that season in addition to emceeing the Creator/{{CBS}} daytime version[[/note]] but had been known primarily as an announcer; most prominently as a substitute announcer on ''Series/TheJokersWild'' and as one of the announcers auditioning on both the daytime version of ''Price'' and a short-lived syndicated version during the 1985-86 season after previous announcer Johnny Olson died[[note]]according to [[WordOfSaintPaul longtime producer Roger Dobkowitz]]; Hilton was considered the front-runner for the job, and at only 42 could have held the position for a long time. However, Hilton's workload on several other shows led to his turning the job down, resulting in ''Series/PressYourLuck'' announcer Rod Roddy taking over[[/note]]. After Hilton was fired; he would never work in the game show industry again and shifted focus to the business world, creating a number of environmental and cleaning products.

** ''Big Deal'' had far too many things going against it to list here, the least of which was being slotted right after NFL games...which tend to go overtime. For East Coast viewers the problem was so bad that, out of six episodes, only ''three'' aired in full!

* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: For the most part, the animals - many of them came from local zoos - cooperated well with Monty, the models and announcers, and others who worked with them. But there were times where someone listening real close could immediately sense a Zonk was hiding behind the curtain, just by hearing a honk, growl, bark, etc. At least once, a bear was behind one of the Curtains and he decided to growl real loud ... just as a trader was making up her mind; she immediately took the cash buyout that Hall had offered her.

* TalkingToHimself: In the two deals that Dean Goss hosted, he is also doing the announcing (which was pre-recorded).

** During his year as announcer, Goss hosted two deals with Monty appearing in a {{cameo}}. Goss said in a later interview that these deals were done on purpose — Monty wanted to leave the show, and so tested his announcer's hosting abilities. Had that version been renewed for Season 3, Monty would've passed the torch to him on the season premiere.

* FranchiseKiller: Outright averted with not only the 1990 revival, but also Creator/{{FOX}}'s ''Big Deal'' (1996) and the 2003 revival for Creator/{{NBC}}. The former was hosted by the inexperienced Bob Hilton, and failed so badly that Hall returned to host the tail end of it in an attempt at an AuthorsSavingThrow. The latter two lasted six and three episodes, respectively, these revivals had obviously transparent attempts at being "hip" and "edgy". The fact that the Brady version is stiil in production shows that the three revivals before it were not detrimental.

* OldShame: On a 1969 episode, while doing the end of episode "Quickie Deals", Hall approached a woman in the audience holding a baby bottle and attempted to make a deal with her. He noted that the bottle had a removable rubber nipple and offered her $100 if she showed him "another kind of nipple", which she declined. Hall later regarded this attempted deal as the most embarrassing moment of his career.

** The 2003 run was canned after only three episodes; the final two were left unaired.

* InMemoriam: The October 6, 2017 episode of the current version featured a special tribute to Monty Hall, who had died September 30.

** The 1980-81 series is also pretty rare, with only three episodes known to circulate and a fourth (#C-82, taped 11/30/80) held by UCLA. Two of the circulating episodes (one with a $5,863 Big Deal, the other with a $4,235 one) have an intro consisting of clips from the 1970s, including a $29,795 Super Deal win; the third, with a $4,187 Big Deal, has an intro consisting of clips from this version.
*** All three circulating episodes are currently hosted by Canadian streaming service [=BonusRound.ca=]. Dozens more, in master quality, will be added in 2022.

** The 1990-2003 versions haven't been in reruns at all.
** When GSN acquired the series in 2001, 600 episodes were picked up, presumably consisting of the same number of shows as aired on The Family Channel. But only 160 episodes were shown in the first year. The remaining two-thirds of the 70s run and the 170-episode 1984-1985 season were later picked up, putting it in the low 400 range. The last almost 200 would have been the 1985-1986 season, but GSN, and Buzzr for that matter, never got around to converting them.
*** ...That is, until October 3, 2019, when Buzzr played the premiere episode of Season 2, with the introduction of Dean Goss as Brian Cummings' successor as announcer.

** The 2003 run had an unproven host in Billy Bush and several skits that smacked too hard of trying to be "hip" and "modern". Then, on the last aired episode, a one-deal appearance by the Big Dealer himself made Bush look like a total imbecile. [[note]](Nothing against Bush or any other host, though — Hall was just '''that good''' at making a ''very'' complicated job look easy.)[[/note]]

*** All three circulating episodes are currently hosted by Canadian streaming service BonusRound. Dozens more, in master quality, will be added in 2022.

** [[https://sb2tlopg.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/interview-with-dean-goss/ According to Goss himself]], he had beat out ''Creator/PhilHartman'' for the announcer/sidekick role, and the reason Season 3 didn't happen was because Telepictures thought it'd be too hard of a sell without Monty.

* RecycledSoundtrack: Several 1980s episodes recycled part of the 70s theme to another Hatos-Hall series, ''Series/SplitSecond'', mainly for cars; for the same purpose, the themes to the short-lived Hatos-Hall games ''3 for the Money'' and ''It's Anybody's Guess'' were also reused.

* DuelingShows: With ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', to an extent. ''Deal'' had games in which contestants had to guess the prices of grocery items. When ''Price'' returned to the air in 1972, it was reformulated to include similar games. Mostly averted now as both shows appear on the same network, although ''Deal'' no longer has the pricing deals (according to Mike Richards, to avoid being too similar to ''Price''...despite the fact he spearheads both).

** The original NBC era (1963-68) appears to be mostly gone. The 1963 pilot was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsAt-HBUht0 aired]] by Creator/{{GSN}} as a standalone special in 2003, and also shown by Buzzr several times. One episode from 1965 and two from 1967 are held by the Paley Center for Media, while a few [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4OWLl8xiMA silent color clips]] of a 1966 episode surfaced in May 2013.

* TalkingToHimself: In the two deals below, Dean Goss is hosting and announcing at the same time, but according to the comments his announcing was pre-taped.

** During his year as announcer, Goss hosted [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HE3BlWzOO8 two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLb3LR9Z8SQ deals]] with Monty appearing in a {{cameo}}. Goss said in a later interview that these deals were done on purpose — Monty wanted to leave the show, and so tested his announcer's hosting abilities. Had that version been renewed for Season 3, Monty would've passed the torch to him on the season premiere.

* ApprovalOfGod: The Brady version had openly been liked by Monty Hall himself, when he was still alive.

* FranchiseKiller: Outright averted with not only the 1990 revival, but also Creator/{{FOX}}'s ''Big Deal'' (1996) and the 2003 revival for Creator/{{NBC}}. The former was hosted by the inexperienced Bob Hilton, and failed so badly that Hall returned to host the tail end of it in an attempt at an AuthorsSavingThrow. The latter two lasted six and three episodes, respectively, these revivals had obviously transparent attempts at being "hip" and "edgy". The fact that the Brady version began its seventh season in 2015 shows that the three revivals before it were not detrimental.

* LongRunners: The original series was in production from 1963-77.

** When GSN acquired the series in 2001, 600 episodes were picked up, presumably consisting of the same number of shows as aired on The Family Channel. But only 160 episodes were shown in the first year. The remaining two-thirds of the 70s run and the 170-episode 1984-1985 season were later picked up, putting it in the low 400 range. The last almost 200 would presumably have been the 1985-1986 season, but GSN, and Buzzr for that matter, never got around to converting them.