Smart Money

Smart Money was an unsold game show pilot.

Host
Jim Peck

Announcer
Bill Wendell

Broadcast
Unsold Pilot for CBS: 10/24/1975

Packager
Ron Greenburg Productions

Gameplay
Two contestants started off with $250. The contestants try to answer questions as letters of the answer scrolled by on “The Fabulous Ticker”. If a contestant gets the question right, (s)he would add $25 to there score and that would stop the 30 second clock. During the round, five prizes scrolled on the ticker with a price. If a player buzzes in on a prize, they buy that prize. But they could make a mistake because the price may have not scrolled by.

There are 4 rounds in total, and has the rounds go by, each amount for getting a question right increases.

The Super Ticker Round
The Bonus Round gave the champion a chance to win $15,000 or more. The ticker would flash the prizes with the prices by. In the beginning of the round, the player would have to buy some prizes ranging between $50 and $500. The player wanted to buy the prizes at low prices because (s)he could later sell the prizes at higher values if the price of the prize scrolled by on the ticker. If the player converted the $500 (s)he was staked, (s)he would win the $15,000 plus any prizes (s)he still had.

Trivia
This was one of the only non-ABC game shows Jim Peck had done.

Link
Game Show Pilot Light Review