Pyramid (game show)

The pyramid is a game show that aired from 16 March 1979 to October 1994 on ZDF. The moderator was Dieter Thomas Heck and theme song ( The Pyramid ) of the German show is by Gershon Kingsley. 2012 aired a new version of the program on ZDF.

• 3.1 List of Episodes

History

The German version is based on the American game show The $ 10,000 Pyramid, which was developed by Bob Stewart, who is also the concept of The Price is Right and Sag developed the truth. The show was first aired in 1973 by CBS, but only at ABC to ratings success. At various stations, the quiz show, which as The $ 25,000 Pyramid, The $ 50,000 Pyramid and The $ 100,000 Pyramid had success over the years, aired in the U.S. today.

From 1996 to 1999, the game show ran in the German private Sat.1 Do you have words after the same gameplay. The show was initially hosted by Jörg Pilawa and later by Thomas Kosch joke.

In August 2012, launched the new edition of The Pyramid, first in the early evening of ZDFneo, and later in the afternoon program of ZDF.

The pyramid ( ZDF, 1979-1994 )

Recording and broadcasting

Each squadron was mostly recorded several months before the broadcast in a television studio in Munich (FSM ) in Unterföhring. For example, with the prominent candidates Heidi Brühl and Reinhard Mey was (also Music performance ) produced a 45-minute pilot episode, but this was first aired on April 3, 2012 ZDFkultur. The show was at irregular intervals, but sometimes, aired on various days of the week every week.

Regulate

Objective of the game that is played over several rounds, is that there are two candidates in thirty seconds to explain six concepts in different ways ( pantomime, concept descriptions ), without using parts of the concept itself.

In the ZDF output two teams each consisting of a celebrity and a spectator candidates were formed. They played a total of three per shipment pyramids rounds. It was first played in turn by three preliminary round between two candidates couples in which the hands could be used for gestures. However, there were only 30 seconds available to guess six terms. If for one of the terms of the provision of betraying no components of the solution word, violate, the term was eliminated; the round but ran on until the end of time, when still ratende terms were available. Made it the candidate pair to guess correctly all six terms of a preliminary round, there were 200 DM separately.

The candidate pair that guessed the most terms in the three qualifying rounds, was finally able to play the corresponding pyramid. With a tie, a tie-breaker question was asked. Finally, the half of the winning candidates of the preliminary round was pushed into the middle of the field, a pyramid animation appeared and had to be guessed within 60 seconds preambles.

The pyramids were being played, thereby doped differently: the first pyramid with 500 DM, the second with $ 1000 and the third with 1500 DM guessable terms were there also not be counted with always the same but with increasing amounts of DM - 50 DM for the first three, $ 100 for the next two, 150 DM for the last term ( a total of 500 DM ) in the first pyramid; analogous three 100 DM 200 DM twice, once DM 300 ( total $ 1000 ) in the second pyramid; and ditto thrice DM 150, DM 300 twice, once DM 450 ( a total of 1,500 DM ) in the third pyramid.

In the pyramid round but gestures were almost impossible because of the whistleblower had his hands stuck in two loops. Fatal in this round: anyone who violates the above-mentioned rule in circumlocutions, the round was immediately to an end and not after 60 seconds.

In conflicting situations (usually once per shipment ) is turned, the head referee and Munich lawyer Josef Heindl on a phone. In the " half" was a song, which was mainly roughly classified into the category of pop and was sung mostly in German.

Profits

The profits of the celebrities were three shipments collected, and then donated to a good cause ( of the respective case was described by Heck short, but the affected person not mentioned by name ). Viewers candidates were allowed to keep their money.

Comments

The game was in 1987 also played once within the moderated also by Dieter Thomas Heck edition of Super Hit Parade on 10th anniversary " A Heart for Children " of children and the unique issue of Good evening, Germany, a co-production of ZDF and DFF at May 6, 1990 from the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin, the quiz was even live. However, it was attended by only celebrities; a team consisted of two representatives from the DFF and the other according to the ZDF. Since it has been played for a good cause and they wanted to achieve as high a sum, the candidates seemed to already know the answers:

Description of the ZDF celebrities: "This gave it to us not, but that there was in the GDR and there's now no more ... " - (correct ) answer: " State Security ".

Here, then, apparently Mr. Heindl was brought into play again, as opposed to other issues of the " pyramid " was not to hear his voice. Dieter Thomas Heck greeted him this time with the words " Mr. Heindl, how have you managed to get through here? " - An allusion to the time of his ailing telephone network of the GDR.

The constant word duel between the two alleged brawlers became an integral part of the show. However, since no one could see Mr. Heindl, since this yes in an office sitting in the studio and was always only hear about the red phone, a competition for charitable purposes was organized, should try for the children to draw Mr. Heindl as they imagine it. This resulted in thousands of submissions.

The following show then Mr. Heindl came on stage and announced himself the winner.

Board game

Today there are some board games ( board and card games ) that follow this model, for example Activity.

List of ZDF broadcasts

Source: Archives of Hamburg, inter alia, the Evening Gazette, the online archive of the Vienna Arbeiter-Zeitung, ZDF Service

Reprint: The Pyramid ( ZDF / ZDFneo, 2012)

A new edition of the show, which was produced since 2012, moderated Micky Beisenherz. Joachim Llambi held the position of the referee, who was, as opposed to the original, in the new edition of public view. There are only two preliminary rounds and two pyramids were played, with the first 5,000 euros and 10,000 euros for second was doped. The show was for the purpose of resonance and quota test since the August 6, 2012 on weekdays at 18:45 clock as ad-free preliminary broadcast on the digital specialty channel zdf neo. Since 27 August 2012, she has been regularly aired at 16:15 clock in the ZDF and there once interrupted by a brief commercial break and program notes. Due to low rates the program from the September 17, 2012 was moved to the night program and is now set.

List of Episodes

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