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1963 - 2003 8.0 (7 votes) 19 Seasons
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Monty Hall

Let's Make a Deal

Overview

Let's Make a Deal is a television game show which originated in the United States and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The show is based around deals offered to members of the audience by the host. The traders usually have to weigh the possibility of an offer being for a valuable prize, or an undesirable item, referred to as a "Zonk". Let's Make a Deal is also known for the various unusual and crazy costumes worn by audience members, who dressed up that way in order to increase their chances of being selected as a trader. The show was hosted for many years by Monty Hall, who co-created and co-produced the show with Stefan Hatos. The current version is hosted by Wayne Brady, with Jonathan Mangum, Tiffany Coyne, and Cat Gray assisting.

Key Crew

Producer: Monty Hall, Evelyn Warfel, Ron Greenberg, Dick Clark, Chris Ahearn, Graham Shaw, Ben Tritle, Joseph J. Mancuso, Amanda Hayward, Tyler Marquess

Top Cast

Billy Bush
Billy Bush

Self - Host

Vance DeGeneres

Self - Announcer

Seasons

Season 1 (1963)

No overview available.

31 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Monday December 30, 1963 (Debut in Color on NBC)
1963-12-30

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: 1963-1964 season

The pilot episode (which was taped in late 1963), aired on Game Show Network on March 4, 2003 (and was repeated several times). Among the deals: • Monty deals with a woman who ends up with an inexpensive fur coat. Near the end of the show, when Monty announced the Big Deal and the coat's winner, Maggie Guth, opted for the Big Deal, Hall revealed one of the coat's pockets had something in them -- five shares of U.S. Steel stock worth $265 Note: The above mentioned deal often was a trick Monty used in the future when contestants won zonks, to tempt them into keeping them or passing it up for another unknown. Yup, there might be a valuable prize (or perhaps, another zonk, and so on) concealed inside. The U.S. Steel stock prize was fairly modest, even by 1963 standards, but many times, there were such things as car keys, plane tickets to exotic destinations and checks/wads of cash worth thousands of dollars hidden inside those cheap furs, dusty living room couches, broken TVs, etc. • A wom

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Tuesday December 31, 1963
1963-12-31

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Wednesday January 1, 1964 (Preempted for NCAA Football)
1964-01-01

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Thursday January 2, 1964
1964-01-02

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Friday January 3, 1964
1964-01-03

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Monday January 6, 1964
1964-01-06

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Tuesday January 7, 1964
1964-01-07

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Wednesday January 8, 1964
1964-01-08

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Thursday January 9, 1964
1964-01-09

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Friday January 10, 1964
1964-01-10

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Monday January 13, 1964
1964-01-13

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Tuesday January 14, 1964
1964-01-14

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Wednesday January 15, 1964
1964-01-15

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Thursday January 16, 1964
1964-01-16

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Friday January 17, 1964
1964-01-17

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Monday January 20, 1964
1964-01-20

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Tuesday January 21, 1964
1964-01-21

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Wednesday January 22, 1964
1964-01-22

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Thursday January 23, 1964
1964-01-23

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Friday January 24, 1964
1964-01-24

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: Monday January 27, 1964
1964-01-27

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: Tuesday January 28, 1964
1964-01-28

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: Wednesday January 29, 1964
1964-01-29

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: Thursday January 30, 1964
1964-01-30

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: Friday January 31, 1964
1964-01-31

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 27: Monday February 3, 1964
1964-02-03

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 28: Tuesday February 4, 1964
1964-02-04

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 29: Wednesday February 5, 1964
1964-02-05

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 30: Thursday February 6, 1964
1964-02-06

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 31: Friday February 7, 1964
1964-02-07

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 (1964)

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 3 (1965)

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 4 ()

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 5 ()

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 6 ()

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 7 ()

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 8 ()

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 10 ()

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 12 ()

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 15 ()

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 16 ()

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 17 ()

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 18 ()

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 19 (2003)

No overview available.

5 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: 2003- Episode 1
2003-03-04

• Deal 1 -- Three female contestants were paired with one of three men, each wearing a different outfit (a Scottish kilt, a toga and a grass skirt). Host Bush asked offered each contestant, in turn, $500 in exchange for an unknown item (said to have something to do with the unannounced prize) concealed beneath each costume (i.e., below the waist). The contestant having to grope for said item. Two of the prizes -- beneath the kilt and toga -- were zonks, while the grass skirt led to a trip to Hawaii. • Deal 2 -- A blank check game, where the contestant was presented a $5 check and had four unrevealed spaces (containing either a zero, which could increase the value of the check up to $50,000). The contestant could quit at any time or risk their accumulated winnings that the next space uncovered was an X, which ends the deal and all winnings forfeited. At $5,000, Bush offered the contestant a chance to spend his winnings on a curtain. After the contestant quit with $5,000, he was shown th

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: 2003-Episode 2
2003-03-11

* Deal 1 -- In the opening deal, Bush chose a man named Steven (LNU), who had a hard-boiled egg in his possession. Steven was offered an eventual $1,500 for the egg, or he could take what was behind the curtain. Steven chose the curtain, which concealed a Honda personal watercraft worth $10,800. * Deal 2 -- Two unknowns (prize or cash). Bush chose Brian, David and Robin (a pretty blonde dressed as a housemaid). The deal went thusly: -- Brian could take either the curtain (which contained ""land transportation"") or an envelope containing an unannounced sum of cash. Brian took the envelope, which contained $2,500. Behind the curtain ... Vance (wearing a sombrero) riding a donkey! Vance: ""Does this hat make my ass look big?"" -- David was offered either sea transportation or an envelope containing an unannounces sum of cash. He passed up $150 for luggage and a Caribbean cruise worth $8,970. -- Robin was offered a curtain concealing either one of the two previous prizes or an envelo

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: 2003-Episode 3
2003-03-18

The original deal-maker himself, Monty Hall, make a cameo appearance for the third episode. He dealed with a contestant who, in 1976, lost a show-record three cars in one episode! More on that later. The recurring deal this time, played several times throughout the show, had current dealer Billy Bush asking contestants to choose from two envelopes, one which held either $100 and a prize or $500; the other one containing an amount that had either one less or one more zero in it. Whatever envelope the contestant chose, Billy first revealed the one having the $100 and prize or $500 and asked if they wanted to trade the ""sure thing"" for the unknown. Whatever the contestant chose, they got. The first time, Kimberly (dressed as a gypsy) chose the blue envelope, which had $500 in it. She traded for Billy's taupe envelope and won $5,000! * Deal 1 -- In this deal, Billy announced that he would pay a contestant a certain amount per pound for the item concealed behind the audience box; or they co

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: 2003-Episode 4
2003-03-25

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: 2003-Episode 5
2003-04-01

Runtime: 30 min

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