Piano Solo: Theme to Second Chance, I've Got a Secret (1976 era)

The next game show theme I've attempted to do here, which I've done as a piano solo, was shared by two shows in the US. One was the short-lived 1976 revival of "I've Got a Secret," hosted by Bill Cullen. But the other one, which is the one I had in mind when I chose to do this song, is "Second Chance," the original Press Your Luck. (According to the website https://gameshows.fandom.com, the Australian version of Family Feud used a similar-sounding knockoff of the song from 1978 to 1984.)

The main way to tell the two apart is the way the questions were asked. Whereas PYL requires you to buzz in and answer, earning you 3 spins on the board for a correct buzz-in answer or 1 for multiple choice, SC had all 3 players write their answers down, and they had only 5 seconds to answer After the answers were revealed, host Jim Pick would say how many were right or wrong (but not whom), and then give 3 options. Players were then asked if they would like a second chance (hence the name of the game), and if they said yes, they'd write down one of the three options. Answering the question correctly to start with earned you 3 spins, while a second chance earned you 1.

The bonus board itself featured eleven (nine in the pilot) cash squares with orange and yellow backgrounds and four (six in the pilot) squares with gift boxes in them which were used to represent prizes. Once one of these was landed on, a slide showing a prize was revealed and the prize's value was added to the contestant's score. There were also three squares with a cartoon figure referred to as the Devil in them. Hitting one of these cost a contestant whatever he/she had earned to that point, and hitting the Devil four times eliminated a contestant from the game, just as four Whammies eliminate a PYL contestant from the game. Unlike the board from the then-future Press Your Luck, the squares on this board did not change as the randomizer moved; additionally, the randomizer light moved at a much faster pace than Press Your Luck's board ever did.

Initially, the top dollar value in the first round was $2,500 and $5,000 in the second. Later, the second round also rewarded contestants that hit the top dollar value with an additional spin. Later still, the top value decreased to $1,000 in the first round. In the second round, a randomizer with an eggcrate display was placed in the big money square and its value could be anywhere between $1,000 and $5,000 in increments of $1,000. Players also earned a free spin for hitting this square; such was the reason PYL would have spaces such as $4,000 + 1 Spin.

In both rounds, play began with the player with the fewest spins and went in ascending order; on PYL, the player with the highest total plays last in Round 2.

SC did not have returning champions, but the player with the highest score did win everything and get to keep it.

My bad habit of smuggling the "Jeopardy!" theme into the mix has occurred again (during the solo), but this time I've attempted to add several other themes into the mix as well. Please note, anybody who plays this for themselves doesn't have to play the solo verbatim. They can improvise however they desire.

This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music written by Score Productions; the exact composer is unknown.
Second Chance, Press Your Luck © Fremantle and everybody else who owns the rights; it was originally a Carruthers Company Presentation.
I've Got a Secret © Fremantle, et al; originally a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production.

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