For the last two segments, the team members wore sweatshirts of the same color ( aqua blue for Team #1, burgundy for Team #2, yellow for Team #3 ). The game was played between three teams of two related individuals (teams could either be parent/child, spouses, siblings, and/or best friends) however, unlike the ABC version, where the contestants' last names were revealed, no contestants' last names were ever revealed in this version (except on special occasions). The gameplay of the Lifetime/PAX version of Supermarket Sweep consisted of three segments: the question round, the Big Sweep, and the Bonus Sweep. Only four (sets of) items were played, but the maximum time available was thus increased to two minutes and thirty seconds (2:30). The maximum time available for the challengers was two minutes and fifteen seconds (2:15).īy March 28, 1967, each episode consisted of two games, and all three teams played the pricing part, now starting with a base time of one minute and thirty seconds (1:30), and the winner of each item receiving a flat 15 seconds towards their sweep time.

Teams remained on the show until they were defeated.Įach episode consisted of one game, and the champions didn't play until the sweep part (for which they always had two minutes) only the challengers played the pricing part, each starting with a base time of one minute and playing five (sets of) items each worth as follows: All teams kept any groceries accumulated and any bonuses they picked up, but the team with the highest total score would also earn the right to return to the show and play in the next game. After the sweep, the total value of groceries and bonus prizes in each team's cart was determined. In addition, five bonus prizes, coming in the form of pennants with dollar values ranging from $10 to $100 printed on them, were spread throughout the store. In the second part of the game, one contestant from each team, generally referred to as a 'runner,' went on a shopping spree through the market using the time accumulated in the first half of the game. Each item revolved around a central household-related theme, such as items for washing, like laundry soap, to the items needed to created the associated 'wash day' soup, a soup generally made at the same time washing was being done, like potatoes and gravy. The team who came to the closest won the item(s), and additional seconds to their time.

Each player's totals were revealed followed by Bill Malone resorting to the automatic counter which displays the items' exact retail price. As host Bill Malone instructed the contestants to 'Please checkout on your machines what you think is the exact retail price,' the housewives would mentally calculate the price of all items shown and type the amount on their registers. In the first part of the game, the teams were shown a grocery item or combination of two closely associated grocery items and were asked to guess its retail price. She looks at me and goes, 'I got to go to work.' 'What? You got to go to work? This is five thousand dollars.' She thought that we was going to be finished with the audition in time for her to go to work after I had told her specifically to take the day off.Three teams, usually married couples, but generally always a housewife and her 'runner' (usually a male relative under the age of forty) competed in each game. I didn't know that she was on the phone with the boss of her job. 'So we get to the final contestants, there's like four groups left. Having put all her eggs in that basket, her work paid off. 'They was loving us because we had personality.we were just clowning,' she shared of their audition. 'I started recording so when she would come home from work I would make her watch like four or five episodes in a row,' Jones said. So she recruited her roommate and gave her a crash course on all things grocery. Spying a commercial seeking contestants, she heard that beep and couldn't help but think of all the fun she would have on Supermarket Sweep. 'Are you joking? This is my time!' Jones recalled of her reaction.

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