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Jerome sets a new Round 1 record with $5,870.Buddy hits Double Your $$ + One Spin at Square 17 at $3,650 for $7,300.Peter demonstrates a flokati rug in the closing segment.Buddy defeats Esmeralda, and starts his three-day run.Prize rotations updated for Round 2, which also saw a perfect 20 spins earned.Other minor cosmetic changes prevalent as of this episode.Date of Home Player Sweepstakes II is announced on this episode.Eddy uttering "cold cash, cold cash" would be featured in a future flashback intro.Sam becomes the first new champion of 1985.Sam hits Double Your $$ + One Spin at Square 7 at $2,220 for $4,440.The Baby New Year Whammy for 1985 appears for one day only.Sam's hitting of Big Bucks (for $5,000) would be seen in a future flashback intro.For the second straight year in the series, three new players start off 1985.NOTE: Press Your Luck did not air on New Year's Day due to live coverage of the 28th Annual Cotton Bowl Parade in Dallas, Texas. Sometime in 1985, CBS was considering adding a big money game show to its schedule, and a revival of Card Sharks was one of the contenders. Press Your Luck tried to re-boost ratings with the addition of Add-A-One in Round 1, and the final Home Player Sweepstakes with the Giant Sweepstakes Spin to close it out.
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The show's popularity would wear off sometime in the summer, possibly because of some new elements that enhanced Sale of the Century, which may have resulted in viewers tuning in to NBC in that time slot. This is the 1985 section of the Press Your Luck episode guide.