Replying to Jay\'s fun thread reminded me of events happening on game shows I thought definitely happened - but never did as I came to find out years later.
Among them:
* Match Game \'80 - I thought for sure that the CBS version got to 1980.
* Match Game - The \"Match Game\" sign not going up at the beginning
* Price is Right - The first contestant whose bid was revealed having been a perfect bid
I could have sworn there was a MG episode where Gene worked with laryngitis.
I could swear The Diamond Head Game didn\'t utterly suck.
I could swear *enter your game of choice here* didn\'t utterly suck.
You could say that for so many shows, with Break the Bank 85 at the top of my list. The 10-year-old ADD-riddled me loved it because I didn\'t know any better. The slightly older version...not as much.
I was sure that on MG7x, the winner got $100 for each match in the game that they won. (I don\'t remember thinking it through to wonder what happened if the winning point came with one or more celebrities left to reveal.)
I also thought I remembered a period of time on the 20K Pyramid where, if the score was tied with two categories left, the team that had made the second and fourth choices got to choose between the last two.
When I was younger, I always thought Bonus Game was the game that was visible in the background during the preceding IUFB, not Give or Keep. I also thought Squeeze Play offered only two wrong digits, the second and the fourth.
It wasn\'t until I got my own VCR and was able to watch the show on a daily basis that I was proven wrong.
Something that I haven\'t ever confirmed: I know I remember watching The Joker\'s Wild repeats on USA. The 3rd edition of the Game Show Encyclopedia stated these only ran through 1987. While I have a few memories of things that happened when I was two or three, I swore they ran past then.
Something that I haven\'t ever confirmed: I know I remember watching The Joker\'s Wild repeats on USA. The 3rd edition of the Game Show Encyclopedia stated these only ran through 1987. While I have a few memories of things that happened when I was two or three, I swore they ran past then.
IIRC, the Encyclopedia says it aired on USA until summer of \'87...June maybe? I\'ll confidently say it didn\'t run past 1988. I moved in with family that fall, and watched USA\'s block faithfully; TJW was nowhere to be found.
Thinking about it, while visiting my family in Dallas in the mid-90s, I found one of those generic cable guide\'s for their local system. It was from October 1987, and I\'m pretty sure TJW was off USA\'s schedule by then.
As for the OP\'s question, in addition to watching Name That Tune with my great-grandmother, she also used to watch TJW. I remembered the neon joker in the intro, but thought it was simply one (static) neon Joker, and not the blinking ring of Jokers. I also thought this Joker was white neon, not red as I found out on GSN years later. Part of me wonders if I confused said \"static\" Joker with the lights that surrounded the slot machine.
I could swear *enter your game of choice here* didn\'t utterly suck.You could say that for so many shows, with Break the Bank 85 at the top of my list. The 10-year-old ADD-riddled me loved it because I didn\'t know any better. The slightly older version...not as much.
True, true...I saw a few episodes and it was a harmless show. I guess some people don\'t like it because of what happened to Gene Rayburn. Roughly on that note, I didn\'t think MG/HS was bad at all, despite the watered-down HS rules.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand speaking of MG/HS...I have memories of the week when Arlene Francis was on, and remembering that she was NEVER picked all week. Whether I am right or wrong I can\'t say...I just remember for sure that it was a female panelist.
When I was very little, I could\'ve sworn I saw an episode of Wheel of Fortune where one of the players was disqualified because the flipper in front of them broke off of the wheel. The most likely explanation is that I saw one of those rare tiebreaker rounds in the nighttime version and my young mind just made up a reason why there was a round with only two contestants playing. And of course, when you\'re four or five years old, you don\'t really think about things like S&P and that they would stop tape and fix the wheel if something like that did happen.
Maybe we should start a thread on things game show hosts thought they remembered but actually never happened. Sometimes you hear an emcee say \"this is the first time this has ever happened\" when you know it happened a year ago.
But to be fair, I know emcees are under a lot of pressure and probably don\'t remember the minute details that we sometimes do :)
Maybe we should start a thread on things game show hosts thought they remembered but actually never happened.
You mean, like Larry Anderson being present for the Seismic California Lottery Incident of \'86?
(That one always rankled me.)
Maybe we should start a thread on things game show hosts thought they remembered but actually never happened. Sometimes you hear an emcee say \"this is the first time this has ever happened\" when you know it happened a year ago.
But to be fair, I know emcees are under a lot of pressure and probably don\'t remember the minute details that we sometimes do :)
Michael Cole was a game show host????
/VINTAGE Showcase Showdown!
Maybe we should start a thread on things game show hosts thought they remembered but actually never happened. Sometimes you hear an emcee say \"this is the first time this has ever happened\" when you know it happened a year ago.
You\'d have to devote at least a few pages to Barker.
You mean, like Larry Anderson being present for the Seismic California Lottery Incident of \'86?
You mean, like Larry Anderson being present for the Seismic California Lottery Incident of \'86?
The what?
I seem to have missed this story.
I think he\'s referring to the incident when the Big Spin ball landed in the top prize, the contestant started celebrating, and the ball landed in a different space, leading to a lawsuit.
I think he\'s referring to the incident when the Big Spin ball landed in the top prize, the contestant started celebrating, and the ball landed in a different space, leading to a lawsuit.
Yes, this. Which Anderson claimed to be the host for two decades later.
I think he\'s referring to the incident when the Big Spin ball landed in the top prize, the contestant started celebrating, and the ball landed in a different space, leading to a lawsuit.
Well, that\'s the general version, but two big problems were that
1) the host (Geoff Edwards, who had just taken over from Chuck Woolery) called the contestant a winner despite the fact that the ball hadn\'t been in the top prize slot for the required five seconds to be \"official\", and
2) the contestant\'s celebrating (and those of her friends/family) caused the ball to be dislodged and go into the lowest-valued space.
Those, plus a picture showing the celebration and the dislodged ball plus (IIRC) videotaped proof that the \"five-second rule\" hadn\'t been regularly enforced led to a win in that contestant\'s favor.
One contestant on Alex Trebek\'s Double Dare slipped and phrased a response in the form of a question. (I\'m not positive, but in a coincidence, I think it was a guy who would later be a champion on Trebek\'s Jeopardy!) I saw that episode during the show\'s original run. Between then and seeing the show again on GSN, I somehow misremembered it as being the rule.