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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: TimK2003 on February 22, 2023, 06:27:06 PM
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Most of us know that Trebek's Double Dare and Perry's Card Sharks have nearly identical intros -- right down to the theme music...
..But how many remembered this opening that looked exactly like a certain game show's opening. And yes, it was the same producers who did the recycling.
Begins around the :19 mark.
https://youtu.be/LXKlFi4nc8E
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I don’t remember it, I don’t get it.
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Most of us know that Trebek's Double Dare and Perry's Card Sharks have nearly identical intros -- right down to the theme music...
..But how many remembered this opening that looked exactly like a certain game show's opening. And yes, it was the same producers who did the recycling.
Begins around the :19 mark.
https://youtu.be/LXKlFi4nc8E
Wasn't that Nicholson-Muir who produced it as opposed to G-T?
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Someone wanna clue in the rest of us?
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Someone wanna clue in the rest of us?
Mods, delete this post. For some reason, I thought the SPC opening had the flashing suits in the corners instead of the characters. Mea Culpa. Thanks.
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Um, can we pull over? I seem to be on the wrong bus.
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I didn't get it either, but I did like how the host attempting to get a completely nonplussed audience of kids to sing the theme was A)amusingly awkward and B)reminiscent of this:
https://youtu.be/PZAaRDn2aQY
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Not familiar with Howdy Doody, I thought at first maybe it was a Hatos-Hall produced show based on the drumroll and audience pan (like original LMAD).
But an actual example to the original post that Hatos-Hall used (but not ripped off from one of their own shows) using the audience pan inside a light box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMG2yvEJmp0&t=28s
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More visual, but to add to the DD/CS group...the start of Treasure Hunt beginning with the divided black screen. Then the pictures come up instead of flashing logos, and similarity ends of course.
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Mods, delete this post. For some reason, I thought the SPC opening had the flashing suits in the corners instead of the characters. Mea Culpa. Thanks.
Honest mistake, and there's still discussion going on. They definitely liked that style, even if you were thinking of the end-of-show board animation.
-Jason
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Someone wanna clue in the rest of us?
Mods, delete this post. For some reason, I thought the SPC opening had the flashing suits in the corners instead of the characters. Mea Culpa. Thanks.
I think you were thinking of the opening to the original Pay Cards and not Super Pay Cards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBS2ornI9uw
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Before the advent of GSN and being able to see MG again, going off of memory I thought the openings of it and TPiR were the same (with the light border).
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Before the advent of GSN and being able to see MG again, going off of memory I thought the openings of it and TPiR were the same (with the light border).
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Not to threadjack but instead of deleting, any chance we could simply turn this into a thread of shows that had similar intros, either because of the same producers or what Aaron mentioned?
For example, Chuck Barris’s late-80s games all opened with a sweeping shot of the audience as the logo animated. His 70s shows always seemed to start with “From the Chuck Barris Stages in Hollywood, it’s ‘(title)’! Yes, it’s ‘(title)’…”
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You Don't Say and I'll Bet had similar openings. The celebs would be introduced first, then the host says "My name is----, and the name of our show. ......., followed by an audience shot and an animated logo. The pilot, Show Me! also used a similar opening, all by same producer Ralph Andrews. You could argue that the YDS opening in itself was a ripoff of Password's opening where the celebs were introduced, then the host, then a shot of the audience with the game's title displayed.
With the GT shows, I think Card Sharks and Double Dare are the only shows that used a similar opening visually. Otherwise, GT usually tried to be unique with the way each show opens. I remember reading that the producers argued over the opening for Mindreaders. One argument was that with placing the celebs faces against a lighted square background looked too much like Match Game. However, they couldn't think of a better way to do it, so what we saw was the result.