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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: MikeK on March 31, 2023, 12:29:53 PM
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The next quarter starts tomorrow. What better time to start a fresh quarterly thread.
All I have heard is "spring break," starting on April 10 and running that week. Admittedly, I haven't paid full attention to what's going on with BUZZR.
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The next quarter starts tomorrow. What better time to start a fresh quarterly thread.
All I have heard is "spring break," starting on April 10 and running that week. Admittedly, I haven't paid full attention to what's going on with BUZZR.
Tis another grouping of assorted College Week episodes:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1849049108802877
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The next quarter starts tomorrow. What better time to start a fresh quarterly thread.
All I have heard is "spring break," starting on April 10 and running that week. Admittedly, I haven't paid full attention to what's going on with BUZZR.
Tis another grouping of assorted College Week episodes:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1849049108802877
For any archivists keeping track of episode numbers: Card Sharks '87 277-281, Feud '91 690-694, $ale '89 1473-1477.
All 15 will be replayed in a daylong binge on 4/15 starting @ 2:30ET.
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Weekend schedule changes starting 4/22 with some returning shows, and stuff getting shuffled around:
10:30am - Body Language
11:00 - Blockbusters (starting with episode 166)
Noon - Classic Concentration
1:00 - Supermarket Sweep (starting with 5_1558)
2:00 - Sale of the Century (starting with 1503)
3:00 - PYL
4:00 - Super Password
5:00 - Match Game
6:00 - MG/HS Hour
7:00 - Tattletales
Also starting the week of 4/17, the 5PM hour of Match Game goes back to '73 with episode 57, which I believe is fresh. (?)
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Tonight's first segment of TTTT's first airing should feature Carol Channing in a walkon cameo featuring a dresser to Hollywood and Broadway stars.
Thanks!
Marshall
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Tonight's first segment of TTTT's first airing should feature Carol Channing in a walkon cameo featuring a dresser to Hollywood and Broadway stars.
It did. But the next ep (the one with Byron MacGregor) was also quite notable and enjoyable.
The bad news is they went back to 1693 with the 8:30 ep tonight, but they'll be back to 1842 Monday.
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Tonight's first segment of TTTT's first airing should feature Carol Channing in a walkon cameo featuring a dresser to Hollywood and Broadway stars.
It did. But the next ep (the one with Byron MacGregor) was also quite notable and enjoyable.
The bad news is they went back to 1693 with the 8:30 ep tonight, but they'll be back to 1842 Monday.
Damn, I never knew Byron was on TTTT., and I missed it. I assume this was for his record, "The Americans"?
He was the brains behind the "blood and guts" news presentations on Detroit radio in the 70s. And he had a great voice for radio to boot.
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Damn, I never knew Byron was on TTTT., and I missed it. I assume this was for his record, "The Americans"?
He was the brains behind the "blood and guts" news presentations on Detroit radio in the 70s. And he had a great voice for radio to boot.
You assume correctly, and yes, his voice was great for radio.
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https://twitter.com/BUZZRtv/status/1646626884975828995 (https://twitter.com/BUZZRtv/status/1646626884975828995)
Buzzr dropped a promo for their Mother's Day plans. I assume a week of mini-marathon blocks starting on May 8th. Included in the promo are a Florence Henderson on Feud, Lucy on both Password Plus and Super Password, Mama and Eunice from Password Plus, and Isabel Sanford and Shirley Jones on Tattletales.
Is that Tattletales from the 80s? I forget if Buzzr has aired 80s Tattletales before or not.
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https://twitter.com/BUZZRtv/status/1646626884975828995 (https://twitter.com/BUZZRtv/status/1646626884975828995)
Buzzr dropped a promo for their Mother's Day plans. I assume a week of mini-marathon blocks starting on May 8th. Included in the promo are a Florence Henderson on Feud, Lucy on both Password Plus and Super Password, Mama and Eunice from Password Plus, and Isabel Sanford and Shirley Jones on Tattletales.
Is that Tattletales from the 80s? I forget if Buzzr has aired 80s Tattletales before or not.
Yep, 1984 to be precise. And no, they haven't aired it on a regular basis, just a handful in a few marathons and once on accident.
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Tonight's first segment of TTTT's first airing should feature Carol Channing in a walkon cameo featuring a dresser to Hollywood and Broadway stars.
It did. But the next ep (the one with Byron MacGregor) was also quite notable and enjoyable.
The bad news is they went back to 1693 with the 8:30 ep tonight, but they'll be back to 1842 Monday.
Damn, I never knew Byron was on TTTT., and I missed it. I assume this was for his record, "The Americans"?
He was the brains behind the "blood and guts" news presentations on Detroit radio in the 70s. And he had a great voice for radio to boot.
Here on YouTube, is Byron MacGregor's TTTT episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4zAAu5LHic
In addition to his ties to CKLW radio in Windsor, Ontario, by the late 70s/early 80s, he did short news updates, including a short five-minute local broadcast at WKBD-TV Channel 50 in Detroit. This coming as Channel 50 was airing the Independent Network News (INN).
Byron MacGregor died in early 1995, just two months shy of his 47th birthday, of pneumonia.
If you'd like to know more about him, click this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_MacGregor
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Tonight's first segment of TTTT's first airing should feature Carol Channing in a walkon cameo featuring a dresser to Hollywood and Broadway stars.
Keeping in line with a recent discussion about how the G-T panel shows shared contestants around, I could swear I've seen the second guest, Alphonso Woodall who kited across Lake Erie and saved drowning men (and later died trying to do the same in 1987), on WML or IGAS on a previous rerun.
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Keeping in line with a recent discussion about how the G-T panel shows shared contestants around, I could swear I've seen the second guest, Alphonso Woodall who kited across Lake Erie and saved drowning men (and later died trying to do the same in 1987), on WML or IGAS on a previous rerun.
Righto! Woodall was the first contestant on the 1973 WML that featured Wally Bruner returning to the show as mystery guest.
Marshall
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Tonight's first segment of TTTT's first airing should feature Carol Channing in a walkon cameo featuring a dresser to Hollywood and Broadway stars.
It did. But the next ep (the one with Byron MacGregor) was also quite notable and enjoyable.
The bad news is they went back to 1693 with the 8:30 ep tonight, but they'll be back to 1842 Monday.
Damn, I never knew Byron was on TTTT., and I missed it. I assume this was for his record, "The Americans"?
He was the brains behind the "blood and guts" news presentations on Detroit radio in the 70s. And he had a great voice for radio to boot.
Here on YouTube, is Byron MacGregor's TTTT episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4zAAu5LHic
In addition to his ties to CKLW radio in Windsor, Ontario, by the late 70s/early 80s, he did short news updates, including a short five-minute local broadcast at WKBD-TV Channel 50 in Detroit. This coming as Channel 50 was airing the Independent Network News (INN).
Byron MacGregor died in early 1995, just two months shy of his 47th birthday, of pneumonia.
If you'd like to know more about him, click this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_MacGregor
His wife Jo Jo Shiuty MacGregor could've been a TTTT subject as well. She was the first female radio traffic reporter in North America (broadcasting from a helicopter) at the same station Byron worked at. They later married and for a brief while was a weather forecaster on one of the Detroit TV stations.
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Fans of TTTT's irregular disguised-impostors segments -- like the times Tom Poston was adorable as a teddy bear, Wally Bruner overacted as a wolfman, and Gene Rayburn wheezed his way through Santa Claus-- may care to check out the first game's reveal in this evening's second show, a Buzzr first-run episode. Fun spot!
Marshall
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Fans of TTTT's irregular disguised-impostors segments -- like the times Tom Poston was adorable as a teddy bear, Wally Bruner overacted as a wolfman, and Gene Rayburn wheezed his way through Santa Claus-- may care to check out the first game's reveal in this evening's second show, a Buzzr first-run episode. Fun spot!
Marshall
The only celebrity imposter I remember from the 70s version was Soupy Sales. However, I couldn't tell you when or for whom he was trying to impersonate.
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Fans of TTTT's irregular disguised-impostors segments -- like the times Tom Poston was adorable as a teddy bear, Wally Bruner overacted as a wolfman, and Gene Rayburn wheezed his way through Santa Claus-- may care to check out the first game's reveal in this evening's second show, a Buzzr first-run episode. Fun spot!
Marshall
The only celebrity imposter I remember from the 70s version was Soupy Sales. However, I couldn't tell you when or for whom he was trying to impersonate.
Then watch tonight's episode and you'll have the answer.
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https://fb.watch/kfBufRM3TZ/
Oh boy....Let the speculation begin..
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https://fb.watch/kfBufRM3TZ/
Oh boy....Let the speculation begin..
Okay, here's my $0.02:
1 T or C - Barker or Larry Anderson
2 Some version of Hollywood Squares.
3 TPIR with Barker or Kennedy
June 1st is Buzzr's anniversary.
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I'm going to temper my expectations and predict a rebroadcast of The Game Show Show or some similar retrospective rather than a new-to-Buzzr acquisition. If it were a new show, Buzzr would say it's a new show, not a cryptic "game shows get their day."
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My wild guess: a proper BUZZR on Demand. New library content hasn't really appeared on Prime and other platforms over the past while.
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All I have seen was the promo for Mother's Day Week (I assume shows woth TV moms and/or mother-daughtertmother-son pairings). Looks like there will be at least one Tattletales '8x episode with Shirley Jones,...that's all I caught.
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My wild guess: a proper BUZZR on Demand.
I was thinking either that, or possibly a game show-focused multichannel streaming service.
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The wording of the promo leads me to believe they've gotten some entity to declare June 1st as "National Game Show Day" and they're likely having a marathon to celebrate it. They've done plenty of other marathons for national whatever day, so now they get to celebrate our genre.
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The wording of the promo leads me to believe they've gotten some entity to declare June 1st as "National Game Show Day" and they're likely having a marathon to celebrate it. They've done plenty of other marathons for national whatever day, so now they get to celebrate our genre.
I was thinking the same thing. A quick Google search doesn't find a(n) (Inter)National Game Show Day...yet...so it's plausible.
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Yeah, I just can't see even Buzzr devoting a regular time slot to "lots of love" Temptation.
Now, if they somehow got rights to Temptation AU ... Nawwww.
Interesting side note: While doing teh google to figure out whether it was "lots of love" or "lotta love," I stumbled across this 2012 interview with Rossi.
https://sb2tlopg.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/interview-with-rossi-morreale/
GP: The interesting thing about this show, and in my opinion one of the factors that lead to its downfall, was that the contestants were predominantly female (with a few homosexual men). That limited the show’s audience quite a bit. I know I was disappointed because I wanted to be a contestant. How much do you think the casting affected the game?
RM: Well it’s funny you say that…because the first guy we had on the show (and he was totally straight) dominated everybody went the entire week and won a car. That probably scared them. We didn’t have the money to be giving away a lot of cars!! I don’t know if that affected the casting of the contestants or not, but I do know that we kept seeing men really take over the show consistently when they were on. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of women dominated the show, but most guys that came on won consistently. So, maybe that’s the reason.
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Oh, how soon we forget in several regards.
I couldn't pause the video, but did notice the Card Sharks '01 logo in there. Please no.
Probably just a matter of taking the logo of every show they have rights/access to and running them at speed, though. My money is on some sort of "National Game Show Day" or something along those lines.
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https://fb.watch/kfBufRM3TZ/
Oh boy....Let the speculation begin..
Someone in the comments of the Facebook video had (what I thought was) an interesting guess. They wrote, "My guess is Buzzr will host a specific game show marathon every day of the month of June."
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https://fb.watch/kfBufRM3TZ/
Oh boy....Let the speculation begin..
Someone in the comments of the Facebook video had (what I thought was) an interesting guess. They wrote, "My guess is Buzzr will host a specific game show marathon every day of the month of June."
That's actually not a terrible idea.
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I counted 27 logos in the video.
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I hope this isn’t steering things too far away from topic, but I found this post on Facebook a few minutes ago (some of you have already seen this).
I’m gonna leave it at that. Just read.
https://www.facebook.com/1594990200717769/posts/3319276741622431/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
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I hope this isn’t steering things too far away from topic, but I found this post on Facebook a few minutes ago (some of you have already seen this).
I’m gonna leave it at that. Just read.
https://www.facebook.com/1594990200717769/posts/3319276741622431/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
I see nothing more than someone's dream schedule and pushback comments...
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I hope this isn’t steering things too far away from topic, but I found this post on Facebook a few minutes ago (some of you have already seen this).
I’m gonna leave it at that. Just read.
https://www.facebook.com/1594990200717769/posts/3319276741622431/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
I see nothing more than someone's dream schedule and pushback comments...
I personally cannot wait until the 11:30am airing of To Tell The Truth 1890.
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I hope this isn’t steering things too far away from topic, but I found this post on Facebook a few minutes ago (some of you have already seen this).
I’m gonna leave it at that. Just read.
https://www.facebook.com/1594990200717769/posts/3319276741622431/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
I’ll take the Hot Steak - ribeye, medium - with a baked potato and side salad, please. :P
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I personally cannot wait until the 11:30am airing of To Tell The Truth 1890.
I think that's when Kitty made her debut on the show. ;) Unless this guy has connections to Buzzr, I'm taking this as his "dream schedule."
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Unless this guy has connections to Buzzr, I'm taking this as his "dream schedule."
I think it’s horse manure as much as the rest of you. But really, who among us would poo on this if it came to pass, the 1890 thing notwithstanding? :P
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I think that's when Kitty made her debut on the show. ;) Unless this guy has connections to Buzzr, I'm taking this as his "dream schedule."
That guy has as many connections to Buzzr as DJohnsonCB has to an EZPass.
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I hope this isn’t steering things too far away from topic, but I found this post on Facebook a few minutes ago (some of you have already seen this).
I’m gonna leave it at that. Just read.
https://www.facebook.com/1594990200717769/posts/3319276741622431/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
I see nothing more than someone's dream schedule and pushback comments...
Well, yeah. It is.
But just the sheer randomness of the whole thing, plus his atrocious grasp of the English language, was what prompted the share. As in you had to see this to believe it.
Whether you got the chuckle or not, that’s up to you.
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Unless this guy has connections to Buzzr, I'm taking this as his "dream schedule."
I think it’s horse manure as much as the rest of you. But really, who among us would poo on this if it came to pass, the 1890 thing notwithstanding? :P
Would be a nice gesture, I wouldn’t poop on it.
I’m trying to imagine what an 1890 version of a game show would be like. Hell, radio didn’t even exist yet.
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Only 9 minutes of Scrabble. That is all. And a third of it is Chuck stumbling over what is written on the cue card
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Unless this guy has connections to Buzzr, I'm taking this as his "dream schedule."
I think it’s horse manure as much as the rest of you. But really, who among us would poo on this if it came to pass, the 1890 thing notwithstanding? :P
Would be a nice gesture, I wouldn’t poop on it.
I’m trying to imagine what an 1890 version of a game show would be like. Hell, radio didn’t even exist yet.
Obviously they had theater. Do we know whether they ever had any stage competition-type shows, like a pre-media precursor to the TPIR stage show?
If they did, one of the prizes should have been a Hot Steak dinner. :P
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I hope this isn’t steering things too far away from topic, but I found this post on Facebook a few minutes ago (some of you have already seen this).
I’m gonna leave it at that. Just read.
https://www.facebook.com/1594990200717769/posts/3319276741622431/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
I see nothing more than someone's dream schedule and pushback comments...
I personally cannot wait until the 11:30am airing of To Tell The Truth 1890.
It'd be nice to see how well Kitty played as a newbie back then.
(lol @ Vahan asking if that was a fact)
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Only 9 minutes of Scrabble. That is all. And a third of it is Chuck stumbling over what is written on the cue card
Actually 39. I assume Sale that follows is commercial free.
If they did, one of the prizes should have been a Hot Steak dinner. :P
Nice to grill you, to grill you, nice. But nothing for a rare. Not on this plate.
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Missed opportunity:
Hot Potato followed by Hot Steak
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Missed opportunity:
Hot Potato followed by Hot Steak
Lucky for everyone, these are the featured entrées on this evening's Burt Luddin's Love Buffet
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Here's a schedule you can actually choose. Buzzr's doing a contest in which you can choose which programming lineup airs June 4th. Options are:
Bob vs Bob vs Bob (Bob Eubanks hosted shows)
One & Done (Series premieres and finales)
Buzzr's Beginnings (Day 1 inspired)
Could be fun, I see reasons to pick any of them and it should be a good day regardless.
http://woobox.com/e7tc6h
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I voted for the "One and Done" marathon because several of those would be new-to-Buzzr.
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I thought Bob vs Bob vs Bob would be Barker vs Goen vs Eubanks like that CBS promo many years ago
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The wording of the promo leads me to believe they've gotten some entity to declare June 1st as "National Game Show Day" and they're likely having a marathon to celebrate it. They've done plenty of other marathons for national whatever day, so now they get to celebrate our genre.
Smart cookie, I tell ya. 4-Day marathon, concluding with the Viewer's Choice day.
https://fb.watch/kp8hGzpIx1/
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I decided to go.with Buzzr's Beginnings, largely because that's when I felt that was the channel at its best. I'm a nostalgic sort. 🙂
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I voted for the "One and Done" marathon because several of those would be new-to-Buzzr.
Same here, especially since I noticed Classic Concentration was on that list.
Probably the most intriguing thing for me is the ambiguity of said lineup - Match Game, Tattletales, To Tell The Truth, Let's Make A Deal, and The Newlywed Game each had multiple runs, so what they pull out could be very interesting (and I don't think there's any guarantee it's limited to 8 hours).
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I voted for the "One and Done" marathon because several of those would be new-to-Buzzr.
Same here, especially since I noticed Classic Concentration was on that list.
Probably the most intriguing thing for me is the ambiguity of said lineup - Match Game, Tattletales, To Tell The Truth, Let's Make A Deal, and The Newlywed Game each had multiple runs, so what they pull out could be very interesting (and I don't think there's any guarantee it's limited to 8 hours).
The One and Done selection intrigued me too, even though LMaD & what they're running now of TNG didn't even directly mention that it was the beginning or finale.
On another note: did the 1978 Tattletales finale ever air on GSN?
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On another note: did the 1978 Tattletales finale ever air on GSN?
No. They aired some episodes from fall 1977, and maybe even a couple from '78, but they never got to the finale. The last year of the original version was sparse on GSN.
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The wording of the promo leads me to believe they've gotten some entity to declare June 1st as "National Game Show Day" and they're likely having a marathon to celebrate it. They've done plenty of other marathons for national whatever day, so now they get to celebrate our genre.
Congrats, you win the office pool. Buzzr has started airing promos for Game Show Day.
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On another note: did the 1978 Tattletales finale ever air on GSN?
No. They aired some episodes from fall 1977, and maybe even a couple from '78, but they never got to the finale. The last year of the original version was sparse on GSN.
Why do I get the feeling that if anything they'd air the 1984 finale instead?
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On another note: did the 1978 Tattletales finale ever air on GSN?
No. They aired some episodes from fall 1977, and maybe even a couple from '78, but they never got to the finale. The last year of the original version was sparse on GSN.
Why do I get the feeling that if anything they'd air the 1984 finale instead?
Saw a promo today, the 89 finale of SP with Betty chucking the toaster will air
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I'm surprised by the complete dropping of Whew! What happened?
I liked Whew! It's disappointing that Buzzr decided to air the show's weakest era, Celebrity Whew, over the show's beginning, when it was new, exciting, and genuinely good.
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Outside of the classics, Buzzr seems to rotate shows pretty often. I’m sure it’ll be back at some point, but let’s not pretend it wasn’t an outta left field pick from the start.
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I think it's safe to say the ratings for Whew! (or however BUZZR measures it) probably weren't so good towards the end - if it was still doing as well as it reportedly was when it started, I don't think it would be off the schedule for so long.
They're probably just "resting" it and I'm sure we'll see it again.
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With all due respect to the posters above me… I know the prevailing theory is that it’s taking a rest. I hope that’s right, but I’m not so sure.
My guess: It was a short-term deal, and it didn’t get the ratings and/or didn’t generate enough ad revenue for BUZZR to feel it was worth renewing. As opposed to, say, Classic Concentration, which is worth keeping in their portfolio.
I’ll be happy if I’m wrong about Whew!, though.
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With all due respect to the posters above me… I know the prevailing theory is that it’s taking a rest. I hope that’s right, but I’m not so sure.
My guess: It was a short-term deal, and it didn’t get the ratings and/or didn’t generate enough ad revenue for BUZZR to feel it was worth renewing. As opposed to, say, Classic Concentration, which is worth keeping in their portfolio.
I’ll be happy if I’m wrong about Whew!, though.
This was my impression from when they first announced it was coming.
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With all due respect to the posters above me… I know the prevailing theory is that it’s taking a rest. I hope that’s right, but I’m not so sure.
My guess: It was a short-term deal, and it didn’t get the ratings and/or didn’t generate enough ad revenue for BUZZR to feel it was worth renewing. As opposed to, say, Classic Concentration, which is worth keeping in their portfolio.
I’ll be happy if I’m wrong about Whew!, though.
I’ve mentioned a few times that I’m a member of a “Xennials” group on Facebook. Other members bring up Classic Concentration and $ale from time to time, and I think Buzzr realizes the former brings back fond memories for our generation, plus people got a kick out of Mustache Trebek even when he was alive.
As much as I enjoyed Whew! and TalkAbout, I can understand why they might not have the mainstream appeal as CC or $otC, especially when they got decent time slots. I could see them airing as a one-off or a marathon.
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With all due respect to the posters above me… I know the prevailing theory is that it’s taking a rest. I hope that’s right, but I’m not so sure.
My guess: It was a short-term deal, and it didn’t get the ratings and/or didn’t generate enough ad revenue for BUZZR to feel it was worth renewing. As opposed to, say, Classic Concentration, which is worth keeping in their portfolio.
I’ll be happy if I’m wrong about Whew!, though.
I’ve mentioned a few times that I’m a member of a “Xennials” group on Facebook. Other members bring up Classic Concentration and $ale from time to time, and I think Buzzr realizes the former brings back fond memories for our generation, plus people got a kick out of Mustache Trebek even when he was alive.
As much as I enjoyed Whew! and TalkAbout, I can understand why they might not have the mainstream appeal as CC or $otC, especially when they got decent time slots. I could see them airing as a one-off or a marathon.
Talkabout is still airing, albeit at 8:30am Eastern.
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As much as I enjoyed Whew! and TalkAbout, I can understand why they might not have the mainstream appeal as CC or $otC, especially when they got decent time slots.
Despite my huge interest in "Talk About", I did initially question their choice of an 8PM time slot. It made it easy for me to catch the show, yes, but it really wasn't *that* prominent of a show to deserve such a time slot. The current 8:30A slot does seem more appropriate for it, even though (being 7:30A in my time zone) I'd still be getting my last moments of nap time by then. Unlike some who hang in this fandom, I *do* understand Buzzr can't schedule shows around my day. :-*
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With all due respect to the posters above me… I know the prevailing theory is that it’s taking a rest. I hope that’s right, but I’m not so sure.
My guess: It was a short-term deal, and it didn’t get the ratings and/or didn’t generate enough ad revenue for BUZZR to feel it was worth renewing. As opposed to, say, Classic Concentration, which is worth keeping in their portfolio.
I’ll be happy if I’m wrong about Whew!, though.
This was my impression from when they first announced it was coming.
For those who are more in the know - how long was Whew! on the schedule? Was it a year? Wiki shows 273 episodes - 39 weeks of shows - although I know that there was a point where they cycled back to the beginning right before the celeb shows started.
I know nothing about the workings of Buzzr, but it seems plausible that it could have been a one-year lease, and they decided not to renew it after a cost-benefit analysis.
I would imagine it didn't come as a part of a larger library of shows, if that is indeed how the deals are packaged.
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Does BUZZR have nearly enough of a reach to worry that much about how the content affects ratings?
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With all due respect to the posters above me… I know the prevailing theory is that it’s taking a rest. I hope that’s right, but I’m not so sure.
My guess: It was a short-term deal, and it didn’t get the ratings and/or didn’t generate enough ad revenue for BUZZR to feel it was worth renewing. As opposed to, say, Classic Concentration, which is worth keeping in their portfolio.
I’ll be happy if I’m wrong about Whew!, though.
This was my impression from when they first announced it was coming.
For those who are more in the know - how long was Whew! on the schedule? Was it a year? Wiki shows 273 episodes - 39 weeks of shows - although I know that there was a point where they cycled back to the beginning right before the celeb shows started.
13 months.
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With all due respect to the posters above me… I know the prevailing theory is that it’s taking a rest. I hope that’s right, but I’m not so sure.
My guess: It was a short-term deal, and it didn’t get the ratings and/or didn’t generate enough ad revenue for BUZZR to feel it was worth renewing. As opposed to, say, Classic Concentration, which is worth keeping in their portfolio.
I’ll be happy if I’m wrong about Whew!, though.
This was my impression from when they first announced it was coming.
For those who are more in the know - how long was Whew! on the schedule? Was it a year? Wiki shows 273 episodes - 39 weeks of shows - although I know that there was a point where they cycled back to the beginning right before the celeb shows started.
13 months.
IIRC, They only ran the first few months of the civilian format before jumping right into the Celebrity version, but they never made it through the whole celebrity run either. Randy Amasia's civilian-version appearance.made it but they did not go much beyond that. Several of the episodes that were on YouTube prior to Labor Day, 2021 were never remastered and seen on Buzzr..
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I’ve mentioned a few times that I’m a member of a “Xennials” group on Facebook. Other members bring up Classic Concentration and $ale from time to time, and I think Buzzr realizes the former brings back fond memories for our generation, plus people got a kick out of Mustache Trebek even when he was alive.
As much as I enjoyed Whew! and TalkAbout, I can understand why they might not have the mainstream appeal as CC or $otC, especially when they got decent time slots. I could see them airing as a one-off or a marathon.
Being in the same demographic (I’d be curious about that FB group ;) ), I agree with your assessment. CC and $ale shows were off the air for the better part of 20 years*, so BUZZR is providing a good nostalgia fix for that generation. And for a little while longer at least, we’re in the key ad demo, so I’m sure BUZZR wants to keep us happy.
*And I remember about GSN running $ale briefly, but that was in an AM slot when much of that demo was at work, & after GSN had largely moved away from classics. I imagine a lot of the interested potential viewers never even knew GSN was running it.
Despite my huge interest in "Talk About", I did initially question their choice of an 8PM time slot. It made it easy for me to catch the show, yes, but it really wasn't *that* prominent of a show to deserve such a time slot.
Agreed. It wasn’t a bad show, but I didn’t know what they were thinking put it on at 8:00. I think their scheduling of Whew! at the outset was pretty much perfect, and probably would have been more fitting for TA.
Does BUZZR have nearly enough of a reach to worry that much about how the content affects ratings?
Absolutely. Perhaps not to the extent of a top 20 Nielsen network, but they’re definitely watching the numbers and trying to make programming decisions accordingly.
Keep in mind that free ad-supported streaming (FAST) is growing by leaps & bounds. And BUZZR is on nearly all those services.
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With all due respect to the posters above me… I know the prevailing theory is that it’s taking a rest. I hope that’s right, but I’m not so sure.
My guess: It was a short-term deal, and it didn’t get the ratings and/or didn’t generate enough ad revenue for BUZZR to feel it was worth renewing. As opposed to, say, Classic Concentration, which is worth keeping in their portfolio.
I’ll be happy if I’m wrong about Whew!, though.
This was my impression from when they first announced it was coming.
If that's case, why did Buzzr go and air the worst episodes of the show, the celebrity ones, leaving the best ones, the beginning, unaired? Surely, someone must have known that the quality of Whew! declined with time?
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With all due respect to the posters above me… I know the prevailing theory is that it’s taking a rest. I hope that’s right, but I’m not so sure.
My guess: It was a short-term deal, and it didn’t get the ratings and/or didn’t generate enough ad revenue for BUZZR to feel it was worth renewing. As opposed to, say, Classic Concentration, which is worth keeping in their portfolio.
I’ll be happy if I’m wrong about Whew!, though.
This was my impression from when they first announced it was coming.
If that's case, why did Buzzr go and air the worst episodes of the show, the celebrity ones, leaving the best ones, the beginning, unaired? Surely, someone must have known that the quality of Whew! declined with time?
If ratings numbers were starting to decline too quickly, perhaps a misguided notion that the celebrities would be a quick fix.
Granted, there are things about the viewership numbers that we fans aren’t privy to, so that’s conjecture on my part. But, for as much as BUZZR has generally been in tune with the fans, they are running a media business, and media businesses sometimes try to get a quick boost from celebrities. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn’t.
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So most of the "National Game Show Day" celebration schedule is out, and based on the lineup, clearly the most popular shows on the network are Classic Concentration, Match Game, Press Your Luck and Password Plus. 10 episodes of CC and 6 of PYL on the 1st. 8 of CC, 7 of Plus, 6 of PYL, 5 of MG 73/79 on the 2nd, and 6 of CC plus 5 of MG 77/90 on 3rd. The only show they currently don't regularly air that makes an appearance is 1 hour of Child's Play on the 3rd and some Combs Feud on Friday and Saturday... surprising considering all the various logos they featured in their promo.
ETA: To clarify, Child's Play is the only show they haven't aired in quite a while. The shows that Chelsea listed have ran fairly recently.
ETAA: Starting June 5th, 2 hours of Dawson Feud from 1982 inherit the 9am - 11am time slot. Not sure if its permanent or a special event thing.
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The only show they currently don't regularly air that makes an appearance is 1 hour of Child's Play on the 3rd and some Combs Feud on Friday and Saturday... surprising considering all the various logos they featured in their promo.
also
A B&W 3-pack of Cullen TPIR, CBS WML, and nighttime Password 12P-2P Saturday
Match Game '90 x2 9P Saturday
Million Dollar Password x2 10p-Midnight Thursday
Child's Play is a show I'd love to see turn up on the schedule again, and it's nice to see it turn up again.
In general though, "mostly our popular stuff with some lesser seen alternate versions and one or two things we normally don't touch" is pretty standard promotional practice unless there's a specific thematic reason. Special episodes of stuff they normally run with a handful of lesser seen shows sprinkled in almost assuredly best suits that purpose.
And through their streaming feeds, Buzzr pretty much knows who is watching those to a person, what they're watching, when, from where, and for how long. (I remember reading something from either 2021 or 2022 that they have or at least had the longest length of time before someone changed the channel of anything on PlutoTV, for example)
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Why do I get the feeling that if anything they'd air the 1984 finale instead?
Saw a promo today, the 89 finale of SP with Betty chucking the toaster will air
I was referring to TT.
The SP episode in question is airing on 6/2, though (7 ET/6 CT).
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Since I saw him on the promo, I have confirmed that Buzzr's airing the Michael Larson PYLs on Friday the 2nd at 6:00 PM, then immediately following that with the Toaster SP as mentioned above.
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ETAA: Starting June 5th, 2 hours of Dawson Feud from 1982 inherit the 9am - 11am time slot. Not sure if its permanent or a special event thing.
It is on the week of the 12th as well.
Notably as of yesterday they've jumped ahead with P+, and will get through Ludden's final weeks (oddly enough, though, the final Ludden show is being skipped) and into Kennedy (although they did run Kennedy's first civilian shows previously and at least one or two eps of his second taped week, but I'm not sure they ran his first taped week, which aired more than two months later).
And it seems CC (the 11AM and 12M ET run) is being given the MG79 and LMAD84 treatment on the online sked, as in we don't know what episode numbers are being run as of 6/12. Could they be new? Watch this space.
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ETAA: Starting June 5th, 2 hours of Dawson Feud from 1982 inherit the 9am - 11am time slot. Not sure if its permanent or a special event thing.
It is on the week of the 12th as well.
Notably as of yesterday they've jumped ahead with P+, and will get through Ludden's final weeks (oddly enough, though, the final Ludden show is being skipped) and into Kennedy (although they did run Kennedy's first civilian shows previously and at least one or two eps of his second taped week, but I'm not sure they ran his first taped week, which aired more than two months later).
And it seems CC (the 11AM and 12M ET run) is being given the MG79 and LMAD84 treatment on the online sked, as in we don't know what episode numbers are being run as of 6/12. Could they be new? Watch this space.
Looks like Allen's last show might have been put into the skip pile because of an offensive clue involving the words "Redskins" and "Indians".
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ETAA: Starting June 5th, 2 hours of Dawson Feud from 1982 inherit the 9am - 11am time slot. Not sure if its permanent or a special event thing.
It is on the week of the 12th as well.
Notably as of yesterday they've jumped ahead with P+, and will get through Ludden's final weeks (oddly enough, though, the final Ludden show is being skipped) and into Kennedy (although they did run Kennedy's first civilian shows previously and at least one or two eps of his second taped week, but I'm not sure they ran his first taped week, which aired more than two months later).
And it seems CC (the 11AM and 12M ET run) is being given the MG79 and LMAD84 treatment on the online sked, as in we don't know what episode numbers are being run as of 6/12. Could they be new? Watch this space.
Looks like Allen's last show might have been put into the skip pile because of an offensive clue involving the words "Redskins" and "Indians".
I'd say "put a disclaimer and run this historic moment!" but then again Buzzr is not our personal museum. And T(N)PIR premiere has not been officially seen for decades before this, for similar, sooooo...
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ETAA: Starting June 5th, 2 hours of Dawson Feud from 1982 inherit the 9am - 11am time slot. Not sure if its permanent or a special event thing.
It is on the week of the 12th as well.
Notably as of yesterday they've jumped ahead with P+, and will get through Ludden's final weeks (oddly enough, though, the final Ludden show is being skipped) and into Kennedy (although they did run Kennedy's first civilian shows previously and at least one or two eps of his second taped week, but I'm not sure they ran his first taped week, which aired more than two months later).
And it seems CC (the 11AM and 12M ET run) is being given the MG79 and LMAD84 treatment on the online sked, as in we don't know what episode numbers are being run as of 6/12. Could they be new? Watch this space.
Looks like Allen's last show might have been put into the skip pile because of an offensive clue involving the words "Redskins" and "Indians".
I'd say "put a disclaimer and run this historic moment!" but then again Buzzr is not our personal museum. And T(N)PIR premiere has not been officially seen for decades before this, for similar, sooooo...
I can’t believe I’m actually bothering with you. One involves offensive language. The other involves someone not liking a specific prize. Learn the difference.
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I'd say "put a disclaimer and run this historic moment!" but then again Buzzr is not our personal museum. And T(N)PIR premiere has not been officially seen for decades before this, for similar, sooooo...
I can’t believe I’m actually bothering with you. One involves offensive language. The other involves someone not liking a specific prize. Learn the difference.
And the fur coat "ban" isn't even some sort of company precedent. They've shown several LMaD and Split Second episodes with a fur coat.
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ETAA: Starting June 5th, 2 hours of Dawson Feud from 1982 inherit the 9am - 11am time slot. Not sure if its permanent or a special event thing.
It is on the week of the 12th as well.
Notably as of yesterday they've jumped ahead with P+, and will get through Ludden's final weeks (oddly enough, though, the final Ludden show is being skipped) and into Kennedy (although they did run Kennedy's first civilian shows previously and at least one or two eps of his second taped week, but I'm not sure they ran his first taped week, which aired more than two months later).
And it seems CC (the 11AM and 12M ET run) is being given the MG79 and LMAD84 treatment on the online sked, as in we don't know what episode numbers are being run as of 6/12. Could they be new? Watch this space.
Looks like Allen's last show might have been put into the skip pile because of an offensive clue involving the words "Redskins" and "Indians".
I'd say "put a disclaimer and run this historic moment!" but then again Buzzr is not our personal museum. And T(N)PIR premiere has not been officially seen for decades before this, for similar, sooooo...
I can’t believe I’m actually bothering with you. One involves offensive language. The other involves someone not liking a specific prize. Learn the difference.
I said similar not alike.
The similarity was, "landmark" episodes being banned. Think before you smarter than thou me.
I know why they did it. I wish they did the "different time" disclaimer instead, but what can you do? Either you're for total sensitivity and expunging everything from "a different time", or you're a far righter, there's no middle ground in today's society.
And "I don't know why I'm bothering with you...." my slogan for a LOT of people here. Always room for more on the list.
And people have to ask why I mostly lurk, geez. I am running out of trust and second chances to give here, honestly. I would like to talk about my favorite things without bullying TYVM.
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Looks like Allen's last show might have been put into the skip pile because of an offensive clue involving the words "Redskins" and "Indians".
I suppose they could've bleeped it too as opposed to putting in the skip pile, but I get it. They've made actual edits (where the picture actually jumps) for other programs (TT and MG7x come to mind), so it's not without precedent.
Meanwhile, anybody got a contact that can check to see whether CC is going further in the run or if the episodes aren't fresh (the shows on 6/9 are 720 and 721--think they had gotten as far as 847)?
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And people have to ask why I mostly lurk, geez. I am running out of trust and second chances to give here, honestly. I would like to talk about my favorite things without bullying TYVM.
I'm gonna be honest with you and I've said this before. You're not being bullied. Taking this exchange off the table, in several threads on this forum you've added a reference to something not too many people (here) will get. It may be clever to you, but to everyone else it's a head-scratcher and derails the topic. And I don't say that to single you out; I've made what I thought was a Good One! that went over like a lead balloon. It happens. But what you and others call "bullying" is people simply asking you to read the room. It's up to you to stay, just remember some of this goes both ways.
Either you're for total sensitivity and expunging everything from "a different time", or you're a far righter, there's no middle ground in today's society.
Hyperbole like this doesn't help your case. Yes, a disclaimer could work but people are gonna bitch one way or another, just like people are bitching that they skip episodes for whatever reason (fur coats, models suggestively swinging their hips, etc.). So it's kind of a moot point because nothing will please everybody. GSN did the same thing 25 years ago with a MG7x episode with a Batman and Robin riddle. If it happened today, the fanboys would be whining about how "WoKe" GSN is. This is hardly new territory.
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Has Lmad reached the Geoff week yet?
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Has Lmad reached the Geoff week yet?
They already did so. They first aired them from Jul. 11-13, 2016, when they first started showing LMAD '84. They're showing just the first 87 episodes at the moment, so they might loop back to Geoff next time they refresh.
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Has Lmad reached the Geoff week yet?
They already did so. They first aired them from Jul. 11-13, 2016, when they first started showing LMAD '84. They're showing just the first 87 episodes at the moment, so they might loop back to Geoff next time they refresh.
A bunch of these episodes, including ones hosted by Geoff are posted on DailyMotion.
Here’s one of them:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5fldkj
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So it appears “One and Done” won the voting.
Can someone please remind me of what shows we’ll see?
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As presented on their site (thanks Wayback Machine):
Match Game
Tattletales
Password Plus
Super Password
To Tell the Truth
Classic Concentration
Let's Make a Deal
The Newlywed Game
Some mystery as to which versions, will be curious to see if the schedule updates.
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Oh boy. The first episode of 1973-82 MG they got right. However, the "last" episode they got wrong (they showed the 1980-1981 season finale instead, so they're a year off).
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As presented on their site (thanks Wayback Machine):
Match Game
Tattletales
Password Plus
Super Password
To Tell the Truth
Classic Concentration
Let's Make a Deal
The Newlywed Game
Some mystery as to which versions, will be curious to see if the schedule updates.
There appears to be room for another 4 as this would only amount to 8 hours. Also, I just noticed that the 3PM entry is blocked off for an hour. Hmm.
As for the faux MG finale they just aired, maybe they chose a marginally more entertaining season finale since the Season 3 finale was nothing special.
Definitely hoping for the 1978 TT finale, though!
EDIT: G'ah! Oh well, it was a nice thought. And wait...this isn't the '84 finale either, is it?
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EDIT: G'ah! Oh well, it was a nice thought. And wait...this isn't the '84 finale either, is it?
I believe it actually is.
On another note: did the 1978 Tattletales finale ever air on GSN?
No. They aired some episodes from fall 1977, and maybe even a couple from '78, but they never got to the finale. The last year of the original version was sparse on GSN.
Why do I get the feeling that if anything they'd air the 1984 finale instead?
Oh, he got all of that one. :)
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Oops, sure is the '84 finale. The intro was different from what I thought I remembered.
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Classic concentration is not the finale
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Classic concentration is not the finale
One of the bumpers indicated a CC mini-marathon of the first 2 and the final 2.
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Match Game 90 was the next show up and they did the same thing. First two, then last two.
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Now it's Moore tttt first and last and same for Ohurley 2001
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Now we're on to the first Kroeger NG from 1996.
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Press Your Luck is the final show on the list tonight.
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Not the finale - in fact, it's the first of the ~65 shows that GSN never reran. #697.
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Now it's Moore tttt first and last and same for Ohurley 2001
I don't think so--just Moore's first and one from O'Hurley.
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Not the finale - in fact, it's the first of the ~65 shows that GSN never reran. #697.
It's amazing to think that it's been decades since that episode has been aired anywhere. It was an interesting game too!
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I don't think so--just Moore's first and one from O'Hurley.
The first Moore they have, anyway; they don't have season 1, so they started off with the first-taped episode of season 2.
The O'Hurley episode was indeed the final-taped of his run.
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After all is said and done...it was a rather lame stunt for me, frankly. A selection of more shows with finales that actually acknowledged the finality of the series would've been nicer, as would not duping the average audience with "imposter" premieres & finales.
Blockbusters, Child's Play, both Perry & Eubanks Card Sharks, Trivia Trap, Body Language, offhand all would've been enjoyable entries. Eh well.
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After all is said and done...it was a rather lame stunt for me, frankly. A selection of more shows with finales that actually acknowledged the finality of the series would've been nicer, as would not duping the average audience with "imposter" premieres & finales.
Blockbusters, Child's Play, both Perry & Eubanks Card Sharks, Trivia Trap, Body Language, offhand all would've been enjoyable entries. Eh well.
Interestingly, Buzzr had closed captions for an episode of Child's Play during the first CC.
(https://i.imgur.com/EE5P8cMl.jpg)
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After all is said and done...it was a rather lame stunt for me, frankly. A selection of more shows with finales that actually acknowledged the finality of the series would've been nicer, as would not duping the average audience with "imposter" premieres & finales.
Blockbusters, Child's Play, both Perry & Eubanks Card Sharks, Trivia Trap, Body Language, offhand all would've been enjoyable entries. Eh well.
Essentially all they did was mimic the weekday lineup on Sunday, save for PYL running at 11pm. Truly the whole event (IMO) was somewhat disappointing, and many episodes were show more than once in error, including the 2nd half of Larson's run being shown back-to-back at 6pm Friday and Classic Concentration doing something similar earlier that day.
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Classic concentration is not the finale
One of the bumpers indicated a CC mini-marathon of the first 2 and the final 2.
The episode, which aired this past week on Buzzr Game Show Day, Alex asks the champ "Bob are you gonna come back next week?" Then he asks Marjorie if she will, and she said "Uh, Maybe."
On Youtube, there is apparently an old videotape of the original NBC broadcast of the "finale." The original broadcast DID NOT show the last prize cue of the Konica camera package, and the ending just shows Alex saying "we enjoyed having you with us; so long, everybody!"
I think they were not sure if the show was going to continue at the time of taping, and was edited.
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The episode, which aired this past week on Buzzr Game Show Day, Alex asks the champ "Bob are you gonna come back next week?" The asks Marjorie if she will, and she said "Uh, Maybe."
On Youtube, there is apparently an old videotape of the original NBC broadcast of the "finale." The original broadcast DID NOT show the last prize cue of the Konica camera package, and the ending just shows Alex saying "we enjoyed having you with us; so long, everybody!"
I think they were not sure if the show was going to continue at the time of taping, and was edited.
The video you are referring to on YouTube must be from the rerun from August of 1992. Reruns always cut out the consolation prize plug before the last commercial. I'm not sure if Alex's closing comments were also edited when it originally aired the year before.
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The episode, which aired this past week on Buzzr Game Show Day, Alex asks the champ "Bob are you gonna come back next week?" The asks Marjorie if she will, and she said "Uh, Maybe."
On Youtube, there is apparently an old videotape of the original NBC broadcast of the "finale." The original broadcast DID NOT show the last prize cue of the Konica camera package, and the ending just shows Alex saying "we enjoyed having you with us; so long, everybody!"
I think they were not sure if the show was going to continue at the time of taping, and was edited.
The video you are referring to on YouTube must be from the rerun from August of 1992. Reruns always cut out the consolation prize plug before the last commercial. I'm not sure if Alex's closing comments were also edited when it originally aired the year before.
Did the NBC run of CC go into reruns the following Monday, or did the reruns show up on NBC after CC's "replacement" flamed out. There were so many changes in the Daytime lineups in the late 80s, I don't remember what actually happened after the last first-run ep.
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Did the NBC run of CC go into reruns the following Monday, or did the reruns show up on NBC after CC's "replacement" flamed out. There were so many changes in the Daytime lineups in the late 80s, I don't remember what actually happened after the last first-run ep.
Looks like it was about a month later. Per the Daytime TV Archive, the reruns started 10/28/91 (http://daytimetvarchive.com/grids/1991.html).
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Three weeks of reruns of CC and WoF aired after the final unacknowledged 8/30/1991 last shows, then the time slots were given back to affiliates. CC returned in reruns at the end of October, replacing a new show Cover to Cover.
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Classic concentration is not the finale
One of the bumpers indicated a CC mini-marathon of the first 2 and the final 2.
The episode, which aired this past week on Buzzr Game Show Day, Alex asks the champ "Bob are you gonna come back next week?" Then he asks Marjorie if she will, and she said "Uh, Maybe."
On Youtube, there is apparently an old videotape of the original NBC broadcast of the "finale." The original broadcast DID NOT show the last prize cue of the Konica camera package, and the ending just shows Alex saying "we enjoyed having you with us; so long, everybody!"
I think they were not sure if the show was going to continue at the time of taping, and was edited.
I take it this unedited ending was the first time it’s ever been seen?
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Classic concentration is not the finale
One of the bumpers indicated a CC mini-marathon of the first 2 and the final 2.
The episode, which aired this past week on Buzzr Game Show Day, Alex asks the champ "Bob are you gonna come back next week?" Then he asks Marjorie if she will, and she said "Uh, Maybe."
On Youtube, there is apparently an old videotape of the original NBC broadcast of the "finale." The original broadcast DID NOT show the last prize cue of the Konica camera package, and the ending just shows Alex saying "we enjoyed having you with us; so long, everybody!"
I think they were not sure if the show was going to continue at the time of taping, and was edited.
I take it this unedited ending was the first time it’s ever been seen?
We don't know for sure. The copy that's circulating is from a 1992 rerun, and NBC regularly made those kinds of edits to the reruns anyway.
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Did the NBC run of CC go into reruns the following Monday, or did the reruns show up on NBC after CC's "replacement" flamed out. There were so many changes in the Daytime lineups in the late 80s, I don't remember what actually happened after the last first-run ep.
To be somewhat fair, Cover To Cover was not a replacement for CC. It actually replaced Trialwatch.
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Well this seems interesting, on 6/30 from 8-Midnight ET, it looks like the return of the old stunt "Pick N Play."
Viewers would go online and vote for the shows to fill that lineup, they did this back in 2015 (old promo below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlHj08vS6g0
I'm sure we'll see the official 2023 promo sooner than later now that the schedule's hanging out there.
Nice to see them sticking with some Viewer's Choice stuff!
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2023 promo:
https://youtu.be/ngEvjnQ_BOo