Winning Lines is often considered one of the worst formats with one of the best bonus rounds.

Too funny - "Warning - while you were typing a new reply has been posted.  You may wish to review your post."  I had just typed "Winning Lines by a country mile."

Great minds think alike I suppose!

R.

Pyramid and all versions of Password, though I will say that I've always found the main game of P+ and SP to be far more exciting than 20 minutes of just guessing random words in the original PW main game.

I know I asked AA ron this, but if Go was airing against The Price is Right what did NBC think was going to happen? Sure, it's a game show on against another one, but Pyramid is on CBS and Super Password has comeback. Is there a point of diminished returns where you cede the battle and throw out reruns instead?

In the east coast at least, Go's competition was possibly two other game shows - I say "possibly" because it definitely wasn't the same in all markets. ABC's noon offering was Feud, which at this point was a year and a half away from ending its right (and no doubt not being carried in most markets because noon news). CBS's "noon" offering was Tattletales, which was either carried at other times (9:30 a.m. in Philly and maybe Baltimore) or not at all. "Noon" in quotes because the official time slot of the show was 4 p.m.

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Are you able to provide more insight on the pilot?  There was a picture in the first edition of the GSE that depicted a different format.

That board with the numbers in the GSE picture was definitely in the pilot I saw, but I honestly can't remember what its function was.

I'd forgotten all about that. Found this pic on the Game Show Wiki.



I had a stereo in the late-90s and the CD display had a similar look (the 4x5 grid on the right) indicating the track number...back in the day I remember that it reminded me of the show. Only difference was that mine was gray.

EDIT: I think I formatted the pic correctly this time

maybe the pilot will crop up someplace ... so many rarities appear lately

Are you able to provide more insight on the pilot?  There was a picture in the first edition of the GSE that depicted a different format.

That board with the numbers in the GSE picture was definitely in the pilot I saw, but I honestly can't remember what its function was. I do remember one of the puzzles was "What are the first three digits of your phone number?" and the female contestant (who also can be seen in the GSE pic) said "235" or whatever it was. The answer, of course, was area code. It got a big laugh from the audience, but O'Connell didn't follow it up with a clever comment or a joke.