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Mark Goodson
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote ---Which ones do you suggest wouldn't have made it to air? Was Pass the Buck a BASADA production? Would that have made the Goodson cut?
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Well, keeping in mind that I'm a huge fan of the Bob Stewart catalog, off the top of my head I think that Winning Streak, Pass the Buck, Blankety Blanks and Double Talk/Shoot for the Stars wouldn't have gotten out of the Goodson machinery in the form we saw them. Good ideas, bad execution. Eye Guess, Go, Three on a Match and Jackpot, on the other hand, were pretty well developed out of the box.
Jimmy Owen:
Of some of the other Stewart productions, I thought "Personality" was a good concept (a two year run on NBC). However, even as an 8 year old, I wondered how "You're Putting Me On" got a green light. (Though it could have been an inspiration for the "What _____ Might Say" category on Pyramid)
GSFan:
What a great thread this is turning out to be. Who thought of it? Oh, I did(blush)!
Matt, I agree with you. Whatever Mr. Goodson did, he had the ability to surround himself with talented people, take a good game and make it an even better tv show. His instincts were, for the most part, right on the nose.
I also agree with Jimmy Owen who stated that the creation of a game show is a "group effort". When I was in high school I created a presentation tape of a format which I had created (it turned out to be a class project). I came up with the concept, and the entire class contributed other things to the show; set, music, simplifying the game, etc. We came up with something good enough to submit to the networks, even if they all passed. It has to be a group effort. Whose idea was it to slap a piece of plywood on The $10,000 Pyramid?
Speaking of Pyramid, I too was a big fan of the Stewart catalog, especially Pyramid. Pyramid was the show that really grabbed me by the cohones, got me interested in a career in television and was the only game show on which I wanted to be a contestant. Of course, we all know what happened there. If I tried today, do you think I could get Lois Nettleton to say the word "go?" While I am having a rhetorical moment, I still say we hijack Bob Stewart and get him back to the PYRAMID.
David
chris319:
We certainly have a lot of authorities on the topic of Mark Goodson.
DrBear:
[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Oct 15 2003, 08:54 PM\'] We certainly have a lot of authorities on the topic of Mark Goodson. [/quote]
Well, if this were an American History board, we'd have a lot of authorities on Millard Fillmore and the Gadsden Purchase.
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