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Mark Goodson
chris319:
--- Quote --- And, you'd be one of them, right? :)
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Don't be sarcastic.
The above account is 85% fictitious. Frank Wayne's fingerprints are all over The New Price Is Right; it has elements of both LMAD and Beat the Clock, which was Frank's show. I suspect Jay Wolpert was brought in merely as a hired hand as he had no prior association with the company and thus would not be in a position to pitch an idea to Goodson. Wolpert's role was to pick contestants out of the line and to book prizes and games.
Read "The Box" for Ira Skutch's account of how Frank Wayne originated the concept behind Match Game. Better to hear it from Ira. If you asked Frank he would have told you he created Password. He'd also tell you he created oxygen, the continents and the laws of physics.
uncamark:
[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Oct 19 2003, 02:50 PM\'][The above account is 85% fictitious. Frank Wayne's fingerprints are all over The New Price Is Right; it has elements of both LMAD and Beat the Clock, which was Frank's show. I suspect Jay Wolpert was brought in merely as a hired hand as he had no prior association with the company and thus would not be in a position to pitch an idea to Goodson. Wolpert's role was to pick contestants out of the line and to book prizes and games.
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Duly noted.
--- Quote ---Read "The Box" for Ira Skutch's account of how Frank Wayne originated the concept behind Match Game. Better to hear it from Ira. If you asked Frank he would have told you he created Password. He'd also tell you he created oxygen, the continents and the laws of physics.
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He also might've said that he was really Mark Goodson, I assume. :)
chris319:
Nobody got the reference to Horn & Hardart.
--- Quote ---He also might've said that he was really Mark Goodson
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Frank didn't much like Goodson despite the six-figure Xmas bonus checks he received from him, and would never claim to be Goodson because Goodson created so very little. Goodson didn't create the Milky Way, penicillin or modern jurisprudence so Frank was free to claim those as his. We would have the Rossi theorem today if Pythagoras hadn't already put his name to it.
tvrandywest:
[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Oct 20 2003, 12:50 PM\']Goodson didn't create the Milky Way, penicillin or modern jurisprudence so Frank was free to claim those as his. We would have the Rossi theorem today if Pythagoras hadn't already put his name to it.[/quote]
OUCH!
calliaume:
--- Quote ---Frank didn't much like Goodson despite the six-figure Xmas bonus checks he received from him, and would never claim to be Goodson because Goodson created so very little.
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Anybody hands me six-figure bonus checks, they automatically rank high on my buddy list.
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