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I Love The '80s Strikes Back!
GS Warehouse:
[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Oct 20 2003, 11:48 PM\']
--- Quote ---But the game show bits were good and I'd swear that Dirk Niblick's voice bore a striking resemblance to Gary Owens'
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Um, Gary Owens WAS the voice of Dirk Niblick. [/quote]
I also loved Sq1. The Great Space Coaster was mentioned above, but I also watched Voltron, You Can't Do That on Television, and Muppet Babies--often imitated, only once or twice duplicated--regularly. And as mentioned on ezBoard, the Hit Man theme seemed to borrow its rolling keyboard riff from Duran Duran's "Rio". And back then, USA was the game show network.
ObGameShows: You Can't alumnus Stephanie Chow was a contestant on Win Ben Stein's Money.
Ob80s: Happy Days, a show about the '50s, succeeded in the '70s. That '70s Show! succeeded in the '90s. Why does every recent show set in the 1980s (Freaks & Geeks, Do Over, et al) flop? The decade wasn't that bad, was it?
SRIV94:
[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Oct 20 2003, 11:48 PM\']
--- Quote ---But the game show bits were good and I'd swear that Dirk Niblick's voice bore a striking resemblance to Gary Owens'
--- End quote ---
Um, Gary Owens WAS the voice of Dirk Niblick.
BTW, I forgot to mention they might feature The Great Space Coaster, Donahue, and if it's alright with the religious folks, Superbook, PTL Club (to go along with the Bakker scandal), and Circle Square (the latter and fellow show 100 Huntley Street (a 700 Club-ish show which began airing Stateside in the mid-'80s) were also Canadian imports along with Today's Special and SCTV). [/quote]
No wonder he sounded like him! (And yes, I actually did know that.) :)
Not that there's anything wrong with religion, but you seem to be hung up on VH-1 devoting a lot of segments to these religious shows. PTL was certainly newsworthy because of the scandal, but the other ones you mentioned I wouldn't think they'd have caused enough of a stir to merit a mention, let alone a segment. I could be wrong, though.
GREAT SPACE COASTER? Probably the same deal. Of course, everybody has his or her own favorites from the decade (I was quite partial to HE-MAN and SHE-RA myself). But there's an old saying in life--you can't please everybody.
Granted, I didn't watch all 20 hours of I LOVE THE 70S and I LOVE THE 80S (the original), so I don't know whether DONAHUE was or wasn't mentioned, but I'm a little surprised if he wasn't. Oprah started her regin by toppling DONAHUE from the ratings perch, so he certainly deserves a mention for his accomplishments prior to the Oprah juggernaut.
And to get this back to being on-topic, if any game show besides WoF really deserves a mention/segment, J!'s 1984 revival certainly does probably before any others (and the best part is it's still airing).
Doug
tommycharles:
Was Dave Letterman ever mentioned in the original 80's shows? Just curious, because that would be a rather serious ommission if he wasn't.
Oh, and what about Trebeck J!?
ilb4ever2000:
No one mentioned that Chuck Woolery was on the 1981 episode talking about Hart to Hart. Judging by his chyron, we'll probably see a segment on Love Connection later.
joelvanderveen:
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Oct 20 2003, 11:15 PM\'] Today's Special -- Sure, a Canadian kids show seen in some U.S. markets via PBS that made a lasting impact. I'm sure those stars, whatshisname and whosheis, look back with fond memories of those early years (yes, that was a trifle sarcastic). [/quote]
Wow! I figured I was the only one who remembered "Today's Special". Good old TVO.... sadly, one of the more memorable shows they featured back then. Though you couldn't beat the nature films made lovingly by the NFB.
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