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Have Game Shows Jumped the Shark?

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Adam Nedeff:
I don't think game shows have jumped the shark (dammit I hate that term; I really do). Jumping the shark just means it's impossible for game shows to still be watchable. Not so. Lingo and Whammy! are fantastic shows, although nobody notices that typically because GSN tramples the enjoyment of both with repeated airings. I still enjoy Millionaire, Family Feud, and of course TPIR. Quite honestly, I think now is a great time to be a game show fan, even if the execution is botched so very often.

GSWitch:
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Oct 22 2003, 07:24 PM\'] 3)  Tic Tac Dough  -- Put in one bad-acting son of a famous silver screen icon, and add a Dragon Slayer that kills rapping reptiles.

 [/quote]
 The Dragon Slayer also rapped as well.  

And let's not forget Henry Mancini who also wrote the child-like theme!

GSWitch:
[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Oct 21 2003, 07:44 PM\'] [/QUOTE]
I think gameshows "jumped the shark" after NBC cancelled their last daytime effort; I believe Caesar's Challenge.    
 [/quote]
 Yes it was in January 1994!  NBC had plans to rerun Caesar until March, but suddenly changed their minds when the LA earthquake hit the following Monday (Martin Luther King Day 1994).

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Oct 23 2003, 09:07 PM\']
Yes it was in January 1994!  NBC had plans to rerun Caesar until March, but suddenly changed their minds when the LA earthquake hit the following Monday (Martin Luther King Day 1994). [/quote]
 I think Caesar's and Classic Concentration's replacement, the Jane Whitney talk show(she had a local show on WCAU in Philly in the early 80s) was a done deal beforehand, and the earthquake had nothing to do with it. Whitney's show was listed in TV Guide that came out the Monday or Tuesday beforehand IIRC.

SRIV94:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Oct 23 2003, 09:28 PM\']I think Caesar's and Classic Concentration's replacement, the Jane Whitney talk show(she had a local show on WCAU in Philly in the early 80s) was a done deal beforehand, and the earthquake had nothing to do with it. Whitney's show was listed in TV Guide that came out the Monday or Tuesday beforehand IIRC.[/quote]
I believe that's correct.  Which leads me into this meaningless segue.

Among the few TV GUIDEs I've collected over the years is a "Central Time Zone" edition dated 1/31 - 2/6/98 (Yasmine Bleeth is on the cover--{arr-rrrrrr}).  Anyway, the novelty of the "Central Time Zone" edition is that it includes generalized network listings.  Lo and behold, as I look up NBC's generalized schedule, is a listing for CAESAR'S CHALLENGE at 11:30AM CT (NBC's three sudsers of that era are also listed--at 10AM, 12N and 1PM CT; the rest of the NBC broadcast day consisted of TODAY, LEEZA, Brokaw, prime time, Leno, CONAN, LATER [I think Kinnear was still there at that point] and "local programming").  Remember, this was a full four years after CAESAR'S was cancelled.

So the question is, does anyone recall actually seeing CAESAR'S CHALLENGE in 1998 in this fashion (as opposed to a tape trade, etc.)?  Or was this a dubious listing?

The other question is will Chris C. now kill me for taking his topic to a completely different tack (it's still on the subject of game shows but it has nothing to do with jumping the shark)?

Doug

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