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Dbacksfan12:
Hey guys;
I was just wondering what other shows (if any) had bumpers like Scrabble and Guts had going into the commercials.

Thanks...

sshuffield70:
"Talkabout" comes to mind......but the flashing "$2000"  made it look (and actually was) really cheap.

BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Oct 29 2003, 02:41 AM\'] Hey guys;
I was just wondering what other shows (if any) had bumpers like Scrabble and Guts had going into the commercials.

Thanks... [/quote]
 Sports Challenge, towards the end of its run.

clemon79:
"He Said, She Said" had some incredibly cheesy (though appropriate for the time period, I suppose) bumper shots of Holiday Inns and a happy Joe on that silly telephone at his podium that they would use in and out of breaks. Kinda reminded me of the "More To Come..." bumpers they used to use on Carson's Tonight Show.
 
Also, that God-awful Dick Enberg version of "Perfect Match" had a bumper slide they would go in and out of breaks with, but it was signifiantly more generic, I think in fact it was just the show logo.

uncamark:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Oct 29 2003, 11:35 AM\']"He Said, She Said" had some incredibly cheesy (though appropriate for the time period, I suppose) bumper shots of Holiday Inns and a happy Joe on that silly telephone at his podium that they would use in and out of breaks. Kinda reminded me of the "More To Come..." bumpers they used to use on Carson's Tonight Show.[/quote]
And thanks (I assume) to the Holiday Inn logo, WBBM in Chicago never showed those bumper slides when they aired "He Said She Said"--they always replaced it with a graphic from their print campaign for what they called "The Great Games and Giggles Block" ("The Game Game" and "TTTT" being the other shows)--a cartoon of a wife glaring at her husband's face on a TV monitor (even though she was staring right at the monitor instead of sitting behind, it did look like the artist was given pictures from the show to work from).  I guess that CBS S&P felt that the prize plug, Joe's mentions and the "Presentation" credit at the end was enough.

Of course, we know that it was really Chroma-Key, thanks to Ted Cooper's technical wizardry.  In watching the show again Saturday night after a long time, it looked like Ira Skutch had two cameras backstage--one to take the long shot of the four players (and the flip card or menu board or however they displayed the scores) and one to do the "close-ups" when there was the shot of the onstage player and the "monitor."

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