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dickoon:
The original Channel 5 version of Fort Boyard in Britain had them, illustrating what games were going to be played in the next segment. It always infuriated me to an irrational extent - part of the fun of lots-of-little-games shows is not knowing what's going to come up next and enjoying the surprises as they are announced. In-show spoiler announcements are an instant way to cuss me bad. (Happily, Challenge ?'s new version of FB does not. CHALLENGE WINS.)
My favouite bumper-like entity credit must go to Interceptor, which is one continuous forty-minute game with no natural breaks in the action within. They simply have a dramatic shot of the action, particularly a long-distance one illustrating a surprise that a contestant is about to receive, then freeze-frame, "end of part one", musical stab, break, musical stab, "part two", unfreeze and go again.
Incidentally, I came mighty close to posting "Hello. I have had a US game show theme running through my head all day. Please someone post a phone number so I can ring you up, sing a bit of it down the 'phone to you and you can tell me what it is", but I finally found it on my computer to solve the mystery. (It was the 1980 To Tell The Truth theme - specifically, all of it from the piccolo part onwards, for what it's worth.)
Grr, arg
Chris
Jimmy Owen:
On MGHS hour there was some kind of card with people posing in silhouette on some sort of grid. What was that supposed to represent?
uncamark:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Oct 29 2003, 09:08 PM\']On MGHS hour there was some kind of card with people posing in silhouette on some sort of grid. What was that supposed to represent?[/quote]
The only bumper graphic (well, fee plug graphic, but...) on "MG/HSH" that I remember, other than the show logo, was one that looked like Gene Rayburn passing the mike to Bowzer at the mid-point. Could that be it?
BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Oct 30 2003, 12:38 PM\'] [quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Oct 29 2003, 09:08 PM\']On MGHS hour there was some kind of card with people posing in silhouette on some sort of grid. What was that supposed to represent?[/quote]
The only bumper graphic (well, fee plug graphic, but...) on "MG/HSH" that I remember, other than the show logo, was one that looked like Gene Rayburn passing the mike to Bowzer at the mid-point. Could that be it? [/quote]
There was also one with the MG/HS logo written out in yellow, against a blue background, navy at the top, and fading to baby blue, top to bottom.
ChuckNet:
--- Quote ---If my memory serves me correctly, I think Hot Potato used a bumper that would show the logo and then Celebrity being drawn out.
--- End quote ---
Most of the other NBC daytime games of the mid-80s did that, as well...among them WoF, $otC, Blockbusters '87 and Super Password.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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