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"Up Next: Bumpers"
Dan Sadro:
[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]
Yes, I love the "We Shall Return" -- I always laugh when I see that. Then again, HSSS seemed much more of a tool of Holiday Inn than a game show from Goodson-Todman, so they were wholly appropriate...
American Gladiators always had the "Up Next" bumpers, too.
Pyramid80:
If my memory serves me correctly, I think Hot Potato used a bumper that would show the logo and then Celebrity being drawn out.
Strikerz04:
The earlier episodes of "Hot Potato" would have that logo (sans the "celebrity" part) at the end of the bonus round.
TPiR had (god bless him) Rod saying at the end of the first half, "Stay tuned for the second half, and our showcase. on The Price Is Right!" (it's more of a verbal bumper)
SplitSecond:
Well, since we've expanded the field beyond just bumpers that use some variation of "Up Next:"...
Price used to regularly use a still store of a contestant's reaction as a bumper.
The 80's revivals of Card Sharks and Blockbusters often used this bumper: dissolve to a close-up of one contestant, wipe to a close-up of the other contestant.
The generic bumper shot nowadays seems to be some sort of jib shot, but my all-time favorites (no surprise, given my handle) would have to be on Split Second; everything from the camera shooting Tom panning and trucking to get the contestant panel to the crane camera flying over the main game set to get a shot of the cars shows that the direction on this show was ahead of its time.
rugrats1:
--- 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 ---
--- Quote ---The earlier episodes of "Hot Potato" would have that logo (sans the "celebrity" part) at the end of the bonus round.
--- End quote ---
Though I think they were used only once per show, generally in the middle -- at the time, all NBC shows display their logos right before the commercial break midway into the show (in the case of hour-long shows: halfway into each 1/2-hour block). This way, stations can display their station logos at the bottom of the screen, if they wish.
ABC had also done something similar.
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