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inturnaround:
[quote name=\'cweaver\' date=\'Nov 1 2003, 02:42 AM\'] I can't believe so many people made so many lists and no one mentioned the quiz show scandals of the 1950s. That, fundamentally and completely, is *the* biggest game show news of all time. You could even almost argue most of the game shows that came after "Twenty-One" and "The $64,000 Question" appeared to be some type of reaction to them, like for instance the rise of the "high concept" game ("Video Village," "Hollywood Squares"), emphasis on low-stakes parlor games ("Password") or Q&A in a format that would be difficult to rig ("Jeopardy!").
Dixon [/quote]
I agree that it is...but we're limited to the last 20 years.
cweaver:
[quote name=\'inturnaround\' date=\'Nov 1 2003, 02:49 AM\'] I agree that it is...but we're limited to the last 20 years. [/quote]
...Then I guess I shouldn't bother with my next post about that big $100,000 giveaway on NBC in '75? ;-)
I feel the '58 scandals still influence game shows that were airing as late as the 1980s...but then again I don't want to sound like Michael Moore questioning why the LA media doesn't do more about the fact that the city has a smog problem.
I am not sure what I would put on a list but I do remember the deaths of Johnny Olsen, Jack Barry, Bill Cullen and Allen Ludden all being especially big news (though Ludden doesn't make the 20 year cut either). WWTBAM ending the season as the number one show on television--first game show in history to do so since the 1950s--and the fact that people were actually winning money by the millions on television, would also rank up there.
Dixon
Starkman:
my 10 in the last 20 years. (in no order, based more on industrial impact than news impact, with the exception of combs maybe, it was quite a scandal and shocker)
NBC's Game Show massacre of 89-90 which basically killed the network daytimg game show (except for TPIR of course.)
GSN Premiers
Death of Ray Combs
Millionaire starts the 2nd coming of the big money quizzer.
Death Of Mark Goodson
Bob Barker's lawsuit woes
Lucky Day USA's game show block is cancelled ending what was 10 years of classic and original game show excellence.
Double Dare is Cancelled marking the end of of an era in Kids game shows
Winning Lines and Reel to reel default on their prize promises
5000th TPIR and the naming of studio 33 after Bob Barker...this was a major milestone that has been met only by soaps and news programs. Truly the brightest day in what was a dark period for game shows.
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