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CBS 75 TJW clip
LA the DJ:
Anyone else find it just really strange that CBS would even use a clip from this unsold pilot with Peter Tomarken (which I assume was meant to emulate Press your Luck), when most of the real episodes are intact? I mean, were I to go to first choice of a 5 second PYL clip to use, it would easily be a whammy running across the screen.
I was really disappointed with the show game show segment. I've said many times that I'm no big fan of panel shows, but shows from 1975-2000 other than TPiR were virtually non-existant. It was all old B&W panel shows, minus the 5 second Wink, Peter, and TJW clips. Did this have something to do with GSN holding airing rights to some of these shows or what?
mctoyboy:
Hmmmm......could be. If they used clips from what appears to be a couple of pilots, maybe CBS still owns the pilots outright and it was easier to use? =)
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Matt Ottinger:
[quote name=\'nWo_Whammy\' date=\'Nov 3 2003, 04:02 PM\'] Anyone else find it just really strange that CBS would even use a clip from this unsold pilot with Peter Tomarken (which I assume was meant to emulate Press your Luck), when most of the real episodes are intact? I mean, were I to go to first choice of a 5 second PYL clip to use, it would easily be a whammy running across the screen.
I was really disappointed with the show game show segment. I've said many times that I'm no big fan of panel shows, but shows from 1975-2000 other than TPiR were virtually non-existant. It was all old B&W panel shows, minus the 5 second Wink, Peter, and TJW clips. Did this have something to do with GSN holding airing rights to some of these shows or what? [/quote]
What we have to remember is that game shows were not a high priority for the producers of the special. Yes, they needed to recognize Bob Barker, but I'm sure the task of assembling the game show montage was given to somebody way down the totem pole, someone who may not actually have had much of a sense of the history of the shows in the first place.
My guess is that rather than culling through thousands of episodes of shows, they went to some archive of clips (the same archive used by other shows, from the sounds of things) and pieced together the CBS ones. I wouldn't be surprised, nor particularly disappointed, to find out that the person assembling that package didn't know that there was an NBC version of Gambit or that the Tomarken clip wasn't actually from Press Your Luck.
DrBear:
[quote name=\'nWo_Whammy\' date=\'Nov 3 2003, 03:02 PM\']
I was really disappointed with the show game show segment. I've said many times that I'm no big fan of panel shows, but shows from 1975-2000 other than TPiR were virtually non-existant. It was all old B&W panel shows, minus the 5 second Wink, Peter, and TJW clips.
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Well, duh! The idea in shows like this is nostalgia. They're appealing to the audience that wants to remember stuff, and if the idea of the show is 75 years, showing stuff from the last 25 or so isn't going to cut it.
Matt Ottinger:
[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Nov 3 2003, 06:05 PM\'] Well, duh! The idea in shows like this is nostalgia. They're appealing to the audience that wants to remember stuff, and if the idea of the show is 75 years, showing stuff from the last 25 or so isn't going to cut it. [/quote]
Actually, the vast majority of the clips were taken from the seventies and eighties, generally considered the quality era for CBS scripted programming. They were surprisingly light on current shows (you'd think they would use the special to plug a few of the newbies) and with notable exceptions like I Love Lucy, pretty light on the earlier stuff as well.
And for the record, the game show montage was not dominated by panel shows in general. They showed several longer WML? clips in order to give us some famous Mystery Guest faces. All that was given to TTTT and IGAS was a title card and voiceover of the name of the show.
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