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CBS 75 TJW clip
PeterMarshallFan:
All I can say is--where did they dig up Strike it Rich, Bid-N-Buy, Quiz Kids, and I'll Buy That [the show w/ Mike Wallace]?! I gotta applaud CBS for digging up long-since forgotten clips like those that were thought to be completely lost.
uncamark:
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Nov 3 2003, 05:59 PM\']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.[/quote]
And it seemed to me that the game show package was truncated on the fly to cover what seemed to be a technical bobble before the David Copperfield spot. (They ran a promo coming out of the commercial, had a few crowd shots, went back to promos with the "CBS 75" logo bug still up and then abruptly went into Copperfield's spot). Since the "WML?" clip of Jimmy Carter was in the opening (of course, from the syndie version, but...), I would assume that it was included in the package.
The reason for all this, of course, is so that the affiliates would have their late news on time on night four of the November sweeps, since there was no football overrun last night.
I would have assumed that a reality package had been scheduled but got cut in the process (Art Linkletter with the kids on "House Party," classic "Candid Camera," maybe even "The Verdict is Yours" and then jumping over the decades to "Survivor," "Big Brother" and "The Amazing Race"). I thought we would've seen more of "Survivor" than Jeff Probst holding up a ballot saying "Dave" and Richard Hatch doing-you-know-what on the Palua Tigu beach.
The find of the night for me had nothing to do with game shows--it was the clip from what I guess was the only color episode of "Burns and Allen." That was great to see (and can TV Land air that ep some time?).
Winkfan:
--- Quote from: LA the DJ on November 03, 2003, 03:02:42 PM ---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.
--- End quote ---
Well, they did show about two or three seconds of Match Game, albeit from the 'Star Wheel' era. But they also excluded Collyer's Beat the Clock and DeWitt's Name That Tune. Somewhere up there, Bud and George are giving Mr. Paley a good yelling-at!
And if I were running the special, I would've said NO to Barker doing the GS segment, and YES to Martindale, Eubanks, and Tomarken doing it instead!
Cordially,
Tammy Warner--the 'Paola Diva of the Big Board!'
LA the DJ:
[quote name=\'Winkfan\' date=\'Nov 3 2003, 11:41 PM\'] [quote name=\'nWo_Whammy\' date=\'Nov 3 2003, 03:02 PM\'] 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. [/quote]
Well, they did show about two or three seconds of Match Game, albeit from the 'Star Wheel' era. But they also excluded Collyer's Beat the Clock and DeWitt's Name That Tune. Somewhere up there, Bud and George are giving Mr. Paley a good yelling-at!
And if I were running the special, I would've said NO to Barker doing the GS segment, and YES to Martindale, Eubanks, and Tomarken doing it instead!
Cordially,
Tammy Warner--the 'Paola Diva of the Big Board!' [/quote]
It would have been nice to see all three, really. But hey, it was nice to hear Rod Roddy introduce Bob one last time. I'm a little surprised there was no mention of Feud or CS, but then, both had versions on other networks (but then what about Gambit?).
Is it possible that the LVG clip could have come from a pilot as well? Perhaps it was shopped to CBS at one point.
cweaver:
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Nov 3 2003, 03:49 PM\'] 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. [/quote]
...which is a shame, because the rest of the special, even if it wasn't perfect, showed a deep respect for the network's history. The producers of those NBC/ABC atrocities probably wouldn't have even shown Burns & Allen, Our Miss Brooks or Sgt. Bilko, or the first live drama clip from the 1950s.
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