[quote name=\'Jamey Greek\' post=\'256546\' date=\'Feb 6 2011, 09:24 PM\']OK, in this article Networks Running Neck and Neck and Shoulder to Shoulder in Daytime On Page 32 There are some game show Pilots that ABC was considering: Comedy Club from Lin Bolen, Bamboozle from Chuck Barris, and Catch Phrase from Marty Pasetta. Yup, amazing that ABC was considering running Catch Phrase for a network run. Other game shows in early development are a game show version of "A Question of Scruples" from Coulmbia Television and Funny Business from Group W.[/quote]
That's a very interesting list. A lot of us have seen
Bamboozle, which was basically a TTTT rip-off.
Comedy Club was a flimsy game built around some up-and-coming young comics. The only one that went anywhere was Brad Garrett. I don't know what version of
Catch Phrase Pasetta was pushing in 1986, but the following year he had reworked it into something involving a roulette wheel and called it, imaginatively,
Puzzle Roulette. By 1989 it was back to being more like the original format, and was called -- even more imaginatively --
The Puzzle Game.
As for the others, Mike Burger lays out the evidence of a
Scruples pilot from around that era, but there may have been multiple efforts. As for
Funny Business, Group W went to pilot with a show called
Tricky Business in the summer of 1986. It was an update of a favorite of mine,
Every Second Counts, which had only been off the market for a year or so.
