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Robert Carter:

--- Quote from: calliaume on July 28, 2011, 08:02:12 PM ---
I actually spoke with Jim on the phone a couple of weeks before this aired.  (It was a fluke, and it hasn't happened since.  Still, how often did George Takei allow a Trekkie to call?)  Anyway, he was excited about this, but they only made one episode (which was an hour for reasons unknown), and he had to have known that Pax had money issues (Reel to Reel Picture Show), so in effect the pilot was being aired.  And it wasn't a very good game at that.

Susan Seaforth Hayes was one of the contestants -- not a celebrity guest, just a member of one of the two church groups represented.  Her acting history and status on Days of Our Lives wasn't mentioned.

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I think Hayes' day job was mentioned, but only briefly. Again, the game was not well done.

Jamey Greek:
Dueling For Playmates[ and Everything Goes both on The Playboy Channel.  Also, NO It Alls a local game show in New Orleans as well as the Indiana version called Hoosier Kniw-It-It-alls.  Brandon Tartikoff was involved in both those shows.

--VH1's Rumor Has It which quizzed contestants on Celebrity Gossip.

Kniwt:
OK, if we're resuscitating a nine-year-old thread, I've got one that I've wanted to know more about for years:

Chooz A Route, which aired locally in Rochester, N.Y., in 1968 on Channel 13. It was played on a big board that was essentially a map of the Rochester area on which the players moved to get somewhere (where?) to win something (what?). Spaces were different lengths, with expressways and freeways obviously moving you faster. (For a city its size, Rochester had a very well developed freeway network by the late 1960s, including a full "inner loop," part of which was recently demolished.) I seem to remember obstacles on the game board such as stop lights -- which, I believe, could be either red or green with changing lights that fascinated Young Me.

Other than that, I don't remember any other details. The only online images I've ever seen are newspaper listings that confirm the 1968 air date, but never any set photos or fuller description of the rules.

Go for it, kids.

GameShowGuru:

--- Quote from: Matt Ottinger on July 05, 2011, 02:01:30 PM ---A friend who lurks here e-mailed me to suggest a different way of looking at this question.  Rather than local shows, which are by their very nature obscure to the rest of the country, or recent, short-lived shows that frankly, every single one of us remember, a truly obscure show would be one for which no video or audio evidence survives.  I'm thinking that list would be somewhat small, and probably not include anything from the mid-seventies to the present.

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I got a few that fits that bill right off the top of my head:

"Family Figures" hosted by Melvin and Mario Van Peebles; aired on BET in 1990.  If having Sweet Sweetback as a game show host isn't obscure, nothing is.
"Love Between the Sexes" hosted by Harold McCoo and Sherry Carter; aired on BET in 1992
"Get the Hook Up" hosted by Russ Parr, aka Bobby Jimmy and Alfredas; aired on TV One in 2003.

BrandonFG:
I remember “Love Between the Sexes” very vaguely. I think it came on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30, after Spencer Christian’s “Triple Threat” revival.

From what I remember, a panel known as the “Peanut Gallery” was divided into two teams, Men and Women. They voted or discussed a date that happened between a couple, and the winning team split $500. Again, vague.

The one thing I do remember was a guy stood up a woman on her date, or didn’t show up to the taping or something, and the co-host (I guess Sherry?) looked at the camera and said “Your check will NOT be in the mail!”, which left everyone howling.

Apologies if these were mentioned. Two more obscurities from 1994: “Sports Snapshot” and “Perfect Match”. SS was hosted by Jimmy Cefalo and aired weekly. I don’t remember much except it was sports trivia and featured a home shopping element where viewers could purchase memorabilia, I’m guessing based on the day’s subject matter. It aired very sporadically here on Sunday afternoons.

PM was an ESPN game* that aired in fall ‘94, and was hosted by Ken Ober. IIRC, it was similar to Tomarken’s “Wipeout”. In round 1, two men competed, in round 2, two women. In the bonus round, they teamed up to play for a trip. I think I got that right.

*/“Obscure ESPN game show” is redundant

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