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MikeK:
--- Quote from: William_S. on June 30, 2011, 11:08:26 PM ---New Jersey Bowl On NJN but that was more Cable/PBS based. Oh wait!! Disney's College Bowl with Dick Cavvet is one. It aired late at night and I think I saw atleast two episodes. hmm what else... The Dream League and Sports on Tap both on ESPN. ( I guess Chris Berman's Boardwalk basball would fit the list).
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If we're going with ESPN game shows, Designated Hitter is on the top of my list. ISTR it never had a consistent time slot and that ESPN aired it at the weirdest hours. The Dream League had a couple of seasons and a decent time slot (4:30 PM Eastern or thereabout), while Sports on Tap was on at 6 PM, back when SportsCenter was half an hour. And it didn't feel like it was trying too hard to be cool. And it had good personalities like Charley Steiner.
BrandonFG:
--- Quote from: MikeK on June 30, 2011, 11:22:01 PM ---If we're going with ESPN game shows, Designated Hitter is on the top of my list. ISTR it never had a consistent time slot and that ESPN aired it at the weirdest hours. The Dream League had a couple of seasons and a decent time slot (4:30 PM Eastern or thereabout), while Sports on Tap was on at 6 PM, back when SportsCenter was half an hour. And it didn't feel like it was trying too hard to be cool. And it had good personalities like Charley Steiner.
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I liked Dream League, and I remember the 4:30 timeslot, but I also remember it airing on an irregular basis (if it wasn't interrupted by live sports). There was another one from fall-1994 called Perfect Match. It had a pretty convoluted format IIRC, but I wanna say it was similar to Tomarken's Wipeout.
The annoying thing about so many of ESPN's game shows is that they air for a very short period of time, then they just fade off into...well, obscurity. I think 2-Minute Drill and Stump the Schwab may be the few exceptions.
/Apparently there were more game shows in the mid-90s then I remember
//Mostly on cable
TLEberle:
--- Quote from: fostergray82 on June 30, 2011, 11:29:09 PM ---I liked Dream League, and I remember the 4:30 timeslot, but I also remember it airing on an irregular basis (if it wasn't interrupted by live sports). There was another one from fall-1994 called Perfect Match. It had a pretty convoluted format IIRC, but I wanna say it was similar to Tomarken's Wipeout.
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Not really. There was a board of twelve answers and the contestant had 30 seconds to match the questions asked by Ken Ober to the answers on the board. Two men played, two women played and the winner of each played a final board where a clean sweep won a prize of some note.
Vahan_Nisanian:
Interesting fact about Designated Hitter: It was produced by The William Carruthers Company (of Press Your Luck fame). Even the buzz-in sound reminded me of PYL.
RMF:
--- Quote from: Matt Ottinger on June 30, 2011, 11:01:47 PM ---
--- Quote from: RMF on June 30, 2011, 09:37:06 PM ---An episode of Information Please from a run that I've found no sources for: http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=information+please&p=2&item=B:27161
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Well, I can help you here. It's from the version the EOTVGS references, a 1952 summer series. The Encyclopedia just isn't quite as accurate for that listing is all. The episode hosted by Russel (one 'l') Crouse aired live on August 10, 1952.
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Except, based on content, it doesn't seem like it could have been from the 1952 version
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