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Most obscure game shows
PYLdude:
--- Quote from: toetyper on July 01, 2011, 08:50:36 AM ---is fandango obscure enough?
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I would say no, considering it aired on a national cable network for six years and was fairly popular too. Now if it was on a local channel in Nashville, sure.
TimK2003:
For me the most obscure game show I can remember in the 1970s, was Monty Hall's "It's Anybody's Guess".
I would go to great lengths to watch every game show on TV at least once when on summer vacation just to see what they looked like, and for the life of me I never remember seeing that show on TV. I don't remember the NBC affiliate in Cleveland pre-empting or time-shifting anything on the daytime schedule. And it wasn't until I saw a clip of the show on YouTube several months back when I even knew about the show.
Ian Wallis:
While on a road trip in the summer of 1974, we came within signal distance of Ottawa's CJOH-TV. They had a show on every evening called Top Dough. To my pre-teen eyes I thought it was neat, but don't remember much about it now, other than it had 3 contestants and was some sort of question and answer game. In some old Canadian TVGuides I have, I've never seen it listed on any other station. Must have been a local show only.
Oddly enough, around the same time Dennis James' re-do of Name That Tune premiered on NBC. I remember watching the premiere on the same trip and my mother commented "that show's so old!" So I guess I've got two from the same trip!
Never saw Top Dough again but watched Name That Tune whenever home from school, plus Kennedy's once-weekly evening version.
William A. Padron:
I had seen one episode of The Greater Baltimore Baffle, airing on WJZ-TV, Baltimore, during the fall of 1979. It was a trivia-based show asking three contestants to answer questions and identify locations relating to the city.
Brian44:
Around 1980-81, my sister appeared on a quiz show called It's Elementary on WPLG TV-10 out of Miami, hosted by one of my favorite radio personalities of all
time, Jim Hummel, better known as Rick Shaw, who at the time was at WAXY-106 in Ft. Lauderdale. (I'm assuming this format was packaged to other markets as well.)
The show was a fair test of the students' math, spelling and grammar skills between two elementary schools, and the main game was pretty straightforward, but as I remember, at the end of each round, Rick handed one student from each school a StormTrooper Blaster-type gun and escorted them to a "planetarium" to rack up extra points for their school. As Rick asked the questions, the students would zap what they thought was the correct answer coming out of the sky. If they were correct, their bodies lit up on the screen, but if they were wrong, they would "vanish" from the screen, squiggly lines and all.
With me being in middle school at the time I thought this was the silliest, cheesiest game show ever, but my sister loved every minute of it! :)
And with that, I'm into the triple digits with # of posts. :)
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