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Most obscure game shows
PYLdude:
vexer, I think if you're looking for obscurity it'd probably be easier to go back quite a bit further as a start- local stuff, I think, would fit even better. Short-lived and obscure don't necessarily have the same meaning. Especially things that have aired in the last ten years. You'd be surprised at the trove of knowledge possessed by the membership.
PYLdude:
To answer your question...hmm...the best I can really think of is NY Wired, which was the New York Lottery's attempt at a game show. Don't know if that's the kind of stuff you're looking for.
Twentington:
I've seen the Knowledge Bowl hosted by WBKB-TV 11 in Alpena, the third-smallest Nielsen market in the US. Heck, I was even at a taping! (I was called in as an alternate but never got to play.) You can't even hear what the contestants are saying most of the time, and the host can't be bothered to figure out the correct pronunciation of anything. It's a really dismal watch, and yet it's been on forever.
(It's not the most obscure thing in the world, but how many of us here watched the first two episodes of On the Cover before it got yanked and put back on the schedule in retooled form?)
RMF:
I was a member of the Paley Center, and viewed most of their game show collection.
Some of what I've seen:
An episode of "Pantomime Quiz" that might predate all network runs: http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=Pantomime+Quiz&p=1&item=T82:0115
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
An episode of On The Spot, a local Portland game show from the 1980s: http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=Portland+Game&p=1&item=T87:0264
An episode of the short-lived 1952 program Ask Me Another, which focused on sports personalities: http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=Ask+Me+Another&p=1&item=B:53863
Finally, every episode in their collection from the 1950s "museum curators guess the object" program, What In The World": http://www.paleycenter.org/collection?advanced=1&q=What+In+The+World&c=tv&f=title&x=0&y=0
vexer6:
Yeah, that's along the lines of what I was looking for.
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