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WarioBarker:
--- Quote from: RMF on July 01, 2011, 09:26:21 PM ---Hint that there might be more to it: The program ends with a title card plugging John Mason Brown as next week's host and Cornelia Otis Skinner as next week's third panelist. This feels awfully precise for a pilot.
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The pilot for The Face Is Familiar, hosted by Jack Clark, mentioned Eydie Gormé and Alan King as the guests for "next week". Jack referenced "our maiden voyage", implying it was the premiere, but also asked "What did you do over the Summer?"...implying it was supposed to be a Fall '65 entry but got pushed to midseason.
SuperMatch93:
There was a show in the mid-late 50s called Giant Step which had something to do with students crossing a gameboard to earn money towards a college scholarship.
DrBear:
One of our local stations did a high-school quiz bowl for a year in the 60s - it was on channel 5, so the name of it was:
"Five High."
Ulp.
tomobrien:
--- Quote from: SuperMatch93 on July 02, 2011, 12:57:53 AM ---There was a show in the mid-late 50s called Giant Step which had something to do with students crossing a gameboard to earn money towards a college scholarship.
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I have one episode of Giant Step, and unless there was a format change at some point, it's much more of a quizzer like The $64,000 Question. The students have to answer multi-part questions to move up to the next "step." There's no gameboard, but they're standing on a platform that raises them closer to Bert Parks' eye level.
William_S.:
--- 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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That's the One I'm thinking of. Thank you sir!
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