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LA the DJ:
How about the short lived syndicated Double Dare and Finders Keepers knock-offs Slime Time (not to be confused with Nickelodeon's Slime Time Live), and Treasure Mall. I remember watching a few episodes as a kid, and liked Treasure Mall better than slime Time. According to Wikipedia, they lasted for thirteen weeks back in 1988, possibly because DD and FK were themselves going into syndication that fall.
PYLdude:
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--- Quote from: PYLdude on July 07, 2011, 12:48:08 AM ---What about Think Twice? Short-lived, weekly, and I don't even think it was carried nationally.
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Well, only in the sense that PBS shows aren't "carried nationally" the way other network shows are. PBS tries to get its member stations behind a common prime time schedule, and Think Twice was part of that schedule for its brief run.
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Would figure. Sometimes you'll see one program on our major PBS station (WNET) one night, and maybe you'll see it again on one of the other two (which are now both ALSO owned by WNET as of a week ago) later in the week. Honestly, I don't remember what the deal was with Think Twice here (I think it was only on one of the stations) but I think Antiques Roadshow makes the rounds on the other stations at least twice a week. (Our PBS station drastically changed its schedule to what appears now to be a close carbon copy of WNET- kid stuff most of the day, Tavis Smiley and Charlie Rose, and a couple other programs it never aired before.)
thewhammy_2000:
Jamey Greek mentioned it already, but I'm going to say ANY game show that aired on BET. I remembered watching a game show called "Tell Me Something Good" that may have used the actual Rufus song as their theme song. At the age of 4 or 5, I remember three telephones behind the players (kinda like that big phone board on Your Number's Up). That's all I remembered from that show. Another BET show was some show (could be Family Figures) that was hosted by Mario and Melvin van Peebles. It was a good show because it aired before The Price is Right would air. I only saw a few episodes of On the Beat (I may put an episode up), and tried to look at Pay it Off, but missed it.
How about Pressure 1/2? Pressure 1 was slightly better than Peer Pressure 2.
Pretty much any game show that was short-lived and never discussed much after that.
clemon79:
--- Quote from: thewhammy_2000 on July 08, 2011, 04:44:24 PM ---It was a good show because it aired before The Price is Right would air.
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Imagine how different the TV landscape would look if programming executives actually applied this logic.
CarbonCpy:
Clash! was as awesome as it was short-lived. Came in right at the time of the Comedy Channel/Ha! merger.
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