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urbanpreppie05:
1. In the USA version of Chain Reaction, was the same theme music used?

2. What game shows are currently showing in Great Britain?

3. Did anyone attend the 1999 Gordon Elliot pilot of Let's make a deal? And if so, what was it like?

4. Not counting Nighttime specials, didn't TPIR use a different theme in the opening once or twice?

5. Was Bullseye shot at Studio 33? The audience shot looked really familiar (along with the ULTRA COOL lighted sign)

BONUS 6. What was the lowest game winning total on Wheel of Fortune? (I saw one show at about 2,700)

Don Howard:

--- Quote ---1. In the USA version of Chain Reaction, was the same theme music used?

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Yes.

JasonA1:

--- Quote ---1. In the USA version of Chain Reaction, was the same theme music used?
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Yes, although edited together oddly for the closing.


--- Quote ---5. Was Bullseye shot at Studio 33? The audience shot looked really familiar (along with the ULTRA COOL lighted sign)
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Yes, during its CBS tenure. The earlier shows were shot at NBC, where they had the audience bleachers visible for the open. It was reported back at the old place that Richard Kline (director) was barred from NBC for one reason or another, probably necessitating the change.

-Jason

uncamark:
[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' date=\'Dec 10 2003, 03:02 PM\']2. What game shows are currently showing in Great Britain? [/quote]
A lot (although some of them would not be considered by some of us to be hardcore game shows).  Iain Weaver posts a weekly schedule to the ukgameshows Yahoo! Group, which I often repost to another game show board.  There's also Challenge?, the UK equivalent of GSN, which is also veering off into related genres of programming beyond studio game shows.

As for familiar titles to Americans, "WWTBAM," "TWL," "Ready...Steady (Set)...Cook!" and "Pop (American) Idol" (if you consider that a game show) are the only ones currently airing over there on the major five channels, IIRC.  "Family Fortunes (Feud)," "Play Your Cards Right" ("Card Sharks"), "Blankety Blank" ("Match Game"), "Catch Phrase" and "Wipeout" have been on the schedules in the last year, however--and the old standbys are the venerable "Countdown" and "Fifteen-to-One" on Channel 4--and "Fifteen-to-One" has already announced that this current season is their last, while it's rumored that "Countdown" is on the ropes, particularly since both shows were moved to earlier afternoon slots than where they were for years and years ("Countdown" was C4's very first show when it launched in 1982).


--- Quote ---4. Not counting Nighttime specials, didn't TPIR use a different theme in the opening once or twice?
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There was a different opening vamp before the expansion to an hour, but the theme's been the same for 32 years.


--- Quote ---5. Was Bullseye shot at Studio 33? The audience shot looked really familiar (along with the ULTRA COOL lighted sign)
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It was in the second and final season.

SRIV94:
[quote name=\'JasonA1\' date=\'Dec 10 2003, 02:39 PM\'] Yes, during its CBS tenure. The earlier shows were shot at NBC, where they had the audience bleachers visible for the open. It was reported back at the old place that Richard Kline (director) was barred from NBC for one reason or another, probably necessitating the change.
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Even if that's the case (about him being barred from NBC), Kline directed (and maybe produced, I don't remember) HOT POTATO at NBC's Burbank facility in 1984, so the move of BULLSEYE out of beautiful downtown Burbank and into CBS TV City three years earlier had nothing to do with any barring.

BTW, how was HOT POTATO played? :)

Doug

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