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Jimmy Owen:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 12:06 PM\'] [quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 06:59 AM\'] Personally, I don't know why they had to used canned applause at the end - just let the viewers enjoy listening to the theme! [/quote]
'Cuz .00001 percent of the viewing audience actually WANT to hear the theme in the clear. [/quote]
 That may be true, but I liked the way "The New Treasure Hunt" would go out in the seventies-stage dimmed, no applause and the slow "True Grit" theme giving us a chance to reflect after a frenetic half hour

uncamark:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 12:39 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 12:06 PM\'] [quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 06:59 AM\'] Personally, I don't know why they had to used canned applause at the end - just let the viewers enjoy listening to the theme! [/quote]
'Cuz .00001 percent of the viewing audience actually WANT to hear the theme in the clear. [/quote]
That may be true, but I liked the way "The New Treasure Hunt" would go out in the seventies-stage dimmed, no applause and the slow "True Grit" theme giving us a chance to reflect after a frenetic half hour[/quote]
If you're talking about near the end, in the last two years there was (canned) rhythmic applause to the theme until Johnny Jacobs did the Barris tag (at which point we had full applause again).  The two years at ABC there was applause all the way to the end.

SRIV94:
[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 11:35 AM\']I've been of the belief that too often the audience is overcued to applaud on game shows, but, hey, audience applause sure fills up dead time more easily than an inept host trying to ad lib (no names, please).[/quote]
Great example would be SCRABBLE.  When they decided to actually bring the audience on-camera, inevitably at the end of each episode Woolery would start conversing with members of the audience (or so we would be led to believe), as the McKenzie effects would be quieted.  Then they'd startup again, you'd see the audience applaud (just before the fade to black) and Woolery would still be chatting.

For that matter, why put the audience on camera to begin with?  $otC, WoF (in its Burbank years) and SP never bothered to except in certain circumstances (in fact, I don't recall $otC ever turning the cameras around--not to say it never happened).  I guess Matt would know better than most if an audience was actually present at SALE (I would presume there was one).

I can't say this for a fact, but judging from some audience tracks I've heard over the recent past I'd guess that the NBC tracks are no longer around as we may remember them but were respliced into other audience tracks.  That's just a guess, tho.

Doug

Dbacksfan12:
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 01:01 PM\'] [quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 11:35 AM\']I've been of the belief that too often the audience is overcued to applaud on game shows, but, hey, audience applause sure fills up dead time more easily than an inept host trying to ad lib (no names, please).[/quote]
Great example would be SCRABBLE.  When they decided to actually bring the audience on-camera, inevitably at the end of each episode Woolery would start conversing with members of the audience (or so we would be led to believe), as the McKenzie effects would be quieted.  Then they'd startup again, you'd see the audience applaud (just before the fade to black) and Woolery would still be chatting.

For that matter, why put the audience on camera to begin with?  $otC, WoF (in its Burbank years) and SP never bothered to except in certain circumstances (in fact, I don't recall $otC ever turning the cameras around--not to say it never happened).  I guess Matt would know better than most if an audience was actually present at SALE (I would presume there was one).

I can't say this for a fact, but judging from some audience tracks I've heard over the recent past I'd guess that the NBC tracks are no longer around as we may remember them but were respliced into other audience tracks.  That's just a guess, tho.

Doug [/quote]
At this time, Charlie Tuna would make the short plug "Scrabble is a registered trademark of the Scrabble brand crossword game, and is produced in association with Exposure Unlimited (who?)".

Also, I noticed, that sometime in the run, the rights to the game switched from Swichtler and Righter (or however you spell it) to Milton Bradley.

Matt, once again could jump in here.

clemon79:
[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 12:26 PM\'] Also, I noticed, that sometime in the run, the rights to the game switched from Swichtler and Righter (or however you spell it) to Milton Bradley.
 [/quote]
 That happened because that was about the time that Selchow and Righter was bought up by...hmm....would it have been Hasbro Bradley at the time? I think so. Couldn't give you an exact date, because such minutae are not important to me.

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