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About that 'Blockbusters' 20 win rule...
Jimmy Owen:
The only network competiton was CBS' "Alice," which ran from June of 80 to Sept of 82. When then NBC exec. in charge of game shows Jake Tauber brought back "Blockbusters" in 1987, he was quoted in "Broadcasting" that the original "probably shouldn't have been cancelled" in 1982.
Don Howard:
--- Quote ---When then NBC exec. in charge of game shows Jake Tauber brought back "Blockbusters" in 1987, he was quoted in "Broadcasting" that the original "probably shouldn't have been cancelled" in 1982.
--- End quote ---
Jake is right. And when it was brought back, they probably shouldn't have dumped the family pair.
BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Dec 21 2003, 01:19 PM\']
--- Quote ---For some reason, NBC was bound and determined to add reruns of CHiPs
to the daytime line-up and salvage their sinking soap Texas so Bill Cullen
and the hexagons had to go.
--- End quote ---
Did they really think that moving Texas - a low-rated soap to begin with - to 11 AM, opposite *TPiR*, would improve its ratings? As it is, the show only lasted another 8 mos in said slot before the axe fell on 12/31/82...thankfully, NBC learned from their mistake and never programmed another soap in a morning slot again.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby") [/quote]
Wait..what slot was "Sunset Beach" supposed to get? I know NBC didn't really have "set" time slots by the late-90s, but I remember we had it at 10 am.
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Dec 21 2003, 02:10 PM\'] When then NBC exec. in charge of game shows Jake Tauber brought back "Blockbusters" in 1987, he was quoted in "Broadcasting" that the original "probably shouldn't have been cancelled" in 1982. [/quote]
Some people on this board have stated that the BB revival was filler for CLassic Concentration, possibly due to Rich Jeffreys' contestant plugs for CC in the final weeks of the show's run.
TLEberle:
--- Quote ---Maybe Blockbusters was cancelled, because viewers found it to be a weak game to begin with.
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If the viewers found the game weak, that's their own problem, and I would seriously doubt the intelligence of the viewing public. Blockbusters took a cunning game of strategy and melded it with a good question/answer format. I can't call Blockbusters a "weak game," at least with a straight face.
Travis Eberle
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