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snowpeck

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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #45 on: September 09, 2015, 10:25:00 PM »
Looks like the Now You See It pilot may actually just be a test of the revised format, if not just a later series episode and not a pilot at all.
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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #46 on: September 09, 2015, 10:46:42 PM »
Watching NYSI for the first time in a long time really drives home what a fun idea this game was, buried in an absolutely terrible format.

EDIT: Holy cow, they changed the rules for Round 3 after one episode. Who was minding the store back then?
« Last Edit: September 09, 2015, 10:57:09 PM by Sodboy13 »
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SRIV94

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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #47 on: September 09, 2015, 11:16:09 PM »
Quote from: snowpeck on September 09, 2015, 10:25:00 PM
Looks like the Now You See It pilot may actually just be a test of the revised format, if not just a later series episode and not a pilot at all.

Having access to many of the episodes during the period of the revised format (except for the last few weeks of the series that GSN never got to before bailing out), this did not air.  (The revised format took effect with the 12/23/74 episode.)

Am I the only one a little stymied by that decision to run the revised format test run and then running the first two actual episodes, which didn't really resemble what aired before them?

ETA:  Although Mike makes a good point--is it possible NYSI didn't do an initial pilot, thus leading to changes on-air between episodes 1 and 2?
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snowpeck

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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #48 on: September 09, 2015, 11:44:36 PM »
Quote from: SRIV94 on September 09, 2015, 11:16:09 PM
ETA:  Although Mike makes a good point--is it possible NYSI didn't do an initial pilot, thus leading to changes on-air between episodes 1 and 2?
There is a promo out there that shows six contestants on the staircase, so there must have been one. Though I can't come up with an idea of how the show would have worked with six contestants.

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SRIV94

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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #49 on: September 09, 2015, 11:48:23 PM »
In that case, I withdraw the question.
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Bryce L.

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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #50 on: September 10, 2015, 01:59:15 AM »
Also, checking the Television City website turns up a NYSI taping in October 1973 (Studio 33), I'd assume that was the initial pilot.
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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #51 on: September 10, 2015, 04:36:35 AM »
I too once thought I had received the Jack Narz pilots only to find they were three mid-run test shows of the straddling format before it got implemented on the air. Buzzr must have aired one of those instead. The only real difference I can recall between the three of them was trying to work in the pre-written bonus answer in different ways.

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SRIV94

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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #52 on: September 10, 2015, 02:36:18 PM »
Quote from: JasonA1 on September 10, 2015, 04:36:35 AM
I too once thought I had received the Jack Narz pilots only to find they were three mid-run test shows of the straddling format before it got implemented on the air. Buzzr must have aired one of those instead. The only real difference I can recall between the three of them was trying to work in the pre-written bonus answer in different ways.

And then they ended up scrapping it entirely when the straddling format went to air.
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SRIV94

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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #53 on: September 10, 2015, 09:15:58 PM »
So the 1969 LMAD is a kinescope (not bad quality, though).
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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #54 on: September 10, 2015, 11:13:18 PM »
Aww, got excited for an instant at the end of Beat the Clock when Jack Narz said "Stay tuned for Whew! next over most of these CBS stations."
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jimlangefan

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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #55 on: September 10, 2015, 11:17:11 PM »
Quote from: SRIV94 on September 10, 2015, 09:15:58 PM
So the 1969 LMAD is a kinescope (not bad quality, though).

Considering it's the earliest series episode to ever be repeated, I'll take it.
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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #56 on: September 11, 2015, 12:50:37 AM »
Did Wolpert give Whew to Fremantle? Semi OT I hope the currently airing LMAD makes it to buzzerplay... that $2 margin yo!
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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #57 on: September 11, 2015, 01:05:06 AM »
Quote from: cyclone45 on September 11, 2015, 12:50:37 AM
Did Wolpert give Whew to Fremantle? Semi OT I hope the currently airing LMAD makes it to buzzerplay... that $2 margin yo!

It's not Wolpert's property, last I heard.

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jimlangefan

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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #58 on: September 11, 2015, 01:10:42 AM »
Quote from: PYLdude on September 11, 2015, 01:05:06 AM
Quote from: cyclone45 on September 11, 2015, 12:50:37 AM
Did Wolpert give Whew to Fremantle? Semi OT I hope the currently airing LMAD makes it to buzzerplay... that $2 margin yo!

It's not Wolpert's property, last I heard.

It still belongs to Sugarman doesn't it?
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Re: Buzzr Lost and Found stunt
« Reply #59 on: September 16, 2015, 12:09:54 PM »
Quote from: Sodboy13 on September 09, 2015, 10:46:42 PM
Watching NYSI for the first time in a long time really drives home what a fun idea this game was, buried in an absolutely terrible format.

EDIT: Holy cow, they changed the rules for Round 3 after one episode. Who was minding the store back then?

I felt they fixed the format problem with the Chuck Henry version, which ironically tanked after 13 weeks IIRC. Thanks to everyone who put the pilots on here so "Buzzr-less" people like me could watch them. I was hoping for the "Spell Binders" pilot that I saw in La-La Land back in '78 with Bill Anderson hosting. But I'm happy with what I got to see. Never saw "Star Words" or "Body Talk" before.
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