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Classic HSQ on GSN
SRIV94:
[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Feb 8 2004, 01:29 PM\'] [quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Feb 8 2004, 03:03 PM\'] [quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Feb 7 2004, 01:49 PM\'] Next stop: The Davidson Squares! [/quote]
You know, I was thinking about this the other day--and I don't think it would be a bad move. If you were 13 in 1986, you'd be...31 today...and that'd just reach the upper echelon of the coveted 18-34 demos. [/quote]
I actually agree with you this time, Don. As cheezy as the humor was, Davidson HS wasn't a half-bad way to spend a half hour and that is an excellent point about the "demographics" being right. [/quote]
And actually, I rather enjoyed Season 1 (1986-87). The other two seasons just weren't as good (and by no coincidence, those were the Joan Rivers years). Of course, "weren't as good" is in the eye of the beholder.
Doug
Ian Wallis:
--- Quote ---Next stop: The Davidson Squares! (Ding ding! GSN Train takes off with GSN fans aboard, hoping that GSN will get the rights to THAT version.)
Speak for yourself. That's one train I won't be riding.
--- End quote ---
I know I'm in the minority, but I rather liked Davidson's version. OK, maybe it wasn't as good as the original, but I wouldn't mind seeing it on GSN eventually. It would probably do better in the ratings because the audience would likely be more familiar with the stars.
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Feb 9 2004, 09:59 AM\']
I know I'm in the minority, but I rather liked Davidson's version. OK, maybe it wasn't as good as the original, but I wouldn't mind seeing it on GSN eventually. It would probably do better in the ratings because the audience would likely be more familiar with the stars. [/quote]
Some of the stars, perhaps. But a lot of Davidson's Squares celebrities, as Joan Rivers pointed out when interviewed on last year's E! Hollywood story, weren't even known to her at the time. Granted some of the celebs on Win Lose or Draw or $100K Pyramid from the same era weren't exactly megastars at the time.
snowpeck:
[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Feb 8 2004, 03:29 PM\'] [quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Feb 8 2004, 03:03 PM\'] [quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Feb 7 2004, 01:49 PM\'] Next stop: The Davidson Squares! [/quote]
You know, I was thinking about this the other day--and I don't think it would be a bad move. If you were 13 in 1986, you'd be...31 today...and that'd just reach the upper echelon of the coveted 18-34 demos. [/quote]
I actually agree with you this time, Don. As cheezy as the humor was, Davidson HS wasn't a half-bad way to spend a half hour and that is an excellent point about the "demographics" being right. [/quote]
Well I'm 19 (in GSN's coveted age group) and although I was only 4 years old when it was cancelled, I can very well remember watching it.
Greg
inturnaround:
I was born in 1977 and Davidson Squares is really the first Squares I remember. Sure the stars often weren't very well known (even less so today) and the humor was cheesy and the Friday Members Only Jackets were horrible, but I liked it all the same.
I refuse to apologize for digging it. Besides, any game where the SFX mock you for not winning the car is aces in my book.
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