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Vintage game show books on archive.org
TLEberle:
My surprised face— :|
SuperMatch93:
Bumping this to add another book I found on here the other day: Millionaire Moments by Chris Tarrant.
Here's something he mentioned about the case of money in front of the Hot Seat which I never knew:
--- Quote ---In those days we had a glass case right at the front of the set, containing £1,000,000, to remind everybody, by its sheer bulk, of just how large an amount of money this was. I was always worried about the moment of opening the case to hand over the money because, although we’d practised it numerous times in rehearsals, it always seemed to me that there was every chance the money would go flying all over the place. Imagine the shambles; there could even have been a stampede among the audience, stuffing tenners down the front of their trousers and doing a runner. If I was in the audience I’m sure that’s what I’d have done. In fact after the second series we dropped this idea altogether and settled for just writing out a cheque for £1,000,000 to anyone clever enough to give me fifteen correct answers.
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Kniwt:
It's not archive.org, but from worldradiohistory.com comes the 1997 Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Not exclusively game shows, but everything I tried looking for is in there.
Noticed a couple factual errors, not unusual for a pre-internet work of this nature. The biggest one seems to be assuming that Sajak's "Press Your Luck" pilot was related to real PYL.
https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/History/Encyclopedia-of-Daytime-Television-Hyatt-1997.pdf
Casey Buck:
Pardon the bump, but TV Game Shows by Maxine Fabe (1979) just got added last week!
SuperMatch93:
--- Quote from: Casey Buck on October 22, 2021, 03:05:03 AM ---Pardon the bump, but TV Game Shows by Maxine Fabe (1979) just got added last week!
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Nice! I've wanted to read this for years.
Anyone know what game Fabe referred to when she said "Extra Digit?" It's probably something really obvious, but it's not coming to me.
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