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Vintage game show books on archive.org
snowpeck:
Some others:
Backstage with the Original Hollywood Square by Peter Marshall
Classic Concentration: The Game, the Show, the Puzzles by Steve Ryan
The Double Dare Game Book by Daniella Burr
The All-New Double Dare Game Book by Daniella Burr
The Jeopardy Challenge by Alex Trebek and Merv Griffin
More Zingers from the Hollywood Squares
Adam Nedeff:
--- Quote from: Mike Tennant on March 29, 2020, 09:52:17 PM ---I would love to see a book about game show packagers such as Goodson & Todman, Barry & Enright, Heatter & Quigley, Hatos & Hall, Bob Stewart, Ralph Edwards, John Guedel and the rest, written by someone who doesn't pull fiction out of his a**.
--- End quote ---
A friend of mine has been working on a book about Jack Barry for about five years now, with help from Barry's family. Hopefully that'll be on its way soon.
My revised version of Monty's biography goes a little more in depth on the history of Hatos & Hall, but not MUCH deeper for reasons I'll go into in a moment.
A friend of mine sent a message to my publisher suggesting I write a book about the history of Bob Stewart Productions and the publisher politely declined. Quizmaster, if I may say so, gives a nice truncated history of it since Bill and Bob crossed paths so much.
A bunch of people have suggested a book about Goodson & Todman's history, but there are two problems I have with that:
#1. I'd be regurgitating a BUNCH of information that I've already trickled out in other books and I do know that a lot of people own multiple books of mine, so I'm worried about how they'd feel buying a book that's just revisiting a lot of stuff they've already paid for before.
#2. I hate to point this out, but we're at a point where we've lost enough people that I can't go in depth with anything before 1970. A lot of people would suggest "Well, you could talk to their kids." But David Narz said something to me once when he talked about how people have suggested that he write a biography of his dad. "I can't write about my dad's work. I was in school. I was out being a kid. If somebody asked you to write a book about your dad's job, could you do it?"
chris319:
--- Quote ---A friend of mine has been working on a book about Jack Barry for about five years now, with help from Barry's family.
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Fortunately, you and that friend have great respect for accuracy and the truth, unlike a certain game-show wannabe who makes up stuff and publishes fictional accounts, such as the demise of a certain game-show personality. I know you know who I mean. Thank goodness he isn't writing Jack Barry bio. It would be an insult to Jack's family/survivors.
I met Jack Barry in San Francisco at the 1976 NATPE convention. He and Enright were trying to launch Break the Bnk. Jack was incredibly brusque and ice cold. He described BTB as having nine celebrities a la Hollywood Squares.
There is a good interview with Monty on the TV Academy site. IIRC Fred Wostbrock interviewed him. There should be interviews with Bob Noah and Jay Wolpert while they're still around.
Jamey Greek:
--- Quote from: Adam Nedeff on March 30, 2020, 02:03:11 AM ---
--- Quote from: Mike Tennant on March 29, 2020, 09:52:17 PM ---I would love to see a book about game show packagers such as Goodson & Todman, Barry & Enright, Heatter & Quigley, Hatos & Hall, Bob Stewart, Ralph Edwards, John Guedel and the rest, written by someone who doesn't pull fiction out of his a**.
--- End quote ---
A friend of mine has been working on a book about Jack Barry for about five years now, with help from Barry's family. Hopefully that'll be on its way soon.
My revised version of Monty's biography goes a little more in depth on the history of Hatos & Hall, but not MUCH deeper for reasons I'll go into in a moment.
A friend of mine sent a message to my publisher suggesting I write a book about the history of Bob Stewart Productions and the publisher politely declined. Quizmaster, if I may say so, gives a nice truncated history of it since Bill and Bob crossed paths so much.
A bunch of people have suggested a book about Goodson & Todman's history, but there are two problems I have with that:
#1. I'd be regurgitating a BUNCH of information that I've already trickled out in other books and I do know that a lot of people own multiple books of mine, so I'm worried about how they'd feel buying a book that's just revisiting a lot of stuff they've already paid for before.
#2. I hate to point this out, but we're at a point where we've lost enough people that I can't go in depth with anything before 1970. A lot of people would suggest "Well, you could talk to their kids." But David Narz said something to me once when he talked about how people have suggested that he write a biography of his dad. "I can't write about my dad's work. I was in school. I was out being a kid. If somebody asked you to write a book about your dad's job, could you do it?"
--- End quote ---
Adam, you think you could write a book about Narz in the future?
Casey:
Thanks for sharing this! I “checked out” and read Gil Fates’ book. A very easy and amusing read - I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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