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BUZZR Lost and Found 2020
gamed121683:
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--- Quote from: gamed121683 on September 27, 2020, 07:43:08 PM ---Now that BUZZR's Lost & Found 2020 is officially in the books, I just want to be clear on something...
Call My Bluff, Number Please, Get The Message, & What's Going On? were all random general episodes while Say When!! & Split Personality were both pilots, correct?
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Call My Bluff was a test episode prior to the actual premiere.
Say When was the premiere episode.
The UCLA archive shows Get the Message was episode #8.
I'd say Call My Bluff and Say When were the highlights for me.
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Wow! Thanks for the corrections, Blanquepage...much appreciated! Dumb question here, but what's the difference b/w a test episode & a pilot?
WarioBarker:
--- Quote from: Blanquepage on September 27, 2020, 08:00:25 PM ---Say When was the premiere episode.
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That's actually a test episode too. I doubt having to "say when" before knowing what your grand total will be made it to series, especially since someone lost the game here despite hitting the target amount and Art seemed a bit confused as to how to handle the situation.
--- Quote from: gamed121683 on September 27, 2020, 10:36:15 PM ---Dumb question here, but what's the difference b/w a test episode & a pilot?
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It depends - a test episode can be more or less a runthrough done after the pilot sells but before the series proper begins taping, sometimes even labeled as a pilot for the network's budgetary purposes. In other cases, a test show is made mid-run to see how an idea works out in practice before committing to it or not.
BillCullen1:
I had seen the eps of "Get the Message" and "What's Going On?" The others were all new to me. The highlights for me were "Call My Bluff" and "Split Personality." Bluff was the 60s version of "Wordplay" with a slightly different format.
thomas_meighan:
I wonder if that "Get the Message" episode was actually a rehearsal/pilot rather than an aired program. This issue was brought up here once before:
http://www.gameshowforum.org/index.php/topic,12606.0.html
Yes, there were sponsor messages and commercials, but the 1962 "Match Game" pilot also had them.
Circumstantial evidence pointing toward the rehearsal/pilot theory:
*UCLA's entry for this episode shows a recording date of 3-13-1964, which seems a bit further in advance than most daytime games were taped back then.
*The Bean-Keel-Cass-Newman combination doesn't appear in the celebrity listings posted at the following link (although not all weeks are complete):
http://ctva.biz/US/GameShow/GetTheMessage.htm
*By the time of the 5-8-1964 episode with Hickman-Burrows-Sothern-Dussault, some subtle changes have taken place: Buxton's podium now has the show's logo, and the overlays displaying the phrases are a bit more elaborate. Those changes could've taken place during the week on the air -- but in any case, it also points to the Bean-Keel-Cass-Newman show being produced before the other surviving Buxton episode, as opposed to later in the spring or summer.
Blanquepage:
--- Quote from: thomas_meighan on September 28, 2020, 01:26:23 AM ---I wonder if that "Get the Message" episode was actually a rehearsal/pilot rather than an aired program. This issue was brought up here once before:
http://www.gameshowforum.org/index.php/topic,12606.0.html
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Perhaps it was. The below link has the listings for the whole series, and the lineup of celebs in this episode doesn't exist.
http://ctva.biz/US/GameShow/GetTheMessage.htm
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