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Game show false memories
SuperMatch93:
--- Quote from: Hastin on March 02, 2021, 02:06:41 PM ---
--- Quote from: SuperMatch93 on March 02, 2021, 08:09:25 AM ---When I was very young, I thought "lose a turn" on Wheel meant that the contestant would lose their next turn as well, and I thought I remembered that happening in the Windows version that Sony Imagesoft put out.
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This is STILL how the Pressman instructions are written as well: "Lose A Turn: If a player spins Lose A Turn, he/she ends that turn and forfeits the next turn."
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That must have been the source of my confusion; my grandma had the old Pressman Wheel and Jeopardy box games at her house.
TimK2003:
--- Quote from: Jamey Greek on March 02, 2021, 02:24:03 PM ---I also thought that Game shows had their own place to tape. like a restaursnt or store.
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As a young'un in the 70s, I also thought that as well. Especially the game shows on NBC ‐‐ on several occasions one show host would mention another show "across the hall" or "next door".
As a kid, I envisioned the network studios as what we know as modern‐day 20-screen movie cineplexes, and each game show had their own studio/stage that they didnt have to share with other shows.
What a shock when I found out that there were only a handful of studios (though much larger than I thought) and shows would set up for a couple of days, tape a couple of weeks of shows, then tear down again to make room for another show.
PYLdude:
One false memory had to do with the airing of Press Your Luck when I was a lad, as I swore for years it was on at 12:30 (it wasn’t) and paired with the 1980s Let’s Make a Deal (it wasn’t at any point; when WCBS had both shows, LMAD was on at 9 and PYL at 10:30).
I also thought that Jeopardy moved to the morning on WABC in first run after Regis in 1987 (again, didn’t find this out until later that it was just a rebroadcast of the previous night’s show).
Jamey Greek:
Another false memory I had was Couch Potatoes being on before the NBC Daytime lineup on WESH in Orlando. I am sure it was probably on when it first premiered In 1989 but I think WESH did shuffle the lineup around.
aaron sica:
--- Quote from: Jamey Greek on March 03, 2021, 12:14:06 AM ---Another false memory I had was Couch Potatoes being on before the NBC Daytime lineup on WESH in Orlando. I am sure it was probably on when it first premiered In 1989 but I think WESH did shuffle the lineup around.
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Did a little quick research for you on this. WESH slotted it at 11:30am at first (pre-empting "Win, Lose, or Draw") and then when daytime WoF was replaced by "Golden Girls" reruns, they moved the GG reruns to the 11:30 slot and demoted CP to an awesome 2:30am slot, at which point WLoD came back (at 11).
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