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Game show false memories
knagl:
--- Quote from: beatlefreak84 on February 25, 2021, 05:19:09 PM ---The tiles on Scrabble were dropped through a scanner and then into a trash can after being read. ;)
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So, somewhat along those lines, I absolutely thought that the Scrabble tiles were somehow read by a computer when the contestants dropped them in the slot in the desk and that was how the letters would pop up on the screen. I remember wondering how they were read since they all appeared to be the same size, etc.
In today's world I realize that each tile number must have had a letter assigned to it prior to the game and that when the contestant would take the 8 and the 2, for example, the production staff would just CG the two letters that had been assigned to those numbers.
Kevin Prather:
--- Quote from: knagl on March 04, 2021, 01:02:32 AM ---So, somewhat along those lines, I absolutely thought that the Scrabble tiles were somehow read by a computer when the contestants dropped them in the slot in the desk and that was how the letters would pop up on the screen. I remember wondering how they were read since they all appeared to be the same size, etc.
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Reminds me of another. When Millionaire first started, I thought the computer was voice activated rather than controlled by someone backstage.
aaron sica:
--- Quote from: PYLdude on March 03, 2021, 02:20:42 PM ---I also don’t remember how long this was a case but there was a period where Scrabble and Classic Concentration were both airing in the afternoon; I want to say it was during Scrabble’s last season. (At least Scrabble did; maybe the false memory is at work.)
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Things started getting a little murky with WNBC in the early '90s and the daytime schedule....In spot-checking January 1990 - The "Golden Girls" and "227" block, usually at 11am, aired at 9. "House Party" at 10, "Win, Lose or Draw" at 11 and "Generations" at 11:30. "Santa Barbara" at noon. 1 and 2 were in-pattern, and 3 was "Classic Concentration" followed by "Scrabble" at 3:30.
EDIT: In diving down the rabbit hole even further, that was not the original schedule: when the news broke in November that this was happening (effective January 22), the plan was to have "Santa Barbara" at 11, "Generations" at noon, "Days of our Lives" at 12:30, "Another World" at 1:30, and then a 90-minute game show block starting with "Third Degree" at 2:30. I guess "Third Degree" tanking changed those plans.
KrisW73:
When MG transitioned from CBS to Syndie and the the Star Wheel "double" area changed from the one continuous space to three smaller spaces I thought the middle space was a "triple" - only when I started seeing re-reruns a little later on that I realized my error.
splinkynip:
Did any other station besides WNBC keep Sceabble on in reruns for six months after it went off the air in March 1991?
When WNBC made this programming change in January, I recall reading it had to get permission from the network to make such a drastic hange. Classic Concentration moved back to mornings in the fall when Scrabble reruns ended, and I don't believe WNBC ever followed the network official schedule again.
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