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MGHS and Kim Hood
Matt Ottinger:
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--- Quote from: Adam Nedeff on June 15, 2021, 02:17:58 AM ---This gets weirder: WTHR, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, didn't air The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour at all. According to the TV listings I just dug up from May 1984, they filled the time slot with syndicated programming. Specifically...reruns of Match Game.
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Not sure of your source, but all of the Indianapolis-area newspapers on Newspapers.com have MGHS listed for 2 p.m. Central on WTHR that month.
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There's an October 30, 1983 article from The Star Press of Muncie that says that WTHR would NOT be carrying the show when it debuted on Monday. Best as I can tell, the station started carrying it on January 3, 1984. I thought about a theory where they brought in a local Indianapolis personality to celebrate the fact that the affiliate had added the show (wouldn't be the weirdest thing they ever did), but even that doesn't make any sense five months after the fact.
JMFabiano:
Besides this weirdness, this week of MG/HS stands out as I previously received the open and the mid-show deals (fee plugs, HS celeb announcements, switchoff to Bauman) as part of a tape trade way back when. I don't believe any episodes from this week were out in the trading circuit otherwise, though. So it was nice to see another bit of the series turn up even though not an episode.
Not sure if we've gotten to that episode yet (I missed the Monday airing). All I remember is it's when Jon takes the mic and is shouting "It's mine, it's mine!"
Adam Nedeff:
--- Quote from: snowpeck on June 15, 2021, 07:46:11 AM ---
Not sure of your source, but all of the Indianapolis-area newspapers on Newspapers.com have MGHS listed for 2 p.m. Central on WTHR that month.
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That comes from me misreading a TV listings grid that looked like 30 minutes of Match Game followed by Star Trek. By May, they WERE airing it, you're right, but for a time, they weren't. Muncie Star-Press on October 30, 1983 prints a short blurb about the show's debut, wrapping up by noting that WTHR will not be airing the series. By March 7, I'm still not seeing the show at all in the grid--their afternoon schedule that day is News, Search, DOOL, Another World, You Asked for It, Gilligan's Island.
On April 25, the schedule reads News, DOOL, Another World, Gilligan's Island, Star Trek.
So going back to what Scott initially said, this actually looks more and more like it was a gesture of goodwill because WTHR finally agreed to start airing the show.
EDIT: Just saw that Matt suggested the same theory while I was typing it up. Hat tip.
mmb5:
Missed in all of the Kim Hood hoopla - this is probably the only time anyone has ever been introduced as "from The Duck Factory."
SuperMatch93:
--- Quote from: mmb5 on June 15, 2021, 07:23:40 PM ---Missed in all of the Kim Hood hoopla - this is probably the only time anyone has ever been introduced as "from The Duck Factory."
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Is there any other show that attracted so many stars of failed series? Or is that just due to the state of NBC at that time?
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