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Alternate realities when it comes to game shows
aaron sica:
--- Quote from: snowpeck on June 21, 2023, 02:18:30 PM ---This came up in our Twitch chat the other night. Let's suppose Super Password was still doing well for NBC and didn't get cancelled in 1989. Who would have taken over the show when Bert's health took a decline for following year?
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Scrabble would have been cancelled around this point; Chuck Woolery?
Blanquepage:
--- Quote from: snowpeck on June 21, 2023, 02:18:30 PM ---This came up in our Twitch chat the other night. Let's suppose Super Password was still doing well for NBC and didn't get cancelled in 1989. Who would have taken over the show when Bert's health took a decline for following year?
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Vicki Lawrence!
TimK2003:
--- Quote from: Blanquepage on June 21, 2023, 02:32:42 PM ---
--- Quote from: snowpeck on June 21, 2023, 02:18:30 PM ---This came up in our Twitch chat the other night. Let's suppose Super Password was still doing well for NBC and didn't get cancelled in 1989. Who would have taken over the show when Bert's health took a decline for following year?
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Vicki Lawrence!
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Did Tom Kennedy officially "retire" from the business after Wordplay ended? I would think he would have been the top contender, as he had experience with the format, more or less.
Blanquepage:
--- Quote from: TimK2003 on June 21, 2023, 03:01:34 PM ---
--- Quote from: Blanquepage on June 21, 2023, 02:32:42 PM ---
--- Quote from: snowpeck on June 21, 2023, 02:18:30 PM ---This came up in our Twitch chat the other night. Let's suppose Super Password was still doing well for NBC and didn't get cancelled in 1989. Who would have taken over the show when Bert's health took a decline for following year?
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Vicki Lawrence!
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Did Tom Kennedy officially "retire" from the business after Wordplay ended? I would think he would have been the top contender, as he had experience with the format, more or less.
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Nope, another viable option. He was devising new formats and even hosted more unsold pilots; Star Play was one from 1989, for example. Tom.certainly had the experience, but I'd also think Vicki's Emmy-nominated performance on WLoD would also have considerable weight. Plus we know they wanted her helming a show since they chose her for Body Talk.
BillCullen1:
--- Quote from: chris319 on June 21, 2023, 10:26:31 AM ---The failed pilot "On a Roll" supports the notion that Goodson was running on fumes by then. How about another revival of To Tell the Truth?
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On a Roll was WOF using dice instead of a wheel. And TTTT would return in 1990, and twice after that.
The one pilot Goodson did circa 1988 that I really liked was Oddball, which morphed into the game Just One, which I have. I thought Jamie Farr was a decent host that would have gotten better with time.
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