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Alternate realities when it comes to game shows
Chief-O:
--- Quote from: chris319 on June 21, 2023, 04:27:30 PM ---Were On A Roll, TKO and Star Words all commissioned by CBS?
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Per Mike Burger, "TKO" was for ABC (but shot at TV City).
chris319:
--- Quote ---On a Roll wasn't one of the better game shows.
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As I say, Goodson was running on fumes by then.
Number Please had a guy on vibraphone who liked to improvise, more interesting than the same old chime from the TV City sound-effects department, and a board which went "clunk". I was in kindergarten when Number Please was on ABC. It was my Sesame Street. Bud Collyer was always glad to see me.
I found this. It's nice:
BrandonFG:
--- Quote from: Jeremy Nelson on June 21, 2023, 12:35:08 PM ---
--- Quote from: BrandonFG on June 20, 2023, 01:06:18 PM ---Oh, and since Wheel went off the air around '87 Pat Sajak gets a CBS gig, but in 1993. Letterman replaces Carson in '92 and Jay Leno gets something in syndication.
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My curiousness lies in what Pat Sajak does for 5 years to end up with a late night gig! Also, if Jay Leno still has Helen Kushnick in your alternate reality, I don't see a way in which he doesn't end up with that job.
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IIRC he did a primetime special for NBC with Jack Paar around 1987. I'm thinking a few primetime specials for CBS here and there, just to keep his name out there and show his talk show chops. A Tournament of Roses parade or two. Maybe even another game show in the interim.
thomas_meighan:
Since we’re talking about other worlds here:
NBC expands “Another World” to an hour in 1975….but it flops, goes back to 30 minutes, and no other soap is willing to touch the 60-minute format.
Network daytime afternoons retain their flexibility, and new shows, including games, can become breakout hits at 2:00 or 3:30. The period from 1976 onward sees a greater number of daytime games (and better-rated ones) than we actually got, and networks keep faith in the genre for longer than was really the case.
TPIR can keep its hourlong format. (Oh, and come 1986, Goodson keeps Breslow over Barker. Tom Kennedy gets the daytime show, clicks with viewers, and there are no lawsuits involving the models.)
Stackertosh:
A few of mines
Joe Namath hosts Family Feud . Ray Combs and Jay Leno end up taking turns guest hosting The Tonight Show. Jay Leno of-course gets the Tonight gig and David Letterman leaves for Cbs and Ray Combs take over Late Night and enjoy a 20 year run.
Dennis James host Daytime Price and Barker hosts the night time version. Dennis retires in the 80s and Bob Barker takes over the daytime show.
I remember reading Ellen Degeneres was being considered for the Syndicated version of Weakest Link. She hosts the syndicated version and would her talk show ever happen?
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