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chris319:
--- Quote from: chrisholland03 on June 22, 2023, 04:25:04 PM ---There's a recorded office runthrough out and about hosted by Dick, with Dolly Martin and Bill Cullen as the celebrities
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What did you think of Dick as emcee?
Ian Wallis:
--- Quote from: Blanquepage on June 20, 2023, 11:38:51 AM ---I definitely believe Break the Bank would've had a decent daytime run had it not been for that soap expansion.
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How about this: in order to make way for the expanded soaps, Break the Bank is moved from 2:30 to 12 noon (which is probably what SHOULD HAVE happened). Hot Seat never gets past pilot stage. Despite more and more affiliates airing noon news over the network offering, Break the Bank gets good enough ratings to hang around for a year or so. That means we probably don't get The Don Ho Show and maybe even Second Chance. What does that mean for the eventual Press Your Luck?
It's interesting to play this game isn't it?!
chrisholland03:
--- Quote from: chris319 on June 22, 2023, 04:44:02 PM ---
--- Quote from: chrisholland03 on June 22, 2023, 04:25:04 PM ---There's a recorded office runthrough out and about hosted by Dick, with Dolly Martin and Bill Cullen as the celebrities
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What did you think of Dick as emcee?
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I mostly agree with your assessment. He shined when he could adlib with the contestants and celebrities as they came up with their answers. He was frequently awkward managing the mechanics of the show and staying on script. That was the case in the runthrough as well.
Scrabbleship:
--- Quote from: Kevin Prather on June 22, 2023, 01:18:01 AM ---This is not my original thought. Somebody in our community suggested it either on Facebook or on this board somewhere. I'd credit them if I could find it. But I thought it was an interesting take.
If Woolery never leaves Wheel...
- Does the daytime version last long enough and remain popular enough for the syndicated nighttime version to come along?
- If syndicated Wheel never happens, does Kingworld expand like it did in the 80s?
- If Kingworld never expands, does The Oprah Winfrey Show ever make it out of Chicago?
- If Oprah Winfrey never becomes the huge name she did, does Barack Obama still win the presidency in 2008?
Several of these assumptions are probably stretches, but it's a delicious irony anyway.
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I'll stick around 1982 with this: Pat wins the war of wills with Merv over who would replace Susan Stafford and we get Vicki McCarty as letter turner. Given her trajectory before and since, does she last 42 years or does she leave by the late 80's or early 90s? Does Wheel even last to the present day in this Vanna-less timeline?
Also pertaining to 1982 and NBC, Adam's Game Shows FAQ mentioned that NBC had taken a swing to bring $25K Pyramid to their schedule only for CBS to give Bob Stewart a spot on the schedule without having to shoot a pilot as they needed a companion for Child's Play. How would Pyramid have fared on an NBC whose daytime schedule was a hot mess at that point? Does it last as long as it did on CBS and spawn $100K in syndication by 1985?
BrandonFG:
I think if NBC puts Pyramid in some 90-minute block with $ale and Wheel from either 10-11:30 or 10:30-noon, it gets the same six-year run.
I'd avoid the noon slot.
EDIT: I’m not good at math.
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