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Alternate realities when it comes to game shows
SuperMatch93:
I'd say the contestant gets a level of publicity not unlike what John Carpenter got, but given that by that point the viewing landscape was more fractured than it had been in the 50s (and beginning to develop into what we see today) I don't think he necessarily attains a Van Doren-level of fame. Maybe something closer to what James Holzhauer would eventually get.
Nick:
--- Quote from: Scrabbleship on June 25, 2023, 09:15:31 PM ---Going outside the list of known Goodson-Todman names, I'd toss Geoff Edwards in there as well. Goodson did want him for Family Feud and he wasn't doing anything TV wise at that point and had one foot out the door radio wise. That might have complicated things with Play the Percentages given the disdain Goodson had for Dan Enright.
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It's definitely a "what if" I'd love to have seen, though there's a part of the Geoff-Edwards-could-have-had-Family-Feud story that's never made sense to me. He never appeared, before or after Feud launched, on anything for Goodson-Todman. Why would Goodson have been so interested in someone who had never worked for him and only for his competitors? If he liked him so much, why did he never get considered for anything else Goodson ever did? Was the one "no" to the Feud pilot enough for Goodson to reject him forever?
Jeremy Nelson:
--- Quote from: Nick on January 15, 2025, 01:56:57 PM ---It's definitely a "what if" I'd love to have seen, though there's a part of the Geoff-Edwards-could-have-had-Family-Feud story that's never made sense to me. He never appeared, before or after Feud launched, on anything for Goodson-Todman. Why would Goodson have been so interested in someone who had never worked for him and only for his competitors? If he liked him so much, why did he never get considered for anything else Goodson ever did? Was the one "no" to the Feud pilot enough for Goodson to reject him forever?
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Why would Goodson be interested? Cause Geoff was still a good host, despite not working for the guy. Alex Trebek, IIRC didn’t work for Goodson until Concentration.
As to why he didn’t work for Goodson afterwards…well, we’re turning the corner to the 1980s, which is a revival decade for Goodson, and he still had his stable of established hosts at that point. Geoff can’t be a choice because honestly, I don’t see any G-T show from 1977-92 where he’s “best available option”.
Chief-O:
--- Quote from: Jeremy Nelson on January 15, 2025, 10:22:39 PM ---Alex Trebek, IIRC didn’t work for Goodson until Concentration.
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"Double Dare"; 1976.
steveleb:
As someone who was intimately involved with Jeopardy GOAT, let me assure you Alex’s health was anything but an issue that was in the table. The concept had been discussed during the 50th anniversary year. GSN was among the networks Harry and team pitched it to. Needless to say, it was well beyond our pocketbook (and besides, it had a shiny floor, which killed it with my superiors). The ABC station group advocated for it with the network but at the time their brass was down on game shows. As Rob Mills got more entrenched and as Sony became a reliable supplier the topic was revisited several times—other experiments got in the way. We finally found a window of budgetary opportunity on both sides in 2019. Alex’s health issues were a constant factor but that did not factor into the green light. As even he said so often, it’s the game that mattered the most.
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