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Best Game Show Finales – Your Picks?
carlisle96:
--- Quote from: TimK2003 on January 01, 2025, 12:35:11 PM ---
--- Quote from: BillCullen1 on January 01, 2025, 11:21:06 AM ---Here's my three:
1 What's My Line?
2 The $20,000 Pyramid
3 Super Password
Happy New Year everybody
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Honorable mentions:
Cullen Chain Reaction -- The crazy final end game was a keeper, despite that it wasn't supposed to finish that way.
Eubanks ABC Newlywed Game -- Bob's first game show, and how he chokes up at the end of the Christmas show. It looked like his last day on TV really meant a lot to him, probably more than his last day on radio. But it didn't take long for him to get back on TV doing game shows.
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I heard or read Eubanks saying that he had offers right and left after Newlywed Game, but he was thinking about the staff he had worked with who are losing their jobs.
That Don Guy:
"Best" in what way?
Anyway, here are my three:
1. Daly What's My Line? (the one where he is the final mystery guest...and I think I know the story of "the one mystery guest who arrived with a minute to spare"; I remember reading a story about a celebrity who was sitting down to watch TV, heard the announcer say, "Stay tuned for WML?", and suddenly remember that he was the mystery guest that night)
2. NBC Chain Reaction
3. NBC Hollywood Squares - they brought a contestant back and credited her with $1800 so she only needed to win one game to get the 5-match "jackpot," but she then lost her next two games
Honorable Mentions:
The Better Sex - IIRC, rather than start a game they knew wouldn't end in time, they just had Bill Anderson break out his guitar for a song.
The Gong Show
carlisle96:
--- Quote from: That Don Guy on January 01, 2025, 01:43:55 PM ---"Best" in what way?
Anyway, here are my three:
1. Daly What's My Line? (the one where he is the final mystery guest...and I think I know the story of "the one mystery guest who arrived with a minute to spare"; I remember reading a story about a celebrity who was sitting down to watch TV, heard the announcer say, "Stay tuned for WML?", and suddenly remember that he was the mystery guest that night)
2. NBC Chain Reaction
3. NBC Hollywood Squares - they brought a contestant back and credited her with $1800 so she only needed to win one game to get the 5-match "jackpot," but she then lost her next two games
Honorable Mentions:
The Better Sex - IIRC, rather than start a game they knew wouldn't end in time, they just had Bill Anderson break out his guitar for a song.
The Gong Show
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That WML guest was Arthur Godfrey
Neumms:
1. Mystery Guest John Daly, no better ending possible
2. Blockbusters, because Bill finally answered the question of whether two heads were better than one
3. Maybe Rhyme and Reason—wrecking the set sounds fun but I’ve never seen it
4. The sentimental ones, original Newlywed Game and ABC Password
5. Dream House with the couple winning
Neumms:
--- Quote from: carlisle96 on January 01, 2025, 02:07:46 PM ---That WML guest was Arthur Godfrey
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Thank you. The story was lame without that.
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