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Match Game 1990-91 thoughts
TLEberle:
There’s a win lose or draw ep I happened upon where heading into the speed round the gents lead by 1000 to 200. Guys hsve their turn and the women need only eighteen right to win.
carlisle96:
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--- Quote from: Adam Nedeff on February 21, 2025, 02:31:57 AM ---With the format as it aired--for Final Match-Up, the game STOPS as soon as the player who goes second takes the lead. That makes sense, but it pretty much means the amount of money that you can win depends on how good your opponent is at the game. Some contestants win $1200-$1300, but then one contestant is saddled against a bad opponent and ends up with $500 because they only needed to play Final Match-Up for 10 seconds. And if they played all the way through, it would be anticlimactic.
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I think the easy fix here is just having the leader play first.
--- Quote from: JohnXXVII on February 20, 2025, 02:52:22 PM ---What was Mark Goodson's beef with having a show that emphasized the comedy?
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I think Jonathan was the one handling things by 1990, no?
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I don't know who was directly handling things at that time, but I saw a taping in December and had to leave early. An ABC page escorted me and my friend to a backstage exit and we passed a dressing room with Mark Goodson's name on the door so maybe he was still directly involved because I don't remember too much comedy during the episode I sat through.
Ian Wallis:
--- Quote from: Adam Nedeff on February 21, 2025, 02:27:30 AM ---
--- Quote from: Neumms on February 20, 2025, 07:43:34 PM ---Toward the end of the syndicated daily version, was Brett less able to handle her Russian club soda?
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I went on a bingewatch of the final season. It wasn't so much drunkenness that stuck out to me, it was how "checked out" everyone was. The moment that sticks out to me is one that involves Brett. With about nine weeks to go, there was an episode that opens with "Get ready to match the stars..." and when Johnny announces Brett Somers, Brett's chair is empty. "As we play the star-studded big-money Match Game!" The set lights up, and Brett is crossing the stage with a cup in her hands and heading to her seat. Wasn't a bit or anything--she just wasn't there when tape started rolling and nobody CARED.
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I was never a huge fan of the syndicated version - it just didn't seem to have the same atmosphere or enthusiasm. I prefer the first several years of the CBS run. They seemed to have captured lightning in a bottle for a little while, anyway.
Adam Nedeff:
--- Quote from: carlisle96 on February 21, 2025, 01:20:37 PM ---I don't know who was directly handling things at that time, but I saw a taping in December and had to leave early. An ABC page escorted me and my friend to a backstage exit and we passed a dressing room with Mark Goodson's name on the door so maybe he was still directly involved because I don't remember too much comedy during the episode I sat through.
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A few weeks ago, we had a thread about how the final Super Password was a point of demarcation for the genre--to hear Robert Sherman tell it, there was one other way that the end of that show marked the end of an era. As Sherman recalled, Mark Goodson conspicuously "checked out" after Super Password ended, and he showed up at the office far less often. As far as I know, Jonathan was running things for Match Game 90, although Sherman and Jonathan agreed on this much when they were talking about other shows--if Mark Goodson was in the studio, it kind of didn't matter who was running the show on paper.
Eric Paddon:
How much was Mark Goodson involved with the 1990-91 TTTT revival? That show to me has always felt like the swan song of the "Mark Goodson era" because it was a throwback in the set, theme music and the reliance on classic panelists like Kitty, Orson, Peggy and Polly Bergen (not to mention Goodson filling in as sub host).
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