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Game Shows at the Library of Congress
SuperMatch93:
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--- Quote from: SuperMatch93 on March 09, 2025, 10:16:26 PM ---Anyone have any other recommendations for things to keep an eye out for?
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Two of relevance, one which we've discussed before, and one we haven't:
1) The Library of Congress, along with UCLA, received the bulk of the kinescope library of Goodson-Todman Productions- spreadsheets of the collection are linked to here, and it includes quite a bit that has never been rebroadcast.
2) As part of the Library of Congress's holdings of the NBC Collection, there are episodes of game shows (as demonstrated here)- however, while the radio end of the NBC Collection has been well-indexed, there seems to be no public information concerning the television holdings, so I have no clue how substantial these materials are.
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Ooh, Concentration! My appetite is whetted.
I may contact the research librarians there for specifics, due to some of their stuff not being catalouged.
Jsach:
I got to view a bunch of cool pilots when I was last out. CBS's primetime Celebrity Name Game, a GSN Dating Game from the late 00s, the original Gong Show pilot, and a 2006 for a revival of Child's Play.
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote from: RMF on March 11, 2025, 12:35:43 AM ---1) The Library of Congress, along with UCLA, received the bulk of the kinescope library of Goodson-Todman Productions- spreadsheets of the collection are linked to here, and it includes quite a bit that has never been rebroadcast.
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My understanding is that the G-T kinescope library was split, roughly in thirds, between the Library of Congress, UCLA and The Paley Center. There is a little bit of duplication in the collections because one organization or another may have already had kinescopes from previous donations. The G-T collection was the company library, of course, but other kinescopes were made for each episode for various reasons, and many of them have independently made their way to one or more of the three organizations.
A couple months ago, a friend visited the Library of Congress and watched four Secret episodes that I had asked him to check out. He had no problem viewing all four. I don't know whether that means that the LoC has already digitized their G-T holdings, or if they're just very, very generous about taking requests.
Neumms:
--- Quote from: Jsach on March 11, 2025, 05:18:12 PM ---CBS's primetime Celebrity Name Game, a GSN Dating Game from the late 00s…
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I don’t think I’d heard of these. Would anyone share more about them? Was the CBS Name Game the same as what got syndicated? What was GSN Dating Game like? Was it meant to be a companion to its Newlywed Game? Was Michael Davies involved?
BrandonFG:
I thought the Dating Game pilot was actually for CBS, in the timeslot that eventually went to LMAD? But the idea of it being a companion series for GSN makes more sense.
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