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Wink Tic Tac Dough - Sun Apr. 20 on GSN
Chelsea Thrasher:
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--- Quote from: TLEberle on April 20, 2025, 09:40:49 PM ---Do we hsve a list of what was audited? I think I grabbed just the first two shows.
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The eight episodes aired today were:
1980-3rd season premiere, Thom vs. Candy
1980-Thom vs. Laurie
1980-Thom vs. Erik (Thom is defeated)
1980-Erik vs. Mary
1980-Matt vs. Lee
1985-Wendy vs. Eddy
1985-Victoria at Dragon, then vs. David
1979-Over 80 Tournament finals [Day 8]
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Genuinely delighted at the selection of episodes. Was expecting them to just throw on Thom episodes and call it a day.
All have run on the network before but Erik vs. Mary and Matt vs. Lee haven't run since late 1997, and the two 1985 shows haven't run since 2000 (and none of the four have rerun on, say, GameTV)
Dbacksfan12:
Can someone share what made the 1985 episodes special? Thanks in advance!
Allstar87:
--- Quote from: Dbacksfan12 on April 20, 2025, 11:24:06 PM ---Can someone share what made the 1985 episodes special? Thanks in advance!
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I believe they were picked because both episodes saw the champs winning a car.
danderson:
--- Quote from: BillCullen1 on April 20, 2025, 08:47:29 PM ---I saw the ep where Thom was finally defeated. The "Women in Film" category did him in. But what a winning streak, over $300K including eight cars. He had nothing to hang his head about.
A Wink Martindale story. In 1978 when I was in Lala Land, I attended a taping of TTD. It was taping at CBS Television City. My friends had opted to see TPIR that evening. But I had already seen that so I opted for TTD. IIRC Jay Stewart was the announcer and they did three shows. It was the syndie version. Because of the technology of that time, when there was a tied game, they would stop tape, reset the monitors and put new questions in Wink's podium. There were a couple of stopdowns but Wink and Jay kept us informed and entertained. A good experience.
Coming out of the studio after a long taping day, Wink signed autographs and talked to fans. He told us "You stayed for the whole taping? I should be asking for your autograph ." I then asked the CBS pages about the TPIR taping. They said they were still taping, and this was about 10:30 pm. My friends told me everything that could go wrong did. So apparently I made the right choice about what show to see.
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That's one of the things about the old school guys like Wink, Jay, Bob and Johnny O, they could keep the crowd entertained during stopdowns and breaks. Drew and George are the closest to that era on Price (and Drew, being a comic, could keep the crowd entertained during breaks too).
tvmitch:
Just wondering if anyone happened to record these in a way that might be easily available. I had tried to record them on YouTube TV, but it didn't work.
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