Buzzr Q2 2025

[Blanquepage]

Did GSN *ever* run the Blockbuster episodes that Buzzr didn't?  Because I recorded an awful lot of the shows when they were on GSN and I was on a completeness kick.

Yeah, GSN ran through all of it. Didn't know that Buzzr had always skipped the first 99, though.

[ivoryman1986]

Did GSN *ever* run the Blockbuster episodes that Buzzr didn't?  Because I recorded an awful lot of the shows when they were on GSN and I was on a completeness kick.

Yeah, GSN ran through all of it. Didn't know that Buzzr had always skipped the first 99, though.

Buzzr did the same thing with Child's Play and Body Language, for Body Language, with the exceptions of the weeks with Betty White and Lucille Ball, haven't regularly reran any of the actual series prior to #160(Sam[uel] vs. Beverly) and they haven't aired anything beyond #377 from 11/26/85(Olga vs. Mike). For Child's Play, they haven't aired any of the first 82 episodes, Buzzr began with #083 and haven't gone any farther than #147 from 4/14/83, though they had aired a couple of handpicked episodes from the Turnabout end game era. When GSN replaced Child's Play and expanded its weekend morning Kids Zone block with the additions of Family Challenge and Wild Animal Games, was #100(aka the Ronald Blair Wilkinson II onstage GOLD STAR episode) or #102 the last episode to air at that 8am time slot?

[thomas_meighan]

Buzzr didn't even get close; they only made it to January 21, 1977. GSN skipped over a fair amount too; here's a really comprehensive episode guide that lists what aired when.

https://erthreetrading.miraheze.org/wiki/Double_Dare_(CBS):_Episode_Guide

Interesting to see an episode guide for this series. I went through weekday TV listings in the NY Daily News to determine when the four preemptions for "Double Dare" would've been (96 reported episodes across 100 weekdays), but I wasn't quite able to make the scheduling snap into place.

There were three occasions when "Double Dare" didn't air at all on either the Eastern or Pacific feed--
Thursday, January 20 -- presidential inauguration
Thursday, March 24 -- "March Magazine"
Thursday, April 21 -- "April Magazine"

On three other occasions (noted below), there was a presidential news conference at 10 a.m. Eastern that preempted "Double Dare" in the Eastern/Central feed. Checking California papers, they were carried live at 7 a.m. Pacific, allowing "Double Dare" to have aired in the later feed -- but were repeats aired on those days, or were some episodes seen only on the West Coast? I guess one would have to consult whatever paperwork Fremantle has.
Wednesday, March 9
Friday, April 15
Friday, April 22

[Chelsea Thrasher]

Did GSN *ever* run the Blockbuster episodes that Buzzr didn't?  Because I recorded an awful lot of the shows when they were on GSN and I was on a completeness kick.

Repeatedly, on something close to a half dozen occasions. The finale was also in Y2Play. The eps ran as early as the Winnie-era and as late (the last months of shows) as the mid 2010s.  I personally have the entire last sixty from GSN ca. the mid 2010s (and about half of those again from a previous loop in 2005). Plus about eighty out of the first 100 from a mix of various airings from at least five different loops (1996, 1998, 2003, 2005, 2006).

There's a couple of shows GSN consistently skipped (including the switch to the 'best 2 of 3' rule) and a couple they aired once or twice but skipped later (not sure whether tape damage or content offhand), but almost all of them have aired

[ivoryman1986]

Some people on this forum, not counting the Body Language episodes that GSN always skipped (#41-#51, #130-#131 and #232-#233), have ALL of the Body Language episodes from prior to #160 and after #377, some of which are from the GSN airings as early as the first months of the green ball era but with John Cramer as its network programming narrator and several of which come from the time that Chain Reaction(from the time Rich Cronin was the CEO of GSN) and Starface and yes, That’s The Question were on the air are where the GSN recordings of those episodes come from.

[chrisholland03]

Some people on this forum, has not counting the Body Language episodes that GSN always skipped (#41-#51, #130-#131 and #232-#233), have ALL of the Body Language episodes from prior to #160 and after #377, some of which are from the GSN airings as early as the first months of the green ball era but with John Cramer as its network programming narrator and several of which come from the time that Chain Reaction(from the time Rich Cronin was the CEO of GSN) and Starface and yes, That’s The Question were on the air are where the GSN recordings of those episodes come from.

I feel like I'm a losing contestant on Wordplay

[snowpeck]

Some people on this forum, has not counting the Body Language episodes that GSN always skipped (#41-#51, #130-#131 and #232-#233), have ALL of the Body Language episodes from prior to #160 and after #377, some of which are from the GSN airings as early as the first months of the green ball era but with John Cramer as its network programming narrator and several of which come from the time that Chain Reaction(from the time Rich Cronin was the CEO of GSN) and Starface and yes, That’s The Question were on the air are where the GSN recordings of those episodes come from.

I feel like I'm a losing contestant on Wordplay

Was that even English?

[Sodboy13]

I fear we may have to cancel "Words Have Meanings" after that post, as the conceit of the show has been disproven.

[Matt Ottinger]

I fear we may have to cancel "Words Have Meanings" after that post, as the conceit of the show has been disproven.

We had a good run.  No regrets.