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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2025, 09:53:43 AM »

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.
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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2025, 10:11:56 AM »

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?

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #17 on: May 24, 2025, 01:34:23 PM »

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.
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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #18 on: May 24, 2025, 04:53:41 PM »

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

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2025, 10:07:10 AM »
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.
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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2025, 01:36:48 PM »
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.

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2025, 02:47:02 PM »
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.

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #22 on: May 27, 2025, 12:34:10 AM »
I fear we may have to cancel "Words Have Meanings" after that post, as the conceit of the show has been disproven.
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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #23 on: May 27, 2025, 11:28:52 AM »
I fear we may have to cancel "Words Have Meanings" after that post, as the conceit of the show has been disproven.

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #24 on: May 27, 2025, 10:22:04 PM »
Just turned on Buzzr and they’re airing 1980s Tattletales. Is this from a special they previously aired or are they airing 80s TT now?
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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #25 on: May 28, 2025, 07:02:20 AM »
Eubanks CS' metadata for Sunday 6/6 and 6/7 have been updated. Show continues with shows 526, 528, and 530 on Saturday, and 531-532 on Sunday.

Week two starting 6/9 sees lots of shifts. Times ET:

8:30a - 10:30a sees the return of Split Second '80s and LMAD 80s after a one week absence - neither hour appears to be new to Buzzr eps (there's a couple dozen of the American prints of Split Second and about the same number of 80s LMAD eps that were skipped, but these don't appear to be either). Monday-Friday.

From 10:30a to Noon starting Tuesday is Card Sharks from Jim Perry ca. March 1979 - starting roughly at the point in 1979 where Buzzr has gotten the furthest (they've aired up to here as well as several months of 1980 but never these). Tuesday-Sunday.

Monday ONLY, Eubanks CS airs in these slots as well, in addition to Noon to 1PM all seven days.  Eubanks CS jumps ahead nearly one hundred shows to June 1988, starting with show #623 and proceeding in order, including a week of shows with Ray Combs cameos. Although frustrating to skip that many shows, this seems intentional given the next thing:

Dawson Feud from late 83 carries on about it's new-to-Buzzr business at 1PM 7x...but things get interesting at 2PM as they run the first fourteen shows (through Sunday) of Combs' nighttime Feud in order starting with show #1. The syndicated Combs' Feud has never been on the regular Buzzr schedule at all, only ever the first few months of the CBS run before it moved to the all-Feud streaming channel. It would be really nice if this stuck around beyond the week or the stunt, IMO.

Price continues it's routine two hours of season 13 from 3-5p unabated and fairly uninteresting. 7 days/week.

Match Game block continues onward slightly expanded but sans MG PM.  The third season of the Rayburn daily syndicated run will air at both 5 and 5:30pm that week, while MG90 will air at both 6p and 6:30p.  Both series continue on from the previous week's airings. MG 90 is preempted Saturday, MG '81 is preempted Sunday. 6 days/week.

Super Password moves to 7p-8p, also continuing on from the previous week's new-to-buzzr eps. Mon-Sun.

Various episodes of Lifetime-era Supermarket Sweep run all week from 8p-10p, starting with the last shows of season 3 and going into season 4. These have run on Buzzr before but have been out of rotation for a while. This group of eps does feature the theme song change and the short-lived yellow contestant displays (and the switch to the much easier-to-read blue shortly after). (edit: Both seasons currently stream on Pluto).  Runs Monday-Sunday, no PAX shows this week.

Password Plus continues onwards from the late 1981 eps of the week before at 10PM for an hour, Monday-Sunday.

60s Password re-emerges at 11PM, with the earliest episodes of the color era of the daytime run (the eps that made it to syndication anyway), running 4 of 5 shows from the season premiere week (skipping Friday), the entire Carol Burnett/Ross Martin week and Irene Ryan/Bob Crane weeks, as well as the Monday show with Barbara Rush and John Forsythe.  These are new to Buzzr as they've only touched the 1967 shows for the most part. Weirdly, Buzzr's metadata shows the Rush/Forsythe and Friday show of Ryan/Crane airing in the wrong order. Monday-Sunday.

Overnights are the continuing loop of the same series 7 days/week, with Blockbusters resetting to show #182.

And that's it, at least until the week of the 16th, which is not up yet.
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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #26 on: May 28, 2025, 08:11:40 AM »
Various episodes of Lifetime-era Supermarket Sweep run all week from 8p-10p, starting with the last shows of season 3 and going into season 4. ... S3 eps are on streaming, it's been a hot minute for S4 though as they're not.

*cough*

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #27 on: May 28, 2025, 08:16:42 AM »
*cough*

Wasn't aware Pluto was clearing so much of Lifetime season 4, haven't had cause to look at their on demand offerings in a bit.  Noted.

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #28 on: May 28, 2025, 08:22:26 AM »
Just turned on Buzzr and they’re airing 1980s Tattletales. Is this from a special they previously aired or are they airing 80s TT now?

Last evening (5/27) they went back to the beginning and aired the Cullen/Ludden/Woolery week where you had to buzz in with a story to a given situation.

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #29 on: May 28, 2025, 09:40:51 PM »
I fear we may have to cancel "Words Have Meanings" after that post, as the conceit of the show has been disproven.
There's always "These are all most certainly words" as a viable replacement.