Go! episode order

[gridlockjoe]

I am trying to figure out how the episode list at https://gameshows.fandom.com/wiki/Go is off by one episode.

They list the last week as production numbers 74-78. But we know the last episode () is production number 79, per the opening slate.

Something's off somewhere. Perhaps one of the two preemptions they list (Thanksgiving and New Year's) weren't in fact preempted. TV Guide shows them as preempted. Perhaps they produced one more episode that never aired?

Anyone have any insight?

[Blanquepage]

I feel like the culprit is week #14. It shows "January 3-6". Why would Jan.2 have been preempted?
When I recorded most of it, I'm also showing as having gotten 3 from that week. I don't remember though if it was due to my not recording or if GSN skipped them. Either way, my money's on that week being off.
I'll check the Friday of week #13 to see if Kevin mentions that they'll be back on Monday

[aaron sica]

I feel like the culprit is week #14. It shows "January 3-6". Why would Jan.2 have been preempted?

January 1 was on a Sunday in 1984; when that happens, all the pomp and circumstance (i.e. parades and bowl games) are the day after.

[gridlockjoe]

Yes, and it was January 2 when the preemption happened. I should've been clearer.

[Blanquepage]

Aaah, d'uh  I'd say you were clear enough, I just had a common sense lapse.
Even still, I'll check if there are any mentions later when I get home.

[Blanquepage]

Well, Kevin makes no references to Monday on Friday of Week 13. Seem to be missing the tape with week 14, eh well.

[thomas_meighan]

I checked the NY Daily News TV schedule for each weekday of the 16-week run, and “Go!” was indeed preempted twice — Thursday, 11-24 and Monday, 1-2.

My hypothesis — which is only that — is maybe they skipped a production number to account for Thanksgiving and to maintain the pattern of Monday shows ending in 1 or 6, Tuesday in 2 or 7, etc. Also, the second of the two soap opera weeks was planned for airing the week of 11-28. These were aired out of order, so maybe it was thought that airing #44 on Friday, then going back to #26-30, then the pattern shifting to #45-49, would be a source of confusion.

By mid-December, with the show canceled and not having any more out-of-order weeks, there was less reason to skip a number for the day after New Year’s.

(For anyone who cares, other NBC daytime preemption notes from those holidays: the entire schedule was preempted 11-24. On 11-25, cartoons aired from 10 to noon, then regular programming resumed.  On 1-2, “Facts of Life” repeats returned at 10, then “Sale of the Century” aired, then the Rose Bowl parade and football took over.)