Go! episode order

[TLEberle]

I know I asked AA ron this, but if Go was airing against The Price is Right what did NBC think was going to happen? Sure, it's a game show on against another one, but Pyramid is on CBS and Super Password has comeback. Is there a point of diminished returns where you cede the battle and throw out reruns instead?

And I say this as someone who adores the activity. When I click on a video of it on Youtube I skip to round three.

[aaron sica]

I know I asked AA ron this, but if Go was airing against The Price is Right what did NBC think was going to happen? Sure, it's a game show on against another one, but Pyramid is on CBS and Super Password has comeback. Is there a point of diminished returns where you cede the battle and throw out reruns instead?

In the east coast at least, Go's competition was possibly two other game shows - I say "possibly" because it definitely wasn't the same in all markets. ABC's noon offering was Feud, which at this point was a year and a half away from ending its right (and no doubt not being carried in most markets because noon news). CBS's "noon" offering was Tattletales, which was either carried at other times (9:30 a.m. in Philly and maybe Baltimore) or not at all. "Noon" in quotes because the official time slot of the show was 4 p.m.

[tvwxman]

In the east coast at least, Go's competition was possibly two other game shows - I say "possibly" because it definitely wasn't the same in all markets. ABC's noon offering was Feud, which at this point was a year and a half away from ending its right (and no doubt not being carried in most markets because noon news). CBS's "noon" offering was Tattletales, which was either carried at other times (9:30 a.m. in Philly and maybe Baltimore) or not at all. "Noon" in quotes because the official time slot of the show was 4 p.m.

If you lived in a market that had tv stations that knew what they were doing with their news product, chances are you never saw the noontime game shows...... Miami/Ft Laud definitely is a solid example of this.

[aaron sica]

If you lived in a market that had tv stations that knew what they were doing with their news product, chances are you never saw the noontime game shows...... Miami/Ft Laud definitely is a solid example of this.

So is WGAL in Lancaster (NBC). Because everyone knows soap operas are more important than game shows (insert eyeroll here), once "The Doctors" moved from the 2:00 slot to 12:30 in August 1980, WGAL moved up their "Noonday on 8" show, as it was known at the time, from 12:30 to noon. From this point on all the way up to and including Super Password, the Harrisburg/Lebanon/Lancaster/York market never saw an NBC noon offering again.

[BrandonFG]

In the east coast at least, Go's competition was possibly two other game shows - I say "possibly" because it definitely wasn't the same in all markets. ABC's noon offering was Feud, which at this point was a year and a half away from ending its right (and no doubt not being carried in most markets because noon news). CBS's "noon" offering was Tattletales, which was either carried at other times (9:30 a.m. in Philly and maybe Baltimore) or not at all. "Noon" in quotes because the official time slot of the show was 4 p.m.

If you lived in a market that had tv stations that knew what they were doing with their news product, chances are you never saw the noontime game shows...... Miami/Ft Laud definitely is a solid example of this.

WAVY in Norfolk/Portsmouth has entered the chat. IIRC the last noontime game show they aired was Chain Reaction. They aired Scrabble 93, but at 10 am.

[aaron sica]

WAVY in Norfolk/Portsmouth has entered the chat. IIRC the last noontime game show they aired was Chain Reaction. They aired Scrabble 93, but at 10 am.

On that subject, not until well after the fact (like YEARS later) did I realize Scrabble/Scattergories "official" timeslot was 12 to 1. I figured it literally took the place of "Santa Barbara" on the schedule, and didn't know that it was at that point that NBC gave up the 3pm hour. The two local stations around me, WBRE in Scranton and the aforementioned WGAL, aired the hour from 10am-11am and 3pm-4pm, respectively. I guess by that logic, WGAL did air a noon game show.