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geno57:
Most likely because the gentlemen were ... how you say? ... dead.

SRIV94:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Jul 20 2003, 09:23 PM\']Probably because the gentlemen were no longer working for the respective companies when their names were dropped.[/quote]
If memory serves, Bill Todman passed away in (I think) 1979.  The decision was made to rename the company at that point (I'm not exactly sure why, but many of the shows in production at that time [CS, P+, FF, TPIR] opted to keep the G/T name--although TPIR and FF eventually moved on to MGP).

In the case of HQ, Quigley retired from HQ either during or after the production of LVG.  Heatter carried on the production company using his own name with the creation of BATTLESTARS.  Dixon Hayes' site indicates that Quigley died in 1989.

Doug

Fedya:
SRIV94 wrote:

--- Quote ---If memory serves, Bill Todman passed away in (I think) 1979. The decision was made to rename the company at that point (I'm not exactly sure why, but many of the shows in production at that time [CS, P+, FF, TPIR] opted to keep the G/T name--although TPIR and FF eventually moved on to MGP).
--- End quote ---

But wasn't Blockbusters, which premiered in October 1980, a G/T production?  I guess the concept must have been developed before Todman's passing.

Brakus:
[quote name=\'TV Favorites\' date=\'Jul 18 2003, 11:54 PM\']On the 1998 version, Paul Boland simply said \"This has been a Mark Goodson Production, in association with,\" then cut to Pearson logo.[/quote]

The stinger of said Pearson logo can be heard at the beginning of my AMVs (and any future AMVs I decide to create). Go to my website (www.brakus.net) for more info. :)

I think by 1982 or 1983 all Goodson-Todman shows eventually said simply \"A Mark Goodson... Television Production\". I seem to remember my the time \"Child's Play\" left the air at the end of 1982, the credit was simply \"Mark Goodson\".

- J

zachhoran:
CHild's Play was the first game show to be billed strictly as an MG Production. Between mid-1982 and early 1984, Feud, TPIR, and Tattletales dropped Todman's name as well.

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