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What if a show never got cancelled?
Jimmy Owen:
\"Truth or Consequences\" would be exactly the same, except Bob's hair color would be different, and they would stop giving away Jungle Gardenia due to animal testing.
EmiOfBrie:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jul 23 2003, 08:31 PM\'] as we have seen, Peter Marshall is just as capable today of presiding as The Master Of The Hollywood Squares as he was 35 years ago. [/quote]
True enough....shortly after I got the November Peter Marshall e-newsletter, I decided to e-mail him with a comment \"I'm sure it must have felt like you were home again, right?\"
He replied in the positive. :) Apparently he still does an occasional (non-aired) travelling HS show from time to time.
chris319:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Jul 23 2003, 10:42 PM\']\"Truth or Consequences\" would be exactly the same, except Bob's hair color would be different, and they would stop giving away Jungle Gardenia due to animal testing.[/quote]
I'll have to check if Tuvache is still in business.
The Hollywood Knickerbocker still stands, not far from Bob Barker's home and the original El Capitan theater, one-time home of This Is Your Life. The Knickerbocker is now an old folks home I think.
EmiOfBrie:
[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Jul 23 2003, 09:21 PM\'] Oh, there would be tweaks, always tweaks. Pyramid is the same basic game it was on day one, with tweaks (6 instead of 7 items in the front game, different dollar amounts) but the only other difference is in staging, camera shots and host. [/quote]
True enough. Pyramid had already shifted to video screens by the time it was pulled off the air in 1991. Had it continued past that point, however, although I submit we'd have still seen the \"6 in 20\" change somewhere around 1996, The set would not be the current set. Think the 1982-91 set with flat-panel displays and updated color scheme.
As for Press Your Luck, mentioned earlier, they would have shifted to a board much like the German board in the mid-1990s, albeit with the full 18 squares and graphics similar to the 1980s (with different fonts). The biggest question however would probably be if they'd have switched to the flat-panel displays a-la \"Whammy!\". We'd have seen the first CGI Whammy animations in the late 1990s, and I doubt we'd ever have seen the oval board.
EmiOfBrie:
[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Jul 23 2003, 08:38 PM\'] I speak for most when I say had Family Feud run continuously since 1976, we would have never dealt with Louie Anderson or the straight four-question format. (Granted, FF has never been off the air more than four years at a time, but...) [/quote]
I dunno if Richard Dawson could have continued much longer past 1995, actually, so we may have gotten Anderson anyway.
However, we may not have seen the return of the \"Play/Pass\" format that was absent in the CBS run.
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