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No more "Russian Roulette"?
uncamark:
--- Quote ---This reminds me of the Nickelodeon game show philosophy in the late eighties/early nineties: let the show get popular, issue another set of episodes and then BAM! You're in reruns! (and now it's BAM! You're on GaS).
Shows such as Finders Keepers, Think Fast, Get The Picture, Nick Arcade pop to mind (of course, as I'm Canadian, I never saw any of these shows in first run*, so I might be totally wrong).
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Besides \"Legends,\" \"Make the Grade\" actually ran two series with Lew Schneider in New York (the game board changed fonts and icons in the second series) and one series with Robb Morris in Orlando.
And it seems to me that \"Figure It Out\" eked out three series (regular, \"WildStyle\" and \"FamilyStyle\"?).
zachhoran:
I think MTG's life span was still less than two years of first-run despite having three different \"seasons\". Only Double Dare and Legends of the Hidden Temple and I believe Figure it Out lasted more than two years between first and last original aired episode.
Seth Thrasher:
# of seasons list, Nick Game Shows (Seasons, in Nick Terms, are per batch of eps ordered...Sorta like GSN Originals)
Double Dare - 9 (DD '86, DD '87, SSDD '87, DD '88 #1, Fox FDD, DD '88 #2, SSDD '89, FDD '90, FDD '92)
Finders Keepers - 3 (Eure '87, Eure '88, Toffler '88)
Make the Grade - 3 (Schnieder '89, Schnieder '90, Morris '91)
Think Fast - 2 (Carrington '89, Lackey '90)
Wild & Crazy Kids (Original) - 2 ('90, '92)
What Would You Do - 2 ('91, '92) (I'm not sure on this one, since It's been ages since I've seen it)
Nick Arcade - 2 ('91, '93)
Get the Picture - 2 ('91 #1, '91 #2)
GUTS - 4 ('92, '93, '94, '95 [Global Guts])
Legends of the Hidden Temple - 3 ('93, '94, '95)
Figure It Out - 4 ( '97, '98 #1, '98#2 [Family Style], '99 [Wild Style])
You're On - 2 ('97, '98) (I'm not positivie on this one, either)
Double Dare 2000 - 2 ('00 #1, '00 #2)
Wild & Crazy Kids (New) - 1 (2002)
I think that's it. Remember, that's broken down by seasons [A Season for Nick is 1 production Order]
And, in talking first aired to last aired.
DD - 1986/1993
FK - 1987/1989 [Last eps were in '89, with '88 copyright date]
MTG - 1989/1991
TF - 1989/1990
W&CK - 1990/1993
WWYD - 1991/1993 (Not Entirely Sure)
NA - 1991/1994
GTP - 1991/1992
GUTS - 1992/1995
LoTHT - 1993/1995
FiO - 1997/2000
YO - 1998/1999 (Not Entirely Sure)
DD2k - 2000/2001
WACK - 2002 (Shortest run of ANY Nick Original to date)
tommycharles:
[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' date=\'Jun 17 2003, 01:30 AM\'] Has any GSN original *ever* had more than two "seasons"? I can't think of any. [/quote]
I don't believe any GSN original has had more than two seasons, but has any GSN original had more than 130 eps produced? I seem to remember that HS had 165 done, but I might be talking out of my rear.
uncamark:
--- Quote ---I don't believe any GSN original has had more than two seasons, but has any GSN original had more than 130 eps produced? I seem to remember that HS had 165 done, but I might be talking out of my rear.
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You're correct--100 the first cycle (which was shared with Pax) and 65 the second GSN-only cycle.
But it seems to me that \"Inquizition\" got to at least 100 episodes a year for both of the years it was on...
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