Greetings to all that may remember The Who What or Where Game. The show ran on NBC-TV back in 1969-74.
Recently a best selling author released his new novel entitled, Dissident Gardens. Can you imagine my surprise to find one of the characters in this compelling novel is actually found participating as a contestant on The Who What or Where Game. A complete game with all the strategies, rules, Art James hosting-the works. Believe me, I\'m not selling books here, although it is a beautifully written story-I just wanted to share the news with you that this old favorite has somehow made a comeback.
My best to those who might remember,
RG
Great news Ronnie! That show was a lunchtime favorite for me. You might remember me when I was a contestant on your radio show. We gotta get WWW or Big Showdown back on the air somehow.
Ronnie! What a wonderful kick that must be for you! I\'ve told you often (but never enough) what a special game that was for me. So happy to see an Important Author using it in his narrative. I\'ll definitely pick up a copy.
What wonderful news! I look forward to reading it, too!
Ron, I\'m glad to see you paid us another visit because about 6 months ago, I had the strangest dream that involved the Who What or Where Game: I dreamed that my pastor was a contestant on the show, and in the final round, he made a 2:1 wager on a subject that I don\'t remember, much less the question involved. I only know that the he got the question correct, and won $2,960 - I don\'t know if that was his total score or just what he won on the wager, but what made this dream so strange was that somehow I was the one writing him the check for the prize monies won, and I was trying to find the sheet that had his original wager written down to verify his total winnings, and I couldn\'t find it, so I was scrambling around the show\'s set trying to find this information, and I woke up before I could find it.
Strange dream, but it was cool dreaming about being involved with a lesser-known game show.
I looked up the book at the B&N- it takes a lot from the known existing episode, and the timeline is fudged a little (the setting is 1969 and it\'s implied the show had been on for a while- the show didn\'t premiere until December that year)- but it\'s very accurate..
Thank you all for your posts. You\'ve given me a wonderful Chanukah present. I\'m now working on the Million Dollar 3W\'s. Who knows?????
Jonathan Lethem, the author, is pretty well known for his SF and literary fiction (I worked on an old edition of Gun, With Occasional Music many years back), so this should be selling pretty well. I\'ll have to check it out.
Thanks for the tip, Ron - good to hear from you. I\'m an old 3Ws and Big Showdown fan as well.
I\'m gonna check the book out. And Ron...thank you for one of my guilty pleasures during my 8th grade year, The Challengers.
I\'m gonna check the book out. And Ron...thank you for one of my guilty pleasures during my 8th grade year, The Challengers.
I know you meant that as a compliment, but I would never categorize a smart, well-run quiz game as a \"guilty pleasure\".
I know you meant that as a compliment, but I would never categorize a smart, well-run quiz game as a \"guilty pleasure\".
Seriously. I would suggest it was *more* intelligent than Jeopardy! at times because it encouraged paying attention to current events.
I know you meant that as a compliment, but I would never categorize a smart, well-run quiz game as a \"guilty pleasure\".
Seriously. I would suggest it was *more* intelligent than Jeopardy! at times because it encouraged paying attention to current events.
Speaking of comparing Jeopardy! to the 3Ws, whenever I explain the concept of the 3Ws game to a friend or anyone curious about the show, I make the following analogy:
If Jeopardy! is playing spades (card game), then the 3Ws is playing bid whist.
I never thought that one show was \"more intelligent\" than another. Both shows require a strong body of knowledge.
One more thing: one of the highlights of my senior year of high school was watching \"The Challengers\" while getting my homework done; it made the process a lot more tolerable.
I was only 7 or 8, but I loved The Challengers as a child. I think it was just a casualty of premiering at the wrong time (there were several early-90s games that fall into that category). Had it premiered 5 years earlier, or a decade later, I think it would\'ve fared a little better. Although I\'d love to see another current events themed trivia game, I do wonder what the shelf life would be, esp. if episodes go into reruns
GSGuru, nice cards analogy.