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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Dbacksfan12 on March 16, 2007, 03:41:50 PM
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What is the first game show that you remember watching (or playing, for that matter).
I have a couple that stick out, both from when I was 3.
One was watching Press Your Luck in my parents bedroom (I remember my dad complaining about it, for some reason).
Also when I was 3, my little sister got ill and had to go to the hospital. I was sent across the street to stay with the neighbors. In their basement they had the TPiR home game (MB, 1986). We played it. I purchased that game from them 14 years later.
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I remember watching To Tell the Truth and Tic-Tac Dough from 1990 when I was about 3 years old.
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Some of my earliest memories are watching Wheel of Fortune...and I remember seeing Rayburn's Break The Bank while my mom got a haircut from a lady who lived in the next county over. (In retrospect, BtB must have aired on a Baltimore affiliate, because she got all three majors from there and we didn't have them in our county.)
My folks always tell stories of how I would line up calculators and chalkboards to keep progress on my own little scoreboards on the games that were airing. I remember doing this for Pyramid and TPiR mostly.
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Pretty sure my earliest memory was the Hugh Downs "Concentration". I vaguely remember the checkerboard patterned set, and I remember when they changed to the "new" set.
Yup, I go back a ways. The set changeover probably happened in '61.
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I don't remember which might've been first, but The Price is Right, $25/$100k Pyramid, Match Game(90) and Classic Concentration all would be up there.
Funny thing about MG90 was, for the longest time I confused it with Hollywood Squares, obviously I didn't pay too much attention to the actual game! I think I mostly watched that show to see Ronn Lucas and Scorch. Ah the days of youth, lol.
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The first show I remember watching is "Fun House" in 1988; I was three. We had to have gotten cable early the next year because I remember watching all those USA and Nickelodeon game shows.
Good thread.
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When I was 2, I went into the hospital, and can remember watching the intro to CBS' "$25,000 Pyramid". This was probably 1985.
I remember playing TPiR from around 1986 or '87. Those were the days. :-)
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For me it's "Three on a Match". First home game: 2nd edition of "Price is Right", soon followed by the 19th edition of Concentration.
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I can remember the day the flower pot landed on my head and that happened when I was a year and a half old, so obviously I can remember some very early memories. I can remember seeing The Munsters when it was on the network; my earliest game show memory is Concentration and the Art Fleming Jeopardy! I do remember seeing those before I remember seeing The Hollywood Squares, which would've premiered when I was two and a half (and which I also remember watching very early).
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Being born in 1990, my earliest memory is watching a re-run of Family Double Dare at the age of three while sitting atop a mattress leaned against my wall. Although, there are home videos of me doing game show things even before that, since I'd been interested in them since I had come home from the hospital. As a baby, the Bankrupt sound from Wheel would always appease me and make me giggle. I'd like to think the first letters I learned were R, S, T, L, N and E.
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First game show I remember seeing was "On Your Mark," with Sonny Fox from 1961. I think I was drawn to it because it had kids as contestants.
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I remember seeing Scrabble first-run, and TPIR episodes with the really plain-looking license plates on the cars. (The ones that were tan with "T.P.I.R." in big black letters)
There's a lot more I can remember, but those are the earliest.
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My earliest recollection was "It Takes Two", with Vin Scully. I mostly remember the set, but not the gameplay.
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First one I ever remember seeing was "Match Game '77" at the age of 2 1/2. First one I ever remember playing was the home version of "Family Feud" at a friend's house. I had so much fun with it, a few weeks later when Easter 1981 rolled around, I got it as a gift (4th edition).
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I could bring up the typical mid 80's hits as my earliest memories, which of course they were, but I'll go off the board with two I remembered fairly well that weren't hits: All-Star Blitz and Your Number's Up.
Earliest rerun I remember would have to be when USA reran Cullen's Chain Reaction.
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My earliest GS memory?
The tail end of the Bob Clayton version of "Concentration". The following fall, when the show came back in syndication (with Jack Narz hosting) and the newer, larger, flashier set (as well as the full-color puzzles and the double play round), I was a confused little 3-year old.
What I most remembered about this version were:
(1) The opening, in which the "maze" logo re-arranged itself into the title logo
(2) On this version, the scoreboards doubled as a set of sliding doors through which the contestants made their entry onto the set. (Also, a "maze" logo was behind those doors as well.)
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The USA repeats of "Talkabout" with Wayne Cox, especially the center-stage (IIRC) isolation booth.
I also remember Wink's "Trivial Pursuit" pretty well...in particular, each contestant's "game pie" and how delicious it looked.
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I definitely remember noticing, along with a friend of mine, that Chain Reaction was now in "a new room." I'm also told that at age negative several months, the words "come on 5000" would always make me kick.
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Guess I'm another one remembering Three on a Match. Between that one, Hollywood Squares, and Concentration.
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The Hugh Downs version of Concentration, Jeopardy! with Art Fleming, Eye Guess, watching Hollywood Squares in prime time when I was sick -- this all must have been 1968.
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I was born in late 1978, and while I was born and raised on TPIR (I may have seen the first airing of Plinko, because I distinctly remember those two-stage "WIN!" reveals,) I have a couple of fragmented early game show memories:
For the longest time, I couldn't place it, but I remembered a show with green triangles, red circles, and lots of bright lights. It wasn't until the late '90s, when a friend got GSN, that I realized I had seen the first incarnation of Match Game. I also have fairly strong memories of the MG-HSH, and I remember thinking, as a child, "This guy hosting Hollywood Squares isn't very good."
I have vague memories of at least one other letter-turner (possibly Susan Stafford) on Wheel. More vividly than anything, I remember asking myself, "Why is that one space worth $175 when all the others end in 50 and 00?"
I have a distinct memory of watching 10 numbered circles blink around a bunch of triangles. Never knew what that was until the internets showed me it was "Battlestars."
And I have a very clear memory of laying down for a nap on a warm, sunny summer day, shades down in my bedroom, and hearing the distinctive clang and buzz of Family Feud coming from the TV in the basement.
So yeah, that's as far back as I go. 1981-82 range. With all this floating in my head, it's no wonder I can't retain anything useful.
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My mother was a soap opera fanatic, so I had to catch what I could, but I definitely remember "To Tell the Truth" around 1963. "Queen for a Day", too.
Later, when I got into school, I'd hurry home every day to see "Match Game" & "You Don't Say!". And during vacations & school breaks over the years, I'd watch "Concentration", "Eye Guess" "Jeopardy!", "Hollywood Squares" "Password", "Split Second", "The Who, What or Where Game" and "Let's Make a Deal".
Never had much of a chance to see the primetime G-T shows when they originally aired, though... my parents were always watching something else.
-Kevin
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I remember watching, of all things, "Cross-Wits," circa 1978 or 1979 (age 4 or 5).
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My earliest game show memory is of the first run of High Rollers, which made its debut when I was four years old. I recall being on vacation when the show returned in 1978 and wondering why the set looked different -- and when, many years later, I saw each of the two '75 episodes at the Museum of TV & Radio, for a brief moment I felt like a kid again.
The first game shows I recall watching regularly were The Joker's Wild -- the '77-78 syndie episodes aired every morning as I was getting ready for day camp -- and The Price is Right. That summer WROC also ran promos for TJW, with what would become the '78-86 open playing as Jack Barry asked viewers to watch his show and The Midmorning Break, a local talk show. Oddly, I also recall being eager to see Jeopardy! when it returned in '78, and thinking that it would be great to see it again, but currently I don't have any memory of watching Art Fleming's first run.
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Earliest memories...I can remember with "Rain Man"-like clarity sitting in a church rectory and watching one of the 1986 Price specials on a black & white TV while my mother was doing a choir rehearsal.
First game show I watched regularly: USA's "Hot Potato" reruns...Remember when you were a kid and you realized you could make it look like you were smoking when you went outside on a cold day? I used to yell "Hot Potato!" before I did that.
First home game: Grandparents bought me a "Wheel of Fortune" home game once. Not for a birthday or Christmas, just your typical "because we're GRANDPARENTS, that's why" purchase.
I also remember watching the syndicated versions of "Double Dare" and "Finders Keepers" when WSAZ aired them as part of the second half of "The Mr. Cartoon Show." Sadly, right before I got into tape-trading, the VCR ate the tape of my brother and I in the audience shouting "1-2-3-Gooooooooo!" on Mr. Cartoon's cue to start the episode...Sigh...Local television, we hardly knew ye...
Yes, the title of the thread says single-tense "memory," but what can I say? You opened a floodgate... :-)
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I remember back when I was three, watching the morning block on CBS (save for Sale of the Century, which was always a favorite of mine) with my grandmother, who'd watch me during the mornings.
And of course, as the day wore on, I'd have time to catch Jeopardy! at 4 and whatever was running after it, in this case Card Sharks (I wasn't even aware WABC had picked up Sale to run after it until I browsed through some old newspaper clippings in the microfilm room at the library...Two of my favorites of all time, running back to back like that? How I wish I had been older at the time, or at least figured out how to work a VCR.).
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It's not technically "watching" or "playing", but the earliest memory I have of *anything* is GS-related. I have a very, very vague memory from when I was very young--I'm guessing I was about three or four. I was in a bedroom; for some reason, I think it was at my grandparents' house in Middleboro. I remember pulling open a drawer on a dresser and finding a home version of "Password" inside. And that's it. The whole thing.
It's certainly the most surreal memory I have, but for as long as I've lived, it's also been the oldest memory I've had. (And lest you think it unlikely that a three-year old would recognize such a thing...well, considering that my mom wrote in my baby memories book that at age two, my favorite TV shows were "Sesame Street" and "The Price is Right", I don't find it that hard to believe...:-) )
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[quote name=\'bscripps\' post=\'148478\' date=\'Mar 17 2007, 01:35 AM\']
It's not technically "watching" or "playing", but the earliest memory I have of *anything* is GS-related. I have a very, very vague memory from when I was very young--I'm guessing I was about three or four. I was in a bedroom; for some reason, I think it was at my grandparents' house in Middleboro. I remember pulling open a drawer on a dresser and finding a home version of "Password" inside. And that's it. The whole thing.
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Thank Goodness! Imagine what direction your life would have gone if you pulled open the drawer with the dirty magazines in it!! :-P
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I have memories of childhood things from when I was 2 but GS-wise it would be Match Game 70s and Price...specifically the little cars of It's Optional.
I can also remember Dawson-era Feud and thinking how cool it was that the families huddled on the stairs (but not the lollipop trees).
Funny how this thread popped up (for me anyway). My first ever question/post to ATGS was to aks about my fuzzy Price memory of a car going along a dirt road. That was 12 years ago to the month (IIRC).
Also, anyone else feel old when some members say their first memory was from the early 90s or that they were born in the late 80s/early 90s? :) I know there was a "What's Your Age?" thread but did anyone figure out the average age of the posters here?
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I was 2 or 3 when I recalled watching "$ale" and "Scrabble" in the same day. I was more impressed (or mesmerized) with the flashing lights and spinning gameboard/turntable at that time.
My first game show home game was the Junior "Wheel of fortune" in 1989, when my parents believed I was 'too young' to play the old folks' version (funny that 16 years later, I proved them wrong).
I seriously wished I knew how to program that damn VCR, that way I could've had a decent GS collection by now (I'm quite satisfied with taping everything off of GSN back in 1999-2000).
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My earliest memory was the PrimeTime Price Is Right. It would have been on ABC by this time (1964-65..7 or 8 years old). I would take a stand or something to use as a "podium" and I would play "Bill Cullen" as we would use the Speigel catalog to play Price Is Right. I also would try to get home from school to see You Dont Say! and Match Game. When I was off school I watched the NBC shows from 10AM-1PM.Variably..It Takes Two, Snap Judgment, Eye Guess, Personality, Concentation, Hollywood Squares and Jeopardy!, Probably Sale Of the Century..I would also occasionally catch shows on ABC like Supermarket Sweep (1967), Dream House, Newlywed Game and Dating Game..
I would love to get any examples of the above names shows at some point..
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Double Dare 1976 with Trebek is my first memory that I can vividly recall, along with BtB 76...there was some little show named TPiR that was on at the time also :)
High Rollers 1978 was the first show I watched regularly- I always wanted a pair of those dice!
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I think my first memory of a game show would be Classic Concentration. However because of the USA game show block, I am not sure if this would be my earliest memory. It was someone playing the Winner's Big Money Game on $OTC. It had to be USA because it was on at dark, so it must have been the west coast feed (my grandparents had one of those huge satellite dishes, now its a large bird bath/swimming pool). Can anyone give me info on when USA was airing $OTC with the WBMG?
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First, very hazy game show memory: The Joker's Wild when Bill was host. The memory was basically just the spinning wheels (during the bonus game) and the smiling guy with big glasses. It was years before I found out what the show was, and years after that before I found out that I wasn't just badly misremembering what Jack Barry looked like.
After that, I became an insanely devoted Wheel of Fortune acolyte at around age 4. I took great pride in impressing adults with my ability to actually solve the puzzles earlier than they could. The show also helped me stretch my math muscles--coming up with the $$$ remaining during the shopping segments before the cue card guy could, figuring out just how many letters each contestant needed in the speed-up round to win the game, etc.
I say all that not to brag, but just to point out that I was a really, really, REALLY nerdy 4-year-old. I've managed to drop one of those "really"s in the last 21 years. (But not the all-caps one.)
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[quote name=\'rebelwrest\' post=\'148513\' date=\'Mar 17 2007, 02:32 PM\']
Can anyone give me info on when USA was airing $OTC with the WBMG?
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It aired between fall-92 and summer-94, but they went back and forth between the shopping, match board, and the Big Money game.
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Press Your Luck, from the USA repeats. The trick to scare a three year old (enough to give them nightmares for YEARS...)...expose them to the whammy. Gawd...I didn't get over that fear for almost ten years. No joke...used Curt King's game to get over it.
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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'148523\' date=\'Mar 17 2007, 04:55 PM\']
Press Your Luck, from the USA repeats. The trick to scare a three year old (enough to give them nightmares for YEARS...)...expose them to the whammy. Gawd...I didn't get over that fear for almost ten years. No joke...used Curt King's game to get over it.
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It's okay. I'm man enough now to admit that the Devil and the Dragon scared the hell out of me enough to not watch Joker or Tic Tac's bonus games.
Whew scared me too much as a 5 year old. It was on the first tape trade I ever did, eleven years ago (Thanks Chris Lambert for helping me confront my fears as an adult!).
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I believe at age four I said I wanted to be called 'Gene Rayburn' at the dinner table.
I addition to 'Match Game 75' I remember seeing on tv Bob Barker's entrance, the spinning 'Wheel of Fortune', the 'Hollyood Squares' board and the 'Tattletales' monitors. Also I had two great aunts that lived together. Every night they watched what I now know to be Moore & Garigiola 'TTTT'.
A few years later I much more clearly remember 'Family Feud'. I recall pointing out to others that 'nobody ever passes' & that Richard has the Fast Money answers on his card (or so I thought). Finally I liked when the syndicated show ran the complete credits. I could hear more of the theme then.
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I was around 7 years old when I first noticed the nighttime tpir (around 1985 with Tom Kennedy). I never had the opportunity to watch the daytime tpir other than the odd time since they used to show it at 4:00pm on my local station and I never got back home until after 5:30pm. When they first showed the nighttime version, I thought "where's Bob"? Then, didn't care since I thought "ah, he's pretty good too".
I would lay on the shag carpet on my stomach in the living room. My dad would be watching too. I would then usually nod off for a while after the mid-point of TPIR since my neck would get still after a while.
Other than that, I always loved when a rain storm would come by and make many channels over the air crystal clear for a while. I'd then be excited to turn to channel 47 which would be a Buffalo station I wish would come clear (since I'm from Ontario, Canada, was hard to accomplish but usually did come clear for brief periods of time). I would then watch Perry's Card sharks reruns or I Dream of Jeannie/Bewitched (this would be in the late 80's I think). When the rain stopped and the antenna dried up, the channel would go fuzzy again.
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Hugh Downs' Concentration from my playpen. It's something of a family legend. I have 8mm film of opening a Concentration home game as a Christmas present at age 4 1/2.
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Two early black-and-white memories (I can't figure out which was first): Bob Clayton hosting "Make a Face," Steve Dunne's "Double Exposure."
First box game: "$64,000 Question."
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It's a tie between Password ( I remember the flash noise signifying it is Lightning Round time) and Bob's Full House.
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My earliest memory is TJW back when I was like, 3 or 4. Being that young, I always wanted the contestant to spin the devil in the bonus round. Same for TTD, I liked when they got the dragon. Don't worry, I didn't wish that fate on anyone once I was 5.
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[quote name=\'KrisW73\' post=\'148510\' date=\'Mar 17 2007, 02:04 PM\']
High Rollers 1978 was the first show I watched regularly- I always wanted a pair of those dice!
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Even though MG was the first game show I remember, at around age 4, I was totally fascinated by NBC's games - the wheel and puzzleboard on WoF, the big cards on CS, and the big dice on HR. I remember telling my mom I wanted some dice, too - imagine my disappointment when she said she had some and brought out a pair of the regular dice from a board game!
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I was born in '71, when Bob Barker was still known as the host of Truth or Consequences. I'm pretty sure TorC was the first game show I saw very much because my dad liked it and I have very vague memories of it. I also know I was a Barkerphile practically from birth, which would seem to support this. The earliest one I remember watching very much is TPIR. I remember liking the Gauntlet of Villains on Whew! even though I, too, found them a bit frightening.
As far as home games go, my first was probably Concentration, which I vaguely remember from the Narz version (and, of course, remember CC with Trebek well). After that my next ones were P+ and FF.
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I had mentioned in my "Let's Meet Our Players" post that my earliest recollection was of the prize signage on THREE ON A MATCH, but after further review, I do have vague recollections of shows that had aired before, like EYE GUESS (the title just stood out), LMAD, NEWLYWED, DATING, and even CAN YOU TOP THIS?.
Whatever it was that sparked my interest, though, I'm just glad that it did.
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I was pretty much a "Price" fan since birth, but one of my weirdest early memories was remembering "Blackout". For a long time [until I found info on it, at least] I thought Bob Eubanks hosted it......which must mean I saw some "Card Sharks" as a baby too.....
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I think my earliest memory of game shows was watching the Jack Narz version of Beat the Clock, which ran at 5:30 p.m. for a while in my area. It was on opposite Get Smart reruns. We only had one color set at the time (the other was black and white), and my sisters always wanted Get Smart while I always wanted Beat the Clock. We usually took turns watching in color! This probably would have been very early '70s.
I also have vague memories of the original version of Sale of the Century, before they changed to the couples format.
By summer '73 I was hooked on the genre, and whenever home from school always watched shows like Joker's Wild, Baffle, To Tell the Truth, Hollywood Squares, Narz's Concentration and just about everything else that was available over the years.
Those were the days!!
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More memories are coming back to me, still from c. 1985, when I was living in Dallas, and visited family in Norfolk. From what I've been told, I get my fandom from my great-grandmother, who loved Match Game in the 70s.
-I remember a neon Joker light, which I'm thinking was the circle of red Joker icons, that lit in a 360-degree design. When I saw TJW on GSN some 13 years later, I was surprised at how different I remembered the neon, which I thought was a white/pink neon color as a child.
-The Tune Topics board from Lange's Name That Tune. From what I remember, the show (and TJW) aired in the late-afternoon, along with TTD and syndie $ale, all on the station I work at now.
-Back in Dallas, I remember TTD airing on channel 39 (forgot the call letters), but I remember the logo was a bold Helvetica font, in a shiny gold.
-I think Kennedy TPiR was the first TPiR I became familiar with.
-Telling an uncle I thought they got the wheel for "Wheel of Fortune" from Pep Boys.
-Also remember wanting the Card Sharks table that Lacey and Suzanna worked from (this would be 1986).
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I was never a huge fan of game shows as a child...If I were sick I'd watch the occasional episode of TPiR because nothing else was on. Sometimes my Mom would leave TJW and TTD on from 7-8 (I THINK it aired on WWOR-TV here, not sure, I know it was from 7-8 P.M.). My Mom also LOVED Barris stuff...Gong Show and Newlywed Game were two shows she made sure to watch as much as she could. I only started getting interested in shows due to Body Language.
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I was born in 86, and until I was about 5, I watched only two things on TV: Sesame Street and GS's.
My GS tapes from this time period are from both USA and the networks. I watched all of the Nick games, but my only remaining memories are that of Double Dare.
My earliest memories were of Wheel (oh what a surprise!). I clapped along with the Wheel, and called out the letters, dollars, and puzzles. My parents say I tried to host Wheel with Pat. I would jump up when the player is going for $25k, and scream bloody murder when someone would win it (same deal when TPIR's intro was playing). BUT, I would run out of the room just when somebody was about to hit bankrupt, because I was not fond of what it did to the players or its sound (negative association, I'd have to believe). :D
I got the Nintendo when I was 3, along with the newest editions of Wheel, Jeopardy, and Classic Concentration, and they we the only games I played. I still have them, along with all the other GS video games they released. In the morning, CC aired right after daytime Wheel (at least, locally), so that hour was my "must see TV" until Wheel went off. When CC started in repeats, it aired at the same time as Combs FF, so I had to flip channels until both went off the air, and I was at school all day.
I watched the daytime games on NBC and CBS in the morning, I watched USA in the afternoon, and my bedtime was 7:30 (purposely placed right after Wheel). My USA tapes have TTD 90, PYL, Scrabble, and $25K Pyr. I also remembered watching SoTC and $100k Pyr on USA as well.
One semi-interesting tidbit is that I also remembered watching another show on USA, where there was a group of players on the right side of a glitzy set, an electronic board on the left, and a host in the middle, standing in front of a car or a huge podium, and that I knew the host from somewhere else. Only recently did I discover (after FG2 started Quickplay) that the game was Wipeout! Thus, I have recently developed a sort of fondness for the show...
Long post, I know, yet I'm forgetting lots of other early GS memories. I take my games very seriously...
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Other scattered memories, since others are sharing too:
- I could tell time at age 4 1/2; I remember Whew! being the show that bumped Price to the 11am time slot in '79. I would set encyclopedias across the floor and jump from book to book as the player ran the gauntlet (I remember Randy Amasia absolutely loving this story when I told it to him).
- Watching the $20,000 Pyramid at its noon time slot while eating lunch (I was fascinated by the solari's) and occasionally, switching to NBC for Chain Reaction.
- Watching Las Vegas Gambit before I had to go to school (I was in afternoon kindergarten..fall '80)
- Watching a Saturday edition of TJW from Harrisburg at 7pm and seeing a car win; watching the same show from WMAR at 7:30 so I could see the car win all over again. Being absolutely terrified the time a contestant faced the devil and pulled the lever down, where it collapsed. When Jack said "You broke my wheel!!" I actually thought he was angry! Also on the TJW tangent, being glad when Jim Peck substitute hosted; he was less scary than Barry.
- My mom would call me inside if I was outside playing when they were going to spin the Star Wheel on MG.
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Not my earliest memory, but it's certainly a ways back:
I would watch the Winner's Circle from Pyramid being played (can't remember if it was Clark reruns or Davidson first-runs) and notice the category trilon appear between the contestant and celebrity's legs. I would always think that they would spin the trilon around themselves, and when they spun it the wrong way, they would get buzzed and the pyramid would be showing. Spinning it the right way got the ding and dollar amount.
Also, my dad always remembers that I would watch PYL reruns on USA and scream, "Big money, 'NUMMA, NUMMA!'" I don't remember saying that for specifically PYL but I definitely remember screaming that when Wheel of Fortune came on (in this case, the "Numma" being the Bankrupt).
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My earliest memory would have to be me watching Sale of the Century and Scrabble every day starting around 86 or so (I was just about three at the time.)
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A few memories I had forgotten about.
For years I had a vague recollection about one game show that predated my TPIR memories; remembered absolutely nothing except that losers were pulled backwards through the wall. It wasn't until I started collecting game shows that I learned that the show in question was "Remote Control".
Another show I had vague memories of was Scattergories. I remembered the gameplay and the fact I really liked the show, but couldn't remember the name or host. I finally learned what it was when I just randomly surfed the net one day and found a rulesheet for it.
As for shows I actually remembered the titles of, I also watched a lot of Carmen Sandiego, Double Dare, Nick Arcade. (for Nick Arcade, I'd dance to the theme song whenever it was played!)
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Another random moment:
I remembered Bob Goen more than Pat on "Wheel" when I was 4. Then again, I was more scared of Pat Sajak then Bob during that time as well.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'148574\' date=\'Mar 18 2007, 02:50 PM\']-Also remember wanting the Card Sharks table that Lacey and Suzanna worked from (this would be 1986).[/quote]
Clearly you were just a child if, looking at that picture, you wanted the table.
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I have some vague recollections of watching TPiR, PYL (USA reruns), and $100k Pyramid in my childhood.
Interesting note, I can remember shouting "PASS! PASS!" many times for one particular episode. I don't recall which one, but when I first saw clips of the Larson eps., I thought that was the one. Seeing as I was born in one of the hottest summers in Milwaukee record, I would be completely wrong.
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Earliest memories....The big numbers on High Rollers, the pinball from Marble Machine, Jack Narz' Concentration, and Dealer's Choice. I was 2 at the time....I later told Trebek in an interview with him that I had learned to count thanks to those big numbers!
Speaking of Dealer's Choice, does anyone here remember an audience game they played to pick the three contestants? Vague, 30+ year memories of this had audience members selecting boxes off of the same board they showed the prizes (the 3 x 3 grid).... I believe, and again, i'm going on hazy memories of a baby here, that a player had to pick a box that avoided a, now i'm serious here, pumpkin? to advance on stage.
Or I may have just been loopy from the breastmilk. Confirm or Deny old timers please?
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Well, I sure feel like a dinosaur around these here parts ...
I remember Mom watching "Queen for a Day."
I remember a game show called "Seven Keys" another one called "Camouflage."
And I remember Hugh Downs hosting "Concentration." And Bud Collyer hosting "To Tell the Truth."
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'148685\' date=\'Mar 20 2007, 08:14 AM\']
Earliest memories....The big numbers on High Rollers, the pinball from Marble Machine, Jack Narz' Concentration, and Dealer's Choice. I was 2 at the time....I later told Trebek in an interview with him that I had learned to count thanks to those big numbers!
Speaking of Dealer's Choice, does anyone here remember an audience game they played to pick the three contestants? Vague, 30+ year memories of this had audience members selecting boxes off of the same board they showed the prizes (the 3 x 3 grid).... I believe, and again, i'm going on hazy memories of a baby here, that a player had to pick a box that avoided a, now i'm serious here, pumpkin? to advance on stage.
Or I may have just been loopy from the breastmilk. Confirm or Deny old timers please?
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All I remember was the contestants' names displayed on the "Prize Slot Machine." Beforehand, Hastings or Clark would do the "pick" out of the audience (those he had already been told to pick). Later, Jane Nelson introed the contestants.
As for the main part of the thread, my first memory is Groucho's duck-billed wheel, then "WML?"/"IGAS"/"TTTT" and "Password"--and the shows my mother didn't like, like "Concentration" and "Face the Facts."
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Sometime between 1968-69, I remember seeing Jeopardy! (and my mom telling me it would be too difficult for me), WhoWhatWhere and Peggy Cass on TTTT. I don't have a specific memory of seeing Concentration then, but I remember being taught the card game and wanting to know about the Wild Cards.
The first home game I can remember playing was The $10,000 Pyramid. We played Password once in the 4th grade, which is around the time I saw the Concentration home game.
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One of my earliest clear memories was wondering why Mom got so mad when she caught me watching "The Newlywed Game".
I just liked watching the people hit each other with those big cards...
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[quote name=\'ChrisLambert!\' post=\'148741\' date=\'Mar 20 2007, 11:45 PM\']
One of my earliest clear memories was wondering why Mom got so mad when she caught me watching "The Newlywed Game".
I just liked watching the people hit each other with those big cards...
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When I was a child, I, too, was not allowed to watch TNG. :)
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It's more like memorieS in my case.
For me, the very first was on WABC and Tom Kennedy hosting the 100,000 Name That Tune that afternoon and getting hooked along with remembering the shapes and set of Bert Convy and Tattletales. From that came going to Channel 4 and Jim Perry with Card Sharks and being taken by the quick and reactive way he hosted. From then on, the majority consisted of WOR Channel 9's lineup of The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough with a little Camouflage in between on WCBS Channel 2, a short run but even during one night when that was on switching over for Channel 4's Whodunit hosted by Ed McMahon (how I wish to find episodes of this show someday to really bring me back).
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Around 1973 I saw the original Sale of the Century tape in New York City. All I can remember is a split
level stage with stairs leading to a bargain basement. My other earliest memory would be watching
To Tell The Truth (Moore) in my room while I was supposed to be taking a nap.
My parents told me I was named after a Presbyterian minister named "Peter Marshall". Memories like
these convince me they must have been thinking of someone else :)
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Earliest memories? I don't ctually remember it but family folklore has it that I fell out out the stroller (parked at the TV) watching an Art James at 6 months old. (A story embarrassingly retold on "Millionaire" when I was on). Research shows that Mr. James hosted "Say When!!" at that time...so I must have been watching that.
As for actual memories... I guess I can stretch back to age 4.
I remember Concentration(Downs) and Jeopardy!(Fleming). I remember them sort of airing back to back. By the time I understood time slots and where these shows were Concentration was at 10:30 and J! at noon. Thanks to the internet several years ago I found the did indeed air back to back in the 11-12 hour.
I also remember a little game show where the players (seated in a Password like array) sounded like they were crying or moaning. I remember my mom getting annoyed when "that crazy game show" came on early in the morning. I later (again thanks to the 'net) found out I must have been watching Fractured Phrases. In my memory it seemed like it lasted more than 3 months. I also remember a game that I called "The Betting Game" that came on somewhere after Jeopardy... That must have been "I'll Bet" (It seemed that "It's Your Bet was familiar when that came on in 1969). The next recall in my memory must be wrong based on NBC's schedule in 1965. I recall Jan Murray hosting a show between "Jeopardy!" and "I'll Bet" but I see from researching this that it was "Call My Bluff". Either he appeared frequently on that or my time line is off (He did host either Chain Letter or Charge Account around the mid 60s).
I guess my TV dial stuck on channel 4 as my day finished with "You Don't Say!" ad "The Match Game" . I loved how the names flipped to Match when a team matched and once I heard "Swingin' Safari" on radio and thought THe Match Game was coming on radio!!
(I know in between soaps were there too... but people were always getting killed on those so I left the room)
RE DEALER'S CHOICE:
I was 13 when this aired in 1974. They DID originally start with 4 audience members then went to 3 via a quick game. I don't exactly recall a pumpkin... but this quick game had the players pick from the "slot machine" that 9 box board.. and then there were usually cards behind each one (playing cards) the low card lost. It is feasable since I remember they altered this qualifying game a bit several times that a pumpkin was there . (or something that looked like that) But I don't remember a pumpkin...just cards.
THe pre-game qualifyer was eliminated after a few months (poss. weeks) though. Then they just called 3 players.
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GameShowGuy: A couple of more shows that were set up similar to Password in the sixties on NBC were "What's That Song" and "Snap Judgment," which both lasted four times longer than "Fractured Phrases."
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'148790\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 08:29 AM\']
GameShowGuy: A couple of more shows that were set up similar to Password in the sixties on NBC were "What's That Song" and "Snap Judgment," which both lasted four times longer than "Fractured Phrases."
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And in one of the more befuddling decisions that G-T ever made, in its last months "Snap Judgment" was exactly "Password" under another title, down to the celebs introducing their partners. The only difference (other than renaming the Lightning Round the Big 5) was that Johnny O did the title, so he could cue the audience to do the finger snap ("And the game they're on their mark to play is 'Snap... [finger snaps] Judgment!'").
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On that note, I took a look at the Snap Judgment Wiki article (http://\"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Snap_Judgment&action=history\"), and want to know if anyone can tell me if I should know who the hell Benhallums1 is, and if I did would it explain why they don't have a command of basic English?
/Curt, you did yeoman's work translating the first format.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'148808\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 12:58 PM\']
On that note, I took a look at the Snap Judgment Wiki article (http://\"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Snap_Judgment&action=history\"), and want to know if anyone can tell me if I should know who the hell Benhallums1 is[/quote]
The sockpuppet of a banned user who vandalized countless articles for little reason beyond being annoying.
and if I did would it explain why they don't have a command of basic English?
Because they had a bad habit of complicating things via poor language.
/Curt, you did yeoman's work translating the first format.
Reading that article hurt my eyes so badly, I might make the rest readable.
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[quote name=\'Scrabbleship\' post=\'148835\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 04:47 PM\']
The sockpuppet of a banned user who vandalized countless articles for little reason beyond being annoying.
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Right. I guess what I meant was: has that idjit ever been a user *here*?
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That article made irismason look like ernesthemingway.
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I was a bit older when "Snap Judgment" aired and I remember that show (at least the original rules.) I remember once a male contestant got up to go to a backstage isolation booth (which looked like they went thru a big pully elevator (like the type in that hotel on "Petticoat Junction". Ed McMahon commented on his (the contestant's) pink pants (it WAS the 60's) ... I had B&W until 1974. I also remember Gene Rayburn & EdMcMahon swapped hosting jobs for a week with Ed doing "The Match Game" and Gene hosting "Snap Judgment". Gene wore gaudy striped knee socks (pulling up his pants to show them) on one episode.
Never saw "Words & Music" but I think that also aired when I was older.
I vaguly remember early LMAD (but really just Monty Hall) When did the costumes start- in full swing?
The crazy game I remember that annoyed my mother each morning (with players moaning and whining) HAD to be Fractured Phrases (based on the fact FF came on early and that it's rules were similar to the current board game,"Mad Gab". Having played Mad Gab, I see that similar effect that can be mistaken for moaning or crying...
It seemed that I'll Bet and Fractured Phrases were on longer. Time goes much more slowly when you're a kid! (Not that I'm an old timer at a YOUNG 45... now my buddy Steve will add his editorial reply) Time flies after you graduate college!!
I also remember the 60s panel shows: IGAS and To Tell The Truth. (I remember TTTT swithching themes in circa '66 and adding the audience vote. I also remember my grandmother loving to watch Whats My Line (mostly for host John Daily). It came on after Candid Camera Sunday nights.
In addition I loved "Password"... the way the words popped up from the desk. (My students in a Saturday morning "College For Kids" class enjoy this too-40 years later!!) It seemed though that Password back then aired quite infrequently. I took it (as a 5 year old) as being a "holiday special" when it aired.
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The Password reference reminded me of mine...
Video Village, with it's big "chuck-a-luck" cage which I thought was very cool.
And Password's first set change, switching to the familiar CBS one with the football-shaped logo behind Allen Ludden. I thought it was because they were starting football season and CBS covered the Packer games!
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GSG: "What's This Song" was on at 10:30am and had celebs and contestants seated a la Password with singing clues. It ran for the 64-65 season and ended two days before "Fractured Phrases" began.
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I think I recall Truth Or Consequences coming on early . I remember calling it "Truth for Consequences".
I still say that Fractured Phrases was that "annoying" show since a musical game (like "What's This Song"*) wouldn't have players sounding like they're crying or moaning (unless they sang THAT badly). That show HAD to be Fractured Phrases. Though I think today I'd really enjoy Fractured Phrases as Mad Gab is a fun game.
This topic had me thinking all day... I do remember Snap Judgment more clearly but don't remember the rule change near the end of it's run. (I guess at 7 yrs old words were words). Now I'm very curious... how was "The Big 5" presented. As the words popping out of the desk was so synonimous with Password, I think I'd remember it used on another show. Does anyone know how "The Big 5" was presented?
I always mix up "What's This Song" and "Words and Music" - ( I know Wink hosted both- regrettably I don't recall recall watching either.)
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The first memory that I can recall is from Jeopardy! in 1974. (I was 10 at the time.) My family went to visit my aunt and I remember that she was watching it. I think that Concentration also comes to my mind as one of the first games to see, but it could be playing tricks with me. 30+ year memories are at times blurry, as some of you know!
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It's just too bad that school got in the way of watching morning game shows. I started school in the fall of 1965, so the only show I watched with any regularity during the school year on NBC was YDS! (MG was not cleared after around 65 by our local station) I sometimes wonder if I learned more by watching game shows, as I already knew the stuff they taught in grade school.
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For some reason, the handful of memories of game shows I have in my youth are mostly USA reruns of TTD (which I thought had a shag carpet and the board was stage left while host/contestant podiums were stage right), HR87, and Talk About among other game shows that reran on the network at the time.
Wouldn't be surprised if I remember watching TTD90 and TJW90 when they were in syndication.
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[quote name=\'TonicBH\' post=\'148883\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 12:58 PM\']
Wouldn't be surprised if I remember watching TTD90 and TJW90 when they were in syndication.
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I caught Joker '90 exactly once when it was in syndication.
I remember it because it was the night I got up at 3:00 AM and started calling almost every single 900 number I knew. (Which wasn't many...I was only 7 or 8.) I went on for almost an hour and a half before my parents caught me...boy were they pissed.
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'148884\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 12:25 PM\']
I remember it because it was the night I got up at 3:00 AM and started calling almost every single 900 number I knew. (Which wasn't many...I was only 7 or 8.) [/quote]
So exactly what sweet words do the Care Bears whisper in a 7 year olds ear?
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'148885\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 01:32 PM\']
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'148884\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 12:25 PM\']
I remember it because it was the night I got up at 3:00 AM and started calling almost every single 900 number I knew. (Which wasn't many...I was only 7 or 8.) [/quote]
So exactly what sweet words do the Care Bears whisper in a 7 year olds ear?
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Um....eww.
(They didn't actually have a 900 number for the Care Bears...Did they? *shudder*)
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I certainly learned "more" by watching game shows. I work with college students today who can't get the hang of signed numbers. BUT thanks to Jeopardy!, I knew negative numbers before first grade. I told my first grade teacher this and I remember her shutting me up for fear I'd confuse the other students.
I knew minus was BAD (you couldn't play Final J! - but on Art Fleming's version you still got to sit there and watch the others play.) Once I was SHOCKED when watching on my lunch break in 1st grade : the champ... (You won't believe this but I remember the player's name and have a sketchy image of what she looked like) finished Double J! with "$+ 0 " and she was told that awful Fleming line "According to the rules you may NOT play Final J!"... I was like BUT SHE HAS" $+ "!!!
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'148884\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 01:25 PM\']
I remember it because it was the night I got up at 3:00 AM and started calling almost every single 900 number I knew. (Which wasn't many...I was only 7 or 8.) I went on for almost an hour and a half before my parents caught me...boy were they pissed.
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I was a good boy...I got permission....:) I was allowed to stay on the line for just a few minutes for the Family Feud 900 number game and also the LMAD 900 number game.....I was about 14 at the time, but I knew they were ripoffs once I called them...
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'148886\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 10:35 AM\']
(They didn't actually have a 900 number for the Care Bears...Did they? *shudder*)
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Oh, they sure did!
/What?
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'148890\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 01:52 PM\']
I was a good boy...I got permission....:) I was allowed to stay on the line for just a few minutes for the Family Feud 900 number game and also the LMAD 900 number game.....I was about 14 at the time, but I knew they were ripoffs once I called them...
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I remember the 900 number game that The Challengers did around the time of my 900 number escapade...hard to play when your grandma only has a rotary phone.
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I remember I was 2 and watching an ep. of The Joker's Wild when Bill Cullen became Jack's permanent replacement. That was the first time I saw the devil and it scared me for years.
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[quote name=\'gsfreak82\' post=\'148990\' date=\'Mar 24 2007, 11:29 PM\']
I remember I was 2 and watching an ep. of The Joker's Wild when Bill Cullen became Jack's permanent replacement. That was the first time I saw the devil and it scared me for years.
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Thats funny, Ive been afraid of the cullen TJW episodes for years.
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I remember watching TJW on WCBS and had vague memories of the audience game, as well as pretending the big clutch in my dad's van was the bonus handle...also recall Pitfall, TTD, and Eubanks delivering his Golden Doors spiel on Dream House.
Oh, I also had a very vague memory of the Hit Man finale, though about all I remembered was Peter walking off the set @ the very end.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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I too remembered watching TJW when it was in reruns on USA but one of my earlier game show memory was watching Top Card with Jim Caldwell and Supermarket Sweep from the early seasons back when they had a gorilla appearing the $5K bonus round.
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[quote name=\'irismason42\' post=\'149157\' date=\'Mar 28 2007, 11:11 PM\']
I too remembered watching TJW when it was in reruns on USA but one of my earlier game show memory was watching Top Card with Jim Caldwell and Supermarket Sweep from the early seasons back when they had a gorilla appearing the $5K bonus round.
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Oh, my head... (http://\"http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a10/whoserman/myhead.jpg\")
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[quote name=\'irismason42\' post=\'149157\' date=\'Mar 28 2007, 11:11 PM\']
I too remembered watching TJW when it was in reruns on USA but one of my earlier game show memory was watching Top Card with Jim Caldwell and Supermarket Sweep from the early seasons back when they had a gorilla appearing the $5K bonus round.
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Iris could write for GSN! (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=12604\")
/on second thought....
//NO
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I can remember watching J!, and WOF with my parents, and TPIR with my grandmother, and watching USA Game Show reruns and remembering when TTD would come on after PYL. Combs FF would come on at the same time as J! and I would want to watch FF while Dad wanted to watch J! and at the age of 3 I would throw a fit like a lot of 3 year olds do when I would throw a fit. I remember watching Couch Potatoes on WESH Channel 2 in Orlando. Then, months later, see it reran on USA. I remember yelling out the shows coming up next. And finally, I remember watching Pictionary '89 in the late afternoon at a babysitter's house.
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Mine would be what I just realized a few years ago was "It's Your Bet," which aired in the evening in Kansas City, where my grandmother lived. The rising partition between the players was what I remembered the most -- and that I didn't think that was something I'd seen before. Thanks to pageoclips.com, I remembered what the show was.
Mine would be what I just realized a few years ago was "It's Your Bet," (1970, Tom Kennedy) which aired in the evening in Kansas City, where my grandmother lived. The rising partition between the players was what I remembered the most -- and that I didn't think that was something I'd seen before. Thanks to pageoclips.com, I remembered what the show was.
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Hands down, my #1 game show memory was watching The $128,000 Question at the age of 3 or 4 back in 1977.
It had to be my first memory, because I only remembered two things from the show:
1. It had an isolation booth, and
2. The Viacom V of Doom at the end of the show scared the snot outta me.
I later found out the show was The $128,000 question by taking those two details and used those to find out the title.
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I may have mentioned this before, but the earliest game show memory of mine was Concentration, but it was when Art James was host.
Cordially,
Tammy
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The earliest thing I can be certain of is Queen for a Day, which my mom must have been a fan of.
The earliest GS I remember wanting to watch was Shenanigans, when I was 5. I remember having the board game.
I watched a lot of game shows when I was little, and my favorites were Concentration, The Match Game, and You Don't Say. I guess we were an NBC house.
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I didn't see this thread when it was posted last year because I had to keep my eyes away from the computer because it was red & I could barely see. Now that I see again, here's my earliest memory:
It appears to be either 1968 or 1969 but I distinctly remembered hearing the theme of the Gary Moore hosted To Tell The Truth. That's when I knew I would be a fan of game shows.
The one thing that sticks out for me is whenever the syndie version of Hollywood Squares was on in the 70's, I often had to cover my ears towards the end of the game because the buzzer that sounded nearly scared the hell out of me the first time I heard it.
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Two of my earliest were Concentration and Password, both of which my mom credits helping me learn to read. I was 3 at the time and was fascinated with the puzzle board with the trilons; and the words popping up from the table in the Lightning Round.
From there, it was Jeopardy!, You Don't Say, The Match Game, TTTT, Eye Guess and many others. Then came Sept 4, 1972...
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The fact that I am a game show freak today roots from the ariel shot of the wheel from the opening of 80's Wheel of Fortune episodes. From the age of 6 months til I was about 3 years old, every time the show would come on, I'd sit in the floor in front of the TV and just kick my feet when I saw that beautiful, colorful thing spinning.
A few others I enjoyed as a young tot were Press Your Luck (obvoiusly; more pretty colors), Fun House and Double Dare. Another one that stands out is Jeopardy. I loved the show so much, that everything I said until I was about 2 1/2 was in the form of a question.
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[quote name=\'kenbob_clarker\' post=\'191207\' date=\'Jul 17 2008, 04:56 PM\']
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Oddly enough, one of my earliest memories is a game show commercial. It was on Strike It Rich with Warren Hull. The folks at Colgate had just come up with a new song to praise Fab. Warren and an assistant wheeled a large portable blackboard onto the stage and had the audience sing the new lyrics to the tune of "There'll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"...
Fab washes clean clear through, and deodorizes too
Fab washes clean clear through, and deodorizes too
Fab washes clean clear through, and deodorizes too
It's a Fab wash, a Fab wash for you.
The audience was in pretty good voice. It probably scarred me for life, too. I still buy Colgate products whenever I can. That is, whichever ones are left after the shelf hogs at P&G stuff the aisles with 26 versions of Tide :-(
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Probably: To Tell The Truth and Beat the Clock on New York Channel 11, also Concentration and Art Fleming Jeopardy.
Least favorite early game show memory: Bowling for Dollars, New York Channel 9 version.