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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: Don Howard on July 28, 2008, 09:14:09 PM
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The episodes presented this past weekend on GSN originally aired on January 2nd and 4th, 1980. There was no show (or for Celebrity Whew! for that matter) on January 3rd 1980 due to Sharon Lovejoy's program January Magazine. Monty Hall's announcement of the pre-emption was excised by GSN for the early Sunday morning airing. Unless there's another CBS pre-emption that happened between then and the February 1st 1980 last show, that leaves twenty more shows getting us to the final show barring any skips or bumps on the early morning of Monday, October 6th.
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I really never thought I'd ask this question :
Is there an episode guide of celebrities listed anywhere?
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'192552\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 11:31 PM\']
I really never thought I'd ask this question :
Is there an episode guide of celebrities listed anywhere?
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I have one that I compiled from TV Guide a few years ago -- which surprises no one here, I'm sure. Until I read Don's explanation, though, I thought I was missing a week's worth of information, but now it seems like they only taped 12 weeks of shows and not 13 and must have had some preemptions or delays in the air schedule. If this Saturday's celebs are who I think they're going to be, my list is complete. Here's the list I have, keeping in mind that I keep track of them based on the Monday that the first show of the week originally should have aired, barring preemptions:
11/5/1979
Nancy Lane, Mary Beth McDonough, Steve Kanaly, Robert Pine
11/12/1979
Randi Oakes, Roxie Roker, Richard Kline, Tom Dreesen
11/19/1979
Leslie Ackerman, Tamara Dobson, Robert Mandan, Ken Michelman
11/26/1979
Abbe Lane, Jo Ann Pflug, Tige Andrews, Robert Donner
12/3/1979
Patty Duke Astin, Mary Ann Mobley, John Astin, Gary Collins
12/10/1979
Phyllis Davis, Charlene Tilton, Gordon Jump, Sorrell Booke
12/17/1979
Patti Deutsch, Joyce Bulifant, Ronnie Schell, Johnny Brown
12/24/1979
Eileen Barnett, Ellen Travolta, Louis Nye, Jack Carter
12/31/1979
This is the possibly nonexistent week
1/7/1980
Michele Tobin, Laurie Walters, Ira Angustain, Jimmy Van Patten
1/14/1980
Elaine Joyce, Mitzi McCall, Bobby Van, Charlie Brill
1/21/1980
Sue Ann Langdon, Meredith MacRae, Bob Seagren, Don Sutton
1/28/1980
Ralna Hovis, Laurette Spang, Guy Hovis, John McCook
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[quote name=\'pyrfan\' post=\'192572\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 09:46 PM\']
1/7/1980
Michele Tobin, Laurie Walters, Ira Angustain, Jimmy Van Patten
1/28/1980
Ralna Hovis, Laurette Spang, Guy Hovis, John McCook[/quote]
He said *celebrities.* :)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'192573\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 12:47 AM\']
[quote name=\'pyrfan\' post=\'192572\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 09:46 PM\']
1/7/1980
Michele Tobin, Laurie Walters, Ira Angustain, Jimmy Van Patten
1/28/1980
Ralna Hovis, Laurette Spang, Guy Hovis, John McCook[/quote]
He said *celebrities.* :)
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You had the same reaction that I did when I compiled this list -- "Who are these people?" Granted, they had some stars on who were already game-show staples (Jo Ann Pflug, Elaine Joyce) or were just starting their game-show careers (Richard Kline, Robert Donner), but I look at a lot of those names and still scratch my head.
Brendan
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'192573\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 12:47 AM\']
[quote name=\'pyrfan\' post=\'192572\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 09:46 PM\']1/28/1980
Ralna Hovis, Laurette Spang, Guy Hovis, John McCook[/quote]
He said *celebrities.* :)[/quote]Now just a doggone minute, you whippersnapper! Guy and Ralna were a singing duo on The Lawrence Welk Show, and you don't get any more celebrity-er than that!
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Only three episodes were on the week of 12/31. Jan 1 was pre-empted by Rose Parade coverage and, as Don mentioned in the first post, Jan 3 was the monthly Lovejoy Magazine. So the Eileen Barnett, et al week started Thursday Dec. 28th rather than Dec 31 and ran through Jan 4.
They originally got off the track Thanksgiving week when, depending on your time zone, you got Parade coverage or a Football game on Thursday and one of those Kenner-sponsored Australian animated "Famous Classic Tales" on Friday. The next week had one pre-emption for "Magazine" on Thursday.
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[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'192597\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 09:16 AM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'192573\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 12:47 AM\']
[quote name=\'pyrfan\' post=\'192572\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 09:46 PM\']1/28/1980
Ralna Hovis, Laurette Spang, Guy Hovis, John McCook[/quote]
He said *celebrities.* :)[/quote]Now just a doggone minute, you whippersnapper! Guy and Ralna were a singing duo on The Lawrence Welk Show, and you don't get any more celebrity-er than that!
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As for the other two, John McCook was on The Young And The Restless at the time and Laurette Spang (John's wife then as now) was fresh off her role as Cassiopea on Battlestar Galactica. Flashing back to the week just shown, Eileen Barnett was then playing Stephanie Woodruff [who turned out to be the believed-deceased Brooke Hamilton] on Days Of Our Lives.
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'192600\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 11:23 AM\']
As for the other two, John McCook was on The Young And The Restless at the time and Laurette Spang (John's wife then as now) was fresh off her role as Cassiopea on Battlestar Galactica. Flashing back to the week just shown, Eileen Barnett was then playing Stephanie Woodruff [who turned out to be the believed-deceased Brooke Hamilton] on Days Of Our Lives.
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Oh..... 'that' Laurette Spang. I had her confused with the other one.
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[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'192597\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 09:16 AM\']Now just a doggone minute, you whippersnapper! Guy and Ralna were a singing duo on The Lawrence Welk Show, and you don't get any more celebrity-er than that![/quote]
Cool. I saw 'Ralna Hovis' and then 'Guy Hovis' and I had no idea who those people were. YOU say 'Guy and Ralna' and I immediately remember!
Welk was notorious for not letting his "musical family" make appearances outside the Welk properties, and the show was still going in 1980. Wonder how they managed to end up on a game show?
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'192604\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 11:56 AM\']
[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'192597\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 09:16 AM\']Now just a doggone minute, you whippersnapper! Guy and Ralna were a singing duo on The Lawrence Welk Show, and you don't get any more celebrity-er than that![/quote]
Cool. I saw 'Ralna Hovis' and then 'Guy Hovis' and I had no idea who those people were. YOU say 'Guy and Ralna' and I immediately remember!
Welk was notorious for not letting his "musical family" make appearances outside the Welk properties, and the show was still going in 1980. Wonder how they managed to end up on a game show?
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Dunno, but Gail Farrell (http://\"http://www.welkmusicalfamily.com/gailmatchgame1.html\"), another Welk performer, turned up twice on Match Game around that time, which surprised me even more because it surely wouldn't be up to Welk's standards of cleanliness.
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[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'192611\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 12:13 PM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'192604\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 11:56 AM\']
[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'192597\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 09:16 AM\']Now just a doggone minute, you whippersnapper! Guy and Ralna were a singing duo on The Lawrence Welk Show, and you don't get any more celebrity-er than that![/quote]
Cool. I saw 'Ralna Hovis' and then 'Guy Hovis' and I had no idea who those people were. YOU say 'Guy and Ralna' and I immediately remember!
Welk was notorious for not letting his "musical family" make appearances outside the Welk properties, and the show was still going in 1980. Wonder how they managed to end up on a game show?
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Dunno, but Gail Farrell (http://\"http://www.welkmusicalfamily.com/gailmatchgame1.html\"), another Welk performer, turned up twice on Match Game around that time, which surprised me even more because it surely wouldn't be up to Welk's standards of cleanliness.
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Then there was Kathie Sullivan, who showed up on FRIDAYS for a bit with Andy Kaufman (and if Welk thought being on a game show was risky. . .). Pretty good read in Bob Zmuda's Andy Kaufman Revealed (http://\"http://tinyurl.com/5zptxd\") (not a link to the story, but I enjoyed the book).
/As a fan of the art form of tap-dancing, WELK regular Arthur Duncan was one of my earliest influences. And a nice guy, too. Don't believe he ever did a game show, though.
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'192601\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 11:28 AM\']
Oh..... 'that' Laurette Spang. I had her confused with the other one.
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That's a common mistake. And completely understandable.
As for the week coming up, I recognize two names.
Laurie Walters played aspiring actress Joanie Bradford on Eight Is Enough (where the yummy Connie Newton Needham played Elizabeth) while Ira Angustain was a member of Carver High School's basketball team on The White Shadow.
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'192600\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 11:23 AM\']
[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'192597\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 09:16 AM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'192573\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 12:47 AM\']
[quote name=\'pyrfan\' post=\'192572\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 09:46 PM\']1/28/1980
Ralna Hovis, Laurette Spang, Guy Hovis, John McCook[/quote]
He said *celebrities.* :)[/quote]Now just a doggone minute, you whippersnapper! Guy and Ralna were a singing duo on The Lawrence Welk Show, and you don't get any more celebrity-er than that!
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As for the other two, John McCook was on The Young And The Restless at the time
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And I believe Eric Forrester on "Bold and the Beautiful"...at least I believe so, from watching soaps with three generations of maternal relatives...
ObGameShow: he also played a musical game show host on a 1983 episode of Alice.
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I got a question for you Don, out of all the weeks with the celebrity guests listed, what week of episodes did GSN stop at before they added "Family Feud '94", the Bob Stewart packet shows and the children's game show block(aka acquiring QKC, Joker, Joker, Joker, Jep!, and Wheel 2000) to their lineup?
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[quote name=\'irismason42\' post=\'192639\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 04:36 PM\']
I got a question for you Don, out of all the weeks with the celebrity guests listed, what week of episodes did GSN stop at before they added "Family Feud '94", the Bob Stewart packet shows and the children's game show block(aka acquiring QKC, Joker, Joker, Joker, Jep!, and Wheel 2000) to their lineup?
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I don't know. I didn't have access to the channel at the time.
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OK, thanks for your honesty Don, how about you guys Ian or Aaron, same question.
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Yeah. Answer NOW! Chop chop!
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...out of all the weeks with the celebrity guests listed, what week of episodes did GSN stop at before they added "Family Feud '94", the Bob Stewart packet shows and the children's game show block(aka acquiring QKC, Joker, Joker, Joker, Jep!, and Wheel 2000) to their lineup?
While I don't know the exact airdate or contestants/celebrities involved, I can say this much:
*The episode was probably hosted by Monty Hall.
*More than likely Jack Narz announced.
*More than likely, Whew! was the beneficiary of a colorful pronunciation.
*It's probable that the game's participants raced against time to compete stunts for cash.
*The episode was most likely during the CBS portion of the run.
*The program in question would have been produced during the part of the series produced by Goodson-Todman.
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[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'192697\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 09:10 PM\']
...out of all the weeks with the celebrity guests listed, what week of episodes did GSN stop at before they added "Family Feud '94", the Bob Stewart packet shows and the children's game show block(aka acquiring QKC, Joker, Joker, Joker, Jep!, and Wheel 2000) to their lineup?
While I don't know the exact airdate or contestants/celebrities involved, I can say this much:
*The episode was probably hosted by Monty Hall.
*More than likely Jack Narz announced.
*More than likely, Whew! was the beneficiary of a colorful pronunciation.
*It's probable that the game's participants raced against time to compete stunts for cash.
*The episode was most likely during the CBS portion of the run.
*The program in question would have been produced during the part of the series produced by Goodson-Todman.
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*And I watched Perry CS opposite it when it aired originally.
Which apparently quite a few people did, which seemingly was why BtC didn't last much past the first month of 1980.
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*The episode was probably hosted by Monty Hall.
*More than likely Jack Narz announced.
*More than likely, Whew! was the beneficiary of a colorful pronunciation.
*It's probable that the game's participants raced against time to compete stunts for cash.
*The episode was most likely during the CBS portion of the run.
*The program in question would have been produced during the part of the series produced by Goodson-Todman.
*Paul Alter, of TPIR fame both before and after this run of BTC, directed these episodes in studio 31 at CBS Television City.
*Music was by Arthur B. Rubinstein, looking rather Beethovenesque in this photo:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2194315776/nm0006265 (http://\"http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2194315776/nm0006265\")
He looks like someone whose fingers never touched the keys of a Rhodes piano.
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[quote name=\'irismason42\' post=\'192659\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 08:00 PM\']
OK, thanks for your honesty Don, how about you guys Ian or Aaron, same question.
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I'm sorry sir (or is it ma'am..not sure), I honestly don't remember.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'192604\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 11:56 AM\']
Cool. I saw 'Ralna Hovis' and then 'Guy Hovis' and I had no idea who those people were. YOU say 'Guy and Ralna' and I immediately remember!
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You start bringing that "Hovis" into the mix, then you start associating them with the King of Channel Islands, CA, Larry Hovis.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'192773\' date=\'Jul 30 2008, 10:35 AM\']
*Music was by Arthur B. Rubinstein, looking rather Beethovenesque in this photo:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2194315776/nm0006265 (http://\"http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2194315776/nm0006265\")
He looks like someone whose fingers never touched the keys of a Rhodes piano.
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He looks like the bust on Schroeder's toy piano.