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I literally got this minutes ago.
GSN will be airing a 2 day Peter Tomarken tribute. On Tuesday, March 14th, "Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal" will air at 10PM ET/PT. Then, on Sunday, March 19th, there will be an ALL DAY Press Your Luck Marathon from 9AM till 6PM ET/PT. Rich Cronin stated “On behalf of game show fans and GSN, we mourn the loss of a wonderful person and one of the great game show hosts of all-time, Peter Tomarken. We last worked with Peter when he hosted our documentary BIG BUCKS: THE PRESS YOUR LUCK SCANDAL. Our deepest sympathies and condolences go out to his family and friends during this difficult time.”
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Wow, they're on the ball with that one. That's pretty cool. I may even bother to watch some of that.
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You know, with all the criticism some of us give them, I can honestly say that GSN really goes all out with their celebrity tributes. Big ups to them.
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Over on the GSN boards, the moderator posted a list of the episodes (http://\"http://www.gsn.com/buzz/showthread.php?t=82047\") that they will show; they run from 333-350. No details were given on the contents.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Mar 13 2006, 10:04 PM\']Over on the GSN boards, the moderator posted a list of the episodes (http://\"http://www.gsn.com/buzz/showthread.php?t=82047\") that they will show; they run from 333-350. No details were given on the contents.
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The airdates were from 1/3/85-1/28/85. The last six of them are from the 2nd home sweepstakes. The last episode of the marathon will be Jenny(Jennie) Jones' first appearance. The fourth episode in the marathon will feature a Flokati rug unveiling. Episode 347(fourth to the last in this marathon) features a $0 win with 11 whammies total in the game. All of these episodes have only been seen one other time on GSN, in Summer 2003 when GSN ran a sestet of PYL episodes each Wednesday morning.
Source: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~awakamat/pylguide4.htm (http://\"http://www2.hawaii.edu/~awakamat/pylguide4.htm\")
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Mar 13 2006, 10:31 PM\']I can honestly say that GSN really goes all out with their celebrity tributes. [/quote]
Sorry to be a wet rag about this, but typically they really don't. Their typical "tribute" is to run a couple of classic episodes literally in the middle of the night. That's hardly going "all out". This Tomarken tribute is a notable exception.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 12:39 AM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Mar 13 2006, 10:31 PM\']I can honestly say that GSN really goes all out with their celebrity tributes. [/quote]
Sorry to be a wet rag about this, but typically they really don't. Their typical "tribute" is to run a couple of classic episodes literally in the middle of the night. That's hardly going "all out". This Tomarken tribute is a notable exception.
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Agree. Only Johnny Carson and Anne Bancroft have received daytime weekend tributes worthy of their statures. Every other big celebrity that has passed away recently has been 'honored' with dusted-off episodes of 'Beat the Clock' or syndicated 'WML?' aired at 3-4AM with no on-air promotion whatsover. A few lucky celebrities get 'tributes' with regularly-scheduled daytime episodes of 'Match Game' (Nipsey Russell) or 'Family Feud' (Dennis Weaver), but they can hardly be called 'going all out' efforts. GSN gets brownie points for actually scheduling something as a tribute to entertainers/celebrities that 95% of other TV stations ignore, but it's as if the GSN public relations department is more interested in getting its press release noticed by other media than in viewers actually watching/taping the overnight/weekend tributes.
Glad that Peter Tomarken's tributes escaped the fate of Rod Roddy, Gene Rayburn or Gene Wood, all gameshow icons whose deaths were either completely ignored or received a lame still-page mention on GSN.
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[quote name=\'dad1153\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 12:20 AM\']
Glad that Peter Tomarken's tributes escaped the fate of Rod Roddy, Gene Rayburn or Gene Wood, all gameshow icons whose deaths were either completely ignored or received a lame still-page mention on GSN.
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One wonders if GSN's having Tomarken as an employee from 1994-97 and again in 2003 (for the Big Bucks documentary and the guest shot on Whammy!) has something to do with this eight hour tribute(2 hours tonight for the documentary, 6 hours Sunday with the PYL marathon).
Did Gene Wood even get a still-page mention from GSN when he died? I don't recall seeing one. Dennis James got a tribute after his 1997 passing during a Wide World of Games where they showed an episode of TPIR where he subbed for Bob among others. In the case of Art James, they didn't have anything of his to show, other than a couple of sub-announcer shots for Gene Wood on Feud.
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Sigh, I really wish that we have a way to get the Digital Cable Card signal to the VCR. Now I'm wishing the familly wasn't so desperate to get rid of the box. Oh well, at least I ''ll finally get the chance to see the Big Bucks Scandal..
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When Art James died, GSN never got us an oppotunity to hear Art James' voice any longer because at first they were branched out of the game show genre, when Gene Wood died, at first we were limited to hearing his voice with Family Feud but then a few months later he would get more of a tribute by giving us Card Sharks Super Password, Beat The Clock, etc.
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[quote name=\'Shredder\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 06:26 AM\']Sigh, I really wish that we have a way to get the Digital Cable Card signal to the VCR. Now I'm wishing the familly wasn't so desperate to get rid of the box. Oh well, at least I ''ll finally get the chance to see the Big Bucks Scandal..
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If your TV has some kind of Video and Audio Out, you can run that into the VCR, and it will see whatever your TV is seeing. (And if your TV is CableCard-ready, it most likely has some kind of outputs.)
(My question is, how do you have a CableCard-ready TV and not some sort of DVR?)
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Nice to see GSN paying homage to one of their own, literally. I'm holding out the smallest hope we get to see his Whammy appearance during one of the regularly scheduled weekend airings, but this is a fine tribute to a fine host and employee of the network.
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I missed the open and first question round of today's PYL, but in what I saw there was no mention that Peter had died or about either segment of the tribute programming.
Was it at the beginning and I just missed it?
I'd think there'd be a memoriam graphic at the beginning and end of the show.
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Yes there was a graphic at the beginning (as well as a text scroll during the actual show promoting Tuesday's 'Big Bucks' rebroadcast): http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/puffuncle/Peter.jpg (http://\"http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/puffuncle/Peter.jpg\")
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DVR? What's that? ;)
there's really not that many TV shows I watch tese days. most of the good ones went off years ago. But if there's a Digital DVR that accepts CableCArd signals, I may have to look into it.
Finally saw the docu. I don't think it really needed to be stretched out 2 hours, but it was a fun little one to watch. This Michael Larsen guy was one freaky person. Counting all of his bills to find two matching serial numbers? Get a Life ;)
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[quote name=\'Shredder\' date=\'Mar 15 2006, 08:47 AM\']
This Michael Larsen guy was one freaky person. Counting all of his bills to find two matching serial numbers? Get a Life ;)
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It might seem a little odd to you, but in November 1984, five months after the Larsen shows aired, $ale of the Century had a contest where if the six numbers making up the players' final scores matched six digits of the serial number on a dollar bill a home viewer sent in, they could win up to $30K. That could be the contest which was described in the documentary.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Mar 15 2006, 10:00 AM\']...$ale of the Century had a contest where if the six numbers making up the players' final scores matched six digits of the serial number on a dollar bill a home viewer sent in, they could win up to $30K. That could be the contest which was described in the documentary.[/quote]
The documentary mentioned that it was a radio contest Larson heard about, but I sincerely doubt any radio stations could afford such an outlandish payoff. Maybe what the documentary meant to say was that he heard on the radio about the '$ale' contest, but they cut out the reference to the Reg Grundy show because it's not something they have.
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[quote name=\'dad1153\' date=\'Mar 15 2006, 09:31 AM\']The documentary mentioned that it was a radio contest Larson heard about, but I sincerely doubt any radio stations could afford such an outlandish payoff. Maybe what the documentary meant to say was that he heard on the radio about the '$ale' contest, but they cut out the reference to the Reg Grundy show because it's not something they have.
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You're serious? That's a long way to go for conspiracy theory.
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[quote name=\'Shredder\' date=\'Mar 15 2006, 08:47 AM\']
Finally saw the docu. I don't think it really needed to be stretched out 2 hours, but it was a fun little one to watch. This Michael Larsen guy was one freaky person. Counting all of his bills to find two matching serial numbers? Get a Life ;)
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Adrienne Pettijohn, whom I believe worked as a production assistant on PYL, was interviewed in the Big Bucks documenary airing last night. This morning, she turns up as one of the impostors in round two of today's airing of TTTT90.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Mar 15 2006, 08:00 AM\'][quote name=\'Shredder\' date=\'Mar 15 2006, 08:47 AM\']
This Michael Larsen guy was one freaky person. Counting all of his bills to find two matching serial numbers? Get a Life ;)
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It might seem a little odd to you, but in November 1984, five months after the Larsen shows aired, $ale of the Century had a contest where if the six numbers making up the players' final scores matched six digits of the serial number on a dollar bill a home viewer sent in, they could win up to $30K. That could be the contest which was described in the documentary.
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And a similar home game was the feature of "Top Dollar," a word game based on Ghost that was the first Heatter-Quigley series, which aired on CBS in the late 50s after the quiz scandals--the network's print ads for the show boasted "A dollar in your pocket right now could be worth $10,000."
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I can't believe you guys are forgetting NBC's "Lucky Partners" with host Carl Cordell from 58. The premise of the show was to match serial numbers of dollar bills.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Mar 15 2006, 11:31 PM\']I can't believe you guys are forgetting NBC's "Lucky Partners" with host Carl Cordell from 58. The premise of the show was to match serial numbers of dollar bills.
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Friendly hint: When you say something like "I can't believe you guys are forgetting" and then cite some obscure show that the majority of the members here don't remember and/or weren't alive for, the comparisons people are gonna draw are gonna be to Zach Horan.
If that's what you want, great.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 16 2006, 02:38 AM\']Friendly hint: When you say something like "I can't believe you guys are forgetting" and then cite some obscure show that the majority of the members here don't remember and/or weren't alive for, the comparisons people are gonna draw are gonna be to Zach Horan.
If that's what you want, great.
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Honestly, I took it as Jimmy offering a tongue-in-cheek joke, but could def. be wrong, but it had that touch of dry wit that you only get from Don Howard. ;-)
Jimmy?
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I gotta start using emoticons. :) At the very least, we all know about "Lucky Partners" now. :)
As far as Mr. Larsen is concerned, there have been many radio stations that have used that premise. Generally there is an insurance policy in the unlikely case of a win, so they can offer that large of an amount knowing it probably won't happen. I think we're leaping to the conclusion that he switched to $ale, when he probably was competing in a radio contest, as reported.