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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: TwoInchQuad on March 29, 2006, 06:46:12 PM

Title: Piece by piece, they come trickling back into existence...
Post by: TwoInchQuad on March 29, 2006, 06:46:12 PM

What a piece of news, even if the game is probably somewhat second-tier:

http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/news/...-the-past.shtml (http://\"http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/news/2006.03.08-02-n-preserving-the-past.shtml\")

I think this is now the oldest GS known to survive on tape, as it pre-dates the extant eps of "College Bowl" by about 6 months.

The things you find buried in the back room...

-Kevin

Title: Piece by piece, they come trickling back into existence...
Post by: DoorNumberFour on March 29, 2006, 06:56:40 PM

I love it when new stuff turns up.

Although I don't believe it's the oldest GS on tape. There's an episode of "Okay Mother" hosted by Dennis James for the DuMont network from 1947 (at least that's the year I was given when I received it).

Title: Piece by piece, they come trickling back into existence...
Post by: dzinkin on March 29, 2006, 07:12:03 PM

[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'114678\' date=\'Mar 29 2006, 06:56 PM\']
Although I don't believe it's the oldest GS on tape. There's an episode of "Okay Mother" hosted by Dennis James for the DuMont network from 1947 (at least that's the year I was given when I received it).
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The episode of Okay, Mother that you have is a videotape copy of a kinescope.  The episode of Top Dollar to which Kevin is referring is an original videotape.