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Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: DoorNumberFour on August 19, 2007, 01:05:48 PM

Name the only non-local television game show whose regular announcer was its creator.

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: Kevin Prather on August 19, 2007, 03:17:30 PM

[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'161246\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 10:05 AM\']
Name the only non-local television game show whose regular announcer was its creator.
[/quote]
Wow. There's a million-dollar question for ya. The logical guess would be something that Merv Griffin created, but to the best of my knowledge, he only created Wheel, Jeopardy and Crosswords. Got me.

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: BrandonFG on August 19, 2007, 03:25:28 PM

Did Bill Armstrong create anything? I'm leaning toward the 70s "Liar's Club".

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: dale_grass on August 19, 2007, 03:26:59 PM

I'll guess Win Ben Stein's Money.

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: Kevin Prather on August 19, 2007, 03:33:40 PM

[quote name=\'dale_grass\' post=\'161262\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 12:26 PM\']
I'll guess Win Ben Stein's Money.
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I don't believe Jimmy Kimmel created that.

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: tvwxman on August 19, 2007, 04:28:23 PM

"Let's Go Back"? Any of the Winkster's phone games?

I dunno.

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: Jimmy Owen on August 19, 2007, 04:40:52 PM

I'm gonna guess "Stump the Stars" during the Pat Harrington era.

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: DoorNumberFour on August 19, 2007, 04:45:14 PM

The answer.

"Inspiration, Please!" was on the air for (I wanna say) a year or two on EWTN (then known as The Odyssey Channel). The show was created and announced by Donald Epstein.

It was popular enough to warrant the release of a quiz book (http://\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-2906924-3775357?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Donald%20K.%20Epstein\") with questions based on the show.

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on August 19, 2007, 04:45:30 PM

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'161277\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 03:28 PM\']
Any of the Winkster's phone games?
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I believe our own Randy West was the announcer for these.

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: clemon79 on August 19, 2007, 04:48:48 PM

[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'161285\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 01:45 PM\']
"Inspiration, Please!" was on the air for (I wanna say) a year or two on EWTN (then known as The Odyssey Channel). The show was created and announced by Donald Epstein.
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I could not be prouder to not have known this.

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on August 19, 2007, 04:51:02 PM

Gee, you gave people about four hours to answer.  IMO, if you're going to submit these little trivia puzzles, you should at least give people time to respond.

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: parliboy on August 19, 2007, 05:09:17 PM

Can I submit an alternate answer?  Who created "I Can't Believe You Said That?"

Marc Summers produced it for Stone-Stanley while annoucing it.  Not such a reach to assume he was the creator as well?

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: tvwxman on August 19, 2007, 06:34:39 PM

[quote name=\'parliboy\' post=\'161290\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 05:09 PM\']
Can I submit an alternate answer?  Who created "I Can't Believe You Said That?"

Marc Summers produced it for Stone-Stanley while annoucing it.  Not such a reach to assume he was the creator as well?
[/quote]
Doesn't Count! Time was up!

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: SRIV94 on August 19, 2007, 10:39:46 PM

[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'161285\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 03:45 PM\']
"Inspiration, Please!" was on the air for (I wanna say) a year or two on EWTN (then known as The Odyssey Channel). [/quote]

Bzzz.  Odyssey is now the Hallmark Channel.   I do believe EWTN has been known as EWTN since its 1981 inception (at least their website doesn't give any indication that they ever had another name).

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: dzinkin on August 19, 2007, 10:43:57 PM

[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'161328\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 10:39 PM\']
[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'161285\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 03:45 PM\']
"Inspiration, Please!" was on the air for (I wanna say) a year or two on EWTN (then known as The Odyssey Channel). [/quote]
Bzzz.  Odyssey is now the Hallmark Channel.   I do believe EWTN has been known as EWTN since its 1981 inception (at least their website doesn't give any indication that they ever had another name).
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Yeah, DoorNumberFour is confusing EWTN with VISN.  The Vision Interfaith Satellite Network merged with the American Christian Television System to form VISN-ACTS, which later became the Faith & Values Channel, then Odyssey, then (after the buyout by Henson and Hallmark) the Hallmark Channel.

Title: Another GS puzzle.
Post by: uncamark on August 21, 2007, 03:29:20 PM

[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'161330\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 09:43 PM\']
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'161328\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 10:39 PM\']
[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'161285\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 03:45 PM\']
"Inspiration, Please!" was on the air for (I wanna say) a year or two on EWTN (then known as The Odyssey Channel). [/quote]
Bzzz.  Odyssey is now the Hallmark Channel.   I do believe EWTN has been known as EWTN since its 1981 inception (at least their website doesn't give any indication that they ever had another name).
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Yeah, DoorNumberFour is confusing EWTN with VISN.  The Vision Interfaith Satellite Network merged with the American Christian Television System to form VISN-ACTS, which later became the Faith & Values Channel, then Odyssey, then (after the buyout by Henson and Hallmark) the Hallmark Channel.
[/quote]

Hallmark and Henson originally kept the Odyssey name (along with an agreement to run some VISN/F&V programs on weekend mornings).  When Henson dropped out, Hallmark changed the name.