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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: DjohnsonCB on October 09, 2007, 11:35:43 AM
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Nothing more to add here; just wanted to ask and I don't get any inside information from CBS on things like this; wouldn't know where to look either.
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[quote name=\'DjohnsonCB\' post=\'166045\' date=\'Oct 9 2007, 11:35 AM\'] wouldn't know where to look either. [/quote]
You could try CBS' Own Site (http://\"http://www.cbs.com/daytime/price/tickets/revised_airdates.shtml\")
/Yes, the finale's rerunning Friday
//Meh.
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I'd just as soon CBS showed Barker's first TPIR. (I mean, everybody's got the finale, haven't they?)
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[quote name=\'MrBuddwing\' post=\'166076\' date=\'Oct 9 2007, 04:33 PM\']I'd just as soon CBS showed Barker's first TPIR. (I mean, everybody's got the finale, haven't they?)[/quote]
They couldn't air it anyways; a fur coat was offered.
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To answer the original question: Yes. Bob's last TPIR will indeed air this Friday, per CBS' website.
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[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'166094\' date=\'Oct 9 2007, 06:21 PM\']
[quote name=\'MrBuddwing\' post=\'166076\' date=\'Oct 9 2007, 04:33 PM\']I'd just as soon CBS showed Barker's first TPIR. (I mean, everybody's got the finale, haven't they?)[/quote]
They couldn't air it anyways; a fur coat was offered.
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And that alas will probably also keep it out of the DVD set that will be released next year (and even those of us who have it could use the quality upgrade).
Speaking of which, I am hoping that there isn't a high ratio of episodes post-1986 or therabouts in the set.
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[quote name=\'Eric Paddon\' post=\'166106\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 01:41 AM\']
I am hoping that there isn't a high ratio of episodes post-1986 or therabouts in the set.
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I am hoping for anything to be honest, VHS or even direct digital recordings wont match commerical DVD's whatever the episode.
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[quote name=\'remlap\' post=\'166130\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 08:16 AM\']
I am hoping for anything to be honest, VHS or even direct digital recordings wont match commerical DVD's whatever the episode.
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Can I get a woot-woot for the voice of reason?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'166132\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 11:46 AM\'][quote name=\'remlap\' post=\'166130\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 08:16 AM\']I am hoping for anything to be honest, VHS or even direct digital recordings wont match commerical DVD's whatever the episode.[/quote]Can I get a woot-woot for the voice of reason?[/quote]
woot-woot.
Meanwhile, I'm still hoping they drop in one Cullen episode. If they can drop the original Match Game pilot into that DVD set, surely they could do this for me.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'166133\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 11:49 AM\']
Meanwhile, I'm still hoping they drop in one Cullen episode. If they can drop the original Match Game pilot into that DVD set, surely they could do this for me.
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I dunno, Matt. I know you're thought highly of in certain circles, but to do that just for you?
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Any game show release on DVD is always welcome regardless of which episodes, but a minor preference in terms of hoping that the 35 year run is given an even dispersal of episodes overall so that fans of one era more than another don't feel shortchanged, is itself a reasonable thing to hope for.
I am not however naive enough to wish for seeing a James episode, let alone a Kennedy one, be included in the set, since those chances are less remote than seeing a fur coat episode I would think.
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[quote name=\'Eric Paddon\' post=\'166164\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 12:47 PM\']
Exactly how one isn't a "voice of reason" for expressing a minor preference regarding what gets potentially put on DVD I will never know.
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All I was saying was that remlap's attitude was a refreshing change from what we usually get when this topic comes up, which is more often than not some fanb0i-who-doesn't-think-he's-a-fanb0i spouting "OMG if they have any white-haired episodes on there, I am NOT buying it and I will be picketing both DCI and CBS! And they better have the classic El Zilcho episode, too! Or else! What? Are you kidding?!?! EVERYONE knows what El Zilcho is!"
No judgement on your preference was implied. :)
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I realized that on further thought which is why my post is accordingly edited to reflect that.
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[quote name=\'Eric Paddon\' post=\'166167\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 01:08 PM\']
I realized that on further thought which is why my post is accordingly edited to reflect that.
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No worries, man. :)
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I'm glad people agree with me.
Cheers
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In my own case, my hope for more pre-86 episodes stems from a desire to make partial amends for my shortsightedness in not taping the classic TPIR episodes frequently off GSN when I had the chance. At the time I was making a petty statement of protest of my own over Bob's refusal to let the James episodes air because of the fur coat issues, and that was done at a time when I would not have thought they would disappear from GSN forever. I only taped something like five episodes of TPIR myself off GSN (two half hour shows, the Yolanda episode which aired on a "Weekend Showcase", Vanna's contestant episode, and quite by accident one time, an episode that was part of the WIN-TV presentation) and compared to what I did with other shows, that was a drop in the bucket, for which I have only myself to blame.
OTOH, I was not shortsighted with the Cullen TPIR episodes and did get a large chunk of them but I was never quite clear on how many episodes overall were part of the GSN cycle that aired. I know there were only six ABC primetime episodes that aired and at least something on the order of 45-50 NBC shows (and one NBC daytime show from 1957 which was the first episode in the GSN cycle).
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On the fur coat issue, if CBS REALLY wanted to put them on the DVD set, which I never heard about until this thread, they technically could since Bob is no longer an executive producer or has anything to do with the show.
Obviously, they won't do that out of respect for Bob, but if they wanted to be cruel they could. Or they could release them down the road when Bob has moved on to the Bob Barker Studio in the sky.