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Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: Onehelluvagameshowfan on August 05, 2009, 04:30:40 PM: Hi, there. As a kid that had cable back in the early '90s (from about 1990 to 1994), I fondly remember coming home from school in the afternoon and tuning in to USA's awesome game show block. The only thing is I really can't remember the order in which the shows were aired during the afternoons... Can anyone help? It would be much appreciated.
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: Jimmy Owen on August 05, 2009, 08:10:50 PM: The lineups generally changed in January and September, so I will put a slash to note that the show took over that time slot in Sept.

3pm-1990 Tic Tac Dough/Hollywood Squares.
1991 Hollywood Squares
1992-Hollywood Squares
1993-$25,000 Pyramid/Press Your Luck

3:30-1990-$25,000 Pyramid
1991-$25,000 Pyramid/Scrabble
1992-Scrabble
1993-$100,000 Pyramid/Scrabble

4:00-1990-Press Your Luck
1991-Press Your Luck/$25,000 Pyramid
1992-$25,000 Pyramid
1993-$25,000 Pyramid

4:30-1990-High Rollers
1991-High Rollers/Press Your Luck
1992-Press Your Luck
1993-$100,000 Pyramid
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: Jimmy Owen on August 05, 2009, 08:19:00 PM: Quick addendum: From Jan to Sept.93 the 4pm hour was non-game show programming.
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: BrandonFG on August 05, 2009, 08:54:44 PM: From c. spring or summer 1990 (from what I can remember), all times EST.

12:30pm: Name That Tune (Lange)
1pm: Chain Reaction
1:30pm: Bumper Stumpers
2pm: Wipeout
2:30pm: Face the Music (?)

I'm almost positive that the 1-3pm slots looked like that, but keep in mind I'm going off of a 19-year memory. ;-)
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: BrandonFG on August 05, 2009, 08:59:42 PM: Fall 1992:
1:30pm: $ale of the Century
2:00pm: The Joker's Wild (Finn)

Spring 1993:
2:30pm: Tic Tac Dough (Wayne)

In summer 1994 Quiksilver and Free-4-All debuted in the 5:00pm hour.
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: Jimmy Owen on August 05, 2009, 09:04:22 PM: Anything before 3 was probably before his school got out, so I didn't list them.
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: MizzouRah! on August 05, 2009, 09:50:43 PM: And this definitely shows the variety GSN could offer today. Look at how many of these games vanished after their USA and/or CBN run. Not to mention a few others like Caesars Challenge, Play the Percentages, Make Me Laugh, Anything for Money, etc. It would seem these would be available on the cheap, which I'm sure would make GSN happy on their daytime schedule.
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: Onehelluvagameshowfan on August 05, 2009, 10:33:56 PM: What was on before 3:00p? I know Hot Potato and Win, Lose or Draw was involved, right? ;-)
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: BrandonFG on August 05, 2009, 11:10:52 PM: [quote name=\'Onehelluvagameshowfan\' post=\'222163\' date=\'Aug 5 2009, 10:33 PM\']What was on before 3:00p? I know Hot Potato and Win, Lose or Draw was involved, right? ;-)[/quote]
Hot Potato aired at 12:30 or 1:30 pm (I believe the latter)
Win, Lose, or Draw aired IIRC at 2:30 pm c. 1991-92.
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: Jimmy Owen on August 06, 2009, 09:23:22 AM: Here's the complete sked for Noon-3 for 1990-93. As before, a slash will be used to preface time slot changes that start in September.

12N: 1990-Couch Potatoes (through March) Face the Music/Non-game show programming from then on. (Sept 90-93)

12:30-1990-Name That Tune
1991-93-Non game show programming.

1pm-1990-Chain Reaction/Bumper Stumpers
1991-Chain Reaction/Non-game show programming
1992-Non-game show programming
1993-Hollywood Squares/Talkabout

1:30-1990-Bumper Stumpers/Hot Potato
1991-Name That Tune/Non-game show
1992-Non-game show
1993-Sale of the Century

2pm-1990-Wipeout/Chain Reaction
1991-Wipeout/Chain Reaction
1992-Joker's Wild/Sale of the Century
1993-Press Your Luck/Joker's Wild

2:30-1990-Hollywood Squares/Wipeout
1991-Win, Lose or Draw
1992-Win, Lose or Draw
1993-Scrabble/Tic Tac Dough
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: toetyper on August 06, 2009, 10:24:01 AM: was go ever on USA or was it CBN only
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: Jimmy Owen on August 06, 2009, 10:28:58 AM: CBN only
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: Ian Wallis on August 07, 2009, 11:35:50 AM: Quote
And this definitely shows the variety GSN could offer today. Look at how many of these games vanished after their USA and/or CBN run. Not to mention a few others like Caesars Challenge, Play the Percentages, Make Me Laugh, Anything for Money, etc. It would seem these would be available on the cheap, which I'm sure would make GSN happy on their daytime schedule.

While I'd love to see a show like Caesar's Challenge on GSN as I thought it was a decent show, it will probably never happen. How many people besides us remember the show today? GSN won't even air most of what they already have in the vault, so I doubt these much shorter-run shows will ever find a home there.
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: MizzouRah! on August 07, 2009, 11:46:48 AM: [quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'222284\' date=\'Aug 7 2009, 10:35 AM\']
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And this definitely shows the variety GSN could offer today. Look at how many of these games vanished after their USA and/or CBN run. Not to mention a few others like Caesars Challenge, Play the Percentages, Make Me Laugh, Anything for Money, etc. It would seem these would be available on the cheap, which I'm sure would make GSN happy on their daytime schedule.

While I'd love to see a show like Caesar's Challenge on GSN as I thought it was a decent show, it will probably never happen. How many people besides us remember the show today? GSN won't even air most of what they already have in the vault, so I doubt these much shorter-run shows will ever find a home there.
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Yes, I definitely agree, but it would add a little variety to the lineup. A person can only stand so many runs of Feud. I've always wondered if they would attempt a checkerboard schedule(like the prime time access games from the 70s), if ratings would be decent. You could do 10 games in a specific hour per week. Monday pair Caesars w/ Wipeout, Tues. NtT and Face the Music, etc.. On the other hand, maybe folks are beasts of habit now and expect to see Wheel EVERY night at 6:30 and would be confused by this. It would give an extended run to shows that lasted less than a year. Who knows, some of the better shows, like Caesars, might pick up a new fan base. Just a dream that will more than likely stay that way, unless I find a way to nab that programmer's gig at GSN.
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: tvrandywest on August 07, 2009, 12:53:55 PM: We have some incredible members with the ability to do research. It was great simply reading the line-ups of those great old shows. But I have some fuzzy memory of "All Star Blitz" being part of that line-up at some point. Was I mistaken?

Randy
tvrandywest.com
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: gamed121683 on August 07, 2009, 12:59:08 PM: [quote name=\'tvrandywest\' post=\'222290\' date=\'Aug 7 2009, 12:53 PM\']We have some incredible members with the ability to do research. It was great simply reading the line-ups of those great old shows. But I have some fuzzy memory of "All Star Blitz" being part of that line-up at some point. Was I mistaken?[/quote]

I don't think you've been mistaken, assuming this old newsgroup post from '97 has some merit to it. (http://\"http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.game-shows/browse_thread/thread/ebe30be6268c857b/b119057662384935?q=USA+Network+%22Couch%22#b119057662384935\")
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: MikeK on August 07, 2009, 01:19:13 PM: [quote name=\'tvrandywest\' post=\'222290\' date=\'Aug 7 2009, 12:53 PM\']We have some incredible members with the ability to do research. It was great simply reading the line-ups of those great old shows. But I have some fuzzy memory of "All Star Blitz" being part of that line-up at some point. Was I mistaken?[/quote]
Not at all. The first show I saw when my family signed up for cable in 1986 was All Star Blitz on USA.
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: SRIV94 on August 07, 2009, 01:27:19 PM: [quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'222293\' date=\'Aug 7 2009, 12:19 PM\'][quote name=\'tvrandywest\' post=\'222290\' date=\'Aug 7 2009, 12:53 PM\']We have some incredible members with the ability to do research. It was great simply reading the line-ups of those great old shows. But I have some fuzzy memory of "All Star Blitz" being part of that line-up at some point. Was I mistaken?[/quote]
Not at all. The first show I saw when my family signed up for cable in 1986 was All Star Blitz on USA.
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Ah, now those were the glory days. USA also had MML and GONG in their arsenal for a while as well.

/Wish I had actually had cable at that point. My community was verrr-rrry slow in that regard.
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: JacksonBrowne1980 on August 07, 2009, 01:34:26 PM: anopther game show that aired on USA was Jackpot, can't forget that, anyone remember watching Jackpot on USA?
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: MikeK on August 07, 2009, 01:43:05 PM: [quote name=\'JacksonBrowne1980\' post=\'222296\' date=\'Aug 7 2009, 01:34 PM\']anopther game show that aired on USA was Jackpot, can't forget that, anyone remember watching Jackpot on USA?[/quote]
No. In this area, it was preempted for special airings of Courtney is in the Kitchen.
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: aaron sica on August 07, 2009, 01:53:07 PM: [quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'222297\' date=\'Aug 7 2009, 01:43 PM\'][quote name=\'JacksonBrowne1980\' post=\'222296\' date=\'Aug 7 2009, 01:34 PM\']anopther game show that aired on USA was Jackpot, can't forget that, anyone remember watching Jackpot on USA?[/quote]
No. In this area, it was preempted for special airings of Courtney is in the Kitchen.
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Followed by "The Child World-Kimberly MG-HS Hour".
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: BrandonFG on August 07, 2009, 02:51:16 PM: [quote name=\'JacksonBrowne1980\' post=\'222296\' date=\'Aug 7 2009, 01:34 PM\']anopther game show that aired on USA was Jackpot, can't forget that, anyone remember watching Jackpot on USA?[/quote]
Vaguely...I know it aired in the afternoons around 2 or 2:30 in the late-80s. I remember the 1989 Geoff Edwards version better.
Title: USA Afternoon Game Show Lineups from 1990-93.
Post by: Jimmy Owen on August 07, 2009, 05:30:51 PM: I didn't want to go beyond the scope of the original question, so anything before 90 and after 93 was not included.