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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Vahan_Nisanian on May 05, 2011, 09:40:22 PM
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Examples:
In The Gong Show, Chuck Barris announced on the first week of shows that the winners would return later to face off against each other in the playoffs. I've never seen the playoffs in all the years GSN aired the show. Granted, there may have actually been a time where did they did such a thing, but GSN may have skipped over it, presumably due to music rights.
When American Gladiators began in 1989, the winning contenders (male and female) could win $10,000 AND the possibility of returning next year as an American Gladiator. The latter was never brought up again after the first half of the first season.
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When American Gladiators began in 1989, the winning contenders (male and female) could win $10,000 AND the possibility of returning next year as an American Gladiator. The latter was never brought up again after the first half of the first season.
Note, though, that there were a *ton* of changes at halftime of the first season, most of which saved the show. I'm guessing the "possibility of coming back" was tied closely to the show's original concept, with gimmicky Gladiators and such, and that it no longer fit once they decided to play it straight.
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Examples:
In The Gong Show, Chuck Barris announced on the first week of shows that the winners would return later to face off against each other in the playoffs. I've never seen the playoffs in all the years GSN aired the show. Granted, there may have actually been a time where did they did such a thing, but GSN may have skipped over it, presumably due to music rights.
GSN actually has aired at least one episode from early in the run that was an all-winners episode. My hunch is this was dropped when the decision was made to focus on the ridiculous.
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Examples:
In The Gong Show, Chuck Barris announced on the first week of shows that the winners would return later to face off against each other in the playoffs. I've never seen the playoffs in all the years GSN aired the show. Granted, there may have actually been a time where did they did such a thing, but GSN may have skipped over it, presumably due to music rights.
GSN actually has aired at least one episode from early in the run that was an all-winners episode. My hunch is this was dropped when the decision was made to focus on the ridiculous.
It's a good hunch. They did what was called a Hi-Lo week, where acts who were winners competed in three shows and acts who were gonged competed in the remaining two (it was notable for being Jaye P. Morgan's first appearance).
I think also having the nighttime version quelled some of those plans as well, as that became a second chance for winners and losers to compete. And many acts were invited back to the daytime show as non-rated acts (in which they were paid).
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This is minor compared to the season-long elements that got dropped as the show was retooled, but I immediately thought of WOF and "We drew numbers before the show to see who would start the game..."
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"We drew numbers before the show to see who would start the game..."
But they *did* draw numbers to see who would start the game. The OP's looking for promises that were never delivered on, basically. Not necessarily stuff that didn't happen on camera.
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"We drew numbers before the show to see who would start the game..."
But they *did* draw numbers to see who would start the game. The OP's looking for promises that were never delivered on, basically. Not necessarily stuff that didn't happen on camera.
And even that was shown on camera at least once. (2:45)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRUvMRTAlqk
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Our Little Genius: Contestants could win $500,000.
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Nick Arcade: Bonus Round/Over head "Checkered" stage= "At some point of the game a power square would pop up, giving the Player extra health." Gee in all the episodes of NA, I've never seen this happen.
I call BS!
I had another one about Hollywood Squares involving a car under a Cover. But I only remember One episode to even prove my case. I'm sure to be debunked.
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When American Gladiators began in 1989, the winning contenders (male and female) could win $10,000 AND the possibility of returning next year as an American Gladiator. The latter was never brought up again after the first half of the first season.
They eventually did make good on that...nineteen years later.
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When American Gladiators began in 1989, the winning contenders (male and female) could win $10,000 AND the possibility of returning next year as an American Gladiator. The latter was never brought up again after the first half of the first season.
Note, though, that there were a *ton* of changes at halftime of the first season, most of which saved the show. I'm guessing the "possibility of coming back" was tied closely to the show's original concept, with gimmicky Gladiators and such, and that it no longer fit once they decided to play it straight.
I've only seen the second half of season 1 (it was free on iTunes for a while), so I hit the YouTubes for something. Boy a bunch of changes (and this is just Powerball).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKSZNB8l2JQ
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"We drew numbers before the show to see who would start the game..."
But they *did* draw numbers to see who would start the game. The OP's looking for promises that were never delivered on, basically. Not necessarily stuff that didn't happen on camera.
Ah. The mobile site doesn't have the second line of the thread topic anywhere that I saw, so I was thinking it was mentioned but never seen. My bad.
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How about all the shows that promised on their final episodes that they were just going on a brief break and "we will see you again very soon"...which of course never happened. MG90 and The Better Sex immediately come to mind.
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Things that were mentioned that never happened ... I always think of the 1975 You Don't Say. On one of the two episodes in the trade curcuit, Tom mentions they'll have kids playing at Christmas-week. Unfortunately it was cancelled before then and that never happened.
I'm thinking the cancellation must have come on very short notice. If they expected to be on past Christmas and announced it on air, then disappeared less than a month later they couldn't have had much warning. I guess once Fred bought Edge of Night it was all over quickly.
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They eventually did make good on that...nineteen years later.
Where it was instantly made painfully obvious as to why they scuttled the idea in the first place, as Rocket was a one-trick pony and Jet was just totally worthless.
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an example from Italy:
On Il Grande Gioco Dell'Oca, right before an apparently dangerous stunt, the host reminded that contestants may refuse to do a stunt in excange of all the money in their current bank. Nobody ever took that offer, maybe because it was just a tool to build up tension.
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They eventually did make good on that...nineteen years later.
Where it was instantly made painfully obvious as to why they scuttled the idea in the first place, as Rocket was a one-trick pony and Jet was just totally worthless.
I thought both were slightly more capable than you suggest, but yeah. At least they were better to watch than some of the cartoon characters and loudmouths that made up the rest of the stable.
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They eventually did make good on that...nineteen years later.
Where it was instantly made painfully obvious as to why they scuttled the idea in the first place, as Rocket was a one-trick pony and Jet was just totally worthless.
I thought both were slightly more capable than you suggest, but yeah. At least they were better to watch than some of the cartoon characters and loudmouths that made up the rest of the stable.
Wasn't really a fan of them basically bringing in specialists for each event in Season 2....it basically made all the one on one events worthless.
Sometime on Time Machine, I remember John Davidson mentioned that the show was to be on for years to come, then reneged on the series finale by calling the show a miniseries.
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Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich couldn't even live up to its own name.
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Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich couldn't even live up to its own name.
Possibly untrue. I believe the current Cash Explosion hostess not named Sharon Bicknell was the winner of a co-host contest MMFMMR held, not that I'd recognize her if I saw her. So yeah, famous my keester.
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Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich couldn't even live up to its own name.
Possibly untrue. I believe the current Cash Explosion hostess not named Sharon Bicknell was the winner of a co-host contest MMFMMR held, not that I'd recognize her if I saw her. So yeah, famous my keester.
Actually, as per Wiki (I know, I know), the winner of the co-host contest was a lady named Barb McCann; the lady alongside Sharon Bicknell and Epic Tool is named Cherie McClain.
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Didn't J. Keith mention something in the first couple of episodes of "Beat the Geeks" about how the geeks could be replaced if they do poorly enough?
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Didn't J. Keith mention something in the first couple of episodes of "Beat the Geeks" about how the geeks could be replaced if they do poorly enough?
He did, and I remember two different blue-clad music geeks, as well.
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Everyone is missing one of the all time great ones. During the pitch film for "The Price Is Right", Mark Goodson promised that some pricing games would actually be played by children of some contestants. Just to see if they could have a handle on current prices? So Dennis James could taunt them? Because maybe there was some real primo Maui during development? Once the show hit air, kids were never part of the equation.
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In the premiere of Jim Perry's $ale of the Century, ISTR Jim mentioning their "resident authority" & judge who resided in a little faux-den somewhere off the main stage. Don't know how long he lasted as he was never mentioned again in any other $ale episode floating around. Could it be that even Sally Julian lasted longer than him?
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They eventually did make good on that...nineteen years later.
Where it was instantly made painfully obvious as to why they scuttled the idea in the first place, as Rocket was a one-trick pony and Jet was just totally worthless.
That was more a reflection of the poor contestants they chose for the show. Go watch some of the grand championships from the original series. Those contenders could have been successful gladiators.
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as Rocket was a one-trick pony and Jet was just totally worthless.
That was more a reflection of the poor contestants they chose for the show.
I thought it was a reflection of the Eliminator being so ridiculously long. Having a points/time advantage was next to meaningless -- to be successful at the Eliminator required speed, nimbleness, and stamina, as opposed to the brute force displayed by your typical gladiator.
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Everyone is missing one of the all time great ones. During the pitch film for "The Price Is Right", Mark Goodson promised that some pricing games would actually be played by children of some contestants. Just to see if they could have a handle on current prices? So Dennis James could taunt them? Because maybe there was some real primo Maui during development? Once the show hit air, kids were never part of the equation.
I'm guessing because Barker didn't like working with kids?
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I'm guessing because Barker didn't like working with kids?
Not until the kids, at least the females, became legal.
Kids have no knowledge about how much items cost and have limited knowledge about money.