Quick heads-up. TV Guide is doing another laundry list of the greatest games of all time. \"Almost Anything Goes\" makes it. \"Big Showdown\" does not.
But what we all want to know is...WHERE DOES FREAKIN\' STUDS RANK?????????
/I\'ll probably like the list from a couple of years back better, from the pre-EW wannabe TVG phase. You know, the one that acknowledges the Cullen Pyramid.
But what we all want to know is...WHERE DOES FREAKIN\' STUDS RANK?????????
No. I honestly do not care where Studs, nor any other program, ranks on this particular list.
In, somewhat, seriousness wasn\'t Studs only on GSN\'s list for the greatest 50 game shows of all time?
Obviously, you are like Violet of Peanuts and \"don\'t know sarcasm when you see it.\"
And oddly enough... Studs IS on the TVG list, albeit a part of the Other 50 section. Not that I care or anything...
As I got the issue, I can tell you that the Top 5 was just the combo of shows I thought it would be. J!, WOF, Feud, Match Game, and TPIR. And Millionaire, Squares, Password, WML?, and Newlywed round out the ten, in that order. Not too offensive of a list, actually. Good balance of the real classics and token modern entries. Order is up for debate by all as per the usual with lists like this, of course.
One comment, re: the Squares entry...why is it that, once the \'90s ended, it\'s become generally fashionable to bury the Bergeron version? (Which TVG does, and many others have online. And no, they don\'t mention the Davidson version) It was a good revival, IMO. Yes the comedy was more racy and it became all about Whoopi, but it was true to the original. Then again, when you look at the revivals it was up against at the time...
Hey, credit where due. With the exception of the absence of Pyramid, a show adored more by serious fans of the genre than the general public, that\'s not a bad ten.
Interesting that It\'s Academic made the list, considering it\'s mainly a local program....no real issue with any of the ones on the list.
The list itself isn\'t that bad, although I do scratch my head at Don Adam\'s Screen Test making the list.
The Top 10 are listed numerically, but the other 50 are listed alphabetically. As to be expected, G -T has the most shows on the list with 12, IIRC. I\'m counting Concentration in that since G-T produced two versions of it. The big three panel shows, BTC, etc. Overall, I think the list is a good one.
The list is referenced in this week\'s reader\'s letters...highlights included clamoring for PYL to be in the top 10 (instead of What\'s My Line, which one reader said wasn\'t really a game show), Crosswits being mentioned as an omission, and another writer insisting that Bill Cullen get a mention in the TPIR entry.
I wonder which among our number will step forward and admit to sending the letter.
I admit nothing.
Interesting that It\'s Academic made the list, considering it\'s mainly a local program....no real issue with any of the ones on the list.
\"local\" doesn\'t seem to be the best word to describe that program.
Interesting that It\'s Academic made the list, considering it\'s mainly a local program....no real issue with any of the ones on the list.
\"local\" doesn\'t seem to be the best word to describe that program.
\"Franchised\" might be the better terminology. \"Bowling for Dollars\" is well-remembered in the markets in which it was franchised.