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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: PYLdude on June 15, 2014, 01:25:41 AM
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Piggybacking off the early premiere thing, how late were certain shows on in your area past their cancellation, whether reruns or bicycling?
As far as I know, WLNY was airing The $25,000 Pyramid well into the 1980s (1985 at least, IIRC), WPIX aired To Tell The Truth until at least 1980 as part of their nighttime game block that included Tic Tac Dough and two others (You Don't Say with Jim Peck being one).
Keep in mind I'm talking shows strictly made for syndication and not specifically sold rerun packages. So don't list the limited PYL rerun package or the Card Sharks package.
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I saw the syndicated TPiR listed as late as summer 1981 (WCBS carried it at 7:30pm on Saturday night). Just about the same timeframe with Cross-Wits.
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In the Bay City-Sag-Flint, MI, we got the Rod Serling Liars' Club in the summer of 1971, long after production wrapped in 1969. In New York, WPIX aired All About Faces in 1975. In Lansing, MI, Channel 10 showed It's Your Bet after production wrapped and Stump the Stars as late as 1976. Sources are back issues of TV Guide.
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It was mentioned years ago that Super Pay Cards! was reran well into the 80s on some Canadian stations.
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In New York City, WOR-TV channel 9 aired Dawson Feud reruns during the 1985-86 season
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I remember seeing a Broadcasting ad for the repackaged Feud reruns in the summer of 1985 that played off the New Coke debacle (for you kids out there, Coca-Cola pulled the Coke we all know in 1985 for a new flavor that was such a sales disaster that Coke had to bring back the old flavor - and eventually New Coke faded into oblivion).
Brian
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WPWR in Chicago (then on channel 60) aired Gong Show and Treasure Hunt as late as March 1984.
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It was mentioned years ago that Super Pay Cards! was reran well into the 80s on some Canadian stations.
That was to fill Can-con rules. Canadian stations are forced to air a certain amount of Canadian programming - that's why such shows as Let's Make a Deal, Split Second and Super Pay Cards aired for so long north of the border.
In our area, WUTV continued to air Newlywed Game long after it stopped production in 1980. I'm sure there are a few others but I can't think of them off the top of my head...
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It was mentioned years ago that Super Pay Cards! was reran well into the 80s on some Canadian stations.
80s? It was airing on CHCH as late as 1991 or 1992.
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That reminds me, KHJ in LA showed "Pitfall" in 86 or so. That must have made Alex T happy. :)
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Another case of syndicated reruns, also on WOR, late 70s Dating Game reruns aired from 1984 to 1986, late 70s Newlywed Game reruns from 84-85
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I remember seeing a Broadcasting ad for the repackaged Feud reruns in the summer of 1985 that played off the New Coke debacle (for you kids out there, Coca-Cola pulled the Coke we all know in 1985 for a new flavor that was such a sales disaster that Coke had to bring back the old flavor - and eventually New Coke faded into oblivion).
Brian
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, I think Coke knew what they were doing all along. When the "old Coke" came back, they made one slight change - the pure cane sugar was replaced with high fructose corn syrup. I think the "New Coke" was a distraction so they could swap out the real sugar for the HFCS in hopes no one would notice...
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I think the "New Coke" was a distraction so they could swap out the real sugar for the HFCS in hopes no one would notice...
That would be an awful lot of money to spend on something they could have just done, 80% of people never would have noticed, and of the 20% who did, 19% would shrug and keep drinking.
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I think the "New Coke" was a distraction so they could swap out the real sugar for the HFCS in hopes no one would notice...
That would be an awful lot of money to spend on something they could have just done, 80% of people never would have noticed, and of the 20% who did, 19% would shrug and keep drinking.
As then-Coca-Cola president Don Keough said at the time in response to conspiracy theories suggesting New Coke was introduced just so they could reintroduce Classic Coke to greatly improved market share, "We're not that smart and we're not that stupid."
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...Stump the Stars as late as 1976.
Ditto here in Santa Barbara; KEYT (channel 3 ABC station) aired StS at 5:30pm during the 1975-76 season.
Cordially,
Tammy
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Did the original What's My Line? (1950-1967) ever air in reruns on local stations?
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(for you kids out there,
I beg your pardon, Trolly McTrollerson.
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There's a clip of 70s Treasure Hunt on Youtube that came from an early-80s rerun. I believe the station was KDAF in Dallas. I wanna say a Dallas-area station also aired Cross-Wits reruns around 1981 or '82, and I remember reading somewhere that the Canadian version of LMAD also aired on some stations around that same time.
Merv Griffin's Crosswords aired reruns in the 2008-09 season, paired up with Inside the Box, which was also a Program Partners show.
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Crosswords still airs on RetroTV, no?
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It appears so. The RTV Eastern schedule (http://classic.myretrotv.com/prog_schedules/RTV-National-Eastern.pdf) says it airs at noon each day.
It's prolly just me being nostalgic, but that's one thing I'd love to see more on these classic TV channels, a few daytime games, either reruns or even a first-run show. Of course, we have GSN for that, but to see an OTA channel try that would really take me back. :-)
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In our area, WUTV continued to air Newlywed Game long after it stopped production in 1980. I'm sure there are a few others but I can't think of them off the top of my head...
Likewise, WTHI in Terre Haute, IN ran the Newlyweds on Saturday nights up until the year they replaced it with the New Newlyweds.
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Did the original What's My Line? (1950-1967) ever air in reruns on local stations?
Yes. KDOC in Orange County, CA. until at least 1985. They showed a good number of Viacom-distributed shows in the early 80's including $128,000 Question, TPIR, Pyramid, etc. Source: Back issues of TV Guide obtained by me on ebay.
Actually, it might have been (more likely) the syndicated version (68-75) of WML? that ran. There were no details on panelists in the TV Guide listings.
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Yes. KDOC in Orange County, CA. until at least 1985. They showed a good number of Viacom-distributed shows in the early 80's including $128,000 Question, TPIR, Pyramid, etc. Source: Back issues of TV Guide obtained by me on ebay.
Makes me wonder how many stations besides WLIG and KDOC ran the old Cullen Pyramid....
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That might explain why the CBS version added "The New" to its title a couple months into the run. A few times, it's been mentioned that viewers were confusing it with the Cullen version, and I could never understand why, give the CBS version had a new set and theme song. But if stations still aired reruns, it makes much more sense.
I wonder if that's part of the reason why "The Newlywed Game" added "New" to the title when it came back in 1985?
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It appears so. The RTV Eastern schedule (http://classic.myretrotv.com/prog_schedules/RTV-National-Eastern.pdf) says it airs at noon each day.
It's prolly just me being nostalgic, but that's one thing I'd love to see more on these classic TV channels, a few daytime games, either reruns or even a first-run show. Of course, we have GSN for that, but to see an OTA channel try that would really take me back. :-)
I'd love to see that too
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I wonder if that's part of the reason why "The Newlywed Game" added "New" to the title when it came back in 1985?
Surely: if people don't know that the show is coming back, they might think it was reruns of old episodes (especially given that Newlywed Game didn't make any substantial set changes from the 60s through the 70s.) Ditto the Pyramid deal; if you have reason to think that it's an old episode, why bother. So the show says "hey, we're new so please don't turn the channel assuming that this is a rebroadcast." Same idea for Let's Make a Deal.
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In Chicago WPWR 50 aired Rafferty Card Sharks in the 1987-88 season a year after it aired originally, Chicago didn't,t clear it in 1986-87
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Another case of syndicated reruns, also on WOR, late 70s Dating Game reruns aired from 1984 to 1986, late 70s Newlywed Game reruns from 84-85
That was the same case in Phoenix (dunno which station, but I'm guessing KNXV)!
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Another case of syndicated reruns
I hear Pepto-Bismol can help with that.
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Another case of syndicated reruns
I hear Pepto-Bismol can help with that.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI
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Looking at one of my friend's TV guides from 1984, WBZ in Boston was still airing Syndie Match Game.
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WPWR in Chicago (then on channel 60) aired Gong Show and Treasure Hunt as late as March 1984.
Would that count, because GONG and TH were in rerun packages by then?
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WPWR in Chicago (then on channel 60) aired Gong Show and Treasure Hunt as late as March 1984.
Would that count, because GONG and TH were in rerun packages by then?
Was Gong sold in a specific rerun package after it was off the air? Never heard of it being so, don't count it otherwise. Treasure Hunt I might be able to believe wouldn't be resold in a rerun package because they could simply have just continuously rerun the series after first run episodes ended, couldn't they have?
I'm actually curious as to how long bicycling was still in practice in the '80s.
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WPWR in Chicago (then on channel 60) aired Gong Show and Treasure Hunt as late as March 1984.
Would that count, because GONG and TH were in rerun packages by then?
Was Gong sold in a specific rerun package after it was off the air? Never heard of it being so, don't count it otherwise.
I know the current WTIC in Hartford aired Gong reruns from the outset of its 1984 signon for at least a year afterward (source 8/24/85 TVG). They would've had to gotten those reruns somehow.
I'm actually curious as to how long bicycling was still in practice in the '80s.
I think it was out of practice by the mid 1980s at the latest. The move to satellite delivery was swift.
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Was Gong sold in a specific rerun package after it was off the air? Never heard of it being so, don't count it otherwise. Treasure Hunt I might be able to believe wouldn't be resold in a rerun package because they could simply have just continuously rerun the series after first run episodes ended, couldn't they have?
Since the syndicated GONG reruns (which started running in the fall of 1978) had no continuity (they could show a 1976 episode and a 1978 episode in the same week), I would say that yes, they were specific rerun packages. (USA also ran these packages, also with no continuity.) And I believe TH and DATING were packaged with GONG reruns in the 1980s--although I can't say for sure (didn't really care about those two shows at the time).
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If I remember correctly, WWOR aired the Dating Game reruns for the '84-'85 season, with Joker and TTD which they'd just picked up from WCBS. There's an ad circulating on YouTube (Chuck Donegan's page, if I'm not mistaken).
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WPWR in Chicago (then on channel 60) aired Gong Show and Treasure Hunt as late as March 1984.
Would that count, because GONG and TH were in rerun packages by then?
Was Gong sold in a specific rerun package after it was off the air? Never heard of it being so, don't count it otherwise. Treasure Hunt I might be able to believe wouldn't be resold in a rerun package because they could simply have just continuously rerun the series after first run episodes ended, couldn't they have?
I'm actually curious as to how long bicycling was still in practice in the '80s.
This might be an incorrect childhood memory, but I swear I remember seeing two different seasons of Wheel airing n my hometown (we got two different cities). It stands out because one episode had the shot of the wheel spinning in the foreground; the other station had episodes that did not have this feature. At the time, it made me wonder if each TV station had their own camera crew.
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Here's a trade ad for the Barris package: http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/83-OCR/BC-1983-06-20-OCR-Page-0027.pdf
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And as evidenced by the two episodes posted on YouTube, WSB here in Atlanta aired syndie Match Game reruns as late as 1985-86 (around the same time they carried the Tom Kennedy TPIR).