The Game Show Forum
The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: trainman on June 21, 2023, 02:09:26 AM
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All right, I couldn't resist creating this counterpart to the other "alternate realities" thread.
Depictions of game shows within alternate-reality fiction. I can only think of two off the top of my head, both in relatively recent streaming TV series:
1. "The Man in the High Castle" (in which the Axis wins World War II and control of the U.S. is split between Germany and Japan) -- a panel show called "Guess My Game," which appears to be extremely similar to "What's My Line?", but is presumably not a Goodson-Todman production. It's broadcast in color as early as 1962.
2. "For All Mankind" (in which the Soviet Union beats the U.S. to a manned moon landing, and the space race between the two powers continues indefinitely) -- the "Jeopardy!" revival premieres a year earlier than in our timeline, in 1983, but appears to be exactly the same.
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The Weakest Link, with Anne Droid. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN93nBTaPlM
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The "alternate realty" definition is admittedly a bit of a stretch here, but there is the other recurring game show sketch from That Mitchell And Webb Look, set in a bunker following an unspecified apocalyptic event:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=22mt0cVyW5c
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The Running Man.