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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: MSTieScott on May 22, 2025, 03:10:37 PM
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Buzzr continues to push "National Game Show Day" by making an event out of June. The network also will break with recent tradition by NOT using the weekend to repeat weekday programming.
Of note is that more "new" episodes of Classic Concentration will return starting June 1. An ad (https://www.facebook.com/BUZZRtv/videos/buzzrs-lostandfound-is-dropping-iconic-rare-eps-of-family-feud-card-sharks-passw/1826434898214733/) also promotes Eubanks Card Sharks, Dawson Family Feud, and Password Plus; additionally, I see one episode of Shafer Match Game per day and some later-Pax-era Supermarket Sweeps. I don't know whether any of those are also new to Buzzr. (It's easy to check Classic Concentration -- the fan wiki doesn't have episode information, so the episodes must not have aired since 1991.)
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The majority of the weekday schedule prior to Midnight ET will be new to GSN. .
Dawson Feud is all new from Fall 1983 (ABC run) in both airings similar to P+ for the first couple weeks, with the late-prime airings roughly a month ahead of mornings. Three shows in the morning 5 days/week, two shows in late prime 7 days/week.
Password Plus (Sept 1981) - the late-primetime airings are starting roughly a month ahead of the early morning ones so both will be new for at least two weeks. 7 days per week.
Eventually mornings will catch where late-Prime started for both of these shows so curious what happens there in the second half of the month.
Super Password (June 1987) - picks up exactly where left off. Seven days per week.
Eubanks CS (very last taped shows of 1987 into 1988). 5 days per week. On weekends they appear to be showing random episodes from later in 1988-89, some of which they've run before and some of which haven't been run in quite some time. Only one '88 show on Sundays due to paid programming availability.
Match Game (Rayburn-era syndicated) - running the third season. Six days per week due to paid program placement on Saturdays.
Match Game PM (yes really - they've aired the show wildly out of order and there's a chunk of eps from the end of S1 and start of S2 they've never run). 7 days/week.
The more-interesting-to-me Match Game 90 (roughly mid-run) is also new, also 7 days/week.
Classic Concentration is labeled '90' in Buzzr's metadata but picks up from where they left off in May 1991. 7 days/week.
These Supermarket Sweep episodes have actually aired at least one time before (they've run 40 of the first 42 shows of that season, and the s7 airings start in that range). Season 7 runs M-F. However, weekends show a continuation of the new to Buzzr season 8 (PAX final year) eps they've been slowly dripping in the past couple of months.
The overnight series (To Tell the Truth (both hours), Body Language, Blockbusters, Concentration 70s, and syndie What's My Line) and Price is Right have all been seen before (or at least Price has definitely been seen on the Barker Era channel). The last day that schedule data's up for (overnight 6/8 into 6/9) they're running the last two Blockbusters eps they ran before resetting (311 & 312), so if they wanted to cycle in new eps there, there's a definite opportunity without skipping. (not getting my hopes up)
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Also saw and ad for Lost and Found, starting 6/1 at 10:30AM.
Do they not have a lot of 1986 PYL airable? The 5PM mini-marathon got into maybe February/March 1986 (after Across-The-Board debut), then looped back to late 1984 or early 85.
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Also saw and ad for Lost and Found, starting 6/1 at 10:30AM.
Do they not have a lot of 1986 PYL airable? The 5PM mini-marathon got into maybe February/March 1986 (after Across-The-Board debut), then looped back to late 1984 or early 85.
Buzzr went up to 5/30/86 for PYL, 1 episode later than GSN. That episode has a glitch at the end which makes me think it's why GSN didn't air it. There has been talk that Buzzr may be getting around to converting the rest of the shows and PYL DOES show up in the latest promo for Lost & Found (which now says it will take place for the entire month), but we'll see.
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The majority of the weekday schedule prior to Midnight ET will be new...
Just a quick "thank you" to Chelsea for this summary. Helpful to know which shows to record these next few weeks. Especially like to see the new Super Password episodes.
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Classic Concentration is labeled '90' in Buzzr's metadata but picks up from where they left off in May 1991. 7 days/week.
The end is near, correct? Are there any series that lasted longer than a year that BUZZR has ran in its entirety*?
*=ETA: If they missed a couple of episodes due to damaged tapes or words deemed inappropriate, NBD.
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Classic Concentration is labeled '90' in Buzzr's metadata but picks up from where they left off in May 1991. 7 days/week.
The end is near, correct? Are there any series that lasted longer than a year that BUZZR has ran in its entirety?
Double Dare is one
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Trebek DD was only ~5 months. But did they get to it all? I thought even GSN missed some in the past.
-Jason
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Trebek DD was only ~5 months. But did they get to it all? I thought even GSN missed some in the past.
-Jason
Buzzr didn't even get close; they only made it to January 21, 1977. GSN skipped over a fair amount too; here's a really comprehensive episode guide that lists what aired when.
https://erthreetrading.miraheze.org/wiki/Double_Dare_(CBS):_Episode_Guide
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[The end is near, correct? Are there any series that lasted longer than a year that BUZZR has ran in its entirety*?
*=ETA: If they missed a couple of episodes due to damaged tapes or words deemed inappropriate, NBD.
Not sure about certain eps from 1973-74 but I know they’ve ran and streamed basically all of CBS Match Game from 1975-onwards. This new stunt should also clear the last chunk of PM they haven’t run.
They’ve run everything they have for Sale . Entire PM run (220) plus the extant 9 months of daytime show.
Lmad 80s they’ve run seemingly all they have (roughly 300 eps of 340) - there’s around thirty consecutive shows plus spot eps that they jumped over but seems to be an issue of extancy.
Does anyone know if they finished Talk About.
PYL they’re getting close, just ~sixty eps from the end. It’s closest of the bunch of incomplete shows.
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[The end is near, correct? Are there any series that lasted longer than a year that BUZZR has ran in its entirety*?
*=ETA: If they missed a couple of episodes due to damaged tapes or words deemed inappropriate, NBD.
Not sure about certain eps from 1973-74 but I know they’ve ran and streamed basically all of CBS Match Game from 1975-onwards. This new stunt should also clear the last chunk of PM they haven’t run.
Does anyone know if they finished Talk About.
Aside from skips due to content deemed inappropriate, all of the CBS run of Match Game has aired. All they have left in that regard in general is the aforementioned PM chunk and the third syndicated season, both of which they'll be hacking away at during this stunt.
There's still a chunk from the second season of Talk About they never got to.
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PYL they’re getting close, just ~sixty eps from the end. It’s closest of the bunch of incomplete shows.
Interestingly enough, BUZZR seems blocked on Blockbusters not going beyond #312. And I think that's also 60 episodes left too, no?
Would be nice to see the rest of those in clean condition!
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Interestingly enough, BUZZR seems blocked on Blockbusters not going beyond #312. And I think that's also 60 episodes left too, no?
Would be nice to see the rest of those in clean condition!
Exactly 60 left on the back end - plus almost all of the first 99 shows on the front side (outside of a couple of episodes in marathons the earliest show they've run 'normally' is #100)
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FWIW, GameTV's lease of Blockbusters started with episode 100. Maybe most of the earlier ones haven't been converted(?)
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Interestingly enough, BUZZR seems blocked on Blockbusters not going beyond #312. And I think that's also 60 episodes left too, no?
Would be nice to see the rest of those in clean condition!
Exactly 60 left on the back end - plus almost all of the first 99 shows on the front side (outside of a couple of episodes in marathons the earliest show they've run 'normally' is #100)
Did GSN *ever* run the Blockbuster episodes that Buzzr didn't? Because I recorded an awful lot of the shows when they were on GSN and I was on a completeness kick.
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Did GSN *ever* run the Blockbuster episodes that Buzzr didn't? Because I recorded an awful lot of the shows when they were on GSN and I was on a completeness kick.
Yeah, GSN ran through all of it. Didn't know that Buzzr had always skipped the first 99, though.
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Did GSN *ever* run the Blockbuster episodes that Buzzr didn't? Because I recorded an awful lot of the shows when they were on GSN and I was on a completeness kick.
Yeah, GSN ran through all of it. Didn't know that Buzzr had always skipped the first 99, though.
Buzzr did the same thing with Child's Play and Body Language, for Body Language, with the exceptions of the weeks with Betty White and Lucille Ball, haven't regularly reran any of the actual series prior to #160(Sam[uel] vs. Beverly) and they haven't aired anything beyond #377 from 11/26/85(Olga vs. Mike). For Child's Play, they haven't aired any of the first 82 episodes, Buzzr began with #083 and haven't gone any farther than #147 from 4/14/83, though they had aired a couple of handpicked episodes from the Turnabout end game era. When GSN replaced Child's Play and expanded its weekend morning Kids Zone block with the additions of Family Challenge and Wild Animal Games, was #100(aka the Ronald Blair Wilkinson II onstage GOLD STAR episode) or #102 the last episode to air at that 8am time slot?
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Buzzr didn't even get close; they only made it to January 21, 1977. GSN skipped over a fair amount too; here's a really comprehensive episode guide that lists what aired when.
https://erthreetrading.miraheze.org/wiki/Double_Dare_(CBS):_Episode_Guide
Interesting to see an episode guide for this series. I went through weekday TV listings in the NY Daily News to determine when the four preemptions for "Double Dare" would've been (96 reported episodes across 100 weekdays), but I wasn't quite able to make the scheduling snap into place.
There were three occasions when "Double Dare" didn't air at all on either the Eastern or Pacific feed--
Thursday, January 20 -- presidential inauguration
Thursday, March 24 -- "March Magazine"
Thursday, April 21 -- "April Magazine"
On three other occasions (noted below), there was a presidential news conference at 10 a.m. Eastern that preempted "Double Dare" in the Eastern/Central feed. Checking California papers, they were carried live at 7 a.m. Pacific, allowing "Double Dare" to have aired in the later feed -- but were repeats aired on those days, or were some episodes seen only on the West Coast? I guess one would have to consult whatever paperwork Fremantle has.
Wednesday, March 9
Friday, April 15
Friday, April 22
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Did GSN *ever* run the Blockbuster episodes that Buzzr didn't? Because I recorded an awful lot of the shows when they were on GSN and I was on a completeness kick.
Repeatedly, on something close to a half dozen occasions. The finale was also in Y2Play. The eps ran as early as the Winnie-era and as late (the last months of shows) as the mid 2010s. I personally have the entire last sixty from GSN ca. the mid 2010s (and about half of those again from a previous loop in 2005). Plus about eighty out of the first 100 from a mix of various airings from at least five different loops (1996, 1998, 2003, 2005, 2006).
There's a couple of shows GSN consistently skipped (including the switch to the 'best 2 of 3' rule) and a couple they aired once or twice but skipped later (not sure whether tape damage or content offhand), but almost all of them have aired
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Some people on this forum, not counting the Body Language episodes that GSN always skipped (#41-#51, #130-#131 and #232-#233), have ALL of the Body Language episodes from prior to #160 and after #377, some of which are from the GSN airings as early as the first months of the green ball era but with John Cramer as its network programming narrator and several of which come from the time that Chain Reaction(from the time Rich Cronin was the CEO of GSN) and Starface and yes, That’s The Question were on the air are where the GSN recordings of those episodes come from.
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Some people on this forum, has not counting the Body Language episodes that GSN always skipped (#41-#51, #130-#131 and #232-#233), have ALL of the Body Language episodes from prior to #160 and after #377, some of which are from the GSN airings as early as the first months of the green ball era but with John Cramer as its network programming narrator and several of which come from the time that Chain Reaction(from the time Rich Cronin was the CEO of GSN) and Starface and yes, That’s The Question were on the air are where the GSN recordings of those episodes come from.
I feel like I'm a losing contestant on Wordplay
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Some people on this forum, has not counting the Body Language episodes that GSN always skipped (#41-#51, #130-#131 and #232-#233), have ALL of the Body Language episodes from prior to #160 and after #377, some of which are from the GSN airings as early as the first months of the green ball era but with John Cramer as its network programming narrator and several of which come from the time that Chain Reaction(from the time Rich Cronin was the CEO of GSN) and Starface and yes, That’s The Question were on the air are where the GSN recordings of those episodes come from.
I feel like I'm a losing contestant on Wordplay
Was that even English?
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I fear we may have to cancel "Words Have Meanings" after that post, as the conceit of the show has been disproven.
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I fear we may have to cancel "Words Have Meanings" after that post, as the conceit of the show has been disproven.
We had a good run. No regrets.
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Just turned on Buzzr and they’re airing 1980s Tattletales. Is this from a special they previously aired or are they airing 80s TT now?
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Eubanks CS' metadata for Sunday 6/6 and 6/7 have been updated. Show continues with shows 526, 528, and 530 on Saturday, and 531-532 on Sunday.
Week two starting 6/9 sees lots of shifts. Times ET:
8:30a - 10:30a sees the return of Split Second '80s and LMAD 80s after a one week absence - neither hour appears to be new to Buzzr eps (there's a couple dozen of the American prints of Split Second and about the same number of 80s LMAD eps that were skipped, but these don't appear to be either). Monday-Friday.
From 10:30a to Noon starting Tuesday is Card Sharks from Jim Perry ca. March 1979 - starting roughly at the point in 1979 where Buzzr has gotten the furthest (they've aired up to here as well as several months of 1980 but never these). Tuesday-Sunday.
Monday ONLY, Eubanks CS airs in these slots as well, in addition to Noon to 1PM all seven days. Eubanks CS jumps ahead nearly one hundred shows to June 1988, starting with show #623 and proceeding in order, including a week of shows with Ray Combs cameos. Although frustrating to skip that many shows, this seems intentional given the next thing:
Dawson Feud from late 83 carries on about it's new-to-Buzzr business at 1PM 7x...but things get interesting at 2PM as they run the first fourteen shows (through Sunday) of Combs' nighttime Feud in order starting with show #1. The syndicated Combs' Feud has never been on the regular Buzzr schedule at all, only ever the first few months of the CBS run before it moved to the all-Feud streaming channel. It would be really nice if this stuck around beyond the week or the stunt, IMO.
Price continues it's routine two hours of season 13 from 3-5p unabated and fairly uninteresting. 7 days/week.
Match Game block continues onward slightly expanded but sans MG PM. The third season of the Rayburn daily syndicated run will air at both 5 and 5:30pm that week, while MG90 will air at both 6p and 6:30p. Both series continue on from the previous week's airings. MG 90 is preempted Saturday, MG '81 is preempted Sunday. 6 days/week.
Super Password moves to 7p-8p, also continuing on from the previous week's new-to-buzzr eps. Mon-Sun.
Various episodes of Lifetime-era Supermarket Sweep run all week from 8p-10p, starting with the last shows of season 3 and going into season 4. These have run on Buzzr before but have been out of rotation for a while. This group of eps does feature the theme song change and the short-lived yellow contestant displays (and the switch to the much easier-to-read blue shortly after). (edit: Both seasons currently stream on Pluto). Runs Monday-Sunday, no PAX shows this week.
Password Plus continues onwards from the late 1981 eps of the week before at 10PM for an hour, Monday-Sunday.
60s Password re-emerges at 11PM, with the earliest episodes of the color era of the daytime run (the eps that made it to syndication anyway), running 4 of 5 shows from the season premiere week (skipping Friday), the entire Carol Burnett/Ross Martin week and Irene Ryan/Bob Crane weeks, as well as the Monday show with Barbara Rush and John Forsythe. These are new to Buzzr as they've only touched the 1967 shows for the most part. Weirdly, Buzzr's metadata shows the Rush/Forsythe and Friday show of Ryan/Crane airing in the wrong order. Monday-Sunday.
Overnights are the continuing loop of the same series 7 days/week, with Blockbusters resetting to show #182.
And that's it, at least until the week of the 16th, which is not up yet.
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Various episodes of Lifetime-era Supermarket Sweep run all week from 8p-10p, starting with the last shows of season 3 and going into season 4. ... S3 eps are on streaming, it's been a hot minute for S4 though as they're not.
*cough* (https://pluto.tv/us/on-demand/series/60da17cdb8187f00136ab21f/season/4)
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*cough* (https://pluto.tv/us/on-demand/series/60da17cdb8187f00136ab21f/season/4)
Wasn't aware Pluto was clearing so much of Lifetime season 4, haven't had cause to look at their on demand offerings in a bit. Noted.
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Just turned on Buzzr and they’re airing 1980s Tattletales. Is this from a special they previously aired or are they airing 80s TT now?
Last evening (5/27) they went back to the beginning and aired the Cullen/Ludden/Woolery week where you had to buzz in with a story to a given situation.
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I fear we may have to cancel "Words Have Meanings" after that post, as the conceit of the show has been disproven.
There's always "These are all most certainly words" as a viable replacement.
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I fear we may have to cancel "Words Have Meanings" after that post, as the conceit of the show has been disproven.
We had a good run. No regrets.
At least there now is a timeslot open for an expanded hour-long Numberwang!
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6/16 - Stuff gets moved around all over the place, but not seeing much fresh stuff that week.
8:30-10: WML? (Bruner)
10-Noon: TTTT '73
Noon: Family Feud '70s (different years each day, some might be fresh?)
12:30: Concentration '77 (starting at 128-1)
1-3: MG '75
3-5: TPiR
5-6: PYL '84
6:00: Child's Play (#84, I believe the earliest BUZZR's aired)
6:30-7:30: Classic Concentration '87
7:30: $oTC '85
8-10: Supermarket Sweep
10-Midnight: Temptation
Hasn't it been a while for series' to get solo airings, without another episode following it? Anyhow, kind of a "meh" lineup for me.
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Adam Nedeff has posted on a thread on his Facebook page, which might explain why Lost & Found hasn't shown many pilots lately:
If Buzzr ever wanted to show an episode that never aired, Fremantle’s lawyers required them to #1, see if the contestants got paid, and #2, if the contestants weren’t paid, Buzzr had show that they had made a good-faith effort to track down the contestants and pay them whatever they were credited, or demonstrate that they were unable to track down the contestants.
That actually makes things like unaired pilots incredibly complicated for Buzzr. The contestants for unaired pilots come in with the understanding that “We’re not REALLY going to pay you the grand prize, we’re just going to pay you a couple hundred bucks and this is never going to air,” but if Fremantle doesn’t still have the decades-old paperwork demonstrating that the contestants agreed to that, they might actually still be obligated to pay off.
I understand that Buzzr fans might be disappointed by the underwhelming lineup for Lost and Fun this year, but there’s the complication—it might actually cost them $25,000 or so to air a certain pilot.
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An uninformed question about that legal stuff: does it include only posting it on YouTube and never broadcasting it on the actual channel?
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When GSN aired the pilots they did, would they have had to do a similar thing or because they're cable (vs. Buzzr which is over air broadcast network), they wouldn't need to? IIRC, GSN just had a disclaimer saying "This pilot show could be rigged."
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You're right that GSN did such a disclaimer -- on the Game Show Turkeys marathon anyway, not the Elvira one. But Adam's point is specific to Fremantle. It's like how some networks/entities don't care if you use movie quotes in questions without clearance, and other places stay away, rather than take a chance. Apparently Fremantle's view -- likely bolstered by the fact it's their network airing their properties, rather than licensing from other sources -- is more risk-averse.
-Jason
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I think they are trying to avoid the legal mess that ABC has with that 500 grand win of Show me the Money. Gsn almost aired that, and the show was pulled after airing 2 days in reruns. Word was Gsn would have had to cough up that half million
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He eventually got paid (https://www.gameshowforum.org/index.php/topic,35464.msg410843.html).
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For regular series episodes, how exactly did they keep track of what aired and what may not have?
Case in point: when Match Game 79 was cancelled, CBS aired the last two or three weeks haphazardly, skipping episodes of various weeks. On one of the last episodes that we saw on GSN, they mentioned the air-date was supposed to be May 10th. Of course, we never got there. Would CBS have marked each individual tape indicating whether they actually aired it or not?
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6/16 - Stuff gets moved around all over the place, but not seeing much fresh stuff that week.
8:30-10: WML? (Bruner)
10-Noon: TTTT '73
Noon: Family Feud '70s (different years each day, some might be fresh?)
12:30: Concentration '77 (starting at 128-1)
1-3: MG '75
3-5: TPiR
5-6: PYL '84
6:00: Child's Play (#84, I believe the earliest BUZZR's aired)
6:30-7:30: Classic Concentration '87
7:30: $oTC '85
8-10: Supermarket Sweep
10-Midnight: Temptation
Hasn't it been a while for series' to get solo airings, without another episode following it? Anyhow, kind of a "meh" lineup for me.
Who in God's name wants two hours of US Temptation every single night?
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As for Child's Play, #083 was the earliest Buzzr aired. Supermarket Sweep is pretty much the only show that gets fresh episodes that week. Buzzr had aired #100 of Child's Play at first but Buzzr nuked it out of its rerun rotation later on and Amazon Prime skipped #100.
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6/16 - Stuff gets moved around all over the place, but not seeing much fresh stuff that week.
8:30-10: WML? (Bruner)
10-Noon: TTTT '73
Noon: Family Feud '70s (different years each day, some might be fresh?)
12:30: Concentration '77 (starting at 128-1)
1-3: MG '75
3-5: TPiR
5-6: PYL '84
6:00: Child's Play (#84, I believe the earliest BUZZR's aired)
6:30-7:30: Classic Concentration '87
7:30: $oTC '85
8-10: Supermarket Sweep
10-Midnight: Temptation
Hasn't it been a while for series' to get solo airings, without another episode following it? Anyhow, kind of a "meh" lineup for me.
Who in God's name wants two hours of US Temptation every single night?
Insomniacs.
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Buzzr showed last night the first 2 episodes of the 2 contestants being on for 4 days with Jayne Meadows and Steve Allen. If you have seen the episodes on gsn, you know how bad the game play was . I guess many NBC stations dropped password plus after that
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I guess many NBC stations dropped password plus after that
Proof or not real.
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I guess many NBC stations dropped password plus after that
Proof or not real.
. Guud question. Not sure. I think when they. Changed the format of the game to 500 dollars and prolonged the game, it didn't help. For some reason it was more successful when super password debuted and had the same format.
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Buzzr showed last night the first 2 episodes of the 2 contestants being on for 4 days with Jayne Meadows and Steve Allen. If you have seen the episodes on gsn, you know how bad the game play was . I guess many NBC stations dropped password plus after that
The episode aired in December 1981, so the show was gone in a few months. But I don't think this particular episode was the reason why.
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I rarely watch Buzzr anymore or even TV anymore outside of sports, but I had Buzzr on when putting away laundry because it's an antenna-only TV in the bedroom. Why was Buzzr showing a religious infomercial at 5 PM?
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Buzzr showed last night the first 2 episodes of the 2 contestants being on for 4 days with Jayne Meadows and Steve Allen. If you have seen the episodes on gsn, you know how bad the game play was . I guess many NBC stations dropped password plus after that
The episode aired in December 1981, so the show was gone in a few months. But I don't think this particular episode was the reason why.
To be fair, the game play was pretty bad--although low clearances (probably even fewer than the CS episodes they replaced) and worse ratings figured more prominently.
I still marvel that only CS managed to survive more than a year in the 12N ET slot between when JACKPOT! was cancelled and SP debuted.
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Guud question. Not sure. I think when they. Changed the format of the game to 500 dollars and prolonged the game, it didn't help. For some reason it was more successful when super password debuted and had the same format.
So you are, then, in fact, guessing.
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I guess many NBC stations dropped password plus after that
Proof or not real.
. Guud question. Not sure. I think when they. Changed the format of the game to 500 dollars and prolonged the game, it didn't help. For some reason it was more successful when super password debuted and had the same format.
No.
Password Plus ratings history is actually pretty wild because there were several points where, to my eye, it was actually overperforming. It peaked in the summer of 1980--during the disastrous summer of The David Letterman Show, Password Plus was actually the second highest rated show on NBC's daytime schedule with a 5.4 rating; only Days of Our Lives outperformed it. It was doing that with only 79% of stations clearing it in the 12:30 pm time slot. Its competition, Search for Tomorrow on CBS, was doing a 6.0 with 97% clearance.
By the end of summer '80, NBC moved Password Plus to 11:30 am, where it got back up to 90% clearance but also DROPPED to a 3.9 against The Price is Right. The last ratings data that I have for 11:30 am has Password Plus hovering pretty consistently at 3.6 with an 18 share, 92% clearance. The format change happened concurrently with a time slot change. When they moved to noon, it dipped to 2.7/11 with 71% clearance.
Here's where it gets wild. In January 1982--the month after the Steve & Jayne debacle, they were managing a 3.6/13. They actually got back up to their old rating while languishing in the noon time slot! The clearance level also went up to 73%, meaning NBC got some stations to come back when Password Plus was there. I once asked a former network executive what kind of ratings the network was hoping for on these shows that got stuck in the noon time slot, and he explained to me, "The goal of the show in the noon time slot was to be so good that the stations we lost would want to come back." Password Plus actually achieved that in a few cities! When it was dropped, it was replaced on the schedule by The Doctors, which got the clearance back up to 81% but delivered only a 2.4/9. Maybe being a game show fan makes me a little biased, but to my eye, the ratings data says "Cancelling Password Plus was a screw-up."
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Maybe being a game show fan makes me a little biased, but to my eye, the ratings data says "Cancelling Password Plus was a screw-up."
Any idea on whether there was any consideration to reverse the cancellation after the show won the Daytime Emmy?
I guess bringing it back as Super Password answers that question, but knowing all this it made more sense to bring this back in '83 as opposed to Battlestars.
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May as well ask since we’re here—what was the Imetus behind increasing the main goal to $500. If concurrent with the Alphabetics jsckpit was the idea to limit the bonus game to once a day?
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Here are some charts I found on another site of how the not soaps were doing around that time.
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^^ I see the reboot of Tattletales wasn't so hot in the ratings. How many CBS markets did NOT carry it? I ask because TT'80 never aired in Cleveland. Once in a while I could pick it up from the Toledo station, which IIRC aired in the mid-mornings.
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Cannot figure out why the pre-emption on 5/6. Falklands was a thing but nothing amazing that day.
Detroit CBS did not carry TT, it only carried TPIR. Detroit NBC didn't clear any game shows.
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^^ I see the reboot of Tattletales wasn't so hot in the ratings. How many CBS markets did NOT carry it? I ask because TT'80 never aired in Cleveland. Once in a while I could pick it up from the Toledo station, which IIRC aired in the mid-mornings.
Seemed like there were quite a few by that point not carrying the 4pm offering. I recall WDAU in Scranton carrying it off and on. WTVF (Syracuse) and WBNG (Binghamton) did not carry it.
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^^ I see the reboot of Tattletales wasn't so hot in the ratings. How many CBS markets did NOT carry it? I ask because TT'80 never aired in Cleveland. Once in a while I could pick it up from the Toledo station, which IIRC aired in the mid-mornings.
Seemed like there were quite a few by that point not carrying the 4pm offering. I recall WDAU in Scranton carrying it off and on. WTVF (Syracuse) and WBNG (Binghamton) did not carry it.
Tattletales aired in Toledo at 930AM, IIRC.
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Cannot figure out why the pre-emption on 5/6. Falklands was a thing but nothing amazing that day.
Looks like this Reagan press conference, which began at 11:17 A.M.: (Transcript (https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/remarks-and-question-and-answer-session-reporters-fiscal-year-1983-federal-budget))
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As an aside, the summer docking of "Love Boat" in the summer of '81 for back-to-back "Three's Company" reruns seemed to give ABC some good ratings (at least for that week). Was that consistent throughout that summer?
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As an aside, the summer docking of "Love Boat" in the summer of '81 for back-to-back "Three's Company" reruns seemed to give ABC some good ratings (at least for that week). Was that consistent throughout that summer?
I believe most of the network reruns had their peaks during the summer of whatever year they ran, when kids were home. That's why most were taken off by fall or winter.
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I believe most of the network reruns had their peaks during the summer of whatever year they ran, when kids were home. That's why most were taken off by fall or winter.
I can absolutely tell you that tactic worked for *this* kid - Three's Company, Facts of Life, Too Close for Comfort....All three of those discovered thanks to the network summer reruns.
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Seemed like there were quite a few by that point not carrying the 4pm offering. I recall WDAU in Scranton carrying it off and on. WTVF (Syracuse) and WBNG (Binghamton) did not carry it.
The 4 PM slot was a problem going back as far as the mid-70s. The original Tattletales (plus shows like Money Maze and You Don't Say) were often tape-delayed until the next morning, usually in the 9:30 AM time slot.
WHEC Rochester carried the reboot at 9:30, but bigger-market Buffalo never picked it up.
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The charts upthread are very interesting. Love Boat daytime was the highest-rated show on this list in August 1980, which was pretty close to when the reruns started. It's to be expected that once it recycles the ratings will be a bit lower, but it looks like it gained stations.
Three's Company really did well in daytime for the brief period it was there. IIRC, I think it was syndicated that fall so I guess ABC wanted to get some mileage out of it. By that time the initial episodes hadn't been seen in four years and it was enjoyable watching them again that summer.
No wonder networks relied so heavily on daytime repeats of primetime shows for so long - a lot of them did quite well.
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Sorry to interrupt everyone's discussion about ratings from nearly 45 years ago, but the schedule for the week of the 23rd just dropped. Times ET
8:30am-10a: Feud here. (Deep Breath)
Mon-Tue: Dawson Feud '85. The AMC vs. GH week that I believe they haven't run before, while the '79 ep of Sammy Davis Jr hosting is the 3rd show on Tuesday).
Wed: Three fresh episodes of the Combs CBS run, picking up where Buzzr and the Feud streaming channel previously ended at the end of March 1989. JUST the three.
Thu: Three PM Dawson eps, no idea if they're new (82-N013, 83-N016, 83-N065)
Fri: The Sammy ep again, a random 1982 ep, and the Monday show from the AMC/GH week again. (No weekend eps due to paid programming and E/I). Seriously what?
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10a & 10:30: Password 60s. Mix of B&W and Daytime episodes. No idea what is or isn't new here.
11a & 1130a: Password Plus. Seen before. Shows from early '79 M/Tu, '80 on W-Su
12p/1230/1p: Super Password. Seen before. Each ep from a diff part of the run from 1985-88. Eps change daily. They're running eps from the '86 and '88 Lucille Ball weeks again. (Honestly would be content to not see the '88 eps again unless they get there in the regular, in-order, run)
1:30/2/230: Card Sharks '80, starts at ep 4 (?) of the Celebrity tournament. On Friday switches to Eubanks 1988 eps from just before and just after the ones they've been running this past week.
3p/4p: TPiR S13 continues. Resets to the beginning of the season on Saturday. (Was hoping for S14)
5p & 6p: Million Dollar Password, starts from ep 1. Most eps not seen on Buzzr before and probably the most interesting thing this week.
And the rest.
7p & 7:30: Match Game, shows from 73-74 until Saturday, when it jumps to 77/78
8p-10p: Supermarket Sweep 4x
10p: Tattletales x2, another 'grab bag' week, nothing new. 10p hour is preempted by paid programming on official schedule on the 25th.
11p: To Tell the Truth x2, 1973, nothing new.
12a: To Tell the Truth x2, 1974, nothing new but jumps back to '73 this week.
Usual 1-4a shows, same, although the 4am Truth cycles through it's "random TTTT eps we've digitized" bit and shows TTTT 90 most of the week, same for WML at 5a.
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The charts upthread are very interesting. Love Boat daytime was the highest-rated show on this list in August 1980, which was pretty close to when the reruns started. It's to be expected that once it recycles the ratings will be a bit lower, but it looks like it gained stations.
Pretty close - June 30, 1980 was when the LB reruns started running.
Three's Company really did well in daytime for the brief period it was there. IIRC, I think it was syndicated that fall so I guess ABC wanted to get some mileage out of it. By that time the initial episodes hadn't been seen in four years and it was enjoyable watching them again that summer.
There was actually a year between the end of the daytime reruns and the syndicated run - fall 1982 was when those started. In my mind I can see that yellow "Distributed by D.L. Taffner" screen that ran after the credits. :)
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Monday, June 30th sees one more day of the previous week's schedule (see previous).
'Normal' schedule returns on Tuesday, July 1st thought with some major changes after Price is Right.
The only 'unique' series on weekends remain Temptation and $ale, while the earlier-morning Monty block remains weekdays only.
8:30a & 9:00a: Split Second 80s x2 (starting at 86_075 of the US numbering)
9:30a & 10:00a: Let's Make a Deal x2 (starts at 88, first LMAD they ran when Buzzr first aired the series)
10:30a to 12p: Supermarket Sweep x3 (starts with #1429 in S4)
12p-1p: Press Your Luck x2 (Starts with show #1 from 1983)
1p-3p: Classic Concentration x4 (Starts with show #1 from 1987)
3p-5p: TPiR Season 13 x2 (starts with 2nd show of season)
5p-8p: Match Game 73 x6 (starts with show #0081)
8p to 9:30p: Tattletales 75 (starts with #332)
9:30p to 11p: Card Sharks (Perry) 78 - starts with #062.
11p to 12:30a: Press Your Luck x2 (again, show #1 from '83)
12:30a to 2a: Body Language 85 (resets to show #163, gains 1 slot)
Remainder of overnights continue on previous loops (Blockbusters '81, Concentration '76, Moore TTTT '73, Syndie WML '72)
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Weekends:
Paid programming until 10:30a.
10:30a to 12:00p: Temptation (2007) x2 starting w/ #001
12:00p to 1:00p: Sale of the Century '85 (Syndicated, starting with PM Ep #82)
1:00p to 3:00p: Classic Concentration, but diff eps than weekdays. Starts with 1990_0883.
<Barker TPiR 2 Hours continue 3-5p>
5:00p to 8:00p: Match Game '78 x6 starting w #1130
8:00p to 9:30p: Tattletales '76 starting with #486
9:30p to 11:00p: Card Sharks (Perry) 1980 starting w/ #499
11:00p to 12:30a: Press Your Luck '84 starting w #135
The weekend "overnight loop" shows are going back and airing episodes from outside the main loops that they've run before (WML '68-70, TTTT 1970 & 1990, Body Language '84, etc)
The week after that, weekday MG and PYL jump ahead to 1974 and 1984 respectively but the rest keep on puttering ahead.
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Today’s 5pm episode of Million Dollar Password, Jamie Kennedy vs. Norm Macdonald, was a version with no on-screen graphics for names, clocks, or words. A sample below:
https://youtu.be/KTCFNJN_Kg4
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Although Buzzr will continue jumping around episodes week to week (and sometimes day to day) the above schedule holds through the week of the 14th EXCEPT that Narz Concentration leaves the schedule again starting overnight in the early morning of the 15th, with Dawson Feud sliding in there at 3AM ET. Episodes start with daytime show #83-027 and have aired before.
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Although Buzzr will continue jumping around episodes week to week (and sometimes day to day) the above schedule holds through the week of the 14th EXCEPT that Narz Concentration leaves the schedule again starting overnight in the early morning of the 15th, with Dawson Feud sliding in there at 3AM ET. Episodes start with daytime show #83-027 and have aired before.
And MGHS Hour replaces Blockbusters. Those two shows just can't seem to stick for long, it seems.
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And MGHS Hour replaces Blockbusters.
I think it may already have, despite what the schedule says. I flipped to Buzzr during the 11:00 p.m. Pacific hour on the night of July 1, and instead of Blockbusters, I was greeted by episode 2 of MGHS, complete with the mistimed commercial breaks because Buzzr never accounted for the fee plugs when the network put that episode into regular rotation.
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Yup. Was up around 3am eastern and Dawson was on