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Title: GameTV - 3 Cullen shows coming in September
Post by: Casey Buck on July 30, 2025, 03:22:55 PM
Starting September 8, GameTV in Canada will be adding 3 Bill Cullen shows to their lineup:

3:30 PM - Chain Reaction
4:00 PM - Pass the Buck
4:30 PM - Hot Potato

Here's a screenshot from their newsletter:
(https://i.imgur.com/WN0kFuN.png)


I believe this will be the first time Chain Reaction and Pass the Buck have aired on TV since GSN's "Dark Period" nearly 30 years ago.
Title: Re: GameTV - 3 Cullen shows coming in September
Post by: Blanquepage on July 30, 2025, 03:27:39 PM
Holy sh....well, the universe grants me an early birthday present   ;D
Clear indication that Sony's really prioritized the catalogue's digitization and shopping them around.
Title: Re: GameTV - 3 Cullen shows coming in September
Post by: Ian Wallis on July 30, 2025, 03:45:00 PM
Wow - that's surprising news!

If they air every episode of all three shows, we'll be seeing more episodes that GSN never got to when they ran them.  I believe the only one they completed was Hot Potato; they only aired partial runs of the others.
Title: Re: GameTV - 3 Cullen shows coming in September
Post by: snowpeck on July 30, 2025, 10:53:12 PM
The newsletter included links to Vimeo clips of each show as well. I'm not sure where in the runs the Hot Potato and Pass the Buck clips are from, but the Chain Reaction one is from fairly close to the end-- the week of June 2-6, 1980 with Gina Hecht, Alison Arngrim, Daryl Anderson and Nipsey Russell, which I believe is well past where GSN got.
Title: Re: GameTV - 3 Cullen shows coming in September
Post by: Adam Nedeff on July 31, 2025, 02:36:09 AM
Quote from: snowpeck on July 30, 2025, 10:53:12 PM
The newsletter included links to Vimeo clips of each show as well. I'm not sure where in the runs the Hot Potato and Pass the Buck clips are from, but the Chain Reaction one is from fairly close to the end-- the week of June 2-6, 1980 with Gina Hecht, Alison Arngrim, Daryl Anderson and Nipsey Russell, which I believe is well past where GSN got.
The Hot Potato clip is from April 3, 1984, about two weeks away from the end of the civilian run, and whoever it was at Game TV who chose the clip made a WEIRD choice, because that episode has a question about game show hosts.

Pass the Buck is episode #26, from May 5, 1978; that's roughly where GSN left off, wasn't it?
Title: Re: GameTV - 3 Cullen shows coming in September
Post by: chrisholland03 on July 31, 2025, 07:33:04 AM
I'm stoked!  Chain Reaction and Pass the Buck are a couple of my guilty pleasures.
Title: Re: GameTV - 3 Cullen shows coming in September
Post by: Blanquepage on July 31, 2025, 08:27:44 AM
Quote from: Adam Nedeff on July 31, 2025, 02:36:09 AM
Pass the Buck is episode #26, from May 5, 1978; that's roughly where GSN left off, wasn't it?
Yesh, they aired up to #24.