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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Winkfan on May 29, 2004, 04:44:18 PM

Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: Winkfan on May 29, 2004, 04:44:18 PM: Here's another 'Best and Worst' for you:

Not counting 'off-network or off-syndie' repeats, what was the best game show to ever air on ABC Family? (Mind you, this includes the channel's previous incarnations as Fox Family, the Family Channel, and yes, even as far back as CBN!)

As far as I'm concerned:
BEST: Paranoia, Second Honeymoon, and Shopping Spree.

WORST: Outrageous!

Cordially,
Tammy Warner--the 'Barbara Feldon of the Big Board!'
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: Jamey Greek on May 29, 2004, 05:01:26 PM: Best: Lange NTT, Face The Music, Crosswits '86, Trivial Pursuit, Boggle, Shuffle, Jumble, and Split Second 86!

Worst: I Can't believe you said that!
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on May 29, 2004, 05:13:28 PM: [quote name=\'Jamey Greek\' date=\'May 29 2004, 04:01 PM\'] Best: Lange NTT, Face The Music, Crosswits '86, Trivial Pursuit, Boggle, Shuffle, Jumble, and Split Second 86!

Worst: I Can't believe you said that! [/quote]
Did you not read the post? She specifically said excluding repeats.

My favorite: Shopping Spree
Least favorite: Wait 'Til You Have Kids (1st series)
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: The Ol' Guy on May 29, 2004, 05:14:08 PM: Best: Paranoia, maybe Trivial Pursuit. Didn't have cable for quite a while and missed many of the others.

Worst? - Let's choose "weak". Turning Shuffle, Boggle and Jumble into all-interactives with just a few slap-on items to change the face of the same podiums was cheesy. Boggle and Jumble could have been solid standard game show formats by themselves if they hadn't altered the basic formats too much to milk the home-viewer cash-cow with the call-in stuff. If just Pursuit and maybe one other, like Shuffle, were interactives and the other two classic formats, perhaps they might have stayed on longer?

Also missed the no-rerun item and originally posted Chain Reaction. I was grateful to then-CBN for letting me see the original show for the first time. Still one of my favorites.
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: JayC on May 29, 2004, 05:26:47 PM: Best- Paranoia
Worst- Family Challenge
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: Jamey Greek on May 29, 2004, 05:54:23 PM: Sorry, Let's Try Again

Best-Trivial Pursuit and Boggle Shuffle and Jumble

Worst-I can't believe you said that
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: Mario500 on May 29, 2004, 08:15:54 PM: Best: Masters of the Maze (Family Channel)

Worst: Nope.............

Hard to believe how much this channel has changed.
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: Don Howard on May 29, 2004, 08:39:09 PM: BEST: Paranoia
RUNNER-UP FOR BEST: Trivial Pursuit

WORST: The 700 Club
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: sshuffield70 on May 29, 2004, 11:21:50 PM: [quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'May 29 2004, 07:39 PM\'] BEST: Paranoia
RUNNER-UP FOR BEST: Trivial Pursuit

WORST: The 700 Club [/quote]
The original post said worst game show. This poster happens to be a fan of the host of "The 700 Club". There was no need to bring it up in this thread.
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: BrandonFG on May 30, 2004, 12:32:53 AM: BEST: Trivial Pursuit, Shopping Spree (tie)

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Boggle and Jumble. If both hadn't been so adamant about the interactive elements, they would've been cool, with some tweaking. I'd love to see Boggle brought back, but maybe make it a 2 contestant game.

It Takes Two was also a pretty good show, but the rules just seemed so complicated. It took me forever to understand the "come within 20% of the actual number" bonus round.

WORST: Small Talk (I really think this is the first game show to superimpose the logo as a bug in the corner of the screen...ugh)

HONORABLE MENTION: Shuffle...nothing more than a 30-minute Fastest Finger round. Snooze.
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: HairMetalLives on May 30, 2004, 09:14:25 AM: BEST: "That's My Dog!" & "Small Talk"
WORST: "Family Challenge" & "Wild Animal Games"
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: bandit_bobby on May 30, 2004, 10:32:21 AM: Best: Shopping Spree and Trivial Pursuit

Worst: Any other FAM interactive game(Boggle, Shuffle, Jumble).
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: Jimmy Owen on May 30, 2004, 11:31:40 AM: Fave: "It Takes Two." Unfave: "Baby Races."
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: Don Howard on May 30, 2004, 11:56:30 AM: [quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'May 29 2004, 10:21 PM\'] [quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'May 29 2004, 07:39 PM\'] BEST: Paranoia
RUNNER-UP FOR BEST: Trivial Pursuit

WORST: The 700 Club [/quote]
The original post said worst game show. This poster happens to be a fan of the host of "The 700 Club". There was no need to bring it up in this thread. [/quote]
And this poster is not.
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: ChuckNet on May 30, 2004, 12:42:26 PM: Quote
The original post said worst game show. This poster happens to be a fan of the host of "The 700 Club". There was no need to bring it up in this thread.

To be fair, while my general opinion of Pat Robertson is prolly the same as Don's, he did green-light the GS reruns that populated CBN/FAM's afternoon lineup in the mid-80s and 90s, as well as the original games that aired on FAM from 95-97.

Chuck Donegan (The Diplomatic "Chuckie Baby")
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: Strikerz04 on May 30, 2004, 01:24:51 PM: To be really honest, all I can remember was "Trivial Pursuit"; but I forgot how the other three works. All I remember on one of the shows was a 10-second time limit, followed by a 5-second clock...

Shows what limited memory I had at the age of 9...=/
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: HairMetalLives on May 30, 2004, 04:50:03 PM: Ah, yes. The ever-so-abysmal "Baby Races." I forgot all about that! Add that to my "worst" list.
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: BrandonFG on May 31, 2004, 02:40:20 AM: [quote name=\'Strikerz04\' date=\'May 30 2004, 12:24 PM\'] To be really honest, all I can remember was "Trivial Pursuit"; but I forgot how the other three works. All I remember on one of the shows was a 10-second time limit, followed by a 5-second clock...

Shows what limited memory I had at the age of 9...=/ [/quote]
Let me think...might be difficult since 1) I haven't seen these shows in 10 years, and 2) it's 2:30 am :-)

I remember that on each show, the contestants had a keypad in front of them, just like a telephone keypad. Wink would ask the question, and the contestants spelled it out, using the keypad. The only difference was on "Shuffle," which, as I stated earlier, played like a 30-minute Fastest Finger round. Contestants were scored based on how fast they punched in the *correct* answer, counting down from 1,000 I believe.

I also remember each of the three shows starting off with four contestants, and one by one, a contestant was eliminated until one remained, who won a trip.
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on May 31, 2004, 08:08:39 AM: [quote name=\'Jamey Greek\' date=\'May 29 2004, 04:54 PM\'] Sorry, Let's Try Again

Best-Trivial Pursuit and Boggle Shuffle and Jumble

Worst-I can't believe you said that [/quote]
Is it just me, or is it annoying when people "fix" their posts, they can't use the edit feature? I thought that Chris and Matt were charged for the number of posts that people made.
Just a thought...

Incidentally, is "Boggle Shuffle" the next new dance craze to hit America?
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: RMF on June 01, 2004, 10:47:35 AM: Haven't made up my mind what the best was (I don't remember some of these programs), but the worst ones were by far the interactive programs.
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: TrplPlayRD on June 03, 2004, 03:52:31 AM: Best: Trivial Pursuit, Paranoia, Shopping Spree

Worst: Masters of the Maze, Maximum Drive, Jumble, Shuffle, Boggle, Baby Races, Family Challenge, It Takes Two, Small Talk, Wait 'Til You have Kids!, and That's My Dog
Title: Best and Worst #2
Post by: Jimmy Owen on June 03, 2004, 12:34:48 PM: Is "Shop Til You Drop" considered a FAM show, or would the previous Lifetime run make it ineligible?