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Here's a fun category you can try.
Mine are...
Password (CBS 1961)
Jeopardy! (NBC 1978)
Make The Grade (1989)
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[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Oct 2 2004, 06:05 AM\']
Here's a fun category you can try.
Mine are...
Password (CBS 1961)
Jeopardy! (NBC 1978)
Make The Grade (1989)
Remote Control did bow on my 18th birthday 12/7/87 IIRC
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It Takes Two with Dick Clark (1997) but I never saw an episode.
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"Blockbusters" and "Las Vegas Gambit" started the day I turned 20.
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"The Better Sex".
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I honestly don't believe that my birthday (October 10) boasts of any premiere dates.
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Nickelodeon didn't know it, but they gave me a 16th birthday present when Get the Picture premiered on March 18, 1991.
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"Bedroom Buddies" in 1992....a lovely 8th birthday present.
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Pick-a-Pair debuted the day I was born. Does that count?
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"Figure It Out" premiered on Nickelodeon the day I turned 16 (July 7, 1997), but I hardly watched it until almost a year later.
And, although I wasn't born yet at the time, "Rhyme and Reason" did premiere on ABC on my birthday....in 1975.
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Here goes mine...
1. "About Faces" premiered on the day I was born.
2. "Storybook Squares" premiered on my 9th birthday.
3. "Blackout" premiered on my 28th birthday.
4. "American Gladiators" reruns premiered on USA on my 33rd birthday (does that count??)
I think that's it....
Don
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[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Oct 2 2004, 11:21 AM\']Pick-a-Pair debuted the day I was born. Does that count?
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As long as you mention pricing games, mine's Triple Play! The game where you win 3 cars & get the Curly siren!
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[quote name=\'Thad Dixon\' date=\'Oct 2 2004, 01:54 PM\']And, although I wasn't born yet at the time, "Rhyme and Reason" did premiere on ABC on my birthday....in 1975.
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So did the ABC run of You Don't Say! when it debuted the same day.
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March 3 isn't a very good day for GS premieres. Just like Steve G., I'm going the pricing game route. Push Over debuted on my 24th birthday. Add to that that Bill Cullen's 2nd week as a celebrity player on The $10K Pyramid began the day I was born.
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Oct 2 2004, 10:18 AM\']
I honestly don't believe that my birthday (October 10) boasts of any premiere dates.
$25K Pyramid reruns bowed on USA on 10/10/1988, so there is a sort-of GS premiere.
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"Concentration" debuted on mine, 25-August. And "The $64,000 Question" on my sister's, 7-June.
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Blockbusters and LVGambit premiered 10/27/1982...
I was born in 1985.
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Don't think any premiered on June 26.
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press your luck and wheel of fortune syndie debuted in 1983 (my 3rd birthday) that was a wonderful memory.
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In a way, Double Talk premiered on my birthday {August 19th} in 1986 because it was shown delayed by a day in my area (Monday's show ran on Tuesday, Tuesday's on Wednesday and so on).
If any show did have its official national rollout on that day, perhaps Master Zach can help me out.
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From what I read, Password All-Stars debuted on November 18, but it was eight years before I was born.
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"Number Please" shows in some references as being premiered on January 30, 1961 - a Monday, and the birth date of yours truly and Robair - but it was delayed one day because of some sort of live news event that ABC carried.
However, "The Yogi Bear Show" premiered in syndication that same day.
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I don't recall any game shows ever premiering on August 3rd (my b-day)
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The (New) Price Is Right and Joker's Wild may have debuted on September 4, 1972, but here in Fairbanks it bowed on September 25....six years before I would be born that day in Anchorage!!! Of course, at that time network shows were broadcast in Alaska two to three weeks after the Lower 48 via air delivery of tapes -- and before that, kinescopes -- from Seattle; it ended in about 1984 when ABC, CBS, and NBC all switched from landline distribution (and the syndicators, mail distribution) to satellite distribution (PBS was the first U.S. network to go satellite in 1978, but in Canada, CTV wouldn't begin satellite transmissions until 1988!!!)
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The (New) Price Is Right and Joker's Wild may have debuted on September 4, 1972, but here in Fairbanks it bowed on September 25....six years before I would be born that day in Anchorage!!! Of course, at that time network shows were broadcast in Alaska two to three weeks after the Lower 48 via air delivery of tapes
Interesting about Alaska television. I'm surprised it's not the same as Hawaii - in Hawaii all network programs were telecast one week late until sometime in the '80s. I always thought they aired at the exact same time, only a week late. I have a TVGuide from Hawaii from 1976, and another from 1982, and the schedules are totally different than on the mainland.
I'm surprised that Alaska was further behind than Hawaii in screening the shows.
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Oct 7 2004, 07:57 AM\']Interesting about Alaska television. I'm surprised it's not the same as Hawaii - in Hawaii all network programs were telecast one week late until sometime in the '80s. I always thought they aired at the exact same time, only a week late. I have a TVGuide from Hawaii from 1976, and another from 1982, and the schedules are totally different than on the mainland.
I'm surprised that Alaska was further behind than Hawaii in screening the shows.
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Just a guess, but could the reason that Hawaii was less far behind Alaska be because Hawaii is/was more populous than Alaska? I would think that a larger population center would take priority over a smaller one.
ObGameShow: A certain unpopular-around-these-parts show (which I have fourtunately never seen) originated from the 50th state.
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[quote name=\'Tony\' date=\'Oct 7 2004, 03:25 PM\'][quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Oct 7 2004, 07:57 AM\']Interesting about Alaska television. I'm surprised it's not the same as Hawaii - in Hawaii all network programs were telecast one week late until sometime in the '80s. I always thought they aired at the exact same time, only a week late. I have a TVGuide from Hawaii from 1976, and another from 1982, and the schedules are totally different than on the mainland.
I'm surprised that Alaska was further behind than Hawaii in screening the shows.
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Just a guess, but could the reason that Hawaii was less far behind Alaska be because Hawaii is/was more populous than Alaska? I would think that a larger population center would take priority over a smaller one.
ObGameShow: A certain unpopular-around-these-parts show (which I have fourtunately never seen) originated from the 50th state.
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Tony's right. Alaska is primarily wilderness country while Hawaii is more densely populated, thus Hawaii received the shows one week earlier than Alaska before both states went into satellite mode in the 80's. Unlike 1959 where Alaska beat Hawaii to be admitted into the union.
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Going in the opposite direction. I think Just Men was cancelled on April 1, 1983, just two days after i was born
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I think (not too sure, can someone correct me or confirm this?) that Hot Potato debuted on my 8th birthday, January 23, 1984.
Of course, my birthday present would spawn a plague that is NOT funny.
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[quote name=\'Johnissoevil\' date=\'Oct 9 2004, 02:39 AM\']
I think (not too sure, can someone correct me or confirm this?) that Hot Potato debuted on my 8th birthday, January 23, 1984.
Hot Potato did debut on 1/23/84, and Couch Potatoes debuted on 1/23/89.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Oct 9 2004, 06:58 AM\']Hot Potato did debut on 1/23/84, and Couch Potatoes debuted on 1/23/89.
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Boy, we're just mashing this out, aren't we?