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Post by: TimK2003 on June 07, 2005, 09:24:22 PM
Short & Sweet:

Name a game show which was taped at a Hotel or a Resort.


LAS VEGAS GAMBIT and DEALERS CHOICE (the early episodes) -- The Tropicana in Vegas
HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (last of the Marshall Nighttime eps) -- The Riviera in Vegas
LET'S MAKE A DEAL (Hall's '76-77 Season) --  MGM Grand in Vegas

And from CBS Latenight, had to be the cheesiest of the bunch...

PERSONALS -- The LAX Sheraton Hotel in Los Angeles, CA

Others?
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Post by: BrandonFG on June 07, 2005, 09:32:00 PM
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 08:24 PM\']Short & Sweet:

Name a game show which was taped at a Hotel or a Resort.
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Caesar's Challenge-Caesar's Las Vegas
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Post by: clemon79 on June 07, 2005, 09:34:14 PM
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 06:32 PM\']Caesar's Challenge-Caesar's Las Vegas
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Trump Card, of course.

And wasn't the excretable "Ruckus" taped at one of Griffin's places?
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Post by: DjohnsonCB on June 07, 2005, 09:43:46 PM
Treasure Isle, taped on the site of the Collonades Beach Hotel in Palm Beach FL.
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Post by: inturnaround on June 07, 2005, 09:44:39 PM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 09:34 PM\']And wasn't the excretable "Ruckus" taped at one of Griffin's places?
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Yeah, it was Resorts International in Atlantic City.

What resort did the Davidson Squares tape at when they went to Hollywood FL? I think they went twice.
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Post by: Chief-O on June 07, 2005, 09:52:56 PM
If lottery shows count----

Powerball Instant Millionaire---Venetian, later Orleans
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Post by: wschmrdr on June 07, 2005, 09:56:11 PM
If you count international shows, the South African version of Greed was done in a Hotel Casino.
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Post by: zachhoran on June 07, 2005, 10:12:51 PM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 08:34 PM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 06:32 PM\']Caesar's Challenge-Caesar's Las Vegas
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Trump Card, of course.

And wasn't the excretable "Ruckus" taped at one of Griffin's places?
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Yahtzee taped at Trump Castle and later the Showboat; Ruckus taped at Resorts International, which Griffin owned at the time.
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Post by: BrandonFG on June 07, 2005, 10:16:42 PM
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 09:12 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 08:34 PM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 06:32 PM\']Caesar's Challenge-Caesar's Las Vegas
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Trump Card, of course.

And wasn't the excretable "Ruckus" taped at one of Griffin's places?
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Ruckus taped at Resorts International, which Griffin owned at the time.
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Yeah, but that was already answered by inturnaround.
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Post by: rugrats1 on June 07, 2005, 10:18:21 PM
Lest we forget "Diamond Head" (Kuilima Hotel on Oahu).
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Post by: inturnaround on June 07, 2005, 10:22:06 PM
[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 10:18 PM\']Lest we forget "Diamond Head" (Kuilima Hotel on Oahu).
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No. Lets.
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Post by: The Ol' Guy on June 07, 2005, 11:54:00 PM
..and if you're counting pilots, the Bob Stewart '69 pilot Second Guessers in Miami. What was that..the Hotel Plaza? Do you think Bob wanted a room in Miami without paying for it, so he tells the managers if he can have a room, he'll invent and tape a pilot game show there the next morning and make them all famous??
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Post by: Jeremy Nelson on June 07, 2005, 11:57:59 PM
Wheel taped at the Las Vegas Hilton and taped at a hawaiian resort when the went to honolulu. I think everywhere else they went was at a theater or convention center.

BTW, my dad is a businessman. He frequently went to Los Angeles on business trips. Once when he came home he told my mom (when Personals was taping), "Hey, I was on my way home and there was this guy asking me to go see this stupid dating show. He looked pretty desperate, so I went to see it. I came out of that room laughing my ass off. Now I'm hoping to god that TV never ends up like THAT piece of crap.

Go Dad.
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Post by: Jimmy Owen on June 08, 2005, 09:25:28 AM
Is Disney World a "resort"?
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Post by: uncamark on June 08, 2005, 12:19:56 PM
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Jun 8 2005, 08:25 AM\']Is Disney World a "resort"?
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Certain locations in Disney World are resorts, even if the whole place isn't.

And in that "Second Guessers" pilot, didn't I hear Jack Clark say in the plug that the auditorium in that hotel in Miami where they taped was the "winter home" of the Kenley Players, the Ohio summer stock circuit that provided Mike Douglas with celebrity co-hosts during the summer when he based his show in Cleveland?
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Post by: cmjb13 on June 08, 2005, 01:14:07 PM
TPIR's 30th Anniversary Special

Ahhh. Memories...
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Post by: Mike Tennant on June 08, 2005, 01:20:29 PM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 08:34 PM\']And wasn't the excretable "Ruckus" taped at one of Griffin's places?
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Just curious, Chris:  Did you mean to write "execrable"?  If Ruckus was that bad, though, it could qualify as both execrable and excretable.  (I well know you have a wicked sense of humor, so I'm not trying to berate you for a typo that you intended as a joke.)
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Post by: clemon79 on June 08, 2005, 02:34:58 PM
[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Jun 8 2005, 10:20 AM\']Just curious, Chris:  Did you mean to write "execrable"?  If Ruckus was that bad, though, it could qualify as both execrable and excretable.  (I well know you have a wicked sense of humor, so I'm not trying to berate you for a typo that you intended as a joke.)
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I probably did, I've never gotten that phrase right. I'd always figured "excretable" fit. :)
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Post by: HairMetalLives on June 08, 2005, 03:17:51 PM
[quote name=\'inturnaround\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 05:44 PM\']What resort did the Davidson Squares tape at when they went to Hollywood FL? I think they went twice.
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It was the Diplomat Hotel and I think they did go twice.
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Post by: DJDustman on June 08, 2005, 04:00:19 PM
[quote name=\'HairMetalLives\' date=\'Jun 8 2005, 02:17 PM\'][quote name=\'inturnaround\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 05:44 PM\']What resort did the Davidson Squares tape at when they went to Hollywood FL? I think they went twice.
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It was the Diplomat Hotel and I think they did go twice.
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They went for four weeks.  Two weeks in the first season and two weeks consecutively in the 2nd season.  They also taped at Club Med in the Bahamas for a week.

The Diplomat has since changed a lot, becoming somewhat of a twin tower esque building.
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Post by: davemackey on June 08, 2005, 04:27:02 PM
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 09:24 PM\']
LET'S MAKE A DEAL (Hall's '76-77 Season) --  MGM Grand in Vegas
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Ooh, I'm so sorry. The correct answer was "Las Vegas Hilton".
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Post by: clemon79 on June 08, 2005, 04:35:05 PM
[quote name=\'davemackey\' date=\'Jun 8 2005, 01:27 PM\'][quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 09:24 PM\']
LET'S MAKE A DEAL (Hall's '76-77 Season) --  MGM Grand in Vegas
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Ooh, I'm so sorry. The correct answer was "Las Vegas Hilton".
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For you folks more Vegas savvy than I...was the Grand even THERE in '76?
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Post by: Chief-O on June 08, 2005, 05:22:15 PM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 8 2005, 03:35 PM\']For you folks more Vegas savvy than I...was the Grand even THERE in '76?
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I believe so----just not in its current form.
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Post by: TimK2003 on June 08, 2005, 05:43:43 PM
[quote name=\'davemackey\' date=\'Jun 8 2005, 03:27 PM\'][quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 09:24 PM\']
LET'S MAKE A DEAL (Hall's '76-77 Season) --  MGM Grand in Vegas
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Holy crap, was I off by a few miles!!!  I had the Hilton in my mind, but the Benadryl had control of my fingers and went to the Grand instead.

Although the MGM Grand hosted the Wheel Of Fortune Live show back a few years ago with Michael Burger as emcee, though it was not a televised event.  Nonetheless, the MGM was one helluva step up from the Sheraton LAX for Burger!
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Post by: BrandonFG on June 08, 2005, 05:51:14 PM
[quote name=\'Chief-O\' date=\'Jun 8 2005, 04:22 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 8 2005, 03:35 PM\']For you folks more Vegas savvy than I...was the Grand even THERE in '76?
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I believe so----just not in its current form.
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Not that this is very relevant, but wasn't there a massive fire there in the late-70s or early-80s?
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Post by: clemon79 on June 08, 2005, 06:01:08 PM
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jun 8 2005, 02:51 PM\']Not that this is very relevant, but wasn't there a massive fire there in the late-70s or early-80s?
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Some Googling I did after that post out of interest discovered that there in fact was, in 1980. It was then rebuilt from the Marina Hotel in 1989.
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Post by: urbanpreppie05 on June 08, 2005, 06:46:29 PM
This is totally obscure, but-

Aussie Wheel of Fortune taped it's 20th anniversary show at Conrad Jupiter's on the Gold Coast...

I have no clue how I came up with that one...
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Post by: Neumms on June 08, 2005, 08:15:20 PM
When "Win Lose or Draw" shot in Hawaii, were they at a resort?

And when they showed "Queen for a Day" on Trio, I believe they were at the Fountainbleu in Miami, if not at a hotel in Hollywood, too. (Not that we typically bring up that show, but I'm just tickled I could answer the question.)
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Post by: ChuckNet on June 08, 2005, 08:22:26 PM
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Some Googling I did after that post out of interest discovered that there in fact was, in 1980. It was then rebuilt from the Marina Hotel in 1989.

And it was said fire that supposedly thwarted the short-lived $50K Pyramid's plans for a 2nd season, from the Grand.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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Post by: sshuffield70 on June 09, 2005, 10:29:33 AM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 8 2005, 05:01 PM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jun 8 2005, 02:51 PM\']Not that this is very relevant, but wasn't there a massive fire there in the late-70s or early-80s?
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MGM Grand was orginally a straight across building.  During the 90s, the addition that crossed the old hotel was added (hey, they had to compete somehow!)
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Post by: uncamark on June 09, 2005, 02:39:56 PM
I'm not sure on the name, but I believe that for a good portion of "Queen's" run on radio and television, it originated from a *restaurant* in Hollywood called the Moulin Rouge (no relation to any Nicole Kidman movie).

Along those same lines, something in the back of my mind tells me that "T or C" and "It Could Be You" originated from the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood for part of their runs, as NBC was finishing moving out of their old Hollywood studios for Burbank.
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Post by: clemon79 on June 09, 2005, 03:02:44 PM
[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Jun 9 2005, 11:39 AM\']I'm not sure on the name, but I believe that for a good portion of "Queen's" run on radio and television, it originated from a *restaurant* in Hollywood called the Moulin Rouge (no relation to any Nicole Kidman movie).
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It was a "club", according to the EOTVGS, but close enough. :) Later, it was used as the "Star Search Theater", then for Chevy Chase's crapfest, and then a studio for Nickelodeon.
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Post by: SRIV94 on June 09, 2005, 05:02:42 PM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 9 2005, 02:02 PM\'][quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Jun 9 2005, 11:39 AM\']I'm not sure on the name, but I believe that for a good portion of "Queen's" run on radio and television, it originated from a *restaurant* in Hollywood called the Moulin Rouge (no relation to any Nicole Kidman movie).
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It was a "club", according to the EOTVGS, but close enough. :) Later, it was used as the "Star Search Theater", then for Chevy Chase's crapfest, and then a studio for Nickelodeon.
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That was the Aquarius, no?

Doug
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Post by: clemon79 on June 09, 2005, 05:04:40 PM
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Jun 9 2005, 02:02 PM\']That was the Aquarius, no?
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It was indeed.
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Post by: uncamark on June 10, 2005, 03:11:08 PM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 9 2005, 04:04 PM\'][quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Jun 9 2005, 02:02 PM\']That was the Aquarius, no?
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It was indeed.
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Called the Aquarius when it was used for a production of "Hair" in the late 60s/early 70s.  Far out, man.
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Post by: ChuckNet on June 10, 2005, 09:32:21 PM
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Called the Aquarius when it was used for a production of "Hair" in the late 60s/early 70s. Far out, man.

And to keep it GS-related, that was also where the Lange version of Triple Threat was taped.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")