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Seems that beginning this week Beat the Clock is on seven days a week. Fitting now that we've reached the more exciting bonus round.
Greg
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[quote name=\'snowpeck\' date=\'Aug 9 2005, 02:24 AM\']Seems that beginning this week Beat the Clock is on seven days a week. Fitting now that we've reached the more exciting bonus round.
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Except! They ran a program from the early 1950s when THE BONUS!!! was worth a mere $200. Your guest host was John Reed King. The episode was the one where he gave the immortal line, "Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhh, Mister Fooooooyyyyyyy".
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Yeah I realized that a few minutes after I made the post. Couldn't edit though because I'm on moderated posting for whatever reason. I had just surfed through and caught the program when I made the initial post. I hope the weekend airings continue from where they were. It will be interesting to see the giant jackpots won.
Greg
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JRK really needs to stop saying, "Hurry, boy!".
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 01:23 AM\']JRK really needs to stop saying, "Hurry, boy!".
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If I'm remembering this guy correctly from the last time this episode aired, he needed to stop saying anything.
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That host just sounded absolutely goofy to me.
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[quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 08:32 AM\']That host just sounded absolutely goofy to me.
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He was smashing those coffee cups like a madman, wasn't he? Oh, I'd kill for a taste of his emcee duties on Let's See.
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 09:44 AM\'][quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 08:32 AM\']That host just sounded absolutely goofy to me.
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He was smashing those coffee cups like a madman, wasn't he? Oh, I'd kill for a taste of his emcee duties on Let's See.
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In doing the geekish acitivity of reading from 50s New York Times microfilms in the college library, I came across a Jack Gould review of "Let's See" that went something like this: "Last night, the American Broadcasting Company telecast a panel quiz program entitled 'Let's See,' by kinescope from Atlantic City, with John Reed King as master of ceremonies and a panel consisting of [names]. There is no reason for this program to exist."
End of review.
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 11:36 AM\']"... There is no reason for this program to exist."
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If I listed every program from the last five years we've been saying that about, game show or not, this board would exceed its bandwidth for the rest of the decade. Gotta love progress.
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[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 09:44 AM\'][quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 11:36 AM\']"... There is no reason for this program to exist."[/quote]
If I listed every program from the last five years we've been saying that about, game show or not, this board would exceed its bandwidth for the rest of the decade. Gotta love progress.
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And if we actually eliminated them all from the airwaves, there would be about four shows left on television. Fortunely, "Good Eats" and "Lost" would be two of them. :)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 01:10 PM\'][quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 09:44 AM\'][quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 11:36 AM\']"... There is no reason for this program to exist."[/quote]
If I listed every program from the last five years we've been saying that about, game show or not, this board would exceed its bandwidth for the rest of the decade. Gotta love progress.
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And if we actually eliminated them all from the airwaves, there would be about four shows left on television. Fortunely, "Good Eats" and "Lost" would be two of them. :)
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And porn would be the other. Both of 'em.
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Does anybody know where in the run the weekday airings started?
j
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Does anybody know where in the run the weekday airings started?
They started right from the earliest BtC episode GSN has in its archives. I believe Thursday night/Friday morning is where we get to see Bud back from his vacation; and also where they start giving out the Roxanne dolls.
I've said this before about John Reed King, and I'll say it again: He makes Bob Eubanks look like Fred Allen!
Cordially,
Tammy Warner--the 'Jan Speck of the Big Board!'
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Thanks! I thought i had seen these before! =)
j
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[quote name=\'Winkfan\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 06:18 PM\']I believe Thursday night/Friday morning is where we get to see Bud back from his vacation
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True this. JRK mentioned Bud's return on today's early morning broadcast. I shall miss my "old friend and guest clock watcher". Did he ever helm a show that had a decent run?
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On radio, yes, on TV, no. He did have the good sense (or good luck) to have Bill Cullen as announcer on a number of his shows.
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Ever wonder how John Reed King would've hosted Lingo?
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 11:36 AM\']
In doing the geekish acitivity of reading from 50s New York Times microfilms in the college library
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I thought I was the only one who had ever done geekish things like that.
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[quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Aug 13 2005, 08:34 AM\'][quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 11:36 AM\']
In doing the geekish acitivity of reading from 50s New York Times microfilms in the college library
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I thought I was the only one who had ever done geekish things like that.
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Naw, I still do...I like learning about what aired when, or what our market didn't have, esp. when daytime games were bigger. Sometimes, it even triggers my memory about a certain show airing at specific times.
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Naw, I still do...I like learning about what aired when, or what our market didn't have, esp. when daytime games were bigger. Sometimes, it even triggers my memory about a certain show airing at specific times.
Same here...and before I started collecting old TVGuides I did this in our local library for game show listings of the '50s and '60s. They had the New York Metro edition on microfilm.
I also used to do this for Billboard magazine, and old Hot 100 charts - that's before all the old charts were published in a book in the mid-90s!
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I am also guilty (though I feel no guilt) of looking at microfilms, often for the sheer fun of it. Reading old New York Times microfilms are informative and entertaining (like seeing small ads saying "The Music Man is coming!" in the paper in the weeks leading up to the show's NYC open). NYC Metro editions of TV Guide were immensely helpful in researching an obscure game show-related program, and doing just a cursory glance at the listings makes me wince at how many of these shows are lost to history for any number of reasons.
Were Collyer's BTC fill-in hosts ever listed in the TV Guide listings?