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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: TimK2003 on April 13, 2020, 03:56:15 PM
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Watching a lot of old game shows during my staycation furlough, and have taken notice of a few shows that used manual spotlights that were for introductions and whatnot.
-- MGHSH for the celeb intros.
-- Classic Concentration for the cars and Alex's entrance.
-- TTTT '90 for the intros.
One common thread here is that these 3 shows came from NBC Burbank and likely from the Carson studio where the spotlights were already installed.
What other game shows regularly employed manually-operated spots? Obviously, I'm not including modern shows, like Millionaire, that have synchronized lighting displays.
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I seem to recall them running a followspot on the model (I don't think it was Carol Merrill) on the intro of the LMAD pilot. Coincidentally, that was also in studio 1 at NBC (but I think the other shows you mentioned were in studios 2, 3, or 4).
On the non-NBC front, I can mention the 1986 TPIR specials.
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Wheel in the mid-'90s used a followspot when Pat and Vanna were introduced. I wanna say the earliest Sony days, so somewhere around '95-96?
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Wheel in the mid-'90s used a followspot when Pat and Vanna were introduced. I wanna say the earliest Sony days, so somewhere around '95-96?
Back in the TV City days too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ud7cbAVCrs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ud7cbAVCrs)
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On the non-NBC front, I can mention the 1986 TPIR specials.
I believe the Davidson version used them as well. Back on the NBC front, you could add Perry's $ale.
Also, Lange's Dating Game.