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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: SamJ93 on May 07, 2022, 08:00:36 PM
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For lack of a better term, I'm using "cold open" to mean that the game begins immediately from the first camera shot, instead of just the standard announcer spiel and logo graphics.
Offhand, I can think of only three that did this--Double Dare, History IQ and TVLand Ultimate Fan Search (all of which, probably not coincidentally, shared a lot of the same production staff). On a second tier, you had shows that started with something somewhat related to the gameplay but was ultimately irrelevant to the outcome--Split Second, Bumper Stumpers, Wheel's short-lived "Preview Puzzle." Any other examples of either?
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I think Classic Concentration would probably fall into the second tier category, wouldn't it?
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The last few seasons of QuizBusters had a cold open with the Quick 10.
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All my examples vaguely fall into Tier 2...
-The original You Don't Say! with Tom trying to figure out the celebrities' names.
-Face the Music opened with the baby shot from the Championship Game.
-On Win, Lose or Draw the teams sat around watching someone draw an unrelated puzzle.
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Season four of American Gladiators would begin with a portion of an event—usually Powerball, then the opening sequence.
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All my examples vaguely fall into Tier 2...
-The original You Don't Say! with Tom trying to figure out the celebrities' names.
-Face the Music opened with the baby shot from the Championship Game.
-On Win, Lose or Draw the teams sat around watching someone draw an unrelated puzzle.
In the second season of Get the Picture, the show would open wwith pieces of a toss-up puzzle being randomly revealed as Henry J read the show open.
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Another for Tier 2…..
The ‘89 revival of Now You See It with the “Hidden in this jumble of letters” spiel….
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"Definition" giving a clue and revealing its answer definitely counts as a tier 2.
And two more for Nickelodeon tier 2:
- "Finders Keepers" showing the second hidden picture puzzle and saying one object that's in it.
- "Figure it Out" showing the first contestant and their secret to the home audience only (which doesn't affect the in-studio game outcome, so I'm putting it as tier 2).
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Didn't Jack Barry's Twenty-One, during the 1950's quiz-show scandals, originally open with a title sequence in its early days, until the Herbert Stempel-Charles Van Doren series, when it changed to Jack doing a cold-open?
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Knockout marginally falls into Tier 1, since there's no opening spiel or music or even title* -- just Arte going right to the contestant intros.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMFbqWZO4NE
* (unless all the surviving clips/episodes have had a title sequence removed)
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Knockout marginally falls into Tier 1, since there's no opening spiel or music or even title* -- just Arte going right to the contestant intros.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMFbqWZO4NE
* (unless all the surviving clips/episodes have had a title sequence removed)
No. It always started with Arte chatting to the audience.
What about Talkabout? I've seen different types of opens.
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When Trivia Trap changed its format midway through its run, the show began with a quick Q from Bob Eubanks.
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Some early episodes of GE College Bowl began with a tossup prior to the intro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_o-FBu1-8w
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Make the Grade was another that dropped one of the questions into the open for tier 2. There's others that did an example of gameplay during the open - Idiotest comes to mine.
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Tier 2: When Family Feud had the Bullseye round, Gene would open the show with a question.
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Might be another stretch for Tier 2 but how about Wordplay for Tier 2? Charlie O. would introduce each celebrity by asking if they did something related to the word?
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"Top Card" can qualify for tier 2.
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Might be another stretch for Tier 2 but how about Wordplay for Tier 2? Charlie O. would introduce each celebrity by asking if they did something related to the word?
"Call My Bluff" did something similar.
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A pilot, but how about Shopper's Bazaar?
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Do clips or montages from past episodes count for Tier 2? If so, then Tomarken Press Your Luck and several versions of Pyramid.
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Do clips or montages from past episodes count for Tier 2? If so, then Tomarken Press Your Luck and several versions of Pyramid.
I'm leaning towards no because your examples consisted of clips of past contestants winning (or in the case of PYL, losing).
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Seems U.S. Millionaire flirted with a cold open once or twice, if this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285oFrm_EU0) is anything to go by.
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Australia's Million Dollar Wheel Of Fortune started with the opening toss-up "hosted" by the announcer before the theme tune.
In Italy we once had a show that began with the two competing families racing from outside the studio to their seats, while the opening tune was playing.
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On Barker TorC, the show started with something hilarious in progress and Charlie Lyon telling the home audience "Hi there. We've been waiting for you...."
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Scrabble began with the puzzle sent from a viewer.
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The first game show I can remember with your “Tier 1 opening” is “Let’s Play Post Office” during the last view weeks of it run. The opening shot was of the game board which was designed to resemble a giant business envelope. The title of the show would appear in a wipe in the window as Don Morrow would declare, “Let’s Play Post Office. The opening value is…” The top value of the first puzzle would appear where the value of the postage stamp would be. The director would cut to a shot of the contestants and answer to the first writer would appear in a key in the bottom third of the screen then the first game would begin.
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Didn't the Barris remake of Camouflage open the show with the first puzzle and Johnny Jacobs asking the viewers to find the ___________?
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Didn't the Barris remake of Camouflage open the show with the first puzzle and Johnny Jacobs asking the viewers to find the ___________?
It did; I remember seeing an intro clip a while back.
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Late in the run with WLoD, the game did start with the first puzzle, then as soon as the round was over, they went into celeb intros.
TJW in the early syndie run briefly did a Pyramid-style opening with a montage of bonus game wins.
Money Maze also went Pyramid style showing a montage of at least two bonus wins.
Blankety Blanks started with a sample Blankety Blank which Bill would read and then he picked a celeb to solve it.
Scrabble would have a sample clue at the start.
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Doesn't freakin studs file under the second tier?