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GSN is playing a Halloween 1994 Richard Dawson show now!
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[quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Oct 31 2004, 02:02 PM\']GSN is playing a Halloween 1994 Richard Dawson show now!
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Now THAT is a rarity worthy of alert. Thanks for the tip! :)
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Yes, finally, something USEFUL on this forum shows up.
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[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Oct 31 2004, 02:12 PM\']Yes, finally, something USEFUL on this forum shows up.
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Now, I didn't say that. There is lots of useful information on this forum. There is also a lot of posting designed to make episodes of shows seem important because of asinine bits of minutae.
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What an amazing treat this is! (no pun intended).
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I couldn't believe it when I changed the channel to GSN and there was Feud 94; I spit my coffee out (literally). And rushed to find a blank DVD. Thanks GSN!
familyfeudfan
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Anyone want to explain that?
Acually when Nick-At-Nite had the Jeffersons in '99, I recall, they first only had rights to maybe six and a half seasons (out of I think ten).
On Superbowl Sunday night in '00 they ran a night of sports-related shows. For 'Jeffersons' the network ran a baseall-themed episode from the last season. I remeber thinking that they must have licesend that one show just for the mini-marathon.
Perhaps that explains todays show. Being biased since 'Feud' is my favorite and Dawson my favorite host, I would love for that version to be on every Sunday afternoon.
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It's back? That's good! That's one Halloween treat that GSN viewers rarely get.
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[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Oct 31 2004, 07:08 PM\']It's back? That's good! That's one Halloween treat that GSN viewers rarely get.
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No one has said yet that "It's back".
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[quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Oct 31 2004, 04:02 PM\']GSN is playing a Halloween 1994 Richard Dawson show now!
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Anyone care to give a synposis?
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Certainly.
(Moved into Show Summaries where it belongs -- DZ)
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[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Oct 31 2004, 05:56 PM\']Anyone care to give a synposis?
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There was Halloweenie stuff around the set and the music mix was too low. One family won, blew Fast Money, beat the defending champs, and blew it again.
The second of the two WBSM episodes that followed was far more interesting, IMO. At least in terms of gameplay.
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They didn't beat the defending champs. The champs beat them, but failed to win fast money.
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[quote name=\'adamjk\' date=\'Oct 31 2004, 08:46 PM\']They didn't beat the defending champs. The champs beat them, but failed to win fast money.
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Was it just me shaking my head when Richard handed a cardboard sign to the Davis family in the first half hour?
Winnings on the sign:$765.
lol
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Was it just me shaking my head when Richard handed a cardboard sign to the Davis family in the first half hour?
Winnings on the sign:$765.
lol
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Richard's custom was to hand a winning family the sign when they were about to leave the show as undefeated champions(on the nighttime show always, and when they hit the network limit on the ABC run), but to do it when they were just starting out as champs is unusual. The Combs era Feud rarely saw a family holding a sign, only times I remember were after a TofC win.
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Figures that I'd miss this...
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Oh man! I cannot believe I missed this rare opportunity to see a 94 Dawson Feud episode.
AGIOT? :P
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I still get surprised by the 180 a lot of us have done for FF94. Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? Even I admit that it wasn't horrible. Not Richard in his prime, of course, and I do wish they kept the Combs-era set, but it was watchable.
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This version is highly underrated I feel. The budget isn't as bad as people made it out to be either. Richard seemed to be having fun too. Too bad it didn't go longer then a year. BTW, did anyone happen to notice when the show went to break, the background color on the set, would go from blue to red? I don't know if that was done for all the shows, or just for the Halloween one, but it was a neat effect. It reminded me of when Jeopardy's set would do that from 91 to 96 I do believe.
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[quote name=\'JMFabiano\' date=\'Nov 2 2004, 04:33 PM\']I still get surprised by the 180 a lot of us have done for FF94. Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? Even I admit that it wasn't horrible. Not Richard in his prime, of course, and I do wish they kept the Combs-era set, but it was watchable.
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I watched it more for novelty than for interest. Superimposing the fake gameboard ALWAYS pissed me off, and I never cared for the four man team thing, and that all holds true today.
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To answer the last two posts, yes, the set always turned to red for Fast Money. Second, I'm not saying FF94 didn't seem too downsized in places...that's why I can't hold it in *that* high of regards despite calling it decent. That and what became of Ray Combs as a result of his being sacked...pleasant memories of the "Junior Badseed" rallies from ATGS ;-)
But yeah, despite there being more right to FF94 than I originally thought, you couldn't help but notice the changes. There were the teams size, the payoffs (yeah, yeah...$1,000,000 You're In The Picture), and that animated superimposed board. With the latter, would always using the FM board have been THAT worse? I know Family Fortunes and 100 Mexicanos Dijeron were all-electronic boards, and they do fine. (yeah, 100MD's is much more state of the art too :-))
I've mellowed a bit on the set, but still miss the Feud Classic style set. I wonder if they ever thought of not changing anything, based on that one promo picture of Richard in front of a fascimile Combs-era logo.
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But yeah, despite there being more right to FF94 than I originally thought, you couldn't help but notice the changes. There were the teams size, the payoffs (yeah, yeah...$1,000,000 You're In The Picture
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There was still $21K to be possibly won in each hour long show, roughly the same potential winnings as the half hour syndie show had the previous two season. Returning champs could still win $14K on each show; $14k/4=$3500 per team member per show, not too much less than the $4K per team member possible from 1992-94. $5250 per team member($7k/4=$1750 per team member in first half) could be won by a family on their first day. Ergo, the downsizing of payouts wasn't that great.
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[quote name=\'JMFabiano\' date=\'Nov 2 2004, 08:40 PM\']To answer the last two posts, yes, the set always turned to red for Fast Money.
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I didn't mean that, I meant as the show would go to each break, the set would flash from blue to red.
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[quote name=\'adamjk\' date=\'Nov 2 2004, 09:27 PM\'][quote name=\'JMFabiano\' date=\'Nov 2 2004, 08:40 PM\']To answer the last two posts, yes, the set always turned to red for Fast Money.
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I didn't mean that, I meant as the show would go to each break, the set would flash from blue to red.
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That was just on the halloween episode. I've have about 10 FF'94 hour/half hour episodes, and most of them didn't show the backgound lights change from blue to red til someone won the regular game.
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And why, oh why, was that hand always in his pocket??
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[quote name=\'AH3RD\' date=\'Nov 17 2004, 11:23 AM\']And why, oh why, was that hand always in his pocket??
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Because he had a pisto--err...a handkerchief! Yeah, a handkerchief!
Good grief, and I thought Kliest asked some moronic questions about Feud.