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TPIR for me
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WOF in Philly in APril 1999 followed by WWTBAM in NYC four months later were my first and only two live tapings.
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The Bill Cosby version of \"You Bet Your Life\"
(and if that doesn't count: \"The Price Is Right\")
JOSH
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It was either Guess What (Robin Ward) or Definition (Jim Parry) at the CFTO studios here in Toronto back in 1986. I saw both in a span of two or three weeks and can't remember which I saw first.
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This is stretching...
But I was on \"Bozo's Big Top\" in Green Bay in the mid-60s. And they did play games on it (it was a local version of the Chicago Bozo show some of you may remember from WGN).
Didn't get to play any games, tho.
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Not counting peeking through a door at NBC and seeing a taping of Concentration for about a minute in 1965, it was Moneymaze , followed closely by Big Showdown, in early 1975. And, the next was Musical Chairs, in June '75 right after school let out. Maybe they would have all lasted longer if I hadn't gone :)
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Showoffs in '75. Got to see my mother rack up a cool 2 grand. Little did I know I'd be seeing announcer Wood and celeb guest Rayburn again 9 years later.... ;-)
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The CBS \"$25,000 Pyramid\" in August of 1987, with guests Abby Dalton and Leonard Maltin. Got to see one win live!
Brendan
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\"Snap Judgement\" with Ed McMahon at 30 Rock. My life changed forever.
Later, in no particular order, \"Winning Streak\", \"TTTT\", \"You're Putting Me On\", Fleming \"Jeopardy!\", \"Eye Guess\", \"Concentration\", \"WML?\" '71...
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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Wheel Of Fortune--two daytime shows in 1985.
Pat and Vanna, host and hostess
Jack Clark, announcer--nice man and very gracious
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WoF, when they came to Radio City in Oct. 1988. This was followed by:
- TPiR (Jul. 97)
- WoF (again, at the MSG theater, Oct. 99)
- HS (at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NY, Oct 00)
- History IQ (Apr. 01)
...and I'm also expecting to see WoF again when they come back to Radio City very shortly.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious \"Chuckie Baby\")
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[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Aug 19 2003, 11:10 AM\']WoF, when they came to Radio City in Oct. 1988. This was followed by:
- TPiR (Jul. 97)
- WoF (again, at the MSG theater, Oct. 99)
- HS (at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NY, Oct 00)
- History IQ (Apr. 01)
...and I'm also expecting to see WoF again when they come back to Radio City very shortly.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious \"Chuckie Baby\")[/quote]
Paramount theater?
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My first in-person game show viewing was The $100,000 Name That Tune back in 1984; but that was when I was waiting to be a contestant. (And we know how THAT turned out!) I've also attended live tapings of Press Your Luck in 1985, Card Sharks in 1987, and Match Game in 1998.
Cordially,
Tammy Warner--the 'Ruth Halsey of the Big Board!'
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WoF, when they came to Radio City in Oct. 1988
You got to see Don Pardo, you lucky stiff. Did he do the warm-up or just announce? Too bad Don wasn't called up for the Jeopardy! shows from New York in 2002.
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Semis of \"J!\" College Tournament in Rosemont, Illinois, 1999.
In my week in LA in 1979, \"CS\" was the only game show taping and I wasn't that big on the show back then (even if I did try out to be a contestant). And for some reason I never tried to get into the lottery shows.
I did stand far away from the taping of \"WLOD\" on Navy Pier in 1989. All I heard from my vantage point was the audience cheering, the \"5-4-3-2-1\" of the audience and occasionally Bob Hilton's voice. The only other things I remember were that Malcolm Jamal-Warner was one of the celebs (they also taped a Chicago-only show with local radio personalities that day) and that the contestants seemed to get to keep those artist's palette name tags, which totally surprised me.
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I've gotten the wonderful chance to see:
Wheel of Fortune-Best Friends Week from NY Monday-Wednesday October 2nd, 1999
Jeopardy!-Celebrity Week from NY 1 episode October 8th, 1999
ESPN's 2 Minute Drill-3 episodes-August 2000
Who Wants to be a Millionaire-1 episode September 2000
Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire-2nd Celebrity Edition
Rock Star Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Celebrity Millionaire-the one with Chevy Chase and Martin Short
The Long Island Challenge-2000
History IQ-2001
The Long Island Challenge-2001
Jeopardy!-2002-5 episodes of Million Dollar Masters from NYC
Who Wants to be a Millionaire-Meredith Vierra-1st time I went
Who Wants to be a Millionaire-Meredith Vierra-2nd time 2 weeks later
Soon to see-Wheel of Fortune in NY:
New York Week-5 episodes
Best Friends Week-5 episodes
Other Shows I've Seen:
The People's Court (with Marilyn Milion)
Whoopi (2nd episode)-Airs this fall on NBC
Hope & Faith (Pilot)-Airs September 26th and 9PM on ABC
I've had a great time at these shows, can't wait to see more!
Adam
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[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Aug 19 2003, 09:28 AM\'] This is stretching...
But I was on "Bozo's Big Top" in Green Bay in the mid-60s. And they did play games on it (it was a local version of the Chicago Bozo show some of you may remember from WGN).
Didn't get to play any games, tho. [/quote]
In my area, two channels (including WGN) had their own versions of Bozo, and both featured games, most notably the world-famous Grand Prize Game. (A version of that can be found in some arcades, BTW.)
ObOriginalTopic: This is also stretching it, but before there were weekly lottery game shows, the lottery had a promotion where they toured local malls and sweepstakes winners spun a wheel for cash and lottery tickets. It's the closest I've ever come to seeing a game show in person.
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TPiR, 1991. When I found the tickets in a Valentine's Day card given me by my wife, I knew I'd married the right woman!
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\"Let's Make a Deal\" with Bob Hilton from the Disney-MGM studios back in 1990.
Then later on (in no order whatsoever) .....
Who Wants to be a Millionaire (as a contestant in 2001)
The Price is Right (1993) (2002 X 2) (2003 with our Randy West as an announcer!)
Wheel of Fortune from Miami (two different times)
Pyramid with Donny Osmond (Special guests Moe Collins and Alan Rosenberg)
With more to come! ;-)
Tim :-)
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Early 80s, in high school, Wink Martindale's \"Tic Tac Dough\", back (I believe) at the Golden West/KTLA studios; over the next few years, I would catch many TTD and TJW tapings at both KTLA and the ChrisCraft/KCOP lots, as well as a few one-off appearances during my first collegiate go-round (the details of which, I'm afraid, are forever drowned in a collegiate-associated alcoholic haze).
Oddly, while I've tried out for shows like Scrabble, J!, Card Sharks and SotC, I've never (to my recollection, anyway) actually gone to watch a show for which I've auditioned (or vice versa). Never have been sure whether or not there was some Deeper Meaning to that fact....
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I saw the entire first week of the Jeopardy! 2002 College Tourney at OSU waaaaaaayyyyy back in October. And I'm proud to say that during the commercial Q&A, I asked Alex about the High Rollers finale. He dismissed it as absurd nonsense, and then never came back to my section of the audience again. :-)
Odd phenomenon about Alex is that he's much funnier and \"looser\" than on TV. The host of Jeopardy! is who you see on TV, the host of Pitfall is who you see off the air.
Johnny Gilbert did a GREAT warm-up, too, and told a funny story about nearly getting fired from Cullen's TPIR for screwing up a live commercial for psoriasis ointment (Johnny pronounced the ailment in question as \"sorry asses.\")
In addition to the five shows I saw, we also got to watch Alex do individual promos and advertising photos with each contestant for their local affiliate, which I thought was pretty cool.
Also of note was a questionable response about the French name for French Fries that held up the taping for a full 20 minutes while the judges called up various experts on the phone and checked a few books. Both Alex & Johnny came out to the audience to field questions and tell jokes, but it was fun in a way to see how the show handles discrepancies like that.
Most shocking thing about the taping was that, AMAZINGLY, they didn't have a souvenir t-shirt stand or anything like that in the lobby, when Lord knows they could have made a fortune of those. I did manage a souvenir of the trip anyway: The \"Jeopardy! Stand-by Tickets =======>>\" sign outside the entrance. Hey, better than nothing.
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Jeopardy! ToC in May 2000 in Atlanta
TPiR in 2000, 01, 02, 03 (if I got tickets in a few weeks)
WoF Contestant Search in Bonita Springs, FL in 2001
Hollywood Squares in 2002
The Other Half (ok, not a game show, but got to see Dick Clark) in 2002
Charles Atkins
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I saw WOF with Bob Goen at CBS Television City in July 1989.
This was followed by:
Jeopardy! (1999)
TPIR (1999)
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Okay... here's my list!
Wheel of Fortune (May 1997 - as a contestant)
Questions pour un Champion (January 2002 - Paris, France)
Weakest Link (February 2002 - London, England)
Liar! (June 2002 - London, England)
TPIR (July 2003 - to be aired October 9/03)
... and although it isn't a *true* game show, it is a guilty pleasure of mine:
Canadian Idol (August 11, 2003 - live show)
Cheers,
Ryan :)
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Canadian Idol
I though that was permanently Alanis Morissette.
Brandon Brooks
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The first game show I saw in person was Jeopardy! -- specifically, the Tournament of Champions from March 2000 (Eddie Timanus rules!). Later that year I attended a taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire... and that's been it since then.
- David
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All these responses, and I'm still the first to admit that I've never seen a game show in person?
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Dream House in 1983 was my first. Had a blast. Johnny Gilbert told me how to get to the bathroom before the show started. When I walked out into the lobby on my way to use the restroom I saw the darkest storm clouds I've ever seen out the window. Looked like a tornado was about to hit. But the firece looking weather was forgot as soon as I walked back in the studio. I was to excited about seeing the show to think about much else. I was 15 years old. It was my first trip to California and my first time ever seeing a TV show too. Stayed there for two months that summer. Saw dream House the day before I flew back home to the East Coast. What a cool experience!!!
John
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You got to see Don Pardo, you lucky stiff. Did he do the warm-up or just announce? Too bad Don wasn't called up for the Jeopardy! shows from New York in 2002.
I don't recall if he did the warm-up, but he was definitely onstage and talked w/some audience members before the show.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious \"Chuckie Baby\")
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I don't remember the years for all of them:
Ready Set Cook
History IQ
Name That Video
WWTBAM (multiple times, both versions)
Jeopardy! Masters Tournament
Wheel of Fortune Madison Square Garden
2 Minute Drill - 2nd Season Finale
Eric
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Dream House in 1983 was my first. Had a blast. Johnny Gilbert told me how to get to the bathroom before the show started. When I walked out into the lobby on my way to use the restroom I saw the darkest storm clouds I've ever seen out the window. Looked like a tornado was about to hit.
That must have been the same time I was there. We saw a taping for \"Battlestars\" in very early April, 1983, but a few days before that we were at DisneyLand. That day there were very dark storm clouds, heavy rain and reports of tornadoes in some parts of LA!
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It wasn't an actual taping... but I watched a \"mock\" taping of LMAD '90 at Disney MG Studios in Florida. It was pretty cool to watch, and they did give out prizes for those who were selected to be \"contestants.\"
Now that I think about it... I should've gone next door to the \"New Mickey Mouse Club\" to check out Britney and Christina. As a very hormonal 12 year old... I think I would have enjoyed that. :-)
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[quote name=\'bossjock967\' date=\'Aug 20 2003, 04:15 PM\']It wasn't an actual taping... but I watched a \"mock\" taping of LMAD '90 at Disney MG Studios in Florida. It was pretty cool to watch, and they did give out prizes for those who were selected to be \"contestants.\"[/quote]
I did that, too. It was fun. They even gave out costumes to those chosen to be on the trading floor. I'll say one thing: those doors didn't look nearly as big in person as they did on TV. Plus, of course, there was no Monty (or even Bob Hilton, for that matter), though the fill-in host (or was it a hostess?) did a fine job.
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[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Aug 21 2003, 09:46 AM\'] [quote name=\'bossjock967\' date=\'Aug 20 2003, 04:15 PM\']It wasn't an actual taping... but I watched a "mock" taping of LMAD '90 at Disney MG Studios in Florida. It was pretty cool to watch, and they did give out prizes for those who were selected to be "contestants."[/quote]
I did that, too. It was fun. They even gave out costumes to those chosen to be on the trading floor. I'll say one thing: those doors didn't look nearly as big in person as they did on TV. Plus, of course, there was no Monty (or even Bob Hilton, for that matter), though the fill-in host (or was it a hostess?) did a fine job. [/quote]
A little trivia for those who are interested....
The \"Let's Make a Deal\" 1990 thingie was done where the WWTBAM Play it! attraction currently stands. I remember when it went away, I was hoping they would bring in another game show to play along with.
It took eleven years but they finally fulfilled my wish.
Tim :-)
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Correcting my earlier post, to a point
I still haven't seen a TELEVISED game show but I did see the \"Wheel of Fortune\" Bob Eubanks tour in the mid 1990s when it played a local casino. Since I was there as a reporter, I didn't get to play at all (and strangely, I didn't get to speak to Bob. Maybe he was still gun-shy after \"Roger and Me.\"
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When I was about 4 my family and I saw Fame and Fortune. It was just the Michigan state lotto show hosted by WDIV weatherman Chuck Gaidica, but it was a pretty cool experience for me. They would often cut to shots of audience members and when the show aired there was a pretty good shot of us. I still have it on tape.
-Greg
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First show I ever saw in person was the also the first show I was a contestant on, Match Game '98. I have since seen:
Three tapings of Hollywood Squares (including Game Show Week! I got an autograph from Peter Marshall for my copy of his book)
a taping of daytime Weakest Link (where I met Randy West)
one taping of Whammy! (the Larson episode taping; God I'm lucky)
and one taping of TPIR.
\"Game Show Man\" Joe Van Ginkel
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Well, take this how you want, but when I was in New York City this summer, I saw some of a Street Smarts segment taping. I didn't get to see any of the questions asked, but I do know Frank Nicotero is really short in person! :-)
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I did that, too. It was fun. They even gave out costumes to those chosen to be on the trading floor. I'll say one thing: those doors didn't look nearly as big in person as they did on TV. Plus, of course, there was no Monty (or even Bob Hilton, for that matter), though the fill-in host (or was it a hostess?) did a fine job.
I went to Disney-MGM about a month before LMaD premiered in Jul 90...the game wasn't in place yet, but our tour hostess said they were preparing for it.
Also, our own Mandel Ilagan got to attend the LMaD attraction while it was there, as well.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious \"Chuckie Baby\")
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As chronicled elsewhere (ezBoard?), my first attendance @ a GS taping was a $20K Pyramid session (three episodes) in April of 1980, with JoAnne Worley and Sal Viscuso as the celebs. I saw one $10K win. There were only seven more $20K Pyramids produced after the three I saw, but they may have already been preparing for the subsequent $50K Pyramid, since JoAnne and Sal were the celebs on the first week of that series.
The Vacationing Esoteric Eric, who a) is really happy that the Little League team from his hometown (Saugus, MA) is still in the LL World Series, b) just attended his second Mariners - Red Sox game in successive Friday nights (home team won both times), and c) also toured Fenway Park, where he got to sit in one of the Green Monster seats and touch the left field foul / fair pole (that's for you, Pudge Fisk, wherever you are)
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The first was a taping of the original Jeopardy in 1968. I vividly remember being at the taping of the final episode of Jeopardy in late 1974. I've seen almost every New York origination since 1968 including:
WML (syndicated version)
TTTT (syndicated version)
Concentration
Who, What or Where
Three On A Match
Jackpot
Winning Streak
Musical Chairs
The Money Maze (saw the first episode, among others)
Big Showdown (saw the 100th episode with the first $10,000 win)
Blankety Blanks
Pass The Buck
Spin-Off (the pilot was taped in NYC)
WoF (at Radio City in 1988)
and finally, every version of Pyramid that was taped in New York. I've joked that both CBS and ABC were going to charge me rent for the amount of time that I spent at the Sullivan and Elysee theaters.
David
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I remember that I also saw a week of Body Language during a trip to LA in 1984.
David
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My family traveled to New York City from Tennessee every summer to visit an uncle, and the trip always had to include at least one visit to a game show taping. It also usually included convincing an usher or NBC page that the child (me) would behave himself and was, in fact, the reason we were there.
The first one was either Match Game or Concentration, it's too long ago to remember. The most memorable ones were seeing Three on a Match before I had actually seen it on TV (my local station didn't carry it) and seeing what was probably by that time The $20,000 Pyramid and getting a chance to talk to Bob Clayton.
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My first nationaly televised game show was Hit Man. It was a Super Bowl weekend and the audience was in a foul mood. Announcer Rod Roddy could not rally the audience. Attempts to bribe the audience with a trivia quiz with a cash payoff failed!
Between takes I had a chance to talk with him and ask him about his career. He was a nice man having a bad day.
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What did you think Jim Lange was like off-camera?
I am not Tammy :) but having had the pleasure of working with him twice, have found him to be a total class act. He currently does mornings on KABL 960 in San Francisco. The station streams its signal on the internet, and Jim's bio can be found here (http://\"http://www.960kabl.com/jim.html\")
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The very first game show I COULD HAVE seen in person was Truth or Consequences, with Bob Barker in 1968. My grandmother heard the show was going to be taping in Detroit, and she sent for tickets. Despite getting tickets for the show, my father insisted that we NOT go, because of the city riots which occurred the previous year (He felt it wasn't safe to go downtown). She ended up giving the tickets to my aunt/uncle, who were not afraid to go downtown at the time.
It wasn't until 1990 that I first saw a show in person--Ray Combs Family Feud. CBS also had tickets for a pilot, I believe called "Personal Dillemas," with Eric Boardman, but chose to see Feud instead. I also saw To Tell the Truth, with Lynn Swann, and veteran panelists Cass, Bean, and Bergen joining Ron Masak.
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A great question for the board....
My first gs exp was Hollywood Squares in 1987 when it visited Hollywood, FL....got to meet Louie Anderson and Janice and Dian from TPIR (Did I just get an award for mentioning THOSE three in the same sentence for the first time...anywhere?)
This was followed by Millionaire in 1999 when it first premiered.....and WeakLink...
Then, I got lucky. Joining an ABC affiliate in 2002 has given me the opportunity to not just see games, but to do behind the scenes reports on them... In the last year , i've visited Super Millionaire, Wheel (both in LA and NYC), and Jeopardy....which was the highlight, thanks to being able to go live on the set with Trebek, and being able to produce/host a half hour special on the College Championship at Yale last October. The opportunity to talk game show history with Harry Friedman was alone worth the price of admission!
Just as good : a chance to warm up the crowd for the Yale shows, and having Johnny Gilbert introduce ME. Being a local tv personality sometimes has it's rewards...
The show got me an Emmy nod, which unfortunately I didn't win. But it also got me a nice crystal paperweight with the Jep logo from Harry and the staff, which, trust me, is better than any Emmy statuette.
Matt
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I got to see Double Dare live when it came to St. Louis back in I think was 1991. Got to see Marc Summers and Robin Mariella. It was a good experience.
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[quote name=\'bulldog_06\' date=\'May 3 2004, 01:32 PM\'] I got to see Double Dare live when it came to St. Louis back in I think was 1991. Got to see Marc Summers and Robin Mariella. It was a good experience. [/quote]
That same tour (I dunno if I'd call it a "game show" in the sense that was asked about, since it was a stage show and not a taping, but what the hell) did my college basketball arena in 1992. I took my brother, and we had a blast. Summers asked a question of someone like two rows in front of me. Short little fellow. :)
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Camouflage, 1961
Snap Judgment, 1968
Jeopardy! twice in NYC and at OSU in 2000s
Hosted "High Q" locally 1984-1998 on local CBS affiliate
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My first experience was It's Academic in 1995, cheering on a family friend who was representing my alma mater. This was also the first time I saw a TV studio, specifically how small they are in real life. Saying the studio appeared cramped would be a vast understatement.
After that, I saw Wheel when it came to Ohio in 1997, and TPiR and the Jeopardy! College Tournament Finals in LA in 2001.
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National shows, not yet. Local shows, yes. I watched 2 tapings of a game show they used to do at the university [UW-Oshkosh] called "Sports Trivia Challenge" back in early 2001. I knew someone who was friends with the show's producer, and they were able to get me hooked up with him. I recall both tapings running very smooth, with very little stoppage of tape---or the game, for that matter. This show was very well-produced for a university show [too bad I can't say that about anything they produce over there now].
I've put up some pictures on a special [yeah, right!] part of my site:
http://www.geocities.com/oy61985/STC.html (http://\"http://www.geocities.com/oy61985/STC.html\")
[excuse the picture quality----this was before I went digital]
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[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Aug 19 2003, 11:10 AM\'] - WoF (again, at the MSG theater, Oct. 99)
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Hey, I was there also for the Thursday and Friday tapings during a doubles week! Did you go to this taping or another? My seat was terrible, about 8 rows from the very top. I did go to the front level though after it was over and got to meet Vanna for a few seconds though.
Anyway, my first tapings were...
Double Dare and What Would You Do (Was very close to being picked to go on stage, a kid sitting right in front of me got chosen instead :( ) in 1992.
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I honestly wish I could remember which shows it was when I went to Los Angeles for the first time in January of 1986. I saw "Price is Right", "$25,000" and "$100,000 Pyramid", "Scrabble", "Dating Game", and a few others.
Robair was with me on three subsequent LA visits in successive Januarys. We didn't just see game shows - we went to a few sitcom tapings including "Married...with Children" (a wild experience), and even talk shows. We saw Johnny Carson and Pat Sajak do the talk thing.
More recently we've seen "Hollywood Squares" and "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" in New York.
The one show we've never seen live, but would like to one day, is "Jeopardy!"
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I saw J! in person while living in Atlanta in 2000, It was the J! 2000 Tournament of Champions. I won tickets from WXIA NBC 11 Alive, and Chick-fil-A. My dad who is a big J! fan himself accompanied me to the tapings, They were taped at the Atlanta Civic Center, when Johnny Gilbert warmed up the audience he was a very cool guy, and so was Alex, both of them were funny. I had a very good time.
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Win Ben Stein's Money
I remember, between two shows, actually asking (since I never had whatever network had it on cable) the warmup guy if we were supposed to go crazy for the contestant in the event that Ben went second and got to the point that he could not win the Best of Ten.
(That is, if the contestant got 7 and Ben has 3 with 3 questions left...)
The warmup's answer: "No, Mr. 'I Can Do The Math All By Myself'..."
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I'm not nearly as lucky as some of the people on this board, although I'm not nearly as dated as some either. ;-)
I believe my first one was Double Dare when it was taped at WHYY in Philadelphia around 1987.
Around 1989, I was at a performance of Tom Sawyer on Broadway in NY and sat next to none other than....Wink! I only knew him (at the time) from watching High Rollers on USA after school. Somewhere, I still have my Playbill autographed by him. (That's as close to a live performance as a 10 year old is gonna get)
Saw Wheel of Fortune in Philadelphia in 1992 at the Philadelphia Convention Center. (Sat next to Jim Gardner from WPVI for you Philly folks)
From there...I would say next was Price.
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The only one so far is LMAD '90 with Hilton. "Big Deal" that day was a baby grand piano.
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Wheel in Philly on 4/18/99(three shows of College week aired in May 1999), and Millionaire on 8/24/99(aired on 8/25/99)
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I only went to see two tapings of my all-time fave, The Price is Right. September 23rd, and 25th. Although I wasn't picked as a contestant, it was still a lot of fun.
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Hmmm...come to think of it, never seen a show that I haven't been a contestant on!
Local: Team captain on "It's Academic," Chicago in '73. Went down to ignominious defeat when my two other team members both developed total stage fright.
National: "Jeopardy," '84. Another humbling defeat: the two of us who were $100 apart for the lead both bet big against each other, lost and handed the victory to the third guy. Got to meet Alex...not the most enjoyable person to be around.
"Millonaire," '00. Did slightly better there. Had a heck of a lot more fun.
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In The Know, a local game show for PBS in Central Ohio. I was on the show and had to repeat my name several times because of technical difficulties. The host, Bill Schiffman gave terrible jokes off camera. The set IS the definition of cheap set, even if it isn't a national game show.
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My first GS was WoF when it came to Radio City Music Hall in Oct. 1988...didn't see another one until TPiR in Jul 1997.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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Let's see...the first one where I actually witnessed a taping would be "Double Talk" from 1986 or 1987. Went with a teen bowling league for a fundraiser. It was a soap stars week (the first three shows of that week).
I also attended the 5000th episode of TPiR. You'll see me in the Cal State L.A. sweatshirt when I stood up and applauded one of the contestants. I had no relation to the contestant and I had no idea why I did that. I just did, and I wound up on tape.
Also attended about a dozen live shows of "WWTBAM - Play It!" at Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim (now closed). The first was in October 2001; the last was in January 2004. You could say I did all right playing that game. (:))
--Charlie, MPW
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'Jeopardy!' at the University of Washington in 1999 or 2000....can't remember which year.
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1st Show? Hmmm.
NBC Burbank, March 1987, "Super Password" (w/ 2 unmemorable celebs).
And IIRC as soon as SP was through taping, we went back onto Alameda Ave and got in the line for "Hollywood Squares" w/ Uncle Miltie, The Smothers Brothers, and Charo to name a few.
I have one of the HS eps on tape, but never saw/taped the SP eps as it was never aired in Toledo due to having a noon newscast, and the GSN run still has a ways to go before they rerun it as of last check.
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When this thread started three years ago, I had never seen a game show taping (closest thing for me was seeing the HSq 3x3 grid at the NBC Studio tour in beautiful midtown Burbank, circa March 1980) . Two summers ago, that changed when I decided I really wanted to see TPiR (not to be a contestant, but just to go). And I'll be attending another TPiR taping this July.
Doug
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"Illinois Instant Riches" at WGN-TV studios in Chicago in the spring of 1996, along with a couple other members of this board, at the invitation of "IIR" intern Aaron Solomon.
I was supposed to go to a taping of "Family Feud" at some point during the 1999-2000 season -- again, at the invitation of Aaron Solomon -- but the taping was canceled due to an injury suffered by Louie Anderson and I never "rescheduled."
So my first "real" game show taping was "TPIR" in May 2005 with some folks from a non-game-show-related board. Aaron Solomon was not involved.
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Almost three years later, I still can only claim that I saw a Street Smarts street segment taped in NYC. :-P
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Over 2½ years ago, I said:
[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Aug 19 2003, 12:38 PM\']... [T]he lottery had a promotion where they toured local malls and sweepstakes winners spun a wheel for cash and lottery tickets. It's the closest I've ever come to seeing a game show in person.
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After looking back at some of the other replies, I just remembered that there was a Remote Control tour that came to my hometown circa 1988 or '89. My sister and I went to see it, and Ken Ober was there, but I don't remember whether Colin Quinn was. I do, though, recall the game started with four players.
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The first game show I saw in person just happened to be the one that I was also a contestant on...
...but since I was the first game being taped for the day, I opted to watch the second game of "wheel of fortune" taped anyway (so it counts either way).
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Can't say I've ever had the opportunity, living in the midwest. Hope to be afforded the opportunity soon.
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Closest thing I've come is the Double Dare live tour. Lots of people didn't know how many obstacles were in the obstacle course.
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[quote name=\'Monarx\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 01:57 AM\']Closest thing I've come is the Double Dare live tour. Lots of people didn't know how many obstacles were in the obstacle course.
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Come to think of it, I went to one for Guts and Nick Arcade, back in 1993. I won a hat for knowing Moira Quirk was a commentator on Guts.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Mar 13 2006, 11:47 PM\']Almost three years later, I still can only claim that I saw a Street Smarts street segment taped in NYC. :-P
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Well, if that counts, then I saw that in Chicago as well (and while I wasn't on, when I saw Nicotero at the WMLL show before last year's Congreff, he recognized me from having been in the crowd and chatting with him afterwards).
Doug
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I'm only 18, yet I've managed to see a fair amount of game show tapings. The first taping I've ever attended was PAX Beat The Clock, on Aug. 3, 2002. I went to five tapings in the span of one week, and managed to record four of the five episodes I saw in person. Even got my picture taken with Gary Kroeger!
I also attended four tapings of my local It's Academic in 2005, and got all of those on tape.
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[quote name=\'Allstar87\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 10:53 AM\']I also attended four tapings of my local It's Academic in 2005, and got all of those on tape.
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If you can count those, then I can count my two. In my case, I was actually a competitor. Aside from that, that's it for me, at least until spring quarter when the video production club at OU starts their first game show in (as I understand it) a few years.
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[quote name=\'Gus\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 01:09 PM\'][quote name=\'Allstar87\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 10:53 AM\']I also attended four tapings of my local It's Academic in 2005, and got all of those on tape.
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If you can count those, then I can count my two. [/quote]
If you can count those, then I have a thousand!
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[quote name=\'Gus\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 12:09 PM\'][quote name=\'Allstar87\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 10:53 AM\']I also attended four tapings of my local It's Academic in 2005, and got all of those on tape.
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If you can count those, then I can count my two. In my case, I was actually a competitor. Aside from that, that's it for me, at least until spring quarter when the video production club at OU starts their first game show in (as I understand it) a few years.
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Weren't you on TV two Fridays ago?
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 12:25 PM\']Weren't you on TV two Fridays ago?[/quote]
Yes, but that wasn't a game show, that was pure, liquefied pwnage.
(For everyone else reading this: The OU College Bowl team, of which I am a part, persuaded one of AVW's programs, "Fridays Live", which is sort of a comedy/variety show, to let us play their cast in an abbreviated College Bowl match. I believe we ended up winning 300-something to negative fifteen.)
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How's this for irony: Hit Man!
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My first was by accident; my family was vacationing in Florida, and we went to Universal Studios on the first day of taping for Legends of the Hidden Temple. They did take a whole day to tape five shows, and there were a bunch of stopdowns, especially in the last half of the show. If I were EP of that, I would have seriously considered jumping ship at that point.
In 1995, I went with the other half of my family to see the Seattle tour stop of "Wheel of Fortune," and a few segments of Game Show Network's "Decades," done right from the set. Peter wasn't at his best, but I blame that more on the material he had to work with, and following up three shows of "Wheel of Fortune."
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The first game show I saw in person was WWTBAM w/ Meredith Vieria. The only other shows I've seen are Super Millionaire and WOF in Philly in 2004.
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[quote name=\'alfonzos\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 03:05 PM\']How's this for irony: Hit Man!
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Will Americans ever learn the meaning of "irony?"
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Brandon Brooks
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[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 06:58 PM\'][quote name=\'alfonzos\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 03:05 PM\']How's this for irony: Hit Man!
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Will Americans ever learn the meaning of "irony?"
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Brandon Brooks
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Not to drag this way far off topic, but do you find it ironic or just a coincidence that PYL was playing on GSN at the time of the crash?
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[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 11:22 PM\']Not to drag this way far off topic, but do you find it ironic or just a coincidence that PYL was playing on GSN at the time of the crash?
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Good question. That one can go etiher way. However, I think of it being more coincidential than ironic.
I'm watching the Larsen special on Game Show Network, and it is so weird seeing Peter knowing he's gone.
Brandon Brooks
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[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 11:22 PM\']do you find it ironic or just a coincidence that PYL was playing on GSN at the time of the crash?
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I tend to think of it as tragic.
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If we count local stage shows:
Quizbusters Open House with several WKAR personalities playing with members (and I got my picture taken with Matt - I was five or six at the time :-) )
Non-local stage shows:
Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiago stage show (I got to tell Greg Lee which way was North)
Who Wants to Be A Millionare Play-It!
Local Game Shows:
QuizBusters (both as an audience member and a contestant)
National Shows:
The Price Is Right
(non-game show: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
I've been on the sets of Rock and Roll Jeopardy! and Jeopardy! during tours of Sony Picture Studios and Guts at Nick Studios.
-Joe Kavanagh
Edited to fix the 3am sleepyness typo... (and I don't know what it ment either)
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[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 08:22 PM\']Not to drag this way far off topic, but do you find it ironic or just a coincidence that PYL was playing on GSN at the time of the crash?
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It's coincidence. Irony would be GSN airing video of Peter Tomarken being born at the time of the crash.
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Will Americans ever learn the meaning of "irony?"
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Ironically, no.
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[quote name=\'alfonzos\' date=\'Mar 15 2006, 01:55 PM\'][quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 07:58 PM\']
Will Americans ever learn the meaning of "irony?"
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Ironically, no.
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That was beautiful.
Brandon Brooks
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[quote name=\'cyberjoek\' date=\'Mar 15 2006, 04:26 AM\']Local Game Shows:
QuizBusters (both as a player and a contestant)[/quote]
Before anyone asks, I'm not sure what this means either!
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Mar 15 2006, 02:38 PM\'][quote name=\'cyberjoek\' date=\'Mar 15 2006, 04:26 AM\']Local Game Shows:
QuizBusters (both as a player and a contestant)[/quote]
Before anyone asks, I'm not sure what this means either!
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He dated someone he had met during the taping?
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My first audience experience was Jeopardy! in Pittsburgh when they did their college championship.