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The Big Board / Re: Treasure Hunt question
« Last post by Chief-O on September 20, 2025, 06:37:14 PM »
Quote from: JasonA1 on September 20, 2025, 05:07:23 PM
My brain is telling me it's The Burbank Studios -- i.e. today's Warner Brothers, and not NBC Burbank (which, ahem, is now called The Burbank Studios). Is that right?

Correct.
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The Big Board / Re: Scary moments in game shows...
« Last post by TimK2003 on September 20, 2025, 06:21:47 PM »
Not me, but my younger cousin hated the bonus round on TTD...Specifically when the camera would zoom in on the selected box and the dragon would "swoop" in with the roar.

Semi-related: The Screen Gems "snake" logo along with the associated creepy electronic music scared the crap out of me  when I was in my single-digits.
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The Big Board / Re: Treasure Hunt question
« Last post by chris319 on September 20, 2025, 06:14:37 PM »
3000 W. Alameda, formerly NBC, is now known as The Burbank Studios.
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The Big Board / Re: Treasure Hunt question
« Last post by JasonA1 on September 20, 2025, 05:07:23 PM »
Chuck Donegan's page had the bit about the fear of Geoff getting hit. Geoff participated in that page -- perhaps the detail came from him. Chuck is still here to answer that, naturally.

Maxine Fabe's book says it was about logistics -- it was easier to set dozens of skits for one gender vs. both.

While any of this could be true, my hunch tells me they simply wanted female contestants only, and had lines ready for whoever asked them why. Sort of like the Double Dare producers when asked about "wasting" food (Marc Summers has suggested the "we only use stale-dated food" line was probably made up to get critics off their back.)

Quote from: SRIV94 on September 20, 2025, 04:56:20 PM
Quote from: Chief-O on September 19, 2025, 06:32:09 PM
Pretty sure the 70s version moved to Burbank later in its run.
Yep--believe starting in the 1975-76 season.

My brain is telling me it's The Burbank Studios -- i.e. today's Warner Brothers, and not NBC Burbank (which, ahem, is now called The Burbank Studios). Is that right?

-Jason
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The Big Board / Re: Treasure Hunt question
« Last post by SRIV94 on September 20, 2025, 04:56:20 PM »
Quote from: Chief-O on September 19, 2025, 06:32:09 PM
Quote from: BrandonFG on September 18, 2025, 10:32:24 PM
A quick glance at the '81 credits shows Burbank Studios. Not sure about the 70s version.

Quote from: chris319 on September 19, 2025, 06:07:15 AM
The '70s version may have been shot at ABC.

Pretty sure the 70s version moved to Burbank later in its run.

Yep--believe starting in the 1975-76 season.
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The Big Board / "True Stories"
« Last post by whewfan on September 20, 2025, 04:41:42 PM »
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122150760536753988&set=a.122128765208753988
There's this Facebook group called True Stories... well, that's basically a misnomer... this guy posted this long thing about Richard Dawson, and we could all pick apart some of what this guy said that isn't really true at all. He had a similar long winded article about Johnny Carson, saying that his last wife, whom he had divorced, was in the audience and he refused to perform until she was removed. This couldn't have happened because Alexis, his 4th wife and him didn't divorce, but according to Bushkin in his bio about Johnny, they did separate at some point after his retirement from The Tonight Show, but this was never made public until he disclosed it.
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The Big Board / Re: Scary moments in game shows...
« Last post by chrisholland03 on September 20, 2025, 04:21:01 PM »
I was with Big Bird in the Hollywood Squares 'times up' buzzer scaring the bajeebus out of me.
'The Joker's Wild' parp was disconcerting.
I never thought the 'Daily Double' sound was 'pleasant'
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The Big Board / Re: Cheering for a contestant to lose for selfish reasons....
« Last post by chrisholland03 on September 20, 2025, 04:17:53 PM »
I was the weird kid that liked the illegal clue sound on Password Plus/Super Password.  The more illegal the better. 
I also enjoyed watching the benches move on Hot Potato.  Hot Potato nirvana was a long pass and a wrong answer - a full light show/sound effect and bench movement. 
I think the Supermarket Sweep vegetables were underplayed.  And should have been more aggressive in stealing shoppers carts. 
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The Big Board / Re: Cheering for a contestant to lose for selfish reasons....
« Last post by Unrealtor on September 20, 2025, 03:37:53 PM »
There are definitely contestants I have rooted against because I haven't liked them. I had a friend who was up against James Holzhauer on the second taping day of his Jeopardy! run and supposedly he kept up the "Jeopardy! villain" kayfabe to the point where the contestant staff were complaining at him and this friend took an intense dislike to him as a person. I've softened since then, but it's a good example.

But mostly, I don't know contestants well enough to really dislike them enough to actively root against them. However, I absolutely pick favorites, even in person at the Price Is Right tapings that I've been to in the last year. I would root for anyone playing their regular game on stage but I caught myself holding back on giving advice from the bidders if they were competing with someone who I had spoken to in the waiting room before the show or someone who I knew through online TPIR/game show fandom.
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The Big Board / Re: Cheering for a contestant to lose for selfish reasons....
« Last post by Unrealtor on September 20, 2025, 03:23:50 PM »
Quote from: TLEberle on September 20, 2025, 12:33:26 AM
It might encourage someone to get closer to the ARP than just sliding by, especially if you think there is some room to maneuver. It becomes more a test of pricing than game theory.

This is exactly what I see it as doing. It doesn't fully prevent one-upping someone or completely eliminate the situations where it's the best strategy, but it changes the fourth bidder's strategy to be the same as the second and third bidders -- basically, you only one-up someone if you think they're particularly close, and otherwise you go for the lower end of your best guess for what the price is.
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