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The Big Board / Re: Go! episode order
« Last post by aaron sica on November 06, 2025, 03:10:39 PM »
Quote from: BrandonFG on November 06, 2025, 02:44:46 PM
WAVY in Norfolk/Portsmouth has entered the chat. IIRC the last noontime game show they aired was Chain Reaction. They aired Scrabble 93, but at 10 am.

On that subject, not until well after the fact (like YEARS later) did I realize Scrabble/Scattergories "official" timeslot was 12 to 1. I figured it literally took the place of "Santa Barbara" on the schedule, and didn't know that it was at that point that NBC gave up the 3pm hour. The two local stations around me, WBRE in Scranton and the aforementioned WGAL, aired the hour from 10am-11am and 3pm-4pm, respectively. I guess by that logic, WGAL did air a noon game show.
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The Big Board / Re: Go! episode order
« Last post by BrandonFG on November 06, 2025, 02:44:46 PM »
Quote from: tvwxman on November 06, 2025, 07:26:35 AM
Quote from: aaron sica on November 04, 2025, 07:11:48 AM
In the east coast at least, Go's competition was possibly two other game shows - I say "possibly" because it definitely wasn't the same in all markets. ABC's noon offering was Feud, which at this point was a year and a half away from ending its right (and no doubt not being carried in most markets because noon news). CBS's "noon" offering was Tattletales, which was either carried at other times (9:30 a.m. in Philly and maybe Baltimore) or not at all. "Noon" in quotes because the official time slot of the show was 4 p.m.

If you lived in a market that had tv stations that knew what they were doing with their news product, chances are you never saw the noontime game shows...... Miami/Ft Laud definitely is a solid example of this.
WAVY in Norfolk/Portsmouth has entered the chat. IIRC the last noontime game show they aired was Chain Reaction. They aired Scrabble 93, but at 10 am.
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by TimK2003 on November 06, 2025, 01:49:08 PM »
Quote from: mystery7 on November 06, 2025, 01:24:33 PM
Quote from: BrandonFG on November 05, 2025, 08:25:07 PM
Another one: I love the reverberating sound made when someone freezes a window in Bullseye. Would love to know how composers and sound editors came up with some of the SFX.

I'll double up on this, and add the sound of the windows swirling.

Anybody remember back in the 80s or 90s when the Charlotte Hornets used to play a bee-swarming sound effect at their home games?  You could hear it on the TV telecasts on occasion.  Everytime I heard it, I always thought of the Bullseye swirls.
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by mystery7 on November 06, 2025, 01:24:33 PM »
Quote from: BrandonFG on November 05, 2025, 08:25:07 PM
Another one: I love the reverberating sound made when someone freezes a window in Bullseye. Would love to know how composers and sound editors came up with some of the SFX.

I'll double up on this, and add the sound of the windows swirling.

I may be weird, but I was really disappointed when Bullseye moved to Television City because CBS couldn't quite duplicate the bells NBC had on hand for right answers or player control.
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The Big Board / Re: Go! episode order
« Last post by aaron sica on November 06, 2025, 01:19:24 PM »
Quote from: tvwxman on November 06, 2025, 07:26:35 AM
If you lived in a market that had tv stations that knew what they were doing with their news product, chances are you never saw the noontime game shows...... Miami/Ft Laud definitely is a solid example of this.

So is WGAL in Lancaster (NBC). Because everyone knows soap operas are more important than game shows (insert eyeroll here), once "The Doctors" moved from the 2:00 slot to 12:30 in August 1980, WGAL moved up their "Noonday on 8" show, as it was known at the time, from 12:30 to noon. From this point on all the way up to and including Super Password, the Harrisburg/Lebanon/Lancaster/York market never saw an NBC noon offering again.
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by BillCullen1 on November 06, 2025, 11:54:24 AM »
Another possibility. The "tacky buzzer" indicating time's up on Marshall's nighttime HS.
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The Big Board / Re: Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by Dbacksfan12 on November 06, 2025, 10:25:26 AM »
Either format of Trivia Trap.  I was not a fan of "Work as a team, now turn on each other".
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by TimK2003 on November 06, 2025, 10:22:34 AM »
Quote from: Loogaroo on November 06, 2025, 08:34:28 AM
I'd like to nominate the "man lost" sounder from Hit Man.

Not necessarily underrated, but speaking of Hit Man, I love the sfx of the advancement of a hit man in round one.  It believe it was the future Super Password clue reveal spliced with the correct answer bell from $ale of the Century.
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The Big Board / Re: Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by jmangin on November 06, 2025, 10:06:47 AM »
The Challengers over any "Ultimate Challenge" format that stuck to/fell from the wall that month.
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The Big Board / Re: Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by Ian Wallis on November 06, 2025, 09:50:30 AM »
Since it was mentioned in the other thread I'll throw in Card Sharks.  Even when I was a teen watching the show for the first time I found the questions fascinating and the card play was interesting.

Maybe the original Chain Reaction too.  Was never a huge fan of the one-word-at-a-time question format which Stewart really milked to death.
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