After-School Game Shows

[TimK2003]

Simple question:

What was your favorite game show that would come on/be on when you came home at the end of the school day (pretty much any game show which was on between 3 and 5pm)?

•  MG/HS Hour was one that I would always catch about 5-10 minutes in after getting off the school bus, but The Gong Show intrigued me a bit more.

Others??

[Jimmy Owen]

NBC YDS at 3:30 was a staple.  We were lucky in that many of the ABC shows were on delayed broadcast (kinescoped) and shown on the CBS affil, so for the time they were on, we got to see "Treasure Isle," "Temptation," "Baby Game," etc. between 4:30 and 6.

[Robair]

By a wide margin, "The Match Game" and "Match Game '7x".

[aaron sica]

Depends on my age and where I lived -

Age 6 - "Bullseye" @ 4pm on WHP-21.
Age 12 - WOF (daytime) @ 4pm on KYW-3
Age 16-18 - "Family Feud" (nighttime) @5pm on WYOU-22

[Mr. Armadillo]

George Gray's "Weakest Link", probably.

[toddyo]

Match Game and sometimes Tattletales.  WCPO-Cincinnati, when it was a CBS affiliate.

[Jamey Greek]

Doug Davidson's TNPIR, Wild Animal Games, Family Challenge, I also liked some of the ESPN game shows (i.e Designated Hitter, Perfect Match, etc.)  Of course when I was young I watched anything that was a game show.  I also enjoyed Reel to Reel Picture Show.  As well as Double Dare 2000

[Ian Wallis]

In the mid'70s, Match Game and Tattletales.  School ended at 3:30 so by the time I got home Match Game was half over.  It was frustrating when CBS changed time slots in '75 because for a while I couldn't see it.  I did like Musical Chairs though, so it wasn't all bad!

[aaron sica]

Darn near forgot to mention - was hooked on "Liar's Club" when USA ran reruns of it in the '80s...

[ChrisLambert!]

This geek of a certain age planned his week around 'Starcade' on WTBS Monday afternoons.

[The Ol' Guy]

In the 60s? Definitely the original You Don't Say and Match Game! Followed by Popeye Theater with Buck Barry. A local thing. For those of you familiar with the show It Could Be You with Bill Leyden, somehow our own Grand Rapids cowboy tv kid show host Buck Barry had been hoodwinked into attending a broadcast of that show during a vacation. Buck had recently lost his horse in a stable fire. A very shocked Buck was called out of the audience and given a new horse right on-air. One of those wonderful tv moments. And so was the memories of YDS/MG.

[geno57]

I'll go along with those who mentioned the original (NBC) Match Game and You Don't Say!  Also PDQ, and a local Chicago offering of the mid-60s called The Letter Game, hosted by Jim Hutton (not the actor).  And the Narz syndie version of Beat the Clock.

[BrandonFG]

USA's "Pyramid", "PYL", and "Scrabble" reruns for one. Also enjoyed both Combs and Dawson's "Feud" (the latter's 1994 return). I watched a lot of "Bzzz!" at 4:30 pm as well...

[irwinsjournal.com]

Match Game 7x, to be sure.  Sometimes watched Tattletales also.

[DoItRockapella]

I was born in 1989, and my username should make pretty clear what my favorite after-school game show was. I didn't have cable TV at my first house, so after PBS dropped "Where In Time..." in 1998, I was forced to make do with that year's revival of Match Game. I was fully aware that I was watching something that wasn't appropriate for a kid, and of course that just added to the fun.

That one only lasted a year, but by that point we had moved and the new house came with cable TV. I watched the last season or two of Figure It Out, then most of the run of Double Dare 2000. I was in middle school when that one ended, and it is probably the last kids game show I consider myself to have grown up watching.

I could give you a LOT of other memories of 1990s after-school TV, but those are the game shows. Most of the other kids game shows I grew up watching were on Saturday mornings.