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bulldog_06

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Re: Alternate realities when it comes to game shows
« Reply #75 on: January 16, 2025, 02:15:46 AM »
What if Mark Goodson gave Bruce Forsyth the job for "Card Sharks" on CBS? Would it still be a three-year run? Would there ever be a nighttime companion? Would Bob Barker even welcome Forsyth to the Price Is Right set?

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Re: Alternate realities when it comes to game shows
« Reply #76 on: January 16, 2025, 04:33:04 PM »
What if Mark Goodson gave Bruce Forsyth the job for "Card Sharks" on CBS? Would it still be a three-year run? Would there ever be a nighttime companion? Would Bob Barker even welcome Forsyth to the Price Is Right set?

Are you suggesting Bob Farking Eubanks is responsible for whatever level of success CS86 achieved?

When daytime game shows were still a thing in the '70s and '80s, you know what made Card Sharks successful? Giant playing cards. Tying them to a game that, while a little thin, was at least interesting enough if moved at a fast pace helped, but the gimmick was the giant cards.

Bob Eubanks was literally one day away from getting fired a month into his most well-known gig and becoming an industry footnote.
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Re: Alternate realities when it comes to game shows
« Reply #77 on: January 16, 2025, 06:18:06 PM »
Bob Eubanks was literally one day away from getting fired a month into his most well-known gig and becoming an industry footnote.

Somehow this managed to sneak by me. Tell me more. They were about to replace him on TNG?

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Re: Alternate realities when it comes to game shows
« Reply #78 on: January 16, 2025, 11:06:17 PM »
Somehow this managed to sneak by me. Tell me more. They were about to replace him on TNG?

Barris wrote about it in The Game Show King. He said that Eubanks "wasn't getting it" and that Barris was gonna fire him the next tape day, but then he came in and it was like a light turned on, and he never had a problem with him since.
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Kevin Prather

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Re: Alternate realities when it comes to game shows
« Reply #79 on: January 16, 2025, 11:27:49 PM »
Somehow this managed to sneak by me. Tell me more. They were about to replace him on TNG?

Barris wrote about it in The Game Show King. He said that Eubanks "wasn't getting it" and that Barris was gonna fire him the next tape day, but then he came in and it was like a light turned on, and he never had a problem with him since.

Interesting! Tying that in to the thread's topic, I wonder who becomes the new host if that light doesn't turn on. Did Barris happen to mention anyone?

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Re: Alternate realities when it comes to game shows
« Reply #80 on: January 17, 2025, 03:51:50 PM »
Interesting! Tying that in to the thread's topic, I wonder who becomes the new host if that light doesn't turn on. Did Barris happen to mention anyone?

Nope.
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