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Subject: 70's-80's game shows
My personal faves:
Every version of Pyramid ever created ($10,000, $20,000, $25,000, $100,000 etal)
Match Game
Jeopardy
Press Your Luck
Sale of the Century
Let's Make A Deal
Family Feud (Richard Dawson was a good host but I thought Ray Combs was funnier)
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Like all of those too, but for some reason I never (and still have not seen) Sale of The Century, what was it about?
Match Game, watched in in the 70's with my Mom but didn't really get any of the jokes until it showed up on the Game Show network in reruns a few years back.
Let's Make a Deal, what a strange premise for a show. Wonder if anyone got really upset with getting a "bad deal" like a mule and cart? They couldnt' do that show nowadays, someone would get violent and start going off...Didn't Monty Hall feel a little scared walking from the studio to his car, after people had seen he carries $100 & $1000 bills in his pockets ;)?
Press Your Luck, no whammy, no whammies! Did anyone know about the guy who studied the light patterns on the board for months to discover a winning pattern to cheat? He actually went on the show to win $143,000, one of the highest amounts won on the show. It took the producers a week to realize what was happening, but couldn't stop him, it wasn't against the rules! They soon reprogramed the board to work on more of a random pattern after his spree was over...
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
I think it was called Treasure Hunt??
The stage was filled with wrapped boxes and the contestants would get a box to pick a box, some contained expensive prizes and some had worthless stuff.
Tattletales was also a favorite of mine.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Like all of those too, but for some reason I never (and still have not seen) Sale of The Century, what was it about?
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I watched it as a little kid in the 80s, but I forget what it's about, or how it was played, but one thing I do remember is that each contestant started the game with 20 points, and if they got a question right, they'd earn 5 points, but lose 5 points if they got it wrong. It's been at least 15 years since it went off the air.
Anyway, I watch "Match Game PM" on Game Show Network all the time.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
What was that game show with Geoff Edwards? ???
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
I realize I'm dating myself, but I remember when Match Game debuted -- it was called "Match Game 73". Then a year later it was "Match Game 74" I don't remember when they got the brilliant idea to just call it "Match Game." Maybe in '75? 76?
Treasure Hunt! I remember as a kid thinking that show would be so cool to be on...you got to go and pick a box from this stage full of giant gift-wrapped boxes! Geoff Edwards hosted it.
Does anyone remember Password?
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
My fave was
FAMILY FEUD
With
Richard Dawson
because I liked the "100 people surveyed, top 5 answers on the board..." It seemed more fun than those other game shows with like spinning wheels and too many bright lights going off all the time. And I liked the way Richard Dawson would give your 14 year old daughter a nice big SOUL kiss!
:P :P :P
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
I remember Password with Allen Ludden, who was married to Betty White. The show started in the 60's but there were updated versions in the 70's and 80's too (Password Plus, Super Password).
FYI: Future Cheers star Kirstie Alley was a Password Plus contestant in 1980 and was partnered in one round with the legendary Lucille Ball!
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I realize I'm dating myself, but I remember when Match Game debuted -- it was called "Match Game 73". Then a year later it was "Match Game 74" I don't remember when they got the brilliant idea to just call it "Match Game." Maybe in '75? 76?
Treasure Hunt! I remember as a kid thinking that show would be so cool to be on...you got to go and pick a box from this stage full of giant gift-wrapped boxes! Geoff Edwards hosted it.
Does anyone remember Password?
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Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Joker's Wild - Was my favorite show. You would pull this big lever to spin wheels on a simulated slot machine. I always thought that the contestants did it wrong. They would grab the big ball on the end of the lever and give it a wimpy tug.
What I wanted to do was to grab that lever lower (like "choking a bat") and pull like crazy until the slot machine thingies came flying out of the machine. ;)
Match Game - I never understood why anyone would want to be a celebrity contestant on that show. it was loaded with lounge-lizard has-beens or never-weres, with the exception of Richard Dawson who took his lounge-lizard act to Family Feud.
The Gong Show - Need I say more?
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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I realize I'm dating myself, but I remember when Match Game debuted -- it was called "Match Game 73". Then a year later it was "Match Game 74" I don't remember when they got the brilliant idea to just call it "Match Game." Maybe in '75? 76?
Treasure Hunt! I remember as a kid thinking that show would be so cool to be on...you got to go and pick a box from this stage full of giant gift-wrapped boxes! Geoff Edwards hosted it.
Does anyone remember Password?
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The Match Game originally was on in the 1960's and then was cancelled. Later (I think in 1973) it was resurrected. I hated the show, but it had a really cool theme song.
Password rocked. The host was Allen Ludden (husband of Betty White). One year for Christmas I got a home version of the game, with these cool plastic thingies that let you read the secret words on cards. If you just looked at the cards without the thingie you could not see the "pass word".
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
I loved Joker's Wild too as well as Tic Tac Toe with Wink Martindale.
The Gong Show featured two contestants who went on to big-time success: Paul Reubens (aka Pee Wee Herman) and Cheryl Lynn, who had a big disco hit in the late 70's with "Got to be Real"
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Joker's Wild - Was my favorite show. You would pull this big lever to spin wheels on a simulated slot machine. I always thought that the contestants did it wrong. They would grab the big ball on the end of the lever and give it a wimpy tug.
What I wanted to do was to grab that lever lower (like "choking a bat") and pull like crazy until the slot machine thingies came flying out of the machine. ;)
Match Game - I never understood why anyone would want to be a celebrity contestant on that show. it was loaded with lounge-lizard has-beens or never-weres, with the exception of Richard Dawson who took his lounge-lizard act to Family Feud.
The Gong Show - Need I say more?
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Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Joker's Wild - Was my favorite show. You would pull this big lever to spin wheels on a simulated slot machine. I always thought that the contestants did it wrong. They would grab the big ball on the end of the lever and give it a wimpy tug.
What I wanted to do was to grab that lever lower (like "choking a bat") and pull like crazy until the slot machine thingies came flying out of the machine. ;)
Match Game - I never understood why anyone would want to be a celebrity contestant on that show. it was loaded with lounge-lizard has-beens or never-weres, with the exception of Richard Dawson who took his lounge-lizard act to Family Feud.
The Gong Show - Need I say more?
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I saw one of those blooper shows about games shows just the other night. It showed one of the contestants from Jokers Wild. They grabbed that big ball at the end of the lever and gave a mighty pull, it broke off! The look on their face was classic! I was rolling on the floor when I saw it! ;D
Match Game, read that they actually had a nice little bar set up for the panel to "loosen them up" before taping, I'm sure Richard Dawson was a "little too loose" many a time, probably explains some of his behavor on "Family Feud" as well!
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
What game show DIDN'T I watch? There were so many of them. Like many people, I used to watch Match Game as a kid and really liked it but didn't "get" a lot of the jokes until I saw it again on Game Show Network. I also liked Treasure Hunt and even the Gong Show-but hated J.P. Morgan. A few friends and I came up with a couple of "acts" for the Gong Show. I also liked the Pyramid (they kept changing the name like Match Game-$10,000-$20,000, etc.)
Concentration (could never figure out those puzzles-now I can)
Don Adams' Screen Test (don't know if you could count this a game show or not)
The Price is Right
Truth or Consquenses
Beat the Clock
To Tell the Truth
Let's Make a Deal
Newlywed Game
Dating Game
Family Fued
Joker's Wild
Tic Tac Dough
I love watching those game show blooper shows. Those are so funny.
Cat
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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I loved Joker's Wild too as well as Tic Tac Toe with Wink Martindale.
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I think it was called Tic Tac Dough.
Point of trivia: Wink is very close friends with M. C. Hammer. :D
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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I think it was called Tic Tac Dough.
Point of trivia: Wink is very close friends with M. C. Hammer. :D
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Wink Martindale and M.C. Hammer? Figures.
No one mentioned "Jeopardy" with the snootiest pr*ck on teevee, Alex Trebeck (sp.?), Quebec's contribution to world intellect.
Lyricsboy, I like your burger analogy. Speaking of, how many correct answers you get while watching Jeopardy is commensurate with how little action you get out there.
;D
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Did you know that Richard Dawson ended up marrying a Family Feud contestant, Gretchen Johnson? Her family were on the show in 1981 and then he invited her over to his house for dinner afterwards. They were married a decade later and they have 1 or 2 kids.
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My fave was
FAMILY FEUD
With
Richard Dawson
because I liked the "100 people surveyed, top 5 answers on the board..." It seemed more fun than those other game shows with like spinning wheels and too many bright lights going off all the time. And I liked the way Richard Dawson would give your 14 year old daughter a nice big SOUL kiss!
:P :P :P
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Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Did you know that Richard Dawson ended up marrying a Family Feud contestant, Gretchen Johnson? Her family were on the show in 1981 and then he invited her over to his house for dinner afterwards. They were married a decade later and they have 1 or 2 kids.
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More "Feud Trivia"...
Originally, the role of Feud Game Show Host was going to be Joe Namath. Then, at the last minute, they shifted gears and went with Dawson.
...and the rest is history... ;D
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Actually they were going to hire Joe Namath to host the Feud later on when they brought it back in 1988 but went with Ray Combs instead.
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More "Feud Trivia"...
Originally, the role of Feud Game Show Host was going to be Joe Namath. Then, at the last minute, they shifted gears and went with Dawson.
...and the rest is history... ;D
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Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Actually they were going to hire Joe Namath to host the Feud later on when they brought it back in 1988 but went with Ray Combs instead.
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Now the Family Feud is hosted by someone I forgot.I think it was that guy from Home Improvement. ???..Richard Karn,that's it. ;D
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Anyone remember "Bullseye"?
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Game Show Network aired Bullseye on Thanksgiving Day during their "Feast of Favorites"; I'm surprised that show didn't last more than a year or two.
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Anyone remember "Bullseye"?
Howard
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Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Game Show Network aired Bullseye on Thanksgiving Day during their "Feast of Favorites"; I'm surprised that show didn't last more than a year or two.
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I think it went off the air during the 80's.Jim Lange was the host.What's he doing these days? ???
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
I think Jim Lange appeared on one of those special game show blooper shows a couple of years ago.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Price Is Right still the longest runing game show after 32 years. ;D
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Now the Family Feud is hosted by someone I forgot.I think it was that guy from Home Improvement. ???..Richard Karn,that's it. ;D
Howard
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Louis Anderson hosted for a while but can you say, "SUCKS"? Richard Karn is much better but no one can hold a candle to Richard Dawson-even with all his kissing.
Cat
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Louis Anderson hosted for a while but can you say, "SUCKS"? Richard Karn is much better but no one can hold a candle to Richard Dawson-even with all his kissing.
Cat
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I miss the old Family Feud when Richard always kissed the ladies and shook the guys hands.Those were the days. :)
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
How does everyone like the new 100,000 dollar Pyramid hosted by Donny Osmond? ???
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
I've only seen it a couple of times but it looks like a pretty good show; I think they made the perfect choice, picking Donny Osmond to fill Dick Clark's shoes. :D
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How does everyone like the new 100,000 dollar Pyramid hosted by Donny Osmond? ???
Howard
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Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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I've only seen it a couple of times but it looks like a pretty good show; I think they made the perfect choice, picking Donny Osmond to fill Dick Clark's shoes. :D
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I can say this...Donny is no Dick...(Dick Clark,of course...) :D
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Ooh, I forgot to mention Family Feud! Of course I like that show. It's fun to watch the old reruns of the original version on Game Show Network. Why didn't I think of that when I posted yesterday? ::) :) Richard Dawson was also a frequent panelist on Match Game PM.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Press Your Luck, no whammy, no whammies! Did anyone know about the guy who studied the light patterns on the board for months to discover a winning pattern to cheat? He actually went on the show to win $143,000, one of the highest amounts won on the show. It took the producers a week to realize what was happening, but couldn't stop him, it wasn't against the rules! They soon reprogramed the board to work on more of a random pattern after his spree was over...
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This guy's name was Michael Larson, an unemployed ice cream salesman who videotaped the sequences and then memorized the patterns. There is a video to his madness at http://gscentral.net/media.htm Just scroll down a little to a middle-aged bearded guy. I remember the host going crazy because Michael kept on going and winning and going and winning.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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This guy's name was Michael Larson, an unemployed ice cream salesman who videotaped the sequences and then memorized the patterns. There is a video to his madness at http://gscentral.net/media.htm Just scroll down a little to a middle-aged bearded guy. I remember the host going crazy because Michael kept on going and winning and going and winning.
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Wow,I remember Peter Tomarkin who ran the show.Boy,I wonder what he's doin these days? ;D
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Is anybody familiar with the "Newlywed Game" urban legend? Supposedly the host (I can't remember his name) asked a couple the question,"What is the craziest place you have made love?" or something to that effect. The wife supposedly responded by saying "Up my b*tt"!". :o There are people including the host who swear this really happened, and the line was broadcast uncut,and uncensored,in the early 70's. However the scene was supposedly cut out when the show was syndicated as reruns. The scene is mentioned in that new movie about Chuck Barris,"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". I wonder if this really happened, or is it in the same vein as the "Cram it Clown"/Bozo urband legend? Thanks for the memories! Sincerely,Steve.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Is anybody familiar with the "Newlywed Game" urban legend? Supposedly the host (I can't remember his name) asked a couple the question,"What is the craziest place you have made love?" or something to that effect. The wife supposedly responded by saying "Up my b*tt"!". :o There are people including the host who swear this really happened, and the line was broadcast uncut,and uncensored,in the early 70's. However the scene was supposedly cut out when the show was syndicated as reruns. The scene is mentioned in that new movie about Chuck Barris,"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". I wonder if this really happened, or is it in the same vein as the "Cram it Clown"/Bozo urband legend? Thanks for the memories! Sincerely,Steve.
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No, its not a urban legend, it actually happened.
There a show on called "Game Show's Funniest Moments, I, II & III". Its been shown on NBC originally, then on the Game Show Network, & VH-1. It was just on VH-1 last weekend...
They show the "Up The B*tt" scene uncut. It DOES exsist. Obviously it was cut at the time, but with TV standards beening more relaxed now, I guess it's O.K. to show now...
Aside from that, its a pretty funny collection of outrageous game show outtakes that didn't make it to air from the 50's to present day.
Worth watching if you get a chance...
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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No, its not a urban legend, it actually happened.
There a show on called "Game Show's Funniest Moments, I, II & III". Its been shown on NBC originally, then on the Game Show Network, & VH-1. It was just on VH-1 last weekend...
They show the "Up The B*tt" scene uncut. It DOES exsist. Obviously it was cut at the time, but with TV standards beening more relaxed now, I guess it's O.K. to show now...
Aside from that, its a pretty funny collection of outrageous game show outtakes that didn't make it to air from the 50's to present day.
Worth watching if you get a chance...
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I've watched a couple of those and they are so funny. I was crying from laughing so hard. You are right, deffinately worth watching.
Cat
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
PRESS YOUR LUCK. I used to actually WANT the contestants to "stop...at a WHAMMY!"because the little animated creatures actually were FUNNY!! Do you know a lot of the "Whammy"s were parodies of 80's celebrities like Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson,and Boy George? The new,computer-generated Whammies just don't make me laugh!
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Is anybody familiar with the "Newlywed Game" urban legend? Supposedly the host (I can't remember his name) asked a couple the question,"What is the craziest place you have made love?" or something to that effect. The wife supposedly responded by saying "Up my b*tt"!". :o There are people including the host who swear this really happened, and the line was broadcast uncut,and uncensored,in the early 70's. However the scene was supposedly cut out when the show was syndicated as reruns. The scene is mentioned in that new movie about Chuck Barris,"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". I wonder if this really happened, or is it in the same vein as the "Cram it Clown"/Bozo urband legend? Thanks for the memories! Sincerely,Steve.
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To see Bob Eubanks tell a really tasteless ethnic joke, watch Michael Moore's classic "Roger & Me." The joke's to nasty to even paraphrase here. Eubanks cracked the joke looking straight at the camera. Then he said, "Ooh, pardon me, ha ha." Eubank's got really mad when it came out in the film and said he was gonna sue Michael Moore. Moore said, OK, go ahead, but if you do, I'll release the other ten minutes of gross jokes you made in while I was filming.
;D
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
I forgot to mention another game show legend, Chuck Woolery, who has hosted some great game shows as well, like Scrabble and Love Connection - he was also the original host of Wheel of Fortune.
The reality show GSN did about him last summer called Naturally Stoned was kind of interesting to watch too.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Is anybody familiar with the "Newlywed Game" urban legend? Supposedly the host (I can't remember his name) asked a couple the question,"What is the craziest place you have made love?" or something to that effect. The wife supposedly responded by saying "Up my b*tt"!". :o There are people including the host who swear this really happened, and the line was broadcast uncut,and uncensored,in the early 70's. However the scene was supposedly cut out when the show was syndicated as reruns. The scene is mentioned in that new movie about Chuck Barris,"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". I wonder if this really happened, or is it in the same vein as the "Cram it Clown"/Bozo urband legend? Thanks for the memories! Sincerely,Steve.
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The host you're talking about is Bob Eubanks. In fact, yesterday at noon (Pacific time), VH1 re-ran the first series of Most Outrageous Game Show Moments, and that was the one where he denied any knowledge of the clip where the lady said, "In the (censored)." He didn't want it to be aired because he was too embarrassed by it, but they saved it for last. I myself never watched the Newlywed Game, but I have seen outtakes from it on the MOGSM.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Anyone here see the movie "Quiz Show"? I thought gameshow cheating was over until I saw Michael Larson on Press Your Luck! I think he was even greedier than those darn WHAMMIES!!
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Was "Press Your Luck" the game in which a contestant had figured out all the mathematical possibilities before hand, and was able to beat the game over and over when he got on? They figured out what he was doing, but they couldn't stop him because he wasn't breaking any rules. I can't remember which game show it was, though.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Was "Press Your Luck" the game in which a contestant had figured out all the mathematical possibilities before hand, and was able to beat the game over and over when he got on? They figured out what he was doing, but they couldn't stop him because he wasn't breaking any rules. I can't remember which game show it was, though.
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No,you must be thinking of something else.
Wasn't there a brain teaser game show before? ???
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Maybe some of you can help me here. I can remember in around 1976 or 1977 a game show where contestants had a chance to win a car. As they got near the end of the show, the winner would get a key and then have to chose one of 5 or 6 cars, get in and start it. If it fired up, they won it, the crowd goes wild, etc..
Anyone remember this?
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Maybe some of you can help me here. I can remember in around 1976 or 1977 a game show where contestants had a chance to win a car. As they got near the end of the show, the winner would get a key and then have to chose one of 5 or 6 cars, get in and start it. If it fired up, they won it, the crowd goes wild, etc..
Anyone remember this?
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They could have saved a bundle on prize expenditures by using AMC cars, the Gremlin, the Hornet, the Pacer...try to get one of those things started!
;D
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
I've watched in amazement at reruns of Let's Make A Deal and Hollywood Squares noticing how cars in the 70's cost only around $3,000 or so (another popular car from that era was the Chevy Vega); nowadays cars cost about ten times as much.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Maybe some of you can help me here. I can remember in around 1976 or 1977 a game show where contestants had a chance to win a car. As they got near the end of the show, the winner would get a key and then have to chose one of 5 or 6 cars, get in and start it. If it fired up, they won it, the crowd goes wild, etc..
Anyone remember this?
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I think it was Hollywood Squares that did that.
Does anyone remember a show called "Make me Laugh"? They would have a couple of comedians trying to make constants laugh. If the constant could sit there for about 5 minutes as the comedian did his/her thing, they won a prize.
Cat
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Comedy Central aired a version of Make Me Laugh in the late 90's.
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Does anyone remember a show called "Make me Laugh"? They would have a couple of comedians trying to make constants laugh. If the constant could sit there for about 5 minutes as the comedian did his/her thing, they won a prize.
Cat
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Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Anyone remember Hollywood Squares with John Davidson? ;D
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Reading through this list its amazing how many game shows travelled across the Atlantic.
Many were started in the States and came to Britain but it sounds like one or two started here.
Family Feud sounds a bit like Family Fortunes (100 people surveyed, top 5 answers)
The Price is Right
Sale of the Century (not sure who first had this show)
Bullseye was a show here in Britain. Of course it may not be the same show at all. Ours was a darts game, one contestant of a pair answering questions from categories their partners dart landed in in the first part and then adding the darts score on a normal board then Bullies prize board ("keep out of the balck and in the red, you get nothing in this game for two in a bed")
I guess Hollywood Squares could be the same as Celebrity Squares? 'celebrities' sat in boxes and contestants chose them to answer a question. If they got it right the box lit up to that contestants colour and the aim was to get 3 (or was it 4?) in a row.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
One of those show on VH1 featuring the most outrageous game show moments showed some clips from the British version of Family Feud - my personal favorite was when that one guy kept giving turkey as the answer during the bonus round (What item would you take to the beach? turkey, What's the first thing you buy in a supermarket? turkey, Name a food that's stuffed. turkey)
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Family Feud sounds a bit like Family Fortunes (100 people surveyed, top 5 answers)
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Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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I've watched in amazement at reruns of Let's Make A Deal and Hollywood Squares noticing how cars in the 70's cost only around $3,000 or so ...nowadays cars cost about ten times as much.
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That's inflation in action for ya. :( I have some old sales literature for the 1971 Datsun 240Z (I own one) and the car suggested retail was $2600 US or so. Now, if you can find one in original shape, no rust, mechanically sound; they go for about twice that and have been going up slowly for the past few years.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Nobody mentioned "High Rollers" hosted by Alex Trebec Wink Martindale hosted a 70s game show called "Gambit" There was a show called "Card Sharks" I can't recall the host. Tom Kennedy hosted a game show called "PDQ" I believe it was in the early 70s. Last I would like to add. As a kid growing up in Hollywood in the seventies my mom worked at KNXT Ch. 2 in Hollywood CBS afilliate they did a game show called "Lucky Pair" hosted by Richard Dawson. I still can remember him cussing and complaining during commercial breaks when he wasn't horn dogging or womanizing. Mom didn't bring me down to watch them tape too much after I started repeating certain words I heard him say. ;D
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Card Sharks was a good one too - there were two different versions of that show.
The first one was hosted by Jim Perry (who later hosted Sale of the Century) and aired on NBC from 1978-1981; the second one was hosted by Bob Eubanks and ran on CBS from 1986-89.
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There was a show called "Card Sharks" I can't recall the host.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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No,you must be thinking of something else.
Wasn't there a brain teaser game show before? ???
Howard
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The show in question was indeed Press Your Luck,and the contestant/culprit was Michael Larson!!
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The show in question was indeed Press Your Luck,and the contestant/culprit was Michael Larson!!
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How about TIC TAC DOUGHwith Wink Martindale? At the end of the show you had to get a certain amount of money off the board while avoiding an animated DRAGON!!
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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The show in question was indeed Press Your Luck,and the contestant/culprit was Michael Larson!!
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I remember Michael Larson died of something,I forgot. ???
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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How about TIC TAC DOUGHwith Wink Martindale? At the end of the show you had to get a certain amount of money off the board while avoiding an animated DRAGON!!
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Tic Tac Dough was a good game show.I liked watching it. ;D
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
I really hate when contestants give a really STUPID answer. Family Fued:
Richard Dawson: Name something you find in your refrigerator.
Contestant: Your dog.
Contestant's family: Good answer. ::)
Cat
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Last year I saw an episode of the new Press Your Luck, called Whammy, where they brought back the two contestants who competed against Michael Larson - since he had passed away they played against his brother James, who won incidentally.
That same night GSN aired a documentary about the Michael Larson episode that was hosted by Peter Tomarken.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Did you watch the E True Hollywood Story about Family Feud? Markie Post was a writer on that show before she became an actress and she was talking about how people aren't so smart under pressure.
I thought it was funny also when somebody else who worked on that show talked about how some families would get into fights in the parking lot afterwards when they didn't win the Fast Money. ;D
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I really hate when contestants give a really STUPID answer. Family Fued:
Richard Dawson: Name something you find in your refrigerator.
Contestant: Your dog.
Contestant's family: Good answer. ::)
Cat
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Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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I really hate when contestants give a really STUPID answer. Family Fued:
Richard Dawson: Name something you find in your refrigerator.
Contestant: Your dog.
Contestant's family: Good answer. ::)
Cat
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Some people give really ridiculous answers.Maybe it's because it's quick thinking! ::)
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Did you watch the E True Hollywood Story about Family Feud? Markie Post was a writer on that show before she became an actress and she was talking about how people aren't so smart under pressure.
I thought it was funny also when somebody else who worked on that show talked about how some families would get into fights in the parking lot afterwards when they didn't win the Fast Money. ;D
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I do understand that when you are under pressure, the lights, and having the audience there, that people don't think very well (if at all). But, it is the family saying "Good answer" to the MOST stupid answer in the world that gets me.
Cat
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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I really hate when contestants give a really STUPID answer. Family Fued:
Richard Dawson: Name something you find in your refrigerator.
Contestant: Your dog.
Contestant's family: Good answer. ::)
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Dawson: 100 people surveyed, top five answers on the board, name a foreign word for "Yes."
Contestant: Bonjour?
family: Good answer, good answer!
Dawson: Do we have "Bonjour"?
Answer board: buzzzzzz XXX
or
Dawson: Name an animal with three letters.
Answer bell: ringalingaling!
Contestant: Alligator!
:D :D :D
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Name a month a which a pregnant woman shows the most:
September ;D
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
I wish Dick Clark would go back to hosting $100,000 Pyramid.I miss him from back in the days. ;D
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Who remembers Remote Control on MTV? I was watching I Love the 80's Strikes Back 1987 and they talked about that.
I didn't have cable when I was growing up so I missed out on it. I wish GSN would air repeats of it - Adam Sandler was a regular on it way back when even before he was on Saturday Night Live.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Who remembers Remote Control on MTV? I was watching I Love the 80's Strikes Back 1987 and they talked about that.
I didn't have cable when I was growing up so I missed out on it. I wish GSN would air repeats of it - Adam Sandler was a regular on it way back when even before he was on Saturday Night Live.
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I loved Remote Control. Got the game for my computer but I have upgraded my computer so now it doesn't work. :( Oh well, some of it is outdated anyway-like the "Dead or Canadian" catogory-in some cases the answer is now BOTH.
Cat
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Family feud
The Newlywed Game
The Gong Show
Match Game
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
There was this one show that aired during the 1982-83 season called Child's Play and it was hosted by Bill Cullen - the object of the game was that adult contestants had to get the answers through clues that children provided. Anyway, I just heard on E True Hollywood Story the other night that American Pie actress Tara Reid was one of the kids on that show. Who woulda thunk it?
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Anyone remember the game show Bullseye with Jim Lange? ???
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
remember when WHEEL OF FORTUNE had just plain old prizes like bedroom sets and stuff for the average Joe? Now it's all this $$$$$$ and stuff that only the rich usually have! And there was even a kids' game show called "I'm Telling"-anyone remember that?
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Name that Tune
Password
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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remember when WHEEL OF FORTUNE had just plain old prizes like bedroom sets and stuff for the average Joe? Now it's all this $$$$$$ and stuff that only the rich usually have! And there was even a kids' game show called "I'm Telling"-anyone remember that?
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I'm Telling-Didn't that show star Mark Summers?
Howard
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Name that Toon was probably my favorite of all time, wish they would bring it back.
Quik story,
Back in the earl 80's when I was a single guy, trying to find myself...lol...I was renting a room from an eldely lady( she was 78) in her house, and in the evenings I like to chat with her, and we would watch Wheel of Fortune and Name That Tune.
Well I am a preatty good exspert at music, and with that being said, I would get most of the tune right from just the clue, and I would blurt it out before the contestant would, and Miss Alice would look at me and say" Why don't you call them people up, and get on the show, you get just about all of them, with just one note or two".
And then she would fall asleep in her chair not to soon after, and I would sneak off to my room.
Nice game show memmorie!!!
And I am drawing a blank on who hosted that show, anyone???
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
Tom Kennedy hosted Name that Tune.
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
I love the old game shows...especially the old black and white ones. To Tell The Truth, What's My Line etc. It is hilarious to see them smoking like chimneys and one of the prizes is a carton of Winstons. ;D
Let's Make A Deal
Treasure Hunt (I had forgotten about that one)
Match Game
Jokers Wild
Card Sharks
And who could forget The Price is Right. :)
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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Maybe some of you can help me here. I can remember in around 1976 or 1977 a game show where contestants had a chance to win a car. As they got near the end of the show, the winner would get a key and then have to chose one of 5 or 6 cars, get in and start it. If it fired up, they won it, the crowd goes wild, etc..
Anyone remember this?
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Yes--it was called "Split Second."
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
I still wonder who created Press Your Luck's WHAMMY charachters,they were a HUGE reason I watched the original show! Sorry,I just find them damn funny!! ;D
Subject: Re: 70's-80's game shows
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I still wonder who created Press Your Luck's WHAMMY charachters,they were a HUGE reason I watched the original show! Sorry,I just find them damn funny!! ;D
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You could probably e-mail the producers of that show and ask if you'd like. ???
Howard