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Post by johnnyo on Jun 22, 2018 10:56:23 GMT -5
While watching Super Password on BUZZR this week (Nancy Lane/Richard Moll), a couple of times the password was not really a word. Once, it was "ABC" (the puzzle was "Love Boat"), and another time it was "NBC" (the puzzle was "Wheel of Fortune").
They were able to get "ABC" using clues like "Alphabet" and "Network". While trying to get "NBC", Richard Moll gave a clue "CBS", and it was ruled illegal without explanation!
Here is the issue I have. How can the contestant be expected to get a password that would itself be illegal if given as a clue? Discuss.
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Post by aaaa on Jun 22, 2018 14:29:15 GMT -5
It was stated on alt.tv.game-shows that abbrevations like NBC, CBS, and ABC are not legal password clues.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Jun 23, 2018 12:14:17 GMT -5
They were able to get "ABC" using clues like "Alphabet" and "Network". While trying to get "NBC", Richard Moll gave a clue "CBS", and it was ruled illegal without explanation! Here is the issue I have. How can the contestant be expected to get a password that would itself be illegal if given as a clue? Discuss. By the time Password Plus came around and from then forward, the game changed enough to allow two word phrases in the puzzles like San Francisco and New York, and abbreviations like ABC/CBS/NBC to be passwords, but the clues given to guess those passwords just like any other password would always be one-word items only. Those abbreviations, like in Richard Moll's case, are basically counting as initials for three separate words as clues.
Also the "B" in both CBS and NBC stands for "broadcasting", which in that particular case, is a part of the answer.
I have a feeling this was done in general to fit more items into a puzzle.
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Post by johnnyo on Aug 8, 2018 9:59:38 GMT -5
Just finished watching the Super Password TOC today. It had previously aired on BUZZR in 2016, and this time around, it was interrupted by by a bunch of fresh episodes. (I actually missed capturing the final on my DVR, but found it on YT!). Some quick facts.
- There were eight champions separated into a single elimination bracket. - The Cashword was not played during the TOC. - The quarterfinals consisted of a single game (i.e., first to $500, first puzzle = $100, 2nd = $200, etc.) - After each quarterfinal, the winner played a Super Password round worth $2,500. - The semi-finals and finals were each "best two out of three" games. - After each semi-final game, the winner played a Super Password round. - A Super Password round was NOT played after the first game of the finals (which were won 2-0). - The winner of the finals received a $25,000 jackpot, and then played for an additional $25,000 in a Super Password round. - The champion was Natalie Steele, who won the final $25,000 Super Password round, and amassed a total of $106,000 in all of her appearances. - After the final Super Password round, Bert Convy presented the champ with the actual cards from the puzzle she solved to win the finals. Bert and the celebrities (Dick Gautier, Shelly Smith) all autographed the cards.
It was interesting to realize that there was no way to know exactly how many shows were going to be needed to complete the tournament, give the "best two out of three" games format of the finals and semi-finals. At the end, all of the puzzles during the final were solved quickly, after only 2 or 3 passwords were revealed, which finished the tournament more quickly. Also, during the credits of the final show of the TOC, Gene Wood announced a that the "Third puzzle was inadvertently revealed, and that it had been replaced, and the program had been edited." What a time for that to happen, with $25,000 on the line for the finals winner!
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Post by vahan on Aug 8, 2018 10:06:14 GMT -5
I'm glad you brought up the Tournament of Champions. I'm shocked Leslie Gershwin, winner of $50,000+, didn't come back. Maybe they had her on board as an alternate, if someone got sick or didn't show up?
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Post by aaaa on Aug 8, 2018 14:43:48 GMT -5
I'm glad you brought up the Tournament of Champions. I'm shocked Leslie Gershwin, winner of $50,000+, didn't come back. Maybe they had her on board as an alternate, if someone got sick or didn't show up? Leslie Gershman, not Gershwin. She was profiled in the September 1986 issue of TV Game Show Magazine, and didn't mention anything about being in the TofC.
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Post by johnnyo on Aug 13, 2018 10:46:20 GMT -5
Interesting to note that in the very next Super Password episode after the TOC, 5 puzzles were played and solved in an average of only two clues each, continuing the trend from the finals of the TOC.
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Post by The Game Show Channel on Aug 13, 2018 13:36:58 GMT -5
Interesting to note that in the very next Super Password episode after the TOC, 5 puzzles were played and solved in an average of only two clues each, continuing the trend from the finals of the TOC. I have that episode. Here it is:
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Post by Chameleonwhammy on Nov 5, 2018 15:51:37 GMT -5
This episode with Audrey Meadows & Jerry Lewis is hilarious. I'm glad to see these color episodes of Password running on Buzzr again.
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Post by vahan on Nov 10, 2018 22:42:40 GMT -5
aaaa I need your help: What exactly happened in late 1987 that caused Super Password to get off track? It was because of this that the Sally Struthers & David Doyle week only had four shows (December 15-18). Of course, there was also the Thanksgiving Day preemption and the New Year's Day 1988 one. Episode #0836 was the last show of 1987. Also, by late 1988, the episode numbers in the weeks were ending with a 4 or a 9 instead of a 1 or a 6. There were two unplanned preemptions from January to October 1988. What exactly could they have been? Per newspapers.com, the 1000th episode with Vicki Lawrence-Schultz & Pat Sajak aired on Monday August 22.
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Post by aaaa on Nov 11, 2018 6:03:02 GMT -5
October 1987 saw Baby Jessica falling down a well in Texas on Oct 14(and getting rescued on Oct 16) and the Black Monday stock market crash on October 19. Pyrfan posted 10 years ago on Game SHow Forum about these weeks and he wasn't sure what the preemptions were in Fall 1987 or in 1988 through October.
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Post by vahan on Nov 11, 2018 10:56:56 GMT -5
And The Vanderbilt Archives don't really help much. None of the times indicate Noon preemptions that were nationwide.
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Post by aaaa on Nov 11, 2018 19:23:03 GMT -5
For what its worth, a Noon preemption on NBC wouldn't have affected viewing of SP in my neck of the woods. KYW Philly from 9/16/85-9/2/1988 aired SUper Password at 3:30PM EST, then moved to 12:30PM and finally 10AM until dropping the show on 1/20/1989. The first year of SP never cleared in Philly. The former WMGM NBC40 Atlantic City aired the full run of SP at Noon EST
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Post by vahan on Nov 11, 2018 21:10:10 GMT -5
Hopefully, a YT vid indicating a preemption will show up.
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Post by johnnyo on Nov 28, 2018 10:04:20 GMT -5
So, just this week I started watching the 40 fresh episodes of SP that began airing on BUZZR on 10/1/18. Some of the first few episodes are from a week in May 1985 when NBC was running a contest across all of its game shows. In the BUZZR episodes, there have been frequent references to the contest, but all direct references and explanations have been edited out.
Basically, Bert Convy says "Now, we are going to talk about the contest...", an abrupt edit occurs, and then next we hear BC saying "...Now that we are done talking about the contest, we will continue the game...".
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