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Post by addemup on Oct 22, 2019 14:07:35 GMT -5
I'm liking being able to obviously see MGHSH finally but the panelists aren't very good in my opinion or celebrities. I thought Tom Poston was incredibly out of place last week of shows. Anybody else? I also cannot stand Edie McClurg, Fred Travalena, and Marty Cohen. They were scratching chalk board with nails bad. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that. I understand that jokes by the celebrities are a part of Hollywood Squares, but it seems like some of the celebrities on this version wants to do a 5-minute stand-up routine every time they’re called on, including the three you mentioned. It’s a timed game, so if I was the trailing contestant trying to catch up, I’d be pretty upset. I remember seeing an episode last week, I can’t remember which one, where they only got two games of HS in because of the overdone comedy bits from the celebs. You could even tell that Jon Bauman was starting to get annoyed with it at one point.
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Post by vahan on Oct 25, 2019 10:07:23 GMT -5
After Laurie Ghose retired, they drew lots to determine their next "returning champion", just like on the premiere.
I'm surprised Scrabble never did this during their July 1984-September 1986 format, instead of playing two crossword games consecutively, or originally, playing another Sprint Round. Hit Man, Face the Music, and both runs of Now You See It are the only other game shows I can think of where the challenger would play against the returning champion in a later round. In the original run of NYSI, the champion retired after winning the bonus round, and the final competing contestant would be designated as such.
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Post by WarioSajak on Oct 25, 2019 15:59:25 GMT -5
Hit Man, Face the Music, and both runs of Now You See It are the only other game shows I can think of where the challenger would play against the returning champion in a later round. Lemme see here... * Cash Explosion Double Play* Do You Trust Your Wife?/ Who Do You Trust?* Family Feud (all of Challenge and most of the 1994-95 season) * Time Machine (second format)
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Post by johnnyo on Oct 30, 2019 0:12:08 GMT -5
Karen Witter is a celebrity panelist on episodes 25-29, and I had to use Google to find out who she was. Not only has Wikipedia told me that she was the March 1982 Playboy playmate of the Month, it also says she was a model on the Syndicated SOTC during the 1985-86 season. I believe that season is currently running at 9 PM weekdays on BUZZR, so I am going to rewatch the next episode to look for Karen.
Moving on to another topic, episode 26 is the first episode I have seen in which all the celebrities sat in positions that were related to the order in which they were announced. Charles Seibert was announced first, and sat in the bottom middle. Fred Grandy was announced second and sat to the right (as seen the from the audience perspective). The celebrities in the top row for MG (and later HS) all sat left to right in the order they were announced.
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Post by vahan on Oct 30, 2019 21:12:48 GMT -5
Rare shot of the studio audience.
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Post by johnnyo on Oct 31, 2019 13:00:38 GMT -5
Moving on to another topic, episode 26 is the first episode I have seen in which all the celebrities sat in positions that were related to the order in which they were announced. Charles Seibert was announced first, and sat in the bottom middle. Fred Grandy was announced second and sat to the right (as seen the from the audience perspective). The celebrities in the top row for MG (and later HS) all sat left to right in the order they were announced. Episode 28 had the same celebrities playing Match Game, introduced in the same order, and sitting in the same positions as episode 26.
The same is true for HS portion of episode 28. The remaining celebrities were introduced in the same order, and sitting in the same positions as episode 26.
I have also finally noticed that the names in the upper tier of HS are actually visible when the extra seats are brought in at the end of the MG portion. I had been waiting until after the commercial and the celebrities were seated to note the seating positions, when I could have been noting it earlier.
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Post by ivoryface86 on Nov 20, 2019 23:52:55 GMT -5
Don't know if this was discussed but NBC's 1982 Thanksgiving schedule had Wheel of Fortune airing as usual but Fantasy was pre-empted in favor of Cleveland @ Dallas, the day after Thanksgiving had the entire slate of its daytime lineup airing as usual including both Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy. I think I'm correct on the scheduling Brendan(pyramidfan).
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Post by ivoryface86 on Nov 20, 2019 23:57:58 GMT -5
Another question I'd like to ask Brendan, did Sale of the Century, Dream House and Wheel of Fortune get pre-empted on January 2, 1984 as well? I know Go! did but what about the other 3?
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Post by aaaa on Nov 21, 2019 4:27:01 GMT -5
Don't know if this was discussed but NBC's 1982 Thanksgiving schedule had Wheel of Fortune airing as usual but Fantasy was pre-empted in favor of Cleveland @ Dallas, the day after Thanksgiving had the entire slate of its daytime lineup airing as usual including both Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy. I think I'm correct on the scheduling Brandon(pyramidfan). Wheel was airing at 10:30AM EST on NBC in late 1982. Wouldn't the Macy's parade have run 9AM-Noon on NBC that day? Noon-3PM EST on NBC at that point was The Doctors/Search for TOmorrow/Days/Another World.
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Post by aaaa on Nov 21, 2019 4:29:43 GMT -5
Another question I'd like to ask Brandon, did Sale of the Century, Dream House and Wheel of Fortune get pre-empted on January 2, 1984 as well? I know Go! did but what about the other 3? I believe all daytime network game shows were preempted that day, as parades and bowl games were done on Monday 1/2 as New Year's was on a Sunday in 1984. The same applied to 1989.
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Post by vahan on Feb 3, 2020 23:00:21 GMT -5
We now know there were at least eight $30,000 wins. We just saw the fourth one today.
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Post by johnnyo on Feb 12, 2020 0:58:56 GMT -5
I found it odd that Johnny Olsen was announcing on episode 56, after Gene Wood had already announced on 54 & 55. Olsen was essentially announcing on Wednesday after Wood had announced on Monday and Tuesday,
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Post by vahan on Feb 12, 2020 1:10:55 GMT -5
From what I know about the taping schedule, they spent two consecutive days taping as many as five shows. Half of the week would be taped on one day, and the rest of the week would be taped on the next. Wood may have been booked for something else that day, (Family Feud would be my best guess) so Olson was needed.
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Post by aaaa on Feb 12, 2020 3:44:46 GMT -5
The only shows Gene W. was the regular announcer on at the time of MGHS were that and Feud. Johnny Olson announced the other GT shows of the era MGHS aired(TPIR, Tattletales, Body Language). Gene W. didn't start announcing non-GT shows until after Dawson Feud ended. Chris Clementson on Game SHow Forum said that if Feud was taping the same day at P+, Gene Wood and Howard Felsher would be at Feud instead of P+
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Post by vahan on Feb 12, 2020 11:19:54 GMT -5
You know, come to think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if Wood was booked for Family Feud on January 8, when he normally would have been doing MGHS. A taping ticket I found on eBay shows the Daytime Dynasties week for Sunday January 8, 1984.
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