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Post by vahan on Feb 1, 2019 13:03:56 GMT -5
New California license plates on each of the eight cars (September 23, 1987; #0090).
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Post by aaaa on Feb 5, 2019 14:07:13 GMT -5
The 1:30PM EST airing today(9/30/1987) appears to have edited out a contestant plug for the parent and child week, as Alex mentioned coming out of that commercial break that he didn't have any kids between 8-13. The parent and child week is known to have aired the week of 11/9-11/13/1987, as the second half of Friday episode of this week has a Miami Vice promo for the episode that aired "tonight" and 11/13 was the airdate of it, posted by Dcsocal78. If Buzzr has picked up 60 episodes for this current batch and doesn't skip any, the airdate of the last one will be 11/5/1987.
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Post by vahan on Feb 5, 2019 14:12:35 GMT -5
Apparently, they spent two days taping the Kid's Week and two days taping the Around the World Week, judging from the lineup of cars in the latter.
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Post by ivoryface86 on Feb 5, 2019 23:00:34 GMT -5
Well, during the run of Classic Concentration, he'd marry his wife Jean, which would be his second and his current wife and he'd eventually have a child in the 8-13 age range by the time J! introduced the inaugural Kids Week. I was wondering if Mark Goodson ever got to fill in on Concentration when Jean was giving birth.
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Post by ivoryface86 on Feb 5, 2019 23:08:01 GMT -5
I believe that episode #120 was the debut of the Take Card, if there weren't any farther pre-emptions. When they went to limiting players to winning 1 car-and-done format, did the players still max out at 5 tries to win a car or have they done away with the car attempts limit by then? I kinda remember seeing a clip where the champion purposely lost the Car Game saying about winning more prizes, he had at that point 5 or 6 matches and about 6 seconds left when making that funny comment.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Feb 6, 2019 17:59:32 GMT -5
I vividly remember seeing the "TAKE!" card on the November 11, 1987 episode (it was green), as I was off school that day due to Remembrance Day in Canada. I think the parents and kids week was a November sweeps stunt.
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Post by johnnyo on Feb 6, 2019 23:58:56 GMT -5
I have finally watched all episodes through # 47, and here are some observations:
Two contestants solved puzzles in an interrupted game without having made any matches. Additionally, they were both the challenger so they had not previously accumulated any prizes:
o On episode 31, John West went to the winner’s circle without having won any previous prizes. He was able to win a Dodge Lancer on his first and only try, the first contestant to do so. He lost the next game, having won only the car.
o On episode 43, Judith Monroe went to the winner’s circle without having won any previous prizes. She did not win a car, and lost the next game, leaving as a one-time champion, without winning any prizes, the only contestant through 47 episodes to do so.
In the first instance of a player being brought back, Julie Harding Skinner was brought back to play Game 2 on Ep. 46, after having lost Game 1 to Tim Bolton. She lost Game 1 when Bolton changed his puzzle guess after being asked to repeat it. Game 2 ended up as an interrupted game, so Julie Harding Skinner and Tim Bolton ended playing against each other in 3 consecutive games, across episodes 46 and 47.
When Julie Harding Skinner won the Camaro IROC Z28 on Ep. 46, it became clear after repeated viewings that, at the end, she successfully manipulated the order of the matches in order to win the Camaro.
Finally, a comment about the host. Alex has multiple times incorrectly claimed that there were 12 prizes on the board. In fact, that has never been true. With 3 Wild Cards, the maximum # of possible prizes is only 11, which has happened once (Ep. 12 Game 2), when no squares were revealed in advance. Most Games have had 10 prizes, when two squares were revealed in advance, while a handful of games have had only 9 prizes (Game 2 of Episodes 1, 7, 9, 14, 15, 16, 19, 27, 33, 41 and 44), when four squares were revealed in advance.
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Post by vahan on Feb 8, 2019 15:30:46 GMT -5
We've made it to the 100th episode (no such mention was made). 1,000+ remain.
Wikipedia says there were 1,020 shows, but I believe there were a little more than that. The copy of the 1,000th episode in circulation is from an April 1992 rerun, and I know that for a fact, because the episode of Days of Our Lives promoted aired during that time. The episode that just about everyone says is the finale is from a September 1992 rerun. Classic Concentration probably had over 1,100 episodes, and somewhat less than the 1,151 shows that fellow NBC Mark Goodson game show Super Password had.
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Post by aaaa on Feb 12, 2019 14:04:08 GMT -5
The 1PM EST airing of CLassic Concentration today(10/13/1987) saw them come out of the last commercial break with Gene doing the fee plugs. Alex's goodbye was edited out, or maybe this is how it aired on 10/13/1987 on NBC. It's also possible there was a ticket or contestant plug during the goodbye segment, so Buzzr edited out the whole segment. The second rebus round didn't have an interrupted game like it so often does. WOF back then, daytime and nighttime, used to sometimes come out of the last commercial break without Pat and Vanna saying goodbye.
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Post by splinkynip on Feb 13, 2019 0:03:44 GMT -5
It looks like it aired that way during the original broadcast. The whole segment was odd. The consolation prize plugs didn’t fade into each other as usual and I noticed the prize companies listed in the credits were not the prizes given away on that show.
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Post by vahan on Feb 13, 2019 11:11:51 GMT -5
Just got word that they will be skipping episode #0131.
From the looks of things, it was Day 4 of Around the World week. You can find it in this below montage of episodes (however, it is from a 1993 rerun, so it is missing the parting gifts at the end).
The production sequence of the Kid's Week (November 12, 11, 09, 10, and 13) confirms that they taped the episodes out of order.
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Post by johnnyo on Feb 13, 2019 11:14:42 GMT -5
It looks like it aired that way during the original broadcast. The whole segment was odd. The consolation prize plugs didn’t fade into each other as usual and I noticed the prize companies listed in the credits were not the prizes given away on that show. That is typically the case, I believe. The companies in the credits are usually the companies providing the prizes that "A member of the studio audience will receive...", and "Some departing contestants will receive...". The companies providing the prizes the contestants might or might not have won during a match are not usually listed in the credits.
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Post by splinkynip on Feb 13, 2019 11:18:38 GMT -5
No. I mean that the companies listed were not the same as the ones announced during the show. The credits were from q different show.
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Post by johnnyo on Feb 13, 2019 11:52:48 GMT -5
Just watched episode 55, where the contestant who won the second game won what was listed as "Tennis Rackets" on the both game board, and on the contestant's prize board.
Now, I know the abbreviations (especially on the game board) are all over the place, but this was unnecessary, as the correct spelling (Racquets) was only one letter longer, so there was plenty of room to use it.
And what made the error even more obvious was that when Gene Wood described the prizes, the onscreen graphics card for the "Tennis Rackets" used the correct spelling for Racquets.
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Post by johnnyo on Feb 15, 2019 12:22:18 GMT -5
Very good work, but there is a minor error in your notes for episode 58 (just watched this one yesterday).
In your notes you state "Andy reveals that his father was on the original Concentration with Hugh Downs, and won a piano."
It was actually not Andy's father, but his friend's father who was on the Original Concentration (and who won the piano). Andy relates at one point (possibly in a different episode) that his friend had planned to also try out for the show, but was sick, and unable to make the tryouts on the same day that Andy tried out for the show.
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