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Post by Kaos on Sept 4, 2015 20:23:39 GMT -5
September 4th, 1972. A day that will go down in game show history, as three game shows made their debut.
Two of which there are videos of their debuts.
The one which we can't seem to find, unless Wink has the video and is about to release it on HIS terms, is Gambit, which combined knowledge with the luck of the cards.
The second was a show that not only brought back a host to TV's good graces, as well as game show fans, it also had us rooting for the jokers.
THE JOKER'S WILD
And then there was one more show, a show that was making a comeback along with changes after a seven year absence, and that comeback is STILL going, after 43 years. The show that changed daytime television forever with three simple words...
COME ON DOWN!
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Post by Mandoli on Sept 5, 2015 8:40:14 GMT -5
Wink did post a Gambit pilot. Just not the one you were thinking about.  |
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Post by Kaos on Sept 5, 2015 22:08:36 GMT -5
Yeah, I noticed. I must admit, it was interesting...
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Post by Mandoli on Apr 27, 2016 16:54:16 GMT -5
I'm going to sticky this thread (even though it hasn't seen light since September). I was thinking that people could post little tidbits of game show history when they felt like it. Go ahead and use this thread for all historical references.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Jan 3, 2017 15:33:43 GMT -5
On this day in 1983, Plinko debuted on The Price Is Right.
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Post by addemup on Jan 3, 2017 22:52:17 GMT -5
On this day in 1983, Plinko debuted on The Price Is Right. As well as three game shows on NBC: Sale of the Century which ran for a little over 6 years, and also Hit Man and Just Men, which both lasted only 13 weeks. |
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Post by addemup on Jan 5, 2017 11:50:12 GMT -5
30 years ago today on January 5, 1987, the Bill Rafferty version of Blockbusters debuted on NBC. It wouldn't have as much success as the Cullen version, lasting only 17 weeks. The show was replaced by Classic Concentration in May of that year.
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Post by addemup on Jan 6, 2017 15:55:24 GMT -5
31 years ago today on Jan. 6, 1986, two game shows made their debuts: the Bob Eubanks version of Card Sharks on CBS, and Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak on ABC. Card Sharks would run on CBS until March 1989 (and also one syndicated season with Bill Rafferty as host), while Hot Streak lasted only 13 weeks.
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Post by vahan on Jan 6, 2017 16:30:24 GMT -5
31 years ago today, Press Your Luck moved to 4:00 p.m. Most stations didn't carry it after the time change, and those that did either aired it as normal at 4:00 p.m. on the East Coast, or tape delayed it for the next morning. WABI-TV 5 in Bangor, Maine is the only CBS affiliate I know of that ran Press Your Luck as normal after the time change. It would be the last time CBS programmed the 4:00 p.m. timeslot, which they returned to the affiliates on September 29, becoming the last major network to do so.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 17:32:37 GMT -5
31 years ago today, Press Your Luck moved to 4:00 p.m. Most stations didn't carry it after the time change, and those that did either aired it as normal at 4:00 p.m. on the East Coast, or tape delayed it for the next morning. WABI-TV 5 in Bangor, Maine is the only CBS affiliate I know of that ran Press Your Luck as normal after the time change. It would be the last time CBS programmed the 4:00 p.m. timeslot, which they returned to the affiliates on September 29, becoming the last major network to do so. I am wondering if Press Your Luck's cancellation and CBS downsizing the daytime game shows from four to three, and surrendering the 4:00 p.m.slot to the local affiliates may have resulted in the winnings limit being increased to $75,000? Maybe that explains the launch of the car game on Card Sharks one month afterwards. |
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Post by aaaa on Jan 7, 2017 7:03:34 GMT -5
MIllion Dollar Chance of a Lifetime also bowed on 1/6/86. Bowing on 1/6/75 on NBC were Blank Check and a little known show called Wheel of Fortune
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Post by addemup on Feb 18, 2017 12:47:22 GMT -5
February 18th:
- Bill Cullen was born on this day in 1920
- Vanna White was born on this day in 1957
- Tattletales debuts on CBS on this day in 1974
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Post by addemup on Mar 24, 2017 14:37:05 GMT -5
28 years ago today on March 24, 1989, Sale of the Century and Super Password both concluded their runs on NBC.
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Post by vahan on Apr 23, 2017 9:32:55 GMT -5
35 years ago today on April 23, 1982, Blockbusters and Battlestars ended their runs on NBC, after a year and a half and half a year respectively.
Battlestars didn't have a chance. It was up against the second half of The Price Is Right, and was branded as a Hollywood Squares rip-off (same company, and some people called it "Hollywood Triangles"). Its second run as The New Battlestars in Spring 1983 didn't fare any better; it only lasted 13 weeks.
Blockbusters, on the other hand, I think was a different story. I think its ratings were fine; I mean the only competition it had was Alice reruns on CBS, and that didn't really threaten them that much. I think the reason Blockbusters was cancelled was because NBC needed to find a way to strengthen their struggling daytime soaps (The Doctors and Texas; they had already cancelled Password Plus). If that's true, the move didn't work as Texas struggled against The Price Is Right on CBS, and Family Feud on ABC proved to be too much for The Doctors. Both Soaps had their finales on New Year's Eve 1982.
Regardless of the reason, save for Wheel of Fortune, the rest of 1982 was a dry spell for daytime game shows on NBC. Fantasy doesn't really count, because 1) it was up against Guiding Light and General Hospital on CBS and ABC respectively in the 3:00 p.m. slot, and 2) it wasn't really a game show per se; it was a part GS, part human interest program. No, the day NBC game shows in the morning officially made a comeback was Monday January 3, 1983.
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Post by Chameleonwhammy on Apr 24, 2017 15:35:39 GMT -5
Card Sharks on NBC debuts 39 years ago today with Jim Perry.
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