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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 18:09:44 GMT -5
The Chuck Woolery Wheel of Fortune premiere and/or an episode during the Buy a Vowel wedge era Can't do the premiere, but these should be worthwhile just the same... I think David Downs is trying to skirt around the copyright problem. |
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Post by balozier on Apr 9, 2016 23:01:33 GMT -5
Can't do the premiere, but these should be worthwhile just the same... I think David Downs is trying to skirt around the copyright problem. How so? |
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Post by walker7 on Apr 10, 2016 11:02:14 GMT -5
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Post by vahan on Apr 10, 2016 17:35:22 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2016 18:06:34 GMT -5
This is a real treat to see some NBC episodes of $ale of the Century that sadly will never be rebroadcast on TV ever again. I bet more will be coming, the way things are going. Also, a double treat to see some episodes of Now You See It hosted by a man who refuses to clear his hosting appearances in order to protect his credibility as a news reporter. This user is pretty good when it comes to NBC episodes of $ale and the 1989 remake of Now You See It. I must subscribe to his channel while I have a chance. The moment I find out that some NBC $ale and other shows I like that are hard to come by are on the Internet, I will download them in a flash.
EDIT: The same user has since uploaded the April 29, 1985 episode of NBC $ale of the Century. |
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Post by vahan on Apr 11, 2016 11:04:14 GMT -5
Here's something from the really bizarre. That **** Quiz Show from 1982. I believe this is the first time that anyone has posted something from this show.
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Post by walker7 on Apr 11, 2016 12:26:56 GMT -5
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Post by vahan on Apr 11, 2016 12:51:33 GMT -5
^ Once again, most of these were recorded by Patrick McGuire. He recorded the first six weeks of Scrabble. The only one he couldn't get, for some reason, is the August 1 episode.
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Post by addemup on Apr 11, 2016 13:47:52 GMT -5
One I've been looking for on YouTube for some time but have been unable to find is the 1990-91 Comedy Central game show "Clash!". I loved this show when it was on, but I haven't seen it since its original run.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2016 16:06:03 GMT -5
^ Once again, most of these were recorded by Patrick McGuire. He recorded the first six weeks of Scrabble. The only one he couldn't get, for some reason, is the August 1 episode. I believe I may remember seeing the August 1 episode way back in 1984 (did watch a lot of daytime game shows that summer and I was soon to enter sixth grade), and if memory serves correctly, it had a bizarre Scrabble Sprint playing where a contestant racked up more than 60 seconds in the Scrabble Sprint, yet he still won. This was long before Sang came along. A clip of that bizarre Scrabble Sprint playing from August 1984 is on YouTube. Key in "Scrabble Sixty Plus" in the YouTube search engine for those who want to see it. |
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Post by vahan on Apr 11, 2016 16:32:58 GMT -5
^ Once again, most of these were recorded by Patrick McGuire. He recorded the first six weeks of Scrabble. The only one he couldn't get, for some reason, is the August 1 episode. I believe I may remember seeing the August 1 episode way back in 1984 (did watch a lot of daytime game shows that summer and I was soon to enter sixth grade), and if memory serves correctly, it had a bizarre Scrabble Sprint playing where a contestant racked up more than 60 seconds in the Scrabble Sprint, yet he still won. This was long before Sang came along. A clip of that bizarre Scrabble Sprint playing from August 1984 is on YouTube. Key in "Scrabble Sixty Plus" in the YouTube search engine for those who want to see it. Is this what you were referring to? The Jason Cranmer website I posted earlier listed the previous episode as Lysa Vs. Jerry. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2016 17:22:44 GMT -5
^Lysa is in that slip you provided, and the clip features at the beginning a contestant named Davida, who is not listed in Jason's Scrabble episodes. I think August 1, 1984 does fit the description.
Still, it is great to find out that he has the entire spectrum of July 1984 in his Scrabble collection. I hope he has more of August 1984 in his collection, especially August 20 to 24, 1984.
I do admit, I have been hooked on game shows since around April 1983, and it started with NBC game shows. CBS wouldn't be added to my basic cable lineup until late-August or early-September 1983, and even then, until September 1984, the local CBS affiliate from Detroit never aired network game shows except for TPIR until September 1984 (not even the MIchael Larson episodes of Press Your Luck), so NBC was my only option for my game show fix during the remainder of 1983 through September 1984), and Dawson's Family Feud was likely the only daytime game show to air on the Always Braodcasting Crap network.
It was the 1983-84 TV season that my viewership was at its peak (watching a lot of cartoons, kids' shows and game shows, mostly), though I did read somewhere that that particular season had a lot of cancelled TV shows by around May 1984, some of which were long-running, including Happy Days, Hart to Hart, and One Day at a Time, to name a few. NBC was a network that suffered disaster that season. It may as well have been dubbed the Nothing But Crap network then. $ale of the Century and Wheel of Fortune did retain staying power as we headed into 1985, while Hot Potato, Dream House, and The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour were both cancelled (and the latter two shows were pretty good, in my opinion). It was The Cosby Show that put NBC back on the map in terms of ratings. I am not sure if the 1984 Winter and Summer Olympics may have impacted the ratings for many of the shows during that season. Even my most favorite Saturday morning cartoon of that decade, despite being short-lived, got cancelled in 1984, though from the comments I read or heard elsewhere, a lot of people, including my sister, despised The Little Rascals animated series (and I did like it, despite having aired on the Always Broadcasting Crap network. After that series was cancelled, I slowly started to lose interest in Saturday morning cartoons, and my appreciation for network game shows grew even more as the years dragged on, only to fall significantly by the turn of the decade, and as a result, the 1990s was a slow decade for me.
Thanks to GSN, and now YouTube, I can relive those 1980s TV memories anytime. And although I find a lot of newer TV shows unappealing, The Price is Right is the only game show I still enjoy in first run, though I only watch it on my days off from work, and only if it is a first-run episode.
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Post by vahan on Apr 11, 2016 18:15:30 GMT -5
Personally, ABC stands as Always Being Cancelled. And I think NBC became Nothing But Crap around 1993 or 1994. But, that's a topic for another time.
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Post by vahan on Apr 11, 2016 18:18:05 GMT -5
Unfortunately, the only episode that we may be unable to get from the original broadcast is the January 28, 1986 one. It started off airing as normal on the East Coast, but then about 12 minutes later, it was interrupted, just like that, by Challenger coverage. I'm pretty sure the next day, the January 29 show aired.
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Post by WarioSajak on Apr 12, 2016 3:00:08 GMT -5
Among the things I've learned thanks to these recent Scrabble uploads is that they originally had a different way to determine a new champion after somebody won 10 Sprints -- when Annie McCormick retired (July 24), they played another Sprint immediately afterward, whereas when Mark Dauberman retired (August 24) they played a Crossword game (which remained the case until the format change in '86). Given that Annie and Mark were the first two retired champs, it leads me to think that somebody on the production side probably thought the original method was awkward. And here's one for the "I'm surprised this made it to air" category: on July 3, a contestant draws two tiles which turn out to be F and U.  Nobody comments about it. Still, it is great to find out that he has the entire spectrum of July 1984 in his Scrabble collection. I hope he has more of August 1984 in his collection, especially August 20 to 24, 1984. Most if not all of the July-October '84 episodes Jason Cranmer lists on his site are all the ones Patrick had taped and saved. Unfortunately, that week wasn't one of 'em, although 8/22 has been around for a while already. |
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