Post by caseyabell on Sept 14, 2016 17:37:34 GMT -5
I don't have any aversion to game shows produced before 2000. In fact, I just watched almost two hours of Match Game on Buzzr. On the famous other hand, Game Show Forum has a serious aversion to shows produced after 2000. There are exactly four (4) shows on their list that originated in this millenium. Even a brave Cash Cab fan on the board is complaining about the extreme oldies bias.
Anyhoo, another five oldies from GSF 11 through 15: Sale of the Century, Hollywood Squares, Scrabble, What's My Line, Card Sharks. I'll get the catcalls out of the way immediately. Card Sharks doesn't get into my top 20, my top 50, or maybe my top 100. Even one of the vote collectors admits that the card game (simplified acey-deucey if you can believe it) was "pretty rote." He then tries to argue that the survey questions somehow made the show "really fun." No, they didn't. The show was a bore.
Hollywood Squares and What's My Line are obvious choices and I obviously agree with both. Scrabble also gets onto my list but not this high. Sale of the Century is not a personal fave, and I don't know that the historical reasons are compelling enough to get it onto my list. But the '70s and '80s origin of course gets it a sky-high ranking from Game Show Forum.
By the way, we can now call the top ten, based on the 2006 vote and the predictable tendencies of the board. All that's left is the order. The Price is Right, Jeopardy, Pyramid, Password, Match Game, Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune, Concentration, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Press Your Luck. That will give the list an average age of 43 years, compared to 36 years in 2006. The extra decade of dust, plus the unsurprising lack of recent shows.
Anyhoo, another five oldies from GSF 11 through 15: Sale of the Century, Hollywood Squares, Scrabble, What's My Line, Card Sharks. I'll get the catcalls out of the way immediately. Card Sharks doesn't get into my top 20, my top 50, or maybe my top 100. Even one of the vote collectors admits that the card game (simplified acey-deucey if you can believe it) was "pretty rote." He then tries to argue that the survey questions somehow made the show "really fun." No, they didn't. The show was a bore.
Hollywood Squares and What's My Line are obvious choices and I obviously agree with both. Scrabble also gets onto my list but not this high. Sale of the Century is not a personal fave, and I don't know that the historical reasons are compelling enough to get it onto my list. But the '70s and '80s origin of course gets it a sky-high ranking from Game Show Forum.
By the way, we can now call the top ten, based on the 2006 vote and the predictable tendencies of the board. All that's left is the order. The Price is Right, Jeopardy, Pyramid, Password, Match Game, Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune, Concentration, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Press Your Luck. That will give the list an average age of 43 years, compared to 36 years in 2006. The extra decade of dust, plus the unsurprising lack of recent shows.
