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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Feb 24, 2021 13:00:29 GMT -5
So does that mean the Ca$hword on the August 26, 1985 episode was edited out by Fremantle?
And if true, what could be the issue with the word "minstrel" nowadays?
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Post by vahan on Feb 24, 2021 14:17:17 GMT -5
Sadly, yes. It's so maddening that they edited this out. Essentially, that's editing out part of the gameplay.
P.S. NOWHERE in that bit were they going "OMG! I LOVE BLACKFACE AND MINSTREL SHOWS! THEY'RE THE COOLEST THINGS EVER!".
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Post by carpetcrawler on Feb 24, 2021 23:22:19 GMT -5
Sadly, yes. It's so maddening that they edited this out. Essentially, that's editing out part of the gameplay. P.S. NOWHERE in that bit were they going "OMG! I LOVE BLACKFACE AND MINSTREL SHOWS! THEY'RE THE COOLEST THINGS EVER!". "maddening"? Either you love your hyperbole or you worry too much about a minute of a game show. Come on, man. Who cares. This episode's been reran by GSN like fifty times. It's out there if you really want to see it.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Mar 9, 2021 6:17:26 GMT -5
On yesterday's GameTV airing of "Super Password" (I believe it was the Friday episode after Labor Day 1985), Marcia was giving clues for QUADRUPLETS, and when she said "four", she displayed four fingers. Wouldn't that be deemed an illegal clue at that point, considering she used a gesture?
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Post by pyramidfan on Mar 9, 2021 10:44:31 GMT -5
On yesterday's GameTV airing of "Super Password" (I believe it was the Friday episode after Labor Day 1985), Marcia was giving clues for QUADRUPLETS, and when she said "four", she displayed four fingers. Wouldn't that be deemed an illegal clue at that point, considering she used a gesture? I'd certainly say so. They busted Elizabeth Montgomery for doing the same thing in the very first Alphabetics, although I think it was "five" for QUINTUPLETS.
Marcia got away with a lot of gestures in the SP bonus rounds, for some reason.
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Post by carpetcrawler on Mar 9, 2021 14:49:23 GMT -5
Wouldn't that be deemed an illegal clue at that point, considering she used a gesture? sometimes when people post on this message board there's a gesture I wish I could use
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Mar 31, 2021 12:30:46 GMT -5
On today's GameTV airing of "Super Password", supposedly from later in September 1985 (Tuesday episode of the Bill Cullen and Tom Poston week), I discovered the answer to a puzzle was DESERT, and the next puzzle's answer was DESSERT. It's kind of interesting that a puzzle after the one before has a difference of just one letter.
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Post by danderson400 on Apr 17, 2021 14:03:50 GMT -5
I wouldn't call it equivalent. She didn't even start her answer before the buzzer sounded, yet Bert basically ignored the rule and gave her the $20,000 anyway. I only recently watched this episode, and there are two things here. Of course she failed to start the answer before the buzzer, and if the judges has chosen to apply that rule, then she would not have won. But once the judges decided to defer to Bert, and let him make the decision, then that became the actual rule in play. Whatever decision he makes is "correct", irrespective of anything else. It reminded me of episode 19 of CC, where Alex Trebek decided to give the contestant a car after some technical issues. In both cases, a contestant was awarded the big end game prize strictly at the discretion of the host. In a broader sense, I was reminded of "Quiz Show", where Barry and Enright defended their practice of feeding answers to the contestants by believing that game shows are primarily entertainment shows, and that they felt the integrity of the competition was secondary. (After all, professional wrestling today is very successful, even as fans accept that their "sport" is largely scripted.) Now, I enjoy a well structured game show as much as anyone, but there is no intrinsic reason why game shows have to have competitive integrity. Our society made a choice by passing a law requiring it in 1960, but that could be changed if society demanded it. That is why I support Bert's decision to award the $$, even though she was after the buzzer; it was more entertaining to award the prize. (I have noticed that SP was, in general, very generous with allowing clues to be given and puzzle guesses to be made despite sometimes being after the buzzer.) I once saw a Wheel ep where Kelli(the contestant) says the first word of the bonus puzzle THE NATIONAL ANTHEM just before the buzzer, with the rest immediately afterward. Pat Sajak immediately ruled it a win. Alex Trebek did something like that once on Concentration when the last match and the buzzer came at the same time and the losing horns sounded, followed by the bells and Trebek said "they say that you got it." I do remember once where Trebek asked Howard Flesher wither the last match came before the buzzer. It was ruled a winner.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Apr 19, 2021 15:57:02 GMT -5
On today's GameTV airing of "Super Password" (first episode of the Jennilee Harrison week from October 1985), there were a lot of quick puzzle solves (with no more than two clues revealed). The puzzle that won the match was solved with just one clue to the puzzle.
Also, today was likely the 65th episode of GameTV's latest acquisition. The last batch of episodes aired from July 2018 to the end of June 2019 had 65 episodes covering the first 13 weeks of the series. I am interested to see if GameTV will continue with fresh episodes (Buzzr only got as far as Halloween 1985 at the time of the most recent GameTV acquisition), or revert back to July 1, 1985. If Jennilee is not on tomorrow's airing, it's definitely #200.
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Post by danderson400 on Apr 19, 2021 16:32:12 GMT -5
Leslie Gershman is her name. She was profiled in the September 1986 issue of TV Game $how Magazine. She doesn't bring up coming back for the TofC, but brings up the fact that she won $53,600, so they let her have her money. But this is the same show that let Bert Convy himself decide to give $20K to a contestant who said the tenth password "Inn" in 1985 a second or two after the buzzer. I was born on 7/12/85, so I don't have any memory of Leslie Gershman, although i did see her eps on GSN at some point. The contestant you talk about where Bert Convy himself decided to give $20K to a contestant who said the tenth password "Inn" in 1985 a second or two after the buzzer, was Holly Wagner, who was the first champion on any game show that i have a vague recollection of seeing. SP aired on what was an independent station then.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Apr 20, 2021 12:05:20 GMT -5
Well, what do you know. GameTV apparently has more than 65 episodes of "Super Password" this time, unlike in 2018. Jennilee Harrison is one of the celebrities on today's episode (Tuesday episode of that week in 1985). I can see a likely reason for the greater number of episodes... There was a $50,000 end game win on October 17.
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Post by danderson400 on Apr 23, 2021 20:35:22 GMT -5
In my opionon, Allen Ludden is mr. Password, but since i didn't see him due to not being born before 1985, Bert Convy is the one i associate with Password.
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Post by ivoryface86 on Jul 5, 2021 22:14:12 GMT -5
Brendan, Chuck Donegan has just uploaded an All Star episode from the September 14-18, 1987 week. The question for you or Vahan is which episode of the week was Alex Trebek the puzzle and in 2007, was that same episode reran in the first or second slot? If you remember back in 2007, Super Password had back-to-back weekday slots.
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Post by ivoryface86 on Jul 5, 2021 22:18:57 GMT -5
Oh, from what we see in Ryan Rinkerman's collection, we been told that the September 24, 1987 episode had the $3000 Cashword win and the $25,000 end game win, and I think the September 22 episode was skipped in 2007.
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Post by pyramidfan on Jul 6, 2021 0:06:54 GMT -5
Oh, from what we see in Ryan Rinkerman's collection, we been told that the September 24, 1987 episode had the $3000 Cashword win and the $25,000 end game win, and I think the September 22 episode was skipped in 2007. Actually, the Ca$hword was only worth $1,000 on September 24, 1987. Vanessa Williams gave away one worth $2,000 the day before.
I'm not aware of any Alex Trebek puzzle from the week prior. I missed the Thursday episode in its original airing, and I don't believe GSN reran it in the 2000s, so that may have been the one with that puzzle answer.
EDIT: I just checked, and the one that Chuck posted IS the Thursday episode.
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