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Post by aaaa on Nov 28, 2018 10:45:25 GMT -5
GSN did air the drawings for the SUper Password home contest in November 1984, but IIRC edited out the rules of the home contest when they aired the episodes the contest was plugged. BTW, THe May 1985 home contest did not involve Wheel, only Sale, Scrabble, and SP.
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Post by Chameleonwhammy on Nov 28, 2018 11:11:28 GMT -5
So, just this week I started watching the 40 fresh episodes of SP that began airing on BUZZR on 10/1/18. Some of the first few episodes are from a week in May 1985 when NBC was running a contest across all of its game shows. In the BUZZR episodes, there have been frequent references to the contest, but all direct references and explanations have been edited out. Basically, Bert Convy says "Now, we are going to talk about the contest...", an abrupt edit occurs, and then next we hear BC saying "...Now that we are done talking about the contest, we will continue the game...". So I take it you’re watching your recordings, not the episodes airing this week.
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Post by johnnyo on Nov 28, 2018 13:17:31 GMT -5
So, just this week I started watching the 40 fresh episodes of SP that began airing on BUZZR on 10/1/18. Some of the first few episodes are from a week in May 1985 when NBC was running a contest across all of its game shows. In the BUZZR episodes, there have been frequent references to the contest, but all direct references and explanations have been edited out. Basically, Bert Convy says "Now, we are going to talk about the contest...", an abrupt edit occurs, and then next we hear BC saying "...Now that we are done talking about the contest, we will continue the game...". So I take it you’re watching your recordings, not the episodes airing this week. Yes, that's right. I've got 36 episodes of SP, and 48 episodes of Classic Concentration left on my DVR, all from the first run on BUZZR as "fresh" episodes. It's all Standard Definition, so it doesn't take up that much space, and I prefer having them on my DVR so I can watch at my own (albeit slow) pace. But I will watch them all. Eventually.
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Post by johnnyo on Dec 6, 2018 10:46:28 GMT -5
Continuing to make my way through Super Password... On the first Patty Duke/Fred Grandy episode (168, I think?), the contestants sat on the opposite sides from the previous episode. At the end of the previous episode, a new contestant had been introduced but the game had not started. On this episode, it was a new game with celebrities, so it really didn't matter that they switched, but it is curious to note. During this week, Grandy indicated that he was considering running for Congress in Iowa. This was in the spring of 1985, and he eventually ran and won a seat in Congress in the 1986 mid-terms. He went on to serve four terms.
Finally, end-of-show prize plugs have been edited out by this time.
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Post by johnnyo on Dec 8, 2018 12:28:47 GMT -5
So, at the end of the last Patty Duke/Fred Grandy episode, the Champion Kris played the end game for the fifth time, and retired. Two new contestants were introduced, and sat down. There was not enough time to start the game.
Fast Forward to the next episode, two new celebrities, and the same two new contestants, but they are sitting at the opposite ends! Again, it doesn't matter, but to quote Alice in Wonderland, "Curiouser and Curiouser!"
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Post by dare2be on Dec 10, 2018 8:45:49 GMT -5
My guess is that the show had a rule about who is paired with which celebrity when both players are new. For sake of argument let's say it was a coin flip, the most logical scenario.
Perhaps at the end of the show the producers realized there was enough time for new player introductions but not for any game play, so they called the players up to the stage to do introductions before the determination was made who would be playing with who. Then the coin flip was done before the taping of the next episode, and the seating was reversed.
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Post by pyramidfan on Dec 11, 2018 10:48:45 GMT -5
My guess is that the show had a rule about who is paired with which celebrity when both players are new. For sake of argument let's say it was a coin flip, the most logical scenario. Perhaps at the end of the show the producers realized there was enough time for new player introductions but not for any game play, so they called the players up to the stage to do introductions before the determination was made who would be playing with who. Then the coin flip was done before the taping of the next episode, and the seating was reversed. I would imagine the same was true when players returned the next week. Notice how after a weekend, contestants aren't always sitting on the same side of the set that they were on Friday.
Contrast this with "Body Language," where the champion always moved to the other seat the next day (and, if applicable, the challenger).
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Post by King888 on Mar 29, 2019 4:23:57 GMT -5
Ok so this may sound like a bizarre question but I'll ask it anyways because it's actually been bugging me for quite a few years. And this is about the host. It just amazes me watching Buzzr how different Ludden looks from the 1961-1967 CBS version of Password compared to his 1979-1980 run on Password Plus. Even on the ABC run in the early 70s Ludden looked insanely different from just a few years earlier when he was doing those pilots in December 1968-January 1969 for The Joker's Wild.
Obviously the reason why is because 1) he was starting to get pretty old around that time and 2) those newer glasses and outfits he wore were (presumably) the fashion style of the 1970s, but do you guys know when he "switched over" in his appearance? I've been able to pinpoint it sometime between 1969 and 1971 but I have no clue when during that time frame. The problem is, some of the shows he was doing in the latter half of 1969 like his short-lived talk show and the game show "Win with the Stars" don't have any episodes posted/dated on Youtube, he wasn't doing anything in 1970 afaik, and the earliest known episode of ABC's Password out there that wasn't erased was an episode from December 1971.
So I'm puzzled.
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Post by balozier on Mar 29, 2019 4:55:29 GMT -5
1) he was starting to get pretty old around that time Not that old. He was only 63 when he passed away in 1981.
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Post by aaaa on Mar 29, 2019 5:33:06 GMT -5
The hosts most of us remember from our earliest days of watching game shows in the 70s-80s, outside of Barker, Trebek and Sajak, hosted their last game show when they were in their 50s or 60s. The latter three names are the only ones to helm a daily game show in the US past the age of 70 IIRC.
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Post by vahan on Apr 29, 2019 14:00:21 GMT -5
Tomorrow on Super Password, the infamous "Inn" episode. The one with the $20,000 win that just about everyone says should NOT have happened.
The equivalent to New $25,000 Pyramid's THINGS MADE OF FLANNEL.
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Post by dare2be on Apr 30, 2019 15:12:55 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. On the flannel episode, it was an interpretation of the rule I don't agree with, but even then the start of "flannel" was very close to the start of the buzzer.
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Post by pyramidfan on May 1, 2019 0:25:08 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. On the flannel episode, it was an interpretation of the rule I don't agree with, but even then the start of "flannel" was very close to the start of the buzzer. This has been covered elsewhere, but early in that Winner's Circle, when one box closed completely after it was guessed, the next one took about a second to turn, so they might have factored that in. Even if they didn't, because of that, I think it was a legitimate win.
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Post by vahan on May 11, 2019 23:30:39 GMT -5
I believe I may have finally figured out what was unexpectedly preempting Super Password during the Night Court Vs. Dynasty week. I poked through the NY Daily News for November 18, 1987, and for the afternoon, it said, and I quote:
Regularly scheduled network programing may be delayed or pre-empted for a report on the findings of the Joint Congressional Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair.
However, I haven't figured out the preemptions for 1988 yet, except for January 1 and December 21 (the latter due to Lockerbie).
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Post by kimikki on May 26, 2019 1:54:23 GMT -5
I'm glad you brought up the Tournament of Champions. I'm shocked Leslie Gershwin, winner of $50,000+, didn't come back. Maybe they had her on board as an alternate, if someone got sick or didn't show up? Did anyone else notice when Leslie did the Super Password thing with Betty White, for the letter G, the word was “gymnastics”, she said “gymnasium”, and they let it go. Betty paused, as if she was questioning it, but it went through. I don’t think they caught it until it was too late, so maybe that’s why she wasn’t invited for the tournament of champions?
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