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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Aug 31, 2020 15:03:57 GMT -5
Just watched the premiere of "The $100,000 Pyramid" as of this post. A great series off to a flying start, and a very close occurrence of two occurrences of 21-21 ties, everything went well until late in the show, implying that brain freeze took over. Still, a great debut. GSN missed out on reairing this great season. Plus, there are 1985 mini commercials kept intact prior to the closing credits - more than there were with the final season of "Tic Tac Dough".
Also, there appears to be no fresh episodes of "Love Connection" yet, as the pixellated faces in the opening still prevails (Charleen Dovkery is the first contestant on today's episode). I wouldn't be shocked if fresh episodes will come someday, as viewers will get tired of the same 40 episodes over and over again like there's no tomorrow.
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Post by aaaa on Aug 31, 2020 16:38:39 GMT -5
GSN last aired the 1985-86 season of $100K in full around 2000. They aired selected episodes of it in a couple of New Years' Eve Marathons later in the 2000s.
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Post by dare2be on Sept 3, 2020 12:38:03 GMT -5
Is there a stream for Game TV? 100K episodes being uploaded to Youtube? I really don't want to miss this run.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Sept 14, 2020 15:25:24 GMT -5
I will mention that I am going to be taking notes for as many episodes of the current lease of the 1985-86 season of "The $100,000 Pyramid". Today was the Friday episode of the second week (show was pre-empted on September 7 due to a Labor Day marathon of "Battlebots"), and I got some notes taken on the Friday episode of that second week. I plan on posting this data on an episode guide on the Bob Stewart Wiki once the lease reverts back to the premiere.
The really bizarre thing is that one recent airing had the Columbia-TriStar closing logo at the end, but the next day's airing had the 20th Television Fox closing logo. It could further imply that GameTV may have acquired the episodes through a local affiliate in Canada (CHCH or any affiliate in Ontario, or maybe even ASN in Atlantic Canada, depending on when they originally aired).
I will mention that as of Week 2, the intro shows the dimmed Winner's circle board up close, and tbe show's logo shown in a flipping up animation, which did not prevail during the first week.
Regarding "Love Connection", I discovered something peculiar and interesting. Today's airing appears to have a teaser to today's episode, giving a sneak preview of what to expect, I never saw these teasers before on a GameTV broadcast. If the remaining week's episodes have a teaser before the intro comes on, it's likely possible that these are likely fresh episodes. If GSN had aired this 1983-84 season, I bet these teasers would have been edited out.
In case nobody is awsre what teasers mean, they are previews of what to expect on an episode of a show without spoiling the outcome. TV drama series had them, and so did many Saturday morning cartoons when aired on the original broadcast run.
As for dare2be's question about a GameTV stream, as far as I know there is no stream. At least, not yet.
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Post by snowpeck on Sept 22, 2020 15:27:22 GMT -5
I will mention that I am going to be taking notes for as many episodes of the current lease of the 1985-86 season of "The $100,000 Pyramid". Today was the Friday episode of the second week (show was pre-empted on September 7 due to a Labor Day marathon of "Battlebots"), and I got some notes taken on the Friday episode of that second week. I plan on posting this data on an episode guide on the Bob Stewart Wiki once the lease reverts back to the premiere. The really bizarre thing is that one recent airing had the Columbia-TriStar closing logo at the end, but the next day's airing had the 20th Television Fox closing logo. It could further imply that GameTV may have acquired the episodes through a local affiliate in Canada (CHCH or any affiliate in Ontario, or maybe even ASN in Atlantic Canada, depending on when they originally aired). I will mention that as of Week 2, the intro shows the dimmed Winner's circle board up close, and tbe show's logo shown in a flipping up animation, which did not prevail during the first week. Regarding "Love Connection", I discovered something peculiar and interesting. Today's airing appears to have a teaser to today's episode, giving a sneak preview of what to expect, I never saw these teasers before on a GameTV broadcast. If the remaining week's episodes have a teaser before the intro comes on, it's likely possible that these are likely fresh episodes. If GSN had aired this 1983-84 season, I bet these teasers would have been edited out. In case nobody is awsre what teasers mean, they are previews of what to expect on an episode of a show without spoiling the outcome. TV drama series had them, and so did many Saturday morning cartoons when aired on the original broadcast run. As for dare2be's question about a GameTV stream, as far as I know there is no stream. At least, not yet. There's no reason to think GameTV's copies of the episodes came from anywhere else besides Sony. They've just gotten a few where Sony didn't plaster their own logo on. What I've really found odd is the last couple days' episodes haven't had the fee plugs, but instead more than a minute of music, applause and different shots of the set, celebrities and contestants. These episodes aired on GSN this way as well. Yeah, there's one episode of Love Connection in GameTV's package that for some reason includes a promo at the beginning. This was the promo that local stations would have aired during the day to encourage people to tune in.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Sept 24, 2020 9:01:18 GMT -5
I have noticed, during much of this past week, that there were no fee plugs despite that the announcer mentioned "Some contestants will receive..." and then over a minute of the theme, applause, and various shots of contestants, celebrities and the set. Not to mention that none of the sponsors were listed on screen during the closing credits. In fact, the Friday episode of the third week of the series (aired this past Monday) had a rare occurrence of the full theme being played, including a portion of the theme you would almost never hear on the show otherwise.
For the first two or three weeks, many episodes had the 20th Television Fox closing logo on the end, but now it's the Columbia Tri-Star logo.
The GSN broadcasts of "Tic Tac Dough" from the 1985-86 season had the Columbia Tri-Star logo at the end, but such logo never prevailed on GameTV broadcasts. After the copyright date, GameTV went right to Match Game (last spring, but now they show one GameTV promo after a show is over, followed by the GameTV station identification, and then the next show).
Also, regarding current programming, "Match Game" at 3:00 p.m. ET has now reverted back to 1977. It's realized that Buzzr has aired a good portion of "Match Game '78" at this point - what is the latest date for "Match Game '78" aired on Buzzr at this point? And I wonder if GameTV plans on airing the 1973 and 1974 episodes someday. Either way, it's interesting to note that the earlier episodes of "Match Game '78" that GameTV aired by this point, are currently leased by three networks: GameTV, Buzzr and GSN. I also believe Comedy Gold aired these earlier 1978 episodes as well.
Also, Greg, is GameTV airing fresh episodes of "Tic Tac Dough" as of August 31?
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Post by snowpeck on Sept 29, 2020 13:34:49 GMT -5
Also, Greg, is GameTV airing fresh episodes of "Tic Tac Dough" as of August 31? No, they're still in repeats.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Oct 8, 2020 6:32:14 GMT -5
I will also mention that, after just checking GameTV's online schedule, Combs' Feud is gone and has been replaced by an additional airing of the Dawson version. It also turns out that GameTV aired most or all of the CBS Combs' Feud episodes that previously aired on Buzzr, though I never got to see any 1989 episodes because of being at work after they moved the show to weekdays in July 2019.
This sounds like a minor fall update to the schedule, it seems. I am safely guessing that GameTV lost the rights to Combs' Feud recently.
I also remember GameTV going through the Match Game '77 episodes so fast, and I realized it was due to the daily March Match-ness marathons that happened during the last two weeks of March when the NCAA Tournament would have normally happened. Makes sense as to why the weekday airings got to 1978 so fast. At least Tic Tac Dough wasn't impacted during that period.
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Post by snowpeck on Oct 29, 2020 15:16:48 GMT -5
Combs Feud is still on, even though the online schedule still has two episodes of Dawson listed. Combs is at 1 p.m. Eastern and Dawson at 1:30.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Nov 3, 2020 21:22:18 GMT -5
I have to ask, what is the date range of Combs Feud episodes airing on GameTV? I do know GameTV aired all of the 1988 episodes that Buzzr aired, but how far did GameTV get into the lease? Either way, I am thinking that Combs' Feud has a sufficient number of episodes, so it may be a two-year lease, at least.
Also, regarding "The $100,000 Pyramid", tomorrow is the first episode of the first $100,000 tournament.
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Post by snowpeck on Nov 9, 2020 20:12:37 GMT -5
I have to ask, what is the date range of Combs Feud episodes airing on GameTV? I do know GameTV aired all of the 1988 episodes that Buzzr aired, but how far did GameTV get into the lease? Either way, I am thinking that Combs' Feud has a sufficient number of episodes, so it may be a two-year lease, at least. Also, regarding "The $100,000 Pyramid", tomorrow is the first episode of the first $100,000 tournament. Right now, they're near the beginning of Combs Feud. I don't think they got any farther into 1989 than Buzzr did.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Dec 2, 2020 15:49:57 GMT -5
I was expecting for some time that GameTV would have leased the first three months of the 1985-86 season of "The $100,000 Pyramid", and it looks like I was right on the money. But they didn't revert back to the premiere. They apparently still have the rights to air 1988 episodes from February onward, with Patty Duke and a bearded David Graf.
It turns out that GameTV tends to have two leases running concurrently. They do this with "Match Game" and even "Family Feud" (albeit two different hosts).
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Post by rewindium on Dec 21, 2020 23:32:39 GMT -5
New additions to GameTV on January 4: season 45 of TPIR along with Let’s Make a Deal, Family Feud and Family Feud Canada (recent seasons but not the current ones) They are in primetime after the retro block and before the movies. Love Connection is gone on that same date but Super Password returns
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Dec 22, 2020 20:41:32 GMT -5
Very interesting changes. Even more interssting that "Super Password" is coming back, and it does make sense, since Buzzr aired many, many months of episodes from Christmas week 1984 onward.
When GameTV last aired "Super Password", they only aired 65 episodes covering the premiere to the Friday episode prior to Christmas 1984. I don't know if it will be fresh episodes or previously aired episodes this time around, but if the latter applies, it may likely be a placeholder. If the latter is true, maybe "Press Your Luck" could return someday.
"Love Connection" had about 40 episodes acquired last March, and aired them over and over again like there was no tomorrow. Nice to see it go, but it is nice to know that "Super Password" is returning, as that is my most favorite incarnation of the "Password" family of game shows.
According to a comment by GameTV on its Facebook page, "Let's Make a Deal" will be from Season 8 of the Brady version. It sounds like this was the 2017-18 season for "Deal".
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Post by ivoryface86 on Dec 22, 2020 21:39:59 GMT -5
Season 8 of the current LMAD is actually 2016-17.
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