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Post by Chameleonwhammy on Nov 6, 2014 16:14:13 GMT -5
I've seen a few dumb questions at times. But the dumbest one (IMO) was on a 1977 episode they ran in September.
Of course, the Syndicated first season for me hooked on the show. So I'm just enjoying these.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Nov 6, 2014 17:05:45 GMT -5
Another thing I want to point out is the Tie Breaker. Sometimes they say they don't have enough time and they can't do their "regular" tiebreaker so they do "Sudden Death". I think it's a bunch of crap that the show claims they don't have enough time for their regular tiebreaker. Why? Because, if they can do their regular tiebreaker sometimes, then why can't they do it all the time? I know shows allot so much time, but something is messed up about not having enough time for the regular tiebreaker. Actually the CBS run had less commercial time than the syndie runs and the network had the advantage of broadcasting the show everywhere on the same day (minus the few stations that would do stuff like run it one day behind). The sudden death tie breaker where the contestants write their answers was sometimes used to help keep the shows from straddling too much. As for the reasoning behind that, this was the early days of syndication before satellite feeds of television shows were beamed to stations and every market got the same episodes week after week in the same order. When syndicated Match Game was running, it was with the old method of first-run syndication where videotapes of TV shows are transported from station to station. The same show airs everywhere in general but as a result of this, what's seen in various markets would be different episodes. Atlanta will see one week of shows while Chicago can see another and Boston might see a different batch and so on. Doing stuff like changing the tie breaker round to make it shorter and editing out the mingling between Gene and the panelists in between the questions being asked and the answers being shown were ways to make the episodes tighter and run that much shorter so everyone got to see one full week with the same panel without really beneficial game action being interrupted on a Friday or an episode starting being half-finished on the beginning of a Monday, and so that the PM episodes wouldn't straddle at all since those episodes had to be self-contained. The old tie breaker could definitely take some time. Especially if both tie questions were played.
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Post by gamecrazyh on Nov 15, 2014 10:13:29 GMT -5
That's one of my favorite game show bloopers, and when Gene started spinning the star wheel to demonstrate how atrocious the answer was, along with Bill Daily and the entire audience breaking up into fits of laughter, it made it even funnier!
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Post by dare2be on Nov 17, 2014 18:24:38 GMT -5
So, an episode of week 13 and week 14 were skipped (tape damage most likely), along with the entire week 15. Could it have been a clearance issue with one of the stars, like maybe Jamie Lee Curtis?
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Nov 17, 2014 22:51:55 GMT -5
So, an episode of week 13 and week 14 were skipped (tape damage most likely), along with the entire week 15. Could it have been a clearance issue with one of the stars, like maybe Jamie Lee Curtis? Don't see how it'd be an issue re: Jamie Lee. GSN's aired a number of episodes with her in the regular rotation.
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Post by Chameleonwhammy on Nov 18, 2014 0:38:17 GMT -5
Steve Kanaly. Oddly enough they air his PM appearances.
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Post by agm828 on Feb 15, 2015 20:43:25 GMT -5
I just seen the Match Game 78 episodes(#1236-1245) on Game Show Network all last week because head to head match was in its final 10 episodes before the Star Wheel debuts. the Star Wheel will make it's first ever appearance on the 70s Daytime version of Match Game in which GSN will show it on the week of 2/16/15.
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Post by dare2be on Feb 22, 2015 14:51:59 GMT -5
Does anyone have #1227 recorded? My copy got corrupted due to signal issues. It's the one starting with contestants Margaret Finley and Ann Hagan and has David Doyle as the first celeb.
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Post by dare2be on Feb 24, 2015 9:57:52 GMT -5
I got what I needed from Youtube.
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Post by dare2be on Feb 25, 2015 8:30:19 GMT -5
I'm surprised Dawson lasted 8 weeks after the star wheel was initiated. You can tell he is making every effort to make it known how unhappy he is.
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Post by carpetcrawler on Feb 25, 2015 13:20:07 GMT -5
It's a shame too. I feel like he felt the Star Wheel was an outright jab at the open secret that contestants felt they needed to pick him and him only if they really wanted to win. Dawson, being the kind of person that just wanted everyone to win (note the dozens of stories of him fighting with producers to allow families on Family Feud to appear on the other version of the show if he felt they lost unfairly) would absolutely take personal offense to the inclusion. Dawson had also wanted out of his contract at this time as well, since with Family Feud increasing its taping dates it meant he was starting to get more and more tired. I feel like the pretty simple answer to all of this would have been if Goodson-Todman had just let Dawson out of his contract and then relegated him to semi-regular status ala Fannie Flagg or Betty White. A battery recharge would have helped Dawson out tremendously.
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Post by dare2be on Feb 25, 2015 16:50:22 GMT -5
I don't know if I read it somewhere or if it was my own impressions, but I got more of a sense that he was losing some of the limelight and screen time and that is what he was upset about.
I did find it funny when the cast made a fake walk-out when the first ever spin of the wheel landed on Richard.
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Post by dare2be on Mar 1, 2015 0:09:45 GMT -5
Regardless of the reasons, Richard really did act like a pouting child in those last few weeks.
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Post by phimat37 on Mar 1, 2015 16:08:26 GMT -5
Regardless of the reasons, Richard really did act like a pouting child in those last few weeks. He had a right to. The Star Wheel just ruined a vibe to the show. It's painful watching him in his last weeks on there. I quit recording MG weeks ago, I'm sad to say. Didn't have the time to watch anymore. Plus, I bought me an antenna so I can watch MeTV and others for classic shows, I've been occupied with that. Maybe I'll get BuzzrTV eventually, I'm hoping so. Sent from my GT-P5113 using proboards
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Post by pzimm7778 on Mar 5, 2015 21:49:37 GMT -5
But the show wasn't about just him. I loved Dawson but acting like that was wrong.
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