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Post by garry on Aug 1, 2021 1:13:46 GMT -5
Just the Syndicated Feud had an Eastern Airline plug, and for the Syndicated Combs Feud, a Holiday Inn text notice was used in lieu of the "Recorded at CBS Television City". Feud used to pay hotel and airline fees for some families in the Dawson and presumably COmbs era, which is possibly why the Eastern Airlines plug showed up on Dawson Feud and the Holiday Inn LA plug showed up on Combs Feud. Dawson in particular would mention on air sometimes when a family was from out of town that the show paid for their plane and hotel. The first Goodson syndicated show to have mini commercials for fee plugs was Feud 1994(TPIR 1994 syndicated had Burton R. reading the plugs). Some of the non mini-commercials were read by an unnamed female announcer. |
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Post by garry on Aug 1, 2021 1:17:46 GMT -5
From what I've seen on Feud '94-'95 almost all of the non mini-commercials were read by the unnamed female announcer. She also read fee plugs on talk shows starting around 1990 ish until the end of the 1996-1997 season. The only non mini commercial from feud '94-'95 i've seen that doesn't have the female announcer is for Tootsie Rolls. That was read by a male announcer who also read non mini commercials on $100,000 pyramid during the 1986-1987 season.
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Post by garry on Aug 1, 2021 1:18:50 GMT -5
The announcer didn't read the end of show fee plugs on $100K Pyramid until the 1987-88 season. When the fee plug in the first two seasons was not a mini commercial, another announcer, a male voice who is unknown, read the plug. Those same fee plugs were used in the first season of the New Chain Reaction on USA. Johnny Gilbert voiced a few mini-commercials in the early days of Trebek J! and on Headline Chasers |
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Post by garry on Aug 1, 2021 1:24:43 GMT -5
The $100,000 pyramid had a few announcers for the non mini commercials. I was convinced that the voice heard during the 1986-1987 season was John Moschitta Jr. but i'm not 100% positive. Also during the first few weeks of the 1985-1986 season the announcer sounds a bit like Kenny Williams from Hollywood squares. Again I don't know who any of the announcers are but it sounds like them.
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Post by aaaa on Aug 1, 2021 6:01:59 GMT -5
The $100,000 pyramid had a few announcers for the non mini commercials. I was convinced that the voice heard during the 1986-1987 season was John Moschitta Jr. but i'm not 100% positive. Also during the first few weeks of the 1985-1986 season the announcer sounds a bit like Kenny Williams from Hollywood squares. Again I don't know who any of the announcers are but it sounds like them. Kenny Williams was deceased by the time of the $100,000 Pyramid's debut in 1985. |
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Post by danderson400 on Nov 14, 2021 11:01:27 GMT -5
I remember Joe Theismann doing fee plugs on American Gladiators during it's 1st half season in 89- cant remember what products though. I think Nintendo may have been one of them. I remember the late John Harlan doing plugs for Mr. Freeze or even Hero Cologne during the 1990-91 season of AG. Nintendo also got some fee plugs too during that season. One of theme was for Dungeons and Dragons. |
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Post by danderson400 on Nov 14, 2021 16:41:20 GMT -5
I wonder if Hero Cologne ever was plugged during Wheel or J! during those years too.
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Post by garry on Jan 2, 2022 11:40:18 GMT -5
The $100,000 pyramid had a few announcers for the non mini commercials. I was convinced that the voice heard during the 1986-1987 season was John Moschitta Jr. but i'm not 100% positive. Also during the first few weeks of the 1985-1986 season the announcer sounds a bit like Kenny Williams from Hollywood squares. Again I don't know who any of the announcers are but it sounds like them. Kenny Williams was deceased by the time of the $100,000 Pyramid's debut in 1985. you are correct. but those still shot fee plugs are from 1983-1984 so there is still a possibility. By the time the first $100,000 tournament started they used a still shot for ragu pasta meals and it was a different announcer. |
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Post by aaaa on Jan 2, 2022 19:46:24 GMT -5
Kenny Williams was deceased by the time of the $100,000 Pyramid's debut in 1985. you are correct. but those still shot fee plugs are from 1983-1984 so there is still a possibility. By the time the first $100,000 tournament started they used a still shot for ragu pasta meals and it was a different announcer. IIRC Kenny Williams didn't do any more announcing after Las Vegas Gambit ended in Fall 1981(at least the last week of the show's run was reruns) |
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Post by jman8606 on Dec 8, 2022 1:56:58 GMT -5
When did the mini-ads start on shows? The first non-announcer plugs that i remember, was for Blue Bonnet Margarine on reruns of game shows on USA Network in the early to mid-90s. I thought those ads looked dated to me. Not so much to me until I saw the old Fox logo. Same went with Split Second on FAM. |
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Post by aaaa on Dec 8, 2022 3:06:23 GMT -5
When did the mini-ads start on shows? The first non-announcer plugs that i remember, was for Blue Bonnet Margarine on reruns of game shows on USA Network in the early to mid-90s. I thought those ads looked dated to me. Not so much to me until I saw the old Fox logo. Same went with Split Second on FAM. US airings of MOnty's Split Second never had fee plugs, they showed multiple choice questions coming out of commercial breaks. GameTV showed fee plugs coming out of commercial breaks. In the earlier episodes, they were for products seen on US-taped game shows at the time, and in the later episodes, for Canada-based products. Buzzr sometimes showed the multiple choice questions seen on US airings coming out of the commercial breaks, and sometimes they didn't |
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Post by aaaa on Dec 8, 2022 3:09:33 GMT -5
Kenny Williams was deceased by the time of the $100,000 Pyramid's debut in 1985. you are correct. but those still shot fee plugs are from 1983-1984 so there is still a possibility. By the time the first $100,000 tournament started they used a still shot for ragu pasta meals and it was a different announcer. Some episodes of Jackpot 1989 had announcer-read fee plugs and some episodes used mini commercials for the fee plugs. On the Thursday episode of the premiere week posted yesterday on Youtube, a still shot fee plug for Ray Ban sunglasses was read by an announcer other than John Harlan, who announced that week of shows. That's the same thing Clark $100K Pyramid did for still shot fee plugs in seasons one and two. |
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Post by danderson400 on Jan 1, 2023 10:47:25 GMT -5
I think Nintendo may have been one of them. I remember the late John Harlan doing plugs for Mr. Freeze or even Hero Cologne during the 1990-91 season of AG. Nintendo also got some fee plugs too during that season. One of theme was for Dungeons and Dragons. Responding to my own post, Hero Cologne got plugged a lot not just on AG but also on Wheel and J! too. For some reason, i remember how much mileage John Harlan and Charlie O Donnell got out of that product, as well as Johnny Gilbert. |
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Post by danderson400 on Jan 8, 2023 10:47:20 GMT -5
you are correct. but those still shot fee plugs are from 1983-1984 so there is still a possibility. By the time the first $100,000 tournament started they used a still shot for ragu pasta meals and it was a different announcer. Some episodes of Jackpot 1989 had announcer-read fee plugs and some episodes used mini commercials for the fee plugs. On the Thursday episode of the premiere week posted yesterday on Youtube, a still shot fee plug for Ray Ban sunglasses was read by an announcer other than John Harlan, who announced that week of shows. That's the same thing Clark $100K Pyramid did for still shot fee plugs in seasons one and two. On AG, they used a mini-commercial for Hero Cologne but had John Harlan speak over it. SOTC did the same thing, Jay Stewart would read the script of the spot over the mini ads. |
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