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Post by Frank on Mar 31, 2014 14:30:28 GMT -5
Does anybody else like this show?
It's a pretty good mesh of Password Plus and Name That Tune, with the championship round fitting a star from birth to the present (then)
I've only acquired around 20 or so in the wonderful world of tape trading.
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Post by Chameleonwhammy on Mar 31, 2014 14:33:28 GMT -5
I thought it was a pretty decent show. If it were reran anywhere, I'd probably watch it.
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Post by thekid965 on Mar 31, 2014 16:25:33 GMT -5
Moved to more appropriate "Game Shows of the Past" subforum.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Mar 31, 2014 16:56:54 GMT -5
I watched some episodes on YouTube a while back and I enjoyed it. Loved the twist of adding stuff like themes to TV shows and such.
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Post by Kaos on Mar 31, 2014 22:09:54 GMT -5
When I was first watching it, I was expecting the host, Ron Ely, to come swinging in on a vine.
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Post by thekid965 on Apr 1, 2014 1:10:48 GMT -5
I've said it many times in the past, and I'll repeat myself now: Face the Music was an absolutely brilliant show marred by some of the worst bargain-basement production values you'll ever see from that era. It took Name That Tune to its next logical stage of evolution, it had one of the most underrated "one and done" hosts of all time in Ron Ely (seriously, this guy was good, especially for a rookie; why he never got another hosting gig after this is totally beyond me), the identification puzzles were engaging and often quite clever, and the endgame is a classic. But the set looked like it was held together by bubble gum and Scotch tape, the audio mix was atrocious with many contestants often sounding like they were underwater, the decorative chaser-light frames often failed to work properly or even at all, there was extensive use of stock footage in the intro and commercial outros, and many of the video-switching effects, relatively state-of-the-art in 1980, have aged extremely ungracefully.
I love Face the Music, warts and all, but sometimes watching it feels like an exercise in how not to produce a game show. How to develop one, however? It's a textbook example of how you can breathe new life into an old idea, much like what Bob Stewart did with his own Password format when he evolved it into Pyramid.
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Post by Frank on Apr 4, 2014 19:10:01 GMT -5
I wished I taped this show when I it re ran, but being young and stupid, I thought the re runs would last forever. I'm sure that Sandy Frank productions is far too busy to dub episodes for a single fan, especially when I'd be ever so tempted to put them on the trading circuit.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Apr 5, 2014 10:39:04 GMT -5
It's funny, I was thinking "this show sounds like a Name That Tune ripoff" before watching it, only to see what really cool twists they took to help make the game stand out as unique. It's a pity it didn't last longer.
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Post by thekid965 on Apr 5, 2014 17:05:21 GMT -5
▲ Sandy Frank had the rights to the Name That Tune trademark and format (I believe the last $100K version with Tom Kennedy, which his company produced, was still around at this point), so the only person he'd be "ripping off" with Face the Music would be himself. ^^;
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Post by sshuffield70 on Apr 6, 2014 21:55:49 GMT -5
Sandy produced the Lange version, but was the distributor of the Kennedy version.
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