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Post by carpetcrawler on May 8, 2014 19:12:31 GMT -5
The episodes that are being posted as the Wink channel gets more subscribers are apparently ones that have long existed in private collections. Big ups to John for uploading these publicly on YouTube if this is true, and I cannot wait for future uploads!!
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Post by wildjackmonroe on May 8, 2014 20:38:43 GMT -5
This is amazing!! I've never seen an episode of this version of the show look this good!
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Post by thekid965 on May 9, 2014 0:38:45 GMT -5
It is this specific version of Concentration that forms my earliest coherent game show memories as a child. I remember being utterly fascinated by the gameboard and the way it moved.
I'm mildly disappointed in the color scheme the set used, though. Back in the day I only ever saw the show on a B&W set and even the existing episode I have from the circuit is in such low quality it may as well be in monochrome, but what is shown in this episode as blue and pale yellow, I always had in my mind was burnt orange and white. Eh, memories play tricks on you as you get older, I suppose. Still, I think I prefer my mental color scheme to the one actually used.
Update: And yes, in case you haven't heard, what carpetrcawler said is true: There are more where this came from. But why don't I let the Winker tell you himself:
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Post by fremantlesucks4eva on May 9, 2014 12:31:25 GMT -5
Yeah I haven't watched since about 2012. With the answer penis being more predictable, yeah, just got old after seeing it every other question. But the ratings are in favor for Steve. Both on GSN and in Syndication. pathetically yes, but despite the ratings the show "quality" (not "quantity") is on life support thanks to it after all of the media and the most idiotic idea for the franchise is to have a tv show app (not mobile game app mind you) tv show app just shows the contestants stupidity or negative remarks of color or creed so its telling us that not only the franchise wants to be on life support but it also wants to have negative hype as well.
WHY FREMANTLE WHY?
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Post by ladykelsey on May 13, 2014 19:15:23 GMT -5
Is this the Concentration that was hosted by Hugh Downs and had a girl named Paola Diva as the model? Because I read that this version of Concentration was the most popular show and it's hard to believe that Concentration would be a stepping stone for Hugh Downs who would later be one of ABC's popular news anchors and be the cohost of ABC's 20/20, Kelsey
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Post by thekid965 on May 13, 2014 20:11:32 GMT -5
▲ This is the 1973-1978 syndicated version of Concentration hosted by Jack Narz. Hugh Downs hosted the NBC Daytime version from 1958 to early 1969, with Bob Clayton taking over from that point to the end of the network run in 1973.
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Post by ladykelsey on May 14, 2014 1:25:09 GMT -5
Oh that's so awesome TheKid965 My father and I LOVE to play Concentration on a handheld game that I have that was made by Tiger Toys in 1997 and Concentration is such a fun game that it is so cool trying to solve the rebus puzzles. Did this version of Concentration from 1973 also use the theme song that is used in the handheld game I have? That theme is so cute as well, Thank you for sharing TheKid965, Kelsey
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Post by donhoward on May 26, 2014 7:52:10 GMT -5
It's remembered as Tom Kennedy's final game show hosting gig, and one of the last victims of NBC's dreaded noontime "death slot" This was a 12:30 show. Super Password was the noon death slot offering.
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Post by thekid965 on May 26, 2014 8:33:21 GMT -5
▲ Technically, you are correct, but I always considered that entire hour to be a graveyard quite honestly.
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Post by thekid965 on May 26, 2014 19:21:34 GMT -5
Were you one of the many who... "hated" is such a strong word... who were disappointed in the brief 1993 revival of Scrabble? Did you feel as if it could and should have been more than it was?
Some of you may know that the 1993 version was based on an attempted revival that was pitched to syndicators a couple of years prior with Steve Edwards as host. I remember reading some trade ads for it in back issues of Broadcasting & Cable Magazine in my college library at around the time the eventual NBC revival took to the air, in fact. However, no actual footage from that pilot has yet surfaced in the fan community... until now, that is, thanks to everyone's new favorite YouTube uploader.
Now, for the first time, you can see what the "new" Scrabble was supposed to be before the Budget Gremlins got involved...
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Post by wildjackmonroe on May 27, 2014 17:42:39 GMT -5
Steve also hosted the Bob Stewart pilot Get Rich Quick in the '70's.
The female voice on the opening is totally Patti Deutsch.
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Post by thekid965 on Jun 7, 2014 11:18:28 GMT -5
Another goodie from the depths of the Winker's vault... but good Lord, I don't think even Tom Kennedy could have saved this mess. And he certainly did give it the old college try.
But, judge for yourself...
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Post by tpirrules1972 on Jun 12, 2014 18:46:03 GMT -5
As he promised as his FB page has now gone over 3,000 likes at 3,007...
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Post by thekid965 on Jun 12, 2014 20:11:51 GMT -5
Based on the reference to the "next" Summer Olympics being in Moscow, implying that the Montréal Games of '76 had already come and gone, that would put this episode almost at the end of the run. (Gambit breathed its last on 10 December 1976, the second of the "CBS comeback" games of 1972 to meet the axe after The Joker's Wild a year earlier... and, well, we're still waiting on the third, if that tells you anything.) The half-checks on the Gambit Board must've been the Gambit version of desperation booking, trying anything and everything to stay afloat in the ratings. An intriguing idea, as is the "pick your poison" cruise card, but after a while it does begin to feel a bit like the proliferation of Red Box Categories on Tic Tac Dough about eight or so years later -- there simply comes a point where the format is drowning in gimmicks.
But more Gambit is always appreciated. It may not have had the staying power of Price or even Joker, but it's a definite classic in its own right.
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Post by Chameleonwhammy on Jun 12, 2014 20:58:20 GMT -5
That jacket though...........
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