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Post by aaaa on Mar 7, 2019 15:45:32 GMT -5
All time winner and only three car winner Monica made her first appearance on today's 1:30PM EST CC airing from 12/3/1987. CC is preempted tomorrow for the Women's history special marathon. Monday will see her second and third episodes from 12/4 and 12/7/87. The 12/3/1987 episode(taped from a circa 1993 NBC rerun, meaning no fee plugs) is here www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzpupzYisUETHe 12/7/1987 episode(taped from a Spring 1993 rerun, with no fee plugs, and a snippet of a promo for Family Secrets is seen) is here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER6vvupf_uA&t=4s
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Post by vahan on Mar 11, 2019 12:14:55 GMT -5
And there we have it folks. The very first base time win on Classic Concentration.
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Post by aaaa on Mar 12, 2019 13:14:24 GMT -5
Today's 3/12/ airing of 12/8/1987 of CC at 1PM had Gwenn come back to the first maingame due to an error in the second car round on the AUgust 20th episode. They didn't reveal the car icons right after she made her first match, then they didn't reveal one of her picks until a few seconds after she called for it. They added five seconds to the lock at that point, and then time ran out right after she picked a box when she was down to three boxes left. The 18 minute mark in this video is that car round at www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6wFoYEjm6o&t=929s
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Post by johnnyo on Mar 13, 2019 9:26:37 GMT -5
So I have been watching lot of CC lately, and I have noticed something. After matches are made, sometimes the portion of the puzzle that is revealed is blank. As a viewer, I see these blank areas of the puzzle as white. However, when Alex and the contestants refer to these areas of the puzzle, they always describe them as blue.
This must obviously be due to a difference in the game board screens that everyone in the studios sees, versus the way the game board is presented to the viewer. I had always assumed that they were identical, but now it appears that they are not.
Does anyone know anyhing about this difference? Are there any behind the scenes photos showing how the game board looks in the studio?
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Post by gameshwfn4ever on Mar 14, 2019 10:26:18 GMT -5
After matches are made, sometimes the portion of the puzzle that is revealed is blank. As a viewer, I see these blank areas of the puzzle as white. However, when Alex and the contestants refer to these areas of the puzzle, they always describe them as blue. This must obviously be due to a difference in the game board screens that everyone in the studios sees, versus the way the game board is presented to the viewer. I had always assumed that they were identical, but now it appears that they are not. Does anyone know anyhing about this difference? Are there any behind the scenes photos showing how the game board looks in the studio? I'm only going to comment on your inquiry because you and I are in the "catching up" era of Classic Concentration. On my screen, I noticed the blank spaces blue as well but interestingly enough, there were a couple of past episodes where it was actually white (probably in the early part of the run). It also can depend on your TV resolution and brand.
Right now, I'm about to finish off "Kids Week" which has been so fun to see these bright kids playing with their parents. I have to avert my eyes scrolling through these posts because some are "spoilers" to me unintentionally since I'm still 2 1/2 weeks behind on episodes. A lot more fun to come.
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Post by johnnyo on Mar 14, 2019 12:14:08 GMT -5
After matches are made, sometimes the portion of the puzzle that is revealed is blank. As a viewer, I see these blank areas of the puzzle as white. However, when Alex and the contestants refer to these areas of the puzzle, they always describe them as blue. This must obviously be due to a difference in the game board screens that everyone in the studios sees, versus the way the game board is presented to the viewer. I had always assumed that they were identical, but now it appears that they are not. Does anyone know anyhing about this difference? Are there any behind the scenes photos showing how the game board looks in the studio? I'm only going to comment on your inquiry because you and I are in the "catching up" era of Classic Concentration. On my screen, I noticed the blank spaces blue as well but interestingly enough, there were a couple of past episodes where it was actually white (probably in the early part of the run). It also can depend on your TV resolution and brand. I guess what I am saying is that I always see the puzzle as being presented on a white background. It doesn't matter if I am watching on my Vizio TV (from a BUZZR DVR recording, or via the YT app) or if I am watching from the YT app on my Samsung phone. And when BUZZR teased the premiere of CC with a rebus, I saw that on a white background as well.
I guess we have another "Is the dress white/gold or black/blue" situation here.
When I google "Classic Concentration Rebus Puzzles", I see a few of the results as having a powder blue background. And when I view the promotional photo of Alex & Marjorie holding the "Foxy Lady" rebus, I can see the background as either dull white or powder blue.
I guess the lighting in the studio could have affected how it looked there, versus how it looks on TV.
This is crazy!!!
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Post by vahan on Mar 14, 2019 12:34:45 GMT -5
Well, even though #0148 was skipped, it can be confirmed that a Chevrolet Nova was won in the second Winner's Circle in addition to the one Sue picked up in Game 2 in #0149, and Game 2 was interrupted, judging from Alex saying that Jim had been a champion a couple of times and a challenger a couple of times. If not for that Game 2 interruption, we wouldn't be seeing Jim now. Jim's prizes in Game 1 were worth about $2,000+, and Sue's prizes in Game 2 were worth about $3,000+. Sue went into #0149 with $12,848.
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Post by aaaa on Mar 14, 2019 13:12:40 GMT -5
The 1:30PM airing 12/16/87 two other things of note, a pretty rare second rebus round where all 25 squares exposed by making matches, and not an "interrupted game" bell, and a 34 second bonus win in the second car round.
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Post by vahan on Mar 19, 2019 12:57:27 GMT -5
Well, this is quite a surprise. The ending of the Christmas Eve episode featured an audience game similar to the Double Play bonus game from the 1973-1978 version.
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Post by aaaa on Mar 19, 2019 14:27:43 GMT -5
The two games and bonus rounds from the 12/24/1987 episode already were on YOutube or Dailymotion, but not the end segment. THe 12/23/1987 episode airing at 1PM today EST had Alex forgetting in the second game(which had 21 squares revealed before the puzzle was solved, unusual for the second game)to ask the contestant on their last turn if they wanted to use their Take.
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Post by vahan on Mar 20, 2019 12:31:12 GMT -5
As expected, the December 28, 1987 show was the first with the sole consolation prize read by Gene Wood at the end of the fourth segment. What's not expected, however, is that the episode we thought was December 30, 1987 is actually from the day before.
And the sole consolation prize was kept. Yay for Buzzr!
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Post by aaaa on Mar 20, 2019 12:58:59 GMT -5
The second episode today also seemed to have a longer commercial break than usual before the second car round. This episode originally had two contestant plugs, one just before the second maingame read by Marjorie in front of the puzzle board, and one before the second car round done by Gene Wood.
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Post by gameshwfn4ever on Mar 22, 2019 21:47:54 GMT -5
For those of you catching up like me on CC episodes, there is a little trickery how to watch episode #131 that was skipped so you won't "miss" it. Go to this link www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i3YZOn-4gQ (Clicking the link will not work. Copy and paste or copy and right click "Open link in New Window") The skipped episode begins at 46:00 and the 1st segment ends at 54:30. Do NOT continue because for some reason, the uploader has the previous car segment from the prior episode (different outfit). Instead forward to 1:04:40 (it replays the 1st segment beforehand) where it will continue the episode and end it at 1:16:20 (unless you don't mind watching the next episode) because there is no final goodbye segment or credits at all since it was from the NBC rerun. There are no commercials in that timeframe which is the good news though. I got confused at first and don't want the same to happen to anybody watching this.
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Post by aaaa on Mar 23, 2019 4:31:34 GMT -5
There were promos for a SNL special that aired in early 1993 in that "White Family History-Classic Concentration" video, another clue that it was from the NBC reruns.
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Post by vahan on Mar 25, 2019 22:13:58 GMT -5
Apparently, I was right before about the show scheduled for December 29, 1987 airing on December 30. The next available episode courtesy of Jessy Leppert aired on January 11, 1988 (the episodes promoted were Valerie: Teacher's Pet and ALF: Can I Get a Witness?).
This means that the unknown preemption seems to have only impacted NBC Daytime but not CBS or ABC. To date, it's unclear what this preemption was; it wasn't Baby Jessica being rescued (October 16), nor was it the Black Monday stock market crash (October 19). The last episode of Kid's Week did indeed air on November 13 (based on the programs NBC was promoting that day). All I know is that this unknown preemption was the main reason Super Password taped four shows instead of five with Sally Struthers & David Doyle. Not even pyrfan on Game Show Forum from 11 years ago knows what it was. Not to mention, Jessy Leppert's upload is from WNBC-TV, New York City. No way was it on tape delay there.
UPDATE: Maybe it was the Reagan-Gorbachev Summit, which took place in December 1987. Maybe.
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