[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'121043\' date=\'Jun 11 2006, 09:10 AM\']
There was a pilot for a show called "Press Your Luck" from Columbia Pictures Television in 1981, so maybe the fact-checker assumed the show started in 81. It probably falls under the category of minutiae.
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No, it really doesn't. I point out once again that there is a VERY DEFINITIVE reference book that is available for $20 at any mass-market bookstore (and $14 from Amazon, if the budget was really that tight) that would have enabled them to get this right. Hell, they were producing this show for the freakin' network that aired it originally, certainly a call over to CBS could have gotten this right.
I'm going to put it in big letters: THERE WAS NO REASON NOT TO GET THIS RIGHT. And if Fact Boy checked one source for this and called it good, he's a crappy Fact Boy.
Is it a small point? Yeah. But the thing is, with each passing week on this show, we keep seeing them miss these small points. I have no doubt that there are folks on the staff who dearly love game shows and wanted to see this done right, but at the same time I am absolutely certain that their hard work is being overshadowed by slop from people higher up on the production food chain who simply don't give a damn.