Author Topic: 25 Things You Didn't Know About Game Shows (Read 7762 times)

clemon79 · « **Reply #30 on:** June 19, 2006, 10:01:26 AM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'121785\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 06:36 AM\']
My money's on comment #19, courtesy of Michi-Matt. ;-)
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Oh, is that it? Taking nothing away from Our Benevolent Moderator, but that was more a declaration of shenanigans. Hell, I do that almost every day here.

uncamark · « **Reply #31 on:** June 19, 2006, 11:54:50 AM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'121791\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 09:01 AM\']
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'121785\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 06:36 AM\']
My money's on comment #19, courtesy of Michi-Matt. ;-)
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Oh, is that it? Taking nothing away from Our Benevolent Moderator, but that was more a declaration of shenanigans. Hell, I do that almost every day here.

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Well, we all love Stubby Kaye--he was such a great performer.

dzinkin · « **Reply #32 on:** June 19, 2006, 11:59:26 AM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'121791\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 10:01 AM\']
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'121785\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 06:36 AM\']
My money's on comment #19, courtesy of Michi-Matt. ;-)
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Oh, is that it? Taking nothing away from Our Benevolent Moderator, but that was more a declaration of shenanigans. Hell, I do that almost every day here.

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I think #16, where Jekalb himself admits that his account "might not be the 'true' story," says it all. He posts crap, admits to the, er, "possibility" that it's crap, and then posts MORE crap. Gotta love it.

Mr. Tanner's advice in #27 is one of my two favorite concise bits of advice ever posted to ATGS:

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Get a life...get a brain...get a new newsgroup...

To answer Mr. Lemon's other question, I'm not aware that Mr. Jekalb has posted under any other name.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #33 on:** June 19, 2006, 03:15:03 PM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'121785\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 09:36 AM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'121783\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 09:28 AM\']
And where's the part where he gets conclusively disproven and subsequently pwned?
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My money's on comment #19, courtesy of Michi-Matt. ;-)[/quote]
Always appreciated, but I am by no means the expert on shows that may or may not exist. In fact, re-reading that thread all these years later, I'm still not enirely sure how much of the legend is true, if any. Forget all the weirdness about the drinking binge, the loser uncle and the destroyed tape. Was there or was there not a H-Q pilot called Casino, and did it or did it not air?

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #34 on:** June 19, 2006, 04:17:51 PM »

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Forget all the weirdness about the drinking binge, the loser uncle and the destroyed tape. Was there or was there not a H-Q pilot called Casino, and did it or did it not air?

For what it's worth, it was never listed in TV Guide - and they did list pilots or "previews" if they were scheduled to air. I always made an attempt to watch any game show - pilot or otherwise - and I never heard anything about it until the newsgroup posts of the late '90s.

uncamark · « **Reply #35 on:** June 20, 2006, 03:31:57 PM »

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'121836\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 03:17 PM\']

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Forget all the weirdness about the drinking binge, the loser uncle and the destroyed tape. Was there or was there not a H-Q pilot called Casino, and did it or did it not air?

For what it's worth, it was never listed in TV Guide - and they did list pilots or "previews" if they were scheduled to air. I always made an attempt to watch any game show - pilot or otherwise - and I never heard anything about it until the newsgroup posts of the late '90s.
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And it seemed to me that the claimed date of the pilot was after Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley broke up their partnership, which was shortly after "Las Vegas Gambit" got cancelled in 1981. (I haven't looked at the thread this time--I'm not sure if I want to relive it right now.)

clemon79 · « **Reply #36 on:** June 20, 2006, 03:47:56 PM »

[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'121927\' date=\'Jun 20 2006, 12:31 PM\']
And it seemed to me that the claimed date of the pilot was after Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley broke up their partnership, which was shortly after "Las Vegas Gambit" got cancelled in 1981. (I haven't looked at the thread this time--I'm not sure if I want to relive it right now.)
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Forgive me, but wasn't All-Star Blitz Heatter-Quigley?

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #37 on:** June 20, 2006, 03:57:01 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'121933\' date=\'Jun 20 2006, 02:47 PM\']
Forgive me, but wasn't All-Star Blitz Heatter-Quigley?
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I seem to recall reading that it was a solo Merlil Heatter production.

uncamark · « **Reply #38 on:** June 20, 2006, 04:18:25 PM »

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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'121933\' date=\'Jun 20 2006, 02:47 PM\']
Forgive me, but wasn't All-Star Blitz Heatter-Quigley?
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I seem to recall reading that it was a solo Merlil Heatter production.
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That is correct--Bob Quigley's daughter herself verified to me in 1982 (when she was an actress in Chicago) that the partnership had broken up--he hadn't been active in the company for years. He spent most of his time at home writing classical music and only came into the office when they had to pitch a new show, according to her.

zachhoran · « **Reply #39 on:** June 20, 2006, 07:38:57 PM »

[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'121927\' date=\'Jun 20 2006, 03:31 PM\']

And it seemed to me that the claimed date of the pilot was after Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley broke up their partnership, which was shortly after "Las Vegas Gambit" got cancelled in 1981. (I haven't looked at the thread this time--I'm not sure if I want to relive it right now.)
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And Battlestars was listed as a Heatter solo production from the beginning, it having debuted five weeks before LVG's end(though LVG may have been in reruns by the time Battlestars debuted)

Jeremy Nelson · « **Reply #40 on:** June 21, 2006, 10:22:49 PM »

I'm watching "25 Things You Don't Know" on TV Guide right now. What the hell?

#12: Game shows are imported and exported.
Yeah...there's a no-brainer for you.

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #41 on:** June 21, 2006, 11:29:02 PM »

[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'122070\' date=\'Jun 21 2006, 09:22 PM\']
#12: Game shows are imported and exported.
Yeah...there's a no-brainer for you.
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A casual fan may not know that shows like Family Feud air overseas.
So, yeah.

clemon79 · « **Reply #42 on:** June 21, 2006, 11:34:02 PM »

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'122076\' date=\'Jun 21 2006, 08:29 PM\']
A casual fan may not know that shows like Family Feud air overseas.
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Since even a casual fan knows that DoND and Millionaire were imported from overseas, only a jingoistic moron wouldn't come to the reasonable conclusion that it works the other way, too.

"What? They have TV over there? I had no idea!"

uncamark · « **Reply #43 on:** June 22, 2006, 11:47:48 AM »

It was a harmless little 50-some minutes, but stuff we've all known by now.

With one exception--the fact that Bill Cullen has been on the TVG cover more than any other game show host, past or present. However, it looked like he never had a cover to himself--it was always with either the "IGAS" panel or other hosts.

ChuckNet · « **Reply #44 on:** June 22, 2006, 09:54:31 PM »

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What's a joke?

Jaciel, is that you?? (a reference that will be lost on all but the central PA contingent, LOL).

Chuck Donegan (The Esoteric "Chuckie Baby")

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