GSN 50 greatest game shows special...

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'128955\' date=\'Aug 24 2006, 11:56 AM\']
This I wonder:
What are the odds that members of the staff and management of GSN: The Network For Games are reading this thread and laughing their rumps off?
Audience, vote now.
[/quote]
Depends on what they're laughing at, if they're laughing at the kiddies posting the stupid crap, or the people suggesting that Freakin' Studs is ruining what tenuous grasp they had on any kind of credibility.

[SteveRep]

First off, in regards to the "they can't greenlight a project such as this and then not show a Price episode."

While I agree they'd look like mucking forons if they did that, I've learned time after time that it's VERY easy of over-estimate the logic level in them TV programming offices.

i.e. #8 -- another show that's way below where I had it (in my e-mail votes to Matt, I had it Price-Jeopardy-Pyramid) but knowing how GSN is running this thing, it's not that far off. I liked seeing the $20K episode with the archaic flip-over score displays and clock and the original version of the theme.

Even though my 'Greatest' vote had Pyramid third, I still think it was the Best game ever on TV. It had everything --  a need for more than just knowledge, celebrities, drama, to name a few.

[Blanquepage]

Even though my 'Greatest' vote had Pyramid third, I still think it was the Best game ever on TV. It had everything -- a need for more than just knowledge, celebrities, drama, to name a few.

Agree with you that it was the best tv game ever. It's my number one show, but I had a feeling GSN would stick it in the bottom half of the top 10.

--Jamie

[--Richard]

Here's how the list looks so far:
50)3's A Crowd
49)Treasure Hunt
48)Blockbusters
47)Freakin' Studs
46)Hollywood Showdown
45)Shop 'Til You Drop
44)Truth or Consequences
43)Tattletales
42)Queen For a Day
41)$1.98 Beauty Show
40)Twenty-One
39)College Bowl
38)Whammy!
37)Greed
36)Remote Control
35)Beat the Clock
34)$ale of the Century
33)Dog Eat Dog(Uggh...)
32)Tic Tac Dough
31)You Bet Your Life
30)Card Sharks
29)Scrabble
28)The $64K Question
27)Win Ben Stein's Money
26)Deal or No Deal
25)Password+/Super Password
24)Win Lose or Draw
23)The Joker's Wild
22)Weakest Link
21)I've Got a Secret
20)Concentration
19)To Tell the Truth
18)Love Connection
17)Name That Tune
16)Lingo
15)Password
14)What's My Line?
13)Press Your Luck
12)The Gong Show
11)The Hollywood Squares
10)The Dating Game
9)The Newlywed Game
8)Pyramid
7-1

I'm guessing tonight will be Millionaire, the John Carpenter episodes.

[chad1m]

I'm hoping something is really good tonight. It appears to be two half-hour episodes tonight.

[Scott]

It's Let's Make a Deal at #7!

[cweaver]

[quote name=\'Scott\' post=\'129004\' date=\'Aug 24 2006, 09:01 PM\']
It's Let's Make a Deal at #7!
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Am I off base to assume this is a nighttime syndicated episode?

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'cweaver\' post=\'129006\' date=\'Aug 24 2006, 10:07 PM\']
[quote name=\'Scott\' post=\'129004\' date=\'Aug 24 2006, 09:01 PM\']
It's Let's Make a Deal at #7!
[/quote]

Am I off base to assume this is a nighttime syndicated episode?
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I'm guessing so...Monty mentions the Big Deal being at over $10,300. From the looks of the cars, I'm guessing c. 1972 or '73?

[MrBuddwing]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'129014\' date=\'Aug 24 2006, 10:25 PM\']
[quote name=\'cweaver\' post=\'129006\' date=\'Aug 24 2006, 10:07 PM\']
[quote name=\'Scott\' post=\'129004\' date=\'Aug 24 2006, 09:01 PM\']
It's Let's Make a Deal at #7!
[/quote]

Am I off base to assume this is a nighttime syndicated episode?
[/quote]
I'm guessing so...Monty mentions the Big Deal being at over $10,300. From the looks of the cars, I'm guessing c. 1972 or '73?
[/quote]

They said 1972.

[Scott]

Episode #2 in tonight's LMAD block is a '76 episode.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'MrBuddwing\' post=\'129015\' date=\'Aug 24 2006, 10:27 PM\']

I'm guessing so...Monty mentions the Big Deal being at over $10,300. From the looks of the cars, I'm guessing c. 1972 or '73?

They said 1972.
[/quote]
Cool, thanks. I missed Bil's first intro. :-)

Ep. two is from 1976...anyone know when they added the "LMAD Trading Floor" stuff to the front of that wall behind the trading floor?

[cweaver]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'129018\' date=\'Aug 24 2006, 09:32 PM\']
Ep. two is from 1976...anyone know when they added the "LMAD Trading Floor" stuff to the front of that wall behind the trading floor?
[/quote]

I dunno but I loved the "Bicentennial Box."

BTW the Spiegel Catalog cover seen at the end of the first show had a '72 date on it (confirming what Bill Dwyer already said).  Those catalogs are surprisingly helpful in dating game shows, as I found out today watching a late '63/early '64 Queen for a Day ep.

[Scott]

Also, the second ep is from the Super Deal era, with a big win at the end.  PLUS!  No crunched credits tonight!

[--Richard]

LMAD gets 100/100

Kudos to GSN also for uncrunching the credits!

[mbc793]

I really didn't mind that Let's Make a Deal made it into the top 10. Plus I thought it was great to get two episodes, I taped them both from 1972 & 1976 and I agree I liked the box from the second episode with the 76 on it. I give it a 10 overall, plus bonus points for not crunching the credits at the end of both episodes.