Wheel aniversary

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Sep 3 2003, 06:55 PM\']

So where we seem to stand right now is:
1) The Price Is Right (9000+)
2) Wheel of Fortune (8000)
3) Jeopardy (7200)
4) Family Feud (6000)
5) Hollywood Squares (5000+)
6) Match Game (4700)
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745) What's Going On? (5)

And where does Pyramid stand in this grand scheme of things? [/quote]
 1973-74 CBS:260 episodes(appx.)
1974-80 ABC:1600 episodes
1974-79 weekly syndicated:195 episodes
1981 syndie:100 episodes
1982-88 CBS:1400 episodes
1985-88 Syndie: 575 episodes
1991-92 Syndie: 175 episodes
2002-03 seasonL 175 episodes(?)

4480 is the total of those approximated numbers.

[Matt Ottinger]

The 60s MG was daily, as was the CBS 1973-79, daily SYndie 1979-82, MG90, and MG98. The only weekly version of MG(aside of one or two 60s primetime specials discussed several months ago in Ezboard) was MGPM. Assume 250 episodes a year for 60s MG time 6.75 years=about 1700 episodes. Add 250 episodes a year for the almost 6 years of MG79=1500 daytime episodes. Add to that 230 episodes of MGPM and 525 for the 1979-82 Daily SYndie. MG90 did about 245 and MG98-99 another 175(I think) episodes. That adds up to 4375 if my math is right.

I gave MG/HS the benefit of the doubt, which adds those 195 episodes.  
To be fair, let's count MG/HS for both series.

Getting down to specifics, matchgame.org says:

Original version: Approximately 1760
70s daytime version:  1455
Match Game PM:  230
Match Game (syn 79-82):  525
Match Game/Hollywood Squares:  195
Match Game '90:  242

Add the 175 episodes of the last syndicated version (as good a guess as any) and we get 4,582.  

Zach's pretty much dead-on for the Pyramid numbers too.  According to Xanfan's episode guides, there were 4,275 of the original show.  If Donny did 175, that's 4,450 total.  So Pyramid would overtake Match Game for the #6 spot near the end of their current season.

[zachhoran]

I think we have one other show in the 5000 episode range no one has mentioned: COncentration. Some 3700 episodes were done for NBC daytime from 1958-73(roughly 250 episodes a year for almost 15 years), another 875 for the five years of the Narz syndie run(how many episodes of the NBC primetime run were made, I know it's not a huge figure) plus the about 1100 first-run Trebek \"Classic\" shows, would put it at around 5700 shows.

Password if you count CBS day and nighttime version, ABC version, and PLus and Super would have to be in the 4000-5000 range of episodes(appx. 1600 for CBS, another 200-300 for the weekly nighttime CBS version, 1100 for the four year ABC run, appx. 800 for P+, and 1200 for SP)

[Steve Gavazzi]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Sep 3 2003, 07:11 PM\'] So where we seem to stand right now is:
1)  The Price Is Right  (9000+)
2)  Wheel of Fortune  (8000)
3)  Jeopardy (7200)
4)  Family Feud (6000)
5)  Hollywood Squares (5000+)
6)  Match Game (4700)
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745)  What's Going On? (5) [/quote]
 And we can't forget...

746)  You're in the Picture (1)

[Ian Wallis]

1974-79 weekly syndicated:195 episodes

Not that it makes a big difference to the grand total, but I've heard from other sources that Bill Cullen's 1974-79 version of \"Pyramid\" had exactly 150 episodes - 30 a year for the five years.

[Ian Wallis]

Newlywed and Dating would have to be considered as well, I guess, but my gut feeling would be that they fall short of the six we've mentioned.

You're likely right.  Just doing rough math in my head, I'd say \"Newlywed\" and \"Dating\" both fall in the 3000-4000 category, and would be further down than the ones we've mentioned.

[GS Warehouse]

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Sep 3 2003, 10:17 PM\'] [quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Sep 3 2003, 07:11 PM\']745)  What's Going On? (5) [/quote]
And we can't forget...

746)  You're in the Picture (1) [/quote]
 Add Kingpins to that 746th placing.  It was a one-time-only special for Nick-at-Nite in 1988.

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Sep 4 2003, 09:18 AM\'] [quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Sep 3 2003, 10:17 PM\'] [quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Sep 3 2003, 07:11 PM\']745)  What's Going On? (5) [/quote]
And we can't forget...

746)  You're in the Picture (1) [/quote]
Add Kingpins to that 746th placing.  It was a one-time-only special for Nick-at-Nite in 1988. [/quote]
 Add any other shows besides King Pins that were \"Unsold pilots\" that aired once(What are My True Colors, Genesis, etc.)

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Sep 3 2003, 10:17 PM\'][quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Sep 3 2003, 07:11 PM\'] So where we seem to stand right now is:
1)  The Price Is Right  (9000+)
2)  Wheel of Fortune  (8000)
3)  Jeopardy (7200)
4)  Family Feud (6000)
5)  Hollywood Squares (5000+)
6)  Match Game (4700)
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745)  What's Going On? (5) [/quote]
And we can't forget...

746)  You're in the Picture (1)[/quote]
And:

The Chamber (5)
100 Grand (3)

You all know \"The Chamber.\"  The other show was an attempt by ABC to revive the big-money quiz genre in 1963 on Sunday night prime time.  Jack Clark hosted and despite being 100% unrigged, it tanked.  Clark was happy he kept his day job announcing \"Password.\"

[Matt Ottinger]

I'm sure there are actually quite a few shows that made fewer than the five episodes of What's Going On?  Didn't mean to suggest that #745 was last place.  There was a Playboy Channel game that aired twice, I believe.  Not \"Everything Goes\", which was a little more successful.  This was an improv game where one team would act out a skit in a certain manner (angrily, hungrily, drunkenly, etc) and the other team had to, basically, name that adverb.

No, I don't think it was called \"Name That Adverb\".

[Jimmy Owen]

Never subscribed to the Playboy channel, but I did try to tune it in and all I got were squiggly lines.  Was that game show titled \"Do It Now\"?

[Matt Ottinger]

By golly, I think you're right.  Since I doubt very many TV Guides were listing The Playboy Channel in 1983 or so, how on earth did you remember that?

Oh, and for the record, my roommate at the time worked for the cable company so we got all the channels free, even the pay ones.  How sad is it that my memory of The Playboy Channel is about what game shows they ran?   Hey, at least you guys have me to thank for the episode of \"Dueling for Playmates\" that's floating around out there.

[Jimmy Owen]

The listing was in a newspaper TV page as I recall.  It just said something like                                                      (PLA) DO IT NOW! Game show.                                         No info beyond that.  Since I was interested in game shows I wondered what it was all about.