GSF 50 Greatest List - RESULTS THREAD

[tomobrien]

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'130252\' date=\'Sep 2 2006, 09:03 PM\']
Watch the episode of the PBS documentary "The American Experience" that deals with the quiz scandal. Listen to Mert Koplin describe how Dr. Brothers became a contestant. The way he tells it, Joyce lit up when he mentioned the category of boxing. Hmmm, wonder why. Then listen to Sonny Fox describe how they tried to knock her off with a question not about boxers but about referees. That Joyce knew who Tex Rickert was in my mind supports Judge Stone's insinuations. Just my opinion, of course.
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The whole Fleischer-Brothers connection does raise some interesting questions.  But Stone also admitted that boxing (compared to, say, baseball) was a sport with a much smaller range of vital facts and statistics "and someone as intelligent and methodical as Brothers could have mastered it all in a matter of weeks."  It certainly doesn't answer how she knew the Rickert question but to me, it doesn't make it an impossibility, either.

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'130239\' date=\'Sep 2 2006, 08:51 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'130232\' date=\'Sep 2 2006, 07:28 PM\']
[quote name=\'rebelwrest\' post=\'130199\' date=\'Sep 2 2006, 12:53 PM\']
Well congratulations, now you have the IQ of a network executive (for GSN you have to drop another 50 IQ points)
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And for another 50 on top of that, I could get close to.....ah, never mind. Most of you know where I'm going.
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Cleveland?
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Now do you feel like a bigger person for having said that?
Mike Klauss, you and I are road-tripping to Green Bay or Door County, Wisconsin.

[SRIV94]

[quote name=\'SamJ93\' post=\'130189\' date=\'Sep 2 2006, 01:27 PM\']
NYC's MT&R (which isn't nearly as fun to visit anymore since they cut back their viewing time from two hours to one, yet kept admission prices the same) also has one episode, albeit with very poor sound quality.
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That's too bad.  I was going to go while I was in NY last week, but plans got changed.  

For those of you who are West Coasters, is it that way in Beverly Hills now as well?

Doug

[MikeK]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'130257\' date=\'Sep 2 2006, 11:57 PM\'][quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'130239\' date=\'Sep 2 2006, 08:51 PM\']Cleveland?[/quote]
Now do you feel like a bigger person for having said that?
Mike Klauss, you and I are road-tripping to Green Bay or Door County, Wisconsin.[/quote]
Yes, we are.  You supply the faux-wood paneled station wagon, I'll bring oodles of Temptation as well as crackers for that delicious Wisconsin cheese.

And then we can go to Seattle to try Chris' Old Fashioned Gazpacho.  I'll bring some Glade for the ride home.

[chris319]

And then we can go to Seattle to try Chris' Old Fashioned Gazpacho.

Old fashioned meaning it was made in 1994, not to be confused with old-style.

[Kevin Prather]

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'130262\' date=\'Sep 2 2006, 10:18 PM\']

And then we can go to Seattle to try Chris' Old Fashioned Gazpacho.

Old fashioned meaning it was made in 1994, not to be confused with old-style.
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It's like a fine wine. It gets better with age.

/So does soap, but I wouldn't eat that either.

[DrBear]

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'130262\' date=\'Sep 3 2006, 12:18 AM\']

And then we can go to Seattle to try Chris' Old Fashioned Gazpacho.

Old fashioned meaning it was made in 1994, not to be confused with old-style.
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Forget the gazpacho, I'll just have an old-fashioned.

[ChrisLambert!]

Belated thanks to Kniwt for that great WWorW audio clip. Any idea what year that's from? I note it's a different theme song than the one on the episode that's been floating around for years.

[Kniwt]

[quote name=\'ChrisLambert!\' post=\'130277\' date=\'Sep 3 2006, 01:18 PM\']
Belated thanks to Kniwt for that great WWorW audio clip. Any idea what year that's from?
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Thanks!  I can't place it exactly, but it's likely from sometime in 1971-1973 (since I didn't move into the area until mid-1971).  The funky theme music at the end happened because (and it's scary I remember this), WCKT Miami -- which used to be NBC before it became WSVN Fox -- aired WWW one day delayed from the rest of the nation (and Friday episodes the following Monday), and they played their own copy of the theme at the end so as not to air NBC's coming-up promos that, by the time WCKT aired them, were outdated.

Hope this helps.

[Ian Wallis]

The 7 that I don't have are below. That leaves me thinking about the 7 I have that won't make it.

I'm wondering too...I had what you could call a couple of "fringe" shows from the late '80s-early '90s which I kind of liked, but I knew probably weren't going to make it...but I had a few other shows that weren't that long-running, but I know they have their fans.  I was thinking most of them had a good shot of making it, but now I'm starting to think they'll be left off.

If you go back to Matt's first post in this thread, he mentions that our top show that wasn't on GSN's list was No. 23.  I guess I shouldn't say what I think that is...but we'll know soon about the others.  As soon as that show's revealed, I'll state what I'm a little surprised didn't make it.

[Ian Wallis]

27 Split Second (1972-75, 1986-87)
(1074 46/80)

Everyone who included this one give yourselves a pat on the back. Excellent show (at least referring to the Tom Kennedy version).

I had it...and I think I had it exactly at 27.  I really enjoyed this show as a kid...it's too bad there aren't more than 2 episodes of it around.

Thanks! I can't place it exactly, but it's likely from sometime in 1971-1973 (since I didn't move into the area until mid-1971). The funky theme music at the end happened because (and it's scary I remember this), WCKT Miami -- which used to be NBC before it became WSVN Fox -- aired WWW one day delayed from the rest of the nation (and Friday episodes the following Monday), and they played their own copy of the theme at the end so as not to air NBC's coming-up promos that, by the time WCKT aired them, were outdated.

If it's any help, I've figured out that the episode in the trade curcuit is from Dec. 1970.  A few things Art James says about upcoming dates and stuff has helped narrow it down.

[uncamark]

Even though it seems to have been forgotten several posts ago, the Naitonal Supermarkets in Chicago had the same logo back in the 60s as the one in Michigan described.

There are several other "SS" shows in the MBC when it reopens--it's because David Susskind's estate donated his archives to the museum and "SS" was produced by Al Howard as an employee of Susskind's production company.  Since Susskind was known for somewhat more high-toned television than "SS," the critics at the time had a field day over this show.

[Matt Ottinger]

And now, the second half of our collective efforts.

[color=\"#009900\"]25 Double Dare (1986-2000)(In one form or another...)[/b][/color]
(1369 54/80)(TVG: 29)

The kids' game that practically defined the kids' network for a generation of kids.  How did GSN miss this?

[color=\"#009900\"]24 Beat the Clock (1950-61, 1969-74, 1979-80, 2002)[/b][/color]
(1579 62/80)(GSN: 35)(TVG: 23)

One of the first game shows to take advantage of the 'vision' part of 'television.' Bud Collyer kept things moving, and lovely Roxanne was the Vanna of her day.  (Dolls have been made of both of them!)

[color=\"#009900\"]23 High Rollers (1974-76, 1978-80, 1987-88)[/color]
(1602 68/80)(TVG: 39)

Hardly anybody had this dice game in their top twenty, but so many people had it somewhere on their list that it almost made it to Top-20 status anyway.  As some of you guessed, our highest-ranked show that didn't make the GSN list at all.

[color=\"#009900\"]22 Blockbusters (1980-82, 1987)[/color]
(1821 66/80)(GSN: 48)

The shortest-lived show of any in the Top-25, again we reward an interesting game as opposed to a successful show.  The first of eight in the Top-25 that were hosted at one time or another by Bill Cullen.


[color=\"#009900\"]21 I've Got A Secret (1952-67, 1972-73, 1976, 2000-02, present)[/color]
(1938 64/80)(GSN: 21)(TVG: 27)

The oft-remade panel show with one of the simplest and most flexible formats in history.  Panelists have included such TV icons as Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Carol Burnett and Jermaine Taylor.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'130437\' date=\'Sep 5 2006, 07:33 PM\']
Panelists have included such TV icons as Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Carol Burnett and Jermaine Taylor.
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I lol'd.

[cweaver]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'130437\' date=\'Sep 5 2006, 09:33 PM\']
The first of eight in the Top-25 that were hosted at one time or another by Bill Cullen.
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If Blockbuster is the first Cullen show in the top 25, is I've Got a Secret the second?