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cmjb13:
Did Convy actually tape this or was he tapped to do it, but couldn't because he was ill?

Was Schaffer the only one who did a pilot? If not, who else did?

Seth Thrasher:
Actually, the original person that producers wanted to host the MG '90 pilot, from what I'm told, is Gene Rayburn.  But, they found out his age (Damn You ET), and so....

The Host of the Pilot was Bert Convy (To the best of my knowledge, Shaffer *NEVER* did a pilot).   In fact, Bert was *Supposed* to host MG '90, but, well, we all know what happened

They needed someone else to host, so they got Shaffer to do it

Brandon Brooks:
[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Jun 17 2003, 06:16 PM\'] Did Convy actually tape this or was he tapped to do it, but couldn't because he was ill?

Was Schaffer the only one who did a pilot? If not, who else did? [/quote]
 Convy taped the pilot, but I don't know if Schaffer did as well.

Brandon Brooks

zachhoran:
ET gave Gene's age in 1984 when he turned 67 I believe. This was around the time Goodson tried to launch a new syndie version of MG, shortly after MGHS came and went.

As per a post on Ezboard a month or two ago, Convy hosted a pilot for what became MG90 in October 1989(while 3rd Degree was in production). Six celebs played with two contestants. Three rounds were played, all celebs played each round. First two rounds had matches worth one point, third round matches worth two points(scoring like MG98). No Match-up round, and the SUper Match was the same as MG90's with the Star Wheel.

Yahtzee72:
Add in the fact you had dead weight on the panel in the form of Jerry Van Dyke and Teri Copley.....nevermind.

Like a poster in that thread said, Match Up appeard to be the result of focus groups not liking the rather slow pace of the Convy pilots.

Here's an interesting question I'd like to throw out: The crappy timeslot aside, if MG90 went to air with the original format descirbed above and Bert as the host, would it have done better?

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