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snowpeck

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« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2006, 12:06:12 AM »
From what I can gather, as earlier stated, FF94 was not included in the original G/T package because it was still in first-run.  I assume (it makes sense) that when the contract was renewed (either at the 98 renewal or a later one) that that season was then included in the regular package.  It's just that there's not much opportunity for them to air that version.  It's admittedly the least popular of the ones they have and is it really worth it to schedule a whole hour for an unpopular version of Feud?  

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Ian Wallis

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« Reply #16 on: December 03, 2006, 03:06:58 PM »
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During their first day, they ran a marathon featuring an ep of every show in their library @ the time, which resulted in some rarities not seen again until the Dark Period or later (The New Treasure Hunt, BtB '76, Diamond Head, Hollywood Connection, Camouflage, Bullseye, etc.), in addition to more common stuff (Tattletales, WoF, etc.).

That's true, but that marathon was repeated in its entirety on GSN's first anniversary 12/1/95.
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« Reply #17 on: December 03, 2006, 03:15:28 PM »
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Notably absent from Day One: The Price Is Right in ANY form and The Gong Show. The Bob Stewart library was acquired later.

Even though Price is Right wasn't on their original schedule, clips from it were featured in their orignal promos.  Remember "Mr Hostman"?

Also, during an early Club AM, Laura Chambers answered a letter from a viewer regarding The Gong Show, and responded by saying "...yes we do have it, but we have no plans to air it this season..."
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« Reply #18 on: December 03, 2006, 03:26:18 PM »
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Even though Price is Right wasn't on their original schedule, clips from it were featured in their orignal promos.  Remember "Mr Hostman"?
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I thought I remembered something about GSN having to remove all the fur coat episodes from their library before they were able to air TPiR...

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« Reply #19 on: December 03, 2006, 03:35:50 PM »
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I thought I remembered something about GSN having to remove all the fur coat episodes from their library before they were able to air TPiR...

That's exactly right...and that's probably why it didn't debut on the regular GSN schedule until Dec 1996.
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« Reply #20 on: December 03, 2006, 07:09:54 PM »
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I thought I remembered something about GSN having to remove all the fur coat episodes from their library before they were able to air TPiR...

That's exactly right...and that's probably why it didn't debut on the regular GSN schedule until Dec 1996.
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And even then, occasionally one slipped through (almost always in a showcase, where it would have been easy to miss).

(And to whoever wanted to see Fantasy; it was a game show in name only - almost every episode consisted of people being rewarded with "fantasies" for doing good deeds in their lives and/or needing something badly.  The only game show elements I remember are (a) occasionally somebody got 30 seconds in whatever that booth that has the money being blown around inside it (like the one in the Diamond Head end game) is (in this case, I think all of the bills were $50s - and somebody grabbed over 100 of them in 30 seconds once), and (b) I might be confusing this with The Fun Factory, but didn't Fantasy have the game with the four contestants where there were four prizes, one of which was expensive, and the contestants secretly chose a prize, and won it if nobody else chose it?)

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« Reply #21 on: December 03, 2006, 07:29:06 PM »
Nope, right on the money, the Fantasy Fountain and the pick-a-unique-prize-and-win-it game were the only two regular game elements on the show.

(And the one Fountain to which you refer, they didn't really "grab" 100 of them, they were just lucky enough to have a huge glut of them fall into their bag when the thing shut down.)
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