[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'143769\' date=\'Jan 18 2007, 04:51 PM\']
Maybe avoiding that trap is the reason Goodson/Todman shows worked so well. I think "Blockbusters" was the exception that proves the rule. As clever as aspects of the game were, and even with Uncle Bill, they fell into a groove.
Watching "High Rollers" on the Page O' Clips, it struck me that way. I think even Marshall "Hollywood Squares" fell into it--there were always great zingers, but by the time they got to the 80s the stars weren't surprising and the game felt exactly the same, day after day.
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Almost every game show seems the same from day to day -- that even happened to MG at times. Only The Gong Show (which barely qualifies as a game show) really fell out of that altogether, and that burned out lightning fast.
Most of the B-E games bored me -- even Break the Bank and Hollywood Connection, in comparison to their heritage shows, seemed too staid by comparison. (My thoughts for that are Jim Lange probably wouldn't have known what to do if the celebs went way off the page, and the BtB celebs were probably scared to death they'd fall of the board.)
