Author Topic: Game Show Title Logos (Read 5428 times)

RJSchex · « **on:** February 09, 2007, 07:37:59 PM »

Question:

How many game shows, past and present, can you think of in which the show's title (in its distinctive font logo) does not appear anywhere on the set?

Here's my list:

early $10,000/$20,000 Pyramid (just the money amount over the Winner's Circle)
Battlestars
Body Language
Break the Bank (1976-77)
Card Sharks (1986-89)
High Rollers (Wink Martindale version)
(also, I seem to remember that the 74-76 version didn't have the title on the set)
Hollywood Squares (Marshall era)
Las Vegas Gambit (only the word "Gambit")
Now You See It (1989)
Play the Percentages
Sale of the Century (1983-89)
Wheel of Fortune (Woolery era)

Any others you can think of?

DoorNumberFour · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2007, 09:44:36 PM »

Art James' "Temptation", for one.

RJSchex · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2007, 10:21:23 PM »

Another I just thought of:

Most (if not all) versions of "Let's Make a Deal" (although some, including the original version from 1972-77, and the "forgotten" Canadian version of 1980, had "LMAD" on the set in the same font). "The All-New Let's Make a Deal" (1984-86) had a sign with the logo on the left-side wall of the studio.

TimK2003 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2007, 10:26:25 PM »

If you go by the "logo" appearing in the three windows at the show's beginning, then for pretty much all of the 70's The Joker's Wild would count, as you never saw the logo again until the closing credits.

I never liked the decision to replace the Joker icon with the worded logo behind Jack's/Jim's/Bill's podium nor the neon spinning Joker circles in the later part of the run.

And actually, (The New) Battlestars did have an overhead sign, much like Scrabble did, for the beginning of the show.

cweaver · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2007, 10:24:36 AM »

I believe the 1950s version of Twenty-One didn't have the name anywhere on the set, just the Geritol logo all over the place. (That is, except when the number appeared on the scoreboard, but surely that doesn't count.)

Come to think of it, did The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour have a fixed, permanent logo on the set? I thought the name just flashed on the big screen (along with the celebrities as they were being introduced).

JamesVipond · « **Reply #5 on:** February 10, 2007, 10:47:55 AM »

[quote name=\'cweaver\' post=\'145814\' date=\'Feb 10 2007, 09:24 AM\']
Come to think of it, did The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour have a fixed, permanent logo on the set? I thought the name just flashed on the big screen (along with the celebrities as they were being introduced).
[/quote]

No, but the show did use a logo of sorts, adapted from the big wall display. It appears on the entry page of David Livingston's Gameshow Galaxy site.

alfonzos · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2007, 04:59:38 PM »

FWIW, a hanging sign is called a gobo.

clemon79 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 11, 2007, 05:13:29 PM »

[quote name=\'alfonzos\' post=\'145877\' date=\'Feb 11 2007, 01:59 PM\']
FWIW, a hanging sign is called a gobo.
[/quote]
FWIW, you're wrong.

radioboy949 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 11, 2007, 05:31:00 PM »

[quote name=\'RJSchex\' post=\'145755\' date=\'Feb 9 2007, 08:37 PM\']
Question:

How many game shows, past and present, can you think of in which the show's title (in its distinctive font logo) does not appear anywhere on the set?

Here's my list:

early $10,000/$20,000 Pyramid (just the money amount over the Winner's Circle)
Battlestars
Body Language
Break the Bank (1976-77)
Card Sharks (1986-89)
High Rollers (Wink Martindale version)
(also, I seem to remember that the 74-76 version didn't have the title on the set)
Hollywood Squares (Marshall era)
Las Vegas Gambit (only the word "Gambit")
Now You See It (1989)
Play the Percentages
Sale of the Century (1983-89)
Wheel of Fortune (Woolery era)

Any others you can think of?
[/quote]

When Play The Percentages went to the one on one category format, Geoff's new emcee podium proudly displayed the PtP logo right on front.

Clay Zambo · « **Reply #9 on:** February 11, 2007, 09:12:50 PM »

[quote name=\'alfonzos\' post=\'145877\' date=\'Feb 11 2007, 04:59 PM\']
FWIW, a hanging sign is [not] called a gobo.
[/quote]

There. Fixed that for you.

I was thinking the word was "plinth," but that's not it, either.

calliaume · « **Reply #10 on:** February 11, 2007, 10:09:17 PM »

Help me on these:

Blank Check (no fixed logo)
Truth or Consequences (anyone remember?)

Good topic.

clemon79 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 11, 2007, 10:36:40 PM »

[quote name=\'calliaume\' post=\'145908\' date=\'Feb 11 2007, 07:09 PM\']
Blank Check (no fixed logo)
[/quote]
I thought there was one hanging either behind the players, or in the audience, that read "BLANK CHECK" in the same "typeface" as the numbers.

JasonA1 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 11, 2007, 10:39:19 PM »

Quote

I thought there was one hanging either behind the players, or in the audience, that read "BLANK CHECK" in the same "typeface" as the numbers.

Correct. And I know there were set logos for Bob Hilton & Larry Anderson on ToC. As for Bob, I believe there's a picture in the first EOTVGS of him on a set with a ToC logo, but I don't have the book handy, and couldn't find the picture on the 'net.

-Jason

RJSchex · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2007, 10:44:06 PM »

[quote name=\'calliaume\' post=\'145908\' date=\'Feb 11 2007, 08:09 PM\']
Help me on these:

Blank Check (no fixed logo)
Truth or Consequences (anyone remember?)

Good topic.
[/quote]

BLANK CHECK: title (in Apple IIe dot-matrix lettering) appears inside the five elongated octagons at center stage during the opening, alternating BLANK-CHECK-ART-JAMES. Above the studio audience are a series of ten additional identical octagons; on the one newly-surfaced premiere-week episode with Maggie Brown, they have the (apparently static) "BLANK CHECK" message.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES:
The first edition of EOTGS shows a photo (supposedly from the syndicated Barker era) with the show's logo (as seen over the open) affixed to some sort of prop. The 77-78 Bob Hilton version has numerous instances of the "T or C" logo, each in a various typeface, all over the set. The opening, with each of the different logos flashing over the darkened set, is strongly reminiscent of the opening to Narz's "Concentration".

Neumms · « **Reply #14 on:** February 11, 2007, 11:24:55 PM »

[quote name=\'calliaume\' post=\'145908\' date=\'Feb 11 2007, 10:09 PM\']
Help me on these:

Blank Check (no fixed logo)
Truth or Consequences (anyone remember?)
[/quote]

Didn't the check on Blank Check have a logo (again, based on the digital readouts) in the corner where typically the account holder's name would be?

And Barker's T or C didn't have it, at least in the 70s.

Does WWTBAM have a logo anywhere on the set, or did it before the open case of money was replaced by a monitor?