Author Topic: Celebrities & Game Shows (Read 3286 times)

JasonA1 · « **on:** February 15, 2007, 10:26:51 AM »

Pardon me if this has already been mentioned, but aside from a deluge of "Dating Game" clips, this special was pretty decent. Rare stuff made an appearance like part of a "$10,000 Pyramid" in black & white with Nipsey Russell & Nancy Dassault (week 2!), a crystal clear round of gameplay from Uncle Bill's "$25,000 Pyramid" and a clip from "All-Star Secrets."

-Jason

MikeK · « **Reply #1 on:** February 15, 2007, 11:24:47 AM »

I saw the special but didn't record it. On the panel in the All-Star Secrets clip (we gotta use the ASS acronym more often *snicker*), there was a celebrity named Billy. Was that Billy Crystal? He would've been on Soap at the time, so it's within the realm of possibility...

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #2 on:** February 15, 2007, 02:41:24 PM »

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I saw the special but didn't record it. On the panel in the All-Star Secrets clip (we gotta use the ASS acronym more often *snicker*),

I always do AS-S. You'll never catch me saying ASS on this forum!

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Rare stuff made an appearance like part of a "$10,000 Pyramid" in black & white with Nipsey Russell & Nancy Dassault (week 2!),

Hmmm....I haven't seen it yet, but I wonder where it came from if it's in B&W. UCLA, maybe?

Blanquepage · « **Reply #3 on:** February 15, 2007, 03:52:03 PM »

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Hmmm....I haven't seen it yet, but I wonder where it came from if it's in B&W. UCLA, maybe?

Yep. It came from the April 5, 1973 episode which resides in the UCLA archive along with the episodes from 3/28/73 & 4/13/73.
Does anyone know just why programming from all 3 networks were preserved on the dates 3/28/73, 4/5/73, & 4/13/73?

--Jamie

SRIV94 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 15, 2007, 04:15:19 PM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Fiono Coyne\' post=\'146000\' date=\'Feb 15 2007, 02:52 PM\']
Does anyone know just why programming from all 3 networks were preserved on the dates 3/28/73, 4/5/73, & 4/13/73?
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Maybe something Watergate related, where news divisions might've taken over?

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #5 on:** February 15, 2007, 05:13:55 PM »

[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'146006\' date=\'Feb 15 2007, 04:15 PM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Fiono Coyne\' post=\'146000\' date=\'Feb 15 2007, 02:52 PM\']
Does anyone know just why programming from all 3 networks were preserved on the dates 3/28/73, 4/5/73, & 4/13/73?
[/quote]
Maybe something Watergate related, where news divisions might've taken over?[/quote]
That was my first thought, but while the era is close, the televised Watergate hearings didn't happen until May of 1973. My guess -- especially since they all seem to be in black and white -- is that it was done for some sort of academia research project. Some university-based researcher getting himself some representative samples of programming using whatever primitive recording devices he had available to him at the time.

tvmitch · « **Reply #6 on:** February 16, 2007, 03:58:47 PM »

Didn't catch this special because I thought it would be stock stuff, but I would love to see the UCLA stuff...

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GSFan · « **Reply #7 on:** February 17, 2007, 03:17:18 PM »

Anyone know if this is scheduled for rebroadcast?

Jay Temple · « **Reply #8 on:** February 17, 2007, 04:10:14 PM »

Scheduled? Maybe. Will it be? Almost certainly.

RMF · « **Reply #9 on:** February 19, 2007, 12:16:02 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'146019\' date=\'Feb 15 2007, 05:13 PM\']
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'146006\' date=\'Feb 15 2007, 04:15 PM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Fiono Coyne\' post=\'146000\' date=\'Feb 15 2007, 02:52 PM\']
Does anyone know just why programming from all 3 networks were preserved on the dates 3/28/73, 4/5/73, & 4/13/73?
[/quote]
Maybe something Watergate related, where news divisions might've taken over?[/quote]
That was my first thought, but while the era is close, the televised Watergate hearings didn't happen until May of 1973. My guess -- especially since they all seem to be in black and white -- is that it was done for some sort of academia research project. Some university-based researcher getting himself some representative samples of programming using whatever primitive recording devices he had available to him at the time.
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First off, in addition to 3/28/73, 4/5/73, and 4/13/73, the broadcasts of 3/12/73, 3/20/73, and 4/21/73 also exist, as does a set from 3/8/71, 3/16/71, 3/24/71, 4/1/71, 4/9/71, and 4/17/71.

Notably, these recording dates (in both 1971 and 1973) work in such a way as that it is a week's worth of programming, with a recording made for each day of the week.

Due to this range, while agreeing with the research part of the suggestion, I would suggest that these recordings were probably made by and/or for the UCLA media department, rather than for any individual.