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catkins522

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« on: March 22, 2007, 07:35:51 PM »
Saw this on tv tonight...

AG is have a marathon on March 31 starting at 1 pm ET on ESPN Classics.

Check your listings for channel.

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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2007, 09:18:12 PM »
AG = American Gladiators, for those unfamiliar with their 90s pseudo-game show acronyms.
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2007, 09:29:16 PM »
Heard about this a couple weeks ago. If they have the rights to all the seasons, that's good- the TNN/Spike reruns were lacking.
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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2007, 01:30:25 AM »
Buzzer mentioned this.  The marathon will give way to a regular AG airing weeknights at 7.
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« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2007, 02:14:47 PM »
[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'148841\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 08:18 PM\'] AG = American Gladiators, for those unfamiliar with their 90s pseudo-game show acronyms. [/quote]

Oh, thank goodness. I thought it was Ace and Gary from SNL.
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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2007, 02:23:01 PM »
[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'148895\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 02:14 PM\']
[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'148841\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 08:18 PM\'] AG = American Gladiators, for those unfamiliar with their 90s pseudo-game show acronyms. [/quote]

Oh, thank goodness. I thought it was Ace and Gary from SNL.
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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2007, 04:18:27 PM »
Oh..so it's not "Anniversary Game" they're showing?  What do they have against Alan Hamel????
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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2007, 04:23:47 PM »
I'm glad they are going to show the first season- I haven't seen those eps since they ran on USA about 10 years back.

BTW, I've been watching UK Gladiators on Youtube and have quickly taken notice that Pole Axe is the best event the US never had.
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« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2007, 04:31:52 PM »
[quote name=\'catkins522\' post=\'148832\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 06:35 PM\']
AG is have a marathon on March 31 starting at 1 pm ET on ESPN Classics let's burn off our original programming cheaply.
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There.
« Last Edit: March 23, 2007, 04:32:09 PM by Modor »
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« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2007, 05:39:40 PM »
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'148906\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 01:31 PM\']
[quote name=\'catkins522\' post=\'148832\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 06:35 PM\']
AG is have a marathon on March 31 starting at 1 pm ET on ESPN Classics let's burn off our original programming cheaply.
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There.
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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2007, 01:10:45 AM »
[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'148905\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 04:23 PM\']
BTW, I've been watching UK Gladiators on Youtube and have quickly taken notice that Pole Axe is the best event the US never had.
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I disagree...I hated Pole-Axe when I saw it on International Gladiators.

Pendulum, on the other hand, was kind of cool...
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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2007, 02:44:52 PM »
Yes, Pendulum is cool, but there's still nothing like watching someone drop 40 feet without a safety harness. For some reason, I like their version of Assault (Danger Zone) better than ours.

Oh yeah, and Dogfight sucked ass.
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« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2007, 06:57:21 PM »
Watching the marathon, and a couple of thoughts:
1. The first season REALLY looks cheesy compared to the later ones - plain wood framing, the repeated intros of the Glads, and Joe Theismann, who is as insufferable on here as he is - er, was - on Monday Night Football.

2. It seemed more campy in the first season, with the Glads introduced merely as characters, without the profiles of them that appeared in later seasons.

3. "Nitro" is hosting the between-show segments, and said the Human Cannonball game (the contestant swings toward a Glad on a platform, trying to knock him/her off) was finally pulled because it was causing the most injuries.

4. Damn, that's great Bill Conti music.
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« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2007, 08:59:45 PM »
[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'149249\' date=\'Mar 31 2007, 06:57 PM\']
4. Damn, that's great Bill Conti music.
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What do you expect from the guy who wrote the famous Rocky fanfare? (He also wrote the theme song for "Cagney and Lacey", but the intersection set of game show fans and Cagney and Lacey fans is quite small indeed.)

Nevertheless, it will be great to see those Gladiators again. I used to love the earliest seasons of the show. "Siren" was my favorite Glad, bar none.
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« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2007, 10:09:11 PM »
[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'149249\' date=\'Mar 31 2007, 05:57 PM\']
1. The first season REALLY looks cheesy compared to the later ones - plain wood framing, the repeated intros of the Glads, and Joe Theismann, who is as insufferable on here as he is - er, was - on Monday Night Football.

2. It seemed more campy in the first season, with the Glads introduced merely as characters, without the profiles of them that appeared in later seasons.[/quote]

Indeed. Of course, that's always the case when such a series is just starting, but it was really apparent with AG. Even as a less-than-10-year-old fella watching these eps. on USA, I noticed the reuse of the entire opening [up to Theismann's intro] and Mike's event descriptions. Also notable was the schlocky WWE-esque host-Gladiator dialog----which I don't recall seeing on the newer eps. [my memory from--ahem----3 years ago is quite poor]

These eps----as relatively boring as they were compared to the later ones----were still quite the treat. I'm personally looking forward to the second competition [which I also haven't seen since the USA reruns], but still wouldn't mind seeing seasons 2 and beyond yet again.

Lastly, is it me, or does anyone think Theismann's now-affiliation with ESPN had to do with them picking up these eps.?
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