Kitty Carlisle Hart tribute

[Marshall Akers]

The press release is here.


Marshall
"To Tell the Truth" on the Web

edit:  Sorry, y'all.  Make that a Monday morning 3am two-fer.

[game show guy]

I'm just happy their doing this tribute. Both episodes look good.

[PYLW]

Ugh, kind of lazy, but oh well, better than nothing.

[Matt Ottinger]

Guests were a New York City police detective who uses disguises and an executive who studies the impact of viewing television in addition to Carlisle’s own son in disguise.

That's a really, really bad sentence.

I still marvel at the fact that GSN makes a big put-out-a-press-release deal about running 'tributes' at three o'clock in the morning, but I've resigned myself to the phrase, "It's better than nothing."

[MikeK]

[quote name=\'PYLW\' post=\'150504\' date=\'Apr 18 2007, 09:40 PM\']
Ugh, kind of lazy, but oh well, better than nothing.
[/quote]
Kind of lazy?  Would you prefer no tribute?

They're airing Kitty's first appearance and, from what I can tell, the Richard Buggy episode, one of the best episodes from the 70s run.  I've had GSN for almost 8 years and I've never seen the Buggy episode.  What's not to like?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'150510\' date=\'Apr 18 2007, 08:00 PM\']
Kind of lazy?  Would you prefer no tribute?
[/quote]
I don't think it's that so much as the fact that, with an almost immeasurable amount of extra effort, they could do something much much better. The frustration is in watching them almost go out of their way to expend as little effort as possible.

I mean, 'cuz really, your argument can be extrapolated to the entire network. Is having GSN better than not having GSN? Of course. Does that mean I should be satisfied when they excrete out yet another Chain Reaction and StarFace? Hells no.

[PYLW]

[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'150510\' date=\'Apr 18 2007, 11:00 PM\'] [quote name=\'PYLW\' post=\'150504\' date=\'Apr 18 2007, 09:40 PM\']
Ugh, kind of lazy, but oh well, better than nothing.
[/quote]
Kind of lazy? Would you prefer no tribute?

[/quote]

Uhh..., that's why I said "oh well, better than nothing."...

[Jay Temple]

Sure, I wish they'd run more, but if they're only showing two, these are probably the best two to show. Now I'm off to set my VCR.

[tpirfan28]

[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'150510\' date=\'Apr 18 2007, 11:00 PM\']
[quote name=\'PYLW\' post=\'150504\' date=\'Apr 18 2007, 09:40 PM\']
Ugh, kind of lazy, but oh well, better than nothing.
[/quote]
Kind of lazy?  Would you prefer no tribute?

They're airing Kitty's first appearance and, from what I can tell, the Richard Buggy episode, one of the best episodes from the 70s run.  I've had GSN for almost 8 years and I've never seen the Buggy episode.  What's not to like?
[/quote]
While I definitely do not gripe about the selection of episodes, it would have been more interesting if they would have shown an episode from each decade she was on.   However, saying that, it doesn't surprise me that they're only showing two episodes at 3AM.

When was the last tribute that wasn't buried at 3AM?  Nipsey Russell?  Peter Tomarken?

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'150538\' date=\'Apr 19 2007, 09:05 AM\']
While I definitely do not gripe about the selection of episodes, it would have been more interesting if they would have shown an episode from each decade she was on.   However, saying that, it doesn't surprise me that they're only showing two episodes at 3AM.[/quote]

Kitty was up there in her years, and though she was in excellent health until recently,  GSN had a lot of time to prepare a better tribute than this. She should've had a week-long tribute, even if at 3AM. But again, this is GSN we're talking about.

I agree with Klauss that despite only a 60-minute tribute to someone whose career spanned 6 decades of game shows, they are choosing 2 good episodes, as the Richard Buggy episode was a riot.

[game show guy]

Thanks GSN!!! In addition, to The Sunday overnight block, all next week at 2PM, will be To Tell The Truth with Kitty! Press Release

Among the episodes are The first 1990s episode, the last 90s ep, AND the dog food episode from 1974.

Thank You Game Show Network!!

[Pyramid80]

Looks like the tribute is growing:

GSN Kitty Tribute

[tpirfan28]

[quote name=\'Pyramid80\' post=\'150571\' date=\'Apr 19 2007, 06:58 PM\']
Looks like the tribute is growing:

GSN Kitty Tribute
[/quote]
MUCH better GSN.  Little disappointed there's no '80s TTTT...but it's better than that really tiny tribute initially planned.

And the new lineup:

SUNDAY (3:00AM): Carlisle's first TTTT appearance, 1957.
MONDAY (2:00PM): "Richard Buggy" ep.
TUESDAY (2:00PM): The Dog Food ep.
WEDNESDAY (2:00PM): First '90s TTTT
THURSDAY (2:00PM):  Seemingly a random ep...
FRIDAY (2:00PM):  Final '90s TTTT

[Esoteric Eric]

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'150572\' date=\'Apr 19 2007, 04:09 PM\']And the new lineup:

SUNDAY (3:00AM): Carlisle's first TTTT appearance, 1957.
MONDAY (2:00PM): "Richard Buggy" ep.
TUESDAY (2:00PM): The Dog Food ep.
WEDNESDAY (2:00PM): First '90s TTTT
THURSDAY (2:00PM):  Seemingly a random ep...
FRIDAY (2:00PM):  Final '90s TTTT
[/quote]OK, this question: is the 2nd overnight episode still going to be the "Richard Buggy" ep, as well as the Monday afternoon (late morning in some Pacific markets) ep?

[snowpeck]

[quote name=\'Esoteric Eric\' post=\'150612\' date=\'Apr 20 2007, 01:18 AM\']
OK, this question: is the 2nd overnight episode still going to be the "Richard Buggy" ep, as well as the Monday afternoon (late morning in some Pacific markets) ep?
[/quote]

According to the press release, yes.


Greg