All-Star Bingo

[Jimmy Owen]

While looking up an airdate for HS, I ran across a listing for a Saturday night show called "All-Star Bingo."  KTVU in San Francisco had it as well as Channel 11 in San Jose and 12 in Chico.  Michael Jackson was host and the celebs on the 2/24/68 show were Hans Conried, Pete Deuel, Cheryl Miller and Vera Miles.  Regional show?

[clemon79]

For those of you scoring at home, that's Michael Jackson, the future talk-radio host, and not Michael Jackson, the weird pop star who likes little boys.

/Young men's pants, half off!
//realizes Jacko would have been 9
///still wanted to make the Jacko joke

[rugrats1]

My guess is that it was one of those shows that were locally sponsored by a supermarket, similar to "Win with the Stars" and "Let's Go To The Races".

[mmb5]

Looks like a one-a-week nationally syndicated for January 1968-August 1969.  I found ads for:

Oklahoma - sponsored by Piggly Wiggly with Ruta Lee, Sebastian Cabot, Doug McClure, Annette Funicello
Columbus, OH - sponsored by Albers with Sebastian Cabot, Jan Withers, Jerry Van Dyke, Joannie Summers
North Carolina - Big Star Discount Food Center (no stars listed)

Then I found this gem in the July 8, 1968 Red Bluff (CA) News (the ad was in all caps)

DID YOU SAY "BINGO?"

DON'T FEEL LONELY. SO DID 125,999 OTHER "AQUA" COLORED ALL-STAR BINGO TICKET-HOLDERS, ON LAST FRIDAY NIGHT, WATCHING THE TV SHOW OF JULY 5TH.

AS MANY AS 125.000. THAT'S HOW MANY "AQUA"-COLORED TICKETS HAD BEEN GIVEN OUT IN PURITY STORES, IN THIS AREA.

SINCE IT'S OBVIOUS THAT NOT EVERY BINGO TICKET IS A WINNER . . . EVEN ON THE DAY AFTER THE FOURTH OF JULY . . . THIS MEANS THAT SOMETHING WENT WRONG. WE DON'T KNOW WHERE. BUT, HERE ARE THE FACTS:

BEGINNING SUNDAY, JUNE 30th, PURITY STORES STARTED GIVING OUT THE WEEK'S NEW "AQUA"-COLORED 'ALL STAR BINGO' TICKETS, DATED FOR THE TV SHOW OF FRIDAY, JULY 5th.

"SOMEWHERE" . . . "SOMEONE" ELSE. . . THE FOLKS WHO DISTRIBUTE TV FILMS . . . STARTED SENDING THE TELEVISION FILMS (KHSL, CHANNEL 12, IN CHICO ) FOR THE TV SHOW TO BE BROADCAST ON FRIDAY, JULY 5 th.

THIS "SOMEONE" MADE A FANTASTIC "GOOF". TOO FANTASTIC, IN FACT, TO BE IMAGINED. "THEY" SENT THE WRONG FILM! (THESE DAYS, NEARLY ALL TV PROGRAMS ARE FILMED SEVERAL WEEKS IN ADVANCE. AS YOU KNOW.) THIS FILMED SHOW GAVE OUT THE BINGO NUMBERS FOR "LEMON"-COLORED TICKETS, NOT SCHEDULED TO BE GIVEN OUT IN THE STORES UNTIL SOME WEEKS LATER. (ON THIS TV FILM, THE NUMBERS WERE REFERRED TO . . . TWICE . . .AS BEING FOR "LEMON."-COLORED TICKETS.)

AS A RESULT OF THIS "TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY", SOME HOLDERS OF "AQUA"-COLORED TICKETS COULD HAVE THOUGHT THEY HAD AS MANY AS_4_"BINGOS" . . . ON ONE TICKET! THEN "THEY" . . .AND YOU . . . REALIZED THE SAME THING . . . THAT "SOMEONE" HAD SENT THE WRONG FILM. AND WE, AT PURITY, HAD TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE CONFUSION WAS. JUST AS YOU DID.

BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS, YOU WILL HAVE SEEN THAT "SOMEONE" HAS NOW SENT THE RIGHT FILM . . . AND THAT THE TELEVISION STATION HAS SOMEHOW, VERY KINDLY FOUND THE TIME TO RUN THE CORRECT ALL-STAR BINGO SHOW FOR THE "AQUA"-COLORED TICKETS.

WE HOPE ALL 125,000 OF YOU SAW IT ... LAST SATURDAY EVENING AT 9:30 P.M., ON KHSL, CHANNEL 12, CHICO.

NATURALLY, PURITY HAS ALREADY POSTED THE CORRECT WINNING BINGO NUMBERS FOR YOUR "AQUA"-COLORED TICKETS, IN EACH STORE. THE SAME AS ANY OTHER WEEK, AFTER THE SHOW.

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY TAKEN YOUR "AQUA"-COLORED BINGO TICKET TO YOUR NEARBY PURITY STORE . . . THE TICKET YOU PLAYED WITH THE WRONG TV FILM YOU CAN ASK FOR YOUR TICKET BACK . . . CHECK THE COLOR OF YOUR TICKET WITH THE MATCHING "AQUA" POSTER IN THE STORE . . . CHECK THE BINGO NUMBERS ON YOUR "AQUA" TICKET. . .AND, IF IT IS A WINNER YOU SHOULD TURN IT BACK IN AT YOUR PURITY STORE, FOR VERIFICATION . . . THE SAME AS ANY OTHER WEEK. YOU'LL GET A SIGNED RECEIPT. AND YOUR CASH PRIZE ON VERIFIED "AQUA" TICKETS WILL BE SENT RIGHT BACK. BY PURITY. JUST LIKE ALWAYS.

WE, AT PURITY, ARE ALL REAL SORRY THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED. AND IN A SPECIAL EFFORT TO PAY THE CORRECT PRIZES ON THE "AQUA" BINGO TICKETS . . . WE ARE EXTENDING THE REDEMPTION DEADLINE. ONE WHOLE WEEK. THRU THURSDAY, JULY 18th.

YOURS TRULY,
ALL OF US AT
YOUR PURITY STORE

--Mike

[DoorNumberFour]

Wow.

First an Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along the Suez Canal, and now this.

[Jay Temple]

Did that ad have anyone else thinking of the beginning of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, concerning the people who put together the title sequence?

[trainman]

[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' post=\'151171\' date=\'Apr 28 2007, 10:58 PM\']
Did that ad have anyone else thinking of the beginning of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, concerning the people who put together the title sequence?
[/quote]

WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE FAULT OF THE FOLKS WHO DISTRIBUTE TV FILMS.  THOSE RESPONSIBLE HAVE BEEN SACKED.






A møøse once bit my sister...

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'trainman\' post=\'151257\' date=\'Apr 30 2007, 07:50 PM\']
A møøse once bit my sister...
[/quote]
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