Author Topic: Syndicated Fleming Jeopardy!, 1974-75 (Read 12365 times)

Eric Paddon · « **Reply #15 on:** February 24, 2008, 02:37:56 PM »

Yes, that particular Jeopardy episode came from UCLA originally. I recognized it as the one used in TZ when I heard the contestant give the question, "Who is Bartholomew Cubbins?" which in the movie, the old man (Murray Matheson) watching on TV gives it before she does!

William A. Padron · « **Reply #16 on:** February 24, 2008, 02:52:35 PM »

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'178629\' date=\'Feb 23 2008, 04:16 PM\']
I believe Cullen's $25,000 Pyramid produced 30 per year...
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Yes, it was always 30 first-run episodes a season for the Cullen edition, with six episodes produced each taping session for normally about five times during the spring/summer of the year. All 30 of them would have to all be completed by the start of the fall season, so that the tapes would be bicycled around the country to different stations.

JohnHolder · « **Reply #17 on:** February 24, 2008, 07:13:25 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'178720\' date=\'Feb 24 2008, 02:01 PM\']
Wiki's not being ruined by trolls and vandals, it's being ruined by these asshat self-appointed Wikicops who are insisting on seeing six sources for every piece of information, instead of stepping back and letting the experts be experts.
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I demand that you produce a reliable, third-party source to cite as verification of this assertion.

John

JohnHolder · « **Reply #18 on:** February 24, 2008, 07:15:04 PM »

[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'178712\' date=\'Feb 24 2008, 01:10 PM\']

Broadcasting Magazine, Feb. 18, 1974, p. 36.

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Great! Thanks!

John

calliaume · « **Reply #19 on:** February 24, 2008, 09:06:18 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'178718\' date=\'Feb 24 2008, 02:50 PM\']
[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'178712\' date=\'Feb 24 2008, 01:10 PM\']
Broadcasting Magazine, Feb. 18, 1974, p. 36.

While I have it open:
Firestone: To Tell the Truth (260), The New Beat the Clock (260), I've Got a Secret (52)
Four Star: Can You Top This? (195), Juvenile Jury (26)
Sandy Frank: The New Treasure Hunt (32), The New Name That Tune (32)
Metromedia: Jeopardy (36), Truth or Consequences (260)
Rhodes: Hollywood Squares (32), Dating Game (260)
20th Century Fox: The New Strike it Rich, Masquerade Party (no episode counts)
Viacom: What's My Line (260)
Jim Victory: Concentration (260)
Les Wallwork: Dealer's Choice (260 or 52)
Worldvision: Let's Make a Deal (104), It Pays to Be Ignorant (39)[/quote]

Meanwhile, to crib a piece from an old SportsNight episode, 36 is an odd number. [/quote]

But it's not a prime number.

Is this a combination of what would be produced for 1974-75 and what was produced for 1973-74? There's a lot of shows that weren't around for 1974-75 listed (Beat the Clock, I've Got a Secret, Can You Top This, Juvenile Jury, Dating Game, It Pays to Be Ignorant, The New Strike It Rich) -- some of which were in production for the previous season.

Still useful, and it's good enuff to throw on my page when I update in 2029.

mmb5 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 24, 2008, 09:37:44 PM »

[quote name=\'calliaume\' post=\'178811\' date=\'Feb 24 2008, 09:06 PM\']
Is this a combination of what would be produced for 1974-75 and what was produced for 1973-74? There's a lot of shows that weren't around for 1974-75 listed (Beat the Clock, I've Got a Secret, Can You Top This, Juvenile Jury, Dating Game, It Pays to Be Ignorant, The New Strike It Rich) -- some of which were in production for the previous season.

Still useful, and it's good enuff to throw on my page when I update in 2029.
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It's a list of what was available to be purchased by your station for the 1974-75 season. Not everything was listed, like Pyramid for example.

--Mike

snowpeck · « **Reply #21 on:** February 24, 2008, 09:47:27 PM »

Some of those could have been rerun packages. Also, it's likely that with some of those, the syndicators offered another season of the show (Beat the Clock for instance) and didn't get enough affiliate committments to continue production.

Greg

clemon79 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 24, 2008, 10:06:25 PM »

[quote name=\'JohnHolder\' post=\'178790\' date=\'Feb 24 2008, 04:13 PM\']
I demand that you produce a reliable, third-party source to cite as verification of this assertion.[/quote]
I got yer reliable third-party source right >here<, bub.

/bravo
//bravissimo

Fell Into A Trivia Trap · « **Reply #23 on:** February 25, 2008, 01:23:18 AM »

Im a long time lurker, but rare poster (probably going to be more frequent now),

Are we talking about the version of syndicated J! with the Super Jeopardy round? I know that GSN has at least one episode of that version. And, do we know who announced this version? Maybe a fan site of an announcer or Fleming might reveal an exact number. Also, maybe someone could contact KingWorld to see. Im just saying.

JasonA1 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 25, 2008, 08:37:49 AM »

[quote name=\'Fell Into A Trivia Trap\' post=\'178847\' date=\'Feb 25 2008, 02:23 AM\']
Are we talking about the version of syndicated J! with the Super Jeopardy round?
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No, that was in '78. The version in question here was weekly and had a bonus round where the winner picked spaces off the board to win up to $25,000 in cash.

And odds are, whoever ran a fan site we'd get numbers from probably posts here anyhow.

-Jason

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #25 on:** March 01, 2008, 02:50:22 PM »

Sorry to put a crimp into the search for the absolute-perfect answer, but I'm now being told pretty reliably (but anonymously) that there were in fact 39 episodes of syndicated Jeopardy produced. What's more, the tapes survive, but are inaccessible to ANY collector.

DoorNumberFour · « **Reply #26 on:** March 01, 2008, 03:08:33 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'179472\' date=\'Mar 1 2008, 02:50 PM\']
What's more, the tapes survive, but are inaccessible to ANY collector.
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Out of curiosity, what kind of circumstances would prohibit the viewing or otherwise release of tapes?

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #27 on:** March 01, 2008, 03:13:05 PM »

[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'179474\' date=\'Mar 1 2008, 03:08 PM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'179472\' date=\'Mar 1 2008, 02:50 PM\']
What's more, the tapes survive, but are inaccessible to ANY collector.
[/quote]
Out of curiosity, what kind of circumstances would prohibit the viewing or otherwise release of tapes?
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Owned by a company that's got them on an obsolete format and isn't inclined to spend tons of money to convert them just for our amusement.

For one.

tvwxman · « **Reply #28 on:** March 01, 2008, 06:30:10 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'179475\' date=\'Mar 1 2008, 03:13 PM\']
Owned by a company that's got them on an obsolete format and isn't inclined to spend tons of money to convert them just for our amusement.
[/quote]
Oooooh. I'm sorry. The correct question is "What is blocked by a bear trap?"

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #29 on:** March 02, 2008, 11:54:06 AM »

Quote

Sorry to put a crimp into the search for the absolute-perfect answer, but I'm now being told pretty reliably (but anonymously) that there were in fact 39 episodes of syndicated Jeopardy produced. What's more, the tapes survive, but are inaccessible to ANY collector.

Theoretically, this is something GSN should have the rights to, unless it falls under the same problem as Cullen's $25,000 Pyramid and Love Experts, that it's still owned partially by the syndicator.

I quite certain that even if GSN did have (or could access) the tapes, they'd probably never air them anyway.