[quote name=\'gameshowlover87\' post=\'187221\' date=\'Jun 1 2008, 06:43 PM\']
Thanks, pyrfan, for you help.
BTW, pyrfan, I have one more question regarding
Super Password: Exactly which weeks in 1987 and 1988, got bumped days later, because of news bulletins, and as a result, they had to tape some 4-episode weeks in order to get back on track?
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Glad to help. If I recall correctly, things first got off track in the spring of 1987 when breaking news of Gary Hart's affair interrupted SP during the Constance McCashin/Edwin Newman week. Because of the Oliver North hearings the next month, it took them till August to finally get back on a regular Monday-through-Friday schedule. They tried twice that summer, with consecutive weeks in June (featuring Vicki Lawrence & Joseph Campanella and Leann Hunley & Kevin Peter Hall, respectively) taping only four episodes apiece, but more pre-emptions kept this plan from working. They finally got back on Monday through Friday the week of August 10th, with guest stars Martha Smith and Richard Simmons, and this week featured the normal five shows. (Coincidentally, that's the week that new episodes of "The $25,000 Pyramid" finally resumed.)
They got off the track again in November of 1987. I think an episode of the "Night Court" vs. "Dynasty" week was bumped a day later for some reason. The Daphne Maxwell-Reid/Brad Garrett week only had four days, but it was supposed to because of Thanksgiving. The Sally Struthers/David Doyle week taped only four shows to allow them to get back on track again. The James Doohan/Michael Dorn week also had only four episodes, but this was because of New Year's.
The next time they got off track was during July of 1988, though I can't remember why. They taped four episodes the week that Marsha Warfield and Pat McCormick were guests, but since Monday was the Fourth of July, I want to say that those four episodes were planned for a while. They caught back up at the end of August, taping four shows for the Anne Meara/Paul Kreppel week.
They got off track one more time, and it was sometime in December. There were four episodes taped that featured Roz Ryan and Bill Kirchenbauer, but, again, since this was New Year's week, this was probably planned ahead of time. In February of 1989, three weeks featured six shows: the Pat Carroll/Andrew Stevens week, the Edie McClurg/Pat Harrington week, and the Marsha Warfield/Jamie Farr week. The final two weeks of the show featured five shows apiece and were on a regular Monday-through-Friday schedule.
Just to round this all out, there were also only four shows for the following weeks in December of 1986: Leann Hunley & Richard Simmons, Mary Ann Mobley & Gary Collins, and Ilene Graff & Christopher Hewett. In a strange coincidence, in all three of those weeks, one celeb was shut out of the end game all week long. (The "losers" were Leann, Mary Ann, and Christopher.)
Brendan