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Don Howard · « **on:** July 28, 2008, 09:14:09 PM »

The episodes presented this past weekend on GSN originally aired on January 2nd and 4th, 1980. There was no show (or for Celebrity Whew! for that matter) on January 3rd 1980 due to Sharon Lovejoy's program January Magazine. Monty Hall's announcement of the pre-emption was excised by GSN for the early Sunday morning airing. Unless there's another CBS pre-emption that happened between then and the February 1st 1980 last show, that leaves twenty more shows getting us to the final show barring any skips or bumps on the early morning of Monday, October 6th.

tvwxman · « **Reply #1 on:** July 28, 2008, 11:31:20 PM »

I really never thought I'd ask this question :

Is there an episode guide of celebrities listed anywhere?

pyrfan · « **Reply #2 on:** July 29, 2008, 12:46:23 AM »

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'192552\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 11:31 PM\']
I really never thought I'd ask this question :

Is there an episode guide of celebrities listed anywhere?
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I have one that I compiled from TV Guide a few years ago -- which surprises no one here, I'm sure. Until I read Don's explanation, though, I thought I was missing a week's worth of information, but now it seems like they only taped 12 weeks of shows and not 13 and must have had some preemptions or delays in the air schedule. If this Saturday's celebs are who I think they're going to be, my list is complete. Here's the list I have, keeping in mind that I keep track of them based on the Monday that the first show of the week originally should have aired, barring preemptions:

11/5/1979
Nancy Lane, Mary Beth McDonough, Steve Kanaly, Robert Pine

11/12/1979
Randi Oakes, Roxie Roker, Richard Kline, Tom Dreesen

11/19/1979
Leslie Ackerman, Tamara Dobson, Robert Mandan, Ken Michelman

11/26/1979
Abbe Lane, Jo Ann Pflug, Tige Andrews, Robert Donner

12/3/1979
Patty Duke Astin, Mary Ann Mobley, John Astin, Gary Collins

12/10/1979
Phyllis Davis, Charlene Tilton, Gordon Jump, Sorrell Booke

12/17/1979
Patti Deutsch, Joyce Bulifant, Ronnie Schell, Johnny Brown

12/24/1979
Eileen Barnett, Ellen Travolta, Louis Nye, Jack Carter

12/31/1979
This is the possibly nonexistent week

1/7/1980
Michele Tobin, Laurie Walters, Ira Angustain, Jimmy Van Patten

1/14/1980
Elaine Joyce, Mitzi McCall, Bobby Van, Charlie Brill

1/21/1980
Sue Ann Langdon, Meredith MacRae, Bob Seagren, Don Sutton

1/28/1980
Ralna Hovis, Laurette Spang, Guy Hovis, John McCook

clemon79 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 29, 2008, 12:47:52 AM »

[quote name=\'pyrfan\' post=\'192572\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 09:46 PM\']
1/7/1980
Michele Tobin, Laurie Walters, Ira Angustain, Jimmy Van Patten

1/28/1980
Ralna Hovis, Laurette Spang, Guy Hovis, John McCook[/quote]
He said *celebrities.*

pyrfan · « **Reply #4 on:** July 29, 2008, 01:07:35 AM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'192573\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 12:47 AM\']
[quote name=\'pyrfan\' post=\'192572\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 09:46 PM\']
1/7/1980
Michele Tobin, Laurie Walters, Ira Angustain, Jimmy Van Patten

1/28/1980
Ralna Hovis, Laurette Spang, Guy Hovis, John McCook[/quote]
He said *celebrities.*

[/quote]
You had the same reaction that I did when I compiled this list -- "Who are these people?" Granted, they had some stars on who were already game-show staples (Jo Ann Pflug, Elaine Joyce) or were just starting their game-show careers (Richard Kline, Robert Donner), but I look at a lot of those names and still scratch my head.

Brendan

Mike Tennant · « **Reply #5 on:** July 29, 2008, 09:16:49 AM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'192573\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 12:47 AM\']
[quote name=\'pyrfan\' post=\'192572\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 09:46 PM\']1/28/1980
Ralna Hovis, Laurette Spang, Guy Hovis, John McCook[/quote]
He said *celebrities.*

[/quote]Now just a doggone minute, you whippersnapper! Guy and Ralna were a singing duo on The Lawrence Welk Show, and you don't get any more celebrity-er than that!

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #6 on:** July 29, 2008, 09:55:52 AM »

Only three episodes were on the week of 12/31. Jan 1 was pre-empted by Rose Parade coverage and, as Don mentioned in the first post, Jan 3 was the monthly Lovejoy Magazine. So the Eileen Barnett, et al week started Thursday Dec. 28th rather than Dec 31 and ran through Jan 4.

They originally got off the track Thanksgiving week when, depending on your time zone, you got Parade coverage or a Football game on Thursday and one of those Kenner-sponsored Australian animated "Famous Classic Tales" on Friday. The next week had one pre-emption for "Magazine" on Thursday.

Don Howard · « **Reply #7 on:** July 29, 2008, 11:23:03 AM »

[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'192597\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 09:16 AM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'192573\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 12:47 AM\']
[quote name=\'pyrfan\' post=\'192572\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 09:46 PM\']1/28/1980
Ralna Hovis, Laurette Spang, Guy Hovis, John McCook[/quote]
He said *celebrities.*

[/quote]Now just a doggone minute, you whippersnapper! Guy and Ralna were a singing duo on The Lawrence Welk Show, and you don't get any more celebrity-er than that!
[/quote]
As for the other two, John McCook was on The Young And The Restless at the time and Laurette Spang (John's wife then as now) was fresh off her role as Cassiopea on Battlestar Galactica. Flashing back to the week just shown, Eileen Barnett was then playing Stephanie Woodruff [who turned out to be the believed-deceased Brooke Hamilton] on Days Of Our Lives.

tvwxman · « **Reply #8 on:** July 29, 2008, 11:28:55 AM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'192600\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 11:23 AM\']
As for the other two, John McCook was on The Young And The Restless at the time and Laurette Spang (John's wife then as now) was fresh off her role as Cassiopea on Battlestar Galactica. Flashing back to the week just shown, Eileen Barnett was then playing Stephanie Woodruff [who turned out to be the believed-deceased Brooke Hamilton] on Days Of Our Lives.
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Oh..... 'that' Laurette Spang. I had her confused with the other one.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #9 on:** July 29, 2008, 11:56:20 AM »

[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'192597\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 09:16 AM\']Now just a doggone minute, you whippersnapper! Guy and Ralna were a singing duo on The Lawrence Welk Show, and you don't get any more celebrity-er than that![/quote]
Cool. I saw 'Ralna Hovis' and then 'Guy Hovis' and I had no idea who those people were. YOU say 'Guy and Ralna' and I immediately remember!

Welk was notorious for not letting his "musical family" make appearances outside the Welk properties, and the show was still going in 1980. Wonder how they managed to end up on a game show?

Mike Tennant · « **Reply #10 on:** July 29, 2008, 01:13:56 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'192604\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 11:56 AM\']
[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'192597\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 09:16 AM\']Now just a doggone minute, you whippersnapper! Guy and Ralna were a singing duo on The Lawrence Welk Show, and you don't get any more celebrity-er than that![/quote]
Cool. I saw 'Ralna Hovis' and then 'Guy Hovis' and I had no idea who those people were. YOU say 'Guy and Ralna' and I immediately remember!

Welk was notorious for not letting his "musical family" make appearances outside the Welk properties, and the show was still going in 1980. Wonder how they managed to end up on a game show?
[/quote]
Dunno, but Gail Farrell, another Welk performer, turned up twice on Match Game around that time, which surprised me even more because it surely wouldn't be up to Welk's standards of cleanliness.

SRIV94 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 29, 2008, 03:03:27 PM »

[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'192611\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 12:13 PM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'192604\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 11:56 AM\']
[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'192597\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 09:16 AM\']Now just a doggone minute, you whippersnapper! Guy and Ralna were a singing duo on The Lawrence Welk Show, and you don't get any more celebrity-er than that![/quote]
Cool. I saw 'Ralna Hovis' and then 'Guy Hovis' and I had no idea who those people were. YOU say 'Guy and Ralna' and I immediately remember!

Welk was notorious for not letting his "musical family" make appearances outside the Welk properties, and the show was still going in 1980. Wonder how they managed to end up on a game show?
[/quote]
Dunno, but Gail Farrell, another Welk performer, turned up twice on Match Game around that time, which surprised me even more because it surely wouldn't be up to Welk's standards of cleanliness.
[/quote]
Then there was Kathie Sullivan, who showed up on FRIDAYS for a bit with Andy Kaufman (and if Welk thought being on a game show was risky. . .). Pretty good read in Bob Zmuda's Andy Kaufman Revealed (not a link to the story, but I enjoyed the book).

/As a fan of the art form of tap-dancing, WELK regular Arthur Duncan was one of my earliest influences. And a nice guy, too. Don't believe he ever did a game show, though.

Don Howard · « **Reply #12 on:** July 29, 2008, 03:10:45 PM »

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'192601\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 11:28 AM\']
Oh..... 'that' Laurette Spang. I had her confused with the other one.
[/quote]
That's a common mistake. And completely understandable.
As for the week coming up, I recognize two names.
Laurie Walters played aspiring actress Joanie Bradford on Eight Is Enough (where the yummy Connie Newton Needham played Elizabeth) while Ira Angustain was a member of Carver High School's basketball team on The White Shadow.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #13 on:** July 29, 2008, 03:14:15 PM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'192600\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 11:23 AM\']
[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'192597\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 09:16 AM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'192573\' date=\'Jul 29 2008, 12:47 AM\']
[quote name=\'pyrfan\' post=\'192572\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 09:46 PM\']1/28/1980
Ralna Hovis, Laurette Spang, Guy Hovis, John McCook[/quote]
He said *celebrities.*

[/quote]Now just a doggone minute, you whippersnapper! Guy and Ralna were a singing duo on The Lawrence Welk Show, and you don't get any more celebrity-er than that!
[/quote]
As for the other two, John McCook was on The Young And The Restless at the time
[/quote]
And I believe Eric Forrester on "Bold and the Beautiful"...at least I believe so, from watching soaps with three generations of maternal relatives...

ObGameShow: he also played a musical game show host on a 1983 episode of Alice.

irismason42 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 29, 2008, 04:36:22 PM »

I got a question for you Don, out of all the weeks with the celebrity guests listed, what week of episodes did GSN stop at before they added "Family Feud '94", the Bob Stewart packet shows and the children's game show block(aka acquiring QKC, Joker, Joker, Joker, Jep!, and Wheel 2000) to their lineup?