Took me a second to realize that he was examining ONLY those shows that were taping in New York at the time, so stuff like Hollywood Squares naturally wasn't included. Interesting that for as much as he makes fun of the avarice associated with something like Sale of the Century, all the New York shows he profiled, including Sale, required some amount of smarts to play. Meanwhile, on the other coast, you were agreeing or disagreeing with a celebrity, picking the door or the curtain, choosing a blind date or answering questions about "whoopie" with your spouse. It's also an interesting snapshot of the period right before Pyramid and the Price-Joker-Gambit trio would change the face of daytime for the decade to follow.
Being Cullen-obsessed, I was disappointed that this article came out right in the middle of the two-year period when Bill didn't have a game show of his own, the longest such gap of his career.
