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Matt Ottinger

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« Reply #15 on: May 08, 2011, 03:20:25 PM »
Also, the game is the same thing over and over, but a host who's a little better at human interaction could have made it livelier.
Art James is Jim Peck without the pizzazz.
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« Reply #16 on: May 08, 2011, 09:42:18 PM »
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The one episode I was able to see on a trip to Alabama was on March 7, 1975, and they were doing the new format by that time.
I have no idea what I was doing on March 7, 1975. I'm glad someone does :-)

chrisholland03

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« Reply #17 on: May 08, 2011, 09:44:58 PM »
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The one episode I was able to see on a trip to Alabama was on March 7, 1975, and they were doing the new format by that time.
I have no idea what I was doing on March 7, 1975. I'm glad someone does :-)

You were in Alabama on March 7, 1975 too? :D

toddyo

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« Reply #18 on: May 09, 2011, 09:39:39 AM »
I was celebrating my 10 year birthday that day.  Side question - what was the game show that Art James did for Multimedia Productions, around that same time? Did they produce the pilot of Blank Check?

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« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2011, 09:41:46 AM »
Side question - what was the game show that Art James did for Multimedia Productions, around that same time? Did they produce the pilot of Blank Check?

Pot O' Gold, maybe?
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TimK2003

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« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2011, 09:57:40 AM »
Was Blank Check the first game show to regularly display different names & letters on eggcrate displays?  Since Price is Right only used eggcrate displays on the Showcase podiums & Card Game to spell out "OVER", I would hazard a guess that those were only signed/wired for that word only.

Oddly enough, it would be Art's next game show that would go one step further with "scrolling" alpha-numeric eggcrates on "Magnificent Marble Machine".

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« Reply #21 on: May 09, 2011, 12:58:45 PM »
Art James is Jim Peck without the pizzazz.

True. He was so good on "Temptation," though. Maybe if he'd brought that leering nightclub sugar-daddy approach and his cigarette holder to this.

"Who What or Where," too, for that matter. "You'd like $30 on the 'what.' I bet you would. Let's explore it together, shall we?"
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« Reply #22 on: May 09, 2011, 02:37:20 PM »
"You'd like $30 on the 'what.' I bet you would. Let's explore it together, shall we?"
LOL.
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