Most obscure game shows

[beatlefreak84]

I remember catching Inspiration, Please! on a religious channel in the early 1990s. Not being a religious person I didn't watch it more than once or twice, but I think the bonus prize was a trip to a holy site.

Oh, yeah; I remember that show...it was on the Oddysey Channel back in the '90s (I remember seeing it in 1997, but only once at my grandma's house).  Its prize was a trip to the "Holy Land" (i.e., Jerusalem), but that was the grand prize.  You had to win a tournament in order to get it, and I can't remember if you got anything for winning one of the earlier rounds.  But, you're right; very religious-themed.

The definition of "obscure" definitely has been blurred for me thanks to this group, GSN, and YouTube, but I thought the old PBS game show Think Twice fit here nicely.  A very nice quiz game, but it only had 13 episodes, and I think was PBS' only attempt at a non-kids game show.  The only way I saw it was my PBS station reran it for a very short time during the day right after Carmen Sandiego.

Anthony

[tomobrien]

Ah, the joys of being really, really old...I can remember watching Alumni Fun with Clifton (or Kip to his close friends) Fadiman in '64, and Make a Face was a big fave during 1st grade lunchtime in '61.

[Jimmy Owen]

Ah, the joys of being really, really old...I can remember watching Alumni Fun with Clifton (or Kip to his close friends) Fadiman in '64, and Make a Face was a big fave during 1st grade lunchtime in '61.

I saw a show while on vacation in Washington DC.  All I remember was that it was sponsored by American Cyanamid.  Could that have been Alumni Fun?

[tomobrien]

 I saw a show while on vacation in Washington DC.  All I remember was that it was sponsored by American Cyanamid.  Could that have been Alumni Fun?

Very good!  It was indeed sponsored by Cyanamid, as I recall, and also had a really silly animated opening and theme.  I think there were two panels of three celebrities, and each panel was made up of alumni of the same university.

[clemon79]

I remember catching Inspiration, Please! on a religious channel in the early 1990s. Not being a religious person I didn't watch it more than once or twice, but I think the bonus prize was a trip to a holy site.

Guessing it wasn't Mecca.

[PYLdude]

is fandango obscure enough?

I would say no, considering it aired on a national cable network for six years and was fairly popular too. Now if it was on a local channel in Nashville, sure.

[TimK2003]

For me the most obscure game show I can remember in the 1970s, was Monty Hall's "It's Anybody's Guess".  

I would go to great lengths to watch every game show on TV at least once when on summer vacation just to see what they looked like, and for the life of me I never remember seeing that show on TV. I don't remember the NBC affiliate in Cleveland pre-empting or time-shifting anything on the daytime schedule. And it wasn't until I saw a clip of the show on YouTube several months back when I even knew about the show.

[Ian Wallis]

While on a road trip in the summer of 1974, we came within signal distance of Ottawa's CJOH-TV.  They had a show on every evening called Top Dough.  To my pre-teen eyes I thought it was neat, but don't remember much about it now, other than it had 3 contestants and was some sort of question and answer game.  In some old Canadian TVGuides I have, I've never seen it listed on any other station.  Must have been a local show only.

Oddly enough, around the same time Dennis James' re-do of Name That Tune premiered on NBC.  I remember watching the premiere on the same trip and my mother commented "that show's so old!"  So I guess I've got two from the same trip!

Never saw Top Dough again but watched Name That Tune whenever home from school, plus Kennedy's once-weekly evening version.

[William A. Padron]

I had seen one episode of The Greater Baltimore Baffle, airing on WJZ-TV, Baltimore, during the fall of 1979.  It was a trivia-based show asking three contestants to answer questions and identify locations relating to the city.

[Brian44]

Around 1980-81, my sister appeared on a quiz show called It's Elementary on WPLG TV-10 out of Miami, hosted by one of my favorite radio personalities of all
time, Jim Hummel, better known as Rick Shaw, who at the time was at WAXY-106 in Ft. Lauderdale. (I'm assuming this format was packaged to other markets as well.)

The show was a fair test of the students' math, spelling and grammar skills between two elementary schools, and the main game was pretty straightforward, but as I remember, at the end of each round, Rick handed one student from each school a StormTrooper Blaster-type gun and escorted them to a "planetarium" to rack up extra points for their school. As Rick asked the questions, the students would zap what they thought was the correct answer coming out of the sky. If they were correct, their bodies lit up on the screen, but if they were wrong, they would "vanish" from the screen, squiggly lines and all.

With me being in middle school at the time I thought this was the silliest, cheesiest game show ever, but my sister loved every minute of it!

And with that, I'm into the triple digits with # of posts.

[Winkfan]

You want "obscure?" I'll give you "obscure," right here! 2nd Honeymoon

Cordially,
Tammy

[Jamey Greek]

Talking about obscure game shows, one obscure game show is NFL Trivia game that aired during football season as well as Sports SnapShot hosted by Jimmy Cefalo.  And the BET game shows.  Family Figures, as well as Tell me something good and Pressure Cooker.  By Glow in the Dark Productions who would go on and produce History IQ.

[alfonzos]

For me the most obscure game show I can remember in the 1970s, was Monty Hall's "It's Anybody's Guess".  

The only thing I remember about this show was it had a very similar open to TPiR. The opening shot was of the audience applauding with cascading lights framed the screen.

Add the syndicated Anything You Can Do to my list of obscure game shows. It was Beat the Clock with sexism.

[vexer6]

There was a game show on Animal Planet of all channels, it was called "You Lie Like A Dog" It was basically "To Tell The Truth" with pets.

[MikeK]

You want "obscure?" I'll give you "obscure," right here! 2nd Honeymoon

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