[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 01:01 PM\'] [quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 11:35 AM\']I've been of the belief that too often the audience is overcued to applaud on game shows, but, hey, audience applause sure fills up dead time more easily than an inept host trying to ad lib (no names, please).[/quote]
Great example would be SCRABBLE. When they decided to actually bring the audience on-camera, inevitably at the end of each episode Woolery would start conversing with members of the audience (or so we would be led to believe), as the McKenzie effects would be quieted. Then they'd startup again, you'd see the audience applaud (just before the fade to black) and Woolery would still be chatting.
For that matter, why put the audience on camera to begin with? $otC, WoF (in its Burbank years) and SP never bothered to except in certain circumstances (in fact, I don't recall $otC ever turning the cameras around--not to say it never happened). I guess Matt would know better than most if an audience was actually present at SALE (I would presume there was one).
I can't say this for a fact, but judging from some audience tracks I've heard over the recent past I'd guess that the NBC tracks are no longer around as we may remember them but were respliced into other audience tracks. That's just a guess, tho.
Doug [/quote]
At this time, Charlie Tuna would make the short plug "Scrabble is a registered trademark of the Scrabble brand crossword game, and is produced in association with Exposure Unlimited (who?)".
Also, I noticed, that sometime in the run, the rights to the game switched from Swichtler and Righter (or however you spell it) to Milton Bradley.
Matt, once again could jump in here.