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JMFabiano

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Your Holy Grail of game show episodes or footage
« on: July 16, 2012, 07:27:17 PM »
Over at the DVDVR boards, we have a long thread about wrestling footage not known to still exist, if it ever did, that we'd desire the most.  I decided to carry this over to the game show field, though I have a feeling I'm revisiting something.  Anyway, what "lost" episode(s) would you like to find the most/to see again?  

Given my past postings, I think it's no secret that my choices would be:
Any Pyramid episode where Bernadette Peters was one of the celebs (seems to be limited to $10K eps and Cullen $25K)
The week of You Don't Say where Dusty Springfield is on the panel
The Feud '94 episode where Richard addresses a letter criticizing him *AND* Ray Combs, who is mentioned by name.  (Was this one seen on GSN in 1997?)
The MG/HS Hour pilot...just because I'm one of the few, the proud, the actual fans of MG/HS.  But also I'd be curious to see three-player Match Game, and I remember when the NBC Store in Rockefeller Center actually used a picture of the pilot on its floor tiles to represent Hollywood Squares.  (I so wish I could dig up the photo, I THINK it's on one of the CDs I used for saving them back in the day...)
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Vahan_Nisanian

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« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2012, 07:41:37 PM »
Any non-GSN episodes of Press Your Luck that haven't resurfaced yet (GSN or in trading circles)
The Shelley Smith & Bill Cullen week of The New $25,000 Pyramid.
The full 1976 episode of TPIR with the first playing of Cliff Hangers.
An episode from the Jack Kelly era of Sale of the Century.
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« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2012, 07:44:57 PM »
Any non-GSN episodes of Press Your Luck that haven't resurfaced yet (GSN or in trading circles)
The Shelley Smith & Bill Cullen week of The New $25,000 Pyramid.
The first playing of Cliff-Hanger on TPIR.
An episode from the Jack Kelly era of Sale of the Century.

Only one of those is probably "lost".

For me, any episode of the original Jeopardy! that isn't out there.
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« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2012, 07:49:49 PM »
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Jimmy Owen

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« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2012, 07:53:25 PM »
I'd like to see an episode of You're Putting Me On after Larry Blyden took over.
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« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2012, 07:56:15 PM »
Definitely the 70s era $ale of the Century.
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« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2012, 08:03:00 PM »
I would like to see the episode of Concentration where Norm Blumenthal, acting as host, surprised everyone with a gameboard filled with Forfeits and a blank puzzle.
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« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2012, 08:17:23 PM »
Hello, everyone,

This is my first post and I'm glad to join all you game show nuts.

My Holy Grail would be "Showdown" with Joe Pyne or the first episode of "I've Got a Secret" with the hastily scrapped courtroom motif.

WhammyPower

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« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2012, 08:33:55 PM »
The entire series of Whew!

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« Reply #9 on: July 16, 2012, 08:51:12 PM »
The entire series of Whew!
Okay, fine, if that's where we're going:

Every surviving episode of every game show, evar.
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« Reply #10 on: July 16, 2012, 09:02:35 PM »
For me, Some Fleming-era Jeopardy!

But, my holy grail is the original WWTBAM? pilot back in 1998

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« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2012, 09:04:43 PM »
Okay, fine, if that's where we're going:

Every surviving episode of every game show, evar.
I agree, I hope the Library of Congress has carved out a storage room for all the media.

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« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2012, 09:11:50 PM »
Really, any new $10/20KP would make me happy, but my top two would be the first episode and the one with Billy Crystal's 26-second win. Hypothetically, if there were a tape of one of the Watergate-delayed eps with information that identified its airdate, that would be a huge Honorable Mention.
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« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2012, 09:53:47 PM »
Huh. Interesting question.

* In general, the finale of any since-destroyed game show that acknowledged it was the end (such as Eye Guess, where they apparently took out the "STOP!" card for the last bonus game)
* Concentration: 1958 premiere, Downs' last day, Clayton's first (both in January and September '69), McMahon's first and last shows, Ed's only anniversary show (where he and Johnny Carson played while Clayton hosted), first color episode, Teri Coffin's 20th win from 1973
* The Hollywood Squares: 1966 pilot, premiere, first and last Vegas shows
* Jeopardy!: Merv's original What's The Question? runthrough, 1964 premiere, the rest of the September 7, 1966 show
* Password: 1961 premiere, 1971 premiere, last pre-All-Stars show, first All-Stars show, first "big-money Lightning Round" show, anything from when Monty Hall or Betty White hosted
* The Price Is Right: 1956 pilot, series premiere, last NBC daytime show, first ABC show (both versions), 1965 finale, Dennis James' first and last shows
* Pyramid: last $10,000 episode, first $20,000 episode
* Second Chance: Pilots #1-2 and premiere
* Snap Judgment: last episode of the first format, first day of the Password format
* Three On A Match: last day of prize-matching/first day of picture-matching, any episode from the last week or two (where I'm sure Bill was buzzsawing through the material even more than he was in February)
* Wheel of Fortune: last episode with the Buy A Vowel wedge, the episode immediately following it, any hour-long episode, any episode from 1977 (the only year that doesn't have any audiovisual examples), first and last Star Bonus shows, the very first use of the five-and-a-vowel Bonus Round, last day of Thicke's cues/first day of Merv's, anything from the Ohio State Fair week in August 1983 (the first nighttime week for some affiliates in that state)
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« Reply #14 on: July 16, 2012, 10:01:45 PM »
My friend Sandy Mumbach was a $20K Pyramid winner--that hardly describes it; she won sixteen consecutive front games before getting to the top of the pyramid.  I'd love to be able to show her that appearance.

And I believe composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim played Password; I bet that would be wickedly fun to see.
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