If you want to talk about an uninteresting match, look no further than the match between Tina Louise and Jerry Mathers. Instead of playing to win the game, both Tina and Jerry were banking their money at any opportunity. Under the rules, any money banked, you kept regardless if you win the game. Jerry Mathers also appears quite bored. Didn\'t someone point out on here that it appeared Harvey Korman deliberately missed a question to give his opponent, who I believe was Suzy Chaffee (aka Suzy \"Chapstick\") a chance to play?
Bullseye just wasn\'t a format that celebs could make more interesting. Harvey Korman, Arte Johnson, and Phyllis Diller were funny people, but the format of the game didn\'t really allow them to be funny.
This. Celebs should: 1) be teamed with contestant(s), 2) on a panel, or 3) playing a \'50s-\'60s panel game. Having them doing a Q&A every week? Not so much.
Not having seen the Louise episodes myself yet, I have to ask...did Jim or anyone take care NOT to mention Gilligan\'s Island? (as the show technically doesn\'t exist in her world, starting, well, the moment the series was cancelled) I know, we were MANY years removed from the series anyway, and they\'d talk with celebs about what they were doing now, but still I am curious, as it was heavy in reruns at the time.
Louise vs. Mathers = match of the polar opposites as far as embracing their most famous sitcom character!
Yeah, the 2/3 format was unnecessary IMO...less variety. I\'ve heard similar complaining about $500 Password Plus, but at least that show was interesting enough to carry extra rounds of the main game, AND there were still civilian contestants to care about. And when they DID get to Bonus Island, it would be done in a flash (no pun intended). Plus yeah, when you get $4,000 in the main games, there was the chance for the bonus to be anti-climactic. Could having higher dollar amounts have saved it? Or maybe they could still play for the money and the prizes like the civ. version, but the latter could go to a studio audience player chosen to go to BI with the celeb?
Still, I\'d like to see the eps. with Rue McClanahan myself at least, being a Blanche fan (Vivian too). Isn\'t this the show where she is asked the origin of her first name? I remember that happening vaguely.
Apologies in advance if this is the wrong section.
Does anyone know who the fifth, sixth, and seventh celebs are in the opening of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l02dVCwEDec\'>this 1981 episode? The audio and video screw up at that point, and I want to say I\'ve seen those three (two males and a female) somewhere before in passing.
(For the record, the order is Rita Moreno, Diane Ladd, Roxie Roker, Leslie Uggams, the three unknowns, and Susan Richardson.)
Thanks in advance for any help.
[Edit: Thanks to Jimmy Owen for identifying the first unknown celeb as Chris Rich, and JD and pyrfan for identifying the second unknown celeb as Ken Kercheval.]
Shocked Ted McGinley wasn\'t one, or was never on this format (ducking)