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« on: September 08, 2013, 07:34:19 AM »
Does anyone know who the fifth, sixth, and seventh celebs are in the opening of 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.]
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« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2013, 10:25:21 AM »

Chris Rich for sure.  TVGuide.com has an archive of episode celebrity listings at their site, but it\'s hard to navigate.


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« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2013, 10:54:21 PM »

Celebrity #6 looks like Ken Kercheval (\"Dallas\"), but I\'m not 100%.


 


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« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2013, 02:14:36 AM »

That\'s definitely Ken Kercheval, and although I wouldn\'t swear to it, the woman after that looks a lot like Brenda Vaccaro.



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« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2013, 12:22:46 PM »
Somebody has a big stack of Celebrity Bullseye episodes on his Youtube account and against my better judgment I dove in. Golly, what a poor and poorly executed idea. The match could last three games long of rather uninteresting questions (that were missed as often as they weren\'t) and when somebody was eventually able to scratch together $4,000 they get some exercise to go over and play the bonus game, only to spin twice and double the $300 that was in the pot.

Yee-haw.
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« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2013, 01:10:59 PM »

But kudos to whoever their casting person was.  They got a ton of interesting and in some cases high-profile celebrities to play their stupid little game, including some who really didn\'t do a lot of other game shows.


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« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2013, 01:41:52 PM »

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. 



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« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2013, 01:56:52 PM »

The Celeb format should\'ve kept the civilian format, one match per game.  Unless they did this because Barry & Enright\'s staff were unable to book enough celebrities for the amount of time they were doing the Celebrity version.


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« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2013, 10:07:01 PM »
How is leaving money in the pot for your opponent to claim if you slip up bad strategy?
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« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2013, 07:49:49 AM »
The Celeb format should've kept the civilian format, one match per game. Unless they did this because Barry & Enright's staff were unable to book enough celebrities for the amount of time they were doing the Celebrity version.
It's possible, although in the nine episodes that are on YouTube they managed to show about 43 celebs.

In fairness, Celebrity Bullseye is the only all-celeb game I'm aware of with returning champs, although that could've been for the same reason you suggest.
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« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2013, 01:25:29 PM »


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)


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« Reply #11 on: September 10, 2013, 02:56:00 PM »

Plus yeah, when you get $4,000 in the main games, there was the chance for the bonus to be anti-climactic.

Not just a chance but nearly a foregone conclusion. To roll up that kind of money you\'d have to build $2,000 in the bank and then get three bulls eyes or play seven spins. In one bonus round it goes bullseye-300-bullseye, then the third bullseye to end 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?

Just to me this seems really pointless. Why not just turn it into the audience game: call up three people, let them push the button and whoever spins up the most money can play an abbreviated bonus round, and when everyone wakes up again the celebrity can take on a new challenger.
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« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2013, 05:13:32 PM »


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.




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« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2013, 05:30:53 PM »

To me, it just seems anti-climactic, although I would probably do the same thing just to go home with some money. But yeah, it kinda goes against the whole \"game where daring determines the fate of the player\" spiel*.


 


*Although they changed that to something really generic for Celebrity Bullseye.


 


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« Reply #14 on: September 10, 2013, 05:31:19 PM »
No, the money stayed in the bank and the opponent could usurp control with a right answer. Whoever was in charge when a contract was finished could either bank the money and pass control or build the pot with the knowledge that a wrong answer meant the opponent could take it all away.

What Matt K. described is a very laborious and unexciting version of Joker\'s Wild.
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