Perry's Nighttime Card Sharks

[bulldog_06]

Through this lovely WIKI site about Mark Goodson

Jim Perry's version of Card Sharks was going to have a weekly nighttime counterpart? Would it have been the same as the future (now past) Bill Rafferty version?

http://markgoodson.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Sharks

[snowpeck]

Through this lovely WIKI site about Mark Goodson 

 

Jim Perry\'s version of Card Sharks was going to have a weekly nighttime counterpart? Would it have been the same as the future (now past) Bill Rafferty version?

 

http://markgoodson.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Sharks\'>http://markgoodson.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Sharks

No way to know as Firestone didn\'t drum up enough interest.

[bulldog_06]

Damn that Firestone. They could syndicate Barris shows (yeah I knew some of them had no daytime counterparts) but couldn\'t do the Goodson-Todman shows. 

[PYLdude]

Damn that Firestone. They could syndicate Barris shows (yeah I knew some of them had no daytime counterparts) but couldn\'t do the Goodson-Todman shows. 

How exactly would you have conducted a weekly Card Sharks series? It\'s kind of a pain in the ass to make the show self contained under the original format, no?

[aaron sica]

How exactly would you have conducted a weekly Card Sharks series? It\'s kind of a pain in the ass to make the show self contained under the original format, no?

I\'m sure some gameplay could have been cut  to make it fit....Perhaps a maximum of 3 questions in each round instead of 4 would do it...I think it would be quite possible for it to be self-contained. 

[PYLdude]

How exactly would you have conducted a weekly Card Sharks series? It\'s kind of a pain in the ass to make the show self contained under the original format, no?

I\'m sure some gameplay could have been cut  to make it fit....Perhaps a maximum of 3 questions in each round instead of 4 would do it...I think it would be quite possible for it to be self-contained. 

I would counter with the eventual syndicated edition initially having three questions per game and still not being self contained. I don\'t think you could do it with just that.


Maybe instead of 2-of-3, 3-of-five?

[JakeT]

 

How exactly would you have conducted a weekly Card Sharks series? It\'s kind of a pain in the ass to make the show self contained under the original format, no?

I\'m sure some gameplay could have been cut  to make it fit....Perhaps a maximum of 3 questions in each round instead of 4 would do it...I think it would be quite possible for it to be self-contained. 

 

 

Bet there would have been tons of editing of the contestant\'s justifying their answers to the high/low questions...

 

Ummmm...Jim...I believe...<JUMP CUT>..maybe 47...

 

Well, I dunno...probably...<JUMP CUT>...higher...

 

Stimulating television to be sure...

 

JakeT

[Adam Nedeff]

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/80-OCR/1980-01-07-BC-OCR-Page-0095.pdf#search=%22card%20sharks%22\'>This article and http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/80-OCR/1980-01-28-BC-OCR-Page-0060.pdf#search=%22card%20sharks%22\'>this ad both say it would have been a \"strip\" (meaning five a week) for prime access, so the gameplay would likely have been the same. I\'m wondering if they planned on treating it the same way as syndicated \"Match Game,\" with no returning champions, and pacing and editing the show so that each week would be self-contained.

[aaron sica]

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/80-OCR/1980-01-07-BC-OCR-Page-0095.pdf#search=%22card%20sharks%22\'>This article and http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/80-OCR/1980-01-28-BC-OCR-Page-0060.pdf#search=%22card%20sharks%22\'>this ad both say it would have been a \"strip\" (meaning five a week) for prime access, so the gameplay would likely have been the same. I\'m wondering if they planned on treating it the same way as syndicated \"Match Game,\" with no returning champions, and pacing and editing the show so that each week would be self-contained.

I could see that happening...I was going to mention in my post something about it being treated like MG if it were to be a strip....I could also see, to round out the week, perhaps an audience member playing the money cards but for much smaller values...

[PYLdude]

That makes me curious...were the B&E shows the only syndies with returning champs before Wherl and Jeopardy hit the scene?

[aaron sica]

That makes me curious...were the B&E shows the only syndies with returning champs before Wherl and Jeopardy hit the scene?

They very well may have been.......the only \"strip\" game shows I can think of pre-TTD and TJW were TTTT and WML?.....Any others were weekly game shows which definitely did NOT have returning champs, and AFAIK the Dawson syndie Feud didn\'t have returning champs either, even when it went to a 5-day strip.

[Jimmy Owen]

Not returning champs, per se, but $128,000 Question had returning contestants,

[Bryce L.]

Not returning champs, per se, but $128,000 Question had returning contestants,

And in a similar \'gray area\' were players on The $100,000 Name That Tune, specifically the ones who qualified for either the $100,000 Mystery Tune, or the tournaments later on.

[BrandonFG]

Did Cross-Wits or the Vegas Squares have returning champs? I\'m pretty sure the \'81 version of Treasure Hunt did.

[tvmitch]

Brucie\'s Play Your Cards Right was always a 30 or 35 minute self contained show. They would have needed to cut a bit to make it work here in a 22-24 minute format but it could be done. Perhaps adding the car to the end game like Bruce\'s version as well.