Bullseye question...

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Dec 31 2003, 10:52 PM\']
Yep on all points. When Bullseye was canned in 1982, it was even worse on network daytime as each network was down to just one game per web. Thankfully, CBS was about to change that in the 10-11am hour and NBC would get back into the game game in January upon the cancellation of two soap operas. [/quote]
 CBS had two game shows from Jan-Sep 1982, as Tattletales was back as of 1/18/82 in its original 4PM slot.

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 31 2003, 10:59 PM\'] [quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Dec 31 2003, 10:52 PM\']
Yep on all points. When Bullseye was canned in 1982, it was even worse on network daytime as each network was down to just one game per web. Thankfully, CBS was about to change that in the 10-11am hour and NBC would get back into the game game in January upon the cancellation of two soap operas. [/quote]
CBS had two game shows from Jan-Sep 1982, as Tattletales was back as of 1/18/82 in its original 4PM slot. [/quote]
Oh my gosh!! I forgot about Tattletales. Our area didn't carry the 4:00 CBS show, darn them. They ran The 4:00 Movie instead on WJKW-TV 8 in Cleveland. That's how it slipped my mind. Thanks for the correction.

[rugrats1]

Oh my gosh!! I forgot about Tattletales. Our area didn't carry the 4:00 CBS show, darn them. They ran The 4:00 Movie instead on WJKW-TV 8 in Cleveland. That's how it slipped my mind. Thanks for the correction.

Alot of people probably forgotten about the 1980s "Tattletales" -- in Tampa Bay, WTVT ch.13 (now with Fox, like WJ[K]W) shown "Hour Magazine" instead at 4PM.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'melman1\' date=\'Dec 31 2003, 06:01 PM\'] [quote name=\'WorldClassRob\' date=\'Dec 31 2003, 02:55 PM\'] [Bullseye] really was a great game show -- its a shame that it lasted two years. [/quote]
If it was so great, why did none of the networks pick it up?  I'm just asking. [/quote]
 Why hasn't a network picked up Jeopardy? (and no, for the purposes of this discussion, Super Jeopardy doesn't count.)

[ChuckNet]

Alot of people probably forgotten about the 1980s "Tattletales" -- in Tampa Bay, WTVT ch.13 (now with Fox, like WJ[K]W) shown "Hour Magazine" instead at 4PM.

And some of those stations which carried the 80s TT shifted it to other time slots...here in NY, for example, WCBS aired it at noon, as well as replacement Body Language and the last 8 mos of PYL.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[Ian Wallis]

When Bullseye was canned in 1982, it was even worse on network daytime as each network was down to just one game per web. Thankfully, CBS was about to change that in the 10-11am hour and NBC would get back into the game game in January upon the cancellation of two soap operas.

Part of it is also because game shows have always gone in cycles.  

They were hot in the mid 60s, for example, only to be on a downswing by 1970.  During the early 70s they started building again, to that glorious year 1975, when they were more numerous than at any other time.  

In the early '80s they had started disappearing from network television, but by the mid-80s they were all over the dial again, both on network and syndication.  In the early '90s they were hard to find, plodding along until 1999, when "Who Wants to be a Millionarie" started them on a major comeback.

I guess game shows are like anything else - sometimes they're up and sometimes they're down.  I guess in our views, the down times have occurred too often.  It's too bad every year couldn't be like 1975!!

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Dec 31 2003, 11:05 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 31 2003, 10:59 PM\'] [quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Dec 31 2003, 10:52 PM\']

CBS had two game shows from Jan-Sep 1982, as Tattletales was back as of 1/18/82 in its original 4PM slot. [/QUOTE]
Oh my gosh!! I forgot about Tattletales. Our area didn't carry the 4:00 CBS show, darn them. They ran The 4:00 Movie instead on WJKW-TV 8 in Cleveland. That's how it slipped my mind. Thanks for the correction. [/quote]
 IIRC, the CBS affiliate in Toledo, WTOL/Toledo 11 aired "Tattletales" on a 1 day delay, airing it at 9:30AM as a lead in to the CBS AM lineup.  Always glad to be able to pick up Toledo channels on the ol antennee back then -- worked out great for Blacked-out Browns games in Cleveland.