Two CBS Card Sharks Questions

[JonSea31]

Does anybody know when the last Young People's Week of the CBS version of Card Sharks originally aired?

Also, how many Young People's Weeks were there with the range board being played for a trip to Hawaii?  I do know there was at least one, and I am leaning towards Thanksgiving Week 1988 that one of such Young People's Weeks aired.

[Vahan_Nisanian]

And here's one I have:

When the Iran-Contra hearings happened in mid-1987, how exactly did CBS handle it for Card Sharks?

[dale_grass]

When the Iran-Contra hearings happened in mid-1987, how exactly did CBS handle it for Card Sharks?

They traded two M198 howitzers for Bob Eubanks and a potato canon for Bill Rafferty.

[chrisholland03]

Ah, the potato cannon incident.  The true reason the giant cards on set quit tilting and sliding. 

[PYLdude]

Poor Bill.

(They would've just held them back, no?)

[Don Howard]

Does anybody know when the last Young People's Week of the CBS version of Card Sharks originally aired?

Those were a piece of trash. Oh, let's get a bunch of adorable yuninns and get 'em to make Bob Eubanks giggle and stick his tongue out. Pity Bill Rafferty didn't emcee the daytime version, too. Gene Rayburn could then have hosted Blockbusters.

[clemon79]

Gene Rayburn could then have hosted Blockbusters.

I would pay to see one episode of that.

Not two though; I don't think I could stand to watch more than one.

[J.R.]

When the Iran-Contra hearings happened in mid-1987, how exactly did CBS handle it for Card Sharks?

Oliver North and Fawn Hall were invited for a special edition of Card Sharks. No copy exists on tape though.

[clemon79]

Were they caught trying to shred the cards?

[TLEberle]

This is something I get to say less and less as time goes on, so I better take advantage of it now:

I am sure that's an uproarious joke but I'm about ten years too young to really get it.

[BrandonFG]

Those were a piece of trash. Oh, let's get a bunch of adorable yuninns and get 'em to make Bob Eubanks giggle and stick his tongue out. Pity Bill Rafferty didn't emcee the daytime version, too. Gene Rayburn could then have hosted Blockbusters.

I remember watching one of these on GSN years ago, and was immediately annoyed. Not a fan of seeing 10-year-olds attempt to speculate on survey questions. It sounded forced.

[J.R.]

Not a fan of seeing 10-year-olds attempt to speculate on survey questions. It sounded forced.

Honestly, I didn't care for the adults trying to do it either, especially if it was a topic they were completely unfamiliar with.

Though, I get that having the players just drone out a number without a reason would be pretty dull.

[clemon79]

I am sure that's an uproarious joke but I'm about ten years too young to really get it.

Fawn Hall was Ollie North's secretary who, in exchange for immunity from prosecution, testified in the Iran / Contra scandal that she smuggled and shredded a farkload of confidental documents.

[TLEberle]

Honestly, I didn't care for the adults trying to it either, especially if it was a topic they were completely unfamiliar with.

Though, I get that having the players just drone out a number without a reason would be pretty dull.

I was going to say that there was an art to doing this well, but really all we need is a sentence or so. If that.

"We asked 100 people if they returned a Christmas gift this year. How many said yes they did?"
"I bet just about everyone got something they didn't want so the number will be high. I'll say 86."

Done deal.

[BrandonFG]

I think one sentence would've been fine. It's when it got into ex-rectum speculation that it got annoying.