30 Years Ago Today...

[gameshowguy2000]

And here's the neat part about the show, when it came back in the 1980's with Mike Darrow as host:

Anyone who answered 15 straight riddles won a new car! Pretty neat, I should say!

[ChuckNet]

And here's the neat part about the show, when it came back in the 1980's with Mike Darrow as host:

Anyone who answered 15 straight riddles won a new car! Pretty neat, I should say!

That was also offered on the original version, actually.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Jan 12 2004, 12:26 AM\']

Wasn't Mr. Food a part of this?

No, but Chef Tell was.[/quote]
"And I zee you!"

(In Chicago, "PM Magazine" was on WFLD twice during the 80s, first from 1980-82 and from 1984-85ish, both at 7 p.m.  My cable company also aired its last stand in New York on WWOR in 1987-88, the only non-Westinghouse station to use the "Evening Magazine" title--by 1988, it was replaced by Group W with the national, tabolidy "This Evening" with Nancy Glass).

[DrBear]

In  a desparate attempt to drag this back on topic...

Not only did Westinghouse (Group W) syndicate the "Evening Magazine" segments to local stations for "PM Magazine" but for a while, it syndicated another show, "Hour Magazine," aimed at housewives and hosted by Gary Collins, husband of...

OB GAME SHOW MOMENT....

Occasional MG 7x panelist Mary Ann Mobley!

[rugrats1]

My cable company also aired its last stand in New York on WWOR in 1987-88, the only non-Westinghouse station to use the "Evening Magazine" title...

Currently in Seattle, Belo-owned King-5 has "Evening Magazine" scheduled weeknights -- was King-5's "Evening Magazine" ever connected to "PM Magazine"?

And as for WWOR, I read somewhere that Group W originally had plans to boy the station in the mid-1980s from RKO, but those plans were later discarded after MCA bought the station.

[GS Warehouse]

[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Jan 12 2004, 07:03 PM\'] And as for WWOR, I read somewhere that Group W originally had plans to boy the station in the mid-1980s from RKO, ... [/quote]
 Did they girl it instead?  [ducking BIG time]

[GSWitch]

[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 11:48 PM\'] And here's the neat part about the show, when it came back in the 1980's with Mike Darrow as host:

Anyone who answered 15 straight riddles won a new car! Pretty neat, I should say! [/quote]
 Also on the USA version;

THE $1,000 BONUS:  If the Jackpot riddle is picked last!

THE $10,000 RIDDLER:  Whoever answered the most riddles in a 10 week period won $10,000.  It also offered a trip to Europe for a 6 week period.

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Jan 12 2004, 09:18 PM\']
THE $10,000 RIDDLER:  Whoever answered the most riddles in a 10 week period won $10,000.  It also offered a trip to Europe for a 6 week period. [/quote]
 The trips were offered for the final "riddler of the week contest" of the second and third seasons because the USA Jackpot! seasons were 26 weeks each(season two's trip was to England and Switzerland, third season trip was to Israel)

The "$50,000 riddle" would appear in  season three. The riddle would appear in a couple of games a week. If the person answered the riddle, they would share in $50K along with the other players who answered such a riddle during the season(3 people solved such a riddle during the third season)

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Jan 12 2004, 07:03 PM\']

My cable company also aired its last stand in New York on WWOR in 1987-88, the only non-Westinghouse station to use the "Evening Magazine" title...

Currently in Seattle, Belo-owned King-5 has "Evening Magazine" scheduled weeknights -- was King-5's "Evening Magazine" ever connected to "PM Magazine"?[/quote]
Well, I could tell you, except that KING wants you to register to find that out.  [Dana Carvey as G.H.W. Bush] Not gonna do that, wouldn't be prudent... [DC as GHWB]

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Jan 13 2004, 10:17 AM\'] [quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Jan 12 2004, 07:03 PM\']

My cable company also aired its last stand in New York on WWOR in 1987-88, the only non-Westinghouse station to use the "Evening Magazine" title...

Currently in Seattle, Belo-owned King-5 has "Evening Magazine" scheduled weeknights -- was King-5's "Evening Magazine" ever connected to "PM Magazine"?[/quote]
Well, I could tell you, except that KING wants you to register to find that out.  [Dana Carvey as G.H.W. Bush] Not gonna do that, wouldn't be prudent... [DC as GHWB] [/quote]
Didn't hurt anything, either, so I did it.

And it doesn't say much, aside from that the show debuted in the summer if 1986, and some hooey about how "Evening Magazine" is truly a homegrown product, from concept to the production to the daily broadcast", which is a crock because KPIX out of SF used to run an Evening Magazine as well long before '86.

I do know this...many versions of "PM Magazine" used the same musical stings and jingles as "Evening" did at the time. So draw from that what you will.

[HSquares2003]

You know, I almost forgot about this show. I would watch it pretty much every day then after school(Darrow version). It was a different game show, but a decent one.