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TLEberle

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Re: Time Capsule: Cross-Wits
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2014, 12:43:53 AM »
\\David Sparks vs. Ty Treadway?  Anyone?
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Re: Time Capsule: Cross-Wits
« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2014, 12:48:41 AM »
The Game Show Hosts episode in the trading circles was an interesting show.  As much as I liked the veteran group of Jim Peck, Tom Kennedy, Peter Tomarken and Bob Goen just piling it onto the rookie emcee (Sparks), it was pretty much the only episode I ever had to watch to say that this show was a klunk.

If GSN was gonna run this version of Crosswits, they should have run back-to-back installments from that particular week. At least those guys were (and in the case of one of them, are) seen on GSN at one time or another.

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Re: Time Capsule: Cross-Wits
« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2014, 12:59:32 AM »
\\David Sparks vs. Ty Treadway?  Anyone?
Ty by a nose. He was a robotic traffic cop who read the prompter a little too much*, but David was just uncomfortable the entire time.

*Especially when trying to explain an answer. Trebek sounds like he knows what he's talking about when he does it; Ty looked like he was reading it. Crosswits' format (even this version) was better though.

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Re: Time Capsule: Cross-Wits
« Reply #18 on: October 28, 2014, 03:39:38 AM »
I noticed that about Ty moreso than not...he rarely seemed like he was working off book.

I mean, after the first Crossword Extra of the day, do we need the description of the rules verbatim each of the four subsequent times?

Maybe that's a little nitpicky but you could tell just how unpolished he was.
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Re: Time Capsule: Cross-Wits
« Reply #19 on: November 01, 2014, 01:08:57 PM »
Well it certainly got better promotion this time. They even had Rosie O'Donnell talking about the show and showing a clip on The View.
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Re: Time Capsule: Cross-Wits
« Reply #20 on: November 01, 2014, 11:13:38 PM »
1) Who were the contestants? Particularly curious about the Rosie O'Donnell episode, since there's one or two episodes of that week out there.

Rosie's episode was "Maura vs. Guy", and Arsenio's was "Amy vs. Bob".

2) Were all four celebs involved in the "pick a key" part of the bonus round? I know at least once, the car game had a fourth box containing $1,000.

In both episodes, only three celebrities were involved.

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Re: Time Capsule: Cross-Wits
« Reply #21 on: November 02, 2014, 01:18:50 AM »
Thanks, Ryan. :)
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