Game show within a TV show/movie sighting (thread?)

[trainman]

Episode 4 of the Amazon series "Tales from the Loop" has a scene in which a character is watching "Child's Play" (on a woodgrain console TV with slightly fuzzy reception, no less).

[byrd62]

And then, there was the 1959 movie It Happened to Jane, starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, a bald-headed Ernie Kovacs, and a scene with a famous game show panel.

[Matt Ottinger]

And then, there was the 1959 movie It Happened to Jane, starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, a bald-headed Ernie Kovacs, and a scene with a famous game show panel.

I think it's worth mentioning that, compared to most of the references on this thread, the I've Got A Secret scene isn't one that the characters just happened to be watching on a television in the background.  It's integral to the storyline, and it was shot specifically for the movie.

A fun punch line to this is that Doris Day was supposed to appear on the REAL I've Got A Secret in order to promote this film.  They even created a game involving toy trains, since trains were part of the plot for the movie.  When Doris couldn't make it, the show's solution was ingenious.

[colonial]

I remember going to a movie as a kid in the early-mid 80s that had the '83 Jeopardy! pilot in a scene.  Unfortunately, I don't remember what the movie was. I've run across it a couple of times as an adult, but even then it was a forgettable movie other than having the '83 Jeopardy! pilot in it.  The Googles have been no help so far.

You might be thinking of the NBC made-for-TV movie Special Bulletin (the one in which Charleston, S.C., -- um, that would be spoilers). It's right in the first minute, at 0:42 in this very high-quality copy that I didn't know existed until I just searched:

Also, if you look very carefully at the game board, one of the categories is "Air Shuttle Disasters," which suggests someone grabbed a prop from "Airplane II: The Sequel" (which featured a J! spoof with Art Fleming) and inserted it in "Special Bulletin."

Another obscure game show find in a movie -- there was a 2001 film called "Just Visiting" (a remake of a far better French film) about a 12th century French nobleman and his servant being mistakenly launched into modern-day Chicago. Early in the film, the two heroes stumble around a present-day apartment, where they discover a TV set, turn it on, then attack it, thinking it's some kind of monster. The TV was showing, IIRC, the opening of a Dawson Feud.


JD

[Matt Ottinger]

Also, if you look very carefully at the game board, one of the categories is "Air Shuttle Disasters," which suggests someone grabbed a prop from "Airplane II: The Sequel" (which featured a J! spoof with Art Fleming) and inserted it in "Special Bulletin."

Good eye.  Turns out that's *precisely* where they came up with that prop, all the way down to which clues are revealed and which ones aren't.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083530/mediaviewer/rm847012864

[JMFabiano]

Just rewatched Splash on Disney+ (yes, with butts censored by a mermaid hair loincloth and all...now that's just Maclunkey...)   I am reminded of the snippet of The (New) $25,000 Pyramid in one scene. 

[Eric Paddon]

In "The In-Laws", there's a scene of Peter Falk and a cab driver in a diner and an episode of the Dennis James TPIR is playing on the set and Falk is asking what the show is about and goes, "And they're supposed to guess what all that crap is worth?"  Then later he asks, "How long has it been on?"   The cabbie answers, "Since 1911."

[Jeremy Nelson]

I love how half of you have just decided to damn the parameters of the OP and rattle off sightings from old tv shows and movies.

[johnnya2k3]

Here's one that's kinda obscure: 1980s Hollywood Squares in Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead.

Which had a brief clip of Win, Lose, or Draw (which also ended by the time the film came out) before the babysitter turned the TV off.

[Jamey Greek]

It also has a clip of $25k Pyramid.  Walter was my main man!