It does remind me of a syndicated TV reference book that tried to pass off the rerun package as a "new" version of the NBC series, and one that just added the survey questions to the game.
That would be Hal Erickson's
Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987, although Erickson put the addition of the survey questions with the 1986 Rafferty version. (It seems to me, though, that Alex McNeil's
Total Television may have put those two "facts" together; I got rid of that book when I moved, so I can't confirm it.) Erickson's book, though it contains other such errors (
The New Price Is Right is said to have run in syndication only from 1972-74), is still a great read because Erickson's descriptions of the various series are colorful and opinionated. I got it for my birthday recently and read it cover-to-cover.
Those opinions, though, sometimes make for amusing reading in retrospect. My favorite one comes from Erickson's review of the early Fox series
The Tracey Ullman Show. (Erickson treated the early Fox shows as syndies because Fox wasn't yet a full-fledged network.) Although he had nothing but praise for most of the show, he did have one complaint: "The only detraction was the dreadfully unfunny animated sequences used as buffers between the sketches." Those "dreadfully unfunny" cartoons, of course, spawned the longest-running scripted prime-time series on American television, which is still going some 31 years after its parent series left the air.
