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BrandonFG

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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #15 on: May 08, 2022, 07:57:46 PM »
Might be another stretch for Tier 2 but how about Wordplay for Tier 2? Charlie O. would introduce each celebrity by asking if they did something related to the word?
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Chief-O

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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #16 on: May 08, 2022, 10:17:57 PM »
"Top Card" can qualify for tier 2.
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Jimmy Owen

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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #17 on: May 09, 2022, 05:26:08 AM »
Quote from: BrandonFG on May 08, 2022, 07:57:46 PM
Might be another stretch for Tier 2 but how about Wordplay for Tier 2? Charlie O. would introduce each celebrity by asking if they did something related to the word?
"Call My Bluff" did something similar.
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JMFabiano

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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #18 on: May 09, 2022, 07:56:05 AM »
A pilot, but how about Shopper's Bazaar? 
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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #19 on: May 10, 2022, 12:46:03 AM »
Do clips or montages from past episodes count for Tier 2? If so, then Tomarken Press Your Luck and several versions of Pyramid.
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BrandonFG

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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2022, 01:35:31 AM »
Quote from: Unrealtor on May 10, 2022, 12:46:03 AM
Do clips or montages from past episodes count for Tier 2? If so, then Tomarken Press Your Luck and several versions of Pyramid.
I'm leaning towards no because your examples consisted of clips of past contestants winning (or in the case of PYL, losing).
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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2022, 10:29:35 AM »
Seems U.S. Millionaire flirted with a cold open once or twice, if is anything to go by.
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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2022, 03:36:07 PM »
Australia's  Million Dollar Wheel Of Fortune started with the opening toss-up "hosted" by the announcer before the theme tune.

In Italy we once had a show that began with the two competing families racing from outside the studio to their seats, while the opening tune was playing.
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Jimmy Owen

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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #23 on: May 10, 2022, 03:44:24 PM »
On Barker TorC, the show started with something hilarious in progress and Charlie Lyon telling the home audience "Hi there.  We've been waiting for you...."
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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #24 on: May 10, 2022, 04:01:26 PM »
Scrabble began with the puzzle sent from a viewer.
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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #25 on: May 13, 2022, 08:46:02 PM »
The first game show I can remember with your “Tier 1 opening” is “Let’s Play Post Office” during the last view weeks of it run. The opening shot was of the game board which was designed to resemble a giant business envelope. The title of the show would appear in a wipe in the window as Don Morrow would declare, “Let’s Play Post Office. The opening value is…” The top value of the first puzzle would appear where the value of the postage stamp would be. The director would cut to a shot of the contestants and answer to the first writer would appear in a key in the bottom third of the screen then the first game would begin.
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TimK2003

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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #26 on: May 13, 2022, 10:32:20 PM »
Didn't the Barris remake of Camouflage open the show with the first puzzle and Johnny Jacobs asking the viewers to find the ___________?
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Chief-O

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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #27 on: May 13, 2022, 10:46:55 PM »
Quote from: TimK2003 on May 13, 2022, 10:32:20 PM
Didn't the Barris remake of Camouflage open the show with the first puzzle and Johnny Jacobs asking the viewers to find the ___________?

It did; I remember seeing an intro clip a while back.
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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #28 on: May 14, 2022, 05:16:30 PM »
Late in the run with WLoD, the game did start with the first puzzle, then as soon as the round was over, they went into celeb intros.

TJW in the early syndie run briefly did a Pyramid-style opening with a montage of bonus game wins.

Money Maze also went Pyramid style showing a montage of at least two bonus wins.

Blankety Blanks started with a sample Blankety Blank which Bill would read and then he picked a celeb to solve it.

Scrabble would have a sample clue at the start.

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Re: Game show "cold opens"
« Reply #29 on: May 15, 2022, 05:04:27 PM »
Doesn't freakin studs file under the second tier?
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