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TLEberle:
--- Quote from: gamed121683 on August 13, 2024, 02:47:44 PM ---
I'm willing to bet the creators of Stumpers asked themselves this question while creating the show, "How can we be Password without the Goodson/Todman people suing the pants off us?"
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I’m sure Lin Boleyn was concerned, Ray.
/i think I’ll leave that alone too.
tvwxman:
--- Quote from: Clay Zambo on August 13, 2024, 09:17:10 PM ---
Stumpers itself wasn’t perfect, but what a cool set!
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Absolutely. In the years between me being a young kid in the late 70s, and getting to see the show thanks to tape trades (what are those? asked the youngins') - I remembered that set being tremendous.
What I didn't remember , was that the game was weak. Interesting idea, poorly executed.
But again, what a set!
Ian Wallis:
Another thing about Stumpers was its cool theme song, written by Alan Thicke. There's a bunch of Thicke themes that came after the famous vinyl LP that haven't surfaced yet, including Stumpers. There were cues used on Wheel of Fortune in the later '70s that came from this group, including one that was used as the theme to Thicke's CTV talk show in the early '80s. I wonder if there's another LP out there waiting to be discovered...
gamed121683:
--- Quote from: Ian Wallis on August 14, 2024, 10:06:31 AM ---Another thing about Stumpers was its cool theme song, written by Alan Thicke. There's a bunch of Thicke themes that came after the famous vinyl LP that haven't surfaced yet, including Stumpers.
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Did I read this right? There is (was) an LP out there featuring Thicke's theme song work? I'd love to know more about this.
Ian Wallis:
--- Quote from: gamed121683 on August 14, 2024, 03:07:36 PM ---Did I read this right? There is (was) an LP out there featuring Thicke's theme song work? I'd love to know more about this.
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Pretty well all of the Thicke themes that you hear on TVPMM came from an original vinyl LP. They include themes that were used on Joker's Wild, Celebrity Sweepstakes, Wheel of Fortune, etc. IIRC, I think the Wheel theme on the second GSN CD was sourced from that.
There were a bunch more themes Thicke wrote after which are unaccounted for. I don't know for sure if there's another LP but none of them have surfaced - with the exception of Whew!
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