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TimK2003

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Re: Great short-lived shows
« Reply #90 on: August 19, 2024, 07:24:38 PM »
Divorce Court kept him busy.

Forgot about that show...By choice!

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Re: Great short-lived shows
« Reply #91 on: August 19, 2024, 07:48:08 PM »
Was Jim Peck ever considered as a candidate to take over TTD after Wink left, or was he wanting to get out of the business by that time and go back to Milwaukee?  He would've done a way better job than Jim Caldwell did.

Divorce Court kept him busy.

I wasn't so sure he was ready to bail on game shows at *that* point....there was this......

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Re: Great short-lived shows
« Reply #92 on: August 19, 2024, 10:54:03 PM »
Which hosts should have had longer careers ?

I would've loved to have seen Jim Perry get another gig in the 90s. In a perfect world, he did The Challengers and Dick Clark hosted $100KP that season instead of John Davidson.
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Re: Great short-lived shows
« Reply #93 on: August 20, 2024, 12:01:35 AM »
Four words: "Let's Play Post Office." I was lucky enough to view the pilot with awful video. The show was still compelling.

BTW, if you liked "Stumpers" you will probably enjoy "Pass-ack Words" by R&R Games.
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« Reply #94 on: August 20, 2024, 04:36:48 PM »
A few years ago I got into Bobby Van's Make Me Laugh and watched a few episodes on Youtube.

Which inevitably leads to the next topic : Which hosts should have had longer careers ? I was, and will always be a huge fan of Bobby Van - died WAY too early in his life. 

3 game shows with less than decent formats , that he made entertaining. Add to him filling in as host of Tattletales, and I'd say he was one of , if not the number one, most underrated hosts in the genre.

Peter Tomarken could have been a classic journeyman host in the Art James-Tom Kennedy-Bob Eubanks tradition (one show flops, but here comes another one...and another...and another) if daytime game shows hadn't dried up by the early 90s and, of course, if he had lived

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« Reply #95 on: August 21, 2024, 12:24:10 AM »
Neumms mentioned Bruce's Hot Streak, and I was hoping that Get a Clue would have tread that ground rather than just no-danger Catch Phrase.
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« Reply #96 on: August 21, 2024, 12:48:23 PM »
Neumms mentioned Bruce's Hot Streak, and I was hoping that Get a Clue would have tread that ground rather than just no-danger Catch Phrase.

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Re: Great short-lived shows
« Reply #97 on: August 21, 2024, 12:54:42 PM »
Apologies! But also if the three of us agree on something, that is in itself something.
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TimK2003

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Re: Great short-lived shows
« Reply #98 on: August 21, 2024, 05:01:11 PM »
After going thru many of the Reletively Speaking episodes on Tubi, even though John Byner was annoying at the start of each show -- from his cue card greeting to his rule-reading characters at the same Universal Studios locales (he got better later in the episodes) there is a decent format in there that deserves a second look.

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« Reply #99 on: August 21, 2024, 07:26:06 PM »
It is getting a second look as Claim to Fame.
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« Reply #100 on: August 22, 2024, 10:34:30 PM »
Apologies! But also if the three of us agree on something, that is in itself something.

I agree!

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« Reply #101 on: August 23, 2024, 08:43:50 AM »
Neumms mentioned Bruce's Hot Streak, and I was hoping that Get a Clue would have tread that ground rather than just no-danger Catch Phrase.

Also a Hot Streak fan - and surprised it hasn't been done again, since it was a worldwide success.

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Re: Great short-lived shows
« Reply #102 on: August 23, 2024, 05:11:15 PM »
I'd like to offer Million Dollar Mind Game.

Seconded. Didn't like the host but really fun.

Speaking of cerebral games, I wonder if anybody watched Trebek Double Dare on Prime.

How did the pilot work with just the Spoilers? Now, I loved the Spoilers, the unintentionally hilarious nerds. The game seemed flawed, though. Pop culture answer, you win. Humanities stuff, no way. Maybe all luck is okay for a bonus game--rolling giant dice as fast as you can was brilliant--but not the whole thing.
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Jeremy Nelson

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Re: Great short-lived shows
« Reply #103 on: August 23, 2024, 07:03:00 PM »
Apologies! But also if the three of us agree on something, that is in itself something.

I agree!
Oh, absolutely! My reply wasn't in the vein of "here, I said the thing first", more "insert meme of Spider-Men pointing at each other"

I thought Caesars Challenge was a nifty word game (and I'm one of the few that thought the second bonus round was better).

Trivial Pursuit (sans the touch tone lead in half hour) was also a fun 30 minutes, and went through more content in half an hour than I originally thought- roughly 40 questions in the front game. Really hoping that the new version resembles that pace versus the 2007 version.
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Re: Great short-lived shows
« Reply #104 on: August 23, 2024, 07:19:04 PM »
I'd like to offer Million Dollar Mind Game.

Seconded. Didn't like the host but really fun.

Speaking of cerebral games, I wonder if anybody watched Trebek Double Dare on Prime.

How did the pilot work with just the Spoilers? Now, I loved the Spoilers, the unintentionally hilarious nerds. The game seemed flawed, though. Pop culture answer, you win. Humanities stuff, now way. Maybe all luck is okay for a bonus game--rolling giant dice as fast as you can was brilliant--but not the whole thing.

IIRC, the only thing that changed from pilot to series is that you had to get 5 questions through 10 possibilities rather than 4 from 8.
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