[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Sep 28 2004, 07:48 PM\']
I would think that NBC's plan to reincarnate "The Dating Game" & "The Newlywed Game" a year or so ago would qualify, as I have yet to hear anything else on it.
I do know that there were a couple of attempts to bring back "The Gong Show" in the last several years. "Extreme Gong" was not one of those attempts (BTW, After seeing him host "The Weakest Link", I have since forgiven George Gray for his GSN debacle). One version was to be hosted by Cleveland native Chuck Booms.
And the show "100%" with Casey Kasem at the bat never got out of their test markets. [/quote]
Add to that the proposed CBS revival of What's My Line, for which a pilot was taped just a month or two before WWTBAM-mania began in 1999. Also, a 2000 pilot for a revived $64K Question with Greg Gumbel as host was done but CBS passed on the show after the less-than-stellar ratings of Winning Lines.
Add to syndicated shows never airing outside the test market cities: Majority RUles, Yahtzee, Swaps!, and reruns of Supermarket Sweep(Lifetime version), Shop Till You Drop(Lifetime version), and Debt. The latter three would have seen new episodes produced for syndication if the reruns did well in the test cities, and they all tanked in syndie reruns.