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TLEberle

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« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2004, 10:29:55 PM »
"Concentration" debuted on mine, 25-August.  And "The $64,000 Question" on my sister's, 7-June.
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« Reply #16 on: October 03, 2004, 04:33:32 PM »
Blockbusters and LVGambit premiered 10/27/1982...

I was born in 1985.
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bossjock967

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« Reply #17 on: October 03, 2004, 07:12:30 PM »
Don't think any premiered on June 26.
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« Reply #18 on: October 03, 2004, 11:45:54 PM »
press your luck and wheel of fortune syndie debuted in 1983 (my 3rd birthday) that was a wonderful memory.
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« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2004, 08:54:35 AM »
In a way, Double Talk premiered on my birthday {August 19th} in 1986 because it was shown delayed by a day in my area (Monday's show ran on Tuesday, Tuesday's on Wednesday and so on).
If any show did have its official national rollout on that day, perhaps Master Zach can help me out.
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BrandonFG

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« Reply #20 on: October 04, 2004, 10:17:35 AM »
From what I read, Password All-Stars debuted on November 18, but it was eight years before I was born.
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« Reply #21 on: October 06, 2004, 04:41:39 PM »
"Number Please" shows in some references as being premiered on January 30, 1961 - a Monday, and the birth date of yours truly and Robair - but it was delayed one day because of some sort of live news event that ABC carried.

However, "The Yogi Bear Show" premiered in syndication that same day.
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cacLA8383

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« Reply #22 on: October 06, 2004, 06:03:29 PM »
I don't recall any game shows ever premiering on August 3rd (my b-day)
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« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2004, 07:10:31 PM »
The (New) Price Is Right and Joker's Wild may have debuted on September 4, 1972, but here in Fairbanks it bowed on September 25....six years before I would be born that day in Anchorage!!! Of course, at that time network shows were broadcast in Alaska two to three weeks after the Lower 48 via air delivery of tapes -- and before that, kinescopes -- from Seattle; it ended in about 1984 when ABC, CBS, and NBC all switched from landline distribution (and the syndicators, mail distribution) to satellite distribution (PBS was the first U.S. network to go satellite in 1978, but in Canada, CTV wouldn't begin satellite transmissions until 1988!!!)
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Ian Wallis

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« Reply #24 on: October 07, 2004, 08:57:52 AM »
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The (New) Price Is Right and Joker's Wild may have debuted on September 4, 1972, but here in Fairbanks it bowed on September 25....six years before I would be born that day in Anchorage!!! Of course, at that time network shows were broadcast in Alaska two to three weeks after the Lower 48 via air delivery of tapes


Interesting about Alaska television.  I'm surprised it's not the same as Hawaii - in Hawaii all network programs were telecast one week late until sometime in the '80s.  I always thought they aired at the exact same time, only a week late.  I have a TVGuide from Hawaii from 1976, and another from 1982, and the schedules are totally different than on the mainland.

I'm surprised that Alaska was further behind than Hawaii in screening the shows.
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« Reply #25 on: October 07, 2004, 04:25:11 PM »
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Oct 7 2004, 07:57 AM\']Interesting about Alaska television.  I'm surprised it's not the same as Hawaii - in Hawaii all network programs were telecast one week late until sometime in the '80s.  I always thought they aired at the exact same time, only a week late.  I have a TVGuide from Hawaii from 1976, and another from 1982, and the schedules are totally different than on the mainland.

I'm surprised that Alaska was further behind than Hawaii in screening the shows.
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Just a guess, but could the reason that Hawaii was less far behind Alaska be because Hawaii is/was more populous than Alaska?  I would think that a larger population center would take priority over a smaller one.

ObGameShow: A certain unpopular-around-these-parts show (which I have fourtunately never seen) originated from the 50th state.
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« Reply #26 on: October 08, 2004, 05:27:58 AM »
[quote name=\'Tony\' date=\'Oct 7 2004, 03:25 PM\'][quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Oct 7 2004, 07:57 AM\']Interesting about Alaska television.  I'm surprised it's not the same as Hawaii - in Hawaii all network programs were telecast one week late until sometime in the '80s.  I always thought they aired at the exact same time, only a week late.  I have a TVGuide from Hawaii from 1976, and another from 1982, and the schedules are totally different than on the mainland.

I'm surprised that Alaska was further behind than Hawaii in screening the shows.
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Just a guess, but could the reason that Hawaii was less far behind Alaska be because Hawaii is/was more populous than Alaska?  I would think that a larger population center would take priority over a smaller one.

ObGameShow: A certain unpopular-around-these-parts show (which I have fourtunately never seen) originated from the 50th state.
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Tony's right.  Alaska is primarily wilderness country while Hawaii is more densely populated, thus Hawaii received the shows one week earlier than Alaska before both states went into satellite mode in the 80's.  Unlike 1959 where Alaska beat Hawaii to be admitted into the union.
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Stevek83

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« Reply #27 on: October 08, 2004, 02:05:55 PM »
Going in the opposite direction. I think Just Men was cancelled on April 1, 1983, just two days after i was born
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« Reply #28 on: October 09, 2004, 03:39:22 AM »
I think (not too sure, can someone correct me or confirm this?) that Hot Potato debuted on my 8th birthday, January 23, 1984.

Of course, my birthday present would spawn a plague that is NOT funny.

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« Reply #29 on: October 09, 2004, 07:58:44 AM »
[quote name=\'Johnissoevil\' date=\'Oct 9 2004, 02:39 AM\']
I think (not too sure, can someone correct me or confirm this?) that Hot Potato debuted on my 8th birthday, January 23, 1984.

Hot Potato did debut on 1/23/84, and Couch Potatoes debuted on 1/23/89.
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