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Kevin Prather

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« on: July 19, 2003, 12:16:44 AM »
were Match Game '90 and Match Game '98 credited as \"A Mark Goodson - Bill Todman Production\" or \"A Mark Goodson Television Production\"?

my guess would be the latter. am i right?
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« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2003, 12:54:34 AM »
MG '90 was credited as a MG Production.  Bill Todman's name was dropped from the various MG-BT shows as time went on.  By 1990, all of the GT shows were credited as MGP.

I'm guessing MG '98 was listed as a MGP in association with All American/Pearson/Fremantle or whatever they were calling themselves that week.
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« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2003, 12:54:36 PM »
[quote name=\'TV Favorites\' date=\'Jul 18 2003, 11:54 PM\'] MG '90 was credited as a MG Production.  Bill Todman's name was dropped from the various MG-BT shows as time went on.  By 1990, all of the GT shows were credited as MGP.

I'm guessing MG '98 was listed as a MGP in association with All American/Pearson/Fremantle or whatever they were calling themselves that week. [/quote]
 Both were simply Mark Goodson productions. Bill Todman's name was dropped sometime c. 1983 (and no, I don't need to know the last show to use MG/BT). On the 1998 version, Paul Boland simply said \"This has been a Mark Goodson Production, in association with,\" then cut to Pearson logo.
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« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2003, 10:07:51 PM »
Why was Bill Toddman's name dropped ? And on a related note, when and why was Bob Quiggley's name was dropped in MH/MQ Prods. ?

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« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2003, 10:23:39 PM »
Probably because the gentlemen were no longer working for the respective companies when their names were dropped.
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« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2003, 10:36:54 PM »
Most likely because the gentlemen were ... how you say? ... dead.
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« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2003, 10:46:27 PM »
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Jul 20 2003, 09:23 PM\']Probably because the gentlemen were no longer working for the respective companies when their names were dropped.[/quote]
If memory serves, Bill Todman passed away in (I think) 1979.  The decision was made to rename the company at that point (I'm not exactly sure why, but many of the shows in production at that time [CS, P+, FF, TPIR] opted to keep the G/T name--although TPIR and FF eventually moved on to MGP).

In the case of HQ, Quigley retired from HQ either during or after the production of LVG.  Heatter carried on the production company using his own name with the creation of BATTLESTARS.  Dixon Hayes' site indicates that Quigley died in 1989.

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« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2003, 12:07:53 AM »
SRIV94 wrote:
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If memory serves, Bill Todman passed away in (I think) 1979. The decision was made to rename the company at that point (I'm not exactly sure why, but many of the shows in production at that time [CS, P+, FF, TPIR] opted to keep the G/T name--although TPIR and FF eventually moved on to MGP).

But wasn't Blockbusters, which premiered in October 1980, a G/T production?  I guess the concept must have been developed before Todman's passing.
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« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2003, 12:53:49 AM »
[quote name=\'TV Favorites\' date=\'Jul 18 2003, 11:54 PM\']On the 1998 version, Paul Boland simply said \"This has been a Mark Goodson Production, in association with,\" then cut to Pearson logo.[/quote]

The stinger of said Pearson logo can be heard at the beginning of my AMVs (and any future AMVs I decide to create). Go to my website (www.brakus.net) for more info. :)

I think by 1982 or 1983 all Goodson-Todman shows eventually said simply \"A Mark Goodson... Television Production\". I seem to remember my the time \"Child's Play\" left the air at the end of 1982, the credit was simply \"Mark Goodson\".

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« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2003, 09:41:05 AM »
CHild's Play was the first game show to be billed strictly as an MG Production. Between mid-1982 and early 1984, Feud, TPIR, and Tattletales dropped Todman's name as well.
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« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2003, 04:06:45 PM »
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In the case of HQ, Quigley retired from HQ either during or after the production of LVG.  Heatter carried on the production company using his own name with the creation of BATTLESTARS.

Officially, Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley broke up their partnership in 1981, after the end of \"Las Vegas Gambit.\"  Quigley had not been actively involved in day-to-day operations for several years, anyway, as I understood it from talking to his daughter once (who's now a costume designer in LA).  Since their company was a Filmways subsidiary (about to become Orion), the parent company assumed full ownership of their series and Heatter began his own independent production company--meaning that Orion hired him to produce the revival of \"High Rollers,\" the show his original company created, in 1987.
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« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2003, 04:13:26 PM »
[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Jul 21 2003, 03:06 PM\']
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In the case of HQ, Quigley retired from HQ either during or after the production of LVG.  Heatter carried on the production company using his own name with the creation of BATTLESTARS.

Officially, Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley broke up their partnership in 1981, after the end of \"Las Vegas Gambit.\"  Quigley had not been actively involved in day-to-day operations for several years, anyway, as I understood it from talking to his daughter once (who's now a costume designer in LA).  Since their company was a Filmways subsidiary (about to become Orion), the parent company assumed full ownership of their series and Heatter began his own independent production company--meaning that Orion hired him to produce the revival of \"High Rollers,\" the show his original company created, in 1987. [/quote]
Wasn't the last HQ production the now-legendary Casino, or was that Heatter solo?
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« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2003, 07:29:58 PM »
Casino was an HQ Production. Ask Jekalb329 about it, or read his legendary posts about how his uncle was a contestant......
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« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2003, 07:39:39 PM »
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jul 21 2003, 06:29 PM\'] Casino was an HQ Production. Ask Jekalb329 about it, or read his legendary posts about how his uncle was a contestant...... [/quote]
 That stuff was funny!

But Casino really did happen....right?
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« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2003, 08:09:54 PM »
Supposedly it did, but I don't recall seeing it and I don't believe any tapes are on the trading circuit. It was hosted by Jim Perry and taped for NBC, who wanted to find a venue for him after Card Sharks got cancelled(they tried two pilots with him before his $otC gig began, Casino and Bob Stewart's Twisters)
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