Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Dec 19 2004, 04:24 PM\']Hey, I do the same thing. :-) Soap theme composers have given us some of the most beautiful melodies ever recorded, plus it's a trip watching the video clips to see the intros/closes and sponsor billboards.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

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Not to mention with the closes, we get some plugs for game shows. Heard on a 1975 CBS "Edge of Night" episode: "Stay tuned for  'Match Game '75' on most of these CBS stations."

[ChrisLambert!]

[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Dec 19 2004, 04:24 PM\']Soap theme composers have given us some of the most beautiful melodies ever recorded,
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My favorite of which was the 1974-81 theme to "Another World", which (ObGS!) was composed by our old friend Bob Israel at Score Productions. A perusal of Score's website shows they were behind a ton of other killer soap themes as well. (but not *my* soap, ATWT. Ah well.)

[Casey Buck]

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Dec 19 2004, 01:25 PM\'][quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Dec 19 2004, 04:24 PM\']Hey, I do the same thing. :-) Soap theme composers have given us some of the most beautiful melodies ever recorded, plus it's a trip watching the video clips to see the intros/closes and sponsor billboards.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

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Not to mention with the closes, we get some plugs for game shows. Heard on a 1975 CBS "Edge of Night" episode: "Stay tuned for  'Match Game '75' on most of these CBS stations."

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Actually, it appears that those "Stay tuned for ..." plugs were there as late as 1991, according to the 1991 ATWT closing theme clip on that site.

(Man, we're getting off topic here!)

[NickintheATL]

[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' date=\'Dec 20 2004, 02:23 AM\']
Actually, it appears that those "Stay tuned for ..." plugs were there as late as 1991, according to the 1991 ATWT closing theme clip on that site.

(Man, we're getting off topic here!)

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We are, but it's fascinating.

I can vouch that TPiR discontinued this practice in 1981 it would seem, the last message of the sort they used was...

"Stay tuned for 'Search for Tomorrow' one half-hour from now on most of these CBS stations"

[Jimmy Owen]

Well, ATWT leads into GL, both P&G properties, so it could have been a sponsor edict by that late date.

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'NicholasM79\' date=\'Dec 20 2004, 08:28 PM\']I can vouch that TPiR discontinued this practice in 1981 it would seem, the last message of the sort they used was...

"Stay tuned for 'Search for Tomorrow' one half-hour from now on most of these CBS stations"

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You left out the magic word. Johnny Olson would say, "PLEASE stay tuned.......". Were ratings that bad for SFT or is Johnny O. simply a gentleman?

[NickintheATL]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Dec 20 2004, 09:50 PM\']
You left out the magic word. Johnny Olson would say, "PLEASE stay tuned.......". Were ratings that bad for SFT or is Johnny O. simply a gentleman?

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Right you are.... but I think the ratings were THAT bad. According to Curt Alliaume's grids of network daytime history, SFT last was on 6/5/81. Maybe the 12:30 ratings were that bad... even though it's replacement was the then-hot Y&R (moving up from 1:00 PM to 12:30 PM on 6/8/81, where it remains today).

[mbclev]

[quote name=\'JacksonBrowne1980\' date=\'Dec 18 2004, 08:11 PM\']Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour was a funny game show; It should have lasted longer, I think the soap opera that rplaced it was not good at all

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The problem with this show was that some of the Hollywood Squares questions were quite tasteless, especially for daytime.  An example of that is their wanting to know which weighs more when they lose their virginity, a human or a pig?  ("Dream House" [1983] sometimes had similar questions in its front game, and I wasn't sorry to see that and MG/HS go.)

[whewfan]

Also, the questions were phrased in a very awkward manner than the HS fan might be used to.

On a typical ep. of the original HS, a question might be something as simple as "Is it ok to freeze cheeseballs?" and that question may have a clever zinger attached to it.

However, on the GT version, the same question would be phrased as "Minnie Mouse wants to freeze her cheeseballs... is this ok, or is it a bad idea?"

Sometimes, the questions were phrased in first person, and sometimes that worked, and sometimes it didn't.

Jon, to Jamie Farr : You're a woman...
Jamie: Again?
Jon: And you're in the army?
Jamie: Again?



We know zingers were never supplied for the celebs, and so many of their responses were very flat.

My favorite zinger from the Bauman HS

Jon, to Gallagher: You're a handsome cow, and you meet a beautiful horse... if you two try really hard, can you two make a baby?... Or is it physically impossible?

Gallagher: Yeah, it's just going to be VERY slow at the races.

[Jimmy Owen]

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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Dec 20 2004, 09:50 PM\']
You left out the magic word. Johnny Olson would say, "PLEASE stay tuned.......". Were ratings that bad for SFT or is Johnny O. simply a gentleman?

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Right you are.... but I think the ratings were THAT bad. According to Curt Alliaume's grids of network daytime history, SFT last was on 6/5/81. Maybe the 12:30 ratings were that bad... even though it's replacement was the then-hot Y&R (moving up from 1:00 PM to 12:30 PM on 6/8/81, where it remains today).

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It didn't go completely off the air yet, though. SFT did move to 2:30pm on CBS in June of 81 and back to 12:30 on NBC in 1982 and was on until late 86.  "Wordplay" replaced it. Marcia McCabe and David Forsythe were a couple of the SFT stars that appeared on that 1984 MGHS show that is on the net.