Vintage TV Guide

[Dbacksfan12]

Weekdays
9AM:
2--$25,000 Pyramid [W/Lois Nettleton]
930:
2--Press Your Luck
4,6--Sale of the Century
10:00
2-Price is Right
4,6-Wheel of Fortune
10:30
4,6--Dream House
11:00:
4,6-Hot Potato [Debut]
7,3-Family Feud
12:00
2-Tattletales [Erin Moran]
12:30
9-Dating Game
1:00
9-Newlywed Game
NIK-You can't Do that on Television
2:00
4,6-Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour [Copley, McCoy, Villard, Urseth, Burghoff, Volz)
11-Love Connection
13-Tic Tac Dough
7:00
13-Joker's Wild
Midnight:
9-The Gong Show

Not much, but what would you watch?  
A tacky ad for "Hot Potato" appears on P. 64...with a whole bunch of people tossing potatoes in the background.
Page 60 features an add for Star Search, with 1.5 million in cash prizes

On Saturdays; Starcade aired at 5:05 on TBS, and 10:00 on Channel 5

[aaron sica]

Mark, you didn't put a channel key in there, but the sad thing is, I might know the edition by the channels - that didn't come from an LA Metro edition, did it?

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Apr 11 2005, 04:20 PM\']Mark, you didn't put a channel key in there, but the sad thing is, I might know the edition by the channels - that didn't come from an LA Metro edition, did it?

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That it did.

[SRIV94]

[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Apr 11 2005, 04:38 PM\']That it did.

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So are you saying that no L.A. station was airing the first syndie season of WoF at that time?  Not doubting you by any means, but I do find that a little odd.

Doug

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Apr 11 2005, 04:45 PM\'][quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Apr 11 2005, 04:38 PM\']That it did.

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So are you saying that no L.A. station was airing the first syndie season of WoF at that time?  Not doubting you by any means, but I do find that a little odd.

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Wasn't "Wheel" on KCOP in LA in its first years?  (As was "J!" after KCBS replaced it with Jack Klugman as "Quincy, M.E.")

[Dbacksfan12]

I looked through the listings again, and didn't find Wheel, but I did see that KDOC aired "What's My Line" at 11:00 PM

[DrBear]

[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Apr 11 2005, 03:15 PM\']
A tacky ad for "Hot Potato" appears on P. 64...with a whole bunch of people tossing potatoes in the background.

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You mean Bil Kulin really DID toss a potuto at the contestants?
That was a funi.

[Johnissoevil]

[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Apr 11 2005, 06:30 PM\'][quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Apr 11 2005, 03:15 PM\']
A tacky ad for "Hot Potato" appears on P. 64...with a whole bunch of people tossing potatoes in the background.

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You mean Bil Kulin really DID toss a potuto at the contestants?
That was a funi.

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OK!  You've done it now!

*zaps DrBear with a tazer*

Have a good evening. :-)

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Apr 11 2005, 05:54 PM\']
Wasn't "Wheel" on KCOP in LA in its first years?  (As was "J!" after KCBS replaced it with Jack Klugman as "Quincy, M.E.")

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I may still have the issue somewhere...coincidentally enough, my first LA issue was March 1-7, 1984 (with "a Streetcar named Desire" on the cover...yes folks, the truth can be told. I'm with TV Guide covers like Horan is with game shows), and if KCOP is 13, they indeed were carrying the syndicated WoF by this point. I remember seeing a different print ad for the show for every weekday night.

On the other side of the US, WoF didn't begin running in NYC on WCBS until the last week of January, IIRC. I remember watching the first episode on WCBS - Pat even greeted the viewers and mentioned WCBS. Too bad I never had a VCR goin'...

[Passepartout]

(Massive overquoting deleted.  -DZ)

The eighties was a good decade for game shows indeed! Bad news is that I didn't have a vcr back then. I finally got one in 1986 Christmas Day!

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Apr 11 2005, 07:24 PM\'][quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Apr 11 2005, 05:54 PM\']
Wasn't "Wheel" on KCOP in LA in its first years?  (As was "J!" after KCBS replaced it with Jack Klugman as "Quincy, M.E.")

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I may still have the issue somewhere...coincidentally enough, my first LA issue was March 1-7, 1984 (with "a Streetcar named Desire" on the cover...yes folks, the truth can be told. I'm with TV Guide covers like Horan is with game shows), and if KCOP is 13, they indeed were carrying the syndicated WoF by this point. I remember seeing a different print ad for the show for every weekday night.

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One of the mods can definitely tell you that KCOP is 13 in LA.

[Jimmy Owen]

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Apr 11 2005, 07:24 PM\'][quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Apr 11 2005, 05:54 PM\']
Wasn't "Wheel" on KCOP in LA in its first years?  (As was "J!" after KCBS replaced it with Jack Klugman as "Quincy, M.E.")

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I may still have the issue somewhere...coincidentally enough, my first LA issue was March 1-7, 1984 (with "a Streetcar named Desire" on the cover...yes folks, the truth can be told. I'm with TV Guide covers like Horan is with game shows), and if KCOP is 13, they indeed were carrying the syndicated WoF by this point. I remember seeing a different print ad for the show for every weekday night.

On the other side of the US, WoF didn't begin running in NYC on WCBS until the last week of January, IIRC. I remember watching the first episode on WCBS - Pat even greeted the viewers and mentioned WCBS. Too bad I never had a VCR goin'...

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The last LA issue I have before yours is Feb 4-10, 84 (winter olympics) and TJW was still at 7pm in that one, so WOF started on 13 shortly thereafter. The Kings are to be commended for their belief in the show. A syndicator today wouldn't even go forward if LA and NYC weren't on board at launch.