Author Topic: TV Guide Retro... (Read 15399 times)

aaron sica · « **on:** May 19, 2005, 09:07:30 PM »

STATION KEY:
Philly: 3-KYW (NBC), 6-WPVI (ABC), 10-WCAU (CBS), 17-WPHL (Ind), 29-WTAF (Ind.), 48-WKBS (INd).
NYC: 2-WCBS (CBS), 4-WNBC (NBC), 5-WNEW (Ind.), 7-WABC (ABC), 9-WOR (Ind.), 11-WPIX (Ind.)
Wildwood, NJ: 40-WAAT (NBC); Atlantic City, NJ: 53-WWAC (Ind.), Vineland, NJ: 65-WRBV (Ind.)

9:30 (2) Joker's Wild-Game
10:30 (40, 4) Wheel of Fortune-Game
11AM (10, 2) Price is Right-Game
(6) Match Game
(65) Cross Wits-Game
(9) Tic Tac Dough-Game
11:30 (6) Family Feud-Game
(65) Super Pay Cards-Game
(9) Celebrity Bullseye-Game
NOON (10) Tattletales-Game
Eva Gabor, Martin Mull, P.R. Paul.
(2) Tattletales-Game
Telma Hopkins, Pat Harrington.
(7) Family Feud-Game
2 PM (9) Pitfall-Game
2:30 (9) Match Game
7 PM (6) Tic Tac Dough-Game
7:30 (10, 4) Family Feud-Game
4:30 (9) Face The Music-Game

zachhoran · « **Reply #1 on:** May 19, 2005, 09:45:47 PM »

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'May 19 2005, 08:07 PM\']STATION KEY:
65-WRBV (Ind.)

(65) Cross Wits-Game
(65) Super Pay Cards-Game
4:30 (9) Face The Music-Game

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Whatever happened to Channel 65? Is it still a home shopping channel as it was in the early 90s. I did not they aired Cross-Wits reruns or Super Pay Cards. I know WWAC aired SPC in 1981-82. I didn't know FtM reruns aired on WOR in 1982, either?

aaron sica · « **Reply #2 on:** May 19, 2005, 09:57:02 PM »

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Whatever happened to Channel 65? Is it still a home shopping channel as it was in the early 90s. I did not they aired Cross-Wits reruns or Super Pay Cards. I know WWAC aired SPC in 1981-82. I didn't know FtM reruns aired on WOR in 1982, either?

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As per the TV Guide Channel chart for the Philly edition, I do believe it's now a Univision station.

Question for fellow collectors, as my curiosity is raised now:

The listings for this came from a recent bunch of TVG's I won on Ebay. The 1981 issues were the "Philadelphia Metro Edition", while the ones from February 1982 on were the "Philadelphia Edition", the difference being that the Metro only included Philly stations, not any NYC stations.

I have a 1979 issue somewhere that looks like what became the Philly edition, but it was called the "Philadelphia-New Jersey Edition" or something like that. Was the Philly metro absorbed into the P-NJ to make a regular Philly edition?

ObGameShows: One of the 1982 issues I got included a full-page ad for $25K Pyramid and Child's Play

Blanquepage · « **Reply #3 on:** May 19, 2005, 09:58:48 PM »

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Gee, Cross-Wits reruns in 1982? Those tapes have to be somewhere.

--Jamie

That Don Guy · « **Reply #4 on:** May 19, 2005, 10:22:13 PM »

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'May 19 2005, 08:57 PM\']As per the TV Guide Channel chart for the Philly edition, I do believe it's now a Univision station.

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Univision, eh? How about episodes of Baje una Estrella (a remake of the late-1960s Reach for the Stars (not to be confused with Shoot for the Stars)) and ¡Basta! (a Pyramid clone where they start with a game of something that looks like Scattergories, and the winners circle is, literally, a circle (with a strange rule: an incorrect clue ends the round immediately))?

-- Don

trainman · « **Reply #5 on:** May 20, 2005, 12:25:03 AM »

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'May 19 2005, 06:57 PM\']The listings for this came from a recent bunch of TVG's I won on Ebay. The 1981 issues were the "Philadelphia Metro Edition", while the ones from February 1982 on were the "Philadelphia Edition", the difference being that the Metro only included Philly stations, not any NYC stations.

I have a 1979 issue somewhere that looks like what became the Philly edition, but it was called the "Philadelphia-New Jersey Edition" or something like that. Was the Philly metro absorbed into the P-NJ to make a regular Philly edition?

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Sounds like a good guess to me. I think it was a little later in 1982 that my hometown Tampa Bay edition had the Fort Myers-area channels added to it and was renamed the Tampa-Sarasota edition, so TV Guide was doing a bit of edition shuffling that year.

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #6 on:** May 20, 2005, 09:04:24 AM »

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9:30 (2) Joker's Wild-Game
10:30 (40, 4) Wheel of Fortune-Game
11AM (10, 2) Price is Right-Game

This is obviously one of those editions that puts the black "home market" bullets first, followed by the white "out of town" bullets. There are a few editions that have done this - I think Pittsburgh is another one. I believe it was around the early '80s when this started. I personally prefer the editions where the channels are listed in order via channel number ... but that's just me!

When you look at the game shows listed, this illustrates the drop in games that occured in the early '80s. It wasn't until 1983 - when NBC premiered 3 shows - that the numbers started increasing again. Oh...for the good old days!

aaron sica · « **Reply #7 on:** May 20, 2005, 09:24:02 AM »

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'May 20 2005, 09:04 AM\']When you look at the game shows listed, this illustrates the drop in games that occured in the early '80s. It wasn't until 1983 - when NBC premiered 3 shows - that the numbers started increasing again. Oh...for the good old days!

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Oh yeah, you know, you're right! Since only game shows are listed, let me tell our "younger viewers" what the other daytime slots consisted of on NBC..

10am: Diff'rent Strokes reruns
11am: Texas (hour-long soap)
noon: Doctors (soap)
12:30: Search for Tomorrow
1pm: Days of Our Lives
2pm: Another World
3pm: CHiPs reruns

Texas and Doctors BOTH expired at the end of the year, making room for an hour and a half of games, and of course, CHiPs was replaced by "Fantasy" that September.

calliaume · « **Reply #8 on:** May 20, 2005, 09:58:56 AM »

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'May 20 2005, 08:24 AM\']Oh yeah, you know, you're right! Since only game shows are listed, let me tell our "younger viewers" what the other daytime slots consisted of on NBC..

10am: Diff'rent Strokes reruns
11am: Texas (hour-long soap)
noon: Doctors (soap)
12:30: Search for Tomorrow
1pm: Days of Our Lives
2pm: Another World
3pm: CHiPs reruns

Texas and Doctors BOTH expired at the end of the year, making room for an hour and a half of games, and of course, CHiPs was replaced by "Fantasy" that September.

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My site has links to all three networks' daytime programming over the years.

The summer of 1982 was pretty dire for game shows - just one on each of the networks (Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune, The Price Is Right). CBS actually led the renaissance in September 1982, cancelling reruns of Alice and One Day at a Time in favor of The $25,000 Pyramid and Child's Play.

zachhoran · « **Reply #9 on:** May 20, 2005, 10:01:01 AM »

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My site has links to all three networks' daytime programming over the years.

The summer of 1982 was pretty dire for game shows - just one on each of the networks (Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune, The Price Is Right). CBS actually led the renaissance in September 1982, cancelling reruns of Alice and One Day at a Time in favor of The $25,000 Pyramid and Child's Play.

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They led it eight months earlier on 1/18/82 when Up to the Minute was replaced with the revamped Tattletales.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #10 on:** May 20, 2005, 10:30:34 AM »

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My site has links to all three networks' daytime programming over the years.

The summer of 1982 was pretty dire for game shows - just one on each of the networks (Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune, The Price Is Right). CBS actually led the renaissance in September 1982, cancelling reruns of Alice and One Day at a Time in favor of The $25,000 Pyramid and Child's Play.

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They led it eight months earlier on 1/18/82 when Up to the Minute was replaced with the revamped Tattletales.

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No they didn't. In January 1982, NBC still had Wheel, Blockbusters, Password + and Battlestars, although 3 of those 4 would be cancelled by springtime.

EDIT: Not Tattletales, but Wheel of Fortune. I need more sleep. :-)

aaron sica · « **Reply #11 on:** May 20, 2005, 10:36:33 AM »

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No they didn't. In January 1982, NBC still had Tattletales, Blockbusters, Password + and Battlestars, although 3 of those 4 would be cancelled by springtime.

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Before you get corrected by Zach...

NBC had Blockbusters, WoF, Battlestars, and P+ in that airing order (10:30-12:30), and when "Search for Tomorrow" moved from CBS to NBC, it took the 12:30 time slot, pushing "Doctors" a half hour back to noon. "Texas" moved from 3pm to 11am, and WoF moved a half hour back to 10:30 from 11am.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #12 on:** May 20, 2005, 10:45:38 AM »

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'May 20 2005, 09:36 AM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'May 20 2005, 10:30 AM\']
No they didn't. In January 1982, NBC still had Tattletales, Blockbusters, Password + and Battlestars, although 3 of those 4 would be cancelled by springtime.

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Before you get corrected by Zach...

NBC had Blockbusters, WoF, Battlestars, and P+ in that airing order (10:30-12:30), and when "Search for Tomorrow" moved from CBS to NBC, it took the 12:30 time slot, pushing "Doctors" a half hour back to noon. "Texas" moved from 3pm to 11am, and WoF moved a half hour back to 10:30 from 11am.

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Interesting. I had wondered what NBC's noon programming was for '82, and kept wondering in the back of my mind was there a game show I had forgotten, but apparently not.

aaron sica · « **Reply #13 on:** May 20, 2005, 11:07:16 AM »

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Interesting. I had wondered what NBC's noon programming was for '82, and kept wondering in the back of my mind was there a game show I had forgotten, but apparently not.

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Even back in '82, there were some stations (Philly's being one of them), that either didn't show the noon offering, put it at another time slot (Feud airing at 11:30, for example), or pawned it off on another station (Ch. 48's airing of $20K Pyramid a few years previous).

I remember being totally shocked in spring '82 when I got a look at the Washington-Baltimore TV Guide, and P+ was still on!! IIRC, WRC-4 from DC aired it at 9:30 am. The NBC stations in the TV Guide where I lived (KYW-3, WGAL-8, WBAL-11) didn't carry NBC's noon offering at that time, although later in the '80s, KYW-3 did air SP, albeit at 3:30pm.

SRIV94 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 20, 2005, 11:08:40 AM »

Of course, a future game show connection occupied the 10AM/9AM slot in January 1982--THE REGIS PHILBIN SHOW had replaced LVG (Reege would be displaced by Arnold Jackson and his disfunctional family).

But we all knew that.

Doug