What's the first game show you saw in person?

[gsfan85]

I've gotten the wonderful chance to see:

Wheel of Fortune-Best Friends Week from NY Monday-Wednesday October 2nd, 1999
Jeopardy!-Celebrity Week from NY 1 episode October 8th, 1999
ESPN's 2 Minute Drill-3 episodes-August 2000
Who Wants to be a Millionaire-1 episode September 2000
Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire-2nd Celebrity Edition
Rock Star Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Celebrity Millionaire-the one with Chevy Chase and Martin Short
The Long Island Challenge-2000
History IQ-2001
The Long Island Challenge-2001
Jeopardy!-2002-5 episodes of Million Dollar Masters from NYC
Who Wants to be a Millionaire-Meredith Vierra-1st time I went
Who Wants to be a Millionaire-Meredith Vierra-2nd time 2 weeks later

Soon to see-Wheel of Fortune in NY:
New York Week-5 episodes
Best Friends Week-5 episodes

Other Shows I've Seen:
The People's Court (with Marilyn Milion)
Whoopi (2nd episode)-Airs this fall on NBC
Hope & Faith (Pilot)-Airs September 26th and 9PM on ABC

I've had a great time at these shows, can't wait to see more!
Adam

[GS Warehouse]

[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Aug 19 2003, 09:28 AM\'] This is stretching...
But I was on "Bozo's Big Top" in Green Bay in the mid-60s. And they did play games on it (it was a local version of the Chicago Bozo show some of you may remember from WGN).
Didn't get to play any games, tho. [/quote]
 In my area, two channels (including WGN) had their own versions of Bozo, and both featured games, most notably the world-famous Grand Prize Game.  (A version of that can be found in some arcades, BTW.)

ObOriginalTopic: This is also stretching it, but before there were weekly lottery game shows, the lottery had a promotion where they toured local malls and sweepstakes winners spun a wheel for cash and lottery tickets.  It's the closest I've ever come to seeing a game show in person.

[Clay Zambo]

TPiR, 1991.  When I found the tickets in a Valentine's Day card given me by my wife, I knew I'd married the right woman!

[Timsterino]

\"Let's Make a Deal\" with Bob Hilton from the Disney-MGM studios back in 1990.

Then later on (in no order whatsoever) .....

Who Wants to be a Millionaire (as a contestant in 2001)
The Price is Right (1993) (2002 X 2) (2003 with our Randy West as an announcer!)
Wheel of Fortune from Miami (two different times)
Pyramid with Donny Osmond (Special guests Moe Collins and Alan Rosenberg)

With more to come! ;-)

Tim :-)

[YKW03]

Early 80s, in high school, Wink Martindale's \"Tic Tac Dough\", back (I believe) at the Golden West/KTLA studios; over the next few years, I would catch many TTD and TJW tapings at both KTLA and the ChrisCraft/KCOP lots, as well as a few one-off appearances during my first collegiate go-round (the details of which, I'm afraid, are forever drowned in a collegiate-associated alcoholic haze).

Oddly, while I've tried out for shows like Scrabble, J!, Card Sharks and SotC, I've never (to my recollection, anyway) actually gone to watch a show for which I've auditioned (or vice versa). Never have been sure whether or not there was some Deeper Meaning to that fact....

[Adam Nedeff]

I saw the entire first week of the Jeopardy! 2002 College Tourney at OSU waaaaaaayyyyy back in October. And I'm proud to say that during the commercial Q&A, I asked Alex about the High Rollers finale. He dismissed it as absurd nonsense, and then never came back to my section of the audience again. :-)

Odd phenomenon about Alex is that he's much funnier and \"looser\" than on TV. The host of Jeopardy! is who you see on TV, the host of Pitfall is who you see off the air.

Johnny Gilbert did a GREAT warm-up, too, and told a funny story about nearly getting fired from Cullen's TPIR for screwing up a live commercial for psoriasis ointment (Johnny pronounced the ailment in question as \"sorry asses.\")

In addition to the five shows I saw, we also got to watch Alex do individual promos and advertising photos with each contestant for their local affiliate, which I thought was pretty cool.

Also of note was a questionable response about the French name for French Fries that held up the taping for a full 20 minutes while the judges called up various experts on the phone and checked a few books. Both Alex & Johnny came out to the audience to field questions and tell jokes, but it was fun in a way to see how the show handles discrepancies like that.

Most shocking thing about the taping was that, AMAZINGLY, they didn't have a souvenir t-shirt stand or anything like that in the lobby, when Lord knows they could have made a fortune of those. I did manage a souvenir of the trip anyway: The \"Jeopardy! Stand-by Tickets =======>>\" sign outside the entrance. Hey, better than nothing.

[catkins522]

Jeopardy! ToC in May 2000 in Atlanta
TPiR in 2000, 01, 02, 03 (if I got tickets in a few weeks)
WoF Contestant Search in Bonita Springs, FL in 2001
Hollywood Squares in 2002
The Other Half (ok, not a game show, but got to see Dick Clark) in 2002

Charles Atkins

[Card Shark]

I saw WOF with Bob Goen at CBS Television City in July 1989.

This was followed by:

Jeopardy! (1999)
TPIR (1999)

[vtown7]

Okay... here's my list!

Wheel of Fortune (May 1997 - as a contestant)
Questions pour un Champion (January 2002 - Paris, France)
Weakest Link (February 2002 - London, England)
Liar! (June 2002 - London, England)
TPIR (July 2003 - to be aired October 9/03)

... and although it isn't a *true* game show, it is a guilty pleasure of mine:

Canadian Idol (August 11, 2003 - live show)

Cheers,

Ryan

[Brandon Brooks]

Canadian Idol

I though that was permanently Alanis Morissette.

Brandon Brooks

[dzinkin]

The first game show I saw in person was Jeopardy! -- specifically, the Tournament of Champions from March 2000 (Eddie Timanus rules!).  Later that year I attended a taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire... and that's been it since then.

 - David

[Robert Hutchinson]

All these responses, and I'm still the first to admit that I've never seen a game show in person?

[Skynet74]

Dream House in 1983 was my first. Had a blast. Johnny Gilbert told me how to get to the bathroom before the show started. When I walked out into the lobby on my way to use the restroom I saw the darkest storm clouds I've ever seen out the window. Looked like a tornado was about to hit. But the firece looking weather was forgot as soon as I walked back in the studio. I was to excited about seeing the show to think about much else. I was 15 years old. It was my first trip to California and my first time ever seeing a TV show too. Stayed there for two months that summer. Saw dream House the day before I flew back home to the East Coast. What a cool experience!!!


John

[ChuckNet]

You got to see Don Pardo, you lucky stiff. Did he do the warm-up or just announce? Too bad Don wasn't called up for the Jeopardy! shows from New York in 2002.

I don't recall if he did the warm-up, but he was definitely onstage and talked w/some audience members before the show.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious \"Chuckie Baby\")

[goongas]

I don't remember the years for all of them:

Ready Set Cook
History IQ
Name That Video
WWTBAM (multiple times, both versions)
Jeopardy! Masters Tournament
Wheel of Fortune Madison Square Garden
2 Minute Drill - 2nd Season Finale

Eric