Author Topic: Pilot Light Update (Read 8668 times)

mmb5 · « **on:** February 02, 2006, 08:41:06 PM »

Now that busy season is winding down, I was finally able to report what I did on my summer vacation. See pilots! Now you can read about them too..

http://www.mikeburger.com/pilots

The new ones (17 in all) are:
Match Game '96
Money in the Blank
Sharaize
Razzle Dazzle
Chain Letter '64
Talking Pictures '76
Be What You Want
Shooting Stars
Let's Make a Deal '63
PDQ
Moneymaze
Twenty Questions '89
Pyramid '97
Card Sharks '96
Keynotes '86
Three of a Kind
Pyramid '96

Enjoy, have fun, and don't shoot the writer...

--Mike

JasonA1 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 02, 2006, 09:17:03 PM »

Haven't read this update yet, but let me just say: thanks for the next bazillion hours of entertainment! Again! Really a class piece of webitry Mike, and I thank you for it.

-Jason

MikeK · « **Reply #2 on:** February 02, 2006, 09:39:07 PM »

A phenomenal job as always, Mike.

(Note to self:
1. Bring a copy of Malcolm to GSC5 for Mike B.
2. Give to Mike near the end of the festivities.
3. Get on the first plane leaving Burbank.)

The Pyramids · « **Reply #3 on:** February 02, 2006, 09:43:17 PM »

[quote name=\'JasonA1\' date=\'Feb 2 2006, 09:17 PM\']Haven't read this update yet, but let me just say: thanks for the next bazillion hours of entertainment! Again! Really a class piece of webitry Mike, and I thank you for it.

-Jason

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Yes, great site & update. I particularly liked 'Match Game '96'.

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 02, 2006, 09:46:29 PM »

[quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Feb 2 2006, 09:43 PM\']I particularly liked 'Match Game '96'.
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What the hell was there to like?

JasonA1 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 02, 2006, 09:49:08 PM »

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3. Get on the first plane leaving Burbank

Aw. At the very least, the main game wasn't all that bad. I don't even think it ranks as one of the ten worst game shows.

-Jason

clemon79 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 02, 2006, 10:08:39 PM »

[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Feb 2 2006, 06:46 PM\'][quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Feb 2 2006, 09:43 PM\']I particularly liked 'Match Game '96'.
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What the hell was there to like?

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Mark was too busy jumping at the opportunity to be snarky to read and find out Paul was referring to Mike's review and not the actual show.

MikeK · « **Reply #7 on:** February 02, 2006, 10:09:21 PM »

[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Feb 2 2006, 09:46 PM\'][quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Feb 2 2006, 09:43 PM\']I particularly liked 'Match Game '96'.[/quote]
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The fact MG 96 didn't make it to air.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #8 on:** February 02, 2006, 10:14:44 PM »

I'd like to offer thanks too...now I'll have something to read at work tonite. ;-)

I remember starting a discussion (which unfortunately, I turned into a tense debate) about 2 years back re: an early-80s pilot called "Freeze Frame". Do you know anything about that pilot? I believe it had Jack Clark.

vtown7 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 02, 2006, 10:44:06 PM »

[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Feb 2 2006, 11:09 PM\']A phenomenal job as always, Mike.

(Note to self:
1. Bring a copy of Malcolm to GSC5 for Mike B.
2. Give to Mike near the end of the festivities.
3. Get on the first plane leaving Burbank.)

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Is this repayment for those wonderful Pyramid categoires at GSC4, Mike?

Ryan

mmb5 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 02, 2006, 11:30:31 PM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Feb 2 2006, 10:14 PM\']I'd like to offer thanks too...now I'll have something to read at work tonite. ;-)

I remember starting a discussion (which unfortunately, I turned into a tense debate) about 2 years back re: an early-80s pilot called "Freeze Frame". Do you know anything about that pilot? I believe it had Jack Clark.

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Nope, sorry, haven't heard of this one.

Thanks for all of the kudos. Remember, if you have a pilot you want reviewed, we can make arrangements. No matter how bad it is, I'll give it a shot (except for this one I won't mention, I've tried, but I just can't sit through it) I have some interesting stuff to trade if you can handle a British or an Australian accent.

And also thanks to bricon for the pre-announcement proofreading.

--Mike

zachhoran · « **Reply #11 on:** February 03, 2006, 07:57:20 AM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Feb 2 2006, 10:14 PM\']I'd like to offer thanks too...now I'll have something to read at work tonite. ;-)

I remember starting a discussion (which unfortunately, I turned into a tense debate) about 2 years back re: an early-80s pilot called "Freeze Frame". Do you know anything about that pilot? I believe it had Jack Clark.

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All I know (from ATGS and/or here) is that there were two pilots done in the early 80s for this movie trivia game show: one with Jack Clark and one with Bob Eubanks. It was not done by a major packager.

aaron sica · « **Reply #12 on:** February 03, 2006, 08:37:28 AM »

Excellent update! One extremely minor nitpick - please excuse me for getting Horanish.

I was looking at the MG90 page as well - when it was cancelled, the half-hour didn't go back to the affiliates QUITE yet (this would happen a year later though), first, "Home" expanded to 90 minutes, with its last half-hour taking MG's slot.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #13 on:** February 03, 2006, 10:02:36 AM »

A GSPL update is always a wonderful thing. Oddly, I watched many of those pilots last summer with Mike, and I had already forgotten most of them. BTW, his review of Twenty Questions is VERY generous. It's a misguided affair which to my reasonably well-trained eye looked highly scripted in places where even a pilot really ought not to be.

MikeK · « **Reply #14 on:** February 03, 2006, 02:51:19 PM »

[quote name=\'vtown7\' date=\'Feb 2 2006, 10:44 PM\'][quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Feb 2 2006, 11:09 PM\']A phenomenal job as always, Mike.

(Note to self:
1. Bring a copy of Malcolm to GSC5 for Mike B.
2. Give to Mike near the end of the festivities.
3. Get on the first plane leaving Burbank.)[/quote]

Is this repayment for those wonderful Pyramid categoires at GSC4, Mike?

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Nah. The Pyramid game was quite funny. Mike deserves big props for creating that. I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Mike will get Malcolm just because. I think I gave DVD copies of Malcolm to three GSC4 attendees. Oddly enough, three people sent me e-mails the week after the Congreff saying I am Satan's spawn.