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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: alfonzos on June 11, 2006, 06:32:01 PM
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Entertainment Weekly says the TV Guide Channel will air this show on Sunday, June 18 at 8 PM ET.
What does TV Guide know that the public doesn't? Here is some speculation:
Password has never repeated a password. That is why the show has not been on the air since 1989. They simply ran out of words.
The model for Press Your Luck's Whammy is comedian Gilbert Godfried.
Concentration was a radio show that aired on the NBC Blue network originally. Host Art Baker received critical and public acclaim for his ability to describe a rebus puzzle on the radio.
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I'm gonna beat my friend Brandon F-G to the punch on this one:
It's a JOKE, ZACH. We don't need to know how many times a password was re-used.
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What's a joke?
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If this is what passes for humor these days...and they're gonna RERUN that?
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'121092\' date=\'Jun 11 2006, 06:37 PM\']
I'm gonna beat my friend Brandon F-G to the punch on this one:
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As long as I get my royalty check. ;-)
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[quote name=\'alfonzos\' post=\'121090\' date=\'Jun 11 2006, 03:32 PM\'] Entertainment Weekly says the TV Guide Channel will air this show on Sunday, June 18 at 8 PM ET.
What does TV Guide know that the public doesn't? Here is some speculation:[/quote]In the UK, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" was supposed to have the title "Cash Mountain". The name was changed only because Lloyd's of London refused to insure the potential loss of one million £1 notes originally planned to be placed in a mountainous pile on the set.
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[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'121094\' date=\'Jun 11 2006, 05:39 PM\']
If this is what passes for humor these days...and they're gonna RERUN that?
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Alfonzo was just having some fun with it--I assume the show will be more straight-forward. But it is TVGC, so it probably won't be any good.
Excepting the show ffrom which my sig quote comes from, of course. :)
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I get the feeling we'll get such shocking, unknown items as:
"Chuck Woolery actually used to host 'Wheel of Fortune!'"
(gets shotgun, waits for the first "WOOLERY LEFT WHEEL???!!!!ONE!" post)
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'121092\' date=\'Jun 11 2006, 05:37 PM\']
It's a JOKE, ZACH. We don't need to know how many times a password was re-used.
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Too late, it's already included in the 6-Volume Set "The Zach Horan Encyclopedia of Game Show Rules, Regulations & Records " ($49.95, Harper and Row) , to be available July 18th at fine bookstores everywhere. :-P
[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'121174\' date=\'Jun 12 2006, 12:36 PM\']
I get the feeling we'll get such shocking, unknown items as:
"Chuck Woolery actually used to host 'Wheel of Fortune!'"
(gets shotgun, waits for the first "WOOLERY LEFT WHEEL???!!!!ONE!" post)
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"Dawson Left Feud?!?!"
...Nah, doesn't have that *ring* to it.
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'121213\' date=\'Jun 12 2006, 05:59 PM\']
Too late, it's already included in the 6-Volume Set "The Zach Horan Encyclopedia of Game Show Rules, Regulations & Records " ($49.95, Harper and Row) , to be available July 18th at fine bookstores everywhere. :-P
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C'mon! This MUST be declared the June 12, 2006 "LINE OF THE DAY!"
-Joe R.
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#25: Did you know that Press Your Luck debuted in 1981?
GSN will roll those 1981 shows along with the 1977 episodes of Gambit directed by Jerome Shaw in a special presentation called Game Shows: The Invisible Years.
It'll run all next week in the 3-4am Eastern time period normally reserved for commemorations for the recently deceased.
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GSN will roll those 1981 shows along with the 1977 episodes of Gambit directed by Jerome Show in a special presentation called Game Shows: The Invisible Years.
It'll run all next week in the 3-4am Eastern time period normally reserved for commemorations for the recently deceased.
I tried taping this the last time they ran Game Shows: The Invisible Years. But when I looked at my tape, there was nothing on it - and I was hoping to get a nice collectible :(
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'121278\' date=\'Jun 13 2006, 10:16 AM\']
I tried taping this the last time they ran Game Shows: The Invisible Years. But when I looked at my tape, there was nothing on it - and I was hoping to get a nice collectible :(
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That's why you needed to tape it with the invisible recorder. :)
/ok, leave it to me to run this into the ground
Doug
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Did you use invisible tape?
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[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'121280\' date=\'Jun 13 2006, 11:24 AM\'][quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'121278\' date=\'Jun 13 2006, 10:16 AM\']I tried taping this the last time they ran Game Shows: The Invisible Years. But when I looked at my tape, there was nothing on it - and I was hoping to get a nice collectible :([/quote]That's why you needed to tape it with the invisible recorder. :)[/quote]
I want to try that, but I can't find mine.
/can't find my stealth cloaking device, either
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It's just like this science project I worked on as a kid. I tried to build a perpetual motion machine, but I just couldn't stop.
/hey, if everyone else can do a lame joke, I can too...
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Two more things you didn't know.
Players who spin "bankrupt" on Wheel of Fortune don't actually go bankrupt. Their scores just go down to zero.
Jack Narz, Tom Kennedy (his brother) and Bill Cullen (his brother-in-law) have planned to breed a race of superhosts who are more glib than anyone has ever been imagined!
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[quote name=\'alfonzos\' post=\'121603\' date=\'Jun 16 2006, 12:55 PM\']
Jack Narz, Tom Kennedy (his brother) and Bill Cullen (his brother-in-law) have planned to breed a race of superhosts who are more glib than anyone has ever been imagined!
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Who's gonna be the bitch? ;)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'121610\' date=\'Jun 16 2006, 03:09 PM\']
[quote name=\'alfonzos\' post=\'121603\' date=\'Jun 16 2006, 12:55 PM\']
Jack Narz, Tom Kennedy (his brother) and Bill Cullen (his brother-in-law) have planned to breed a race of superhosts who are more glib than anyone has ever been imagined!
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Who's gonna be the bitch? ;)
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Gee, I dunno...who does the most bitching on this forum? :)
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'121278\' date=\'Jun 13 2006, 11:16 AM\']
I tried taping this the last time they ran Game Shows: The Invisible Years. But when I looked at my tape, there was nothing on it - and I was hoping to get a nice collectible :(
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I taped it too...but taped "Casino" with Jim Perry over it, where my uncle was a contestant, and cursed at Jim when he lost the bonus.
I taped over that too. AGIOT?
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'121732\' date=\'Jun 18 2006, 06:00 PM\']
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'121278\' date=\'Jun 13 2006, 11:16 AM\']
I tried taping this the last time they ran Game Shows: The Invisible Years. But when I looked at my tape, there was nothing on it - and I was hoping to get a nice collectible :(
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I taped it too...but taped "Casino" with Jim Perry over it, where my uncle was a contestant, and cursed at Jim when he lost the bonus.
I taped over that too. AGIOT?
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I know someone else who had it, but he lost it when he got depressed and went on a drinking binge.
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'121278\' date=\'Jun 13 2006, 10:16 AM\']
I tried taping this the last time they ran Game Shows: The Invisible Years. But when I looked at my tape, there was nothing on it - and I was hoping to get a nice collectible :(
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Oddly enough, I got the first few seconds of it on my TiVo!!! What was strange was the show went to black after the opening scene when Jack Narz said "Now You See It...Now You Don't".
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'121732\' date=\'Jun 18 2006, 06:00 PM\']
I taped it too...but taped "Casino" with Jim Perry over it, where my uncle was a contestant, and cursed at Jim when he lost the bonus.
I taped over that too. AGIOT?
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No, but now I must go re-read that entire thread. All 60+ posts. :-P
/Never gets old.
//NEVER.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'121769\' date=\'Jun 18 2006, 10:39 PM\']
No, but now I must go re-read that entire thread. All 60+ posts. :-P
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Link, please? :)
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ATGS Retro Presents: CASINO, October 1999. (http://\"http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.game-shows/browse_thread/thread/7cdeb327340edfa1/e87db11f42d2f63b?q=Kenny+Williams+story+&rnum=1#e87db11f42d2f63b\")
Starts kinda slow, but gets better and better.
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Good gravy Marie, I had forgotten about that! I wonder if Uncle Phillip is doing one of them poker shows?
Hulk Hogan could whip your ass anytime, anyplace, anywhere)!
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'121772\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 12:00 AM\']
ATGS Retro Presents: CASINO, October 1999. (http://\"http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.game-shows/browse_thread/thread/7cdeb327340edfa1/e87db11f42d2f63b?q=Kenny+Williams+story+&rnum=1#e87db11f42d2f63b\")
Starts kinda slow, but gets better and better.
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Okay, do I know this Jekalb guy by another name?
And where's the part where he gets conclusively disproven and subsequently pwned?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'121783\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 09:28 AM\']
And where's the part where he gets conclusively disproven and subsequently pwned?
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My money's on comment #19, courtesy of Michi-Matt. ;-)
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Ah yes, few utterances can make me laugh at their mention, but seeing "Jekalb" brings it all back. Just to make sure the record is straight on this once and for all: am I right in that "Casino" was an H/Q-produced pilot hosted by Jim Perry, and it's merely this ridiculous story that's in question?
-Jason
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[quote name=\'JasonA1\' post=\'121788\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 09:49 AM\']
[A]m I right in that "Casino" was an H/Q-produced pilot hosted by Jim Perry, and it's merely this ridiculous story that's in question?
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I think that's the only part of the thread that's confirmed. There's been other rumors, which came up in the thread (not involving drunken, 40-Year-Old Virgins).
The only clip I know of is from the movie "Videodrome", which still pops up from time to time on SciFi Channel. That is one twisted movie.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'121785\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 06:36 AM\']
My money's on comment #19, courtesy of Michi-Matt. ;-)
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Oh, is that it? Taking nothing away from Our Benevolent Moderator, but that was more a declaration of shenanigans. Hell, I do that almost every day here. :)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'121791\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 09:01 AM\']
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'121785\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 06:36 AM\']
My money's on comment #19, courtesy of Michi-Matt. ;-)
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Oh, is that it? Taking nothing away from Our Benevolent Moderator, but that was more a declaration of shenanigans. Hell, I do that almost every day here. :)
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Well, we all love Stubby Kaye--he was such a great performer. :)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'121791\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 10:01 AM\']
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'121785\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 06:36 AM\']
My money's on comment #19, courtesy of Michi-Matt. ;-)
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Oh, is that it? Taking nothing away from Our Benevolent Moderator, but that was more a declaration of shenanigans. Hell, I do that almost every day here. :)
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I think #16, where Jekalb himself admits that his account "might not be the 'true' story," says it all. He posts crap, admits to the, er, "possibility" that it's crap, and then posts MORE crap. Gotta love it.
Mr. Tanner's advice in #27 is one of my two favorite concise bits of advice ever posted to ATGS:
Get a life...get a brain...get a new newsgroup...
To answer Mr. Lemon's other question, I'm not aware that Mr. Jekalb has posted under any other name.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'121785\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 09:36 AM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'121783\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 09:28 AM\']
And where's the part where he gets conclusively disproven and subsequently pwned?
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My money's on comment #19, courtesy of Michi-Matt. ;-)[/quote]
Always appreciated, but I am by no means the expert on shows that may or may not exist. In fact, re-reading that thread all these years later, I'm still not enirely sure how much of the legend is true, if any. Forget all the weirdness about the drinking binge, the loser uncle and the destroyed tape. Was there or was there not a H-Q pilot called Casino, and did it or did it not air?
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Forget all the weirdness about the drinking binge, the loser uncle and the destroyed tape. Was there or was there not a H-Q pilot called Casino, and did it or did it not air?
For what it's worth, it was never listed in TV Guide - and they did list pilots or "previews" if they were scheduled to air. I always made an attempt to watch any game show - pilot or otherwise - and I never heard anything about it until the newsgroup posts of the late '90s.
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'121836\' date=\'Jun 19 2006, 03:17 PM\']
Forget all the weirdness about the drinking binge, the loser uncle and the destroyed tape. Was there or was there not a H-Q pilot called Casino, and did it or did it not air?
For what it's worth, it was never listed in TV Guide - and they did list pilots or "previews" if they were scheduled to air. I always made an attempt to watch any game show - pilot or otherwise - and I never heard anything about it until the newsgroup posts of the late '90s.
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And it seemed to me that the claimed date of the pilot was after Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley broke up their partnership, which was shortly after "Las Vegas Gambit" got cancelled in 1981. (I haven't looked at the thread this time--I'm not sure if I want to relive it right now.)
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'121927\' date=\'Jun 20 2006, 12:31 PM\']
And it seemed to me that the claimed date of the pilot was after Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley broke up their partnership, which was shortly after "Las Vegas Gambit" got cancelled in 1981. (I haven't looked at the thread this time--I'm not sure if I want to relive it right now.)
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Forgive me, but wasn't All-Star Blitz Heatter-Quigley?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'121933\' date=\'Jun 20 2006, 02:47 PM\']
Forgive me, but wasn't All-Star Blitz Heatter-Quigley?
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I seem to recall reading that it was a solo Merlil Heatter production.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'121937\' date=\'Jun 20 2006, 02:57 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'121933\' date=\'Jun 20 2006, 02:47 PM\']
Forgive me, but wasn't All-Star Blitz Heatter-Quigley?
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I seem to recall reading that it was a solo Merlil Heatter production.
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That is correct--Bob Quigley's daughter herself verified to me in 1982 (when she was an actress in Chicago) that the partnership had broken up--he hadn't been active in the company for years. He spent most of his time at home writing classical music and only came into the office when they had to pitch a new show, according to her.
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'121927\' date=\'Jun 20 2006, 03:31 PM\']
And it seemed to me that the claimed date of the pilot was after Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley broke up their partnership, which was shortly after "Las Vegas Gambit" got cancelled in 1981. (I haven't looked at the thread this time--I'm not sure if I want to relive it right now.)
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And Battlestars was listed as a Heatter solo production from the beginning, it having debuted five weeks before LVG's end(though LVG may have been in reruns by the time Battlestars debuted)
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I'm watching "25 Things You Don't Know" on TV Guide right now. What the hell?
#12: Game shows are imported and exported.
Yeah...there's a no-brainer for you.
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[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'122070\' date=\'Jun 21 2006, 09:22 PM\']
#12: Game shows are imported and exported.
Yeah...there's a no-brainer for you.
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A casual fan may not know that shows like Family Feud air overseas.
So, yeah.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'122076\' date=\'Jun 21 2006, 08:29 PM\']
A casual fan may not know that shows like Family Feud air overseas.
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Since even a casual fan knows that DoND and Millionaire were imported from overseas, only a jingoistic moron wouldn't come to the reasonable conclusion that it works the other way, too.
"What? They have TV over there? I had no idea!"
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It was a harmless little 50-some minutes, but stuff we've all known by now.
With one exception--the fact that Bill Cullen has been on the TVG cover more than any other game show host, past or present. However, it looked like he never had a cover to himself--it was always with either the "IGAS" panel or other hosts.
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What's a joke?
Jaciel, is that you?? (a reference that will be lost on all but the central PA contingent, LOL).
Chuck Donegan (The Esoteric "Chuckie Baby")
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[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' post=\'122169\' date=\'Jun 22 2006, 09:54 PM\']
What's a joke?
Jaciel, is that you?? (a reference that will be lost on all but the central PA contingent, LOL).
Chuck Donegan (The Esoteric "Chuckie Baby")
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Yakety-Yak, Chuck. Now go eat your Raisins, Rice 'n Rye. ;)