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Title: Celebrities & Game Shows
Post by: JasonA1 on February 15, 2007, 10:26:51 AM
Pardon me if this has already been mentioned, but aside from a deluge of "Dating Game" clips, this special was pretty decent. Rare stuff made an appearance like part of a "$10,000 Pyramid" in black & white with Nipsey Russell & Nancy Dassault (week 2!), a crystal clear round of gameplay from Uncle Bill's "$25,000 Pyramid" and a clip from "All-Star Secrets."

-Jason
Title: Celebrities & Game Shows
Post by: MikeK on February 15, 2007, 11:24:47 AM
I saw the special but didn't record it.  On the panel in the All-Star Secrets clip (we gotta use the ASS acronym more often *snicker*), there was a celebrity named Billy.  Was that Billy Crystal?  He would've been on Soap at the time, so it's within the realm of possibility...
Title: Celebrities & Game Shows
Post by: Ian Wallis on February 15, 2007, 02:41:24 PM
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I saw the special but didn't record it. On the panel in the All-Star Secrets clip (we gotta use the ASS acronym more often *snicker*),

I always do AS-S.  You'll never catch me saying ASS on this forum!  :)

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Rare stuff made an appearance like part of a "$10,000 Pyramid" in black & white with Nipsey Russell & Nancy Dassault (week 2!),

Hmmm....I haven't seen it yet, but I wonder where it came from if it's in B&W.  UCLA, maybe?
Title: Celebrities & Game Shows
Post by: Blanquepage on February 15, 2007, 03:52:03 PM
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Hmmm....I haven't seen it yet, but I wonder where it came from if it's in B&W. UCLA, maybe?

Yep. It came from the April 5, 1973 episode which resides in the UCLA archive along with the episodes from 3/28/73 & 4/13/73.
Does anyone know just why programming from all 3 networks were preserved on the dates  3/28/73, 4/5/73, & 4/13/73?

--Jamie
Title: Celebrities & Game Shows
Post by: SRIV94 on February 15, 2007, 04:15:19 PM
[quote name=\'Jimmy Fiono Coyne\' post=\'146000\' date=\'Feb 15 2007, 02:52 PM\']
Does anyone know just why programming from all 3 networks were preserved on the dates  3/28/73, 4/5/73, & 4/13/73?
[/quote]
Maybe something Watergate related, where news divisions might've taken over?
Title: Celebrities & Game Shows
Post by: Matt Ottinger on February 15, 2007, 05:13:55 PM
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'146006\' date=\'Feb 15 2007, 04:15 PM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Fiono Coyne\' post=\'146000\' date=\'Feb 15 2007, 02:52 PM\']
Does anyone know just why programming from all 3 networks were preserved on the dates  3/28/73, 4/5/73, & 4/13/73?
[/quote]
Maybe something Watergate related, where news divisions might've taken over?[/quote]
That was my first thought, but while the era is close, the televised Watergate hearings didn't happen until May of 1973.  My guess -- especially since they all seem to be in black and white -- is that it was done for some sort of academia research project.  Some university-based researcher getting himself some representative samples of programming using whatever primitive recording devices he had available to him at the time.
Title: Celebrities & Game Shows
Post by: tvmitch on February 16, 2007, 03:58:47 PM
Didn't catch this special because I thought it would be stock stuff, but I would love to see the UCLA stuff...

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Title: Celebrities & Game Shows
Post by: GSFan on February 17, 2007, 03:17:18 PM
Anyone know if this is scheduled for rebroadcast?
Title: Celebrities & Game Shows
Post by: Jay Temple on February 17, 2007, 04:10:14 PM
Scheduled? Maybe. Will it be? Almost certainly.
Title: Celebrities & Game Shows
Post by: RMF on February 19, 2007, 12:16:02 PM
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'146019\' date=\'Feb 15 2007, 05:13 PM\']
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'146006\' date=\'Feb 15 2007, 04:15 PM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Fiono Coyne\' post=\'146000\' date=\'Feb 15 2007, 02:52 PM\']
Does anyone know just why programming from all 3 networks were preserved on the dates  3/28/73, 4/5/73, & 4/13/73?
[/quote]
Maybe something Watergate related, where news divisions might've taken over?[/quote]
That was my first thought, but while the era is close, the televised Watergate hearings didn't happen until May of 1973.  My guess -- especially since they all seem to be in black and white -- is that it was done for some sort of academia research project.  Some university-based researcher getting himself some representative samples of programming using whatever primitive recording devices he had available to him at the time.
[/quote]

First off, in addition to 3/28/73, 4/5/73, and 4/13/73, the broadcasts of 3/12/73, 3/20/73, and 4/21/73 also exist, as does a set from 3/8/71, 3/16/71, 3/24/71, 4/1/71, 4/9/71, and 4/17/71.

Notably, these recording dates (in both 1971 and 1973) work in such a way as that it is a week's worth of programming, with a recording made for each day of the week.

Due to this range, while agreeing with the research part of the suggestion, I would suggest that these recordings were probably made by and/or for the UCLA media department, rather than for any individual.