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Title: Play it Back 80s game shows
Post by: rwalker on September 08, 2008, 04:07:37 PM
First off, for those in a cave that haven't seen it, the Micheal Larsen shows will air during this Sunday's block also.

And a question, are these episodes of 25k Pyramid "new to gsn"???? I sure don't remember seeing these celebs. on there. Just check out that PDF file and you'll see what I mean.
Title: Play it Back 80s game shows
Post by: MikeK on September 08, 2008, 05:37:06 PM
[quote name=\'rwalker\' post=\'196530\' date=\'Sep 8 2008, 04:07 PM\']And a question, are these episodes of 25k Pyramid "new to gsn"???? I sure don't remember seeing these celebs. on there. Just check out that PDF file and you'll see what I mean.[/quote]
GSN did show The New 25K Pyramid eps. with a pre-Night Court Harry Anderson (wanna say Jack Clark or whomever announced back then credited Anderson as being on Cheers).  Similarly, I remember seeing Lynn Redgrave/Billy Crystal, and Michael J. Fox on The New 25K Pyr. when GSN aired it 6 or 7 years ago.
Title: Play it Back 80s game shows
Post by: Vahan_Nisanian on September 08, 2008, 06:31:01 PM
Re: $25,000 Pyramid, how many weeks of shows did they air past the Vicki Lawrence & Harry Anderson week, before suddenly hopping onto November 1987? (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Title: Play it Back 80s game shows
Post by: aaron sica on September 08, 2008, 08:11:23 PM
[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'196563\' date=\'Sep 8 2008, 05:37 PM\']
GSN did show The New 25K Pyramid eps. with a pre-Night Court Harry Anderson (wanna say Jack Clark or whomever announced back then credited Anderson as being on Cheers).
[/quote]

Ah, yes, with his "Harry the Hat" character. One of my favorite characters on early Cheers episodes..
Title: Play it Back 80s game shows
Post by: Jay Temple on September 09, 2008, 02:02:31 PM
Two partial answers:
i) In March 2002, GSN ran a marathon, The Golden Pyramid Awards, which featured one of the Redgrave/Crystal shows and the other two shows from the upcoming marathon.
ii) At that time, they were running the shows from the Soap Opera week (November 1987), or maybe a little earlier, through the end.
Title: Play it Back 80s game shows
Post by: Chelsea Thrasher on September 09, 2008, 09:30:46 PM
GSN ran the first year of the show (September 1982-1983) for the first 4 years they had the rights to Pyramid, then switched over to the 1987-88 episodes in Fall 2001.  The 1982-83 shows occasionally turned up for about the next year or so, but weren't seen after around 2002 or so, IIRC.