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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: TimK2003 on May 29, 2012, 08:36:07 AM
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Simple question:
What was your favorite game show that would come on/be on when you came home at the end of the school day (pretty much any game show which was on between 3 and 5pm)?
• MG/HS Hour was one that I would always catch about 5-10 minutes in after getting off the school bus, but The Gong Show intrigued me a bit more.
Others??
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NBC YDS at 3:30 was a staple. We were lucky in that many of the ABC shows were on delayed broadcast (kinescoped) and shown on the CBS affil, so for the time they were on, we got to see "Treasure Isle," "Temptation," "Baby Game," etc. between 4:30 and 6.
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By a wide margin, "The Match Game" and "Match Game '7x".
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Depends on my age and where I lived -
Age 6 - "Bullseye" @ 4pm on WHP-21.
Age 12 - WOF (daytime) @ 4pm on KYW-3
Age 16-18 - "Family Feud" (nighttime) @5pm on WYOU-22
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George Gray's "Weakest Link", probably.
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Match Game and sometimes Tattletales. WCPO-Cincinnati, when it was a CBS affiliate.
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Doug Davidson's TNPIR, Wild Animal Games, Family Challenge, I also liked some of the ESPN game shows (i.e Designated Hitter, Perfect Match, etc.) Of course when I was young I watched anything that was a game show. I also enjoyed Reel to Reel Picture Show. As well as Double Dare 2000
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In the mid'70s, Match Game and Tattletales. School ended at 3:30 so by the time I got home Match Game was half over. It was frustrating when CBS changed time slots in '75 because for a while I couldn't see it. I did like Musical Chairs though, so it wasn't all bad!
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Darn near forgot to mention - was hooked on "Liar's Club" when USA ran reruns of it in the '80s...
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This geek of a certain age planned his week around 'Starcade' on WTBS Monday afternoons.
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In the 60s? Definitely the original You Don't Say and Match Game! Followed by Popeye Theater with Buck Barry. A local thing. For those of you familiar with the show It Could Be You with Bill Leyden, somehow our own Grand Rapids cowboy tv kid show host Buck Barry had been hoodwinked into attending a broadcast of that show during a vacation. Buck had recently lost his horse in a stable fire. A very shocked Buck was called out of the audience and given a new horse right on-air. One of those wonderful tv moments. And so was the memories of YDS/MG.
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I'll go along with those who mentioned the original (NBC) Match Game and You Don't Say! Also PDQ, and a local Chicago offering of the mid-60s called The Letter Game, hosted by Jim Hutton (not the actor). And the Narz syndie version of Beat the Clock.
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USA's "Pyramid", "PYL", and "Scrabble" reruns for one. Also enjoyed both Combs and Dawson's "Feud" (the latter's 1994 return). I watched a lot of "Bzzz!" at 4:30 pm as well...
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Match Game 7x, to be sure. Sometimes watched Tattletales also.
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I was born in 1989, and my username should make pretty clear what my favorite after-school game show was. I didn't have cable TV at my first house, so after PBS dropped "Where In Time..." in 1998, I was forced to make do with that year's revival of Match Game. I was fully aware that I was watching something that wasn't appropriate for a kid, and of course that just added to the fun.
That one only lasted a year, but by that point we had moved and the new house came with cable TV. I watched the last season or two of Figure It Out, then most of the run of Double Dare 2000. I was in middle school when that one ended, and it is probably the last kids game show I consider myself to have grown up watching.
I could give you a LOT of other memories of 1990s after-school TV, but those are the game shows. Most of the other kids game shows I grew up watching were on Saturday mornings.
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When I was in my first year of high school, the ABC affiliate in Santa Barbara moved Hot Seat to 4:30 in the afternoon; and after I thought I was gonna miss out once school started.
Cordially,
Tammy
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The USA Network block when I was a kid, Bergeron "Squares" when I was in high school.
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The USA Network block when I was a kid, Bergeron "Squares" when I was in high school.
How could I forget HSq? That and Carmen Sandiego. Occasionally, I'd have a tape of shows that aired in the morning or early afternoon, but more times than not, it was just the premiere episode. I think HSq and Match Game 98 were the only shows I recorded regularly.
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How could I forget HSq? That and Carmen Sandiego.
Alternatively, how could I have forgotten Carmen Sandiego? Add that to the list too.
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As time goes on, this board will be populated with people who fondly look back on "Fetch with Ruff Ruffman."
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There was never a game show on after school when I was in elementary school.
Junior high: Musical Chairs, but it didn't last long.
Senior high: $20,000 Pyramid. After it was cancelled, my affiliate moved Family Feud to that time slot, which was my second-favorite.
College, including grad school: Jeopardy!
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My last semester of high school (that I just finished) was a joy, because I would get home to watch Jeopardy! at 3:30 (I had 9th period free).
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YDS!, MG, PDQ, and, occasionally, the forgetable Anything You Can Do.
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You Dont Say? at 3:30 followed by Match Game at 4..PDQ for a little while at 4:30 Good days..
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It varied for me. When I was in grade school, I had a few. I had Double Dare and Fun House on regular TV, the USA lineup followed by/or American Gladiators (when I had cable), and I think Finders Keepers (I don't remember fer sure).
I eventually got the Feud and the Davidson Pyramid and then added TNPIR to it as well. Beyond that, though, game shows were really limited once I got into '95. I had Louie's Feud for a bit in high school, but it wasn't until college when I got syndie Link, syndie Millionaire, and Hollywood Squares in the afternoon in addition to Pyramid and Flannel Feud. (For a few years we had Squares, J!, and Wheel twice a day, figure that out)
Right now, all the game shows air at different times. The last time there was really an after-school game show was when 5th Grader was on. All the others aired between 12 and 3 except for Wheel and Jeopardy (exceptions being syndie DOND and Crosswords).
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Loved watching a mix of the USA network game show reruns and the cartoons as a kid. Syndicated Double Dare and Toffler Finders' Keepers were also part of my afternoon viewing habits throughout the late 80s. Continued that habit into the 90s, minus DD and FK, of course. When Combs Feud went into the 4pm slot in 93, that joined my afternoon game show viewing habits, and the FAM games fit in there throuhgout the mid 90s, as well.
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How could I forget HSq? That and Carmen Sandiego.
Although I was arguably maybe a bit over the target audience (I was 16 when it premiered), I did enjoy Carmen Sandiego...
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How could I forget HSq? That and Carmen Sandiego.
Although I was arguably maybe a bit over the target audience (I was 16 when it premiered), I did enjoy Carmen Sandiego...
As did I, up until "Where in Time?". Then I stopped watching.
But at least Kevin Shinnick had enough of a sense of humor to laugh at it all those years later on Robot Chicken.
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There were 2 shows that basically diviede my attention during the 70's after school. One was The Price Is Right, the other was Match Game during the 3 PM hour. The 4 PM hour had Tattletales but I wasn't too wild about the gameplay of it. I was more curious to see how they split the $1K bonus on a 3-way tie.
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IIRC, the MoneyMaze was on at 4pm in New York.
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There weren't that many game shows that aired late in the afternoon in the 1970s. The ones I can remember:
Match Game 7x (my last class in high school usually ended at around 2:00)
TattleTales
Musical Chairs
Give & Take
(for some strange reason, the CBS station in San Francisco decided not to air Spin-Off)
also, I usually got home from middle school to catch the bonus round in The Diamond Head Game, and the Sacramento NBC station aired Celebrity Sweepstakes at 3:30 PM for a few weeks (before running a commercial apologizing for it, and announcing its move back to the morning)
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here in Italy I enjoyed Remote Control. it was the craziest thing ever. and contestants played for cash!
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Straight off the bus for the last 20 minutes of The All New Let's Make a Deal. Sometimes it would be a lucky day and I'd get home in time to see the first 10 minutes too.
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Mine were J!/WOF & Bergeron Squares.
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MG/HS Hour amazed this then-8-year-old back in '83. So did Fantasy's version of Diamond Head Game's Money Volcano a year earlier. In the late 80s, it was Fun House, High Rollers during its initial run, and whatever USA showed back in the day.
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When I was in the eighth grade I would come home to a tape recorded earlier of the daytime "Wheel Of Fortune".
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I wonder how much different our lives would be if there had been a way to record television at home in the 60's and 70's? We had three choices for afterschool viewing. No cable. One station would show movies, one Mike Douglas or Merv and one a hodgepodge of reruns. Cartoons were only on Saturday morning, sports only on the weekends. You couldn't just pop in a tape. Would I have recorded the NBC morning game shows daily rather than watch the old Abbott and Costello movies the station was showing?
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Cartoons were only on Saturday morning,
In the '70s at least, I think this was very much not true...we had at least two stations in our market that ran a full lineup of cartoons / other children's programming (Captain Cosmic usually ran Ultraman or other poorly-dubbed Japanese live action shows - think Power Rangers, except you didn't want to gouge your eyes out with a fork) from the end of Dialing For Dollars at 2:30 (coincidentally, both channels had DFD franchises that ran at the same time) clear through to 5:00P or 5:30P.
That said, that's one anecdote and maybe *I'M* the anomaly. Lawn Defenders, was this true elsewhere in the country?
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I wonder how much different our lives would be if there had been a way to record television at home in the 60's and 70's?
I guess most of us have probably wondered about that. TV shows (especially in prime time) were presented very differently in the '60s and part of the '70s than they are today. Sponsors and alternate-sponsors had complete control over the half hour, some even had their logos incorporated into the opening titles, and stars did "cast commercials" for the products the sponsors were selling.
In the past few years, in addition to game shows, I've started trading for some "classic TV" with original commercials from the '60s. It's really neat to see exactly how shows were presented back then. Old favorites like Bewitched had many different little additions in prime time than you've even seen in syndication. It was a neat time, especially when shows started switching to color in the mid-'60s and before every show you had an "in color" tag.
Same was true for some game shows.
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That said, that's one anecdote and maybe *I'M* the anomaly. Lawn Defenders, was this true elsewhere in the country?
Sure...(then) WNEW and WPIX in NY always had cartoons in the (weekday) morning and after school (up till about 4 or 5pm) up through at least the late '80s.
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In my "era" (1964-72) At our house we only had access to 3 network affiliates (The CBS Cleveland affiliate was hit-or-miss for the most part)..During a lot of that time you had Mike Douglas (Live 12:30-2PM at KYW-TV before the move to Philadelphia) Merv Griffin mid-afternoons to late evenings depending on the year and channel..Two well-established Cartoon shows, Barnaby (half-hour daily and 2 hours Saturday, with sidekick Woodrow who had his own Sunday Show on TV-3) and Captain Penny (Noon and 5:00 daily shows on Channel 5) After early 1966, you had movies on 5 and 8 late nights...My big game show times were 10-1 and 3:30 to 4:30, mostly on KYW/WKYC-3..By 1971 Captain Penny was gone and Barnaby was on Channel 43..Cartoons were mostly on UHF channels, except for Saturday mornings..
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Cartoons were only on Saturday morning,
In the '70s at least, I think this was very much not true...we had at least two stations in our market that ran a full lineup of cartoons / other children's programming (Captain Cosmic usually ran Ultraman or other poorly-dubbed Japanese live action shows - think Power Rangers, except you didn't want to gouge your eyes out with a fork) from the end of Dialing For Dollars at 2:30 (coincidentally, both channels had DFD franchises that ran at the same time) clear through to 5:00P or 5:30P.
That said, that's one anecdote and maybe *I'M* the anomaly. Lawn Defenders, was this true elsewhere in the country?
Now that you mention it, there were a couple of shows available which played cartoons in conjunction with a live host. Bozo, etc. The only reason they were on were to pitch Bozo Milk, Bozo Bread, etc. to the youngsters. When Action for Children Television got concerned with advertising to kids these shows went away.
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Cartoons were only on Saturday morning,
In the '70s at least, I think this was very much not true...we had at least two stations in our market that ran a full lineup of cartoons / other children's programming (Captain Cosmic usually ran Ultraman or other poorly-dubbed Japanese live action shows - think Power Rangers, except you didn't want to gouge your eyes out with a fork) from the end of Dialing For Dollars at 2:30 (coincidentally, both channels had DFD franchises that ran at the same time) clear through to 5:00P or 5:30P.
That said, that's one anecdote and maybe *I'M* the anomaly. Lawn Defenders, was this true elsewhere in the country?
Hey...I grew up watching Power Rangers and its related shows. Even watching them now, I don't exactly want to gouge my eyes out with a fork.
Of course, this could easily just be Nostalgia Filter, but I have no shame whatsoever about being a child of the 1990s.
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Cartoons were only on Saturday morning,
In the '70s at least, I think this was very much not true...we had at least two stations in our market that ran a full lineup of cartoons / other children's programming (Captain Cosmic usually ran Ultraman or other poorly-dubbed Japanese live action shows - think Power Rangers, except you didn't want to gouge your eyes out with a fork) from the end of Dialing For Dollars at 2:30 (coincidentally, both channels had DFD franchises that ran at the same time) clear through to 5:00P or 5:30P.
That said, that's one anecdote and maybe *I'M* the anomaly. Lawn Defenders, was this true elsewhere in the country?
Depends on the area. Most Large-Market cities in the Midwest (Cleveland/Detroit/Cincinnati) had at least one independent TV station (usually UHF) and a PBS station, but Toledo did not get their first independent station until the mid-80s (but then again, it wasn't too too hard to pull in the two Detroit indies).
If you look at some of the cities in the Mountain Time Zone (Colorado, Montana, New Mexico...) there were some smaller broadcast markets that still had stations which were affiliates to two or all three networks well into the 80's.
But for the most part, if your town or area was lucky enough to pick up an independent station off the antenna in the 60s & 70s, you were usually treated to reruns of some great shows of the past and some movies as well, with the better ones at night during prime-time.
Would've loved to have a VHS and a chance to tape the old reruns of the Allen Funt Candid Cameras back in the day -- one of the few non-game shows that are hard to find in reruns or on the internet anywhere, for that matter.
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When I was in the eighth grade I would come home to a tape recorded earlier of the daytime "Wheel Of Fortune".
Just curious: you wouldn't happen to still have any of these, would you?
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...sports only on the weekends.
"Monday Night Football," which premiered in 1970, says hello.
Actually, even older than that: local baseball broadcasts in a fair number of markets -- some of them even on network-affiliated stations.
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Cartoons were only on Saturday morning,
In the '70s at least, I think this was very much not true...we had at least two stations in our market that ran a full lineup of cartoons / other children's programming (Captain Cosmic usually ran Ultraman or other poorly-dubbed Japanese live action shows - think Power Rangers, except you didn't want to gouge your eyes out with a fork) from the end of Dialing For Dollars at 2:30 (coincidentally, both channels had DFD franchises that ran at the same time) clear through to 5:00P or 5:30P.
That said, that's one anecdote and maybe *I'M* the anomaly. Lawn Defenders, was this true elsewhere in the country?
Hey...I grew up watching Power Rangers and its related shows. Even watching them now, I don't exactly want to gouge my eyes out with a fork.
Of course, this could easily just be Nostalgia Filter, but I have no shame whatsoever about being a child of the 1990s.
So did I, but I'd be lying if I said it does not hold up well at all. Because of the lack of games for most of the decade, I had some disdain towards the 90s for awhile. In the last few years I realized the decade wasn't so bad after all.
Coincidentally I'm listening to Sirius/XM's playlist from June 1994 and it's making me very nostalgic...
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...sports only on the weekends.
"Monday Night Football," which premiered in 1970, says hello.
Actually, even older than that: local baseball broadcasts in a fair number of markets -- some of them even on network-affiliated stations.
Color me all wet.
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That said, that's one anecdote and maybe *I'M* the anomaly. Lawn Defenders, was this true elsewhere in the country?
Sure...(then) WNEW and WPIX in NY always had cartoons in the (weekday) morning and after school (up till about 4 or 5pm) up through at least the late '80s.
The weekday morning cartoons on WNEW ended I wanna say in '88 when they added Good Day New York. They kept the cartoons in the afternoon until they dropped the Fox Kids lineup in either 2000 or 2001. The morning cartoons stayed on WPIX up until I think 2000 when they added a morning newscast. After they dropped the non-Disney syndicated cartoons they were carrying (which I believe when they stopped doing this consisted of the retooled GI Joe, C.O.P.S., and the Police Academy cartoon- I also think they were still carrying the Filmation Ghostbusters series too), they kept the Disney Afternoon toons until the WB put their lineup in, and that carried until they decided to drop the weekday cartoons.
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That said, that's one anecdote and maybe *I'M* the anomaly. Lawn Defenders, was this true elsewhere in the country?
Sure, in Seattle 11 and 13 would have cartoons or other kid's shows from 7:00 to 9:00 and again from 3:00 to 5:00.
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How could I forget HSq? That and Carmen Sandiego.
Although I was arguably maybe a bit over the target audience (I was 16 when it premiered), I did enjoy Carmen Sandiego...
And I was WAY past 16, and I still did.
/Late to the party as usual...
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Back to the subject...
Match Game for virtually all of its run, and for six glorious months, The Money Maze.
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When I was in the eighth grade I would come home to a tape recorded earlier of the daytime "Wheel Of Fortune".
Just curious: you wouldn't happen to still have any of these, would you?
I may be off base, but I don't think he meant that he was the one doing the recording.
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I know I'm very late to the party, but I gotta put my 2 cents in:
After school during kindergarten and 1st grade, I would watch either $20,000 Pyramid or syndicated Joker's Wild (This was when Eileen Jason had a tremendous winning streak on TJW, I still remember her name vividly for this reason).
During my 6th and 7th grade years, I remember coming home from school and watching the CBN network game show block (and thereafter watching the USA Network game show block).
While this is not after school per se, it's still worthy of mention: I remember one of the highlights of my senior year was doing my homework while watching The Challengers, that was one show I really enjoyed.
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If it was after school, but prior to high school, it was the CBS afternoon line-up that included The New Price Is Right, Hollywood's Talking and its replacement Match Game '73/74. It was Tattletales at 4:00pm for awhile until May of 1974, then switched over in that time slot to ABC for The $10,000 Pyramid, later replaced by The Money Maze.
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Strangely my elementary school did not have a cafeteria so we had to go home for lunch. So got home late and the after school show I remember most was Tattletates.
But since we went home for lunch got to watch Jackpot every day.
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Am I alone, or did anyone else really enjoy watching "Dream League" and "Sports on Tap" on ESPN in the early 90s? Those aired late afternoons, I believe. Also, I shouldn't forget "Top Card" and "Ten Seconds" on TNN, though those may have been earlier afternoon.
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Am I alone, or did anyone else really enjoy watching "Dream League" and "Sports on Tap" on ESPN in the early 90s? Those aired late afternoons, I believe. Also, I shouldn't forget "Top Card" and "Ten Seconds" on TNN, though those may have been earlier afternoon.
"Dream League" IIRC aired at 4:30, "Sports on Tap" at 6. I believe the TNN shows were 2:30, re-airing in the 7:00 hour.