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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: beatlefreak84 on April 15, 2014, 09:41:05 AM
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http://www.gsn.com/cgi/onair/program_schedule.html (http://www.gsn.com/cgi/onair/program_schedule.html) confirms that GSN's schedule is going to change on Monday, and there are some major ones affecting the morning schedule.
Rather than list all of the changes, I'll simply give the new morning schedule (all times ET):
8:00 AM: Match Game
8:30 AM: Match Game
9:00 AM: Password Plus
9:30 AM: Whammy
10:00 AM: $25K Pyramid
10:30 AM: Sale of the Century
11:00 AM: Super Password
11:30 AM: Lingo (Woolery)
The rest of the schedule looks unchanged, except Chain Reaction (Lane) replaces The Pyramid. No word yet on whether any of these will feature new blocks of episodes.
So, it looks like we wave goodbye yet again to classic PYL and Blockbusters, which is a little disappointing to me since it's been nice to wake up and have breakfast with these two shows. $100K Pyramid disappears as well. But, I'm impressed and surprised they kept Sale around.
Weekend schedule changes, if any, have not been released yet, as far as I can tell.
Anthony
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So, it looks like we wave goodbye yet again to classic PYL and Blockbusters, which is a little disappointing to me since it's been nice to wake up and have breakfast with these two shows. $100K Pyramid disappears as well. But, I'm impressed and surprised they kept Sale around.
Weekend schedule changes, if any, have not been released yet, as far as I can tell.
Anthony
Actually, Press Your Luck and Blockbusters swap places with Password Plus and Whammy! on weekends. Understandable that they would give PYL a weekday break, since they've been running the same 57 episodes for over a year now; however, PYL usually is their highest rated morning show.
Tyshaun
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Ah; just saw the PDFs with weekends updated. Thanks for the correction/notification.
The PDFs also confirm that no new episodes of classics have been acquired as of yet.
Agreed on PYL being essentially run into the ground, so I think giving it a spot on weekends isn't too bad of an idea, just to give it a rest. And, hey; nice to know that weekend breakfasts can be spent with those shows now.
\Not having to compete with fiance with news vs. game shows = win :)
Anthony
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The end of May shows new to GSN episodes of The $25,000 Pyramid have been aquired from April 1985.
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The end of May shows new to GSN episodes of The $25,000 Pyramid have been aquired from April 1985.
I just had a look at the PDF. Looks like they will be starting with Patty Duke & Brian Mitchell May 6, 1985 to May 10, 1985
https://web.archive.org/web/20071023055754/http://www.xanfan.com/celebrities/25k-clark.htm
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I just had a look at the PDF. Looks like they will be starting with Patty Duke & Brian Mitchell May 6, 1985 to May 10, 1985
That's groovy news! Now there's two things I'm looking forward to on GSN; this and the new American Bible Challenge season.
Cordially,
Tammy
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The PDFs also confirm that no new episodes of classics have been acquired as of yet.
Looking at said schedules, syndie Sale will get back up to #S-068 (the last episode of the current lease) on May 23, so it's always possible there's more to come.
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The end of May shows new to GSN episodes of The $25,000 Pyramid have been aquired from April 1985.
New to GSN ever or just in recent memory? Some of you guys think the entire history of GSN goes back maybe five years. Pyramid has been on the network a really long time. I'd be delighted if these were shows we really had never seen before on the network.
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New to GSN. These particular episodes have been on another network before; 1989 and once more in 1994 on USA Cable Network.
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New to GSN. These particular episodes have been on another network before; 1989 and once more in 1994 on USA Cable Network.
How do you know? There was a fairly substantial bit of $25k and $100k run when it was picked up in 1998. Matt's question isn't out of school.
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I have spoken with Brendan (pyrfan) several times on its rerun history on USA Network. That is how I know.
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That's the answer to the wrong question. I don't care about USA or whatever other network; I care specifically about the phrase "new to GSN" which I find particularly odious and generally unprovable.
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Since its debut on GSN in 1997, they have shown the following; 80's Pyramid wise.
September 1982-September 1983 episodes
November 1987-July 1988 episodes
September 1985-June 1986 episodes
June 1986-April 1987 episodes
And the entire run of The $100,000 Pyramid with Dick Clark
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I accept the word of the Vahan.
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Since its debut on GSN in 1997, they have shown the following; 80's Pyramid wise.
September 1982-September 1983 episodes
November 1987-July 1988 episodes
September 1985-June 1986 episodes
June 1986-April 1987 episodes
And the entire run of The $100,000 Pyramid with Dick Clark
Specifically, September 20, 1982-September 26, 1983, then November 16, 1987-July 1, 1988. As for the $100,000 Pyramid, the only episode that was MIA since its only airing on USA was the January 15, 1988 episode(the episode before the very short Tournament #10, which didn't even last a half a week).
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The end of May shows new to GSN episodes of The $25,000 Pyramid have been aquired from April 1985.
I just had a look at the PDF. Looks like they will be starting with Patty Duke & Brian Mitchell May 6, 1985 to May 10, 1985
https://web.archive.org/web/20071023055754/http://www.xanfan.com/celebrities/25k-clark.htm
That's an interesting acquisition, based on the past few years. In April 2009, they started with September '85 and went through June '86. In 2012, they got June '86 through April '87. Prior to that, the last time 25K had been on the daily schedule was with the final few months of the run. As happy as the new batch makes me, I had thought (and hoped) that I'd get another shot at the final year. (I'm still kicking myself for not keeping all of Kelly Grogan's run when I had the chance, but I didn't have a DVD burner at the time.)
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Hmm....$25,000 Pyramid at 10:00, and $otC at 10:30. For nostalgia's sake, perhaps reacquire "Wheel" to slot at 11 and acquire "Scrabble" for 11:30....
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Hmm....$25,000 Pyramid at 10:00, and $otC at 10:30. For nostalgia's sake, perhaps reacquire "Wheel" to slot at 11 and acquire "Scrabble" for 11:30....
As if I wasn't feeling old as it is. ;)
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Now that I've had a chance to look at various information, the $25KP pickup ...
- will just miss the first player to exceed $50,000
- will just miss Gloria Chavez, who eventually became the contestant coordinator
- will include a player who sets a new earnings record. (I believe that someone else set a record between then and Kelly Grogan.)
- will include future celebrity player Kathy Najimy
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Hmm....$25,000 Pyramid at 10:00, and $otC at 10:30. For nostalgia's sake, perhaps reacquire "Wheel" to slot at 11 and acquire "Scrabble" for 11:30....
Does "The Hub" still have the rights to anything Scrabble? I was wondering, because FGN is cancelled. I bet the rights aren't cheap for anybody who wants them.
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FGN is cancelled.
Todd Newton will be very shocked to hear that.
http://www.hubnetwork.com/hubnews/family-game-night-returns-this-summer
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Last I heard it was, glad you found that
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The end of May shows new to GSN episodes of The $25,000 Pyramid have been acquired from April 1985.
Ah, yes, by '85, that show was in full bore Announcer Of The Week mode.
You people who keep track of celebrities by the week on that program really want to impress?
Give us a rundown of who the announcer for The $25,000 Pyramid was for each week.
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SherriWed is now on at 5pm and 530, replacing 1 vs. 100.
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During mid-1985, the first tapings of The New $25,000 Pyramid's equally successful nighttime counterpart, The $100,000 Pyramid, also occurred. Photos from some of the first weeks of the nighttime edition were seen in Broadcasting Magazine.
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-06-24-OCR-Page-0039.pdf#search=%22100 000 pyramid%22
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Does "The Hub" still have the rights to anything Scrabble?
Scrabble Showdown is currently off the schedule; its spots got taken by extra airings of Game of Life. Sucks, because SS was the far superior show.
Part of me wonders if Hub took it off because of Justin Willman's current gig on a competing network.
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During mid-1985, the first tapings of The New $25,000 Pyramid's equally successful nighttime counterpart, The $100,000 Pyramid, also occurred. Photos from some of the first weeks of the nighttime edition were seen in Broadcasting Magazine.
If I'm not mistaken, the picture in the $100 spot is Mel Harris during her (second) turn as a civilian contestant, which makes it doubly cool!
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It is very much Mel Harris. Also, production on the nighttime show began shortly after they replaced the winner circle microphones, as seen in this episode, with black Sony ECM-51s, like the ones Bob Barker used to use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6zfpzc8zY4