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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: JacksonBrowne1980 on April 11, 2004, 01:14:32 PM
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i loved hot streak; i watched when i was 5; it was a cool game show; anyone enjoy hot streak in 1986?
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[quote name=\'JacksonBrowne1980\' date=\'Apr 11 2004, 12:14 PM\'] i loved hot streak; i watched when i was 5; it was a cool game show; anyone enjoy hot streak in 1986? [/quote]
Obviously, not too many people enjoyed Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak, or it would have had a run longer than 13 weeks. :-)
Seriously, I enjoyed it too. And I liked the gaudy oversized bonus win sign that presaged what WoF did a few years later. :-)
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Hot Streak was a Reg Grundy Production? I really did not know that.
I presume that the closing bumper with the spinning ornate "RG" logo and Ellis Brothers tune was used, correct?
The Inquisitive One
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I presume that the closing bumper with the spinning ornate "RG" logo and Ellis Brothers tune was used, correct?
It was indeed.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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Hot Streak might have had a longer had it not been on when Price is Right was on CBS and WOF on NBC.
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[quote name=\'TheInquisitiveOne\' date=\'Apr 11 2004, 04:19 PM\'] Hot Streak was a Reg Grundy Production? I really did not know that.
I presume that the closing bumper with the spinning ornate "RG" logo and Ellis Brothers tune was used, correct?
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Yes, and you can even see a RM clip of a Hot Streak closing HERE. (http://\"http://www.xanfan.com/video/index.htm\")
It's toward the bottom of the page.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 01:40 PM\'] [quote name=\'TheInquisitiveOne\' date=\'Apr 11 2004, 04:19 PM\'] Hot Streak was a Reg Grundy Production? I really did not know that.
I presume that the closing bumper with the spinning ornate "RG" logo and Ellis Brothers tune was used, correct?
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Yes, and you can even see a RM clip of a Hot Streak closing HERE. (http://\"http://www.xanfan.com/video/index.htm\")
It's toward the bottom of the page. [/quote]
Thanks for the clip! It was quite interesting!
The Inquisitive One
(Nice to see it...to see it , NICE!)
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I really didn't enjoy "Hot Streak" in 1986, because I was only 1 year of age then !
"Hot Streak" was a clever show, but to be honest, even though I enjoy Brucie, he really hurt the show. His style was too British. A contestant would make an error and Bruce would spend over a minute teasing and mocking the player in a very loud accent. Richard Dawson did the same thing, but he sorta got away with it because he was particuarly suave and charming, aspects he lost in 1994.
And it might of appeared to Average Joe or Jane that the host slapping his name on his own show would come-off as pretentious.
However, his farewell speech was great for the way he praised America. Despite the fact America pretty much rejected him, at least he was a good sport about it.
-Joe R.
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I was a little older back then, but I never watched again after the first episode. Didn't care for the aspect that the third or 4th player had no idea of what key words had already used to describe the subject of the round, and they were going in blind. The odds were too much against them, and an end-to-end success would be more a matter of luck. If, like Taboo, a monitor or off-screen writing board had a list of the key words already said that the next describer could see, forcing them to think of alternative words, I might have appreciated it more...
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I was only 25 when it came out. Very frustrating show in my opinion. I only watched it once. One thing I do remember was a round where the word was "ant" and the second player said something like..."Not your uncle but your...." and the next player spent precious seconds saying "gaunt" with out the g over and over. Everybody got obtuse as it went along. Not fun.
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this game show is a ripoff of 2 other game shows; talk about and cram. hot streak was cool
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[quote name=\'JacksonBrowne1980\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 05:49 PM\'] this game show is a ripoff of 2 other game shows; talk about and cram. hot streak was cool [/quote]
Umm...
1) Hot Streak was 3 and 17 years before Talk About and Cram, respectively
2) Besides, to label a show as a "rip-off" usually implies that you didn't like it.
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[quote name=\'JacksonBrowne1980\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 05:49 PM\'] this game show is a ripoff of 2 other game shows; talk about and cram. hot streak was cool [/quote]
Ummm...I think Hot Streak pre-dated Talk About by a few years, and Cram (which is nothing like Hot Streak) by a decade and a half.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 07:15 PM\'] [quote name=\'JacksonBrowne1980\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 05:49 PM\'] this game show is a ripoff of 2 other game shows; talk about and cram. hot streak was cool [/quote]
Umm...
1) Hot Streak was 3 and 17 years before Talk About and Cram, respectively
2) Besides, to label a show as a "rip-off" usually implies that you didn't like it. [/quote]
I think most people here know that Cram is 2002 dated. Don't feed the trolls, Foster.
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[quote name=\'passwordplus\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 07:26 PM\'] [quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 07:15 PM\'] [quote name=\'JacksonBrowne1980\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 05:49 PM\'] this game show is a ripoff of 2 other game shows; talk about and cram. hot streak was cool [/quote]
Umm...
1) Hot Streak was 3 and 17 years before Talk About and Cram, respectively
2) Besides, to label a show as a "rip-off" usually implies that you didn't like it. [/quote]
I think most people here know that Cram is 2002 dated. Don't feed the trolls, Foster. [/quote]
See my response in the "Two Years Ago..." thread. ;-)
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[quote name=\'passwordplus\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 08:26 PM\'] I think most people here know that Cram is 2002 dated. Don't feed the trolls, Foster. [/quote]
To be a troll, you must purposefully be acting like an idiot. That is not the case here.
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[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Apr 13 2004, 12:12 AM\'] [quote name=\'passwordplus\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 08:26 PM\'] I think most people here know that Cram is 2002 dated. Don't feed the trolls, Foster. [/quote]
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The moderators will not allow trolls to stick around here. ENough said.
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[quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 05:17 PM\'] I was a little older back then, but I never watched again after the first episode. Didn't care for the aspect that the third or 4th player had no idea of what key words had already used to describe the subject of the round, and they were going in blind. The odds were too much against them, and an end-to-end success would be more a matter of luck. [/quote]
But that was the fun of the game. The first players in the chain were supposed to use more obscure clues, saving the more obvious ones for when time was short later in the round. I thought it was a terrific game, and I really liked Bruce. I found him warm and witty, and don't remember him hectoring the contestants at all.
Far better than some of the games NBC trotted out in the late 70s, early 80s.
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I understood that it was a key part of the game play. Actually, you could go either way down the row - simple to clever, or vice versa. You had to hope everybody on the team knew up front which direction you wanted to play. All you needed was someone a little too clever for their own good in the first positions or someone not too clever toward the end of the row, and you would shoot yourself in the foot. Hope I didn't let on that I didn't understand that, just that it seemed to me like there would be more failures than victories in playing the game, so I moved on. In some ways, it would be more fun to do as a personal party game where people could play for laughs instead of watching money go down the drain. Wasn't the same format a long-time European success before it got here - Germany in particular? Don't go by me...I just thought it was a little too cerebral an idea. Tone down the jocularity, put in Allen Ludden as host, call it a battle of brains, and maybe......??? Everyone likes to see so-called smart people fall on their butts..not the average Joe. Just thinking out loud...