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Title: Tic Tac Dough question
Post by: bulldog_06 on October 29, 2004, 04:28:52 PM
Does anyone have photos or any recollection of the Wink Martindale-hosted Tic Tac Dough pilot for the CBS version?
Title: Tic Tac Dough question
Post by: JasonA1 on October 29, 2004, 11:15:40 PM
http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling3/jay_an...dfacts/wink.jpg (http://\"http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling3/jay_anton/tictacpages/notesandfacts/wink.jpg\")

This is a photo of Wink from the pilot. At the least from that I can tell you Wink was armed with the same question feeder device from the 50s show...on that version the appropriate column would blink and a card would rise up out of it for the host to grab.

-Jason
Title: Tic Tac Dough question
Post by: GS Warehouse on October 30, 2004, 12:01:38 AM
[quote name=\'JasonA1\' date=\'Oct 29 2004, 11:15 PM\']http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling3/jay_an...dfacts/wink.jpg (http://\"http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling3/jay_anton/tictacpages/notesandfacts/wink.jpg\")
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Wow, Wink looks just like the Angelfire logo!  Jason, could you provide a link to the page instead the pic?
Title: Tic Tac Dough question
Post by: jalman on October 30, 2004, 12:51:32 AM
[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Oct 29 2004, 11:01 PM\'][quote name=\'JasonA1\' date=\'Oct 29 2004, 11:15 PM\']http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling3/jay_an...dfacts/wink.jpg (http://\"http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling3/jay_anton/tictacpages/notesandfacts/wink.jpg\")
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Wow, Wink looks just like the Angelfire logo!  Jason, could you provide a link to the page instead the pic?
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Copy and paste link into the address bar of your browser to see it.
Title: Tic Tac Dough question
Post by: adamjk on October 30, 2004, 01:03:14 AM
Tried that, and it didn't work.
Title: Tic Tac Dough question
Post by: rugrats1 on October 30, 2004, 01:06:10 AM
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Copy and paste link into the address bar of your browser to see it.
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Can't do that -- I just get an error message.
Title: Tic Tac Dough question
Post by: JasonA1 on October 30, 2004, 01:27:21 AM
Sorry. Click it up to ttdsite.cjb.net and go to "Notes Facts" in the center box.

-Jason
Title: Tic Tac Dough question
Post by: parliboy on October 30, 2004, 05:52:15 AM
Completely random thought only slightly related to the thread.

I run Proxomitron, which is a discontinued proxy filter, to help weed out some of the crap online.  It seems to successfully foil that image hosting block that frustrates threads like this.  When it's enabled, I can go to the linked image.  But disabled, I have the same problems as anyone else.
Title: Tic Tac Dough question
Post by: daveromanjr on October 30, 2004, 09:19:37 AM
[quote name=\'parliboy\' date=\'Oct 30 2004, 04:52 AM\']Completely random thought only slightly related to the thread.

I run Proxomitron, which is a discontinued proxy filter, to help weed out some of the crap online.  It seems to successfully foil that image hosting block that frustrates threads like this.  When it's enabled, I can go to the linked image.  But disabled, I have the same problems as anyone else.
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I use Proxomitron too and the picture came up for me, as well.  I love Proxomitron!
Title: Tic Tac Dough question
Post by: bulldog_06 on March 03, 2005, 05:30:42 PM
I had another question about the CBS version of TTD (sorry to bring up a dead post):

Why did the CBS version suffer worse from the syndicated version?
Title: Tic Tac Dough question
Post by: Jimmy Owen on March 03, 2005, 06:01:24 PM
[quote name=\'bulldog_06\' date=\'Mar 3 2005, 05:30 PM\']I had another question about the CBS version of TTD (sorry to bring up a dead post):

Why did the CBS version suffer worse from the syndicated version?
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I don't think it suffered from it at all.  The CBS show was already off by the time the syndicated show hit the air, so there was still only one time a day to catch TTD.  Neither version suffered from the other.  If your question is why did TTD last a short time on CBS, I think it was a matter of having made committments to run sitcom reruns in the daytime, I think "All in the Family," "M*A*S*H" and maybe "One Day at a Time" that season, so they had to put them somewhere.
Title: Tic Tac Dough question
Post by: Don Howard on March 03, 2005, 11:41:16 PM
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Mar 3 2005, 06:01 PM\'][quote name=\'bulldog_06\' date=\'Mar 3 2005, 05:30 PM\']I had another question about the CBS version of TTD (sorry to bring up a dead post):
Why did the CBS version suffer worse from the syndicated version?
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I don't think it suffered from it at all.  The CBS show was already off by the time the syndicated show hit the air, so there was still only one time a day to catch TTD.  Neither version suffered from the other.  If your question is why did TTD last a short time on CBS, I think it was a matter of having made committments to run sitcom reruns in the daytime, I think "All in the Family," "M*A*S*H" and maybe "One Day at a Time" that season, so they had to put them somewhere.
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It was M*A*S*H's five-a-week debut at 3:30pm which moved All In The Family to 10am thereby handing TTD the heave-ho. One Day At A Time replaced M*A*S*H when it went into syndication the following fall.
Do you suppose TTD was meant merely to be a stop gap because they didn't want Pass The Buck to run beyond June? Or maybe TTD was simply getting its brains beat by Card Sharks.
Title: Tic Tac Dough question
Post by: Ian Wallis on March 04, 2005, 09:19:17 AM
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Do you suppose TTD was meant merely to be a stop gap because they didn't want Pass The Buck to run beyond June? Or maybe TTD was simply getting its brains beat by Card Sharks.


From what I read, "Tic Tac Dough" was supposed to be the first game show to run concurrently five days a week on network and in syndication.  The ratings for the CBS version were terrible, and when the cancellation notice came Barry-Enright were worried and actually considered not going ahead with the syndie version.  Luckily they decided to give it a shot - and the rest is history.  I guess some shows just work better in syndication than they do on the network.