Author Topic: GSF 50 Greatest List - RESULTS THREAD (Read 115528 times)

Neumms · « **Reply #180 on:** September 07, 2006, 11:58:10 AM »

[quote name=\'Chuck Sutton\' post=\'130595\' date=\'Sep 7 2006, 10:11 AM\']
You know with Matt's comments about the group weighing towards 80s shows I am somewhat surprised that Win, Lose or Draw appears almost certain to have not made the list. It had a decent run on both network and sydnicated and was somewhat popular at the time.
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This kind of surprises me, too. It was a great game with a totally original setting and feel. Also, I noted on my ballot that Vicki Lawrence was (at least as I recall) a very good host, and the longest running female host, at least until Meredith.

cweaver · « **Reply #181 on:** September 07, 2006, 12:11:17 PM »

[quote name=\'Chuck Sutton\' post=\'130595\' date=\'Sep 7 2006, 10:11 AM\']
I am also surprsied we have not had a show with 80 votes yet, one show in particular.
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Me too, and I'm surprised it wasn't Let's Make a Deal.

uncamark · « **Reply #182 on:** September 07, 2006, 12:33:13 PM »

[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'130600\' date=\'Sep 7 2006, 10:53 AM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'130566\' date=\'Sep 6 2006, 10:10 PM\']
[color=\"#009900\"]20 Scrabble (1984-90, 1993)[/color]
(2027 67/80)(GSN: 29)(TVG: 40)

A great, rare example of a show that was improved by its on-air tweaks (though the 'mosquito' blooper is still funny). Also the highest-rated show on our list to have had only one regular host.
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Didn't Steve Edwards host a syndicated version right after the first NBC run, or did that not make it past pilot?
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It didn't make it past pilot.

sshuffield70 · « **Reply #183 on:** September 07, 2006, 01:23:07 PM »

[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'130605\' date=\'Sep 7 2006, 11:33 AM\']
[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'130600\' date=\'Sep 7 2006, 10:53 AM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'130566\' date=\'Sep 6 2006, 10:10 PM\']
[color=\"#009900\"]20 Scrabble (1984-90, 1993)[/color]
(2027 67/80)(GSN: 29)(TVG: 40)

A great, rare example of a show that was improved by its on-air tweaks (though the 'mosquito' blooper is still funny). Also the highest-rated show on our list to have had only one regular host.
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Didn't Steve Edwards host a syndicated version right after the first NBC run, or did that not make it past pilot?
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It didn't make it past pilot.
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I recall seeing an ad in a trade publication for the show, but, yes, it never went forward.

Peter Sarrett · « **Reply #184 on:** September 07, 2006, 04:06:49 PM »

I couldn't bring myself to vote for Tic Tac Dough. The questions are just too aggressively easy. I don't remember how I felt about it when it first aired and I was younger, but watching reruns today is almost physically painful. The "avoid the dragon" bonus game was both a blatant rip-off of The Joker's Wild "beat the devil" game and also lacked any tension whatsoever. It just doesn't add up to a game that holds up well.

I'd say the same for The Joker's Wild-- the quiz show with the easiest questions of all time-- but in the end I voted for it just on the strength of the slot machine gimmick. Slot machines = fun.

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #185 on:** September 07, 2006, 04:18:47 PM »

I ranked 'em 40th and 41st...solely because of longevity...not because of game quality.

Chuck Sutton · « **Reply #186 on:** September 07, 2006, 04:26:46 PM »

I put TTD 49 solely because of it success as well.

The Joker's Wild is a different question. I loved it as a kid maybe because the question were not that dificult.

DrBear · « **Reply #187 on:** September 07, 2006, 04:56:38 PM »

I think SOTC may be the top one on here that isn't on my list (unless Whistle or Lose It got a lot more votes than I expected).

Granted, I never saw the Jim Perry version; either our station didn't carry it or I was doing something else. But I never was that excited about the Jack Kelly version which is the only one I remember.

PYLdude · « **Reply #188 on:** September 07, 2006, 05:23:03 PM »

[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'130637\' date=\'Sep 7 2006, 04:56 PM\']
I think SOTC may be the top one on here that isn't on my list (unless Whistle or Lose It got a lot more votes than I expected).

Granted, I never saw the Jim Perry version; either our station didn't carry it or I was doing something else. But I never was that excited about the Jack Kelly version which is the only one I remember.
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I must say that I'm surprised Sale didn't make the top 10. Always was one of my favorites, and IMO (at least the Perry version, since I wasn't around for the original) was one of the better game shows on television (the final season and the WBMG not withstanding).

JasonA1 · « **Reply #189 on:** September 07, 2006, 05:38:49 PM »

Wow. Peter Sarrett, we are of similar thought, sir. Only I found myself having to put TTD on my list, lest it be usurped by shows that really didn't have much to say as a "Greatest Game Show of All Time." Basically, I fall into the same camp as the others who responded to you in that TTD had to be on the list someplace because of its success.

TTD ranked as low as it could on my list, though - at least TJW had SOME thought provoking questions, as well as the values determined by the slots to vary it up.

-Jason

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #190 on:** September 07, 2006, 06:41:00 PM »

[quote name=\'SteveRep\' post=\'130588\' date=\'Sep 7 2006, 09:04 AM\']And, I'm somewhat surprised that we have yet to reach a show that appeared somewhere on all 80 ballots.[/quote]
Prepare to be astonished, then. NO show appeared on all 80 ballots.

It's really not all that surprising, though. Out of the eighty, I'd say we probably had five that were just...weird. They were weird in different ways, though, and between them, every single show got skipped at one point or another. Also, some people may have accidentally forgotten a show, others may have left a famous one out to make a statement.

cweaver · « **Reply #191 on:** September 07, 2006, 06:49:21 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'130649\' date=\'Sep 7 2006, 05:41 PM\']
Prepare to be astonished, then. NO show appeared on all 80 ballots.
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Will it give too much away to tell us the largest number of ballots backing up one show, without giving away the show?

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #192 on:** September 07, 2006, 07:00:47 PM »

[quote name=\'cweaver\' post=\'130650\' date=\'Sep 7 2006, 06:49 PM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'130649\' date=\'Sep 7 2006, 05:41 PM\']
Prepare to be astonished, then. NO show appeared on all 80 ballots.
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Will it give too much away to tell us the largest number of ballots backing up one show, without giving away the show?[/quote]
I'm away from my stuff, but I'm pretty sure several shows had 79 and several more had 78. Like I said, just a few oddities.

tomobrien · « **Reply #193 on:** September 07, 2006, 07:05:50 PM »

[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'130637\' date=\'Sep 7 2006, 03:56 PM\']
But I never was that excited about the Jack Kelly version which is the only one I remember.
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EXACTLY the same reason it didn't make my list. Even as a kid, I remember thinking he was the Creepiest. Host. Ever.

Peter Sarrett · « **Reply #194 on:** September 07, 2006, 07:14:23 PM »

Another note about Tic Tac Dough's poor quality: in the Thom McKee episode shown during GSN's top 50 countdown, the answers to two back-to-back questions in the same category were the same (I think the answer was The Count of Monte Cristo). McKee's opponent seemed to get the second question wrong because he didn't think the same answer would appear twice, let alone twice in a row.

That's poor, unfair writing / editing.