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Jamey Greek

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« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2011, 10:33:40 PM »
I think Wink was considered for 21 (2000) I remember Tammy Warner mentioning it to her on her tribute page to Wink.  


When Steve Beverly put Povich on his 'worst emcee's' list I believe he too claimed that Wink was considered for the NBC revival as well.

He actually said the show would have been better off with Wink Martindale, or Dick Enberg, or Bob Costas.  Bob Costas was actually offered the job but turned it down.

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« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2011, 10:49:51 PM »
and the oh so B&E tacked on bonus round that had nothing to do with the basic game at all (questions to get to 21 vs. random blind-assed luck to get there).
My guess is that the B&E endgame was more a branding deal than anything else. All the other middling-to-long-running B&E games had the contestant trying to Dodge the Resident Mascot Villain. In this case it just happened to be HAL.
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« Reply #17 on: December 06, 2011, 11:09:39 PM »
All the other middling-to-long-running B&E games had the contestant trying to Dodge the Resident Mascot Villain.
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« Reply #18 on: December 06, 2011, 11:11:49 PM »
Would you like me to bring back "Outwit the Badger"? :-)
Would you, please. I was always partial to that.
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« Reply #19 on: December 06, 2011, 11:17:16 PM »
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« Reply #20 on: December 06, 2011, 11:34:08 PM »
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« Reply #21 on: December 06, 2011, 11:45:16 PM »
Considering Wink stopped hosting Trivial Pursuit in 1995, not 1997, I don't see how that would've been a problem.
1993.  There was only one series of Trivial Pursuit episodes.  Reruns ran from late '93/early '94 to 1995.

Either way. (Besides the point, even if that was the case...Debt, anyone?)
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« Reply #22 on: December 06, 2011, 11:45:39 PM »
If you want to save the budget, make it a honey badger. That way the contestants would never win.
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« Reply #23 on: December 07, 2011, 10:50:54 AM »
If you want to save the budget, make it a honey badger. That way the contestants would never win.
But they also wouldn't care.
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« Reply #24 on: December 07, 2011, 08:14:40 PM »
Matt, do you know anything about this supposed Mid-90s revival with Wink as host?