Late nighters in syndication...

[Scrabbleship]

I'm a little surprised KPIX never aired TPIR overnight, considering that nobody else in SF aired it at all between 1981 and 1991.

Didn't any of the indies air preempted network shows?

I thought KTZO/KOFY did.

[The Pyramids]

From at least 1985 to the last show in 6/93 KSDK-TV St. Louis aired programing at 11:30 PM between 'Tonight' and 'Late Night'.  For several years it was 'Love Connection'. Later it was Bill O'Reilly in 'Inside Edition'.

KMOV-TV St. Louis also delayed the start of the red-hot 'Late Show with David Letterman' to 11:07 PM for reruns of 'Love Connection' from 1993 to maybe 1995.

[johnnya2k3]

According to an old listing I posted on another board, KTUU in Anchorage ran The Gong Show (Don Bleu version) late nights at 1:30 am.

[That Don Guy]

I'm a little surprised KPIX never aired TPIR overnight, considering that nobody else in SF aired it at all between 1981 and 1991.

Didn't any of the indies air preempted network shows?

I thought KTZO/KOFY did.

KOFY aired TPIR (on a one-day delay, IIRC) for a few years in the early 1980s.  And I do remember it airing in 1981, now that I learned that the 1981 Home Viewer Showcase was the one with the DeLorean in it.

This isn't the only game show pre-empted in San Francisco; KPIX never aired Spin-Off (it did air Musical Chairs and Give & Take), and KRON never aired either 50 Grand Slam or Just Men!.

[SuperMatch93]

I'm a little surprised KPIX never aired TPIR overnight, considering that nobody else in SF aired it at all between 1981 and 1991.

Didn't any of the indies air preempted network shows?

I thought KTZO/KOFY did.

KOFY aired TPIR (on a one-day delay, IIRC) for a few years in the early 1980s.  And I do remember it airing in 1981, now that I learned that the 1981 Home Viewer Showcase was the one with the DeLorean in it.

This isn't the only game show pre-empted in San Francisco; KPIX never aired Spin-Off (it did air Musical Chairs and Give & Take), and KRON never aired either 50 Grand Slam or Just Men!.

KRON, early on, also preempted the Friday episode of Cullen Price each week for local programming until they got letters.

[chrispw1]

A few more from Chicago from looking at old listings and from memory
The second season of 1986-89 Dating Game aired at 2 am on WMAQ 5
Wink Martindale High Rollers moved to 3 am on channel 5 in early 1988 after spending the first few months at 10 am bumping Wheel to the afternoon
For most of the 1989-90 season channel 5 had Combs Feud on at 1:30 am
WLS 7 had Break The Bank at like 4 am in 1985-86 and also around that time in the 2 to 4 am period had a Barris rerun block with Gong Show, Dating Game and Treasure Hunt
WPWR 50 had a few game shows at midnight Matchmaker and Relatively Speaking
Third Degree aired at 1:30 am on channel 7
Perfect Match was originally put in overnights on WFLD 32 in early 1986 before the summer when it was given a primetime clearance along with $100,000 Pyramid

[SuperMatch93]

Also in Chicago:

- WLS aired Headline Chasers and nighttime $ale back-to-back starting at 11pm
- WBBM bumped Price to 4pm
- WFLD aired The All-New LMAD at 2:30am
- WMAQ aired College Mad House at 3:30am
- WGBO aired Shopper's Casino at 11am from 9/14/87 (replacing Gomer Pyle) to 9/29/87 (replaced by Daniel Boone)

[Jamey Greek]

Did 100% air anywhere during daytime hours? I remember taking a trip to Dallas and wanting to stay up until 3 am to see it, but fell asleep.

I remember seeing it in the morning when I was visiting a friend in Florida.  Think MG98 was seen there in the afternoon.  FWIW, said friend lived by Kissimee.

Yea, I think it was on in the wee hours on WOFL 35.  I tried to stay up late enough to watch it but my dad made me go to bed or I fell asleep.

[BrandonFG]

I found out by accident this week, but the secondary episode of Celebrity Name Game now airs at 1:30 in the morning on WGNT. That and Are We There Yet? have been bumped from the 10-11 pm hour, and were replaced by Family Guy reruns.

The primary episode remains at 7:30 pm, so there's always that.

/For now

[johnnya2k3]

Another game show that aired late nights in Anchorage:

Newlywed Game (Gary Kroeger) also on KTUU at 1:05 am (in between Later and the 10:00 news repeat), which I caught while visiting there in 1997 (KFXF in Fairbanks aired that and Dating Game in the daytime).

Edited to add: Actually, I do remember KTVF in Fairbanks airing You Bet Your Life (Bill Cosby) at around 1:00 am.

[ChuckNet]

How many of you remember what game shows aired in those pesky latenight slots where shows go when there's no other spot for them or their ratings are down in your markets?

Qualifiers: first run single episodes only, hours from 12:00-6:00 am

In my market:

WCBS: Match Game '98, Sex Wars (IIRC), Win Lose or Draw (last season), Weakest Link (second season)
WNBC: Matchmaker, Joker 90, TTD 90, Liars Club from the 80s, Kennedy TPIR, Jeopardy (first few months), Davidson Pyramid
WABC: Name That Tune, Headline Chasers, Card Sharks
WWOR: Feud during at least one of Combs' last two years
WPIX: Street Smarts

Feel free to fill.in whatever gaps and share yer own.

As a fellow NYer, there were a few more:

WCBS - actually carried WLoD in weekend late night slots for most of its first two seasons (save for a brief period from Sep-Dec. 88, when it was carried weeknights at 7), while Wipeout was given similar treatment, being aired in double-run blocks in the very early morning hours (5-6 AM, IIRC)...they also carried the Michael Reagan version of Lingo in the overnight graveyard
WNBC - aired the 80s version of Treasure Hunt after J! moved to WABC in early 1985, Crosswits '86, Relatively Speaking, and the 2nd season of the Davidson $100K Pyramid
WOR - would carry reruns of fairly recent game shows aired as part of the station's afternoon/evening blocks in the 4:30 AM slot for a time in the early 80s...the 1980 revival of LMaD there during the 1981-82 season, later replaced by Face the Music, then Bullseye. Also aired reruns of Pitfall irregularly at 12:30 AM in the early part of the 82-83 season.
WPIX - Change of Heart, from season 2-onward

And let me add that I didn't realize burying syndie game shows in late night time slots went back to the 60s, since the trend didn't start in the NYC market until the mid-80s.

Chuck Donegan (The Surprised "Chuckie Baby")

[ChuckNet]

I think the broader question might be what markets DIDN'T put TTD90 on late night. Or Joker 90 for that matter.

If you mean "at first" and not eventually.....WHP-21 (CBS) in Harrisburg first aired TTD90 in a late afternoon slot (I want to say 5pm) when it premiered. It was definitely not tossed to late night upon its premiere. As for Joker90, WLYH-15 (also CBS) in Lebanon aired it at 7:30pm when it premiered. IIRC, it later wound up sometime between 9am-10am...I guess that's better than late night?

WROC in Rochester, NY aired TTD '90 in a morning slot for part of its run, as did WYFF in Greenville/Spartanburg/Anderson, SC (9:30 AM, IIRC).

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[danderson]

i remember that Trump Card aired on WLOS after Nightline

[johnnya2k3]

And as I previously mentioned in the "Uncleared syndie game shows in top markets" thread, WAGA here in Atlanta ran Jackpot! (1989) at 5:00 am right before the morning news.

[danderson]

i know that  "American Gladiators" was always late night on my abc station WLOS expect for the spring and summer of 1992 when it was at 7:00