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GSWitch · « **on:** March 24, 2004, 07:35:21 PM »

Game show fans felt a triple knockout as not only did NBC cancel Super Password, but also Sale of The Century & CBS yanked Card Sharks.

Bob Eubanks made another tearful farewell to the show while on $ale, it was like a Jackson Five tune, "Never Can Say Good-Bye".

CBS relplaced Card Sharks with Now You See It (Chuck Henry) & NBC moved Scrabble to 9:00 am so that the 11:00 hour could be for local news & the soap, Generations (Generations had the same fate as Sale's finale, due to the Persian Gulf war).

zachhoran · « **Reply #1 on:** March 24, 2004, 07:50:51 PM »

[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Mar 24 2004, 07:35 PM\'] Game show fans felt a triple knockout as not only did NBC cancel Super Password, but also Sale of The Century & CBS yanked Card Sharks.

Bob Eubanks made another tearful farewell to the show while on $ale, it was like a Jackson Five tune, "Never Can Say Good-Bye".

CBS relplaced Card Sharks with Now You See It (Chuck Henry) & NBC moved Scrabble to 9:00 am so that the 11:00 hour could be for local news & the soap, Generations (Generations had the same fate as Sale's finale, due to the Persian Gulf war). [/quote]
$otC and SUper Password did end on 3/24/89, but Card SHarks's last show was 3/31/89. 3/31/89 was also the last day TNN aired Fandango(which was in reruns for seven months beforehand)

clemon79 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 24, 2004, 09:16:17 PM »

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Mar 24 2004, 05:50 PM\'] $otC and SUper Password did end on 3/24/89, but Card SHarks's last show was 3/31/89. 3/31/89 was also the last day TNN aired Fandango(which was in reruns for seven months beforehand) [/quote]
Go out more, Zach. I'm begging you. There's really more to life than this.

zachhoran · « **Reply #3 on:** March 24, 2004, 09:31:45 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 24 2004, 09:16 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Mar 24 2004, 05:50 PM\'] $otC and SUper Password did end on 3/24/89, but Card SHarks's last show was 3/31/89. 3/31/89 was also the last day TNN aired Fandango(which was in reruns for seven months beforehand) [/quote]
Go out more, Zach. I'm begging you. There's really more to life than this. [/quote]
Somehow I knew this was coming..... I choose not to go out is all.

Don Howard · « **Reply #4 on:** March 25, 2004, 04:09:38 AM »

When the sun comes up, I'll be going out now that it finally feels like spring out here.
At least Card Sharks (never cared for the Eubanks version anyway) was
replaced by another game show--Now You See It, which originally ran for
fourteen months, was off the air for fourteen years and returned for fourteen weeks.

zachhoran · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2004, 07:47:26 AM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Mar 25 2004, 04:09 AM\'] When the sun comes up, I'll be going out now that it finally feels like spring out here.
At least Card Sharks (never cared for the Eubanks version anyway) was
replaced by another game show--Now You See It, which originally ran for
fourteen months, was off the air for fourteen years and returned for fourteen weeks. [/quote]
Ah, it was a 15 week run for NYSI89, but you're close(though July 14, 1989 was the airdate of the last show). Jack Narz was off by a month on the NYSI7x finale when he said his version ran for 13 months, which in fact it was 14(but the show did end on Friday the 13th in June 1975)

AH3RD · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2004, 09:04:34 AM »

[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Mar 24 2004, 07:35 PM\'] Game show fans felt a triple knockout as not only did NBC cancel Super Password, but also Sale of The Century & CBS yanked Card Sharks.

Bob Eubanks made another tearful farewell to the show while on $ale, it was like a Jackson Five tune, "Never Can Say Good-Bye".

CBS relplaced Card Sharks with Now You See It (Chuck Henry) & NBC moved Scrabble to 9:00 am so that the 11:00 hour could be for local news & the soap, Generations (Generations had the same fate as Sale's finale, due to the Persian Gulf war). [/quote]
Zach was right...CBS' Card Sharks did have one more week to go.

Other simultaneous daytime network GS axings include CBS' death knell for The Joker's Wild and the original Now You See It (Jack Narz) on June 13, 1975 and 2 big dates which saw NBC pinkslipping a huge chunk of games: September 26, 1969 (Eye Guess, The Match Game, Personality, and You Don’t Say!) and June 20, 1980 (Chain Reaction, The Hollywood Squares, The New High Rollers).

zachhoran · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2004, 09:06:47 AM »

[quote name=\'AH3RD\' date=\'Mar 25 2004, 09:04 AM\'] [quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Mar 24 2004, 07:35 PM\'] Game show fans felt a triple knockout as not only did NBC cancel Super Password, but also Sale of The Century & CBS yanked Card Sharks.

Bob Eubanks made another tearful farewell to the show while on $ale, it was like a Jackson Five tune, "Never Can Say Good-Bye".

CBS relplaced Card Sharks with Now You See It (Chuck Henry) & NBC moved Scrabble to 9:00 am so that the 11:00 hour could be for local news & the soap, Generations (Generations had the same fate as Sale's finale, due to the Persian Gulf war). [/quote]
Zach was right...CBS' Card Sharks did have one more week to go.

Other simultaneous daytime network GS axings include CBS' death knell for The Joker's Wild and the original Now You See It on June 13, 1975 and 2 big dates which saw NBC pinkslipping a huge chunk of games: September 26, 1969 (Eye Guess, Match Game, Personality, and You Don’t Say!) and June 20, 1980 (Chain Reaction, The Hollywood Squares, The New High Rollers). [/quote]
August 14, 1998(though all these shows had at least six months of reruns at the time the stations dropped them altogether): Lifetime's Supermarket Sweep and Debt, and FAM's New SHop Till You Drop and Shopping Spree ended their runs.

rigsby · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2004, 10:00:57 AM »

Zach, you're slipping...I would have thought you'd remember June 27, 1975, which saw ABC say goodbye to Password and Split Second.

AH3RD · « **Reply #9 on:** March 25, 2004, 10:25:56 AM »

[quote name=\'rigsby\' date=\'Mar 25 2004, 10:00 AM\'] Zach, you're slipping...I would have thought you'd remember June 27, 1975, which saw ABC say goodbye to Password and Split Second. [/quote]
So that's the other show ABC axed with Password in June 1975! Thanks, rigsby!

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #10 on:** March 25, 2004, 10:47:00 AM »

"Blankety Blanks" also went off on the same day as "Password" and Split Second." One week later, July 4, 1975 was the most traumatic for me as Jim and Heather called it quits on "The Big Showdown," but "Blank Check" and "Money Maze" also went off that day.

Don Howard · « **Reply #11 on:** March 25, 2004, 02:18:14 PM »

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Mar 25 2004, 07:47 AM\'] [quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Mar 25 2004, 04:09 AM\'] When the sun comes up, I'll be going out now that it finally feels like spring out here.
At least Card Sharks (never cared for the Eubanks version anyway) was
replaced by another game show--Now You See It, which originally ran for
fourteen months, was off the air for fourteen years and returned for fourteen weeks. [/quote]
Ah, it was a 15 week run for NYSI89, but you're close(though July 14, 1989 was the airdate of the last show). Jack Narz was off by a month on the NYSI7x finale when he said his version ran for 13 months, which in fact it was 14(but the show did end on Friday the 13th in June 1975) [/quote]
Oh, gee whiz. Judge me by current Pyramid standards just once, willya?

BrandonFG · « **Reply #12 on:** March 25, 2004, 02:55:06 PM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Mar 25 2004, 02:18 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Mar 25 2004, 07:47 AM\'] [quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Mar 25 2004, 04:09 AM\'] When the sun comes up, I'll be going out now that it finally feels like spring out here.
At least Card Sharks (never cared for the Eubanks version anyway) was
replaced by another game show--Now You See It, which originally ran for
fourteen months, was off the air for fourteen years and returned for fourteen weeks. [/quote]
Ah, it was a 15 week run for NYSI89, but you're close(though July 14, 1989 was the airdate of the last show). Jack Narz was off by a month on the NYSI7x finale when he said his version ran for 13 months, which in fact it was 14(but the show did end on Friday the 13th in June 1975) [/quote]
Oh, gee whiz. Judge me by current Pyramid standards just once, willya? [/quote]
You forgot who you're dealing with here. :-)

BTW, as anal as that was, I'd say Zach was using 80s Pyramid standards.

rigsby · « **Reply #13 on:** March 25, 2004, 03:44:35 PM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Mar 25 2004, 10:47 AM\']"Blankety Blanks" also went off on the same day as "Password" and Split Second." [/quote]
I thought there was a third death that day...

dzinkin · « **Reply #14 on:** March 25, 2004, 10:39:30 PM »

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Mar 24 2004, 09:31 PM\'] [quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 24 2004, 09:16 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Mar 24 2004, 05:50 PM\'] $otC and SUper Password did end on 3/24/89, but Card SHarks's last show was 3/31/89. 3/31/89 was also the last day TNN aired Fandango(which was in reruns for seven months beforehand) [/quote]
Go out more, Zach. I'm begging you. There's really more to life than this. [/quote]
Somehow I knew this was coming..... I choose not to go out is all. [/quote]
Yeah. Just as Louie Anderson "chose" not to come back to Family Feud.

Author Topic: Also 15 Years Ago Today (Read 2536 times)

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