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BrandonFG

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« Reply #15 on: August 29, 2004, 03:57:05 PM »
[quote name=\'adamjk\' date=\'Aug 29 2004, 01:16 PM\']I know this is gonna sound strange, but in a way, Double Dare is a spin off of Price is Right then, as they have 6 obstacles in the obstacle course that changed each show, just like Price has 6 pricing games that change daily.[/quote]
Apples and oranges. The 8 obstacles on DD were in a self-contained bonus round. The 6 pricing games are a huge part of the show, though you could argue that the pricing games are a bonus round of their own.

Besides, with that logic, that's like saying TPiR is a spin-off from Wheel of Fortune, just because both games have three contestants spinning a wheel, with the high scorer going to a bonus round.

(And yes, I know that WoF and the Big Wheel came out in 1975, so that doesn't make it a spinoff either, it's just TPiR wanted to capitalize.
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« Reply #16 on: August 29, 2004, 04:05:15 PM »
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Aug 29 2004, 02:57 PM\'] with that logic, that's like saying TPiR is a spin-off from Wheel of Fortune, just because both games have three contestants spinning a wheel, with the high scorer going to a bonus round.

(And yes, I know that WoF and the Big Wheel came out in 1975, so that doesn't make it a spinoff either, it's just TPiR wanted to capitalize. [/quote]
And you know, both expanded to an hour within a month of each other in 1975. So there's a spin-off of the hour-long format. God, this is making my head hurt. Or is it all those Bud Lights at bw-3 last night?
This is like the rut we fell into when I started that "host-ism" thread many months ago. It began as examples of sentences which uniquely belonged to a single host such as Allen Ludden's, "I hear you at home". Before we knew it, we had someone come along with the claim that Chuck Woolery saying, "Good Night" at the end of Greed was a unique "host-ism". Just because one show uses Q & A or six segments or music with vocals (Make Me Laugh is not a spin-off from To Tell The Truth) doesn't make it a spin-off. It means there's something in common. And that's it.
And now, I'll trade one of you my soap box for some aspirin.
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« Reply #17 on: August 29, 2004, 04:07:20 PM »
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And now, I'll trade one of you my soap box for some aspirin.

Or you can take what's behind door #2.
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Ian Wallis

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« Reply #18 on: August 30, 2004, 09:42:41 AM »
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And you know, both expanded to an hour within a month of each other in 1975. So there's a spin-off of the hour-long format.


When CBS decided to expand one of their shows to an hour, NBC decided they could do the same.  Six weeks later they realized that they made a mistake...

For the record, the very same day "Price" permanently expanded to an hour (Nov 3, 1975), NBC expanded "Hollywood Squares" to an hour for a week as part of their "Gigantic Game Gala".  It was also "Squares" ninth anniversary week.
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« Reply #19 on: August 30, 2004, 09:47:57 AM »
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Aug 30 2004, 08:42 AM\'] NBC expanded "Hollywood Squares" to an hour for a week as part of their "Gigantic Game Gala".  It was also "Squares" ninth anniversary week. [/quote]
 Let's Make A Deal went the one-hour route for a week in 1975 also, didn't it? Is that where The Super Deal made its inaugural appearance?
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« Reply #20 on: August 30, 2004, 09:51:51 AM »
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Let's Make A Deal went the one-hour route for a week in 1975 also, didn't it? Is that where The Super Deal made its inaugural appearance?


Yes on the first part, I'm not sure on the second part.  I was in school the week that "LMAD" expanded to an hour so I'm pretty sure I didn't see any of them.  Luckily (or unluckily) I was sick for the first three days of NBC's "Gigantic Game Gala", and got to see all the shows from Monday-Wednesday that week!
(If only I could have stretched out my sickness for two more days....)
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« Reply #21 on: August 31, 2004, 11:33:40 AM »
How about a game show that is a spin-off of a segment of a talk show?

Street Smarts is based on the popular "Jaywalking" segments seen on the Tonight Show...

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« Reply #22 on: August 31, 2004, 11:41:37 AM »
[quote name=\'TheInquisitiveOne\' date=\'Aug 31 2004, 08:33 AM\'] How about a game show that is a spin-off of a segment of a talk show?

Street Smarts is based on the popular "Jaywalking" segments seen on the Tonight Show...
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 Gawd, this is getting ridiculous.

If you think Jay Leno was the first person to go out on the street and ask ordinary people stupid questions, then you have never heard of Mal Sharpe, who was only doing it THIRTY YEARS before Jay was.

There _is_ television history before 1990, folks.
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« Reply #23 on: August 31, 2004, 06:53:36 PM »
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Aug 31 2004, 10:41 AM\']
If you think Jay Leno was the first person to go out on the street and ask ordinary people stupid questions, then you have never heard of Mal Sharpe, who was only doing it THIRTY YEARS before Jay was.

There _is_ television history before 1990, folks. [/quote]
 Not to mention the format of predicting the actions of people on the street has been used in at least three game shows before STreet Smarts: All About Faces, Anything for Money, and Hold Everything. While AAF and AFM had in-studio contestants, HE had celebs playing in-studio for charity.
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« Reply #24 on: August 31, 2004, 07:08:04 PM »
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Aug 31 2004, 05:53 PM\']
Not to mention the format of predicting the actions of people on the street has been used in at least three game shows before STreet Smarts: All About Faces, Anything for Money, and Hold Everything. While AAF and AFM had in-studio contestants, HE had celebs playing in-studio for charity. [/quote]
 You forgot Card Sharks.
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BrandonFG

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« Reply #25 on: August 31, 2004, 07:15:50 PM »
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Aug 31 2004, 06:08 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Aug 31 2004, 05:53 PM\']
Not to mention the format of predicting the actions of people on the street has been used in at least three game shows before STreet Smarts: All About Faces, Anything for Money, and Hold Everything. While AAF and AFM had in-studio contestants, HE had celebs playing in-studio for charity. [/quote]
You forgot Card Sharks. [/quote]
 Is that so much of a bad thing? :-)
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« Reply #26 on: August 31, 2004, 07:37:15 PM »
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Aug 31 2004, 04:08 PM\']You forgot Card Sharks. [/quote]
No, he didn't. That "Card Sharks" didn't predate Street Smarts.

Ath, I've defended Adam and Zach on the same day. I think I'll be turning in my card now...
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Jimmy Owen

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« Reply #27 on: August 31, 2004, 07:44:19 PM »
So "Card Sharks" was a spinoff of "Street Smarts"???!!!????
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« Reply #28 on: August 31, 2004, 08:05:06 PM »
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Aug 31 2004, 06:44 PM\'] So "Card Sharks" was a spinoff of "Street Smarts"???!!!???? [/quote]
 None of the Street Smarts-esque shows mentioned in this thread can be considered spinoffs. Except, you could make somewhat of a case for All About Faces and Hold Everything as Dan Enright was responsible for both of those all-time faves :)
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« Reply #29 on: August 31, 2004, 08:12:55 PM »
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Aug 31 2004, 06:44 PM\'] So "Card Sharks" was a spinoff of "Street Smarts"???!!!???? [/quote]
 2001 era Card Sharks was a spin-off of a pile of excrement.
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