[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Oct 28 2004, 11:46 AM\'][quote name=\'tyshaun1\' date=\'Oct 28 2004, 09:00 AM\']I think you can trace the end of game shows in network daytime to all the short lived game shows in the '80's.
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I'm not sure I completely buy it--since plenty of short-lived games in the 1970s didn't kill off the genre the following decade (and as exhaustive as your list was, Tyshaun, I could probably come up with a just-as-exhaustive list from the 1970s [you got a couple of hours? ;-)]).
I just think it was more the evolution to being a more-than-three-channel universe that's as responsible as anything.
As an aside, I vaguely remember FANTASY as a whole (I do recall some "new talent segments" and one Paul Lynde impressionist, for which he was given a proper Mother McKenzie laugh). But is it really fair to call FANTASY a game show (not trying to stir up trouble or start another one of those debates, mind you, but I don't recall much of a competition aspect--unless someone can help me fill in the blanks a little)?
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More of a variety show with game and competition elements (and of course, stuff similar to the "agony shows" of the 50s). Obviously, close enough for the Sony cataloguers trying to figure out what should be considered potential GSN library material.