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Craig Karlberg

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« Reply #15 on: May 03, 2005, 04:50:24 AM »
Triple Play not only was my favorite segment(outside of its serial Mathnet), it was the coolest looking with the set.  I think it was neat seeing those circles around the numbers light up to the corresponding players.

Speaking of Mathnan, ny favoritte was when The Glitch was "playing" the game subbing for Mathman because he was "sick".  When The Glitch lost, there was Mathnan "playing" as The Glitch.  Not only that, he was like supersized!  LOL!!!  Man, that was something.

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« Reply #16 on: May 03, 2005, 08:17:05 AM »
I liked those But Who's Counting sketches!  True, they should've had children play instead of the cast.

The hostess who spun the wheel is Amber Janette, the host; Monte Carlo & the show was a Mike-Merv Production.
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« Reply #17 on: May 03, 2005, 09:49:02 AM »
Have to admit, "But Who's Counting?" is a rather simple, yet excellent idea. I've never seen them do "Triple Play", though. Then again, this is coming from someone who's never seen "Angle Dance". My personal fave was "Close Call", and Sq1 Challenge wasn't too bad.

ObRealGameshows: Ex-"Pyramid" director Mike Gargiulo directed some portions of "Square One" [I would probably assume that included the GS sketches].
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« Reply #18 on: May 03, 2005, 12:16:40 PM »
All of the *real* game show segments of "Square One" (as in actual contestants playing for actual modest prizes) had MGP helping in the development.  The gag segments, obviously, weren't.

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« Reply #19 on: May 03, 2005, 03:19:18 PM »
[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'May 3 2005, 07:17 AM\']I liked those But Who's Counting sketches!  True, they should've had children play instead of the cast.

The hostess who spun the wheel is Amber Janette, the host; Monte Carlo & the show was a Mike-Merv Production.
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« Reply #20 on: May 03, 2005, 06:18:30 PM »
I seem to remember that But Who's Counting did start out as a straight game with kids playing. Only after one or two appearances did the pre-scripted hijinx ensue. I'll see if I can't find some confirmation on it.

Okay, I found it. Counting started and ended as a parody, but it did have kid contestants once, on episode 134. I think Adding and Multiplying may have done this, too.  Thanks to the existence of TVtome.com. :)
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« Reply #21 on: May 03, 2005, 11:39:00 PM »
[quote name=\'dazztardly\' date=\'May 2 2005, 10:58 PM\']I wouldn't mind touching upon some of these games, later down the road. :)

Triple Play is one that I'm kind of looking at to do...

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OK, Dan, I'm gonna e-mail this info to you, but I'll post it here, too.

Here's the rules of Triple Play in full:

Two players compete. The object of the game is cover 3 numbers on the triangular webbed game board such that the connection of the 3 forms an equilateral triangle. The triangle can be of any size, so long as it's equilateral.

Each turn, the two players (represented by green and purple) spun a pair of wheels. Each wheel had numbers on them. The wheel on the left had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in that order, the 2nd one had 7, 8, 9, 10, Square One TV logo, 12 in that order.

After the wheels were spun, the contestant had to make either an addition or a multiplication equation with the numbers that came up. If the equation could be made and the answer was right, that number was covered on the board.

There were several ways a player could mess up, though...

> If the player gave the wrong answer to the equation

> If the equation resulted in a number that was already covered on the board

> If the player spun a pair of numbers where BOTH right answers were covered on the board

If any of those things happened, the player's turn was wasted.

The moment a player had the equilateral triangle made on their turn and recognized it, they shouted "Triple Play!" and was instructed to call out the numbers that made the triangle. Doing so successfully won the game. A mistake continued the game as normal.

That's about everything in a nutshell. I can set up the grid for you if you want. I remember how it went.

Let me know. I loved this game, I'd love to play it.
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« Reply #22 on: May 03, 2005, 11:49:22 PM »
I would very much like to see the grid, actually.  All I recall is that 7-8-9 was the innermost triangle, and it went out to 72 or something on the end.  And the game board wasn't a true hexagon, neither.
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« Reply #23 on: May 04, 2005, 03:06:28 PM »
I LOVED Mathman.......... gotta love Mathdog, too.

on the Late Afternoon with David Numberman they played Wastepaper Basketball...... I remember Dave lost 600-11 (and he had 600, since you had to make a palindrome).

There was another small show in there where there was a grid 1-100, you chose a corner, and had to find what the secret number was, I think. I don't remember exactly.

The Square One Challenge was always fun to watch. Piece of the Pie was REALLY boring.

I know for a little while they reran most of the series (except season 2 and some of 5) on Noggin.

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« Reply #24 on: May 04, 2005, 06:06:28 PM »
[quote name=\'wschmrdr\' date=\'May 4 2005, 02:06 PM\']I know for a little while they reran most of the series (except season 2 and some of 5) on Noggin.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see it offered on the new Comcast/PBS/HIT/Sesame Workshop joint venture PBS Sprout!. I hasn't yet launched as a linear channel, but it looks like it'll be 24/7 kids programming like Noggin. Unlike Noggin, it will have some commercials.
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« Reply #25 on: May 05, 2005, 12:40:33 PM »
[quote name=\'inturnaround\' date=\'May 4 2005, 05:06 PM\'][quote name=\'wschmrdr\' date=\'May 4 2005, 02:06 PM\']I know for a little while they reran most of the series (except season 2 and some of 5) on Noggin.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see it offered on the new Comcast/PBS/HIT/Sesame Workshop joint venture PBS Sprout!. I hasn't yet launched as a linear channel, but it looks like it'll be 24/7 kids programming like Noggin. Unlike Noggin, it will have some commercials.
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Not going to happen.  Sprout in its on-air component is all pre-school programming (and something tells me that they aren't going to do "classics" in late-night when the little buzzards should be in bed).

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« Reply #26 on: May 05, 2005, 02:23:52 PM »
Noggin aired commercials with Square One TV.

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« Reply #27 on: May 05, 2005, 10:28:36 PM »
I thought Noggin was commercial free when CTW co-owned the channel with Viacom?

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« Reply #28 on: May 05, 2005, 10:43:05 PM »
[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'May 5 2005, 10:28 PM\']I thought Noggin was commercial free when CTW co-owned the channel with Viacom?
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It was........What he probably means is promos for other shows and for the channel..That's what I remember about it...

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« Reply #29 on: May 06, 2005, 12:09:36 PM »
[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'May 5 2005, 09:43 PM\'][quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'May 5 2005, 10:28 PM\']I thought Noggin was commercial free when CTW co-owned the channel with Viacom?
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It was........What he probably means is promos for other shows and for the channel..That's what I remember about it...
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And to some people, that means advertising even if it isn't technically advertising.  An off topic example of that from about.com's radio guy Corey Deitz, regarding XM's commercial-free music channels:

http://radio.about.com/od/xmsatelliteradio/a/aa042405a.htm

And public broadcasting gets the same argument all the time about underwriting announcements, especially that "enhanced underwriting" that walks, talks and sounds like a duck but isn't (as a WTTW Chicago pledge drive host agreed with me this past weekend).