Author Topic: Contestant on Back-To Back GSN Shows (Read 10828 times)

GSWitch · « **on:** February 07, 2006, 06:12:03 PM »

This morning while I was watching Password +, the next contestant turned out to be Leland! Does his face look familiar? Should be, he's also on Blockbusters 1/2 hour earlier. What are the odds that GSN would have two different game shows with the same contestant? Would be possible with Kirstie Alley on both Match Game & Password +.

clemon79 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 07, 2006, 06:13:14 PM »

[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Feb 7 2006, 03:12 PM\']This morning while I was watching Password +, the next contestant turned out to be Leland! Does his face look familiar? Should be, he's also on Blockbusters 1/2 hour earlier. What are the odds that GSN would have two different game shows with the same contestant? Would be possible with Kirstie Alley on both Match Game & Password +.

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I'm almost certain it's happened before.

MikeK · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2006, 06:59:05 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 7 2006, 06:13 PM\'][quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Feb 7 2006, 03:12 PM\']This morning while I was watching Password +, the next contestant turned out to be Leland! Does his face look familiar? Should be, he's also on Blockbusters 1/2 hour earlier. What are the odds that GSN would have two different game shows with the same contestant? Would be possible with Kirstie Alley on both Match Game & Password +.[/quote]
I'm almost certain it's happened before.[/quote]
This is one of those bits of minutiae which Zach likes spouting over and over (and thus is likely the only reason Chris and I recall the following). Sometime in 2000, between the 6 and 7 PM hour, GSN aired shows with the same contestant on The $100,000 Pyramid and Match Game 76.

I feel very dirty.

clemon79 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2006, 07:01:08 PM »

[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Feb 7 2006, 03:59 PM\']I feel very dirty.
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Imagine how I feel. I actually acknowledged Witch.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #4 on:** February 08, 2006, 07:35:04 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 7 2006, 08:01 PM\'][quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Feb 7 2006, 03:59 PM\']I feel very dirty.
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Imagine how I feel. I actually acknowledged Witch.[/quote]
Hey, c'mon. That's actually a pretty decent question. I remain fascinated by the cultural curiosity that no one back in the 70s or 80s would even have thought that something like GSN would exist and would air these old shows again.

Similarly, I can remember on a couple of occasions seeing $20K and much later $25K Pyramid episodes reusing large quantities of main game material, often using the exact same punny category name and the exact same material in the exact same order. You can just hear Bob Stewart saying, "Hey, that was six years ago. Who's going to remember?"

Pyramid80 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 08, 2006, 07:46:24 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 7 2006, 05:13 PM\']I'm almost certain it's happened before.

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Didn't it happen a few years ago when one of the family pair twins from Blockbusters was also a Senior Partner on Trivia Trap? I can't remember his name right off, but it was a balding guy with glasses.

zachhoran · « **Reply #6 on:** February 08, 2006, 07:47:55 PM »

[quote name=\'Pyramid80\' date=\'Feb 8 2006, 07:46 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 7 2006, 05:13 PM\']I'm almost certain it's happened before.

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Didn't it happen a few years ago when one of the family pair twins from Blockbusters was also a Senior Partner on Trivia Trap? I can't remember his name right off, but it was a balding guy with glasses.

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One of the Hendricks brothers, either Tom or Joe, was on an episode of Trivia Trap. Both members of the duo were the first champions on Cullen BB, and Tom IIRC also appeared on MGPM in 1977 with Cullen on the panel.

irismason42 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 08, 2006, 08:06:12 PM »

What about police officer Thomas Rogers, was he on multiple game shows?

Steve_Bier · « **Reply #8 on:** February 08, 2006, 08:39:18 PM »

[quote name=\'irismason42\' date=\'Feb 8 2006, 08:06 PM\']What about police officer Thomas Rogers, was he on multiple game shows?

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No, but I think he pulled my wife over last night........

sshuffield70 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 10, 2006, 07:27:49 PM »

Well, I don't know about everyone, but I've had fun watching the Leland Yung hour this week. Quite obviously, just by watching, he made mince meat of word games. Even getting "Miss America" off of "Parks".

The overlap ended today with the end of the BB run ($51,000). He continues on P+ Monday, so far with over $15,000 in hand.

pyrfan · « **Reply #10 on:** February 11, 2006, 01:37:40 AM »

About six years ago on a Saturday afternoon on GSN, contestant Donna Deicken was on a "Password Plus" from 1979, and immediately following was one of her appearances on "Body Language" from 1985. All they had to do was show one of her "$100,000 Pyramid" appearances from 1987, and the world would have been officially freaky.

No freakier, however, than the fact that I remember this.

Brendan

zachhoran · « **Reply #11 on:** February 11, 2006, 07:52:47 AM »

[quote name=\'pyrfan\' date=\'Feb 11 2006, 01:37 AM\']About six years ago on a Saturday afternoon on GSN, contestant Donna Deicken was on a "Password Plus" from 1979, and immediately following was one of her appearances on "Body Language" from 1985. All they had to do was show one of her "$100,000 Pyramid" appearances from 1987, and the world would have been officially freaky.

No freakier, however, than the fact that I remember this.

Brendan

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I thought you remembered more stuff than I did right after I started posting on ATGS, in your post about Pyramid's all time winners on 11/15/96.

GSWitch · « **Reply #12 on:** February 13, 2006, 09:03:33 PM »

[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Feb 10 2006, 06:27 PM\']The overlap ended today with the end of the BB run ($51,000). He continues on P+ Monday, so far with over $15,000 in hand.

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And his Password + streak ended today with $16,200.

LELAND'S TOTAL WINNINGS; $67,200.

zachhoran · « **Reply #13 on:** February 13, 2006, 09:14:36 PM »

[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Feb 13 2006, 09:03 PM\'][quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Feb 10 2006, 06:27 PM\']The overlap ended today with the end of the BB run ($51,000). He continues on P+ Monday, so far with over $15,000 in hand.

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And his Password + streak ended today with $16,200.

LELAND'S TOTAL WINNINGS; $67,200.

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He won another $55K+ in his second 10-show run on BB in March 1982.

PYLdude · « **Reply #14 on:** February 14, 2006, 08:29:06 PM »

[quote name=\'GSWitch's post\' date=\' adjusted accordingly\']And his Password + streak ended today with $16,200.

LELAND'S TOTAL WINNINGS; $122,800.

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That's better. (Sorry for the Horan-like post)