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Post by topbilled on Dec 4, 2022 2:45:17 GMT
A game show my sister and I liked to watch when we were home from school in the 1980s was called Press Your Luck with host Peter Tomarken. Anyone else ever watch it?
We also liked watching Let's Make a Deal.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 4, 2022 4:12:33 GMT
LOVED the original Press Your Luck. No whammies! Somehow the new version doesn't have the same charm but that is probably just me being obstinate, inflexible and difficult.  I also liked Wheel of Fortune when Chuck Woolery hosted and the winner got to go shopping with their prize money. As a kid it was quite a romp to see them get to pick items like dirt bikes, surf boards, stereos, juke boxes. Really strange when I look at a clip of it now! |
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Post by topbilled on Dec 4, 2022 15:59:59 GMT
LOVED the original Press Your Luck. No whammies! Somehow the new version doesn't have the same charm but that is probably just me being obstinate, inflexible and difficult. I also liked Wheel of Fortune when Chuck Woolery hosted and the winner got to go shopping with their prize money. As a kid it was quite a romp to see them get to pick items like dirt bikes, surf boards, stereos, juke boxes. Really strange when I look at a clip of it now!
Oh you know what game show I loved, and it didn't last long and seemed to go through several hosts, including Bert Convy and Vicki Lawrence, was Win Lose or Draw. That was a fun one, with celebrities playing a Pictionary type game. |
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 4, 2022 17:44:10 GMT
A game show my sister and I liked to watch when we were home from school in the 1980s was called Press Your Luck with host Peter Tomarken. Anyone else ever watch it?
We also liked watching Let's Make a Deal. Never really liked it. But my TV game show watching goes back further than the '80's. I remember the original CONCENTRATION when it was hosted by a guy named HUGH DOWNS ('58-'61?)  There was also a show me, my brother and some friends liked to play on our blackboard in the basement called CAMOUFLAGE, hosted by JEOPARDY'S Johnny Gilbert.. Contestants had to find a certain object in a picture with other things going on that would hide, or "camouflage" the item they were looking for. There of course was YOU BET YOUR LIFE hosted by Groucho Marx, and WHO DO YOU TRUST with Johnny Carson as host. The show he got into trouble with Mrs. Arnold Palmer on. And who could forget QUEEN FOR A DAY? Three old ladies(usually) would come on and tell their sob stories. And the one with the sobbiest story would win a bevy of prizes. Usually washers and dryers and kitchen appliances. And I always had a fantasy of being a contestant on VIDEO VILLAGE JR.('61-'62), a game show played as some kind of board game on which kids were the contestants. And I found this.... Sepiatone |
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Post by marysara1 on Dec 4, 2022 19:05:03 GMT
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 4, 2022 20:07:47 GMT
Oh boy. This is my first attempt at snipping and clipping to try to reply to a post. Apologies if it looks a sight at your end. I have never heard of half of these - thank you so much for the clips & tips sepiatone. Camouflage looks like it would have been right up my alley. Many kids magazines had such games sans the 48 pounds of ham!? 21" TV!? If they could see our tv sizes now. Zoinks. Video Village JR looks intriguing also. Is Queen For a Day the same game show that Mary Steenburgen goes on in Melvin and Howard? |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 4, 2022 20:25:47 GMT
Well that snippage attempt went as well as I'd expected.
I will just post here to marysara1 - thank you for that clip. I had no idea The Price is Right went back that far.
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 5, 2022 16:39:34 GMT
Video Village JR looks intriguing also. Is Queen For a Day the same game show that Mary Steenburgen goes on in Melvin and Howard? "Video Village" had a square that if you landed on it you had a chance to go to this big bowl of pennies and grab as many handfuls as possible in a specified time(a minute I think). I always wished I could have a crack at that.  That game show Mary was on in that movie was called "Easy Street". And I used to watch THE PRICE IS RIGHT with Bill Cullen as a kid as much as possible. BUZZR shows those old PIR programs occasionally. I get a kick out of them. Imagine. A NEW CAR for $2400.!  or less. Sepiatone |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 5, 2022 17:10:24 GMT
Video Village JR looks intriguing also. Is Queen For a Day the same game show that Mary Steenburgen goes on in Melvin and Howard? "Video Village" had a square that if you landed on it you had a chance to go to this big bowl of pennies and grab as many handfuls as possible in a specified time(a minute I think). I always wished I could have a crack at that. That game show Mary was on in that movie was called "Easy Street". And I used to watch THE PRICE IS RIGHT with Bill Cullen as a kid as much as possible. BUZZR shows those old PIR programs occasionally. I get a kick out of them. Imagine. A NEW CAR for $2400.! or less. Sepiatone Oh that is very interesting about the bowl of pennies. At childhood birthday parties we had a game where if you rolled a 6 on the dice you got to go dive into a bowl of candy and I think EAT as much as you could - picking up jellybeans on a spoon - for how long I don't recall. Surely not until another person rolled a six!? Aye me. This would never pass the germ test now. I am pretty sure it was a shared spoon. Oh yes - Easy Street. Thanks! BUZZR looks like fun. I'm watching an amusing To Tell the Truth | Gene Rayburn & Bill Cullen Take a Spin in an Electric Car |
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 6, 2022 16:53:38 GMT
There was also TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, which began on radio in the '40's with Ralph Edwards, and on TV starting in 1950. I never laid eyes on it until the later '60's when Bob Barker hosted it. And Bud Collier hosting BEAT THE CLOCK. Which started on radio late '40's under a different name, and came to TV in 1950 and ran on CBS from then until 1958. Then moved to ABC from '58 to '61. It would have several more incarnations over the years up until the '90's. But I understand it's still going on somewhere. And Galacticgirrrl........... The big game at birthday parties when I was a kid was Pin The Tail On The Donkey. And another in which a kid would kneel on the seat of a chair looking over the back and try to drop clothespins from head height into an empty milk bottle. Really not as easy as it sounds. At least not to most five and six year olds.  Sepiatone |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 8, 2022 2:42:24 GMT
The big game at birthday parties when I was a kid was Pin The Tail On The Donkey. And another in which a kid would kneel on the seat of a chair looking over the back and try to drop clothespins from head height into an empty milk bottle. Really not as easy as it sounds. At least not to most five and six year olds. I remember Pin the Tail for sure. Hope you won something good on the clothespin front. I can't believe I forgot Trivia Company - maybe my favorite game show of all time. Very small. Very local. I am sure nobody has heard or seen it. Johnny Walters quite was ahead of the times with his man on the street reality quiz type show. The people and places are often more interesting than the questions. I sent in a question that he used on the show and won a trivia game. Nobody answered it on the street as I recall. Wish I had the clip: According to The Joy of Cooking what you should NOT make during a thunderstorm? Johnnie Walters Trivia CompanyProduced at CKCO from 1983 to 1988 ckco-history.com/productions/trivia-company/Johnnie Walters is a Canadian-born broadcaster best known for his long affiliation with CKCO-TV in Kitchener, Ont. Walters hosted Trivia Company on CKCO from 1983 to 1988. This half-hour show was done in a game show format, and featured Walters taking a mobile unit on the street asking various people trivia questions for cash prizes that were often accompanied by a “Certificate of Genius”. On the latter was written a brief but grandiloquent speech, read on-air by the prize-winner, which proclaimed them “A genius, and certainly not a jerk.” Walters frequently reacted exuberantly whenever contestants indicated they might have an inkling of what the answer might be (and sometimes even when they didn’t), bellowing his catchphrase, “This guy (or lady) knows the answer!” stentoriously to draw in passersby to the spectacle in front of the camera. The show was revived in 1992 by CFPL-TV in London and CFTO-TV in Toronto and finished production in 1994. Here we have questions about Tolstoy, The Gipper and The Big Bopper: |
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 8, 2022 16:57:47 GMT
I remember Pin the Tail for sure. Hope you won something good on the clothespin front. I can't believe I forgot Trivia Company - maybe my favorite game show of all time. Very small. Very local. I am sure nobody has heard or seen it. Johnny Walters quite was ahead of the times with his man on the street reality quiz type show. The people and places are often more interesting than the questions. I sent in a question that he used on the show and won a trivia game. Nobody answered it on the street as I recall. Wish I had the clip: According to The Joy of Cooking what you should NOT make during a thunderstorm?
I give up. Never heard of Trivia Company. A Canadian production? We picked up a lot of CBC shows being just across the Detroit River from Windsor, Ont. But that's one that slipped my attention. Sepiatone |
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Post by nipkowdisc on Dec 9, 2022 9:38:29 GMT
nothing will ever top Monty Hall on Lets Make A Deal.  |
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Post by ericj on Dec 9, 2022 10:31:59 GMT
I also liked Wheel of Fortune when Chuck Woolery hosted and the winner got to go shopping with their prize money. As a kid it was quite a romp to see them get to pick items like dirt bikes, surf boards, stereos, juke boxes. Really strange when I look at a clip of it now 
Then the 80's came along, game shows were reduced to Wheel vs. Jeopardy, and we all just wanted as much money as possible.
(I did the Jeopardy local test once, but looking at the "shopping" segments of Wheel of Fortune, commercialism overpowers mercenary urges.)
And there is one host who could outdo Monty Hall (who comes off as a even bigger a-hole/creep today than Bob Barker) as the grand old partymaster of the 70's glory days:
And People Are Funny, with Art Linkletter, which was only a "game" show in the loosest sense, as guests were selected to do complex quests for huge prizes over a series of weeks (one guest was told he would "learn to be an actor" if he wanted to win a movie walk-on, and was shuttled off on a wild goose chase to three movie sets around the world), with diabolical Candid Camera twists, and, often candid cameras following them.
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 9, 2022 17:22:49 GMT
Ah, but there's the guy up there who thinks Monty and Bob Barker are "A-hole/Creeps". He prefers Gene Rayburn. And personally, I like all three. I still catch old MATCH GAME episodes on BUZZR now and then. And despite his preference for "prize based" game shows, he failed to bring up THE NEWLYWED GAME hosted by Bob Eubanks. Also one of the better game show hosts of yore. The newer versions hosted by Gary Kroeger, Carnie Wilson and Sherri Shepherd weren't all that good really(IMHO). Sepiatone |
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