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aquaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:10 AM
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What is your favorite old school game show?


From Hollywood, it's everybody's game of strategy, knowledge and fun! It's...
Tic Dac Dough!!!


You know you like it...
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RoyGBiv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:13 AM
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1. Match Game ...

None of the others come close, in my preferences.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:17 AM
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2. Definitiely Match Game
Edited on Fri Jun-16-06 12:18 AM by tridim


It had the best guest stars, the best clothes, the best host, the best long microphone and the best music ever!
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:39 AM
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6. I agree...
How can you not love a show that has the likes of Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers and Richard Dawson?
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countmyvote4real Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:41 AM
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8. ditto that n/t
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:54 AM
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12. Another for Match Game
'74 was a particularly funny year.
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conflictgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:18 AM
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3. C'mon, big money! No whammies!
:)
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CornField Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:21 AM
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4. Yup -- Press Your Luck and Jokers Wild
:)
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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 01:29 AM
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22. Joker's Wild, produced and hosted by Jack Barry.
Who just happened to be the host of the game show rigging scandal plagued "Twenty-One".
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 01:37 AM
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24. Quiz Show
Redford's movie about the scandal is terrific.

And if you haven't heard about Michael Larsen, the guy who sussed out the pattern and timing of the Press Your Luck board and won $110K-plus, check it out here:

http://gscentral.net/larsen.htm
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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:38 AM
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5. Here he is, the one, the only...
Edited on Fri Jun-16-06 12:42 AM by longship
Audience: Groucho!


Simply the best quiz show ever.

"Say the secret woid and a duck will come down and give you fifty dollahs.

Word has it that on one show he asked a particularly nice looking female contestant to fish the fifty dollars she had just won out of his jacket pocket. As she plunged her hand into his pocket she exclaimed, "I feel silly."

Groucho raised his eyebrows and to the camera responded, "Reach down a little foither and you'll feel nuts."

Whether or not this story is true, Groucho was a comedic genius.

Hurray for Captain Spaulding!
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OzarkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:56 AM
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13. Oh, yes, the cadillac of game shows
There's never been a better game show host.
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:40 AM
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7. The Lounge
;-)
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wanpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:43 AM
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9. the dating game....so risque for a 5 yr old at the time...
"where was the most embarrassing place you made whoopee?"
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wanpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:44 AM
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10. But now that I think about it, I really liked the $25,000 Pyramid as well
loved those celebs giving hits without being able to use words from the phrase. Aahhh, the good old days!
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:56 AM
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14. $25,000 Pyramid was good
The 25k round gave me an adrenaline rush sometimes.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 01:14 AM
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18. Agreed - and thank GOD for Taboo!
Edited on Fri Jun-16-06 01:15 AM by BlooInBloo
EDIT: And damn the company for not putting out more refill/new card decks.
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 03:42 AM
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29. I thought that was the Newlywed Game
I still remember my all-time favorite question from that show:

"Ladies, on your wedding night, what Indian name would your husband have given you?"

Bride #1: "Poker-hontas"

Alas, the young groom missed it by a mile.
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:52 AM
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11. Bowling for dollars.
It had Chick Hearn doing the commentary & interviews of normal working class contestants. He was always very nice to them, it was very old school. It was on channel 5 in LA in the early 70's.
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nealmhughes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 12:57 AM
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15. Come on! Match Game by far!
Bret Sommers! Charles Nelson Reilley!
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ThsMchneKilsFascists Donating Member (257 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 01:06 AM
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16. Let's Make A Deal
Hosted by Winnipeg Canada native Monty Hall



As a kid I loved that show and the crazy costumes and booby prizes.

Monty's patter with the contestants was priceless.

Then there's the infamous Monty Hall probability problem
http://www.comedia.com/hot/monty.html
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 03:44 AM
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30. Whenever he offered someone a thousand bucks in cash,
I always screamed, "Take the money!"

A thousand bucks could have bought 10,000 candy bars in those days :bounce:
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 01:11 AM
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17. Queen for a Day
Get three tremulous, beat-down housewives to tell their tales of woe and heartbreak. Stuff the biggest sad sack into an ermine cape, tiara, and sceptre, and watch her weep with gratitude as an endless cornucopia of dollar store gimcrackery and maybe a toaster oven is paraded before her.

It wasn't the best, but it was the weirdest game show of its time.
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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 01:15 AM
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19. Damn! I hated that show.
Edited on Fri Jun-16-06 01:18 AM by longship
The poor woman would be queen for a day. Then, she'd go back to her wife-beating husband. :evilgrin:

Jack Bailey crowns another poor soul.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 01:20 AM
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20. Yeah, there wasn't much to like
That show was an end to end bummer. Who could've guessed that its tawdry strangeness was just ahead of its time (hello Maury!)?
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 01:35 AM
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23. The weirdest thing about it was probably the
applause-o-meter which determined the "winner," - the contestant who elicited the most audience response by virtue of being pathetic and downtrodden. Truly cringe-worthy.
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spuddonna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 01:26 AM
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21. Match Game, hands down...
Gene:"George Bush is such an nitwit that when Laura said, "I'm in the garden and I need a hose...", he brought her a BLANK..."

bwomp bwomp ba ba ba ba ba ba! bwomp bwomp ba ba ba ba ba ba bwomp bwomp...
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 01:39 AM
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25. How about Truth or Consequences
Edited on Fri Jun-16-06 01:40 AM by LibDemAlways
with Bob Barker? My favorite bit was when he'd arrange for a soldier to be reunited on stage with his unsuspecting wife. I recall a couple of instances where the wife didn't look particularly happy to see the poor guy.
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Chipper Chat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 02:42 AM
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26. What's My Line.
Not so much for the actual "game," but for the show's personalities: Dorothy Kilgallon, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, and the moderator John Daly - all extemely intelligent people. And who can forget the "Stopette" deoderant logo on the players' table.
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PBR me Donating Member (70 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 03:04 AM
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27. tic tac dough
nt
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 03:12 AM
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28. Y'all are on crack
Edited on Fri Jun-16-06 03:12 AM by VolcanoJen
Everyone knows the best old-school game show of all time is The Price Is Right.

Don't discriminate against shows that are still on the air! Long Live TIPIR!
:-)
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:10 AM
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31. Eye-Guess
Contestants would match up 8 pairs of prizes (everything from "a bent cent" to "a new car") to eventually reveal a rebus that they would then have to solve to win the prizes they had flipped over on the board. One day, a local guy from Pittsburg, Kansas (I was watching the show on Pittsburg station KOAM-TV) flipped over all 8 pairs of prizes, and solved the puzzle, on his first try.
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:20 AM
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32. The Who, What or Where Game was great, too
as was the original Jeopardy! hosted by Art Fleming.

Then there was "Tattletales" (with Burt Convey) where there was always plenty of risque talk to "tit"-ilate a young mind :evilgrin:
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 05:24 AM
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33. Jeopardy! hosted by Art Fleming.
Hands-down winner.
The money wasn't huge, but everyone stayed seated, as did contestants on most game shows back then.

Concentration comes in second. :)
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 08:26 AM
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34. When I was sick and had to spend the day with my grandparents
they would watch Jeopardy!, the Hollywood Squares, and Sale of the Century. They loved Charlie Weaver, who was the bottom left on Hollywood Squares until he left the show. Paul Lynde (Uncle Arthur from Bewitched) , who was usually the center square, was always good for a laugh.
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Arger68 Donating Member (562 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 08:44 AM
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35. The Gong Show
NOBODY can top Chuck Barris!!!
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