The Flashback Game Shows
We've done game shows before (hence the II ) so we decided to do another lookback at game shows that used to air on Daytime ,but don't anymore. Let's go shall we?
1. Supermarket Sweep
You know what is fun ? Supermarkets (let's make it a game show). That is what this game show was , for note : we are talking about the U.S series in this case. The first version began on ABC in 1965 hosted by Lloyd Gross and run for two years. The show was really done in a supermarket in this era. Food Fair (which sounds like something else) in New York they would change locations, The concept was there were questions about prices of objects at the store. (Like the Price is right but with prices being right... never mind) There was a base start time of 1:30 , the questions would lead to see who would get 15 seconds more time if they got the price or close enough to it. Then the 2nd part was where the sweep comes in (they raced on brooms .. not really that would be cool though) after gathering the time they would go on the shopping spree the winners were those who go the most items got to do it again the next game . (Yay!!!?)
This is the happiest I've been at supermarket since the great soda spillage /Youtube
In 1990, the show made a return to Lifetime of all places and it had a new early 90's feel and everything. For this version instead of wasting a supermarket's time they created a mock one at Hollywood Center Studios. This one had 3 rounds : The Questions, Sweep , and Bonus sweep (oooh) otherwise now their 3 teams of 2 and colors since it's 1990. Blue, Red and Yellow (Green was considered but it didn't like the contract) The food on the show was ummm not for consumption The questions had multiple formats instead of the old price is right style before.
I'm watching Lifetime so when is , you know Lifetime jokes are too easy/Lifetime
The series ran from 1990-1995 on Lifetime , it beat the first one by a few years. Come in the last time when a network called PAX TV picked it up in 2000 and it first used the same set before moving in 2001. They also kept the same style as Lifetime. PAX TV had three seasons , but sadly that was the last of the show too bad., oh well.
2. Debt
What? That's the name yep. and back to Lifetime (conspiracy) in 1996. It was hosted by Wink Martindale (you may know him as the host of Tic-tac-dough) So what is this game show? You have three contestants are a put in debt (yay?!) between $6000 and $10,000 . The idea was to get out of debt. (Sounds easy) They had to answer who am I questions did well your debt goes down , do bad your debt goes up. (Just like real life!) And the end the person with the most debt was eliminated (we hope figuratively) and given a $200 saving bond and a piggy bank. (Good I was on the just for the bank) . Then the show continued the highest debt in 2nd round would be eliminated, they would attempt to win more money or if they didn't make it would get $1,500 or $1,000 saving bond.
It aired on in the slot replacing by Shop 'Til you Drop on Lifetime. It ran until 1997 , it was pulled by Lifetime after being sued by Merv Griffin because of Jeopardy. (boo!)
Hey! Who wants Debt!!!! wait ...nevermind/Lifetime
3. Shop Til you Drop!
Ok we have a theme :Lifetime , shopping , oh an a PAX bonus. In this show, forget the market it's a 90's dream ...the mall! The series began in 1991 on Lifetime ( sigh) hosted by Jeff Goldstein. The concept of the show was there were two teams of two to win prizes and a trip. They had something called stunt rounds were mini games played one minute length. You had a shopper's challenge round it had where you had quick questions in pop culture or shopping. Anyway , after awhile Lifetime ended the show because it moved to Family Channel (later known as Fox Family , now known as Freeform). In 1996 when it moved it was called the New Shop 'Til you Drop. Pax picked up reruns it did so well that they made their own in 2000 and it ran for 3 seasons. (Also reunited the show with Supermarket Sweep) .
PAX made some changes : they made it more like a giant warehouse store instead and the stunts were made into questions instead of balloons in pants. (which sounds dirty)
Shop Till Drop..that just sounds painful
That's our lookback at game shows II , tune in next time when we found a game show where people had to shop inside a drug store or else face debt but was canceled right in the middle because Merv Griffin sued them. (I hope that's not real)
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The Lookback : Game Shows in Daytime that are not with us anymore
The Flashback Game Shows Daytime
This was a lost thought , that we've considered not looking back at game shows , but then after much consideration and searching, we thought why not. (Yeah Why not?) So , let's take a look at a few game shows , most of these not by magic didn't last long . (We picked these for good reason).
1. Child's Play
Child's play was a game show that ran on CBS from 1982 to 1983 ,but since it was a daily game show it racked up 258 episodes. (pretty good)
Judging by the name you might think it involves Children. (Well, you were right) yep children gave definitions of words for our contestants to figure out.
Exhibit A
They put the word on the screen , Can't play at home ...sigh
To the point , that was the game show , you had 2 rounds and a bonus round (so three rounds in math terms) , It was hosted by Bob Cullen , a famous radio and TV guy he also almost hosted the 1972 revival of "The Price is Right" (the one on TV now , as of 2015, unless it was canceled and nobody told us ).
As we said , the game show didn't last long only 1 season it couldn't compete at the 10:30/9:30c slot and CBS axed it. One thing about game shows is they sometimes get made for other countries ,that happened to this one.
The Brits , did it as well. London Weekend Television made a version of it that broadcast from 1984-1988 hosted by Michael Aspel. It also had Australian version, Russian , Greece, Spain ,Netherlands , Germany , and Indonesia.
2. Dreamhouse
Now we go to ABC and here's an idea for a game show , you know some give away dates (with figures ) , cars, trips (to Toledo) , money (to buy stuff in Toledo) but how about a Brand New House! ( yeah!!!!!, does it come fully loaded?) Dream House was that game show.
In 1968 on ABC (America's Network that is not CBS) it was a daily game show , while it also had a prime time weekly version for a while.
It was hosted by Mike Darow. It had two couples play against each other (to the death?) in recall games to see who gets the right amount of points.
The winning couple in the final game, wins a room full of swanky early 70's furniture ( I think)
Joshuaonline when we sold furniture
Now , what about this house business ? well the contestants who won got a new house , worth $40,000 (this is in 1968's money) plus $7,000 for land , or they could have $20,000 in cash. Anyway it lasted from 1968 to 1970 . It was reported that some of the houses won , were not finished (oops) ,and sometimes the former contestants found out they needed more than the $7,000 given in the contest, hence the show added the $20,000 prize option. The game was hurt by this already so it was axed and replaced by ... "All My Children" ( see here at JOL it was always ends up back to soap operas).
Then in 1983 it came back , now to NBC, (America's Network, that is also not CBS) with now host Bob Eubanks . Now the couples (yes still couples) competed for a house worth $100,000 (in 1983 money). Also contestants had to get a combination correct (they had to work hard for the house) if they got it right they would win the house, they didn't get it right they would the classic - Come back the next day and try again ,against another couple if they won that day , they could try the combination again and see if they won the house. (rinse then repeat)
I think they won !
It ended after about a year because it wasn't the best in ratings (could have been worse, ask ABC) it was replaced by Scrabble.
3. Scrabble
Ok, this is not a new idea but why not take a board game ( though not Operation) and make it in to a game show .(The last word of board game is game) This is our longest running of the soaps in this article began on NBC in 1984 and ended in 1990. It was hosted by Chuck Woolery.
Youtube... will also comeback to haunt you
4. GO
Again with NBC ( We better not have to say to NBC again this article) , GO was a game show that didn't go to long ( ha ha ha , worked hard on that didn't you?) It was created by Bob Stewart (also the creator of Chain Reaction) and ran from October 1983 to February 1984. It was hosted by Kevin O Connell (who people in Buffalo might know as a weather man ). The contestants were two teams including one of the players being a celebrity. The goal was to play the game to get to 1,500 points , which ever team go those points made it to the jackpot round where they had change to win up to $20,000 ( if they made it to double jackpot).
(Just for fun , there also was a soap stars week in November of 83)
It was canceled after a few months due to it's 12PMET /11ct slot , many NBC stations would preempt for newcasts ( it could have waited til 5 , you know NBC affiliate , seesh) so it was hard for it attract an audience if people in some markets didn't even know it existed.
5. Time Machine
And finally (thank goodness) , our last game show "Time Machine" which ran on NBC ( of course it did) , from January 1985 to April 1985 (Time machine huh?) .
It was a game show bulit with mini games that fit into it's focus on history and pop culture. After the first month they changed the format , for instance instead of the champion playing the mini games , the new challengers faced each other off to meet the champion later. They played 3 mini games and there was no prize bank anymore. Then the winner meets the champion in the champion round.
Time Machine!!!
That's our look back at short lived game shows (well except for that one) you win a brand new un finished house but you did get swanky 60's furniture and a time machine. Comeback next time at Noon (except in the 230 markets that are airing newscasts). Thanks for reading,
This was a lost thought , that we've considered not looking back at game shows , but then after much consideration and searching, we thought why not. (Yeah Why not?) So , let's take a look at a few game shows , most of these not by magic didn't last long . (We picked these for good reason).
1. Child's Play
Child's play was a game show that ran on CBS from 1982 to 1983 ,but since it was a daily game show it racked up 258 episodes. (pretty good)
Judging by the name you might think it involves Children. (Well, you were right) yep children gave definitions of words for our contestants to figure out.
Exhibit A
They put the word on the screen , Can't play at home ...sigh
To the point , that was the game show , you had 2 rounds and a bonus round (so three rounds in math terms) , It was hosted by Bob Cullen , a famous radio and TV guy he also almost hosted the 1972 revival of "The Price is Right" (the one on TV now , as of 2015, unless it was canceled and nobody told us ).
As we said , the game show didn't last long only 1 season it couldn't compete at the 10:30/9:30c slot and CBS axed it. One thing about game shows is they sometimes get made for other countries ,that happened to this one.
The Brits , did it as well. London Weekend Television made a version of it that broadcast from 1984-1988 hosted by Michael Aspel. It also had Australian version, Russian , Greece, Spain ,Netherlands , Germany , and Indonesia.
2. Dreamhouse
Now we go to ABC and here's an idea for a game show , you know some give away dates (with figures ) , cars, trips (to Toledo) , money (to buy stuff in Toledo) but how about a Brand New House! ( yeah!!!!!, does it come fully loaded?) Dream House was that game show.
In 1968 on ABC (America's Network that is not CBS) it was a daily game show , while it also had a prime time weekly version for a while.
It was hosted by Mike Darow. It had two couples play against each other (to the death?) in recall games to see who gets the right amount of points.
The winning couple in the final game, wins a room full of swanky early 70's furniture ( I think)
Joshuaonline when we sold furniture
Now , what about this house business ? well the contestants who won got a new house , worth $40,000 (this is in 1968's money) plus $7,000 for land , or they could have $20,000 in cash. Anyway it lasted from 1968 to 1970 . It was reported that some of the houses won , were not finished (oops) ,and sometimes the former contestants found out they needed more than the $7,000 given in the contest, hence the show added the $20,000 prize option. The game was hurt by this already so it was axed and replaced by ... "All My Children" ( see here at JOL it was always ends up back to soap operas).
Then in 1983 it came back , now to NBC, (America's Network, that is also not CBS) with now host Bob Eubanks . Now the couples (yes still couples) competed for a house worth $100,000 (in 1983 money). Also contestants had to get a combination correct (they had to work hard for the house) if they got it right they would win the house, they didn't get it right they would the classic - Come back the next day and try again ,against another couple if they won that day , they could try the combination again and see if they won the house. (rinse then repeat)
I think they won !
It ended after about a year because it wasn't the best in ratings (could have been worse, ask ABC) it was replaced by Scrabble.
3. Scrabble
Ok, this is not a new idea but why not take a board game ( though not Operation) and make it in to a game show .(The last word of board game is game) This is our longest running of the soaps in this article began on NBC in 1984 and ended in 1990. It was hosted by Chuck Woolery.
Youtube... will also comeback to haunt you
4. GO
Again with NBC ( We better not have to say to NBC again this article) , GO was a game show that didn't go to long ( ha ha ha , worked hard on that didn't you?) It was created by Bob Stewart (also the creator of Chain Reaction) and ran from October 1983 to February 1984. It was hosted by Kevin O Connell (who people in Buffalo might know as a weather man ). The contestants were two teams including one of the players being a celebrity. The goal was to play the game to get to 1,500 points , which ever team go those points made it to the jackpot round where they had change to win up to $20,000 ( if they made it to double jackpot).
(Just for fun , there also was a soap stars week in November of 83)
It was canceled after a few months due to it's 12PMET /11ct slot , many NBC stations would preempt for newcasts ( it could have waited til 5 , you know NBC affiliate , seesh) so it was hard for it attract an audience if people in some markets didn't even know it existed.
5. Time Machine
And finally (thank goodness) , our last game show "Time Machine" which ran on NBC ( of course it did) , from January 1985 to April 1985 (Time machine huh?) .
It was a game show bulit with mini games that fit into it's focus on history and pop culture. After the first month they changed the format , for instance instead of the champion playing the mini games , the new challengers faced each other off to meet the champion later. They played 3 mini games and there was no prize bank anymore. Then the winner meets the champion in the champion round.
Time Machine!!!
That's our look back at short lived game shows (well except for that one) you win a brand new un finished house but you did get swanky 60's furniture and a time machine. Comeback next time at Noon (except in the 230 markets that are airing newscasts). Thanks for reading,
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