# Old TV Game Shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056 "2017-06-15T20:17:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/41 "2017-06-23T14:52:59Z")
> [@Turble](#): > > This being the SD, here ya go: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q1TrR2nh\_E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q1TrR2nh_E) > > I had mis-remembered a couple of points but story is still pretty cool. Thanks! I loved seeing the real Col Sanders, not those abomination replicants they have now. 😉 (but “good clear sound”, my ass! ) I see Concentration was mentioned, I used to watch that every day in the summer. I also was a fan of Joe Garagiola’s run on Sale of the Century. It appears all his episodes are lost. It was decades before I knew had had this other career of some significance before becoming a game show host. (Same with Pat Summerall.) ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/42 "2017-06-23T15:00:49Z")
My favorite episode of any game show ever was an episode of I’ve got a Secret. Chico Marx was pretending to be Harpo. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/43 "2017-06-23T15:39:05Z")
Yeah GSN was great back in the day. I would leave their reruns running as background noise for hours on end. I remember on the night of 9/11 watching some Match Game reruns was one of the things that helped comfort me, as dumb as that sounds. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/44 "2017-06-23T16:01:47Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > See if your provider carries Buzzr. They don’t. They’re only in a couple markets in my state but not mine. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/45 "2017-06-23T16:14:42Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > As a kid, I loved watching the 1970s-era Match Game. A lot of the naughty humor went over the head of a 9-year-old, but they were funny, and clearly having a great time. > [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Today they’re running $100,000 Pyramid with Michael Strahan as host. He’s pretty funny and the show is pretty much the same. As a kid, I think I liked these shows because the people on them seemed to be having so much fun. > [@pkbites](#): > > There was a game show I liked in the late 70’s called [Whew!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAd7WR4kql0). It was only on for [2 seasons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whew!) but I really enjoyed it during the time it was on. I don’t remember much about this show, but I remember the name. My grandfather and I bonded over crossword puzzles and game shows together when I was a kid, and “Whew!” was one of them. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/46 "2017-06-23T16:15:05Z")
> [@MsJinx](#): > > I was going to mention this one! I don’t know why I liked it so much, but I did. In college I met someone whose mother was a contestant. > > Also remember liking a game show possibly called Seven Keys. From what I recall there were contestants paddling in rubber rafts to small islands to dig for treasure or to fit a key in a treasure chest or something. Bzzzt. Wrong. Cite: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven\_Keys\_(game\_show)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Keys_(game_show)) ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/47 "2017-06-23T18:17:41Z")
Wasn’t there: 1. A show where the bonus round consisted of the host giving the contestant a car key and turning him or her loose on a showroom set with four or five cars on it? If the contestant correctly chose the car that matched the key, the motor started, and the contestant got to keep it. If it was the wrong car, the motor didn’t start. 2. A show that somehow centered around a pile of 100 boxes? Only a few (or maybe just one) had prizes or money inside. I don’t recall the gameplay, or what a contestant had to do to open them. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/48 "2017-06-23T18:24:07Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Wasn’t there: > > 1. A show where the bonus round consisted of the host giving the contestant a car key and turning him or her loose on a showroom set with four or five cars on it? If the contestant correctly chose the car that matched the key, the motor started, and the contestant got to keep it. If it was the wrong car, the motor didn’t start. They did that in HOLLYWOOD SQUARES. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/49 "2017-06-23T18:51:30Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Wasn’t there: > > 1. A show where the bonus round consisted of the host giving the contestant a car key and turning him or her loose on a showroom set with four or five cars on it? If the contestant correctly chose the car that matched the key, the motor started, and the contestant got to keep it. If it was the wrong car, the motor didn’t start. > > 2. A show that somehow centered around a pile of 100 boxes? Only a few (or maybe just one) had prizes or money inside. I don’t recall the gameplay, or what a contestant had to do to open them. 1. I remember that but not what show. 2. The New Treasure Hunt. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/50 "2017-06-23T18:56:28Z")
“Deal or No Deal” operated in much the same way as “Treasure Hunt”/“The New Treasure Hunt”. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/51 "2017-06-23T18:56:38Z")
Well, even though it never made it past the pilot, I thought **Celebrity Penis Puppet Show** had real possibilities. Charles Nelson Reilly’s “Little Jack Kennedy” was a scream. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/52 "2017-06-23T19:17:36Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > They did that in HOLLYWOOD SQUARES. Thank you! On further reflection, though, I believe I was thinking of an earlier show [called](http://www.game-show-utopia.net/split/pilot/ssp%20open%202.png) Split Second. > [@hajario](#): > > 1. The New Treasure Hunt. The New Treasure Hunt is [indeed](http://cbsnews3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2014/03/06/1dbfcbaf-8966-423c-bde0-a3f179485336/thumbnail/620x350/baaef440f826d9274605d724469737ec/ap720020357298.jpg) what I was thinking of! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/53 "2017-06-23T19:28:22Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > See if your provider carries Buzzr. They’re an OTA network with only 53 affiliates. If it’s not already broadcast in your market, it’s unlikely it would be carried on cable in your area. It’s only on one station in Arizona, in Phoenix. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/54 "2017-06-23T20:47:10Z")
I used to like Wheel of Fortune when the prizes were actual products and the winners had to budget their winnings so as to pick things out of the prizes that they could pay for from what they had won. Trivia: Jack Narz and Tom Kennedy were brothers. And Bill Cullen’s wife was Jack Narz’s first wife’s sister. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/55 "2017-06-23T20:57:23Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I used to like Wheel of Fortune when the prizes were actual products and the winners had to budget their winnings so as to pick things out of the prizes that they could pay for from what they had won. Really went to crap when they started having puzzles beyond Person/People, Place, or Thing. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/56 "2017-06-23T21:00:47Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > They’re an OTA network with only 53 affiliates. If it’s not already broadcast in your market, it’s unlikely it would be carried on cable in your area. It’s only on one station in Arizona, in Phoenix. And we’re lucky to have it! I love how, during I’ve Got A Secret/ TTTT/WML they play some of the original commercials. I hate how that means each game episode is 40 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/57 "2017-06-23T21:44:27Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Thank you! On further reflection, though, I believe I was thinking of an earlier show [called](http://www.game-show-utopia.net/split/pilot/ssp%20open%202.png) Split Second. Split Second! Yes! There were 5 cars on stage, and the show’s winner would get a key that would start one of them. Pretty sure if they won the car they were done. If not, they’d come back the next day. If they won two games, there would be only 4 cars, and so on. Any player who won five straight games just got their pick of the 5 cars. My brothers and I used to love The Joker’s Wild, mostly because, even as little kids, we would make fun of how ridiculously easy the questions were. Especially the “Maps of States” category, where they would show an outline of a U.S. state, and if that weren’t easy enough, there would be a clue such as, “This state is known as the ‘Land of Lincoln!’” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/58 "2017-06-23T21:52:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I used to like Wheel of Fortune when the prizes were actual products and the winners had to budget their winnings so as to pick things out of the prizes that they could pay for from what they had won. Sajak himself reminisced in an interview about “the old days of the ceramic dalmations.” > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trivia: Jack Narz and Tom Kennedy were brothers. And Bill Cullen’s wife was Jack Narz’s first wife’s sister. I love this kind of trivia! ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/59 "2017-06-23T22:04:40Z")
FWIW, for fans of the '70s-era Match Game, if you havent seen the new Alec Baldwin version, check it out. I think they’ve done a good job of re-creating the atmosphere and tone of the old days. And yes, the celebrities are drinking. It’s great silly fun. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056/60 "2017-06-24T00:05:20Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And we’re lucky to have it! > > I love how, during I’ve Got A Secret/ TTTT/WML they play some of the original commercials. I hate how that means each game episode is 40 minutes. I’d love for a station in Tucson to pick it up, but all of the stations here are already running three or four subchannels. Theoretically, the number of subchannels can be unlimited, but most stations are loath to run more than that because slicing up a 6MHz signal too finely can degrade a high definition signal running on the main channel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-game-shows/789056.md?page=4)