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.)
My favorite episode of any game show ever was an episode of I’ve got a Secret. Chico Marx was pretending to be Harpo.
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.
They don’t. They’re only in a couple markets in my state but not mine.
As a kid, I think I liked these shows because the people on them seemed to be having so much fun.
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.
Bzzzt. Wrong. Cite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Keys_(game_show)
Wasn’t there:
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.
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.
They did that in HOLLYWOOD SQUARES.
I remember that but not what show.
The New Treasure Hunt.
“Deal or No Deal” operated in much the same way as “Treasure Hunt”/“The New Treasure Hunt”.
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.
Thank you! On further reflection, though, I believe I was thinking of an earlier show called Split Second.
The New Treasure Hunt is indeed what I was thinking of! Thanks!
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.
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.
Really went to crap when they started having puzzles beyond Person/People, Place, or Thing.
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.
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!’”
Sajak himself reminisced in an interview about “the old days of the ceramic dalmations.”
I love this kind of trivia!
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.
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.
