While searching You-Tube on unrelated matters I saw a link to a clip of Party Game.
Do our Canadian friends or those who lived close to the border remember this “game show,” Party Game? I grew up near Erie, PA just over the lake from Canada and in the late 70s with our big rotor antenna we could pull in Ontario stations 10, 11, and 6, especially at night. I remember coming across Party Game and thought it was the most ridiculous show I had ever seen, but it really grew on me. I think it was on late night Fridays and I have fond memories of watching and playing the game on a fuzzy picture across the lake when I was a kid.
So did Reach For the Top.
And Definition had the occasional memorable pun. I still recall a definition for “birthday candles” that worked out to “Lit Til Boy Blew”.
I’m a Reach For the Top alumnus! Three years running, we’d blow away our opponent in the first round, and then lose narrowly in the second round to the team that would go on to win the station’s title. Damn, I wanted to go to the provincial final.
The actual TV show, or just the competition before the TV stage?
I’m also a Reach vet…and we had the same thing happen most years I was on the team. My first year, we won (but Juniors don’t make it to TV…boo)…every other year, we came in second.
I also don’t recall a pre-TV stage when I played the game back in the 70s. Except for the “tryouts” our school ran–those were held after school, in a classroom. But when you made it onto the team, every game was televised.
Aside to D18: Who was your quizmaster? Did you play early enough in the 70s to get Alex Trebek, or did you get Jan Tennant, like we did?
On TV. The big time. To the extent that the rural station we competed at could be described as “the big time”.