# Which shows make you think of staying home from school as a kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792 "2011-08-07T00:52:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/82 "2016-10-12T16:39:47Z")
Skipping over the thread to post: _The Price is Right_ was one of the things I watched religiously when home from school (school holidays, sick days, summer, etc.). Other morning game shows, too – can’t remember them all, but _The 10,000 Pyramid_ and _Press Your Luck_ were simple fun. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/83 "2016-10-12T16:41:22Z")
The Price Is Right. And Space Jam - “I don’t want to go to school today. I want to stay home and bake cookies with you!” ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/84 "2016-10-12T16:51:48Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Late 70s would have been _$20,000 Pyramid_, which ran on daytime TV from 1976-1980. Wow, coulda sworn it was still _$10,000 Pyramid_ during those years. Can’t trust me memory, though 😛 ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/85 "2016-10-12T21:35:27Z")
After 6 yrs, nobody has mentioned Beastmaster? It was on TBS almost every single time I was home sick. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/86 "2016-10-12T22:15:10Z")
Game shows, but mostly ones that are long gone: _[Funny You Should Ask](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlPOl0bNTbA), [You Don’t Say](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syp-zlwGkIQ), [Concentration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uasb8yLcv4), [Tattletales](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_z9VH3zTtU), [Three on a Match](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8-sq_ULbg)…_ ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/87 "2016-10-13T00:24:22Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > I was about 12 when the first episodes of _Voltron_ appeared in America. It was my first exposure to Japanimation and it was smarter and better-written than anything I’d seen before. _… And_\* I’ll\*\* form the **head**!\* ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/88 "2016-10-13T00:28:14Z")
Let me add _ **Hollywood Squares** _ and _ **Let’s Make a Deal** _. _ **Match Game** _ didn’t get really raunchy until it was revived in the '70s. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/89 "2016-10-13T00:46:54Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > I used to like To Tell The Truth, but I can’t remember if that was a daytime or evening show. When it was on CBS with Bud Collyer, there was a daytime version and (briefly, as I recall) a nighttime version. This was in 1965–66, I think, since one of the contestants was the guy who wrote “Ballad of the Green Berets.” The syndicated version with Garry Moore came on in the late afternoon in MPS/StP, right at the same time the first cycle of _ **Star Trek** _ reruns was on another channel. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/90 "2016-10-13T02:21:13Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > Game shows, but mostly ones that are long gone: _[Funny You Should Ask](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlPOl0bNTbA), [You Don’t Say](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syp-zlwGkIQ), [Concentration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uasb8yLcv4), [Tattletales](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_z9VH3zTtU), [Three on a Match](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8-sq_ULbg)…_ [Liar’s Club](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_Club) [Treasure Hunt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Hunt_(U.S._game_show)) ---
**Author:** ![danderson400](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@danderson400](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danderson400)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/91 "2016-12-16T20:10:35Z")
when i was a little tyke, it was reruns of _St. Elsewhere_ then _Sale of the Century_ and _Wheel of Fortune_. But there was also reruns of _Little House on the Prairie_ and _Perry Mason_ too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792.md?page=4)