Memories

I think Thanksgiving is my favorite Holiday. Nah, that's Christmas. So it's Number 2. I think back to 5 Years ago tomorrow, as I will be on the coast hiking. I think back to the Viewer's Choice Marathon GSN did back in 2007. Happened around Thanksgiving. This was a few months before I joined the boards. Users voted for their favorite shows. Being that most of them were old fans, all old shows made the lineup. Smelling the turkey gives me memories of rare shows that never get time on the network. One of these shows is Bullseye.  A show that was a combination of Tic Tac Dough and The Joker's Wild that was hosted by Jim Lange. Very good I might add, good music, actually good premise. Jim was always confident, and, well.. I enjoyed it. Not because it's old, but because it's good. Plus the Celebrity format wasn't too bad.

Also, I'd like to think about Hot Potato hosted by Bill Cullen. Good show, music, host, and more. Also aired on that marathon. Kind of a Family Feud style show. I enjoyed it. Bill did good, and the contestants were good. The celebrity format killed it though. Oh well.

Well, happy Thanksgiving.

Surprising Returns

Well on Monday, some changes happen to the daytime schedule, and I have to say I'm impressed. They must've read my earlier post about a show. First off Password Plus drops off the weekday schedule. Replacing it at 9:00am is Jim Perry's Card Sharks. The episode selection begins with March 1979. I'm assuming this goes to the end of that year. Hot dawg, I'm excited.

Richard Karn's Family Feud loses a morning slot. This goes to Press Your Luck. No not the GSN revival , the original from 1983. And it's actually 1983 episodes, from the very beginning. I'm assuming this goes to mid 1984 with a 200 episode lease. That otta be exciting. Super Password remains on the schedule, and the weekends will still be Password Plus and Whammy! The All New Press Your Luck.

For the noon hour, we say bye to Whammy! and Woolery Lingo on Weekdays. The first half of the hour goes to The $100,000 Pyramid and the other half, The $25,000 Pyramid. Also the new GSN version gains an afternoon slot replacing Whammy! at 3:00pm. So much Pyramid.

Here are my thoughts. I approve. This is actually kind of a ground breaking event. Since March 2009, the only 3 G-T shows have been Family Feud, Match Game, and either Password or Card Sharks. Well, both are present on the regular schedule at the same time. Plus Press Your Luck is there with them. Also Press Your Luck and Dick Clark's Pyramid are on at the same regular schedule. Hasn't happened since February 2007. Wow. This is pretty big and exciting. Maybe more things will come. I'm looking forward to this.

Out With the Old, and In with the New, Another GSN Experiment

GSN has done a whole bunch of schedule shakeups. For example, this week Harvey Feud gains 2 hours in latenights, replacing Karn, Engvall, Jeopardy!, and Password Plus. And Baggage replaces The $25,000 Pyramid and Super Password in latenights. And now, on September 21, Baggage also will replace Match Game and the Richard Dawson Family Feud.

I am going to support this change. Time is moving on. Older shows (especially game shows) are no longer appealing to people, except a select few. I mean, on GSN, there getting awful numbers, and they are putrid compared to big stuff such as American Bible Challenge which pulls almost 1 million viewers each week, or The Pyramid. Looks like GSN has had it. Seeing how Match Game pulls around 100,000 viewers each week, and Dawson has just about 75,000 each week. Looks very wimpy compared to those stuff. Hey I enjoy both Match Game and Dawson's Feud, but no one else, except the die-hard fans do (not that there's 100,000 of them). GSN figures Baggage could do better numbers. If all else fails, there's always Harvey.

I truly enjoy older shows, as well as modern. But as time progresses, those shows only get older. Match Game is turning 40 in July. Sorry, they just don't work.

Contrary To Popular Belief

Well, everyone has their opinions. I have mine, and others do. And most of them are different. That is awesome, because it adds a lot of different views.

However there are some opinions, that everyone has, and it's heresy if you disagree. Here are 3 of them, that is "dangerous to disagree with"

• Ray Combs is the best host of Family Feud, and Karn sucks
• Meredith Vieria is a better Who Wants To Be a Millionaire host than Regis Philbin
• British Game Shows Beat American Game Shows

I'll look at the first one. Ray Combs, who hosted Family Feud from 1988-1994. I used to think Combs was awesome. But over time, as I got older (I'm 17 now), I found his jokes not to be funny (but I still find Dawson's funny, and they're really out of date), and tasteless, and his style quickly wore off on me. Yes, I am glad GSN no longer (and probably never will again) carries the show. Plus his exit on his last show, the way he acted, was just unprofessional. Dawson's return seemed so much better to me. Although, the rest of Ray's life at this point, was very tragic. Suicide is not a good thing. He probably had his brain chemicals out of whack, and I understand that happens to some people, but if he had gotten some help, things probably would've been different. As for Karn, I used to hate him, but some how I grew to appreciate him more. He wasn't that bad.

The 2nd one. Meredith Vieria has hosted Who Wants To Be a Millionaire for 10 years and counting. Regis only did 3. Personally, I couldn't really get into Meredith, no matter how much I tried. She wasn't bad, but her style wasn't my favorite (no it has nothing to do with the fact she's a woman). Regis' style suited my tastes better, and seemed to fit the show perfectly, but that's just me. But in all fairness, Meredith has done the show for 10 years, and has kept the show successful so, she does get credit for that.

The last one, The British are Better Than Us. I disagree. Shows like The Exit List, The Cube, Countdown, Cleverdicks, and the British versions of some shows. I just didn't like them that much. Sorry, and plus I think some people act like they're the best thing that's ever happened in existence (OK, it might be an over-exaggeration). Although, I will admit, I do have a soft spot for Family Fortunes, and Blockbusters (with Bob Holness, and Simon Mayo) and thought the concept of The Colour of Money was pretty awesome.

These are just my opinions. Keep your own, and hope I didn't offend too many people.

Remembering Neil Armstrong

Well, another legend has passed on. Astronaut Neil Armstrong passed away yesterday at the age of 82.

He was the first man to set foot on the moon. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. A pretty great accomplishment. He was amazing.

His parents appeared on I've Got A Secret the day he became an astronaut. Little did anyone know, something was about to happen. That was a cool moment.


R.I.P

Online Pick of the Week (8/26) - Match Game 73

For this pick for the week, I chose an early episode of Match Game 73. This episode is from the 4th week, and an episode I've been looking for since 2006.

This is from the early stages of the 70's CBS run. Not as exciting as it later got, but still enjoyable.

Match Game 73, My Online Pick of the Week

Pressing My Luck

Trying to get back into blogging. I'll do another post.

I do have wishes of shows I'd love to see on GSN again. One of them is the original Press Your Luck. Honestly, when I discovered this show years back on a GSN rerun, I was instantly hooked. This has always been one of my favorites, and the only reason I would quit watching is if there was something else important I needed to do. Peter Tomarken was a good host, and the game was just fun. Plus the whammies were pretty funny. Here's a collection. Who could ever hurt a whammy.

I would be happy if GSN brought it back, even if it is the same 1984-1985 episodes. They're still fun, I haven't seen all of them, so, come on BRING IT ON. Or not, there's a good variety of episodes on Youtube.