OK, game shows again. Name any to take the round, name more than one for bragging rights.
A) WIth one game show, the key was to find connections between one word and another, and get from one word to a completely unrelated word- by going through all the unrelated words in-between.
B) One of the features of this game show was, if you accidentally answered a trivia question in the form of a question, they passed you a dunce-cap to wear for the rest of the round.
C) I've now put three shows up for guessing. At least 2 game shows took place in supermarkets. Concerning this one, it's primarily a cooking competition. (What are you waiting for? The clock started!)
D) This show has been described as being like having "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" take place in the back of a taxi.
OK, game shows again. Name any to take the round, name more than one for bragging rights.
A) WIth one game show, the key was to find connections between one word and another, and get from one word to a completely unrelated word- by going through all the unrelated words in-between, with each word connected both to the word preceding it and the word following it.
B) One of the features of this game show was, if you accidentally answered a trivia question in the form of a question, they passed you a dunce-cap to wear for the rest of the round. In the final round, one of the hosts usually offered the contestant the hope that he'd beat his opponent thoroughly in the final "best of 10". That's because his opponent was not another contestant!
C) I've now put three shows up for guessing. At least 2 game shows took place in supermarkets. Concerning this one, it's primarily a cooking competition. (What are you waiting for? The clock started!) This one starts with 4 cooks, either amateur or professional, who have a timed cooking challenge. Generally, there's a theme they have to adhere to for the round, as well as limitations on what can be used. In each case, the contestant begins by moving through the supermarket to get their ingredients before they can start cooking. All of that's on the same timer, and ingredients are subject to availability, so a popular ingredient that round could actually run out. Challenges could include a limited number of ingredients, a limited number of aisles to get ingredients, or a limited budget for the prices (that round included a cashier and a handout of sales.)
D) This show has been described as being like having "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" take place in the back of a taxi. It was usually hosted by comedian Ben Bailey. Once you requested a destination in the taxi, he revealed you were on a game show. He would ask questions all the way to your destination. If you answered them all, you won the money. If you got stuck, you could use two shout-outs, pulling over and asking a single pedestrian, or phoning a single person. If you missed three questions, he pulled over wherever he was and let you out without the money (but not having paid for the partial ride in a yellow taxi.) Finally, if you made it to your destination without striking out, he offered you the chance to go double-or-nothing on a single question with a video clip. If you got it right, you doubled your winnings, if you got it wrong, you only won the free ride. (It was optional and not everyone took it.)
OK, game shows again. Name any to take the round, name more than one for bragging rights.
A) WIth one game show, the key was to find connections between one word and another, and get from one word to a completely unrelated word- by going through all the unrelated words in-between, with each word connected both to the word preceding it and the word following it.
B) One of the features of this game show was, if you accidentally answered a trivia question in the form of a question, they passed you a dunce-cap to wear for the rest of the round. In the final round, one of the hosts usually offered the contestant the hope that he'd beat his opponent thoroughly in the final "best of 10". That's because his opponent was not another contestant, it was the other host!
C) I've now put three shows up for guessing. At least 2 game shows took place in supermarkets. Concerning this one, it's primarily a cooking competition. (What are you waiting for? The clock started!) This one starts with 4 cooks, either amateur or professional, who have a timed cooking challenge. Generally, there's a theme they have to adhere to for the round, as well as limitations on what can be used. In each case, the contestant begins by moving through the supermarket to get their ingredients before they can start cooking. All of that's on the same timer, and ingredients are subject to availability, so a popular ingredient that round could actually run out. Challenges could include a limited number of ingredients, a limited number of aisles to get ingredients, or a limited budget for the prices (that round included a cashier and a handout of sales.) This show was hosted by the same host as "Triple-D" , that is, "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives." Despite the title, it took place in a full-sized supermarket, not something smaller.
D) This show has been described as being like having "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" take place in the back of a taxi. It was usually hosted by comedian Ben Bailey. Once you requested a destination in the taxi, he revealed you were on a game show. He would ask questions all the way to your destination. If you answered them all, you won the money. If you got stuck, you could use two shout-outs, pulling over and asking a single pedestrian, or phoning a single person. If you missed three questions, he pulled over wherever he was and let you out without the money (but not having paid for the partial ride in a yellow taxi.) Finally, if you made it to your destination without striking out, he offered you the chance to go double-or-nothing on a single question with a video clip. If you got it right, you doubled your winnings, if you got it wrong, you only won the free ride. (It was optional and not everyone took it.) If you had a long ride, you could potentially make a lot of money on one taxi ride... which probably inspired the show's name. (This show has had more than 1 version, including one that took place in another city.)
Is (B) "Ben Stein's Money"? I don't remember the dunce cap, but I do know that Ben competed against the last-standing contestant in the final round.
George
"WIN Ben Stein's Money." Whenever someone answered in the form of a question, Ben would look shocked, and shout "No! This isn't 'Jeopardy'!"
There's a dunce cap in the props, sitting on a bust that's also wearing sunglasses. That's the dunce cap that's taken and put on the answerer. When Jimmy Kimmel co-hosted, he occasionally warned that contestant that, if they did it again, they'd put the pointed hat somewhere else.
OK, game shows again. Name any to take the round, name more than one for bragging rights.
A) WIth one game show, the key was to find connections between one word and another, and get from one word to a completely unrelated word- by going through all the unrelated words in-between, with each word connected both to the word preceding it and the word following it.
"Chain Reaction."
B) One of the features of this game show was, if you accidentally answered a trivia question in the form of a question, they passed you a dunce-cap to wear for the rest of the round. In the final round, one of the hosts usually offered the contestant the hope that he'd beat his opponent thoroughly in the final "best of 10". That's because his opponent was not another contestant, it was the other host!
"WIn Ben Stein's Money."
C) I've now put three shows up for guessing. At least 2 game shows took place in supermarkets. Concerning this one, it's primarily a cooking competition. (What are you waiting for? The clock started!) This one starts with 4 cooks, either amateur or professional, who have a timed cooking challenge. Generally, there's a theme they have to adhere to for the round, as well as limitations on what can be used. In each case, the contestant begins by moving through the supermarket to get their ingredients before they can start cooking. All of that's on the same timer, and ingredients are subject to availability, so a popular ingredient that round could actually run out. Challenges could include a limited number of ingredients, a limited number of aisles to get ingredients, or a limited budget for the prices (that round included a cashier and a handout of sales.) This show was hosted by the same host as "Triple-D" , that is, "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives." Despite the title, it took place in a full-sized supermarket, not something smaller.
"Guy's Grocery Games." The hidden 3-2-1 was actually a clue.
D) This show has been described as being like having "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" take place in the back of a taxi. It was usually hosted by comedian Ben Bailey. Once you requested a destination in the taxi, he revealed you were on a game show. He would ask questions all the way to your destination. If you answered them all, you won the money. If you got stuck, you could use two shout-outs, pulling over and asking a single pedestrian, or phoning a single person. If you missed three questions, he pulled over wherever he was and let you out without the money (but not having paid for the partial ride in a yellow taxi.) Finally, if you made it to your destination without striking out, he offered you the chance to go double-or-nothing on a single question with a video clip. If you got it right, you doubled your winnings, if you got it wrong, you only won the free ride. (It was optional and not everyone took it.) If you had a long ride, you could potentially make a lot of money on one taxi ride... which probably inspired the show's name. (This show has had more than 1 version, including one that took place in another city.)
This version of a popular TV show was a revival of a show from the previous decade, and it (the revival) is the version I remember. A decade after this version ended, the star (and Producer) wanted to do another revival, but his co-star was now committed to two other shows. Other ideas were tested, but no (2nd) revival occurred, as the star died of a heart attack.
In numerous episodes, there are references to a police officer named Lt. Klingin. (Usually dealing with polygraph "lie detector" test) This was a real life police officer who would sometimes work as an advisor to the show. FUN FACT: Gene Roddenberry, who created "Star Trek" and worked in the LAPD's public relations department, named the Trek villains "Klingons" after Klingin.
According to various actors and behind the scenes personnel who worked on the series, there is a telltale sign at the beginning of every episode whether the story of a particular episode is long or short (I.E.: The story fills a full 30min format or falls short, running about 20mins or less). If the episode content itself was too short, the opening monologue was significantly expanded. If the episode was long, the opening monologue was a short, basic one.
Dragnet was a 50's show, brought back in the 60's. The proposed revival was in 1982, until Jack Webb had a heart attack. (Harry Morgan was in MASH and After MASH at the time.) The "This is the city..." monologue changed to fill available time in the episodes.
In this show, someone once claimed to be in the CIA. Actually, he was in the CID, but if he said that, people got confused and thought he was with the CIC, so he claimed to be in the CIA, and they accepted that. We also got a passing reference to Sam and Ralph, the sheepdog and coyote in Warner Brothers despite that being unrelated to this show.
That's it. Colonel Flagg, who later claimed to have nothing to do with Intelligence. The Sam and Ralph references were when he and ANOTHER government spook wasted an episode trailing each other around the camp, looking for SOMETHING worth investigating. At the end, they walked off together. "Buy you a cup of coffee, Sam?" "Sure thing, Ralph."
The running gag of having the pre-credit sequence ending with a character referring to the star as [title of the show] was originally only supposed to be used in the pilot as it was believed that they would never be able to keep finding ways to work it into the conversation. It ended up being used in almost all the episodes.
In the first season opening credits, the star walks through Times Square and sees several Broadway marquees. "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" closed on 1 October 1966, while "Cabaret" opened on 20 December 1966 and Neil Simon's "The Star-Spangled Girl" opened on 21 December 1966. The three shows never ran at the same time.
Anyone here heard from George in the last few days? He hasn't posted since Tuesday. Last post we were discussing the weather, hurricanes to be exact, and Beryl was heading for Texas.
Anyone here heard from George in the last few days? He hasn't posted since Tuesday. Last post we were discussing the weather, hurricanes to be exact, and Beryl was heading for Texas.
Never mind. I see George posted that he's on vacation until Monday.
Better than I was thinking- I thought he was blacked out. Then again, the vacation may have been to leave the area before it was blacked out....
I was out of power for a couple of days but got it back before I left. It was my annual trip to perform in the National Community Band, this time in Knoxville TN.
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I'm not clear what your point is then. I don't think I'm much older than anyone here. I thought the whole point of this game was to stir memories ,and realize-'oh yeah-I do remember that show !' I'm
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OK, game shows again. Name any to take the round, name more than one for bragging rights.
A) WIth one game show, the key was to find connections between one word and another, and get from one word to a completely unrelated word- by going through all the unrelated words in-between.
B) One of the features of this game show was, if you accidentally answered a trivia question in the form of a question, they passed you a dunce-cap to wear for the rest of the round.
C) I've now put three shows up for guessing. At least 2 game shows took place in supermarkets. Concerning this one, it's primarily a cooking competition. (What are you waiting for? The clock started!)
D) This show has been described as being like having "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" take place in the back of a taxi.
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Is (B) "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader"?
I know I've seen (C), but that was 15 years ago,
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It is not.
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OK, game shows again. Name any to take the round, name more than one for bragging rights.
A) WIth one game show, the key was to find connections between one word and another, and get from one word to a completely unrelated word- by going through all the unrelated words in-between, with each word connected both to the word preceding it and the word following it.
B) One of the features of this game show was, if you accidentally answered a trivia question in the form of a question, they passed you a dunce-cap to wear for the rest of the round. In the final round, one of the hosts usually offered the contestant the hope that he'd beat his opponent thoroughly in the final "best of 10". That's because his opponent was not another contestant!
C) I've now put three shows up for guessing. At least 2 game shows took place in supermarkets. Concerning this one, it's primarily a cooking competition. (What are you waiting for? The clock started!) This one starts with 4 cooks, either amateur or professional, who have a timed cooking challenge. Generally, there's a theme they have to adhere to for the round, as well as limitations on what can be used. In each case, the contestant begins by moving through the supermarket to get their ingredients before they can start cooking. All of that's on the same timer, and ingredients are subject to availability, so a popular ingredient that round could actually run out. Challenges could include a limited number of ingredients, a limited number of aisles to get ingredients, or a limited budget for the prices (that round included a cashier and a handout of sales.)
D) This show has been described as being like having "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" take place in the back of a taxi. It was usually hosted by comedian Ben Bailey. Once you requested a destination in the taxi, he revealed you were on a game show. He would ask questions all the way to your destination. If you answered them all, you won the money. If you got stuck, you could use two shout-outs, pulling over and asking a single pedestrian, or phoning a single person. If you missed three questions, he pulled over wherever he was and let you out without the money (but not having paid for the partial ride in a yellow taxi.) Finally, if you made it to your destination without striking out, he offered you the chance to go double-or-nothing on a single question with a video clip. If you got it right, you doubled your winnings, if you got it wrong, you only won the free ride. (It was optional and not everyone took it.)
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Again, I've seen (C) a decade ago, but I can't remember the name. The other three escape me completely.
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OK, game shows again. Name any to take the round, name more than one for bragging rights.
A) WIth one game show, the key was to find connections between one word and another, and get from one word to a completely unrelated word- by going through all the unrelated words in-between, with each word connected both to the word preceding it and the word following it.
B) One of the features of this game show was, if you accidentally answered a trivia question in the form of a question, they passed you a dunce-cap to wear for the rest of the round. In the final round, one of the hosts usually offered the contestant the hope that he'd beat his opponent thoroughly in the final "best of 10". That's because his opponent was not another contestant, it was the other host!
C) I've now put three shows up for guessing. At least 2 game shows took place in supermarkets. Concerning this one, it's primarily a cooking competition. (What are you waiting for? The clock started!) This one starts with 4 cooks, either amateur or professional, who have a timed cooking challenge. Generally, there's a theme they have to adhere to for the round, as well as limitations on what can be used. In each case, the contestant begins by moving through the supermarket to get their ingredients before they can start cooking. All of that's on the same timer, and ingredients are subject to availability, so a popular ingredient that round could actually run out. Challenges could include a limited number of ingredients, a limited number of aisles to get ingredients, or a limited budget for the prices (that round included a cashier and a handout of sales.) This show was hosted by the same host as "Triple-D" , that is, "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives." Despite the title, it took place in a full-sized supermarket, not something smaller.
D) This show has been described as being like having "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" take place in the back of a taxi. It was usually hosted by comedian Ben Bailey. Once you requested a destination in the taxi, he revealed you were on a game show. He would ask questions all the way to your destination. If you answered them all, you won the money. If you got stuck, you could use two shout-outs, pulling over and asking a single pedestrian, or phoning a single person. If you missed three questions, he pulled over wherever he was and let you out without the money (but not having paid for the partial ride in a yellow taxi.) Finally, if you made it to your destination without striking out, he offered you the chance to go double-or-nothing on a single question with a video clip. If you got it right, you doubled your winnings, if you got it wrong, you only won the free ride. (It was optional and not everyone took it.) If you had a long ride, you could potentially make a lot of money on one taxi ride... which probably inspired the show's name. (This show has had more than 1 version, including one that took place in another city.)
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Is (B) "Ben Stein's Money"? I don't remember the dunce cap, but I do know that Ben competed against the last-standing contestant in the final round.
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"WIN Ben Stein's Money." Whenever someone answered in the form of a question, Ben would look shocked, and shout "No! This isn't 'Jeopardy'!"
There's a dunce cap in the props, sitting on a bust that's also wearing sunglasses. That's the dunce cap that's taken and put on the answerer. When Jimmy Kimmel co-hosted, he occasionally warned that contestant that, if they did it again, they'd put the pointed hat somewhere else.
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Back soon.
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This version of a popular TV show was a revival of a show from the previous decade, and it (the revival) is the version I remember. A decade after this version ended, the star (and Producer) wanted to do another revival, but his co-star was now committed to two other shows. Other ideas were tested, but no (2nd) revival occurred, as the star died of a heart attack.
In numerous episodes, there are references to a police officer named Lt. Klingin. (Usually dealing with polygraph "lie detector" test) This was a real life police officer who would sometimes work as an advisor to the show. FUN FACT: Gene Roddenberry, who created "Star Trek" and worked in the LAPD's public relations department, named the Trek villains "Klingons" after Klingin.
According to various actors and behind the scenes personnel who worked on the series, there is a telltale sign at the beginning of every episode whether the story of a particular episode is long or short (I.E.: The story fills a full 30min format or falls short, running about 20mins or less). If the episode content itself was too short, the opening monologue was significantly expanded. If the episode was long, the opening monologue was a short, basic one.
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"Dragnet???"
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Yes.
Dragnet was a 50's show, brought back in the 60's. The proposed revival was in 1982, until Jack Webb had a heart attack. (Harry Morgan was in MASH and After MASH at the time.) The "This is the city..." monologue changed to fill available time in the episodes.
You're up.
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Well, then, maybe.. it was right? Ok, my turn, let's see...
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In this show, someone once claimed to be in the CIA. Actually, he was in the CID, but if he said that, people got confused and thought he was with the CIC, so he claimed to be in the CIA, and they accepted that. We also got a passing reference to Sam and Ralph, the sheepdog and coyote in Warner Brothers despite that being unrelated to this show.
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M*A*S*H? (I just like using asterisks.)
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That's it. Colonel Flagg, who later claimed to have nothing to do with Intelligence. The Sam and Ralph references were when he and ANOTHER government spook wasted an episode trailing each other around the camp, looking for SOMETHING worth investigating. At the end, they walked off together. "Buy you a cup of coffee, Sam?" "Sure thing, Ralph."
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The running gag of having the pre-credit sequence ending with a character referring to the star as [title of the show] was originally only supposed to be used in the pilot as it was believed that they would never be able to keep finding ways to work it into the conversation. It ended up being used in almost all the episodes.
In the first season opening credits, the star walks through Times Square and sees several Broadway marquees. "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" closed on 1 October 1966, while "Cabaret" opened on 20 December 1966 and Neil Simon's "The Star-Spangled Girl" opened on 21 December 1966. The three shows never ran at the same time.
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Any chance this was " That GIrl????"
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Anyone here heard from George in the last few days? He hasn't posted since Tuesday. Last post we were discussing the weather, hurricanes to be exact, and Beryl was heading for Texas.
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Never mind. I see George posted that he's on vacation until Monday.
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Better than I was thinking- I thought he was blacked out. Then again, the vacation may have been to leave the area before it was blacked out....
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Yes
I was out of power for a couple of days but got it back before I left. It was my annual trip to perform in the National Community Band, this time in Knoxville TN.
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Originally, this show began as a drama, with 20-somethings worrying about
SATs and so on, but it got more popular once it got a shot of melodrama
(and some new actors). After that, it became traditional for someone to get
thrown into the pool each season.
Thomas Calabro fans might appreciate the episode of Beverly Hills 90210
that introduced this series, which kept him working for several years.
They might not appreciate the failed attempt at restarting the series later.
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