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Joe, I love them too. I remember the old "Price is Right" with Bill Cullen and there was one, I think called "Treasure Hunt", where they would dig up the prize ticket in the sand. There are so many I cannot remember all the names. Another one I liked was the contestant answered gestions and collected money then would go shopping and buy the prizes they wanted. I always loved the shows that had major appliances as prizes, the cars really did not interest me.
 
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"Let's Make a Deal" with Monty Hall...

"Beat the Clock" with Bud Collier...

"You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx...

"Password" with Allen Ludden...

"Match Game" with Gene Rayburn...

"Hollywood Squares" with Multiple Host's...

Peace and Happy Game Show Memories, Steve "STB"
 
Ok does anyone remember

On the old OLD (mid 1960s) Concentration game show, the amazing electric motor/solonoid sound of the three sided "squares" that made up the puzzle? I can still remember that noise--it was all mechanical! I wonder if the guy in back ever pushed the wrong button!!!
 
Well there's also...

Dollar A Second with Jan Murray.

Contestants had to endure slapstick stuff like pies-in-the-face and seltzer bottles while doing some assigned task. They won a "dollar a second" for as long as they held out. Sponsored by Mogen David wine.

There was some show (might even have been Dollar A Second) that had as part of it something called "the Outside Event". Someone would get dispatched at the start of the show on a sort of scavenger hunt (I think) and when the goal was reached, the house lights would go down, sirens would blow, and spotlights move back and forth across the stage. I can't remember any more about this, can anyone fill in details?
 
The prizes all seemed to come from the same places:

Silver from the Michael C. Fina Co.

Furs from Decker and Decker of Beverly Hills.

Ranges were usually Tappan, fridges were Gibson. Stereos were Capehart. King Koil mattresses. Bassett furniture.

When I got cable, I had hoped the game show channel would show *vintage* shows, but it seems like it's just so much crapola.

Does anyone remember how the original Match Game worked? The B/W version, not the smarmy, suggestive version from the '70s.

veg
 
Ok see If you know this

What gameshow did Alex Trebek host before becoming host of Jeopardy? It only lasted a year on NBC.

Joe
jamman_98
 
One of the solenoid thingys caught fire once on the old Concentration show.

I think Trebek hosted High Rollers.

1974 was a great year for games shows. I was really into "The Money Maze". I have an old audio cassette tape of the famous episode where the woman yells "Carl get the he** out of the maze!"

I wish they had reruns of the early '70's Password, but the tapes are supposedly all destroyed.

I have the first Game Show Theme Song CD, will be buying the second one soon.

There are a lot of great game show websites out there.

Good times.

Here's some info on the original "The Match Game":

The Match Game (1962-1969)
This is the original series upon which the show described above was based. For most of its life it was aired live from New York on NBC during the early afternoons, and was a solid if unspectacular hit for the network at the time.

The gameplay of this Match Game bore little resemblance to its more famous descendant. Here, two teams of three, each comprised of two contestants and one celebrity captain, played against each other. The teams scored points based on how many of them matched answers on a question - if only two matched, the team earned 25 points, but if all three came up with the same answer, it was worth 50 points. The first team to reach 100 points won the game and $100.

Questions on this show were far less risqué than on its 1970s incarnation; most were simple open-ended questions, such as "Name a kind of flower" or "What is the first thing you do when you wake up?" Ironically, many of these type questions would have been prime fodder for Family Feud, which in a very real sense was a Match Game spinoff. Also, these types of questions were common during the early weeks of Match Game's 1973 CBS revival. The winning team then played the Audience Match, where each teammate wrote down an answer they felt was given most frequently by a polled studio audience. Each match was worth $50 in bonus money.
 
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The Wizard of Odds is the correct answer. Alex did High Rollers prior to that. Does anyone know his female sidekick?

Speaking of Match Game.
What tv show or movie did Bret Sommers do?

Joe
jamman_98
 
Bret Sommers was Oscar Madison's ex wife on "The Odd Couple"

My favorite vintage shows are Lets make a Deal,Match Game (with Gene Rayburn)and the old What's my Line,with Dorothy Killgallen,Bennett Cerf,Arlene Francis,and especially when Fred Allen or Johnny Carson was the fourth panelist.John Dailey as host.That used to be on GSN early mornings,but I haven't seen it in a while.
kennyGF
 
When I was in college I got the Game Show Network, and many bored afternoons were spent with Match Game '74. Ah, Brett Summers!
 
Something interesting

Back in 1983 when computers were really new, I worked at a computer store in LA. The guy that owned it had owned shoe stores before, and many of his clients were celebrities and he knew alot of people in the creative industries. Alot of them came in to buy computers from us, cast members from Dynasty, etc. It was fun.

One day, I was told to go take an Apple 2E computer down to, I believe the show was $ale of the Century at NBC. It was a very interesting experience. I was 19 at the time and fascinated with the entertainment industry. I got permission to go on stage (behind a wall that they moved) and setup the Apple Computer. The deal was that my boss sold them the computer at cost, and got them to say "This Fine Computer from Computer Showcase!" I was amazed because I had never seen a game show that had a local, small and relatively unknown, prize supplier that was announced like that. There was a little card that said this next to the computer, already printed up.

I set it up and ran a little graphics program that our shop technician had written, it had like a slinky moving and changing colors. There was a DeTomaso Pantera right next to me where I was setting up. The announcer (don't know his name but you have definately heard him) was warming up over the speakers.

After I got done, some of the crew came over and checked out my setup and really liked it. Then a guy comes over to me, thinking I was crew, and asked me to help him with something else. So I did, and the next thing you know, I was just kind of working there that afternoon. The lead guy knew where I was from but didn't care, they needed help so I helped them. We set up all types of prizes on displays, moved cables around, etc. I was tempted to go find out how to get on payroll and just stay there! Then as people drifted away to do other things, I just walked all over the NBC Studios, unescorted. No one said anything, they all assumed I worked there. It was an amazing afternoon. I just kind of left when it started getting really late.

I think of union considerations, security, insurance, even back then, and have no idea how I got away with that. For that day I worked at a studio and loved it, saw all the behind the scenes activity, and no one said a word.
 
Jim, thanks for the Match Game info! I'd completely forgotten how it was played. Heck, I'd forgotten the original incarnation had celebrities!

I do remember the two teams of three. Wasn't there some kind of wall between the teams?

veg
 
And didn't Concentration give, as one of it's prizes, a Hoover Constellation vacuum? As a kid I thought it was interesting how did this vacuum float on air? And of course bugging my poor mother to explain this too me. When we got the home version game, there was the vacuum again as one of the prizes.
 
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How could "Queens" or anyone forget about "Queen for a Day" and what an honor it was for the Winners, and "OH!!!" those Prizes they got as well...

Cheers, Steve "STB"
 

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