Whats your favorite vintage game show?

[~sudsshane]

My favs are- Match Game and Hollywood Squares.

and of course, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers and Paul Lynde.!

 

[Unimatic1140]

Let's Make a Deal was my all time favorite.

 

[rinso]

Mine was "You Don't Say" but I did love all the appliances they gave away on LMAD.

 

[selectomatic]

Although I loved Match Game,

Let's Make A Deal was the greatest.

It had it all -- Monte Hall was perfect as the fast-talking wheeler-dealer, Nothing could beat a name like Carol Merrill, the roller-coaster deal-making was always exciting, and if you didn't think the whole premise was ridiculous enough, they made the contestants dress up so as to look even more like idiots.

Perfect!

Now, I'll give $5 to anyone who has a hard-boiled egg in their purse.

-kevin

 

[magic clean]

What about the Newlywed Game? As a kid I thought it was funny. When I was old enough to better understand some of the waaaaaay out questions and contestant answers...its a scream. Trouble was, you had to wait till the very end to see the "especially" selected prize. Often a Capehart Tv-Stereo combination.

 

[joeekaitis]

"Press Your Luck"

Via con Dios, Peter y Rod.

 

[washabear]

I always liked What's My Line? GSN shows it at 3 AM Monday mornings here, and I often tape it to watch later. That Dorothy Kilgallen was a strange character, and Arlene Francis was delightful. But Bennett Cerf . . . meh.

 

[polkanut]

The early years of TPIR with Bill Cullen, and Beat the Clock with Bud Collyer

 

[cleanfresh]

"Let's Make A Deal" for sure

Hard to believe that myself and others were getting excited about people winnning stoves, refrigerators, and washing machines!!!

 

[exploder3211]

Newlywed Game and Math Game.. There are others like that spelling one?? as well. Big gamse show network junkie when i am sick

 

[laundromat]

Dream House was second,Press Your Luck,third but The old and new Price is Right is deffenitely my all time favorite!Host,Bill Cullen was on the original and Frigidaire sometimes would be their sponser.bob Barker tokk and ran after it had been referbished and new games brought on.Janice Pennington,Diane,and Hollie were my all time favorite models.

 

[seeitrun2006]

Game shows

The price is right-Always my favorite

Let's make a deal

The Joker's wild

Deal or No Deal-host Howie Mandel

 

[lokringbob]

Hollywood Squares

Because of Paul Lynn bless his heart!
He had some of the best lines on there

He was asked
Paul why do Motorcycle Gangs wear leather?
Paul's reply.... "Because chiffon wrinkles".

Or when asked
Paul how many are there on a Baseball team?
Paul's reply .... "Oh about half"

>)

 

[frigilux]

Is this my favorite vintage game show? You Bet Your Life it is!

 

[jaxsunst]

Does anyone remember "Truth or Consequences "? If I recall it was hosted by Bob Barker. I was really little when it came on, but I remember my parents enjoying it.

 

[andrewinorlando]

Definitely Match Game with Gene Rayburn and Hollywood Squares with Paul Lynde in the center square.

 

[bongobro]

Games people play(ed)

I love watching the old "Match Game" (with Brett, Charles and Richard)--you realize of course they'd raise a major stink (pun intended) about Charles Nelson Reilly smoking cigars and pipes on air if the show were in production today!

I loved the original "Password" (1961-67); the simplest version and the best as far as I was concerned, and the theme music they used after the first year was really jazzy and bouncy. (The first season theme music wasn't so bad, but it sounded like a chase theme from a 1961 Doris Day-Rock Hudson comedy!)

And, with all due respect to Bob Barker, Bill Cullen's "TPIR" had Don Pardo, Beverly Bentley (the blonde model who was pretty hot for her day!) and, yes, Frigidaire washers and dryers sponsoring the proceedings about 1960... I also remember the original version was also sponsored by Lux Liquid and Newport cigarettes...

Anyone remember a morning show in about 1961-62 called "Your Surprise Package"? That had to be one of the craziest shows ever made...George Fenneman was the host and you had to guess the contents of a large box on stage (almost like "Let's Make a Deal" minus the costumes and zonks), and the theme music was one-of-a-kind: A bongo player and a harpist (later discovered that the bongo player, Alvin Stoller, was a major jazz drummer during the '50s and '60s!)

 

[red_october]

Match game all the way. No question, this was perhaps the best game show ever produced. The winning forumla simply couldn't be reproduced -just a bunch of sometimes-drunken celebrities having a good time and making us laugh while giving some joe average some money.

 

[goprog]

Wish I could remember some of those better. Don't know if I
ever saw Dream House or Press your Luck. The one I remember
most from being a little kid was Concentration. I thought
Hugh Downs was awesome. Always liked those Rebus puzzles.

 

[jakeseacrest]

Definately The Match Game. My sis bought me the DVD box set last Xmas. I also loved Let's Make a Deal...they did have alot of appliances as prizes.

 

[fa_f3_20]

Major game-show aficianado here...

For some reason I liked the quiz-type shows, even though as a kid I couldn't answer many of the questions. Twenty-One and The $64,000 Question were before my time, but I well remember the original version of Jeopardy!. There was another show on about the same time with the unwieldy name of The Who, What or Where Game, which was even better. And in the early '70s there was one called Split Second which had great strategy and, true to its name, was incredibly fast. (And the odd bit about that was that it was produced by Stefan Hatos and Monty Hall... and it was about as different from Let's Make a Deal as anything could ever be.) I agree that the original version of Password was the best; the game play was more straightforward, and I still like catching the reruns on GSN with the cool early-'60s set and the jazzy theme. Allen Ludden died much too young. Sigh.

Concentration was a favorite too, as was the original version of The Match Game (although I admit that the '70s revival was better). I remember watching the original version of TPIR but I don't recall much about it... I keep getting it confused in my mind with Supermarket Sweep, the original version of which was on about the same time. And, the only reason I was ever able to sit still through Lawrence Welk on Sunday night was because, if I sat still through it, I was allowed to stay up and watch To Tell The Truth next ("Mom, two of those men are *lying*! And they let them!")

Nowdays, it seems like the ones I like the most don't have very long runs. I liked 1 Versus 100 and Identity. I really liked GSN's revival of I've Got a Secret. It was great because they updated the show and they had fun with it, but they didn't mock the concept.

 

[fa_f3_20]

rinso: In the Central time zone, I think Concentration came on at 9:00 AM, so yes it was sometimes snooze-inducing. I remember how *quiet* the show always was -- there were no music cues or any such except between games, and the audience was always dead silent during a game. I remember being able to hear the squeaking sound that the trilons on the game board made when they rotated. It's funny how different the TV audience's standards were then. I've heard several game show fans that have seen tapes of the original version of TPIR comment on how painfully slow the game play was compared to the modern edition. It's funny because I don't remember it that way, but then again, back then I was a kid and we were lucky to get three channels -- when the TV was working and a storm hadn't come along and messed the antenna rotator up.

I don't recall Camoflage. When was it on?

 

[rinso]

Camoflage was on daily around lunchtime, somewhere between 1959 and 1961. The drawings the contestants looked at were large and had lots of squiggly lines on them. As they answered questions, layers of the drawing came off, making it easier to find the hidden object.

And yes, I remember the sound of the trilons quite well. They were three sided, and when matched, were rotated again to reveal part of the rebus puzzle.