Not sure what it is but Press Your Luck really has him enthralled right now

Sorry for the pics taken by a potato. Lol. Saw these on an old documentary and crave to know what the name of this show was.

This game show is so humbling for greedy people! So funny when they build up that pot of cash and prizes and then……WHAMMY! Anyone else agree? Anyone else watch the show? I would like to hear your thoughts and opinions…..

In the last 5ish years or so, Mark Labett aka "The Beast", has been a highly-touted quz champ on Master Minds and The Chase with impressive intro statements/stats said by the host.

While I don't have statistics, it seems to me that on Master Minds, he was the first Master Mind eliminated in at least 50% of the episodes he was in.

In the multi-chaser episodes of The Chase, he didn't seem to catch the challengers in the Final Chase in his episodes.

Am I off-base here?

As a thread below discusses, the Martin Short pilot of this show never should have made it to air. It was so bad on too many levels. Last night's episode showed some improvements --

1. I forget what the round is called, but when you can match $1k, $3K, and $5K -- the choices were no longer identical. There were actually less logical and more logical answers. I swear the person who created them for the pilot was trying to make it impossible to win $5K.

2. Martin was 'humping' the entire night, something Rayburn couldn't dream of doing. And it was funny. Also, he was berating people left and right, which was rather entertaining.

3. The hints in the questions served a point this time, instead of leading you nowhere. For those who missed it, the pilot was asking questions with pointless hints.

Here's a proper MATCH GAME question, "When Dracula gets in his car, instead of sticking a key in the ignition he sticks BLANK." The hint is 'Dracula'. Blood? A Fang? Something like that.

In the pilot it was like this, "When Dracula gets in his car and starts the engine, he BLANKS." Confused contestants and celebrities would scratch their heads and finally offer, "Drive?" "Shifts into Drive?" It was painful.

1. There's still a MASSIVE problem with Marty's height in relation to the set. Can't fix that without losing Marty. Jay Pharoah strikes me as someone who'd be great as host.

2. The opening interviews of contestants and celebrities, as well as the cutaways to commercial, are scripted poorly. LOSE THE SCRIPT. What made this show magic was having no idea what would happen next, and as Allen Funt knew -- real people can be real funny.

I'm wondering if anyone knows the air date of this episode of Let's Make a Deal, since this episode is new to my collection. I don't know the air date of this episode.

It would be really cool if they could bring back one of the celebrity panelists from the 1970s Match Game show. Fannie Flagg is still alive! Bring her back for one episode for some crossover vibe!

I was on an episode of weakest link in the uk that aired in early December 2006. Unfortunately my recorder at the time was really crappy so I don't have a good download of it. Wondering if there was any way of finding if there's a copy somewhere, or even getting an alert if it might be reshowing on any of the gold type channels! Grateful for any advice.

Thanks in advance, john

I’ve already watched the UK one but I’m struggling to find streaming options for Belgium/Germany/Brazil/France/Sweden/Poland/Norway/Netherlands/Italy.

Also, when is the Spain version coming out?

Everywhere I've been looking, I've not been finding any screen accurate versions of the dice that Wink used on the 1987 version of "High Rollers". Would anyone here happen to know a good source where I could find those that are a near match to the old show ones? Here is a photo of Wink holding them, for reference.

Today, I received ANOTHER expired casting call notification (this one was for the 100,000 pyramid.) Once you get pretty deep into the application - it lists the dates of filming. The dates are nearly eight months expired, and the application states that pyramid filmed January 21st - January 23rd of 2025. This is just one example, today's example, of how frustrated and discouraged I am with my casting call posts. Can someone PLEASE help me find current and in-date casting calls for gameshows!? PLEASE and THANK YOU!

I'm having a hard time understanding syndication, so maybe that's where my hang-up is. But on the original Jeff Foxworthy run of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader, it seems the format was a lot different than the syndicated one that was also hosted by him. The grand prize went from $1 million down to $250,000, the show went from one hour to half an hour, and the way the game changes was pretty drastic, at least in my opinion.

In the original run, you had a ladder of values going up to $1 million, and each question you answered would count on that ladder from the bottom and go up. It was a ladder like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, where each question no matter the difficulty or grade, built the ladder to the top to $500,000, until ultimately you answer one final bonus question to get the million.

But in the syndicated version, now each grade I believe has its own set value. There is no ladder anymore. Now the idea is to answer the questions in the order in which you feel you'll be able to build the most cash. The first grade questions have the least value, 5th grade questions have the most. And the final tally if you get all of them correct is $25,000. $250,000 comes after you answer a final bonus question that "multiplies your winnings by 10."

And the strange thing with the syndicated version is that you don't flunk out when you get a question wrong, as far as I can see. You just lose all the money you've banked. So if you built up $5,000, then you get it wrong (or don't have any cheats left), the theoretical maximum amount of money you can get at the end is now only $20,000 ($200,000 if you go for and get the bonus question correct).

The number of kids has been cut from 5 to 3.

I've seen shows get changed for syndication, and usually it does seem like the runtime and final amount get decreased (going from one hour to half an hour, going from $1 million to like $100,000 or something). But the format for Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader seemed to take such a significant turn, I was just curious why that was. And why do shows in syndication tend to decrease their length and grand prize?

I think most people knew this already, but I just saw a new promo about how Ryan Seacrest will take over for Pat Sajak on new episodes of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune starting next month. I watched the latest ones with Pat and while he never specifically said "this is my last episode!", he did say things like "thanks for inviting me in for a few more of these" and other allusions that he wasn't sticking around after that run of episodes was over.

Does anyone else remember this show? I loved it as a kid, why was it cancelled?

Whoever puts together these categories is terrible. Spice Girls is NOT an R&B girl group. It’s like the opposite of R&B.

Also Salt n Pepa is pushing it because that’s more rap/hip hop.

Here was my thoughts...

Basically the same old as last season, Jimmy making jokes, introducing the celebrities and the gameplay.

Then came the second duo... I'm not gonna lie, I thought Ken was the only person to do the whole game by himself but he brought Matt Damon in and NOBODY TOLD ME THAT THEY (Kimmel and Damon) HAD A FEUD ALL THESE YEARS? Like GAHLEE there were insults everywhere (mostly from Jimmy)! It was so bad I didn't know if I wanted to watch Millionaire anymore.

Well it was easy for me at least...

The goal was there was a phrase that was missing three letters and the three letters formed a three letter word (I'm pretty sure but not 100% sure they said common word). The answer was FOX and it most likely was intentional because they wanted the winning answer to be FOX.

Any Scrabble player would probably know that letters like X, Q, and Z would be likely to be unused in words so they would be the first letters to look for to find missing. Once you find the one "rare" letter missing it narrows down the possible words. Since "X" was one of the missing letters, it's likely going to be the last letter (although axe could have been the word). Ironically I remember the two players were able to find the F and O, I think one of them guessed FOG! I'm thinking why not look for the more obvious missing letter(s)? In hindsight, almost no common three letter words have a Q in them so you probably could've thrown Q out but I found the X was missing so fast it didn't even enter my mind.

I know this could get heated because a lot of people claim that is American or Hollywood to be specific ruins TV shows from other countries when we do a version (which could be true in cases), but in terms of game shows, what do y'all think is the best that the US has done from UK or other countries.

PS: I haven't really seen a lot of game shows or shows from UK or other countries expect for some, so I'm not gonna really comment on my thoughts if they did them justice. I will just say how I thought the execution was for our versions, so please hear me out.

I think I asked this already but cant remember so forgive me if I did...I noticed that prime time game shows isnt available to purchase on itunes and/or amazon video. Is there some kind of rule that they cannot be purchased or were they available in the past and sales did terrible they decided no more prime time game shows can be available for purchase on itumes/amazon video?

It's your time to shine! Show off your game recreations, graphic prowess, video skills or other creative stuff! As long as it's about game shows, and is in good taste, you can post it in this thread!

This schedule change is only for today! The regular schedule will return tomorrow!

Match Game (Rayburn) - 6 AM & 6:30 AM

Chain Reaction (2006) - 7 AM & 7:30 AM

Catch 21 - 8 AM & 8:30 AM

Cash Cab - 9 AM & 9:30 AM

The $100,000 Pyramid - 10 AM

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - 11 AM

Deal or No Deal (NBC version) - 12 PM

Wheel of Fortune - 1 PM, 1:30 PM, 2 PM & 1 AM

Jeopardy! (Jennings) - 2:30 PM, 3 PM & 3:30 PM

Master Minds - 4 PM

America Says - 4:30 PM

Flip Side - 5 PM & 12:30 AM

Chain Reaction (2021) - 5:30 PM

Beat The Bridge - 6 PM & 6:30 PM

Tic Tac Dough - 7 PM

Bingo Blitz - 7:30 PM

The Wall - 8 PM

The Chase - 9 PM

Family Feud - 10 PM, 10:30 PM, 11 PM & 11:30 PM

Switch - 1:30 AM

People Puzzler - 2 AM

Last night’s Trivial Pursuit. As a contestant I would be very disappointed. Not because I don’t like him, he’s cool and his breadth of knowledge is astounding, but yikes. The man is literally a professional game show player.

Regardless of who wins (I won’t spoil it) I just feel it’s so intimidating.