Ralph Andrews Productions has just posted a video recorded at some time in the late '70s: a run-through in the NBC offices for a format called "The Word Game." If you've seen "Lingo," the gameplay might look familiar to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYsgbMuUyCE
Andrews was the creator and producer for the original 1987-88 run of "Lingo," and he took over as host after firing the original host, presidential progeny Michael Reagan. Speaking of Ralph Andrews Productions, they've also posted a not-seen-in-47-years episode of "Celebrity Sweepstakes," hosted by "Word Game" emcee Jim McKrell. Thanks to Game Show Author Adam Nedeff on Facebook for the links. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYjOBTctL3Y On Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 7:41:40 PM UTC-5 Diner wrote: > Pretty spot on. > > One other thing that annoys me is how they prime the audience to applaud > over and over for no reason. Ru asks a contestant where he's from, the > contestant replies "Little Rock, Arkansas," and it gets a HUGE round of > applause. Then that contestant's partner gets asked the same question, and > he mentions a town in Arkansas that nobody outside Arkansas has ever heard > of, and that gets just as big a round of applause. Oh, and did I mention > this show tapes in Manchester, England? Why are people in England giving > huge rounds of applause for Podunk, Arkansas? Who knows. > > I actually watched some episodes of the Bill Engvall version a few months > ago on Pluto TV - basically to help me fall asleep! It was an okay way to > spend a half hour, but I remember thinking at the time that the scoring was > all screwed up and that the bingo element complicated the game > unnecessarily. I actually thought "instead of playing to win numbers on a > bingo board, they should play for money, but have the money decrease as > they go down the board." And whaddaya know, that's exactly what this new > version does. Except even with the improvements to the gameplay, it's still > not remotely exciting. (Hey, neither is "Wheel of Fortune," so what do I > know?) But it's a fairly pleasant (if annoyingly repetitive) way to spend > an hour. > > One more game show-related thing: the "Superfans" edition of "The Price is > Right at Night" that aired this week was a wonderful celebration of the > show and why the fans love it, and it seemed, as Adam Nedeff wrote, a love > letter to the fans. Catch it on cbs.com. > > https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/SfW89a354ICDEwwEHhg7sQEvTXm76xr5/ > > -Tim > > On Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 5:11:55 PM UTC-5 Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > >> “Hey, let’s do a game show based on Wordle.” >> >> “We don’t have the rights to Wordle, but we can remake Lingo, changing >> the format to basically be Wordle.” >> >> “OK, plus we can get RuPaul to make the same joke about touching balls >> over and over again.” >> >> “We so deserve a raise.” >> >> “And a vacation.” >> >> on CBS and Paramount+ >> -- >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3a8a7ce4-3697-4f23-83e3-03cc51e15761n%40googlegroups.com.
