Game Shows - Bring Em Back!

[MasterOfPuppets]

What game shows would you like to see brought back?
Let's try to avoid a huge list, because that's just pointless...try to keep it within the top 2 or 3 or so you'd like to see back.

For me...Greed, Press Your Luck (Whammy is too Double Dare-ish) and while not a traditional game show, I'd like to see Fear Factor back...sure, at the end it was kinda stupid with pretty people exclusively, but I'm enjoying the replays on F/X.

[angbear1985]

Match Game
and
Let's Make a Deal

Would love to see those back!

[jradosh]

Love Connection
The Dating Game
Match Game (but you'd need to get some good comedians)

[Sirius Black]

I'd like to go back to the 80s version of Wheel of Fortune where after each round, the winner spent the money they won on items that Vanna would introduce.

I enjoyed Press Your Luck too. They could bring that back.

[DevdogAZ]

I'd definitely like to see Greed back, as well as that "Quiz-Show" type game called "Twenty One" on NBC. Basically, I love trivia games and the more questions per show, the better. That's why I love Jeopardy!

[Fl_Gulfer]

NewlyWed Game and Lets make a Deal.

[MikeMar]

Match Game
and
Let's Make a Deal

Would love to see those back!

yeah Let's Make a Deal would be awesome now! :D

and Press your luck

[kaszeta]

Big bucks.... Big bucks... No whammies!

[MasterOfPuppets]

I'm changing my vote away from Fear Factor and over to The Mole...also not a traditional game show, but all 2 seasons were definitely entertaining. It would probably be a little difficult to bring back Anderson Cooper to the show though.
But no...not Celebrity Mole.

[marksman]

Card Sharks
Press Your Luck

[DancnDude]

Scrabble with Chuck Woolery. I loved that show so much!

And I'll second The Mole even though it's not quite a game show.

[WhiskeyTango]

Classic Concentration and Let's Make a Deal

[goblue97]

I'm changing my vote away from Fear Factor and over to The Mole...also not a traditional game show, but all 2 seasons were definitely entertaining. It would probably be a little difficult to bring back Anderson Cooper to the show though.
But no...not Celebrity Mole.
+1 to the Mole. Not the Celebrity version. I've been catching some repeats on Fox Reality but I can't seem to keep up with their scheduling. I would also like to see Let's Make a Deal come back. Press Your Luck was usually entertaining.

[MikeMar]

Card Sharks
Press Your Luck

how'd I forget CARD SHARKS!!

I thought I saw a commercial for a new one w/ the percentages like card sharks had.

[unicorngoddess]

I'll add my vote for The Mole

They did redo Press Your Luck on GSN.

Card Sharks FOR SURE!

and Match Game.

P.S. I wish GSN would go back to the old format of showing the classic gameshows :(

[That Don Guy]

I'm going back a bit here...I can limit it to four:
High Rollers (the three-column version, but with up to five prizes per column like NBC had)
Concentration
Gambit
College Bowl (which still exists - USC won the national championship a few months ago - but the organizers charge the schools an arm and a leg with nothing in return, when it should be the other way around)

The problem with bringing back shows like High Rollers and Concentration is, it's almost impossible to have a five-a-week game show today where they continue from one day to the next (Jeopardy has returning champions, but that's about it in terms of continuity). With High Rollers and Gambit, you can probably get around this by playing the bonus game after every game instead of every 2-out-of-3 match (this is how they did weekly syndicated High Rollers in the 1970s), but this is much harder to do with Concentration (they tried forcing the second game each day to end on time, but that didn't work out too well).

As for some of the other suggestions...

Match Game (but you'd need to get some good comedians)
The Match Game/Hollywood Squares hour had Arsenio Hall and Michael "human sound effects machine" Winslow, but that didn't stop it from crashing and burning. Also, the two attempts to bring it back in the 1990s suffered from severe format change problems. They need to keep the 1970s format (the only change that would work is, every celebrity plays every round), and have regular and semi-regular celebrities who understand the concept and the spirit of the show.

I'd definitely like to see Greed back, as well as that "Quiz-Show" type game called "Twenty One" on NBC.
Greed was a good show; however, Twenty-One had serious problems when it was brought back. They kept changing the prize structure (NBC wanted the show to give away more money than Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?); the bonus round was almost an afterthought; having every question be multiple choice didn't fit (probably borrowed from Millionaire, to make it easier for home viewers to play along); the "three strikes" rule didn't work too well either.
However, the main problem was Maury Povich; he not only had little clue what he was doing, but he actually gave some contestants clues as to what to do. For example, if a player got 21, and then the other player chose a question that would get this player to 21 as well, Maury would tell the second player that the first one had 21, and the second player would realize that there's no need to hold onto their "offstage partner" as an incorrect answer ends the game. Also, if the first player gets three strikes, Maury would tell the second player this before the second player chose a point level, and the second player, realizing that any correct answer would win, chose the 1-point question.

Here's how I'd change Twenty-One: I would make it a "race to 21" rather than letting the players decide if they wanted to stop at any point, limit each category to 1-5 point questions (you need the isolation booths in case both choose the same question), get rid of multiple choice (except maybe for the lower-level questions), don't penalize wrong answers, and have the prize $25,000 per game, with the prize increased by $25,000 each time there was a 21-21 tie and the players had to start over.
(Another idea: instead of 1-5 points, make each category 1-6, and in order to get 21 (which happens to be 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6), a player has to answer a question from six categories, each with a different point level.)

-- Don

[Skittles]

The Mole, but ONLY if Anderson Cooper comes back.

[sushikitten]

Definitely The Mole. And +1 to Anderson Cooper. ;)

[TIVO_GUY_HERE]

Didn't they try to bring back "Lets make a deal" just one off the top of my head would be "Password"

[angbear1985]

Definitely The Mole. And +1 to Anderson Cooper. ;)

OH - forgot about this show! yes - The Mole! :up: :up:

[mqpickles]

My first reaction is Match Game, but really, I'm not sure it could work now. Sensibilities have changed so much.

How about Password?

[cwoody222]

Scrabble with Chuck Woolery. I loved that show so much!



Me too!!!

And Sale of the Century! With Summer Bartholomew.

[cwoody222]

I'd like to go back to the 80s version of Wheel of Fortune where after each round, the winner spent the money they won on items that Vanna would introduce.

I enjoyed Press Your Luck too. They could bring that back.

Press Your Luck is back... it's called Whammy!

Sadly I was just talking with a friend about the old WoF rules.

"With the remaining $50 you didn't spend in the living room you will receive a gift certificate to Service Merchandise"

:D

[MikeMar]

Press Your Luck is back... it's called Whammy!

Sadly I was just talking with a friend about the old WoF rules.

"With the remaining $50 you didn't spend in the living room you will receive a gift certificate to Service Merchandise"

:D

kinda like the 2nd half of this fam guy clip? I know it's the end of the game show but same idea

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0y6nGq2DpeQ

[JETarpon]

Big money.... Big money... No whammies!

FYP.

Match Game
Let's make a Deal
The Liars Game

[MasterOfPuppets]

Press Your Luck is back... it's called Whammy!

Sadly I was just talking with a friend about the old WoF rules.

"With the remaining $50 you didn't spend in the living room you will receive a gift certificate to Service Merchandise"

:D

I always enjoyed the people getting the white porcelain dog.
Exactly what everyone wants.

[Maniacal1]

A second vote for Password from me

[Bananfish]

Remote Control, as long as bitch-to-the-core Kari Wuhrer is back too. (I've got a thing for hot women who know they're too good for me and act accordingly!)

[WinBear]

I remember High Rollers with Alex Trebek, but not any of the details of game play. I looked it up on YouTube and caught part of a game. I clicked a second segment and it was later hosted by Wink Martindale, which I don't remember at all.

[TIVO_GUY_HERE]

concentration

[visionary]

Concentration, with a Vanna like to turn the puzzle, had they done that it would never have left. STRIP POKER, with females OF COURSE, on a premium channel. I cannot imagine why that has not been done by now. A Big Brother type game show, again on a PREMIUM channel, with full shower-cams, nude olympic swimming pool races, bare track running contests, and all that. Have a house with a Greek theme for it. These ideas are worth a billion bucks and WILL work well.

[lambertman]

FYP.


Actually, you BHP. It was "Big Bucks".

[JETarpon]

Actually, you BHP. It was "Big Bucks".

Funny. I always remembered it being "Big money."

[MikeMar]

http://pylslides.tripod.com/pylmodseason1.bmp

looks like a video game screen shot, but you get the point

[trainman]

And Sale of the Century! With Summer Bartholomew.

This is coming back in the fall in syndication, but not with Summer Bartholomew, and with a new title: "Temptation."

[murgatroyd]

Win Ben Stein's Money.

Jan

[jmenjes]

You're In The Picture :p

[MasterOfPuppets]

Ahhh...the memories of when USA Network used to play exclusively old game shows in the afternoons.
I realize GSN is around to do that now...but where are most of the shows mentioned in this thread?

[TonyTheTiger]

Another vote for Anderson Cooper and The Mole. Great show, just too intelligent for the average American audience, I guess.

Also, anything that has questions and pace. I'm another Jeopardy! watcher, so I liked Twenty-One and others. Just don't drag it out!

[Bob_Newhart]

The Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show

[That Don Guy]

I remember High Rollers with Alex Trebek, but not any of the details of game play. I looked it up on YouTube and caught part of a game. I clicked a second segment and it was later hosted by Wink Martindale, which I don't remember at all.
The Wink Martindale version (I think it was on USA Network - either that, or in syndication) was just like the "revived" Alex Trebek NBC version, except that on the Wink version, there was never more than one prize per column, while on the Alex version, if a column was not won, a prize was added to the one(s) already there unless it already had five. (It was a reasonably big moment when someone would walk away with 15 prizes in one game.)

(The "original" Trebek NBC version was like the version with the three columns, but instead of having columns, each number had its own prize (except for two of the numbers, which had 1/2 of a larger prize, like a car); the only other significant changes were, they had a dice roller (actress Ruta Lee), and there were no insurance markers in the main game (only in the Big Numbers).
Well, there was that change to the game near the end of the run to where the contestants had to identify pictures of celebrities, but the less said about that, the better.)

-- Don

[unicorngoddess]

Ahhh...the memories of when USA Network used to play exclusively old game shows in the afternoons.
I realize GSN is around to do that now...but where are most of the shows mentioned in this thread?

It use to play the classics YEARS ago. We watched games like Matchgame, Blockbusters, Password...and what was that one where there would be like 3 different people all claiming to be the same person and the contestants had to guess whichone the real one was.

Anyway, a few years ago they switched from Game Show Network to just GSN and started producing their own gameshows and showing reruns of like Fear Factor and The Dating Game.

[NJChris]

Win Lose or Draw!
Remote Control (MTV)
Match Game

Just don't make them flashy with hyper contestants. Why do all the new shows have to have a contestant that has to scream, yell, and jump up and down. They don't feel like everyday people. (I still suspsect Deal or no Deal uses actors!).

[MasterOfPuppets]

It use to play the classics YEARS ago. We watched games like Matchgame, Blockbusters, Password...and what was that one where there would be like 3 different people all claiming to be the same person and the contestants had to guess whichone the real one was.

Anyway, a few years ago they switched from Game Show Network to just GSN and started producing their own gameshows and showing reruns of like Fear Factor and The Dating Game.

I'm pretty sure those 3 shows are still on amongst the 32 daily airing of Lingo.
They don't have Tic Tac Dough, High Rollers, Classic Concentration, etc.
I don't think I've ever seen Fear Factor on GSN.

[JMikeD]

Inquizition.

Probably the only game show I've ever watched more than half an episode of.

[That Don Guy]

Just don't make them flashy with hyper contestants. Why do all the new shows have to have a contestant that has to scream, yell, and jump up and down. They don't feel like everyday people. (I still suspsect Deal or no Deal uses actors!).
They may have in the first season (I think there's a pool of Los Angeles area actors used to get contestants for most game shows' first seasons (did you ever hear of a contestant casting call for, say, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?, even while the call for fifth graders goes nationwide?), but after that, they occasionally show scenes from cities where they hold contestant searches. Unfortunately, being flashy and hyper is pretty much a requirement (and having a good story helps), especially for a show like Deal or No Deal where no knowledge is required, although I have heard that getting on Wheel of Fortune depends less on how well you can solve the puzzles and more on how well you show on TV. (And do you seriously think they take just the smartest people they can find for Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?).

-- Don

[Alfer]

Ahhhh...them were the days (70's-80's) when you could be at home sick from school or whatever and be pretty much guaranteed that you'd get to watch some kind of game show from morning till late afternoon.

:)

[steve614]

Another vote for Greed.

Joker's Wild.
Tic-Tac-Dough.