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whos idea was it originally for the light border?
« on: November 14, 2013, 10:35:57 AM »
Barbara Hunter, Frank or Phil Wayne, or was it a Director thing (Marc Breslow)?
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Re: whos idea was it originally for the light border?
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2013, 07:22:06 PM »
That sort of thing is usually more of a director thing than a producer thing. Considering that Marc Breslow also directed Match Game and it featured a lighted device for its opening, it wouldn't surprise me if he wanted some sort of effect for 'Price', too.
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Re: whos idea was it originally for the light border?
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2013, 08:20:33 PM »
Breslow started working on Match Game nearly a full year after Price debuted so that could have migrated to Match Game as well.

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Re: whos idea was it originally for the light border?
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2013, 08:34:03 PM »
Breslow started working on Match Game nearly a full year after Price debuted so that could have migrated to Match Game as well.
One issue with that theory, though... Match Game had its rotating box intro from its inception in 1973... Price didn't get its light border intro until the hour expansion in 1975.

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Re: whos idea was it originally for the light border?
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2013, 10:08:28 PM »
It was also a way to distinguish the hourlong version from the Dennis James version, which never used the light border. The remaining half hour Barker shows also didn't use a light border.

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Re: whos idea was it originally for the light border?
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2013, 10:56:24 PM »
It was also a way to distinguish the hourlong version from the Dennis James version, which never used the light border. The remaining half hour Barker shows also didn't use a light border.

I guess that was no longer an issue in 1985 when they put the light border on Kennedy's TPiR.

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Re: whos idea was it originally for the light border?
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2013, 11:25:21 PM »
I guess that was no longer an issue in 1985 when they put the light border on Kennedy's TPiR.
Or by 1984, when they used it on one of Bob's half-hour shows

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Re: whos idea was it originally for the light border?
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2013, 07:04:29 AM »
Or by 1984, when they used it on one of Bob's half-hour shows

If there had been an attempt to "distinguish" the two, it wouldn't have been hour vs half-hour but daytime vs nighttime. All of the daytime shows, even the half-hour ones, would have had the same look.
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