I remember him disclosing his info as it related to his address. As mentioned, those were different times. The contestant in contestant's row happened to graduate from the same high school and college Bob graduated from, and she lived at least close to where Bob grew up. But the same institution was what brought that up.
Yeah, I don't think you'd get away from doing that today (as in mentioning where you live). Heck, I'm not a star and I don't answer the door or pick up the phone unless I'm expecting someone or I recognize who's calling!
Over the past couple of weeks, I've finally had some time to enjoy the channel. I echo all of the good things said about it -- the video quality is amazing, and I love that everything that can be left in is being left in. The only bad thing is that I'd estimate I've watched about one-fourth of the available episodes, but I'm already at the point where when I check out the channel, I frequently hit an episode I've already seen, which makes me leave.
The reason it keeps happening, I assume, is because when I do check out the channel, it's at about the same time in the morning on any given day. Because the channel is rotating through 100 episodes, at 24 episodes per day, that means the same episodes will keep airing in approximately the same time slots every time. If the channel eventually adds more episodes to the rotation, I hope it's in a quantity that's less close to being a multiple of 24.
Might be intentional, but I think it's coincidental that today (01/03/2021), the 38th anniversary of Plinko's premiere, started with the episode in which Plinko made its first appearance (Eastern Standard Time). Fitting enough, the 01/03/1983 episode is the 77th episode out of the first 100 for Pluto. Tomorrow is the first non-holiday weekday of 2021, so it is possible that the second set will start at Midnight EST on 01/04/2021. Rather coincidental IMO.
Otherwise, they'll restart again first thing tomorrow. If you add four days from the restart and then add four more hours, you could catch some of those eepisodes that you missed previously. When they move forward with 4972 all the way to the Season 12 premiere, I don't know whether they'll start with 09/13/82 or with 02/08/83.
As optimistic as I am with the possibility of new episodes coming on January 4th, I won't be surprised at all if it doesn't happen quite yet