Golden-Road.net

Studio 46 - Non-TPiR Discussion => Out In Left Field => Topic started by: goldroadfanatic on February 01, 2019, 02:40:00 PM

Title: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: goldroadfanatic on February 01, 2019, 02:40:00 PM
I did not think this would be possible, but like finally getting the rights to air Classic Concentration last fall, Buzzr finally got the rights to air The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour from 1983-84, according to Vulture (https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/match-game-hollywood-squares-hour-streaming-buzzr.html).  This will be the first time these episodes have been rerun anywhere since their original broadcasts over 35 years ago.

So far, episodes 2 through 5 will air on February 17th, and Buzzr is working to get the show on its lineup later this year.  Practically every episode's master tape needs to be cleaned up and digitized, which is a time-consuming process as described in the article.

Overall, I'm excited for this!  The show itself had its problems, but I enjoyed what I've seen on YouTube over the years.  Also, we'll be able to hear that great theme song again, years after The Price is Right stopped using it.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Off_trak on February 01, 2019, 05:29:55 PM
Still love hearing that theme. It takes you on a great ride. However, I never liked the sets on this version. They always looked way too small for the size of the stage. The show left the airwaves with decent ratings, but NBC was eager to launch the soap Santa Barbara .
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: brian1975 on February 01, 2019, 05:50:20 PM
whoo hoo, its time for the mghsh.   haven't seen on tv since 84, and i am eager to see the marriage of 2 classic shows on tv again.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Alfonzo on February 01, 2019, 06:27:00 PM
Looking forward to this myself. I saw the show when it originally came on in the 80s, and I always thought that Jon Bauman got a bad rap. He wasn't terrible, he was just unpolished as a host. With proper seasoning and a little time I alway thought that he would have improved.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: CaseyBuck on February 01, 2019, 07:41:53 PM
Buzzr's Facebook page posted the opening of Episode 2:

https://www.facebook.com/BUZZRtv/videos/2341282752562462/
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: tdawgg3x on February 01, 2019, 11:52:36 PM
Buzzr's Facebook page posted the opening of Episode 2:

https://www.facebook.com/BUZZRtv/videos/2341282752562462/


Cool beans!  Gonna check it out right now.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Ccook on February 02, 2019, 03:56:33 AM
Our NBC station stopped carrying MG-HS in February of 1984. Just made no traction against General Hospital and Guiding Light.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Alfonzo on February 02, 2019, 07:49:54 AM
Our NBC station stopped carrying MG-HS in February of 1984. Just made no traction against General Hospital and Guiding Light.

In our market it aired on an independant UHF station at 12 noon. Our NBC affiliate started airing reruns of The Rockford Files at the 3PM Eastern spot after Fantasy failed.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Ccook on February 02, 2019, 10:50:41 AM
We had four independents here; WATL was our "channel of love" as they had picked up a number of NBC daytime shows in 1983 discarded by regular affiliate WXIA. They ended the practice after Go! was canceled, so they did not pick up MG-HS after WXIA dropped it. None of the other indies were interested, either.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: tdawgg3x on February 08, 2019, 04:04:02 PM
Curious question.  Is "The Hollywood Squares" owned by MGM Television or CBS Television Distribution?
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Ccook on February 08, 2019, 08:08:54 PM
King World co-produced and distributed the most recent version (1998-2004), so that would make CBS its owner.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Alfonzo on February 08, 2019, 09:11:12 PM
King World co-produced and distributed the most recent version (1998-2004), so that would make CBS its owner.

Does this mean, in theory, CBS could license Hollywood Squares out to Freemantle, like NBC licensed Concentration to Goodson-Toddman?
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Superballer on February 08, 2019, 10:22:11 PM
I'm guessing thus MGM owns the Davidson version at present given it was distributed by Orion Television, with the Orion catalog currently being in MGM's hands? 
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Axl on February 09, 2019, 02:20:19 AM
I'm guessing thus MGM owns the Davidson version at present given it was distributed by Orion Television, with the Orion catalog currently being in MGM's hands?

I'm not sure who does own that edition, but I don't think it's MGM.  Their website, which has an exhaustive listing of their television library, does not mention Hollywood Squares.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Ccook on February 09, 2019, 04:09:30 AM
Does this mean, in theory, CBS could license Hollywood Squares out to Freemantle, like NBC licensed Concentration to Goodson-Toddman?
NBC actually licensed Concentration to Jim Victory Television. Goodson-Todman was subcontracted as the production company. If Fremantle wanted to reboot Squares, then yes, they’d have CBS license them to do so.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: SeaBreeze341 on February 09, 2019, 11:31:45 AM
Looking forward to this myself. I saw the show when it originally came on in the 80s, and I always thought that Jon Bauman got a bad rap. He was terrible, he was just unpolished as a host. With proper seasoning and a little time I alway thought that he would have improved.

Remember the show during its original run as well (albeit barely).  Bauman didn't have a chance I'm afraid since he basically had big shoes to fill and was teamed with Rayburn.  Wasn't Jon's fault Peter Marshall passed on the opportunity to host.  I still wonder what the outcome would have been has Pete hosted (and if they had a better set and/or timeslot)

I wonder if Fremantle could work magic and re-create MGHS to air somewhere following this rerun (similar to how Whammy made its debut following PYL's return to TV in reruns after a 6-year absence)
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Ccook on February 09, 2019, 01:09:34 PM
Seeing as how it ran just nine months, it's doubtful Fremantle would take a chance. Then again, Chain Reaction ran only five months on NBC originally and it's been revived three times since.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: blozier2006 on February 09, 2019, 01:28:16 PM
Wasn't Jon's fault Peter Marshall passed on the opportunity to host.
From what I understand, the opportunity was never Peter's to pass up. For some reason NBC never thought to offer him the job (this is probably why, by Peter's own admission, he was glad when the show was canceled).
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: vnisanian2001 on February 09, 2019, 05:10:55 PM
Off-Topic

Is this true? Is Buzzr really going off the air forever on Wednesday February 27 at 9:00 a.m.?

http://gsparadise.proboards.com/post/42141/thread

http://buzzrplay.com/schedule/schedule_by_date/2019/2/27/America/New_York

I see the schedule only goes up to here.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: GameShowFan1987 on February 09, 2019, 05:27:16 PM
No.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: blozier2006 on February 09, 2019, 06:15:55 PM
WOW.... just, WOW.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: vnisanian2001 on February 09, 2019, 06:27:48 PM
I just find this troubling. First, there were problems in New York, and now comes this.

I have never seen this happen before; the week's schedule only partially filled (if it did, I don't remember). That was how one of the posters claimed it was a sign of the channel being gone forever.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: supersaver87 on February 09, 2019, 10:22:28 PM
That is quite the leap in logic there.

The schedule being only partially filled happens all the time.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: blozier2006 on February 10, 2019, 12:35:52 AM
That is quite the leap in logic there.
Sadly, such faulty leaps in logic (or illogic, as the case is here) are par for the course for him.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: NickintheATL on February 10, 2019, 02:55:01 PM
Is this true? Is Buzzr really going off the air forever on Wednesday February 27 at 9:00 a.m.?
Absolutely not.

As someone who works in TV, stop making such generalizations. Most stations only program the next 1-2 weeks in advance. Anything beyond that is STILL BEING WORKED ON. People have jobs at a station or a network. Let them do their jobs and don't play the Chicken Little card when you see fit just because you don't see a schedule past a certain date.

/Soapbox
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: PatrickRox80 on February 11, 2019, 12:54:23 PM
According to Buzzr's schedule, the four episodes will start airing at 4:00 pm on that Sunday. Did they say yet whether they'll start from the premiere? One of the promos has Gene talking about the "marriage" so it seems plausible.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: blozier2006 on February 11, 2019, 01:38:01 PM
According to Buzzr's schedule, the four episodes will start airing at 4:00 pm on that Sunday. Did they say yet whether they'll start from the premiere? One of the promos has Gene talking about the "marriage" so it seems plausible.
They're running episodes 2 to 5 (Tuesday to Friday of the premiere week).
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: vnisanian2001 on February 11, 2019, 03:11:57 PM
If the promos showed clips from the premiere, then I'm guessing we'll be seeing it later in the year, when Buzzr puts it on their regular schedule.

If not, oh well. At least it's on the trading circuit.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: namilliron on February 12, 2019, 04:07:00 PM
Curious question.  Is "The Hollywood Squares" owned by MGM Television or CBS Television Distribution?

According to "The Other Wiki",  CBS owns only the HS NAME,  Sony owns the format, thereby explaining why the most recent incarnations were called "HIP-HOP SQUARES".
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: styleguy on February 12, 2019, 07:10:20 PM
I'm looking forward to this marathon and seeing this show.  I saw the commercials during Classic Concentration during my lunch break while I was working from home today. 
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: JayC on February 18, 2019, 11:57:48 AM
Watching yesterday I liked the show, Gene Rayburn was great as always with Match Game and Jon Bauman did pretty well with the Hollywood Squares portion. I thought the hour format made it too long though and the set looked too cheap except for the giant video board and like it was designed by a group of elementary school students using blocks from math class.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: someguy23475 on February 18, 2019, 12:58:45 PM
Bauman was as horrendous as I remembered. He’s like a robot, saying the same lines with no variation. He also looked very uncomfortable up there. Goodson could have chosen far better.

Hollywood Squares was boring. Almost zero funny lines, multiple choice, and default wins do not make a good game. Throw in Bauman’s awful hosting, and it 20+ minutes being wasted.

Subpar group of celebrities, especially Skip Stephenson. I had to look up who Twyla Littleton was; clearly just there for eye candy.

Wait until soap opera week! It gets worse!
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: blozier2006 on February 18, 2019, 01:47:00 PM
Goodson could have chosen far better.
And probably would've, if it had been his choice to make. AFAIK, Bauman was entirely NBC's doing. If Goodson had gotten his way, Gene would've hosted the entire hour by himself.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: pricefan18 on February 18, 2019, 02:43:26 PM
Bauman was as horrendous as I remembered. He’s like a robot, saying the same lines with no variation. He also looked very uncomfortable up there. Goodson could have chosen far better.

Hollywood Squares was boring. Almost zero funny lines, multiple choice, and default wins do not make a good game. Throw in Bauman’s awful hosting, and it 20+ minutes being wasted.

Subpar group of celebrities, especially Skip Stephenson. I had to look up who Twyla Littleton was; clearly just there for eye candy.

Wait until soap opera week! It gets worse!

At least Skip had been on Match Game before, was on the final syndicated week in fact. As a sidenote, episode 6 (or the episode following the last yesterday) is on YouTube (though the quality is really bad making it tough to watch as a result), and features a young Arsenio Hall among others. Charles Nelson Reilly too I think for HS portion. So there's that to look forward to anyway when they show more later on.

I wonder if Bauman got better later with the robot thing. One thing that irked me to this end incidentally is EVERY TIME he took over the show for HS, he'd throw to break the exact same way "And we'll be right back". It's a small thing maybe but kinda bugged me. He coulda deviated a little bit from it at least once.

Also......was I hearing things, or did the producers make a MAJOR mistake in the last episode on the Bonanza question? I mighta heard it wrong, but I KNOW Bonanza had more episodes than All in the Family and The Beverly Hillbillies did by a wide margin. I asked Jon actually on Twitter about it after the fact, and if it was ever corrected if indeed I am right on this, and he didn't remember. But that really stood out to me as a big error by the writing staff again if I heard the question right (which I admit I may not have as I was sorta half listening half not at points in the marathon while chatting with some friends at same time).
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: JayC on February 18, 2019, 03:33:26 PM
I didn't find Bauman's hosting to be that bad personally. He was pretty repetitive with his lines but I thought he was alright overall especially with the contestant and celebrity interaction. The question writing could've been better and they kept gags going for too long after some questions. It was also weird that they went to break right after introducing the extra celebrities and making the host switch for the Hollywood Squares portion.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: someguy23475 on February 18, 2019, 03:38:47 PM
He didn’t get better. Later on, he also constantly reminded the contestant what symbol they were playing.

I hated Skip on that final week of Match Game as well. Just a very obnoxious person.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: urbanpreppie0004 on February 18, 2019, 04:59:30 PM
I feel like Jon Bauman is getting an unfair shake here...this format of Squares is, simply put, terrible. Boring multiple choice questions, no written zingers, no reining in of comedians, and a scoring format that easily lets one contestant run away with the game, AND win without doing anything-he has to fit in as many questions as possible; changing the entire essence of squares.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: someguy23475 on February 18, 2019, 07:12:12 PM
I feel like Jon Bauman is getting an unfair shake here...this format of Squares is, simply put, terrible. Boring multiple choice questions, no written zingers, no reining in of comedians, and a scoring format that easily lets one contestant run away with the game, AND win without doing anything-he has to fit in as many questions as possible; changing the entire essence of squares.

Those are all problems and major reasons why Squares was terrible. Bauman however made it worse. A competent host could have squeezed some sort of life out of that. Rayburn would have done a much better job with the klunky format. Even a Jack Narz or Art James type would have been an upgrade over robotic, uncomfortable Bauman.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Alfonzo on February 18, 2019, 09:19:42 PM
Let's be honest, Peter Marshall himself would not have made this afterthough format work. And really, at least Bauman was likeable and acted like he wanted to be there. As I said before, maybe Gene the veteran could have been little more of a mentor to Jon instead of just bashing him because Bauman was a bright guy and he I think he would have tried to improve himself.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Alfonzo on February 18, 2019, 09:44:26 PM
And probably would've, if it had been his choice to make. AFAIK, Bauman was entirely NBC's doing. If Goodson had gotten his way, Gene would've hosted the entire hour by himself.

In other words, Goodson basically wanted an hour-long version of Match Game. Gene hosting Hollywood Squares might have undercut the Squares portion of it even more than it already was.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: urbanpreppie0004 on February 18, 2019, 10:56:53 PM
Let's be honest, Peter Marshall himself would not have made this afterthough format work. And really, at least Bauman was likeable and acted like he wanted to be there. As I said before, maybe Gene the veteran could have been little more of a mentor to Jon instead of just bashing him because Bauman was a bright guy and he I think he would have tried to improve himself.

Can i also say that Gene, bless his heart, looked downright pained to be there?
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Alfonzo on February 19, 2019, 05:00:05 AM
Can i also say that Gene, bless his heart, looked downright pained to be there?

You may, and you'd be right.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: pannoni1 on February 19, 2019, 07:32:50 AM
To make it better, I would have shortened MG two just two rounds and allow for both the Super Match (just up for $10,000, no special multipliers with just six stars) and HS's "Pick a star for a prize" bonus round, where then I would have introduced the multiple choice question, similar to how it was on the first three seasons of the Bergeron version while having the multiplier cards showing stuff ranging from money, trips, rooms of furniture, jewelry, to a new car. I'd keep the $25 for correct answers, but of course force a contestant to answer correctly to win a round. And there's another thing that could have returned as well: The Secret Square. That way, not only HS is back to a much more respectable format, it would also allow for more equal time between the MG and HS segments, which was more 40/20 as opposed to 30/30. If it was called "Match Game FEATURING Hollywood Squares Hour", then it would make better sense. Too bad John Davidson wasn't available a few years early for the HS portion, even if he had been a square many times in the original version by this point.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Alfonzo on February 19, 2019, 12:07:53 PM
I've frankly never cared for John Davidson's hosting. He always came across to me as a phony, stereotypical game show host, to the point that I thought he was the real-life incarnation of the Mr. Game Show toy from the 80s.
 
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: someguy23475 on February 19, 2019, 03:55:10 PM
Davidson was bad, especially when he did Pyramid. He looked so clueless. I’d still rank him above Bauman when it comes to hosting Squares.


Goodson have Bauman tips on how to improve, but apparently he either couldn’t do it, did not care, or just didn’t listen.

Peter Marshall would have made the show more watchable, and squeezed some sort of life out of a bad format.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Alfonzo on February 19, 2019, 04:11:37 PM
Davidson was bad, especially when he did Pyramid. He looked so clueless.

Well, at least we agree on something! 😄

As for everything else, we'll just have to agree to disagree (Now THAT'S paraphrasing from the Hollywood Squares!) and move on.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: b_masters8 on February 20, 2019, 04:08:40 AM
Peter Marshall would have made the show more watchable, and squeezed some sort of life out of a bad format.

Oh, no doubt about it-- it's for good reason why Peter was always billed as "the master of The Hollywood Squares" when he was in there from 1966-81 on NBC and in syndie. Just as Wink Martindale has been the TTD expert (and remains so to this day, even to the point that he's done several home games of TTD recently which have been posted on YouTube), Peter has been the HS expert (as I say, for very good reason).
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Gerald78 on February 21, 2019, 11:55:21 AM
Remind me why Mr. Marshall didn't host this version?  I think I read somewhere that he declined the offer?
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: goldroadfanatic on February 21, 2019, 01:42:50 PM
Reportedly, Peter Marshall was very interested in hosting the Squares half, but someone at NBC saw potential in Bauman and picked him for the job.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: goldroadfanatic on September 12, 2019, 03:21:41 PM
I'm bumping this topic because Buzzr announced that Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour will arrive on their schedule on September 30, 2019.  They will air episodes on weeknights at 10:00 PM Eastern, followed by airings on Saturdays at 8:00 PM Eastern and Sundays at 3:00 PM Eastern (I'm not sure if these are reruns of the weeknight airings).
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: pricefan18 on September 12, 2019, 03:43:34 PM
I'm bumping this topic because Buzzr announced that Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour will arrive on their schedule on September 30, 2019.  They will air episodes on weeknights at 10:00 PM Eastern, followed by airings on Saturdays at 8:00 PM Eastern and Sundays at 3:00 PM Eastern (I'm not sure if these are reruns of the weeknight airings).

Considering what they've done with Classic Concentration, I imagine reruns, especially given they have a MUCH smaller pool of episodes to work from than the former show. Wouldn't make much sense to air 7 new ones a week. You'd burn through them all fast that way.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Chief-O on September 12, 2019, 04:21:53 PM
I'm bumping this topic because Buzzr announced that Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour will arrive on their schedule on September 30, 2019.  They will air episodes on weeknights at 10:00 PM Eastern, followed by airings on Saturdays at 8:00 PM Eastern and Sundays at 3:00 PM Eastern (I'm not sure if these are reruns of the weeknight airings).

Sorry to divert this, but to some game show fans (myself included), this might be the bigger news----

Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: styleguy on September 12, 2019, 07:56:15 PM
This is great!  The video clip didn't say a time.  Has Buzzr set an airtime for it?
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: goldroadfanatic on September 12, 2019, 07:58:47 PM
Split Second will be on weekdays at 10:00 AM eastern, with repeat airings on Sundays at 10:00 PM and 10:30 PM Eastern.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: pricefan18 on September 12, 2019, 08:01:22 PM
Split Second will be on weekdays at 10:00 AM eastern, with repeat airings on Sundays at 10:00 PM and 10:30 PM Eastern.

With these shorter series, does it seem like a mistake to anyone else to air them during the week vs. on weekends given how fast they'll be burned through this way and even moreso if they only got a select amount of them? I sorta feel it is,
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Superballer on September 12, 2019, 09:01:40 PM
I see your logic.  But at least we are getting them, which is better than not. 
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Briguy on September 13, 2019, 12:20:07 AM
With these shorter series, does it seem like a mistake to anyone else to air them during the week vs. on weekends given how fast they'll be burned through this way and even moreso if they only got a select amount of them? I sorta feel it is,

Not necessarily. The Family Channel reran the 1986-1987 "Spilt Second" series for several years even though it lasted just a year in syndication. There's still play-along value and the challenge of recall if you've seen a given episode before. (Sort of what I saw once on a rules sheet for a board game I once had ... once the supply of questions were exhausted, "just play them again and see how well you do the next time around.")

Brian
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: pricefan18 on September 13, 2019, 01:24:41 AM
Not necessarily. The Family Channel reran the 1986-1987 "Spilt Second" series for several years even though it lasted just a year in syndication. There's still play-along value and the challenge of recall if you've seen a given episode before. (Sort of what I saw once on a rules sheet for a board game I once had ... once the supply of questions were exhausted, "just play them again and see how well you do the next time around.")

Brian

Interesting theory....never thought of it quite that way, but it makes sense....especially for stuff like Split Second or Jeopardy being trivia heavy.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: vnisanian2001 on September 13, 2019, 11:07:52 AM
SuperMatch93 said on Game Show Forum that the tapes for the original Split Second may have been reused to record Password and Family Feud. I believe it depends on the network and production company. Chances are, they reused them to record Let's Make a Deal, and then subsequently, most of those were tossed out.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: tpir04 on September 13, 2019, 02:40:53 PM
Quite honestly, I've seen very little of LMAD and Split Second, considering it was before my time, so this will be a real treat for me.

Also willing to wager that the reason these are coming (Split Second) or returning (LMAD) to Buzzr is because of the two-year anniversary of Monty Hall's passing on September 30, 2017.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Grand_game2004 on September 13, 2019, 07:18:59 PM
Man, on Split Second, Monty was pretty fast talking.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Ccook on September 16, 2019, 06:50:09 PM
Here's what I see on TV Guide's schedule page, at least for the weekend of September 28:

On Saturdays, the block of Classic Concentration gets replaced with Password Plus, Child's Play, Tattletales and Card Sharks, each in 2-episode spurts.

Sundays, Match Game-Hollywood Squares goes on at 4 PM ET, followed by Press Your Luck and To Tell the Truth. On Monday the 30th, the addition of Split Second hasn't been placed yet, so as they used to say in print, the schedule is subject to change.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: tpir04 on September 16, 2019, 06:52:58 PM
September 28 begins the Lost & Found marathon that Buzzr does every year so I can't say I'm surprised.
Title: Re: Buzzr to Air Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Episodes on February 17th
Post by: Ccook on September 16, 2019, 06:57:09 PM
You're right--the new schedules begin September 30, so I had a suspicion it was another Lost and Found.