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Barry & Enright hypocrisy

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blozier2006:
The way I've heard it, the only reason Dan Enright made a fuss at all, was since he was considering trying to put Blank Check (the blink-and-miss-it train wreck from 1975) back on the air (apparently losing Joker and Tic Tac Dough to cancellation was nearly a death-blow to B&E in 1986, and Enright knew it).

SteveGavazzi:

--- Quote from: blozier2006 on June 02, 2023, 09:34:18 PM ---The way I've heard it, the only reason Dan Enright made a fuss at all, was since he was considering trying to put Blank Check...back on the air
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This is correct.  I don't know that the revival attempt and the lawsuit have been explicitly linked, but they both happened, and given the timing, it's pretty much impossible that they weren't related.

Sizeman:

--- Quote from: GRWHAMMY the 2nd on June 02, 2023, 05:39:45 PM ---i think "bullseye" as a term is too general for such a thing

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Yeah, let's not forget of the "Bullseye" Combs-era Family Feud segment (another Goodson-Todman production, of course).

Ccook:
A show could have a similar name as a show or a show's component but have differing objectives. There was a Wheel of Fortune in the early 50s  (prizes were awarded from a wheel for people doing good deeds) and there was certainly no stink raised when Merv Griffin launched his version in 1975.

"Blank check" is simply a phrase, as is "temptation" as a word. Where were the controlling interests for Heatter-Quigley when Price came up with their "Hot Seat" game (Hot Seat was a 1976 ABC game with married couples) or the "Temptation" game (a 1967 show with Art James; contestants try to outguess each other in selecting prizes)? The only time I recall a show threatened with a lawsuit for having a similar concept was To Tell The Truth, which Art Linkletter charged resembled his "Lie Detector" segment of People Are Funny (which comes across as an ersatz Truth or Consequences.)

Titles seem to be gray areas in creativity, and only in showbiz could the matter of a name cause such a stink.

blozier2006:

--- Quote from: Ccook on June 07, 2023, 02:43:06 PM ---The only time I recall a show threatened with a lawsuit for having a similar concept was To Tell The Truth, which Art Linkletter charged resembled his "Lie Detector" segment of People Are Funny (which comes across as an ersatz Truth or Consequences.)

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Actually I can add another... Goodson-Todman sued Ralph Andrews and Bill Yagemann over the original 1960s You Don't Say!, which GT claimed was too close to Password... and because of that suit, YDS had to change their set to put host Tom Kennedy off to one side of the desk (he'd originally stood between the players, just like Allen Ludden on Password).

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