Daryl wrote --

Jeopardy! - Art Fleming (original host)

Watched that when I was home for lunch.

The answer is...Don Pardo. <G>

Pardo was the announcer, never the host, AFAIK.

I wonder if some kids believed everything was in shades of black and white....after all, that's what was on TV. :P

When I was young, and so was tv, I believed whatever was seen in that
magic box was live and happening at that moment. And a lot of tv was live at the time.
I was confused how a filmed show set in daylight could be happening
since it was dark out, and vice versa. Maybe it was dark/daylight on the other side of town, I didn't know.
I only knew the world around me and thought places like NYC and LA were
near here somewhere.
I finally learned better when I got older. I think around the time I
was 20.

There was a big stink years ago, because the contestants constantly
picked Richard Dawson for the SuperMatch...but if Richard wasn't picked, he got angry. It was if every one of them had an ego that needed to be stroked.

Richard was often picked since he seemed to match the contestant more
often.
Late in the show they brought in a large wheel with panelist names which
was spun to get the other panelist more of a chance to be called on.
Then shortly after Dawson left for Family Feud and the rest is history.
Joe

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Daryl wrote --

The same thing with The Match Game with Gene Rayburn. The Thursday/Friday shows were usually more loosey-goosey and giggly.

Especially when most of the questions gravitated to a sexual and
innuendo theme.

That was mostly the appeal of the show.
And the great thing it wasn't dirty. The games were suggestive at times,
but never dirty.
I hate to think what the game would be like today.
Joe
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Daryl wrote --

I remember one of the Looney Tunes cartoons, and I think Daffy Duck had a line in one of them, which was "If only Major Bowles could see me now".

I recall a scene in a cartoon. Forget who was in it but it was like a newsreel.
The narrator was talking about this and that event and then said
something along the lines "For the first time are going to present the actual birth
of a baby!"
The scene then goes to a curtain being pulled back with a baby in a upper berth. :)
Well, it was the actual berth of a baby. :)
Joe
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The same thing with The Match Game with Gene Rayburn. The Thursday/Friday shows were usually more loosey-goosey and giggly.

Especially when most of the questions gravitated to a sexual and
innuendo theme.

That was mostly the appeal of the show.
And the great thing it wasn't dirty. The games were suggestive at times, but never dirty.
I hate to think what the game would be like today.

I think it would be a lot like "The Bachelor/Bachelorette," or "Temptation Island," or any one of the other many singles shows that are on TV today.
In other words, dirty.

Mike


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Mike wrote --

That was mostly the appeal of the show.
And the great thing it wasn't dirty. The games were suggestive at times, but never dirty.

I think it would be a lot like "The Bachelor/Bachelorette," or "Temptation Island," or any one of the other many singles shows that are on TV today. In other words, dirty.

I haven't seen either of those. Of course I got rid of my tv years ago.
I don't like dirty, but I sometimes enjoy a bit of double entendre and innuendo. I.e., Groucho vs four letter "comics" today.
Joe
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Dennis asked Mike --

I am guessing they will be the edited versions, or they will
only show the episodes that don't require editing. I am hoping it is the latter.

Mike

What do they edit out of them?

I would imagine whatever the current outrage du jour happens to be.
Something can be ok yesterday but not today.
Recently there was the flap about Gone With The Wind and how these long disclaimers were added to the beginning of the film to the effect the film
was about another time and place and events not acceptable today, etc.
I don't know how people can go around outraged about something all the
time. Its not good for ones mental health.
Joe
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Incidentally, starting in January, MeTV is going to run 3 hours of Saturday Morning cartoons, including Bugs, Daffy, Popeye, and Tom and Jerry. I am guessing they will be the edited versions, or they will only show the episodes that don't require editing. I am hoping it is the latter.

What do they edit out of them?

Many of the cartoons contain "cartoon violence" where something happens to
a character, like Elmer Fudd shoots Daffy Duck. Of course, they don't die & there is (rarely) even any blood. More mature audiences know better than
to point guns at people. When I was a kid, we knew that shooting at
someone had consequences. But that kind of stuff sometimes gets edited out
as the kids apparently are no longer taught anything.

Also, keeping in mind that the heyday of some of these old cartoons was overlapped by WWII, any stereotypes about the Axis countries (especially
Japan) have to be removed so that no one gets their feelings hurt.


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Re: Re: Game shows
By: Mike Powell to DENNIS KATSONIS on Sat Dec 12 2020 09:38:00

Incidentally, starting in January, MeTV is going to run 3 hours of Saturday Morning cartoons, including Bugs, Daffy, Popeye, and Tom and Jerry. I am guessing they will be the edited versions, or they will only show the episodes that don't require editing. I am hoping it is the latter.

What do they edit out of them?

Many of the cartoons contain "cartoon violence" where something happens to
a character, like Elmer Fudd shoots Daffy Duck. Of course, they don't die & there is (rarely) even any blood. More mature audiences know better than
to point guns at people. When I was a kid, we knew that shooting at
someone had consequences. But that kind of stuff sometimes gets edited out as the kids apparently are no longer taught anything.

Also, keeping in mind that the heyday of some of these old cartoons was overlapped by WWII, any stereotypes about the Axis countries (especially Japan) have to be removed so that no one gets their feelings hurt.

It never occured to me to use guns as toys after watching Looney Tunes. But then again, my family used to go hunting, so I saw first hand what guns do to living creatures.

This I think isn't to protect the kids, as kids are not that dumb. IT's about protecting the sensibilities of idiot adults who don't understand how the world actually works.
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JOE MACKEY wrote to DARYL STOUT <=-

A few surviving original Match Game shows from the early '60s have surfaced on You Tube.
There were six guest panels, two teams of three men/three women, who
had to match other players answer, which was written on card, etc.
Gene Rayburn was the host.

I'll have to look for those - were they black and white?

My parents both worked when I was growing up, and I watched a lot of
afternoon TV. I remember watching Match Game all the time, and
wondering who the hell Charles Nelson Reilly and Rose Marie were,
since I'd never seen them in anything else...

One show from 1964 the panel were asked "Name some electric item
found in the bedroom".

The common answer was an electric blanket.
In the comments someone wrote:
1964: Electric blanket.
1974: A vibrator.

Reminds me of the "Newlywed Game" when asked where is their favorite
place to make "whoopie" (in the house). I'll leave the answer to the
reader.

All I can think of is the numerous deals from "Hollywood Squares",

That show often had answers that somehow got past the censors.

Host: "How many men in a professional hockey team?"

Paul Lynde, snickering: "About half..."

Circle gets the square!






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He's also depressed that on Christmas (he hates the day now),
every restaurant will be closed, and his friends will be with
other family and friends. He prefers to meet them at a restaurant,
and just sit, talk, eat, drink beer...and basically "party all the
time".

Although we won't be able to this year, due to COVID, my mother and I
usually go out to eat Chinese on Christmas. Many Chinese, and other ethnic restaurants, are open on Christmas.

He could probably do the same on a normal Christmas if he has at least one friend that won't be busy with family.

Mike


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Daryl wrote --

I better quit now, or folks are going to really wonder about
me.

Are gone too???
Joe
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