The show was a yawnfest, just boring as all get out, but I watched it every weekday afternoon anyway.
It was Three on a Match, a game show that aired on NBC from 1971 to 1974. Part of what made it boring, given that I was four years old, was that its rules were complicated. I could never figure [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘game shows’
11 September 2008
Vintage TV: Bill Cullen
19 July 2008
Vintage TV: Match Game
All five of my regular readers probably know by now that I love game shows. I get the biggest kick out of watching average people win big prizes by playing silly games, or B-list celebrities make bad jokes and play off each other, or smart people try to figure out answers based on thin clues. [...]
17 June 2008
Vintage TV: The Price is Right ticket plug
As a kid, I filled large portions of my summers watching game shows, which ruled the morning daytime airwaves in the 1970s. I still love game shows. If I had cable, I’d probably fill large portions of my evenings in front of GSN watching classic reruns.
GSN condenses those reruns a bit so they can squeeze [...]
