Match Game ’75/Match Game P.M. Last Update: March 17, 2001 -- Reruns section updated, two links added. Airing: Match Game ’75: 3:30-4 p.m. Monday-Friday January 1. Game Shows, more than any other genre, were prone to becoming either missing or lost. The practice of wiping (reusing videotapes) stopped as a whole around …. TODAY Video - Latest TODAY show clips, news & video. EDITOR'S PICKSNow Playing. Obama on why he's a better father as President, and the impact of Sandy Hook. Now Playing. Joe Biden: It's been a privilege to work in the 'majesty' of the Oval Office. Now Playing. Jill Biden: Hard to hear Joe Biden regrets not running for president. Now Playing. It's Bo and Sunny! The Obama family dogs join the TODAY White House tour. Now Playing. Obama on 2. Americans want politics that 'feed our hopes, not our fears'. Now Playing. Al Roker reveals the biggest Golden Globes moment of the night. Now Playing. Joe Biden on the 2. Obama. Now Playing. 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Golden Globe backstage reactions: Stallone, Leonardo Di. Game Shows / Missing Episode. Game Shows, more than any other genre, were prone to becoming either missing or lost. The practice of wiping (reusing videotapes) stopped as a whole around 1. The oldest televised game show episode known to exist is from 1. Party Line, hosted by Bert Parks; the oldest game show footage known to exist is a 1. Information Please that was recorded for showing in theaters.). The comparative lack of circulating game show episodes may also be due to the format's perceived inherent lack of rerun potential, due to the genre not really being episodic or having any plot to speak of. On the other hand, more so than any other genre, collectors and traders of these taped shows proliferated early in the internet's life span, meaning that now when there's a search, there's a LOT of searching. Nearly all of the first ten years of the original daytime NBCWheel of Fortune is erased (a somewhat more concise, although likely incomplete, list is here). All three pilots exist: the first, hosted by Chuck Woolery in 1. Working Title. Shopper's Bazaar, the other two hosted by Edd Byrnes in 1. The first seven years (1. Woolery, were largely wiped. Only a handful of episodes exist, mostly from 1. About the second half of Pat Sajak's run on daytime (1. Rolf Benirschke (1. Channel Hop to CBSnote (followed by a return to NBC in January 1. Bob Goen (1. 98. 9- 9. The Sajak- hosted nighttime version (1. The lack of episodes representing those eras is due at least in part to limited reruns on GSN and/or few big fans of Wheel in the game show tape trading community. In a lesser example, three episodes had entire puzzles edited out for reasons other than technical errors. The first (taped in San Francisco and aired November 2, 1. VANNA'S PREGNANT because she miscarried before the episode made it to air; in its place, viewers saw a three- minute spiel on San Francisco, followed by a post- production clip of Pat standing at the puzzle board and announcing who won that round. Two New Orleans episodes aired in November 2. Hurricane Katrina each had one puzzle removed before airing because it was believed the answers would be insensitive to victims; instead, they showed clips of Pat and Vanna asking viewers to donate to relief funds. Oddly, one round was restored when the episodes reran the next summer (the answer was THE LOUISIANA SUPERDOME), but the other puzzle is Lost Forever. Also, because of Katrina- induced evacuations, a Family Week that was supposed to air in November 2. However, the families that were supposed to appear on it did get to play later in the season. Yet other episodes, including the 1. The week of February 6, 2. Wheel Goes Country. For some reason, an already- taped military week was moved up from March to that week, and the "Goes Country" theme just disappeared without a trace. Sister show Jeopardy! Art Fleming era (1. UCLA and Paley Center); the 1. Subsequent eras are also intact, including both Trebek pilots. On the current Trebek version (1. Barbara Lowe retired undefeated was supposedly taken out of rotation due to Lowe having lied about her prior game show commitments (there are limits as to how many game shows a contestant can be on, and she exceeded said limits), not to mention being a total Jerk Ass on air. Once the powers that be found out, she was barred from the Tournament of Champions, and her winnings were withheld until she threatened with a lawsuit. Much later, a contestant named Jeff Kirby finished in third place in 1. Since you can't compete on the show twice (barring tournaments, or contestants who are invited back by the producers due to some event that significantly affected the outcome), he had his 2. Bob Barker maintains a ban on The Price Is Right episodes that have fur coats as prizes despite offers by BCI to use disclaimers and/or donate to his favorite charities if he'd just allow the first three tapings from 1. DVD set. Barker has also tried other arbitrary kinds of whitewashing, most notably to show model Holly Hallstrom and 1. Dennis James; while the Hallstrom ban is due to ill will instigated by Barker and the fact that Holly won her lawsuit against him, the ban on James would appear to be more about the frequent instances of furs as prizes.. Bob wasn't involved with that version until James was dismissed, and certainly doesn't explain why GSN avoided the (admittedly very, very few) non- fur episodes as well. Four were just plain never aired: one from the show's first week in 1. September 1. 97. 8, one in September 1. Contestant's Row but no one noticing). All but the 1. 97. For the original Bill Cullen era, many early daytime episodes were erased while the nighttime shows that survive are presented as black- and- white kinescopes; the NBC nighttime run (and later NBC daytime episodes) aired in color, but none are known to exist in that form today. The 1. 98. 5- 8. 6 (Kennedy) and 1. Davidson) syndicated editions are (presumed) intact, but neither has seen the light of day since at least the '9. GSN's Price contract expiring (seemingly for good) in 2. Mark Goodson- Bill Todman Productions usually managed to preserve at least one episode from most of their shows, but even with them there's a couple of exceptions. The Better Sex (1. Only four episodes are known to exist the pilot and Grand Finale have circulated for years, while two general episodes were aired by GSN. The Match Game (1. Virtually all of these episodes are black- and- white kinescopes. Some episodes of the far more familiar 1. GSN rota due to racial slurs or homophobic slurs that are now seen as unacceptable, although one supposedly has a malfunctioning tape. On the other hand, a string of CBS episodes that never aired in 1. GSN in 2. 00. 1. Almost all of Mindreaders (1. MIA; no one seems to know if it was wiped or not. The premiere (August 1. The pilot (taped August 3), two episodes (August 1. December 1. 3), and the opening of a third (December 3. Number Please (1. GSN. Most of the original 1. Password was wiped, although most nighttime episodes remain. Some 1. 96. 6- 6. Edited for Syndication forms, including the Grand Finale. Almost the entire run of the ABC Password (1. Family Feud), and less than 2. Password Plus was hit with this in two unusual ways. Similar to the '8. Password Plus example, one episode of the syndicated To Tell the Truth had a round lost forever when it was discovered that the tape had malfunctioned. Host Garry Moore introduced the contestant and challengers as normal then explained the situation to the home audience, saying that while it was briefly considered to have the panel try to recreate their questions it was ultimately decided to just apologize and have an extended interview with the contestant. Coincidentally, Gene Rayburn was on the panel for this lost round as well.). Snap Judgment (1. Goodson- Todman, because it's completely gone. The only footage we can provide to prove that it even happened is a low- quality mic- to- TV audio recording of an intro with Phyllis Newman and Paul Anka. The August 1. 9, 1. Archival Television Audio, Inc. Concentration is quite MIA, too. The Barry- Enright version on NBC (Hugh Downs/Jack Barry/Ed Mc. Mahon/Bob Clayton, 1. Norm Blumenthal. So private tape collections to the rescue, right? Well.. not really, since NBC still owns the rights to all versions and hasn't allowed any series to be rerun. Here's what's known to exist and circulate. About a dozen or so episodes in private collections (individuals and media collections such as the Paley Center), almost all from the 1. Nearly all of these shows scattered throughout the run have been posted on You. Tube, including the Grand Finale. A Barry episode from the brief 1. Mc. Mahon- hosted shows has so much as an audio clip. Although believed to be intact, only one complete episode (taped 1. You. Tube; the last few minutes of a 1. Wink Martindale's team brought out five complete episodes on their channel as rewards for subscriber milestones. Intact, with dozens of episodes circulating among collectors and posted on You. Tube. Two of the ten pilots shot in 1. Orson Bean as host and a strange "match related words instead of prizes" front game format) are also around. Many of the game shows that aired alongside Concentration and Jeopardy! NBC no longer exist either, aside from tapes at the Paley Center. These include The Who, What, or Where Game, Three On A Match, and the original Sale Of The Century. The entire NBC run of Dream House (1. Similarly, the show's original versions on ABC (1. Whats My Line: Most of the first two years of the CBS run (February 2, 1. June 1. 95. 2) are gone forever, the network having recycled the silver in their kinescopes. Goodson- Todman put a stop to it in Summer 1. CBS season to air in color). The syndicated series (1. GSN. The Adventure Game was one of the victims of the BBC children's television purge of 1. Live- Action TV for details). Each of the first two series (May- June 1. November 1. 98. 1) includes one lost episode note (although it's speculated that Series 1 Episode 2 might exist in a private collection somewhere, as the show's Wikipedia article has an unusually detailed summary for an episode that has supposedly been lost since 1. BBC to continue to regard the episode as "missing"). Moreover, apart from the fourth and final season (which has occasionally aired on Challenge TV), none of the surviving episodes have been rerun since the 1. The Big Showdown has only two surviving episodes the pilot (called Showdown) and the 6. The latter is a mostly- regular episode that likely survived due to a certain blooper known to have been referenced since at least mid- 1. Jim Peck tripping down the stairs while making his entrance. The original incarnations of Chuck Barris brainchildren The Dating Game (1. The Newlywed Game (1. The vast majority of NBC's daytime run of The Hollywood Squares has been wiped (including the short- lived 1. The Storybook Squares), and both the 1. Dark Shadows; see the Live- Action TV page for more on that).
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