Proposed 60-minute format:
-Front game reverts to traditional Dick Clark-era rules & timing,
complete with Mystery 7 & 7-11 cards. Tiebreak rules also revert to
the 'classic' format.
-Single elimination format.
-Winner's Circle endgame format also retains classic rules, but a
prize ladder applie
On Apr 3, 10:19 am, Joe Hass wrote:
> The only game I can think of that moved from 30 to 60 minutes was TPIR
> in 1976. They created a new game (the showcase showdown) to sort out
> the winners from each "half" of the show.
When TPIR successfully switched to an hourlong format, competing
network
The game is set for 30 minutes. If you make it 60, here are the
questions off the top of my head:
* Contestants: Do you add additional contestants? Do you allow for
returning contestants?
* Front game: How many items in a round? 6 in 20 or 7 in 30? Do you
allow for timing to help break ties?
* En
- Original Message -
From: "M-D November"
Now seems like a good time for a Match Game revival...just saying.
The Price is Right used the Match Game 0X theme several times during the
April Fools' episode yesterday, including the outro.
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On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Thomas Heald, Esquire wrote:
>
> Ed Dravecky wrote:
> > M-D November wrote:
> >> Now seems like a good time for a Match Game revival...just saying.
> >
> > Maybe, but the most recent revival failed because the best of the
> > 1970s "Match Game" relied on double en
Ed Dravecky wrote:
> M-D November wrote:
>> Now seems like a good time for a Match Game revival...just saying.
>
> Maybe, but the most recent revival failed because the best of the
> 1970s "Match Game" relied on double entendres and a "naughty" panel...
> and it turned out we're apparently, as a
M-D November wrote:
> Now seems like a good time for a Match Game revival...just saying.
Maybe, but the most recent revival failed because the best of the
1970s "Match Game" relied on double entendres and a "naughty" panel...
and it turned out we're apparently, as a nation, no longer capable of
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:29 PM, M-D November wrote:
> Why is it necessary to "rework" the game? The original format worked
> just fine! The Donny Osmond version 'reworked' the format,
> and...well, enough said.
I assume they will try to make it play like Password...
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Why is it necessary to "rework" the game? The original format worked
just fine! The Donny Osmond version 'reworked' the format,
and...well, enough said.
M-D
Now seems like a good time for a Match Game revival...just saying.
On Apr 1, 4:35 pm, "Thomas Heald, Esquire" wrote:
> http://www.tvweek
