On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:33 PM, K.M. Richards wrote: > Probably because GSN has run repeats of the entire "Match Game '7x" series > somewhere on the schedule for the entire 18 years of their existence.
There was a period of about 6 months, October 1997-April 1998, when the rights to most of the Goodson-Todman library expired, and they didn't have "Match Game" on the schedule. Wikipedia claims that GSN called that time the "Dark Period," but as far as I know, that's only a name given to it by online game show fanboys -- it's not like GSN was using that term on the air (and why would they?). > Wikipedia says a "Match Game '73" episode was the first show aired when the > network debuted on December 1, 1994 ... Again, Wikipedia's wrong -- they started with a 24-hour marathon of one episode of every show that they had available in their library at the time, in more or less chronological order. The first show aired was, I believe, "What's My Line?". -- Jim Ellwanger <train...@ellwanger.tv> <http://www.ellwanger.tv> -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
