I wonder what Norm felt when he saw the soaps* The Doctors* and *Another World* in Living Color, but not his own show?
On Friday, July 3, 2020 at 11:49:16 AM UTC-4, Mark Jeffries wrote: > > Norm Blumenthal, the show's producer (and sole rebus creator for the > entire run), had the advantage of running a small portion of the network > that no one paid attention to and had fought off every attempt to go to > color at the network whose slogan became "The Full Color Network" until the > bosses put their feet down. He still refused to show the rebuses in color, > because he claimed that seeing colors would make the puzzles too easy. > When Lin Bolen (the inspiration for Diana Christiansen in "Network") became > head of daytime, her attempts to move NBC's game shows into the 70s met on > deaf ears with Blumenthal and he kicked her out of Studio 3H during > taping. Her revenge was having NBC sign a licensing deal with syndicator > Jim Victory (with Goodson-Todman producing) that took Blumenthal's > "Concentration" off the air in early 1973 and lost him a job of almost 15 > years. The syndicated version began that fall and ran five years from LA, > with Jack Narz hosting and an Edd Kalehoff synth-heavy score replacing the > organ music. > > Mark Jeffries > Saints Spotlight Editor > spotl...@gmail.com <javascript:> > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 9:35 AM Jim Ellwanger <trai...@ellwanger.tv > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Trivia note: "Concentration" was the last NBC show to switch to color >> full-time. >> >> But it was already a color show by Christmas 1968 -- this appears to be a >> kinescope of a color broadcast. >> >> >> On Jul 3, 2020, at 12:11 AM, JW <redb...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> > But I will always remember him most fondly as the MC on Concentration. >> >> The 1968 Christmas episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TttxuMzlKNs >> >> -- >> 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 tvor...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKSNnOFOyfeMy1wGXC%3Di%3DpvfeO-LShh22Q7e8%3DGtEgxzr-o2DQ%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKSNnOFOyfeMy1wGXC%3Di%3DpvfeO-LShh22Q7e8%3DGtEgxzr-o2DQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> >> -- >> 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 tvor...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/D494F981-2174-4B28-B7B1-6273F194A6B4%40ellwanger.tv >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/D494F981-2174-4B28-B7B1-6273F194A6B4%40ellwanger.tv?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/427ffea0-fd08-4bce-8b7e-703d93192c37o%40googlegroups.com.
