Japan TV game show ENDURANCE - THE GAMAN
GUY
I'm seeking anyone who has episodes of the Japanese tv game show from the
80's early 90's called ENDURANCE in English or THE GAMAN in Japanese..
It featured Japanese university students doing a variety of interesting
Endurance competitions...
If anyone else has an interest in this show or has some on tape please
email me thanks.
John Isles, iv
In article <01bd7c82$2c3b04e0$98bc...@Tiger.speednet.com.au>, "GUY"
<jar...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>I'm seeking anyone who has episodes of the Japanese tv game show from the
>80's early 90's called ENDURANCE in English or THE GAMAN in Japanese..
Just an opinion-- THE JAPANESE EQUIVALENT OF "AMERICAN GLADIATORS"!
>It featured Japanese university students doing a variety of interesting
>Endurance competitions...
>If anyone else has an interest in this show or has some on tape please
>email me thanks.
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Jake Tanner
On Sun, 10 May 1998 23:32:07 -0700, q...@gte.net (John Isles, iv)
wrote:
>In article <01bd7c82$2c3b04e0$98bc...@Tiger.speednet.com.au>, "GUY"
><jar...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm seeking anyone who has episodes of the Japanese tv game show from the
>>80's early 90's called ENDURANCE in English or THE GAMAN in Japanese..
>
>Just an opinion-- THE JAPANESE EQUIVALENT OF "AMERICAN GLADIATORS"!
John, have you seen any footage from this show? I have and American
Gladiators is like a bunch of kids playing ring around the rosey in
comparison...ENDURANCE is flat out brutal and borderline cruel and
painful...
Jake
Chris M. Dickson
In article <35578672...@news.earthlink.net>, Jake Tanner
<jaket...@earthlink.net> writes
>John, have you seen any footage from this show? I have and American
>Gladiators is like a bunch of kids playing ring around the rosey in
>comparison...ENDURANCE is flat out brutal and borderline cruel and
>painful...
Borderline? Not from where I'm standing. :-(
In my book, American Gladiators is/was (has it passed away?) a valid,
imaginitive and innovative game show which has started an entire genre
for the rest of the world whose influence will be felt for years to
come. Endurance is just plain sick.
There's a version (ha, I missed out the space between the two words
there, and it seemed kinda appropriate...) of Endurance in the UK. I've
never seen it, and I don't intend to. No, I don't have any tapes and I
won't be getting them. Challenge TV have lost a *LOT* of kudos in my
book because of it (though I can quite imagine it makes good business
sense from their point of view).
Take care
Chris
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Jake Tanner
>In article <35578672...@news.earthlink.net>, Jake Tanner
><jaket...@earthlink.net> writes
>>John, have you seen any footage from this show? I have and American
>>Gladiators is like a bunch of kids playing ring around the rosey in
>>comparison...ENDURANCE is flat out brutal and borderline cruel and
>>painful...
>
>Borderline? Not from where I'm standing. :-(
>
>In my book, American Gladiators is/was (has it passed away?) a valid,
>imaginitive and innovative game show which has started an entire genre
>for the rest of the world whose influence will be felt for years to
>come. Endurance is just plain sick.
Chris, I didn't want to go to that extreme but you are absolutely
right...I have footage from the show that goes back to 1985 or prior
(prior to shock TV being so popular) and I can recall several
events...
The players being doused with gasoline and pulled on a cart through a
tunnel of fire...
Having clear tubes (similar in size to paper towel rolls) placed in
the players mouths and having raw animal brains fed to them until they
were sick...
Drinking beer rapidly and prohibited to use the bathroom...the losers
are the ones who piss all over themselves after their bladders give
out...
Enough examples?
American Gladiators has NOTHING on this show...
Jake
Chris M. Dickson
In article <35584038...@news.earthlink.net>, Jake Tanner
<jaket...@earthlink.net> writes
>Enough examples?
Too many :-(
Clive James, an Australian-born British chat show (generic term for
light-hearted and/or sycophantic celebrity interview; as far as I can
tell from what I've seen written here, Rosie O'Donnell's show would be
classified as a chat show in the UK) host, delighted in including clips
from Japanese game shows aplenty in his shows over the years. Some plain
bizarre and inoffensive, others explotative and cruel. Particularly as I
had started to see them at quite a young age, the globalisation of the
genre has been something I've been looking forward to with immense
distaste for some time now.
Endurance UK may be tucked away on a satellite and cable channel where
you actively have to go looking for it to find it (albeit Challenge TV,
which has/had the power to do as much for game shows in the UK as GSN
has in the US) but its influence as to what is and isn't acceptable in
game shows seems to be spreading to mainstream television game shows
over time. Personally, it's the number one worry I have with regard to
why I would want to disassociate with game shows in the future.
I predict that Endurance, in some form or another, will be televised in
the USA before the year 2005, as DejaNews is my witness. :-(
Rhudson765
>>Gladiators is like a bunch of kids playing ring around the rosey in
>>>comparison...ENDURANCE is flat out brutal and borderline cruel and
>>>painful...
>>
>>Borderline? Not from where I'm standing. :-(
>>
>>In my book, American Gladiators is/was (has it passed away?) a valid,
>>imaginitive and innovative game show which has started an entire genre
>>for the rest of the world whose influence will be felt for years to
>>come. Endurance is just plain sick.
>
>Chris, I didn't want to go to that extreme but you are absolutely
>right...I have footage from the show that goes back to 1985 or prior
>(prior to shock TV being so popular) and I can recall several
>events...
>
>The players being doused with gasoline and pulled on a cart through a
>tunnel of fire...
>
>Having clear tubes (similar in size to paper towel rolls) placed in
>the players mouths and having raw animal brains fed to them until they
>were sick...
>
>Drinking beer rapidly and prohibited to use the bathroom...the losers
>are the ones who piss all over themselves after their bladders give
>out...
>
>Enough examples?
>
>American Gladiators has NOTHING on this show...
>
>Jake
Here's a question. What kind of prizes did they ive away on that show. I don't
know why any intelligent person would subjust themselves to that kind of abuse
unless they were playing for cars
or cash prizes of in the US$10000 rang e PER STUNT!
Richard Hudson
Just remembering the relativly small prize budgets in foreign
game shows.
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In article <199805130557...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, Rhudson765
<rhuds...@aol.com> writes
>Here's a question. What kind of prizes did they ive away on that show.
Unconfirmed answer: they only gave a prize to the single winner and
nothing to all the eliminees in all the rounds. No idea what sort of
prize we're looking at. I think this was a sort of show that people
would go on principally for bragging rights, just to say that they had
been on it.
>Just remembering the relativly small prize budgets in foreign
>game shows.
Richard, that stereotype applies less and less as time goes by; please
stop thinking that way. Bruce's Price Is Right awards prizes at roughly
the same rate as TPiR, but bear in mind it's only a half hour weekly
show. Then again, there are plenty of different prime time game shows in
the UK with prize budgets approaching or exceeding that of Price; coming
to the UK this November is "Who wants to be a millionaire?" with a cash
prize of a cool million pounds. $1,000,000 Chance of A Lifetime? Feh!
German game shows have a bigger prize budget, as far as I can tell, than
British and US ones; possibly not in terms of jackpot, but certainly in
terms of average prize size. (Be warned that I'm working from a very
limited sample of examples here.) The prizes on Australian Sale of the
Century are none too shabby (deliberate under-exaggeration), either.
Cheers!
Jake Tanner
>In article <199805130557...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, Rhudson765
><rhuds...@aol.com> writes
>>Here's a question. What kind of prizes did they ive away on that show.
>
>Unconfirmed answer: they only gave a prize to the single winner and
>nothing to all the eliminees in all the rounds. No idea what sort of
>prize we're looking at. I think this was a sort of show that people
>would go on principally for bragging rights, just to say that they had
>been on it.
Are you ready for this? From what I recall, there were NO prizes...it
was strictly for bragging rights...that's what makes it even more
bizarre...
Jake
jeffrey...@gmail.com
It's sickening. Even more so that ANYONE thought of this or even allowed it to be filmed or broadcast.