Some TPIR Questions

[Dr. Numsen]

There were a couple of things I've wondered about since I started
seeing TPIR at 7AM CST on GSN again this week.

1) Who was the model that appeared on Monday's (30 AUG) episode that
was substituting for Holly?

2) It looks like we're in the 1983-84 season now because they were
talking about Christmas and Thanksgiving this week. And I'm just
wondering when Bill Todman's name was taken off at the end of the show.
Wasn't Child's Play and the 80s version of Tattletales just a Mark
Goodson Television Production?

3) When did they start offering a car AND money on the same half of
the show? Plinko and Grand Game were the 2 cash games this week.

The answers to these questions would be greatly appreciated.
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[akam...@aone.com]

In article <8_Sz3.2878$LL2....@c01read02-admin.service.talkway.com>,
"Dr. Numsen" <rodney...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 3) When did they start offering a car AND money on the same half of
> the show? Plinko and Grand Game were the 2 cash games this week.

I think they always have for the most part. There was a time when Grand
Game, Plinko, and for a little while, Phone Home Game were played with
two short games ( why I don't know ).

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[Sylvia9012]

I think maybe 1984..

[Rhuds...@aol.com]

In a message dated 09/03/1999 3:08:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
rodney...@hotmail.com writes:

<<
2) It looks like we're in the 1983-84 season now because they were

talking about Christmas and Thanksgiving this week. And I'm just

wondering when Bill Todman's name was taken off at the end of the show.
Wasn't Child's Play and the 80s version of Tattletales just a Mark
Goodson Television Production?
>>

Todman died in the early 80's. Goodson bought his share. enough said.

[Zach Horan]

>
>I think they always have for the most part. There was a time when Grand
>Game, Plinko, and for a little while, Phone Home Game were played with
>two short games ( why I don't know ).
>
>

One of those quickie games was probably played for a car.

[Zach Horan]

>1) Who was the model that appeared on Monday's (30 AUG) episode that
>was substituting for Holly?

Probably Kyle Aletter.

> 2) It looks like we're in the 1983-84 season now because they were
>talking about Christmas and Thanksgiving this week. And I'm just
>wondering when Bill Todman's name was taken off at the end of the show.

Probably in the 1983-84 season for TPIR.

> Wasn't Child's Play and the 80s version of Tattletales just a Mark
>Goodson Television Production?

CP always was billed just as a Goodson show. Tattletales was billed as GT until
early 1984, near the end of its second run.

> 3) When did they start offering a car AND money on the same half of
>the show? Plinko and Grand Game were the 2 cash games this week.

Punchboard premiered around 1978. Grand Game debuted in 1980, and Plinko
debuted on the show airing 1/3/83.

[Rhuds...@aol.com]

In a message dated 09/03/1999 8:25:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
sylvi...@aol.complaint writes:

<<
I think maybe 1984..

>I'm just
>wondering when Bill Todman's name was taken off at the end of the show.

> Wasn't Child's Play and the 80s version of Tattletales just a Mark
>Goodson Television Production? >>

Well ALL of the shows were Mark Goodson shows by then, I think but until
then only shows CREATED after 1982 like Childs Play and Trivia Trap were
MGP. I know that the Cullen Blockbusters and the original Dawson Feud were
G-T until the end of their runs

RIchard Hudson

[Foster-Gray]

I also have some minor (and strange) TPiR questions (which nobody cares about),
questions that make me wonder at 1:30 in the a.m.

1) When did standing-O's become the norm for Bob Barker's entrance?

2) When did the dollar signs on the SCSD wheel change the fatter ones?

3) Why exactly did Bob stop foreign cars from being offered?

Finally

4) When were fur coats pulled as a prize?

I know these questions are right silly, but I was just curious. Thanks to
anyone who can fill the void.

The ONE and ONLY, Brandon Foster-Gray (I hope)

[Zach Horan]

>I know that the Cullen Blockbusters and the original Dawson Feud were
>G-T until the end of their runs

Dawson Feud(original) was billed as GT until 1982-83, after that it was billed
as MGP.

[Zach Horan]

>1) When did standing-O's become the norm for Bob Barker's entrance?

Late 80s I think, once he became Executive Producer of TPIR upon the death of
Frank Wayne.

>2) When did the dollar signs on the SCSD wheel change the fatter ones?

The current design around the big wheel premiered in the 1987-88 season, and
the red carpet under the wheel debuted near the end of the 1992-93 season. The
current scoreboard at the big wheel debuted in the 1984-85 season.

>3) Why exactly did Bob stop foreign cars from being offered?

Something about the companies exploting animals when testing their cars.
Foreign cars haven't been offered on Daytime TPIR since 1992(although TnPIR94
with Doug Davidson did offer foreign cars).

>4) When were fur coats pulled as a prize?

Early 80s. By the time of the 1983-84 eps. GSN is currently showing, furs were
no longer a part of TPIR.

[akam...@aone.com]

In article <19990903205111...@ng-fm1.aol.com>,

Yes usually, I remember Range Game, Squeeze Play, Safe Crackers, and
Double Prices were the favorites for this. Once they were going to play
Range Game and as they were walking up to the board, the price was
already lighted up. BB asked the man if he had seen it and he had, so
BB announced they had to give him the prize which turned out to be a
car.

--
Albin O. Kampfer

[akam...@aone.com]

In article <19990903205038...@ng-fm1.aol.com>,

zach...@aol.com (Zach Horan) wrote:
> >1) Who was the model that appeared on Monday's (30 AUG) episode that
> >was substituting for Holly?
>
> Probably Kyle Aletter.

Do you remember that one season ( I think it was about this time ) when
they had several different models fill in for Holly for almost a year.
It was never explained where she was.

[LabsOnGo46]

Regarding the question:

"Why exactly did Bob stop foreign cars from being offered?"

At first, I had thought it was part of a "Buy American" campaign, which became
popular in the early 1990s. But the explanation about foreign car companies
using live animals in various tests (e.g., crash tests, use of materials and
sprays, etc.) makes more sense.

At about the same time TPiR stopped awarding foreign cars, there were celebrity
protests against General Motors for purportedly using animals in tests of their
automobiles. And for about three years (1992 to at least 1995), there were no
General Motors cars awarded, not even the occasional Corvette or Cadillac. My
guess is Bob Barker refused to give away a GM car unless there were no animal
tests involved.

Brian Rathjen
LabsO...@aol.com

[Thomas Boggs]

Regarding the standng ovations for Bob-the first was a partial standing
ovation for winning his first Emmy in May 1982. Gradually afterwards
more of the audience would stand-until the Fall of 1984 it became
standard.
Tom

[Thomas Boggs]

The model was not Kyle Aleter as Bob referred to the model as "Vernell"
on todays(12-5-83 orignal airdate) broadcast. I don't believe she was
ever introduced with a full name on the show. Kyle Aleter appeared much
later around the 1989 season when Lee Meriwether(Kyle's mother) was
appearing in Barnaby Jones.
Tom

[Zach Horan]

>much
>later around the 1989 season when Lee Meriwether(Kyle's mother) was
>appearing in Barnaby Jones.
>Tom

Barnaby Jones aired in the mid-late 70s,it was in reruns by then.

[Thomas Boggs]

Actually the model's first name is "Channel' pronounced(SHA-nel)-I
goofed in yesterday's post and misheard Bob's pronunciation of her name
which was much clearer on today's Price on GSN(12-6-83).
Tom