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Title: The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows by David Schwartz, Steve Ryan, Fred Wostbrock ISBN: 0-8160-3847-3 Publisher: Checkmark Books Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great Game Show book!
Comment: I just love game shows,From Gene Rayburn on Match Game,Richard Dawson on Family Feud,Allen Ludden on Password,Wink Martindale on Tic Tac Dough,Bob Eubanks on The Newlywed Game,to Chuck Barris on The Gong Show,and so on.
And this book is game shows to a science!It tells you what shows were on TV,even tells you who was the panelests,announcers,models,and more on those shows.
For example,did you know Charles Nelson Reilly (panelist from Match Game) hosted a game show called Sweetharts?Or did you know Baseball announcer Joe Garagolia from the NBC Baseball game of the Week hosted To Tell The Truth in the mid '70's?How about Mrs. Allen Ludden,Betty White hosting her own game show called "Just Men"?
It's all here and more!I enjoyed reading this forth edition,and I can't wait for the fifth version!
Rating: 5
Summary: A surprisingly first rate encyclopedia of the TV Game Show
Comment: The Editors of "The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows" have done a surprisingly nice job of covering a particular niche in the history of television programming. Except for the mania over the big prize game shows in the early 1950's and the brief resurgence of their popularity with "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire," game shows have mostly been the province of day time programming and syndication. Consequently, a reference book like the Brooks and Marsh "Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows" is only going to cover those relatively few series that went on the air at night. "The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows" not only has the virtue of covering every single Game Show in the history of television, it is done with an enviable balance between the historian's concern for air dates, hosts, assistants and rules of the game with the fans need for compelling pop culture details and television trivia with their "Did You Know" sections. Certainly, this is the best of both worlds collected into one reasonably priced volume. I picked up this book hoping it would be almost as good as Brooks and Marsh, but it turns out to be much better in terms of its particular corner of the television universe. Whatever you want to know about Game Shows, whether it is how many were hosted by Gene Rayburn, which has been on the air the longest, or which had the contestant who won the most money, you can bet this book has it and not even need to worry about what is behind Curtain #2.
Rating: 5
Summary: 517 Game Shows from 1941 to 1995.
Comment: This is the ultimate game show book to end all other game show books. This book lists every game show ever aired on television including the Dumont Network and cable channels. This book covers 517 different tv game shows in alphabetical order from the first tv game show special "Truth Or Consequences" on NBC, July 1, 1941, the first continuing CBS tv game show, "CBS Television Quiz" on July 2, 1941 and hundreds of others to 1995. 341 pages full with 152 photographs that will stimulate your memory. This book includes a listing of when all network tv stations and some cable stations began tv service. Even DuMont is listed. A chronology of game shows from the first in 1941 to 1995. A list of tv game shows by network. A list of the longest-running television game shows. Game Show Award winners and Nominees. Top-rated game shows from 1952-1971. TV game shows that began on radio. Game Shows that have had multiple runs. Index of game show personalities. A game show index. Name index and profession index. It was good to see Geoff Edwards, Art James, Jim Lange and Tom Kennedy again.
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Title: Backstage With The Original Hollywood Square : by Peter Marshall, Adrienne Armstrong, Alex Trebek ISBN: 1558539808 Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press Pub. Date: 17 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows: 1946-Present by Tim Brooks ISBN: 0345455428 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title:Best of TV Quiz & Game Show Themes ASIN: B00004WJJ9 Publisher: Varese Records Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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Title: Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4th Ed) by Alex McNeil ISBN: 0140249168 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title:Classic TV Game Show Themes ASIN: B0000060E4 Publisher: Varese Records Pub. Date: 24 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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