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Status of episodes...

posted 13 years ago by delightfulstar
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I know there are several posts here pertaining to what's available and what's not. A good chunk of the 60s run is extant, but many of those were from the nighttime version; the daytime version is thought to be largely lost.

The ABC run is rumored to have been wiped, which was something that ABC routinely would have done during that period - there are a few episodes on the trading circuit, most which are also on YT. One is a December 1971 episode with Brett Somers and Jack Klugman, another is from February 1972 with Sheila MacRae and Martin Milner. There are also three known later episodes: with the "All-Stars" Grandmaster Tournament Finale (Betty White, Hal Linden, Richard Dawson, Bill Bixby), an episode with Betty White and Vicki Lawrence, and the finale with Kate Jackson and Sam Melville, in which Betty appears with Allen at the end, and all three of those are from 1975. There may be other bits and pieces of that run out there that were taped by home viewers, or possibly something in a vault somewhere, but the whereabouts of any of those are unknown.

Hope this helps! :)

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." - Oscar Wilde

[–] missygirl21 13 years ago

Thank you! I wish GSN would start showing it again.

[–] delightfulstar 13 years ago

I wish they would, too. Hopefully, they'll make room for Password (and a few other G-T shows as well) when they do the next schedule revision, which is supposed to be in late March.

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." - Oscar Wilde

[–] Eric-62-2 10 years ago

To clarify about the daytime episodes, the color CBS ones from September 1966 to September 1967 are largely intact because they were syndicated in repeats from 68 to 71, but this also meant they were cut down by removing sponsor plugs and topical references in the conversations. The nighttime color episodes from 1967 were also made part of the syndication package but they were hacked further because they originally ran over 25 minutes and so the copies that exist today are often devoid of contestant interviews for the sake of maintaining intact game play.

A week of daytime episodes from January 1966 with Lucille Ball and Gary Morton exist in B/W kinescope format but no daytime episodes from 61-65 have ever turned up.