Celebrate Good Times: GSN Daytime Classics Back in April!

The celebration is on for GSN's classic game show audience. Bill and Dick and Allen and Bert and Gordon are all back----in April.

Gone are Star Search, Hollywood Showdown and all of the GSN originals from three years ago, except for Lingo.

Effective April 4, several Goodson-Todman classics from the '70s through the '90s and Bob Stewart's The $100,000 Pyramid return to the GSN daytime schedule.

CBS Match Game reruns launch the day at 9 a.m. (ET/PT), displacing the Arsenio Hall talent contest. Bill Cullen's Blockbusters expands from weekends, taking over the 10:30 slot.

A rarely-shown series, the '80s syndicated Card Sharks with Bill Rafferty, moves in at 2:30 p.m.

Returning after an extended hiatus: To Tell the Truth (the 1990-91 version with Gordon Elliott, Lynn Swann and Alex Trebek), Password Plus with Allen Ludden and Tom Kennedy and Super Password with Bert Convy.

The Monday-through-Friday GSN lineup, effective April 4:
9:00 Match Game
9:30 To Tell the Truth
10:00 Family Feud (Dawson)
10:30 Blockbusters (Bill Cullen)
11:00 Password Plus
11:30 The $100,000 Pyramid
12:00 Jeopardy
12:30 Newlywed Game (unsure which era)
1:00 & 1:30 Love Connection
2:00 Super Password
2:30 Card Sharks (Rafferty)*

*All times Eastern/Pacific
Note to West Coast viewers who have GSN's Pacific feed, the golden goodness begins at 6:00am-12:00 noon.

Thank you, GSN! THANK YOU!!!

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Wow! Kudos to GSN for bringing back all of my favorite game shows. I like to see them come back. "$100,000 Pyramid", "Card Sharks" and the two remaining Password's like "Password Plus" and "Super Password". I always love all the "Password" shows. The one I would look forward to see on GSN is bringing back "Win, Lose or Draw" from its hiatus. "Password Plus" was hosted by Allen Ludden and it was his last show as an emcee until his death in 1981. George Kennedy took over Allen's place following his death.

Wow! Kudos to GSN for bringing back all of my favorite game shows. I like to see them come back. "$100,000 Pyramid", "Card Sharks" and the two remaining Password's like "Password Plus" and "Super Password". I always love all the "Password" shows. The one I would look forward to see on GSN is bringing back "Win, Lose or Draw" from its hiatus. "Password Plus" was hosted by Allen Ludden and it was his last show as an emcee until his death in 1981. George Kennedy took over Allen's place following his death.


It was Tom Kennedy. He took over hosting duties for Allen on Password Plus+ around 1980 when he (Allen) became ill. George Kennedy is an actor. :)

Forgot to mention the report is from TVgameshows.net

Life indeed is very good again! :D

It was Tom Kennedy. He took over hosting duties for Allen on Password Plus+ around 1980 when he (Allen) became ill. George Kennedy is an actor. :)

Forgot to mention the report is from TVgameshows.net

Life indeed is very good again! :D

You bet. I thought it was George Kennedy. I made a mistake.:lol: Tom Kennedy did took over his hosting job after Allen's death.:)

As you probably know bossradio93, GSN is bringing back Game Show Network from the dead in the daytime.:lol:

This is good news.

I for one is very glad to hear that GSNis going back to basic although it won't do me any good because tthe only way I could ever see it is if I have diginal cable with the diginal channels which of course cost an arm and a leg!Now if only some channel would bring on the classic version of The Hollywood Squares(Hint:Nick At Nite T.V. Land),I can die a very happy man!

Except for WOF it could possibly come back.

I'm so happy the classic game shows are coming back. :D

This is what GSN is all about, the rebirth of Game Show Network. It will rise from the dead.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=79853&stc=1

Next month, GSN will become Game Show Network from the dead in the daytime.

Great news!!! Thank you, GSN! BUT......

Where's LET'S MAKE A DEAL?????



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Finally!!! :happyface What else can I say but, "Yes!" The password shows are back, along with Pyramid, and weekday Blockbusters. I think I'll actually watch GSN again, for the first time in many months! Long live the classics! :D

I am so glad That The Old Game's Show's are coming Back to GSN
This is Good News.

Does anyone have a VCR?? I would like to have Password Plus with Allen Ludden taped. I will be more than glad to supply the VCR tapes and pay for the postage. Password rocks and so does Allen Ludden.

You can email me at mstewart1961@hotmail.com

Thanks!!!

Just curious as to why the returned to their old format? Did the new GSN tank?

Just curious as to why the returned to their old format? Did the new GSN tank?

Not sure yet? I hope GSN will bring Game Show Network back from the grave.:lol:

Bossradio93, I made this avatar for the return of Game Show Network. Starting Monday, GSN is resurrecting as Game Show Network in the daytime. All the great game shows starting at 9:00 AM starting Monday. By the way, if you want to see a thread from last year where Game Show Network died and it becomes GSN, read this! (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=92835)

I hope all the great shows are back and I hope it will be a Game Show Network for all of the daytime. Thank goodness!http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif

Bossradio93, I made this avatar for the return of Game Show Network. Starting Monday, GSN is resurrecting as Game Show Network in the daytime. All the great game shows starting at 9:00 AM starting Monday. By the way, if you want to see a thread from last year where Game Show Network died and it becomes GSN, read this! (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=92835)

I hope all the great shows are back and I hope it will be a Game Show Network for all of the daytime. Thank goodness!http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif


I like that, Musicradio77! Good job!! Leave it up for the next week as the game show community embrace the wonderful memories these shows created!

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If you've missed this morning's show, GSN is now showing old game shows from 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM. As I said before, welcome back to Game Show Network in the daytime.:clap The original name has being reborn.:woohoo:

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I love to see "Card Sharks" with Bill Rafferty on GSN (where Game Show Network was reborn once again). On this show, Bill Rafferty was hosted the show and at the beginning, there was no car prize given through its entire run. The show was at CBS Television City (where the soon-to-be Bob Barker Studio came in). The same show with Bob Eubanks was taped at the same studio where Bill Rafferty was hosting before where they given away cars and prizes and even has questions envolves 10 people in the studio audience, for example baseball players, mailman, housewives, tennis players, etc.. Can you tell the difference on "Card Sharks" where both Bill Rafferty and Bob Eubanks hosted was taped at the same studio? Will find out!http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif

This is from TVGameshows.net:

The Classic Games Are Back! GSN Returns Old Favorites

You were not dreaming. April Fool was three days ago (including our April Fool prime time schedule). Earth has not shaken.

Several of GSN's Goodson-Todman classics returned to the network lineup Monday morning, including the Tom Kennedy episodes of Password Plus, the 1990-91 NBC edition of To Tell the Truth, Dick Clark in The $100,000 Pyramid, Bert Convy's 1984-89 Super Password and the rarely-seen Bill Rafferty episodes of syndicated Card Sharks.

In their original runs, the Pyramid shows which aired in prime time syndication in 80 percent of the country during the mid-1980s, were the most successful, though Super Password was the longest-running (albeit never a hit in the noon slot on NBC).

Kennedy took over for Allen Ludden on Password Plus after the veteran Password host was incapacitated by stomach cancer and a stroke which ultimately led to his death in early summer 1980.

Rafferty, the former Real People regular, was tapped by NBC for a short-lived revival of Blockbusters and doubled as the nighttime syndicated host of Card Sharks in the late '80s. Both shows failed inside of a year and Rafferty never did another game.

The Truth revival had the oddest history. The game premiered in September 1990 with NBC pulling a blooper by airing the pilot with Three's Company's Richard Kline as host to the Eastern and Central time zones. By day two, everyone saw Gordon Elliott take the reins with Elliott quickly becoming one of the most engaging new emcees in years.

However, six weeks later, Elliott was abruptly discharged from the show amidst a legal challenge from a production company for which the Australian had done a pilot. In an interview several years later on Game Show Network, a still-embittered Elliott said the rival company had no intention of going forward with the game.

In what became almost a host-of-the-month revolving door, Lynn Swann moved from the panel to the emcee desk, only to be replaced by Alex Trebek. Game show legend Mark Goodson even took his only two turns ever as a host when Trebek was called to the hospital for the birth of his child.

i wish they will air the dating game

I wish they aired Tic Tac Doe