Tweety
11-14-2010, 11:38 PM
This past Saturday afternoon (11/13), I was watching some football games, and during commercials, would sometimes flip around to see what else was on.
As it happened, ESPN Classic was running a little mini-marathon of a show called "Celebrity Bowling". I was looking through the episodes in the digital TV guide, and some of the celebrity teams looked interesting.
They had such stars as Don Adams, George Foreman, Roy Rogers (!), Gail Fisher ("Peggy" from "Mannix"),Cathy Lee Crosby, Michelle Lee and others.
Anyway, the final episode of the marathon featured Barry Williams, Chris Knight, Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb.
The teams were Barry and Maureen vs. Chris and Eve.
I thought it looked like the show might have been taped in '73 or '74, and at the end of the show, the host asked the kids how long the BB had been on. They mentioned that they'd just completed the 5th season (although they might not have known yet that the show was being canceled, they did not mention anything about cancellation). So the episode was from the spring or summer of 1974.
It was fun seeing them compete. Barry was the best natural bowler (turns out he had played in a couple of leagues). I think Eve got the first strike of the day. She was a better bowler than Chris, but Chris adjusted somewhat as the game went on and had a couple of good frames late in the contest. Maureen was definitely the worst bowler in the "bunch".
As he did in the driving skill contest with Marcia, Greg choked near the end of the game. He just folded under the pressure.
Chris and Eve's team won... I don't remember what the final score was, but it was about 140-something to around 100 or so. They used a best ball format...two lanes were used, each teammate would bowl, and then one of the teammates would try to make the easiest spare possible, while the other lane's result would be discarded.
It was fun to watch them.
As it happened, ESPN Classic was running a little mini-marathon of a show called "Celebrity Bowling". I was looking through the episodes in the digital TV guide, and some of the celebrity teams looked interesting.
They had such stars as Don Adams, George Foreman, Roy Rogers (!), Gail Fisher ("Peggy" from "Mannix"),Cathy Lee Crosby, Michelle Lee and others.
Anyway, the final episode of the marathon featured Barry Williams, Chris Knight, Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb.
The teams were Barry and Maureen vs. Chris and Eve.
I thought it looked like the show might have been taped in '73 or '74, and at the end of the show, the host asked the kids how long the BB had been on. They mentioned that they'd just completed the 5th season (although they might not have known yet that the show was being canceled, they did not mention anything about cancellation). So the episode was from the spring or summer of 1974.
It was fun seeing them compete. Barry was the best natural bowler (turns out he had played in a couple of leagues). I think Eve got the first strike of the day. She was a better bowler than Chris, but Chris adjusted somewhat as the game went on and had a couple of good frames late in the contest. Maureen was definitely the worst bowler in the "bunch".
As he did in the driving skill contest with Marcia, Greg choked near the end of the game. He just folded under the pressure.
Chris and Eve's team won... I don't remember what the final score was, but it was about 140-something to around 100 or so. They used a best ball format...two lanes were used, each teammate would bowl, and then one of the teammates would try to make the easiest spare possible, while the other lane's result would be discarded.
It was fun to watch them.