nobaloney
09-09-2011, 10:04 AM
Check this YouTube clip out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaL5KOIVzY8
It's a full-length episode of a Saturday-morning game show hosted by Alan Thicke for the ABC Television Network called "Animal Crack-Ups."
This episode features his entire TV family, just months after Alan celebrated his real-life 40th birthday on March 1, 1987.
The episode features 34-year-old Joanna Kerns (born February 12, 1953), 11-year-old Jeremy Miller (born October 21, 1975), 17-year-old Kirk Cameron (born October 12, 1969), and 18-year-old Tracey Gold (born May 16, 1969).
"Animal Crack-Ups" was a short-lived Saturday-morning game show airing on the ABC Television Network from August 8, 1987 - September 1, 1990.
The first 5 episodes were broadcast on Saturday nights at 8 p.m. (a timeslot "Growing Pains" would move to in Fall 1991) before moving to its permanent Saturday-morning time slot on September 12, 1987.
Generically, the game had 4 celebrity panelists compete in a game where they were asked questions about comical oddities of the animal world, with the answers revealed in film clips by the Tokyo Broadcasting System.
The show was created by Vin Di Bona, who, once he realized "Animal Crack-Ups" was on its way off the air, created another game show for the ABC Television Network called "America's Funniest Home Videos."
As Vin had done with Alan Thicke 2 years earlier, Vin hired fellow ABC network colleague Bob Saget (then on TV's "Full House") to host the hour-long pilot.
Vin's conception for "AFHV" occurred while he was on vacation in Japan with wife Gina, and after catching a glimpse of the variety show "Fun with Kato and Ken" where people would send in their funniest home videos to win the Japanese equivalent of money, Vin thought to himself, "THAT is my next game show."
That Spring, a pilot for Vin's new game show "America's Funniest Home Videos" was shot and sold; the pilot aired on November 26, 1989.
7 weeks later, on January 14, 1990, "America's Funniest Home Videos" began airing at 8 p.m. Sunday nights in a format that has remained unchanged throughout its LONG existence, with Americans sending in their funniest and amazing home videos, with the top 3 funniest home videos of the night walking away $15,000 richer--$10,000 1st, $3,000 2nd, $2,000 3rd.
At the end of each sweeps period, the top $10,000 winners vie for an additional $100,000 in cash.
Original host Bob Saget left in May 1997, replaced in January 1998 by MTV VJ Daisy Fuentes paired with stand-up comic John Fugelsang; ratings began to dip during this period, and in Summer 1999, after 10 seasons and over 200 shows, ABC canceled "America's Funniest Home Videos," with the final original episode airing August 28, 1999.
Less than 2 years later, on July 20, 2001, ABC brought the show back, this time with TV personality Tom Bergeron hosting the show--a job he STILL has today, entering his 12th season as host on October 2, 2011.
Personally, I've seen only one other episode of "Animal Crack-Ups" thanks to YouTube uploader http://www.youtube.com/user/bluelobster.
It's a full-length episode of a Saturday-morning game show hosted by Alan Thicke for the ABC Television Network called "Animal Crack-Ups."
This episode features his entire TV family, just months after Alan celebrated his real-life 40th birthday on March 1, 1987.
The episode features 34-year-old Joanna Kerns (born February 12, 1953), 11-year-old Jeremy Miller (born October 21, 1975), 17-year-old Kirk Cameron (born October 12, 1969), and 18-year-old Tracey Gold (born May 16, 1969).
"Animal Crack-Ups" was a short-lived Saturday-morning game show airing on the ABC Television Network from August 8, 1987 - September 1, 1990.
The first 5 episodes were broadcast on Saturday nights at 8 p.m. (a timeslot "Growing Pains" would move to in Fall 1991) before moving to its permanent Saturday-morning time slot on September 12, 1987.
Generically, the game had 4 celebrity panelists compete in a game where they were asked questions about comical oddities of the animal world, with the answers revealed in film clips by the Tokyo Broadcasting System.
The show was created by Vin Di Bona, who, once he realized "Animal Crack-Ups" was on its way off the air, created another game show for the ABC Television Network called "America's Funniest Home Videos."
As Vin had done with Alan Thicke 2 years earlier, Vin hired fellow ABC network colleague Bob Saget (then on TV's "Full House") to host the hour-long pilot.
Vin's conception for "AFHV" occurred while he was on vacation in Japan with wife Gina, and after catching a glimpse of the variety show "Fun with Kato and Ken" where people would send in their funniest home videos to win the Japanese equivalent of money, Vin thought to himself, "THAT is my next game show."
That Spring, a pilot for Vin's new game show "America's Funniest Home Videos" was shot and sold; the pilot aired on November 26, 1989.
7 weeks later, on January 14, 1990, "America's Funniest Home Videos" began airing at 8 p.m. Sunday nights in a format that has remained unchanged throughout its LONG existence, with Americans sending in their funniest and amazing home videos, with the top 3 funniest home videos of the night walking away $15,000 richer--$10,000 1st, $3,000 2nd, $2,000 3rd.
At the end of each sweeps period, the top $10,000 winners vie for an additional $100,000 in cash.
Original host Bob Saget left in May 1997, replaced in January 1998 by MTV VJ Daisy Fuentes paired with stand-up comic John Fugelsang; ratings began to dip during this period, and in Summer 1999, after 10 seasons and over 200 shows, ABC canceled "America's Funniest Home Videos," with the final original episode airing August 28, 1999.
Less than 2 years later, on July 20, 2001, ABC brought the show back, this time with TV personality Tom Bergeron hosting the show--a job he STILL has today, entering his 12th season as host on October 2, 2011.
Personally, I've seen only one other episode of "Animal Crack-Ups" thanks to YouTube uploader http://www.youtube.com/user/bluelobster.