The 60 Greatest Game Shows of All Time

Of course Jeopardy! is going to be #1.

My favorite is "Press Your Luck"

1 posted on 10/10/2023 7:14:36 PM PDT by DallasBiff

The Newlyweds game was always fun. I suspect more than a few marriages ended because of that show.

2 posted on 10/10/2023 7:17:50 PM PDT by Jonty30 (It never rains in sunny Alberta. It always rains in rainy Alberta.)

Price is Right hands down.

3 posted on 10/10/2023 7:18:42 PM PDT by mmichaels1970

Match Game and Hollywood Squares when everyone on the show was drunk.

4 posted on 10/10/2023 7:22:34 PM PDT by Round Earther

60.

Narrow it down a bit.

5 posted on 10/10/2023 7:24:10 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)

6 posted on 10/10/2023 7:25:19 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²e a truck through this law.)

The Newlyweds game was always fun. I suspect more than a few marriages ended because of that show.

I really don't think "The Newlywed game" or "Dating Game" as game shows, they were the first reality shows, plus Chuck Barris , the producer, was part of the CIA.

7 posted on 10/10/2023 7:26:03 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)

I always liked “What’s My Line?” John Charles Daly, Bennett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis. A classy show.

8 posted on 10/10/2023 7:29:49 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )

‘Wheel of FISH’ was Weird Al’s way of Slapping Seinfeld with a ‘Box of Nothing!’

9 posted on 10/10/2023 7:32:28 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)

Jeopardy
Weakest Link
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
Match Game

10 posted on 10/10/2023 7:34:32 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: Banana Republic)

11 posted on 10/10/2023 7:35:01 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)

One of my favorite pastimes is youtube videos of “stupid game show answers”

12 posted on 10/10/2023 7:36:31 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: Banana Republic)

These were my favorites that are probably not on the list (not bothering to look):

It Pays to be Ignorant
The $1.98 Beauty Pageant

And, of course, the greatest of all time - The Gong Show.

13 posted on 10/10/2023 7:39:56 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)

Jaye P Morgan was a 1970s legend.

14 posted on 10/10/2023 7:44:05 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (6,390,901 Truth | 86,874,940 Twitter)

Solid list. There are some that I liked that didn’t make the list, but the authors went far enough back to get all the ones that should be there.

One of my favorite hosts was Art James, and two of his that did NOT make the list were “Pay Cards” (I had the home edition) and “The Magnificent Marble Machine”. I would race home for lunch from elementary school to catch 20 minutes to see the giant pinball machine.

“Split Second” should have made the list. The closing gimmick of putting the key in the car (you win the car if it starts) was great. Tom Kennedy (”You Don’t Say”, “Name That Tune”) was always a likable and skilled MC.

I would have liked to see at least one Bill Cullen show on there. I don’t count “(The $25,000) Pyramid” because that was Dick Clark’s show. That would be like counting Dennis James for “Price is Right” or “Gary Owens” for “The Gong Show”. Similarly, “Joker’s Wild” belongs to Jack Barry.

I grew up with “Eye Guess” (also had the home edition. I was a weird six year old. I went from Romper Room and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to game show home editions and a short wave radio.)

Not much of a game, but the most memorable opening was “Whew!”

I prefer my Jeopardy! with Art Fleming . . . a more stately presence.

I am glad that “$1.98 Beauty Contest”, “The Diamond Head Game” and “The Better Sex” did NOT make the list. Good calls.

I am not sure why “Gambit!” made it and “Jackpot!” didn’t.

Alex Trebek (with Ruta Lee) made the list with High Rollers, but Alex missed with “The Wizard of Odds”

GREAT CALL on “The Don Adams’ Screen Test”. I can’t even find that one on You Tube. WAY ahead of its time.

15 posted on 10/10/2023 7:45:01 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])

To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

And, of course, the greatest of all time - The Gong Show.

"Gong Show" made the list. One problem with the "$1.98 Beauty Contest" was that there was no way to make it fresh after a few weeks. There's only so many ways to be ugly or disgusting on over the air television in the '70s.

"It Pays to be Ignorant" is one I have heard of, but never saw. It was better known in its radio incarnation, and it wasn't classic enough to be preserved and rerun like "You Bet Your Life".

16 posted on 10/10/2023 7:48:00 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])

To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

I often watch What’s My Line via Youtube in the evening .

17 posted on 10/10/2023 7:55:05 PM PDT by sushiman

I often watch What’s My Line via Youtube in the evening .

I think the funniest one was the New York centric panel staring at one of the most recognizable legends in the world today, Colonel Sanders, and having NO idea who he was.

"Are you in the legitimate the-uh-tuh?"

18 posted on 10/10/2023 7:57:54 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])

Alex Trebek (with Ruta Lee) made the list with High Rollers

Oh god Ruta Lee, she made her mark on the "Andy Griffith Show" and "Three's Company"

19 posted on 10/10/2023 8:00:37 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)

One of my favorite game shows...

20 posted on 10/10/2023 8:00:57 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)

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