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Summary: The essential book for fans of games, game shows, and TV
Review: "The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows" is the bible to game shows. Over 500 game shows are recorded in this book, full of information to rack your mind on game shows. Classic favorites from yesterday such as "What's My Line?", "I've Got a Secret", "Beat the Clock", "Strike It Rich", and "Twenty-One" are included with current favorites such as "Wheel of Fortune", "The Price is Right", "Jeopardy", "Family Feud", "Hollywood Squares", and "Pyramid". Included also is information on the celebrities who guest stared on the game shows, the personalities and a synopsis of their careers, airdates of the shows, what network they were on, the rules, the different versions, and even the prizes won and funny moments or bloppers that happened on the show. The book also includes information on awards won, a tribute to Mark Goodson, a brief history of game shows, and over 170 photographs to help you remember. The only negative things about the book was that some shows were short-changed ("Press Your Luck" for example, they should have talked about Michael Larson and the different whammies), and it hasn't been updated, so some shows are MIA ("Millionaire", "Weakest Link", "Blind Date", updated versions of old shows, etc.), but these are minor things that don't hurt the book much at all. In 60 seconds and for the grand prize:
-How many shows did Bill Cullen host?
-Who hosted "All-Star Blitz?"
-What game show was on CBS in the 1990's for only one episode?
-What three game shows did game show announcer Johnny Gilbert host?
-What was the orignial format of "Wheel of Fortune?"
-What host brought the Beatles to L.A.?
-What game show had a town named after it?
-What game show was made into an ice cream by Baskin-Robbins?
You will learn the answer to these quesions and more by reading this book. It's a lot of fun and you won't be able to put it down.
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Summary: A great informational text
Review: "The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows, Second Edition", is a great book for TV game show buffs. I highly recommend this book to the serious game show fan or TV historian. It gives great detailed information on every game show up to 1995.
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Summary: THE GAME SHOW FAN'S BIBLE!
Review: An important book for any TV GAME SHOW FAN!
This book lists ALL game shows from the start of TV until the publshing date. (I can't wait for the fourth edition.) This book includes all detailed information about each show including air dates, hosts , announcers even music theme names. It also contains great photos from shows... even more than the second edition. IF YOU LIKE GAME SHOWS YOU'LL LOVE THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TV GAME SHOWS!
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Summary: Needs updating...
Review: Before syndicated talk shows dominated the morning lineups, there were network game shows.This book serves as an almanac for the many game shows that occupied those timeslots. Since it was published in early 1999, the third edition does not cover current versions of Hollywood Squares, Family Feud, Who Wants To Be A Millionair or Weakest Link. Nor does it cover recent short lived game shows such as Twenty One or Winning Lines. For somone concerned about game shows of the past, this book is fine. For the game shows of the current (Except for Price Is Right, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!), this book is seriously in need of an update.
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Summary: Needs updating...
Review: Before syndicated talk shows dominated the morning lineups, there were network game shows. This book serves as an almanac for the many game shows that occupied those timeslots. Since it was published in early 1999, the third edition does not cover current versions of Hollywood Squares, Family Feud, Who Wants To Be A Millionair or Weakest Link. Nor does it cover recent short lived game shows such as Twenty One or Winning Lines. For somone concerned about game shows of the past, this book is fine. For the game shows of the current (Except for Price Is Right, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!), this book is seriously in need of an update.
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Summary: A Must Own.
Review: Details, details, details galore on all of those wonderful TV game shows of the past. Fabulous photos, too.
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Summary: Recent Reviews
Review: From Book Page, May 1999 "A fun conversation piece, The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows makes an ideal prize for departing graduates, departing contestants, and otherwise."--Miriam E. Drennan From Big Reel, May 1999 "The best of all the books presenting game show histories is The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows, just published in a revised and updated third edition." --Paul Holbrook
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Review: From Library Journal, June 15, 1999: "This third edition is an information feast for game show fans. . . . This encyclopedia brings everything together in one neat, comprehensive package. Game show aficionados will find it a wonderful companion."
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Summary: Authors Update for planned 4th edition.
Review: Hello game show fans! As always, a fast note for the kindwords on our (David Schwartz, Steve Ryan and (myself) Fred Wostbrock)3rd edition of the game show encyclopedia. It's now the middle of May (2000) and there have been over 65 different game shows since the third edition came out just about 500 days ago. We're working hard on bringing you the readers a superb 4th edition with more exclusive photos, new updates, great trivia facts that we've been researching for years and a few mega-suprises. Wait 'till you all see these new photos that we've gathered. GREAT rare set/emcee shots. Again, as always, thanks for the kind words. Fred Wostbrock
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Summary: A great Game Show book!
Review: I just love game shows,From Gene Rayburn on Match Game,Richard Dawson on Family Feud,Allen Ludden on Password,Wink Martindale on Tic Tac Dough,Bob Eubanks on The Newlywed Game,to Chuck Barris on The Gong Show,and so on. And this book is game shows to a science!It tells you what shows were on TV,even tells you who was the panelests,announcers,models,and more on those shows. For example,did you know Charles Nelson Reilly (panelist from Match Game) hosted a game show called Sweetharts?Or did you know Baseball announcer Joe Garagolia from the NBC Baseball game of the Week hosted To Tell The Truth in the mid '70's?How about Mrs. Allen Ludden,Betty White hosting her own game show called "Just Men"? It's all here and more!I enjoyed reading this forth edition,and I can't wait for the fifth version!
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