drew@ukma.UUCP (Andrew Lawson) (08/07/85)
In article <3390@decwrl.UUCP> tortorino@hamstr.DEC (Sandy @The Puzzle Palace, DTN 264-5977) writes: >I think J.P. Morgan also appeared on another game show (perhaps more than >one, but this is the one I liked), but I can't remember the name of it. >The 'star' was Nipsey Russell, and the object of the game was to come up >with a suitable rhyming line to end a two-line poem. > >Anyone else remember this 'classic'? Yes, I remember this. The name was Rhymes and Reasons. Nipsey Russell once closed the show with one of my favorite poems: Never buy a waterbed for your child or your life will be very grim You'll never know if he's wetting the bed or if the bed is wetting him. Drew
jlp@faust.UUCP (08/13/85)
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Another of Nipsey's Couplets:
I'm a bachelor
and I'll stay that way
until the right girl comes along;
But while I'm waiting,
I'll keep on dating
the ones that I know are wrong.
Jerryl Payne
...!ihnp4!inmet!faust!jlpcde@cornell.UUCP (Carl Eichenlaub) (08/21/85)
Speaking of old game shows, does anybody remember "Video Village" from about 1966 or so? It was on Saturday mornings, I think, and was sort of a live board game. Contestants moved from space to space according to the throw of a large die, and had opportunities to play games for cash or prizes at each space. At around the same time there was a very similar show with a slightly different layout. This second show may have been played exclusively by children. Does anybody remember the name of this lookalike show, or any details of the small sub-games? I remember one (not sure on which show) that seemed rather silly even to my 12-year old mind, called the "Sword of Damocles" where the contestant had to guess whether the sword would fall or not. These shows were among my very favorites as a child. I even had a home version of one! Anyone who can remember the television theme songs to either must be a true trivia phenomenon. Carl D. Eichenlaub
andrew@grkermi.UUCP (George Jetson) (08/23/85)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia In article <50@cornell.UUCP> cde@cornell.UUCP (Carl Eichenlaub) writes: >Speaking of old game shows, does anybody remember "Video Village" >from about 1966 or so? It was on Saturday mornings, I think, and >was sort of a live board game... Sure! It was more like '64, though. Remember the "Village Bus"? At the end of the show, the host would drive the contestants around the set in this weird overgrown golf cart! >At around the same time there >was a very similar show with a slightly different layout. This second >show may have been played exclusively by children. Does anybody remember >the name of this lookalike show, or any details of the small sub-games? That was "Shenanigans", which indeed *was* just for kids. I actually applied to be on it! I don't remember any of the games, though. >...Anyone who can remember the television theme songs to either must be a true >trivia phenomenon. I remember some of the VV theme (or at least what they sang at the end): "Climb aboard the Village Bus, the kooky Village Bus ... so come along with us... <another line> ... so much fun to ride the Village Bus The Villllllllaaaaaaaggggggee Bus!"
alatto@bbncc5.UUCP (Andrew Latto) (08/23/85)
In article <50@cornell.UUCP> cde@cornell.UUCP (Carl Eichenlaub) writes: > > >Speaking of old game shows, does anybody remember "Video Village" >from about 1966 or so? It was on Saturday mornings, I think, and >was sort of a live board game. Contestants moved from space to space >according to the throw of a large die, and had opportunities to play >games for cash or prizes at each space. At around the same time there >was a very similar show with a slightly different layout. This second >show may have been played exclusively by children. I've never heard of Video Village, but the kids version was called Shenanigans. I don't remember what the subgames were like on the show, but in the home board game version there was tiddly-winks and lots of 'draw a card from the approporiate stack and do what it says'. >Anyone >who can remember the television theme songs to either must be a true >trivia phenomenon. > I remember the tune to the Shenanigans theme song, but not the words: sol do la sol. la la sol la sol mi do la fa mi She nan i gans! ? ? ? ? ? ? She nan i gans! (The initial sol and final la are below do; everything else is above it. Is there a better or more standard way to notate music in ASCII text?) Does this help anyone else come up with the words? Andy Latto alatto@bbn.ARPA