Soap Stars on Game Shows ( Why don't they do that anymore?)

[soapfan770]

Since a lot of game shows of the 70s and 80s often featured second, third, and fourth tier stars (hello John Davidson!) did most game shows do the same with soap stars who appeared those game shows? I ask this because although I know WOST featured a Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour episode with Deidre Hall and John De Lancie, but there was a 1989 Win, Lose, or Draw episode on Youtube that was doing a special show in Cleveland or something with special guest star Robyn Bernard. I don't know much about ABC soap history, but was Bernard that popular to warrant that?

[quartermainefan]

wow, there is a name from the past. That was before the internet or anything so who really knows whether she was loved or hated, but there was a long period there where she was front and center on GH. I don't think I ever saw her before or since, but for what seemed like eternity Bobbie would say "Terri, what is the matter?"

[DRW50]

Robyn Bernard was probably best known at GH for her central role in the infamous "Laurelton" story, the one about the water which brainwashed people or whatever. That was the story which introduced Lucy Coe. Terri was DL Brock's daughter, and remained a part of Bobbie's life for years, I think up to her marriage to Tony Jones. After that did she have an exit? I think she left around 89 or 90?

Aside from the soap names already mentioned as being on Pyramid, I remember seeing Melinda Fee in a Match Game episode.

[soapfan770]

Thanks for the tidbits. I was looking up the Win, Lose, Or Draw show because I own the old NES game and loved listening to its extremely 80s tempo sounding theme when I discovered the Bernard episode online. I immediately looked her up to see what other soaps she had done but was shocked to see her GH role was it. I did though discover that she is the sister of Helen on Wings, which had been one of my favorite shows as a kid.

[yr9190]

Has the game show network re-aired old episodes from the 70s 80s or 90s with soap opera stars recently? i haven't really seen any of those episodes whenever i watch it, and im curious to know if there is a schedule somewhere which will tell me the next time they will reair an old gameshow with the soap stars? There are some episodes i really want to see that are not on youtube, like a 1991 family feud Y&R Vs B&B challenge with Peter Barton, Lauralee Bell, Barbara Crampton, Kristoff St.John and Jess Walton against Darlene Conley, Bobbie Eakes, Katherine Kelly Lang, Todd McKee and John McCook.

[SFK]

[DRW50]

If any of you are interested I have some old SOD with an article on ABC soaps at Family Feud.

[SFK]

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[yr9190]

Yeah you can post them, what year is it from?

[DRW50]

1980 or so.

[SFK]

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[yr9190]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8b8yAm8m4s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-qAFesyurw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QOjFPuHlYE&feature=related

[DRW50]

I posted this in the game show thread a few months ago; it's an article from a late 1982 SOD about when Texas! created their own game show, and various celebrities appeared on the show.

[All My Shadows]

I LOVE that so much, though! I always like the idea of daytime being in its own "world" apart from primetime, with its own stars and its own shows that you could only see in daytime.

Match Game and Pyramid would usually get some popular primetime people on. Not necessarily the stars of their particular shows, but cast members nonetheless. Michael Spound, Heidi Bohay, and Nathan Cook from Hotel were constant Pyramid players in the 70s. And of course, Match Game got fairly major primetimers most of the time. Jack Klugman was sort of a semi-regular during his time on Odd Couple and then Quincy. Gary Burghoff from M*A*S*H was on a lot, David Doyle from Charlie's Angels, Bart Braverman from Vegas, etc. Of course Betty White was a semi-regular all through her time on MTM. There were people who just made one or two weeks' worth of shows who were from primetime, too, like Anson Williams, Susan Richardson, Mabel King, Suzanne Somers, Charlene Tilton, Penny Marshall (who was extremely uncomfortable the whole time), etc.

I really can't see any of today's primetime stars "lowering" themselves to do a daytime game show at all. And wow, imagine if something like What's My Line? was still on. Gaga could be a Mystery Guest.

[quartermainefan]

What's My Line? was the greatest game show ever. Just watching these people in tuxedos and gowns on TV is a trip in itself, but the level of intelligence willing to be shown (and vocabulary) is such a contrast to what is seen on TV today.