1977 Unsold Pilot.

 

Interesting segment about the French Wheel of Fortune (which just came back after a 13 year hiatus) and Des chiffres et des lettres (which just ended last year). Starts at about 7 minutes.

 

Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune to stream on Crave in Canada,
starting September 9, 2025.
https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press/september-2025-crave-streaming-overview/
New episodes of each show are set to stream on Crave the day after they air in syndication, beginning Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025.
Also on Sept. 9, 2025, Crave becomes home to a collection of 100 library episodes of Jeopardy and 100 library episodes of Wheel of Fortune.

Edited August 31Aug 31 by janea4old

This channel has a number of episodes of a game show I'd never heard of called Musical Chairs. This one features Larry Kert, Sister Sledge, and a very animated Shari Lewis.

 

Musical chairs ran from June  to November 75 on CBS at 4pm replacing Tattletales which moved to the morning and then to 3.30.

It made history by having Adam Wade as host, the first Black gameshow host.

Mary Stuart was one of the guests on the first episode and Adam had appeared on search in 1970, so perhaps there was a connection there.

Anyway, MC failed in the ratings and was replaced by another short lived show Give n Take which faired even worse, lasting only a few weeks. CBS moved Tattletales back to 4pm the same day Edge of Night began on ABC.

I remember watching a few episodes of Musical Chairs on YT one night a few years back and really enjoying it, so I'm glad more of it has popped up. The mid-70s really was a wild wild west when it came to game shows. They were debuting and ending at a higher rate than primetime TV, and it seems like shows were given just a few months, some times really weeks, to catch on. All of that would come to an end as soaps began to expand. IMO, the true golden era of daytime was when soaps and games co-existed in almost equal measure.

7 hours ago, All My Shadows said:

I remember watching a few episodes of Musical Chairs on YT one night a few years back and really enjoying it, so I'm glad more of it has popped up. The mid-70s really was a wild wild west when it came to game shows. They were debuting and ending at a higher rate than primetime TV, and it seems like shows were given just a few months, some times really weeks, to catch on. All of that would come to an end as soaps began to expand. IMO, the true golden era of daytime was when soaps and games co-existed in almost equal measure.

Soaps were best at a half hour. I'd take shorter soaps and more game shows. Instead we are likely to get GMA9 and Bari Weiss having Alan Dershowitz host a show about his underwear.

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

Instead we are likely to get GMA9 and Bari Weiss having Alan Dershowitz host a show about his underwear.

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Edited November 27Nov 27 by Khan

On 11/26/2025 at 9:06 PM, DRW50 said:

Soaps were best at a half hour. I'd take shorter soaps and more game shows. Instead we are likely to get GMA9 and Bari Weiss having Alan Dershowitz host a show about his underwear.

I agree. They should go back to 30 minutes and add some game shows. I'm tired of the daytime schedule cluttered up with morning shows, talk shows, and court shows. Those morning shows running hours on end just rehashing headlines etc... Heck even well written 15-minute soaps (rebooted ATWT, GL OLTL etc...) back-to-back in a 30-minute time slot might work. People have short attention spans now days anyway.

I think spoilers should be eliminated, if possible, to keep people tuning in to see what is happening in real time.

10 minutes ago, SoapDope78 said:

I agree. They should go back to 30 minutes and add some game shows. I'm tired of the daytime schedule cluttered up with morning shows, talk shows, and court shows. Those morning shows running hours on end just rehashing headlines etc... Heck even well written 15-minute soaps (rebooted ATWT, GL OLTL etc...) back-to-back in a 30-minute time slot might work. People have short attention spans now days anyway.

I think spoilers should be eliminated, if possible, to keep people tuning in to see what is happening in real time.

I agree - I'd love 15 minute soaps coming back.

1 hour ago, SoapDope78 said:

Heck even well written 15-minute soaps [...] back-to-back in a 30-minute time slot might work.

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

I agree - I'd love 15 minute soaps coming back.

Same here.

15-minute soaps would be ideal, especially for those who tend to stream shows on handheld devices (phones, tablets, etc). Viewers might return to the days of catching up on their "stories" at work during lunch and other breaks; and even if you're the type who prefers to binge watch an entire week's worth of shows at once, doing so in 75 minutes (with commercials, less without) might be preferable to 150 or 300.

Moreover, if I were writing and/or producing my own soap, I might even repurpose each week's episodes into a sort of "omnibus" edition every weekend that would feature even extra scenes or moments that might've been cut from earlier in the week due to time constraints.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Khan