Tuesday, December 25, 2007

My grandmother has lived a long time.

I was just laying on the couch watching Deal Or No Deal with her. Gameshows are without a doubt one of her favorite television experiences and as I was laying there, I came to realize that it was a particular passtime that has represented a good deal of the time I've spent with her. From Love Connection, to Wheel Of Fortune, to the $25,000 Pyramid, to Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, we were there together.

What better way to summarize and understand my grandmother's incredible impact on my life than to stroll down a list of the greatest American gameshows. I can think of nothing better.

Here we are:

$1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
$1.98 Beauty Contest
$10,000 Pyramid
$64,000 Question
$ale of the Century
:10 Seconds
About Faces
All About the Opposite Sex
All-Star Baffle
Almost Anything Goes
Amateur's Guide to Love
American Gladiators
Anniversary Game
Anything for Money
Anything You Can Do
Baby Game
Baby Races
Bargain Hunters
Battle of the Brains (in Richmond, VA)
Beach Clash
Beat the Clock
Beat the Odds
Big Payoff
Blackout
Blade Warriors
Blank Check
Blankety Blanks
Bobcat's Big Ass Show
Boggle
Born Lucky
Bullseye/Celebrity Bullseye
Bzzz!
Call My Bluff
Camouflage
Can You Top This?
Catch Phrase
Chain Letter
Chain Reaction
Child's Play
Clash!
Classic Concentration
Click
Concentration
Contraption
Couch Potatoes
Dating Game
Debt
Do You Trust Your Wife?
Doctor I.Q.
Dollar a Second
Dotto
Double Dare
Double Exposure
Double or Nothing
Dream House
Face the Facts
Face the Music
Family Feud
Family Secrets
Fandango
Feather Your Nest
Figure it Out
Finders Keepers
Fractured Phrases
Free 4 All
Funny You Should Ask
Get the Message
Get the Picture
Give and Take
Gong Sho
Grudge Match
He Said, She Said
Head of the Class
Headline Chasers
Hi-Q
High Finance
Hollywood Connection
Hollywood Squares
Honeymoon Race
Hot Potato
Hot Seat
Hot Streak
How Do You Rate?
How's Your Mother-in-Law?
I Can't Believe You Said That!
I'll Bet
I've Got a Secret
Idiot Savants
It's Anybody's Guess
It's Up to You
It's Your Bet
Jeopardy!
Joker's Wild
Keep Talking
Knights and Warriors
Knockout
Kwik Witz
Laughline
Let's Make a Deal
Lip Service
Love at First Sight
Love Between the Sexes
Love Connection
Love Experts
Love Story
Mad Libs
Magnificent Marble Machine
Majority Rules
Make Me Laugh
Make the Grade
Match Game
Missus Goes A-Shopping
Money & Devils
Money Maze, The
Monopoly
Musical Chairs
Name Droppers
Name That Tune
Newlywed Game
Nickelodeon GUTS
Night Games
No Relation
Number Please
Oh My Word
One in a Million
Outrageous!
Pantomime Quiz
Pass the Buck
Dennis James
Penny to a Million
People are Funny
People Will Talk
Personals
Pick and Choose
Pick Your Brain
Pictionary
Place the Face
Play the Percentages
Play Your Hunch
Press Your Luck
Price is Right
Queen for a Day
Quick As a Flash!
Quicksilver
Quick as a Flash
Quick on the Draw
Reach for the Stars
Ready... Set... Cook!
Remote Control
Rhyme and Reason
Rodeo Drive
Rubik's Cube
Ruckus
Runaround
Say When!
Scattergories
Schools A's Match Wits
Scrabble
Shenanigans
Shoot for the Stars
Shop Till You Drop
Showdown!
Showoffs
Shuffle
Silent Partners
Singled Out
Small Talk
Snap Judgment
So You Think You've Got Problems?
Spin Off
Spin the Picture
Split Personality
Split Second
Strike it Rich
Supermarket Sweep
Swaps
Take My Word For It
Tattle Tales
Tele-Quest
Temptation
That's My Dog!
Think Fast
Think Twice
Three for the Money
Three on a Match
Three's a Crowd
Tic Tac Dough
Time Machine
Timeout For Trivia
To Say the Least
To Tell the Truth
Total Panic
Trashed
Treasure Chest
Treasure Hunt
Treasure Isle
Triple Threat
Trivia Trap
Trivial Pursuit
Truth or Consequences
Turn it Up!
Twenty-One
Two for the Money
Wait 'til You Have Kids
We Interrupt This Week
What Would You Do?
What's It For
What's News?
What's My Line?
Wheel of Fortune
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Where Was I?
Whew!
Who Do You Trust?
Who Pays
Whodunnit?
Win, Lose, or Draw
Window Shopping
Winner Take All
Winning Streak
Wipeout
Wizard of Odds
Women Only
Wordplay
Words and Music
You Bet Your Life
You Better Shop Around
You Don't Say
You're On!
You're Putting Me On



Alls I have to say is HOW DID I MISS So You Think You've Got Problems? ??

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