Trivia Trap - Celebrity Week (Part 1 of 4)

[danbarker39]

Bill Cullen was busy working on The Jokers Wild, right? by 1985?

[nicklybob]

"Hi Jamie!"

"Hiya Bob!"

[DorvellTStewart]

Thanks to Beddy White getting the Westpoint question wrong, I think I now know what the line "Where even a right answer can catch you in a trap" means. LOL!

[cmcb09]

Jayne/Betty had more class in their little fingers then Vickie Lawrence ever had. Dunno but Vickie just always irritated me.

[NativeTexan5843]

I had this episode on tape when gsn aired this in 2007 it is so good to watch this again because I lost the taped when I moved

[nextbarker]

Where's Jayne Meadows today?

[dxearlmarc]

From what I heard she had sued the doctor that treated her late husband, Steve Allen for misdiagnoses! He was the first host of the Tonight Show.

[nextbarker]

Was Trivia Trap the second to last game show Bill Cullen was a celebrity guest on?

[DorvellTStewart]

I've never seen this show, but I love the theme song! It's not what you'd expect from a game show, which is what makes it unique!

[gameshowluvr86]

Sounds like the theme to an '80s sitcom, I think! :-)

[DorvellTStewart]

Tell me about it!

[PITrockcity86]

I love the first season of this show. So 80s. The game is awesome, the theme is awesome and you gotta hand it to Bob Eubanks.

[dim432]

micheal tiller copyed this question

[cheapy2006]

i always wondered where wogan got that stupid mic.

now i know!

[palmercomm]

You can tell it was an 80s game show when you saw Betty White, Bill Cullen, and Jamie "Klinger" Farr on a celebrity episode.

[gamesurf583]

You could tell it was an 80s game show even if you only saw the first 15 seconds of it.

[deathboy126]

Bob Eubanks has 3 shows Newlywed Game Trivia Trap n Card Sharks

[deathboy126]

I LOVE TRIVIA TRAP SO MUCH WEN I HAVE HOLIDAYS I WATCH IT AT 11:00 Pm I LOVE U TRIVIA TRAP!!!!!

[jhecht424]

This show really didn't have a chance. It was in the same timeslot as Wheel of Fortune and the first half-hour of The Price Is Right which were the top two daytime network game shows at the time.

[WSBT960]

Good point, good show this was, lousy time slot.

[Jnelson09Returns]

Yeah, ABC's game show lineup went to hell after 1978. They just couldn't compete.

[palmercomm]

What was wrong with "Family Feud"? 1978 was the first year the show really heated up.

[Jnelson09Returns]

Yeah, but that and the $20,000 Pyramid were the only shows they had.

[DorvellTStewart]

Sounds to me like Trivia Trap would've lasted longer if ABC had given it a better time slott. Either that, or if it were picked up by either Cbs or Nbc instead!

[jsrosa1282]

@DorvellTStewart I remember when Trivia Trap was originally on because it aired at 11:00 am on weekdays, with a fading Family Feud following it at 11:30. When Trivia Trap was canceled in April 1985, ABC replaced it with another equally short-lived game show: the Heatter-produced All-Star Blitz, hosted by Peter Marshall. All three shows were annihilated in the ratings by CBS's The Price is Right, All-Star Blitz especially.

[bluebear1985]

Is this the first show where the "bleep" sound effect was used? They used it on "Family Feud" as the answer reveal in the Fast Money round starting in 1988 and have been doing so ever since.

[teamguido555]

@bluebear1985 yes, that in addition to the "right answer" sound (when all three wrong ones were out,) which is the theme for the price is right's "grand game" and the rarely heard end of the "family feud" theme.

[Jnelson09Returns]

You can easily tell how much it's sped up.

[lilwill2kold]

back in the 70s when he hosted match game. that's a custom microphone. u can adjust the mic how ever u want it 2 be. i like the mic.

[palmercomm]

In the 1st season, Gene wore a clip-on during the main game and carried a mic for the contestant. He later carried his mic all the time.

Same with Ray Combs and Bob Eubanks, although I don't know why.

[lilwill2kold]

yup he used that microphone, remember gene rayburn had that microphone but he had his extended.

[Jnelson09Returns]

Jim Perry did too, on Card Sharks.

[ppgzfanatic]

And I thought Bob BARKER is the only one who uses the mic.

[blaqice88]

Amazing. In 1984, Mark Goodson had three debuts on "The Big 3". NBC had "Super Password", CBS had "Body Language", and ABC had this! Cool, huh?!

[nextbarker]

Trivia Trap returns tonight at 1:00AM.

[ieeeeeeeeeeeee]

and i am pleased to announce that i have said episode taped.

[miamivicepastels83]

ive never seen this game show...ill be looking for it on gsn! i like that wrong answer sound, that's crucial

[nextbarker]

I'm happy to announce Trivia Trap will return to GSN September 2007.

[pantok07]

If I were to list the attributes of Jayne Meadows, Id run out of room. Suffice it to say she is one of the classiest, most lovely,intelligent,interesting­,caring and unasumming people ive ever met!!!

[claybm]

i got this theme song downloaded!

[dgarcia207]

"WHO SAID THAT WE WERE TRIVIA BUFFS?" Pretty neat for a game show. The Theme song has a great beat. ABC or GSN Should've kept this show on air, because alot of the shows on tv is not appropriate.

[coolwafferman]

This was a cool show.You could tell that it came on ABC because Bob Eubanks would mention Family Feud a lot.I like the Theme Song.

[megamanj2004]

Yep, "Trivia Trap" did indeed originally air on ABC-TV. In fact, "Trivia Trap" was the 2nd-to-last GS Mark Goodson produced for ABC, until 1990 wehn ABC picked up the 1990-91 revival of "Match Game" with Ross Shafer.

[stwube]

RIP Tom Poston 1921-2007 you will be missed!

[PhillyV2006]

I wish GSN would bring this back. This and all the other great older shows. I'm sick of this crap they show now. And I still haven't figured out why they feel the need to have poker when every other channel has it too.

[DNeronov]

*eroo*

[ieeeeeeeeeeeee]

cue the price is right pricing game "Pathfinder" wrong answer sound

[nextbarker]

Any other game shows you can post here?

[behemoth8504]

The sound that is used to reveal the answers is the same sound that was used in later episodes of Family Feud... Its still used to this day.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

I haven't seen "Trivia Trap" in a long time, but it's a great find. GSN aired "Trivia Trap" for quite some time. It was a short-lived game show. By the way, the sound you hear when you got wrong was the famous trap sound. That was later used on "The Price Is Right" called "Pathfinder" where a contestant stepped the wrong number and made a mistake. That's what that sound still in use today in "Pathfinder".

[nextbarker]

Any other game show network videos?

[mightydyckerson]

Yes, quite a lot. I'm getting into a routine of posting one or two items per week. Check back in a few days.

[nextbarker]

Any other shows not seen on GSN in quite sometime or before?

[nextbarker]

I wish GSN aired Trivia Trap again it was good show, but since it changed to GSN I have my doubts

[mjb1124]

They've brought back the Mark Goodson obscurities "Body Language" and "Child's Play" in recent months, so I wouldn't rule this out.

[okiesteveus81]

'trivia trap' was not on the air for very long, when it first debuted.

[aeris211]

thank you for posting this...i am really looking forward on this

[megamanj2004]

Good job uploading this special episode of Trivia Trap!

[zeldafanii]

Thank you so much for this post!