Concentration('50-'60s version) opening

Pretty freaky if you ask me.

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[AdamStabelli555]

Give us our Concentration NBC!

[kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE]

Why DOES NBC share things like the old Peacocks, yet holds back tapes of game shows and other vintage network programs? Greedy, greedy NBC!

[gymnastix]

I know after "Concentration" ended in 1973, literally days after, Clayton began announcing for Dick Clark on the very first "$10,000 Pyramid" on CBS (which then bounced back & forth between ABC and CBS, in its various, dollar-denominational titles). Clayton died, I think, about five years into the run of "Pyramid."

[gymnastix]

We had a board game version of that game show in our home when I was growing up. It was a lot of fun, with celebrity faces created from hundreds of colored dots, exposed when placed behind a plastc, red screen, and removal of puzzle pieces from the correct guesses of game progression..

[gymnastix]

And while we're mainly discussing "Concentration" here, does anyone recall its last host (and announcer/sub-host for Hugh Downs), Bob Clayton, hosting a game show on ABC titled "Make A Face?" It only lasted one year, and was probably Clayton's gig just previous to joining NBC and "Concentration."

[gymnastix]

@wkyken That report I read made me wonder if more episodes of other NBC game shows originating from New York (such as the original "The Match Game" and "Jeopardy!") might also still survive on kinescopes/videotapes?

Of course, I would also like to see some more episodes of the original daytime runs of "You Don't Say," and "The Hollywood Squares," both of which originated from NBC in Los Angeles.

[gymnastix]

@wkyken I also recall reading, I think in that same report, NBC would not, for some reason, do the obvious, which is lease its "Concentration" library to GSN (Game Show Network, although that's a misnomer, as it's only a "channel," not a network).

GSN is the only channel, at least in The United States, which airs reruns of classic TV game shows.

[gymnastix]

@wkyken Maybe not the case. I read a report somewhere, a few years ago, a complete or nearly complete library of the original, NBC-TV run of the daytime "Concentration" was discovered at NBC headquarters in New York ("30 Rock").

If that is the case, I don't know why NBC doesn't release some episodes on DVD and/or upload some eps. to Hulu.com, of which NBC/Universal (General Electric) are part owners, along with Comcast.

[Noveltooner]

@beentheredonethatbef The nighttime board had been gathering dust in the NBC warehouse for 11 years, and it wound up with the Jack Narz version in California; its familiar "electric buzz" evident. By the 1974-75 season, it was grinding badly and so worn out that the trilons barely turned. During a break in the taping schedule that season, the entire mechanism was replaced with the new high-speed turning trilons that remained through the end of the series.The boards were both scrapped in 1980.

[Noveltooner]

@beentheredonethatbef Unfortunately, the kinneys were in black & white. The sound on the nighttime shows from the Ziegfeld had a very distinct reverb, much like the Ed Sullivan Theater. MUCH bigger prizes were on the nighttime shows, including the awarding of a Ford Galaxie for calling matching Wild Cards. (The daytime shows in 1961 awarded a $500 cash prize.) It was also a different board that had more of an "electric buzz" when the trilons turned. That board was shipped out to L.A. in 1972.