CBS, NBC, ABC. No cheating...go from memory...
(hint: There are less than 10)
(hint: There are less than 10)
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Which tv shows aired on all three networks?
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I cheated, so I will not list them. I could only guess one, the Ernie Kovacs Show. That I was familiar with due to a book I read about the 50's comedian. For the life of me, I could not remember any other.
So I looked them up. I had never heard of many of them, so I looked each show up, too. Thanks for taking an hour I will never get back!
I wonder, in several cases, why shows that did not do particularly well or which had seemingly run their course came back on another web.
Yes, Kovacs is on this list. Anyone, anyone, anyone?
Another hint: Four of them were network game shows!
If you count prime time and daytime there are actually 5 game shows that qualify: The Price is Right, Password, Match Game, Family Feud, and Let's Make a Deal.
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Also To Tell The Truth
Didn't "The Wonderful Wold Of Disney" air briefly on CBS (80's maybe?) in addition to NBC and ABC? Also, waaay back, I'm thinking both "Candid Camera" (in its earliest run in the late 40s-early 50s) and Ted Mack's Amateur Hour ran on all 3, and in Ted Mack's case, DuMont as well.
Yes I forgot about them. It's also interesting that these were all Goodson-Todman creations except for LMAD, and they all are owned now by Fremantle.
We're now at 10, and I still think there are more, although I can't think of others offhand, and the article on this I thought I had seen on wikipedia is apparently gone now.
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Did anyone mention Match Game?
Yes in my first post in this thread.
Well, there may be more than 10. My OP sourcing is from "The Complete Directory To Prime Time Network TV Shows 1946-present" (credits: Tim Brooks, Earle Marsh). So yes, I am talking prime-time here, should have made that disclosure up front!
The adventures of Jonny Quest was on prime time on ABC then made its way to saturday mornings on CBS, ABC then NBC with a little editing and a shorter title/show intro (on the NBC version) Partly for making it less edgy for political correctness and extra commercial time.
Anyone have any recollection of "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"? It makes the list! Early 50's.
I have known many Space Cadets, but none named Tom Corbett.
I'd think that The Price is Right would still qualify.
Again, with my source, TPIR ran in prime time on NBC from 1957-63, then on ABC from 1963-64. I will admit that TPIR primetime specials have run, and continue to run on CBS, but they are not regular series. Those damn semantics!
Weren't there some short runs as a Summer replacement on CBS?
You might be right, but I can't find anything on a CBS summer replacement of TPIR. However, there was a syndicated night time half our version in the 70's.
It was in the summer of 1986, for maybe two months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRS5Icky9CQ 9/11/86.
Some references refer to these episodes as 'specials, but they were on the air several weeks in a row(and by the Brooks and Marsh definition, four consecutive weeks in the same time slot qualified as a 'series'.
CBS moved Magnum P.I.' off of Thursday nights in '86, and figured 'TPIR' was as good as anything for a replacement.
Thanks for that. This does seem to be somewhat of a grey area, but I would agree four consecutive weeks would constitute a "series".
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