Everybody's Talking Game Show question

[spencerkarter85]

Why was Everybody's Talking the last B&W show on ABC since after September 1967, the majority of network TV shows on commercial television were in color? Do you think it's ironic?

 

[cd637299]

Can't say, but according to "The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television" by Wesley Hyatt, as it ran from Feb to Dec 1967, the ratings were not spectacular. I suppose that the staff threw in the towel, and figured that spending extra for color for a show which wouldn't last much longer would not be the smartest idea.

The show was sorta brought back as "Hollywood's Talking" in 1973 on CBS.

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[bpatrick]

The last couple of months were reruns due to the NABET strike's
affecting several ABC daytime shows. IIRC, "Temptation" (the
Art James version) and "How's Your Mother-In-Law?" were supposed
to debut in October; the debuts were put off until December.

 

[cd637299]

The last couple of months were reruns due to the NABET strike's
affecting several ABC daytime shows. IIRC, "Temptation" (the
Art James version) and "How's Your Mother-In-Law?" were supposed
to debut in October; the debuts were put off until December.

Was that the strike that caused CBS to put on reruns of "The Millionaire" where "To Tell the Truth" & some other game show shoulda been? I seem to recall that!

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[bpatrick]

No, the NABET strike in 1967 was only against ABC. ABC did
put reruns of "The Farmer's Daughter" in place of "Dark Shadows,"
and kept "Dateline: Hollywood" past its scheduled cancellation date.
At night, "Hollywood Palace" and Joey Bishop's latenight show had to
resort to reruns for the duration; interestingly, I don't recall the strike
affecting Lawrence Welk.

I don't recall seeing "The Millionaire" on CBS's daytime schedule after
1963; in fact, it was "To Tell The Truth" that replaced it at 3/2, with
the two shows swapping timeslots ("TTTT" had been on at 3:30/2:30).
In the summer of '63 "The Millionaire" and "Edge Of Night" swapped times,
with "Edge" moving to 3:30 (ET) and "Millionaire" to 4:30 to play out its run.
I never saw it in 1967, although some local stations (WSPA was one) were
carrying it in syndication.

 

[cd637299]

Really ISTR another strike then, just around 1967. Maybe 1968. I'm 99% sure I saw "The Millionaire" around then, and a pristine print at that. But I digress OT.

Thanks for the info.

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[spencerkarter85]

Speaking of Dark Shadows (which wasn't cleared by WLOS until April Fools 1968, three days before MLK fatally wounded in Memphis) during the 1967 NABET Strike, actors who were in the union the late Robert Gerringer (Dr. Dave Woodard #2), and Daniel Keyes (the Caretaker #1) refused to cross the picket lines. So Dr. Woodward was recast by Peter Turegon (who died in 2000) before he got killed off and Peter Murphy as the new Caretaker.

 

[Kurt Toy]

I believe CBS's showing Millionaire in 1967 was due to the AFTRA strike in the spring. That show's reruns aired in place of "The Edge Of Night". All of the eye net's soaps-don't know about "Password", "House Party" or "TTTT" being shut down. "I Love Lucy" "Pete And Gladys", "Jack Benny", and some anthology reruns ran in place of the other soaps.

 

[bpatrick]

That sounds likely, since the AFTRA strike affected ABC, CBS, and
NBC. That was the one that made a temporary star out of a CBS
lawyer, Arnold Zenker, who subbed for Cronkite during that time.

But not long after the AFTRA strike was settled, NABET hit ABC and
ABC only. My guess is that "Everybody's Talking" was scheduled to
have its last broadcast December 29, 1967 ("Bewitched" reruns replaced
it on January 1, 1968 since ABC didn't have the Tournament of Roses
Parade; it had tried in 1967 with disastrous ratings, even with--ironically--
Elizabeth Montgomery as one of the commentators) and ABC decided to
play it out with reruns. (I think it was 1989 before ABC began airing the
Rose Parade again.)