Have YOU or someone you know had appeared on nationwide TV in the past?

[mleach]

About ten years ago two of my former co-workers appeared on the long-defunct Mother Love TV show "Forgive & Forget". Neither will as much as discuss their experience of being on that show to this day and remembering that certain show..ah I can see why. Dittos with those two guys from my hometown who had appeared on Sally Jesse Raphael about 20 years ago ( remember the episode about the tattooed child ? ) both still live there and no neither will disscuss their appearance on Sally to this day either.

Years ago my then girlfriend's brother had appeared in the studio audience of The Price is Right. From what i can remember he was telling me was that Bob Barker, Rod Roddy and the babes...they just really did NOT care that much for the studio audience. In other words him being in the studio auidence for TPIR was a waste.

Have you and/or have known someone who had made an appearance on nationwide TV? What was it like?

..and ah..well NO not talking about being at some sporting event seated among thousands either.

 

[dhett]

A co-worker, her mother and sisters were in the studio audience for The Price Is Right (they were not selected).

My previous pastor and his wife were given front row seats for The Tonight Show a few years back.

 

[Ultimajock]

...the interim pastor of my church last year, Rev. William Hubbard Knight, had been an actor for a couple of decades before turning to the ministry. Among his credits were one-episode roles on Touched by an Angel, Family Matters (as a minister), The John Larroquette Show, Baywatch, The Royal Family (post-Redd Foxx, when Jackée was in the cast), Growing Pains, Moonlighting and Dallas. He told me he still gets residual checks from all of those productions, and they each cover gas money for three or four days at best. ;D Rev. Knight is now the pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church of San José, CA...

 

[dmargalotti]

A guy I worked with years ago (mid to late 1980's) was on Wheel of Fortune. In spite of spinning for two "bankrupts" and a 'lose a turn", he still said it was fun.

 

[gregg75]

I know a guy who wrote a book and was going to L.A. He started corresponding overnight
with the THE PRICE IS RIGHT (for tickets I assume). Yes, he was selected to come on down
and won a ton of stuff.

I guess the squeaky wheel gets the grease......and the opportunity to come on down.

 

[ricksegers]

I had friends from my hometown who were contestants on The Family Feud with Richard Dawson.

 

[FreddyE1977]

a co-worker of mine appeared as a contestant on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.
She flamed out on her 3rd. question....one that I knew the answer to. Should have
used that lifeline!

 

[LKellerIII]

In the mid 70s, NBC produced a documentary about Marin County, California (just north of the Golden Gate Bridge). Marin was then -and I think even now - the most affluent county in America. The documentary was titled I Want It All Now, and the general tone was that Marin residents were spoiled, self-indulgent and self-centered. Once aired, it brought a lot of outrage and anger from people there. My personal opinion - the doc was a hatchet job, but they weren't entirely wrong, either.

A friend of mine was a masseur operating out of a alternative-lifestyle center in Marin. He allowed the producers to film him giving somebody a massage - I assume he thought it would bring him some good free publicity. One of his practices toward the end of the massage was to stroke people lightly with peacock feathers. This became a huge joke - both nationally and in Marin County - and the peacock feather briefly became a symbol of affluent Marin decadence.

Everything's on You Tube - to my surprise, here's an excerpt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW7Wj-xbinE

 

[bpatrick]

I don't know if a CBS program in November 1951 qualifies as
"national," given the limited reach of television at the time,
but I have an uncle (now deceased) who was married on the
daytime show "Bride And Groom". My mom was in the wedding
party.

 

[fybush]

I filed some reports for CNN and Headline News when I was working for one of Time Warner's local news channels in the late 90s. Does that count?

 

[oldiesfan6479]

I filed some reports for CNN and Headline News when I was working for one of Time Warner's local news channels
in the late 90s. Does that count?

Oh yeah, I remember those. Seems the standup always had a radio tower in the background.

 

[KML0224]

An old friend (and his girlfriend) of me and my brother's was in the audience of The Montel Williams Show in the 1990s for a taping once.

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

In 1988 I appeared in two episodes of the old Nickelodeon series Kids Court, which starred Paul Provenza. For those who either forgot or don't know, it was a kid's version of The People's Court, though scripted.

I was the "defendant" in the case, having been accused of charging my "sister" money to use my VCR machine. Needless to say, I lost that case. I was an audience member in the second episode and got some screen time in towards the end of the program.

To this day, I have NEVER seen those episodes. My area of New York City (the Bronx) was not wired for cable yet; it wouldn't be until 1994. I had to go to an aunt's apartment in Harlem (Manhattan) to watch cable. Some cousins and friends DID see at least one of the shows I was in.