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RETRO: Toledo-Lima, Wed. 3/23/1983

Except for Family Feud, Programming directors in 1981 and 1982 were weenies when it came to putting on game shows like Tic Tac Dough, The Joker's Wild , Bullseye, even Match Game,and instead putting on reruns or crap like ET and Lie Detector, but Wheel Of Fortune in 1983 and Jeopardy! in 1984 changed all that.
 
BobbyNBC10 said:
Programming directors in 1981 and 1982 were weenies when it came to putting on game shows...and instead putting on reruns or crap like ET and Lie Detector...
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Back in the 1980s I didn't think of ET as being crap, but over the years (especially recently) they were, as they became slanted more towards tabloid journalism than ordinary celebrity news. Things weren't the same since John Tesh left the show.
 
azumanga said:
BobbyNBC10 said:
Programming directors in 1981 and 1982 were weenies when it came to putting on game shows...and instead putting on reruns or crap like ET and Lie Detector...
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Back in the 1980s I didn't think of ET as being crap, but over the years (especially recently) they were, as they became slanted more towards tabloid journalism than ordinary celebrity news. Things weren't the same since John Tesh left the show.
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YouTube has a clip of ET from Nov. 18, 1981--2 months into its first season--with then co-host Ron Hendren's report on the emerging home video scene (VCR's, Betamax, video discs). A clip of the jazzy original ET theme from 1981 is included from 2:30-2:55. Hard to believe late next year this clip (and ET) will be 30 years old. Seeing this clip makes me long for the early days of ET.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPQu__8hZ1Y
 
Yea, it's hard to believe that Entertainment Tonight will be 30 next year. I remember when WUHQ-TV 41 -ABC in Battle Creek (now WOTV 41) got a satellite dish so they could carry ET each evening several weeks prior to ET's debut.
 
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