The Guinness Game Show 1980
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- Here is a complete episode of the short lived Guinness World Records game show from 1980. People would attempt to break world records on the show. Contestants placed bids on whether or not the performers would do it successfully. 24 episodes were produced from September 1979 - September 1980. This episode aired in the summer of 1980.
i thank you for posting this episode. it's been 36 years since i've seen this.
Thanks for posting!! Loved the theme music for this, as well as the countdown to the next show "and you can bet on that"
Don Galloway ("Ironside") was good as a game show host.
Our friends at BUZZER should put this on their annual Lost And Found collection of long-lost & forgotten game shows.
I absolutely love the music on this show, and wish it would be played on other game shows as well.
The New York Mets used this on their broadcasts in 1981-82.
@@epaddon Is there a name for it?
I remember watching this show on weekends when I was a teenager.
I used to watch this show very late on Saturday nights.
I remember staying up way too late on Saturday nights watching this, along with "Sha Na Na" and "Tales of the Unexpected."
Presenters were so regal back then. The host was great.
Does anyone have the theme m
usic to this show? I Loved it.
I know I'm late to the party, but this is AWESOME! Thanks so much for sharing it. Any chance you have access to any more of the 1980 episodes? I was actually a performer on one them and have been trying to find it online or elsewhere for more than 20 years!
No, was recorded by mistake. Found it at the end of a tape that kept recording.
@@ssVHSFlashback-ei2xv Well, DANG. I was hopin'!
Back in the early-to mid-2000s I actually went so far as to track down Don Galloway's personal web page, which amazingly also included his personal email address, so, I inquired to him directly, telling him who I was and asking if there was any existing source at the time where I might seek to purchase copies of 'The Guinness Game' episodes. I can't remember exactly what he said - and that email is long gone now - but I'm pretty sure he said that he had no idea where to even look for anything like that back then, so I remember being pretty disappointed. And at that point, I don't believe there were ANY clips of the show posted on RUclips, so you REALLY have a rare artifact here!
What's really a kick for me is that back in the day I was a collegiate gymnast in SoCal and at least based on the show in which I appeared along with this one you've posted, some of the athletes they got to be performers were ex-gymnasts. Rea Anders (the gentleman in the blue Adidas track suit, listed as "Athletic Consultant" in the credits) was a collegiate Men's Gymnastics coach whom I had known for years; he recruited me and a bunch of other gymnasts to come be on another of the show's 1980 episodes. So I knew him and the other guys who appeared alongside me, but during the show's brief run I never saw another episode other than the one I was on.
However, now seeing the episode that you've posted I've recognized two of the performers on THIS show as well. One, Bill Valaika (the guy who attempted that 'Skate Tunnel' stunt) is several years younger than me but went to my high school and competed with my little brother, so I knew him a little. He wound up being a nationally ranked horizontal bar specialist for Cal State University, Fullerton.
Also, Frank Perrino (who executed the floor circles) is a gymnast I never really knew personally but had competed against a few times over the years; he was a pretty good Pommel Horse guy at Cal Sate University, Northridge around the same time that I was competing on Rings for Cal State University, Long Beach.
So once again, this was really a wonderful treat! Thanks for responding and keep up the great work! :)
This used to run in the Pittsburgh market on Saturday afternoons
And in the KY area on WHAS and WKYT!
i seem to recall this in 1979 but was this don galloways only game show
I loved this show. I think it aired on weekends. Don Galloway was perfect for this.
One of the last game shows to open with a 'brought-to-you-by' grocery product as narrated by the same person that mentioned the host's name! After that, partially to save money, they had to go directly to introducing the host. Now we see often a sponsor before a popular song on YT!
What stunts are the easiest & hardest, & how much would you bet according to the stunts?
Can't get over those skimpy little shorts those men wore back then.
This is compelling television and I'm surprised it didn't have a longer run. I guess game shows in weekly syndication were starting to go out of style in favor of daily strips. The only thing I'd change is make a correct "success" prediction payoff at 2:1 odds considering how tough these things are.
Wow never knew of this.
The 70s and their percussion
I know Guinness Game, is a based on that World Records book.
they should bring this back
Only thing missing is the 20th Century Fox Television logo at the end.
The reason for that is because advertising agents Ogilvy & Mather served as co-distributors with 20th Century Fox.
…or if this were to rerun, 20th Television - the 2015 version (sadly as of August 10 2020, no more 20th Century Fox Television)
In other words, Disney now owns The Guinness Game through Disney Media Distribution, and I hope The Guinness Game gets added to Disney+ one day!
I remember watching the show first sun and to my knowledge they never ran the 20th Century Fox TV logo at the end.
Why did the cane flipper need to wear bell-bottoms. Fashion is fashion, but you’re going for a Guinness World Record Mann!
Now this is a man's show.
The Guinness Game aired on Saturday evenings on KAKE-TV, channel 10, about 6 or 6:30 p.m.
Kelly Eslinger that’s in Wichita right.
What network was this show on?
Syndicated
People should get the momentum, for doing that first stunt.
This show came on just before The Baxters.
5:16 OHHHHHH!! That, is gonna leave a mark!!
I was hoping it was a game based on drinking Guiness.
This falls short because they don’t say what the old worlds record in each event is but it’s fun to watch 😇👍
Don Galloway was on "Match Game".
I got to find out.
4:40 How humiliating...
It’s hardly 21 flips in 90 seconds if you can just keep going past the time limit.
Does anyone remember a game show that came on in the evenings----probably syndicated. I think played once a week, right before prime time, probably 7:00 or 7:30. 1970 or 1971 and I think it lasted less than a year. It was called The WEO Game or something like that. Very early 1970s. I can't find anything about it.
Just out of curiosity, what stations carried The Guinness Game?
Also on that first stunt... ow. That's beyond painful...
EDIT: Found out that TGG aired on KPIX in SF and KOVR in Sac.
And what KY station carried The Guinness Game?
(imitates buzzer) Wrong! The Guinness Game aired in the Lexington area on CBS affiliate WKYT (owned by Gray Television since 1993) and in the Louisville area on then-CBS (now ABC) affiliate WHAS (owned by Tegna Media since 2015) for crying out loud!
KTVI, St. Louis, MO carried this show usually on a weekend late afternoon.
Sundays 5:OOP.M.IIRC on Channel 2
I remember the game show - but have no clue what channel I saw it - SORRY !!
Could you find an episode of The Guinness Game with Bob Hilton as Host and Charlie O' Donnell as announcer?
Hilton only did the pilot
Almost like the think music
Did this air in Boston?
+AdamJ617 I am sure it did as well as many other cities, but this particular airing was Chicago.
And THIS particular airing was in the Louisville area on WHAS, which was a CBS affiliate at the time, and in the Lexington area on WKYT, which is a CBS affiliate.
I think so, because I have been trying to unsuccessfully (until today maybe) find this show I remember watching with my parents when I was a VERY young child..like age 2-4..did some googling and found this, looks pretty much what I remember as I was much too young to remember the title (I was only 2 in 1979, so timing seems right). I lived in and around Boston back then.
the most famous book of in the world
20:30 That was so crazy when Don Galloway would sign off by mentioning "When The Guinness Game returns in exactly 167 hours, 31 minutes, and 15 seconds, and you can bet on that!"
+ChrisK42 That only meant the show will back same time next week In Guinness Book talk
I knew that, even back then. But still...
+ChrisK42 Understood, I did a doubletake when I saw Bob Hilton do it the first time so don't feel bad. I did notice in some episodes Galloway said something like "151 hours 28 minutes and 15 seconds", either someone got the cue card wrong, or the 2 episodes did not air exactly a week to the day and time apart.
Maybe I'd prefer, "Join us next week when The Guinness Game returns in 179 hours, 45 minutes and 23 seconds and YOU can bet on that!"
Dana Long Well, considering that a week is exactly 168 hours, and not 180, I'm standing by my original post, so there.
And IINM, KNBC had this in LA, right?
Don Galloway was a good actor.
Don Galloway hosted this program?
I think this is the first time an episode of this show has hit the game show trading circuit or YOutube. One of the few game shows from 1975-on that that can be said about. It was a weekly show that probably aired on Saturday or Sunday afternoons and would have likely been preempted for sports coverage when it did.
Who has a video of the finale of "Rhyme And Reason", Where the set got destroyed?
I thought Charlie O'Donnell announced on this show. This probably was a sub, Im guessing Tony McClay
3:23-Sounds like "Money Maze" music!
+RJSchex Actually it was used as the New York Mets theme music on radio only in the mid 80s
And also as the Race for the Pennant theme song, and for Disney Channel promos.
I want to say the actual Money Maze theme was used during some of GG's run
This is a February 1980 episode of the short-lived American TV show "The Guinness Game" and the 3 players competing on this episode are Lois, Gary & Sharon. 🇺🇲 🇺🇲
How do you think Don Galloway did as a game show host?
+David Turner Fresh from Ironside. He did great. He could have been a good emcee on some shows of the day. Too bad he went back to acting primarily on General Hospital
Then he tragically passed away not long ago. RIP Don Galloway, set designer Ed Flesh and original announcer Charlie O'Donnell, all gone, but not forgotten.
Dan Barker Thought he was great and could have done other shows!
I gotta say-- I didn't think Sgt. Brown from Ironside was that bad of a host. Shame he didn't host anything else afterwards.
Bob Hilton hosted this show for part of its run. Charlie O'Donnell was the usual announcer on this show, but Tony Mcclay who subbed for Johnny Jacobs on the CHuck Barris shows from time to time is the announcer here(producer Walt Case worked on most of Barris's shows) Hill-Eubanks is Michael Hill with the Bob Eubanks most people know from Newlywed Game and Card SHarks and other shows. Hill-Eubanks also produced NBC's 1 979 show All-Star Secrets, Buddy Hackett's short lived You Bet Your Life from Fall 1980, TOni Tennille's short-lived talk show, and the short lived dating show Infatuation from Fall 1992.
+Zach Horan Great! Thanks for the information!
It's a show that hasn't been seen in more than 35 years, and wouldn't be seen anywhere else.
And this isn't Bob Hilton, this is Don Galloway.
+Greg Palmer Hilton did only the pilot
PREGO1966 Really? You're kidding. I did not know that.
Revulsion?
This theme just sounded too early to mid 70s for something for 1979, and it sounds too much like an action adventure theme from that time.
Possible camera operators: HARVEY CLAVON, FRANK GERATY, GARY WESTFALL, GEORGE WOOD
Dean Ferrendini was/is the wife of Keefe Ferrendini. Keefe won $100K on Pyramid in the tournament during the 1987-88 season by giving the clues herself in the WInner's CIrcle. Keefe and Dean knew celebrity Terry Lester during her regular game run and Keefe had to sit out that week of shows.
You mean Keefe's husband, right?
Most stunts are difficult and dangerous.