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8/17/15 Quick News & Notes

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-One of the guests on the new "Tonight Show" game Photo Booth was Big Bird.
-Watch this '88 commercial for "J!".
-On the pilot for the '90-'91version of "The Jokers' Wild", the show's logo was on top of the slot machine & there was no Joker icon in any of the windows (they just said "JOKER").
-In one of the promotional ads for "WIPEOUT", the host's last name was misspelled as "Tomarkin".
-MCA TV was the distributor for the "Home Shopping Game".
-Pilot differences for "Break the Bank" including the time in the Prize Vault being displayed on the podiums in eggcrate & the Bank Vault's value at $25K.
-The U.S. pilot of "$trike it Rich" had three couples competing & their screen borders being colored.
-The car for the "Every Second Counts" pilot looked like a Camaro or Firebird (on the actual series, the automobile was usually a maZDa GLC HB or Sedan). Also, during the series, the bell for clearing each level of the bonus round sounded like the Gift Shop bell from "$ale of the Century".
-Monty Hall was slated to host "Queen for a Day" in Fall '88 for Barry & Enright & distributed by Fries Distribution Co.
-Michael Berger was going to host "Late Night Lotto" in Fall '87 for Reg Grundy Productions & Gaylord Production Co.
-For those of you watching the "Feud" on WRLH, watch closely this wk. for the "Artist of the Night" for your chance to win a $3K trip to this yr.'s iHeartRadio Music Festival.
-In last wk.'s playing of TTM, the margin between the winning price & the ARP was $602, the biggest since $611 for the First Date ep. 
-Last Wed., Chris Rose hosted the first few hrs. of "MLB Tonight" for (I think) the first time. 
-Phil Moore did a Coast Soap commercial about two decades ago. 
-OPERATION's the subject of a new GEICO commercial. 
-The yellow $900 will be decreased to $600 this season. 
-Cindy Clark's the co-EP of "The Chase". 
-The Washington Generals will no longer be the primary opponent for the Harlem Globetrotters. 
-The CBS Studio Center previously was the lot for Republic Pictures.

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