Category:Game Show: Difference between revisions

Game shows were enormously popular in America during the 1950s, until several of the most popular ones <ref>(''[[Twenty21 One(game show)|21]]'' {the most infamous}, ''[[Tic -Tac -Dough]]'' {~75% of the nighttime run}, ''The $64,000 Question'' {Dr. Joyce Brothers was supposed to lose}, ''The $64,000 Challenge'' {'''children!'''}, and ''Dotto'' {the smoking gun})</ref> turned out to be [[Executive Meddling|rigged]]. The 1960s and early 1970s had many low-stakes games, with big-ticket ones (especially quizzes) generally falling out of favor... until 1973 and ''[[Pyramid (TV)|The $10,000 Pyramid]]''. The 1970s and 1980s brought flashy sets and [[Ear Worm]] music, with 1975, 1985, and 1987 being particularly good years for the genre.

The 1990s brought with it a sense that ideas were running out, as networks and cable stations dropped games left and right (the last Big Three victim being ''[[Caesars Challenge]]'' in January 1994). Only ''[[The Price Is Right]]'', ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'', and ''[[Jeopardy (TV)|Jeopardy!]]'' remained through the entire decade, with a few other games briefly popping up here and there. [[GSN]] began in December 1994, giving fans a constant home for classic games.

In 1998, ''[[Who Wants to Be Aa Millionaire?]]'' gave the genre a shot in the arm and brought a new age of [[Follow the Leader]] [[Who Wants to Be Who Wants Toto Be Aa Millionaire?|games]].

For the celebrity-oriented variant, see [[Panel Game]]. See also [[Game Show Tropes]].

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