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The thread about infomercials got me to thinking, I don’t much care for infomercials (except the ones I get paid to voice), but I have always had a fond spot in my heart for TV game shows. Not quiz shows. GAME shows. Who Wants to Be A Millionaire is a QUIZ show. Questions and answers. It’s a quiz. Jeopardy is a QUIZ show. Answers and questions. It’s a quiz. Wheel of Fortune, The Match Game, Password, To Tell The Truth, What’s My Line?, Family Fued, $25,000 Pyramid — THOSE were GAME shows. An actual game was played, not just a quiz to test players’ knowledge. I’d say it’s high time some modern-day Goodson-Todman comes along and dreams up a golf game show. Heaven knows, they’ve got enough time in the day to run it on The Golf Channel. If MTV can come up with Remote Control (one of the great quiz shows ever), surely someone could peddle a game show to The Golf Channel. Seems to me that golf, being a game itself, lends itself to coming up with some sort of game that incorporates a mixture of skills challenge, trivia knowledge (maybe), and luck. Some kind of vehicle by which Joe Hacker could get his fifteen minutes of fame. I’ll have to noodle on this. You do the same. Maybe we can come up with a fun idea to submit to the boys and girls at The Golf Channel. Here’s an idea for "The Lightning Round." The $25,000 Circle of Putts. 25 balls, 25 feet from the hole. Make 10 in 60 seconds and win $10,000. Make 25 in 60 seconds and win $25,000. Did someone say, "Who Wants to Make A Million Dollar Hole-In-One?" Alright, maybe we’d have to use a quiz mechanic. Here are your categories: "Sneaking on Augusta National," "Golfing Georges," "Stroke This," "Inside the Leather Fetishes," and "Is that a sleeve of Titleists in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?" "I’ll take ‘Stroke This’ for 200, Alex." OK, now we’re gettin’ somewhere. Anybody got any ideas for the game? We may have finally found a golf job that even Brent Musburger could do. No wait… is Bill Cullen still alive? He could barely walk. He could sit in a golf cart and emcee the show. Perfect. CASTING!!! Get his agent on the phone… Randy RSG-ATLANTA Information: http://www.YouGoGolf.com/rsg-atlanta.htm Charter Member, RSG "Clique" Night Watchman, FIAC My RSG Roll Call profile: http://u1.netgate.net/~kirby34/rsg/brownr.htm RSG FAQ: http://ttsoft.com/thor/rsggolf.html Voiceovers/Narration/Production Services: www.RandyBrownProductions.com
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<<I’d say it’s high time some modern-day Goodson-Todman comes along and dreams up a golf game show. Heaven knows, they’ve got enough time in the day to run it on The Golf Channel. If MTV can come up with Remote Control (one of the great quiz shows ever), surely someone could peddle a game show to The Golf Channel. Seems to me that golf, being a game itself, lends itself to coming up with some sort of game that incorporates a mixture of skills challenge, trivia knowledge (maybe), and luck. Some kind of vehicle by which Joe Hacker could get his fifteen minutes of fame. I’ll have to noodle on this. You do the same. Maybe we can come up with a fun idea to submit to the boys and girls at The Golf Channel. Actually, one is already in the works. It’s called "Killer Golf" and it will be on the Golf Channel. The people behind it are Hypnos Entertainment who created the Jack Nicklaus 4, 5 & 6 computer golf sims. I have no idea when it is scheduled to air. Lee
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’d say it’s high time some modern-day Goodson-Todman comes along and dreams up a golf game show. Heaven knows, they’ve got enough time in the day torun it on The Golf Channel. If MTV can come up with Remote Control (one of the great quiz shows ever), surely someone could peddle a game show to The Golf Channel. Seems to me that golf, being a game itself, lends itself to coming up with some sort of game that incorporates a mixture of skills challenge, trivia knowledge (maybe), and luck. Some kind of vehicle by which Joe Hacker could get his fifteen minutes of fame. I’ll have to noodle on this. You do the same. Maybe we can come up with a fun idea to submit to the boys and girls at The Golf Channel. Here’s an idea for "The Lightning Round." The $25,000 Circle of Putts. 25 balls, 25 feet from the hole. Make 10 in 60 seconds and win $10,000. Make 25 in 60 seconds and win $25,000. Did someone say, "Who Wants to Make A Million Dollar Hole-In-One?" Alright, maybe we’d have to use a quiz mechanic. Here are your categories: "Sneaking on Augusta National," "Golfing Georges," "Stroke This," "Inside the Leather Fetishes," and "Is that a sleeve of Titleists in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?" "I’ll take ‘Stroke This’ for 200, Alex." OK, now we’re gettin’ somewhere. Anybody got any ideas for the game? We may have finally found a golf job that even Brent Musburger could do. No wait… is Bill Cullen still alive? He could barely walk. He could sit in a golf cart and emcee the show. Perfect. CASTING!!! Get his agent on the phone… Randy
OK, I’ll bite. Proposal #1: "What’s My Line?" Putting game in which contestants are matched with a celebrity partner (please, anyone but Ray Romano) and must correctly read the line of the partner’s putt. (Note: the putt will be a slippery 45 – 50 footer on a notably difficult green — e.g., 17th at Sawgrass, 14th or 16th at Augusta, etc.) Team that ends up closest to the hole wins. A holed putt wins a bonus and a chance at the million-dollar grand prize! #2: "The Price is Right!" Your ball is in the middle of the fairway. Your opponent PGA professional Nick Price’s ball is in the right rough. Your task is to get down in fewer strokes than Nick. If you tie, there’s a playoff: different hole, same conditions. #3: "All in the Family." Contestants must steer their tee shots between two huge fairway bunkers (Archie on the left, Edith on the right) and then execute a similarly daunting approach shot between two gaping greenside bunkers (Gloria and Meathead, natch). Any player who avoids the entire bunker family and makes a regulation par wins cash and a date with Sally Struthers. #4 (my personal favorite) "To Tell the Truth." This is an RSG game. Three rsg members — all claiming to be the same person (e.g, Joseph Hall ) — respond to queries from a panel of other participants in rsg. Objective: will the panelists be able to identify the real "Joseph Hall" and unmask the pretenders? (Note: Real Joseph must answer truthfully; poseurs can lie at will.) Sample line of questioning: Panelist A: Joseph Number One, how far do you hit your tee shots? Jos. #1 (real Joseph): About 275 – 300. Panelist A: Joseph Number Two, what about you? Jos. #2 (Actually Mike D.): Depends. With the Integra 400, downwind, hard fairway …. Panelist A: Joseph Number Three, and you? How far do you hit ‘em? Jos. #3 (Actually Felicity): LOL. You get the idea. — "A Last Judgment is necessary because fools flourish." — Wm. Blake. — Home Page: http://www.depaul.edu/~dsimpson
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[snip] Seems to me that golf, being a game itself, lends itself to coming up with some sort of game that incorporates a mixture of skills challenge, trivia knowledge (maybe), and luck. Some kind of vehicle by which Joe Hacker could get his fifteen minutes of fame.
[snip] The easy one of course is just some variation of minature golf with windmills and clowns mouths and the like. You could do a Wheel of Fortune kinda thing only instead of the wheel is a putting green with 26 holes. You wanna letter? Sink the put in that hole. You could have some sort a drive/chip/putt competetion where you drive a ball and that selects some one of 9 possible outcomes (long left, middle right. middle-left, middle, right. short – left middle right). The result of your drives requires your team mate to chip on the chipping green to one of 9 targets. After that, the 3rd team member has to putt to one of 9 holes. The targets/holes are arranged such that the longest straightest drives result in the medium to easy targets and the dead simple putts. Throw in extra targets/holes etc where the "daily double" or other exceptional good/bad outcomes can happen (by mistake or luck or some such thing) and you’ve got all sorts of possibilities. The putting green could have some shape to it. Subsequent rounds could have moving targets, obstacles, etc (all with sponsors logos of course). Chipping Tic Tac Toe? Driving Tic Tac Toe? Big wall with 9 large openings. You could have a team competition of driving, chipping, putting tic tac toe. To "get the square" 2 out of 3 team members have to hit it. They each have targets sized for the club being used (putting green basically for the putter. Some kinda large chipping surface with large holes for the 9 iron. You could have a special ball which can be used to "take" others squares. (Black or orange or some such thing). You have a lighting round where everyone is playing the same board at once and speed and strategy get involved.