Whatever the reason, on the CBS Match Game they surely went out of their way to pick contestants who were bad at the game, or at the very least the show had no concern if they didn't play it well.

Yeah, Password was never meant to be one lightning round after another, essentially becoming Million Dollar Pass-amid.

McLean, Brett, Charles, Debralee, Richard, Patti/Joyce.

How I wish I could be a fly on the wall when the coordinators were selecting contestants.

Yeah, the questions on TTD and TJW were insultingly easy, which really detracted from otherwise solid formats.

The great thing about the CBS Match Game is that it was on after school, so kids could watch it every day. CBS fucked up royally when they moved it to the morning and lost the school-age audience.

But not a rapping dragon, as in the 1990 reboot.

The loss of returning contestants to make the shows easier to repeat is the biggest mistake new/revived game shows continually make.

“I’m a huge fan of game shows and The Joker’s Wild was my favorite show growing up."

The 2001 Card Sharks was one of the biggest abortions in game show history. I won't hold that against the classic format.

Network Ratings Roundup (Tuesday edition):

Trapper John MD actually went to court to demonstrate it was a spinoff from the movie MASH and not the TV show, since it would have an impact on having to split income.

Yeah. It was a rare instance where the first prize wasn't 100% totally bonehead obvious, but still there's no way she should have missed it.

*wraps Sheldon in barbed wire, propels self off chair, onto ropes and puts him through table*

Technically you can, but it should never take more than four chances to get the first two prizes, and for the car all combinations of 2, 3, and 4 only require six chances.

Don't forget Happy Days itself is a spinoff of Love, American Style.

10 Chances is the game to play for a car. If you know how to play it, you can't lose.

Which means they actually don't know you.

I figured maybe either Code Black or Elementary would hang on, but not both.

There don't seem to be many big moves to make - presumably Code Black goes back to Wednesdays, maybe that new Jeremy Pivin show goes to Thursdays, Young Sheldon after TBBT…yeah, anything else doesn't jump out at me.