Show Notes and Video Playlist: Bonus Episode--Fame Game 10

*If you want to play along and/or be surprised, read this post after listening to the episode!

*We hope you enjoyed this week's bonus episode playing Fame Game again. We will return next week with another "regular" season 10 episode! 

*Mike totally destroyed the Fame Game by getting this one so early! Congratulations to Mike!

*The playlist for this week is embedded below, but please remember, it contains spoilers as to the identity of the subject of the game. So listen to the podcast first if you want to play along! Remember you can always visit our official YouTube channel for past episodes and playlists for each one!

*Slylock Fox has been the star of a King Features Sunday comics feature for over 35 years!

*Bewitched aired 8 seasons (1964-1972) on ABC.

*The Flintstones episode we discuss is "Samantha" from the series' sixth season.

*Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" was a #1 hit in 1985.

*Def Leppard's Rocket peaked at #12 on the US pop chart in 1997. It was 

*The Untouchables episode we mention is "The Rusty Heller Story," which premiered October 13, 1960 to kick off the series' second season. TV Guide ranked it 99 in its 1997 version of the 100 greatest episodes of all time.

*Tabitha lasted a half-season in 1977.

*Robert Montgomery's wife (and the mother of Elizabeth) is Elizabeth Bryan Allen, a stage actress who died in 1992--sadly, only several years before her daughter died way too young in 1995.

Tomorrow on Battle of Network Shows...

 

Show Notes: Fame Game #9 (plus YT playlist!)

*We hope you enjoyed this week's bonus episode playing Fame Game again. We will return next week with a "regular" season 10 episode!

*The playlist for this week is embedded below, but please remember, it contains spoilers as to the identity of the subject of the game. So listen to the podcast first if you want to play along! Remember you can always visit our official YouTube channel for past episodes and playlists for each one!

*Bates College is in Lewiston, Maine.

*The 2005 film The Weather Man was directed by Gore Verbinski and co-starred Michael Caine and Hope Davis.

*Mike won the game after clue number 6.

*Our subject started on network TV hosting NBC pregame coverage of the NFL.

*Public Eye won a Peabody but only lasted one season (1997-98) on CBS.

*Black Sports lasted 1971-1978, with our subject's stint as editor lasting for about a year in the early part of the run.

Tomorrow on Battle of the Network Shows...

 

Show Notes: Bonus episode--Catching Up/Fame Game

*I actually don't have a ton this week, but it feels good to be doing Show Notes again!

*Thanks again for your patience, and we look forward to joining you again for our upcoming new season!

*Mama's Family, the Vicki Lawrence sitcom that sprung from the sketches on The Carol Burnett Show, ran 6 seasons, two on NBC and 4 in first-run syndication.

*One in a Million is streaming on Crackle. 

*Shout out to Genius Award winner Jeffrey Scott! He won the honor at our Season 8 Battys.

*As of this writing, Facts of Life is no longer streaming on a major service (that we know of) despite past stints on Crackle, Roku Channel, and Pluto TV.

*The Facebook group we mention is right here. It's very easy to join!

*Congratulations again to...ME! Yes, congrats to Mike and me for the new developments in/additions to our families. Sky point to the late great Merle!

*Night Court is streaming on IMDB-TV, free with ads.

*You can still see The Rockford Files on multiple streaming outlets, including Peacock, IMDB-TV, and Roku Channel.

*The official David Letterman YouTube channel we discuss is right here, and Don Giller's channel is still going, too.

*Check out our YT playlist for an interesting episode of Solid Gold co-hosted by Frank Sinatra.

*Listen to our Medical Center episode right here!

*Our thanks as always to Bobby and the BOTNS Orchestra for their fine work in the Fame Game this week!

Show Notes: Fame Game #7

*Remember to listen to our latest Fame Game bonus episode before reading this if you want to play along and not be spoiled!

*Previous Fame Games can be found in the archives.

ADDITIONAL SPOILER SPACE

*The video playlist for this episode, featuring promos, sketches, interviews, and more, is right here!

*Our Fame Game figure was born June 28, 1946.

*NBC's Animalympics was conceived as two hourlong TV specials taking off on the Olympics, but after the Olympic boycott, the network canceled the Summer version. The Winter special aired February 1, 1980, and the full-length movie version combining the two received home video and pay cable distribution.

*First Family co-starred Bob Newhart and Madeline Khan as the First Couple. The 1980 Buck Henry joint was panned.

*Gilda Radner Live on Broadway ran August-September 1979. Mike Nichols' filmed adaptation, Gilda Live, had a short box office run in early 1980.

*Radner won her Emmy in 1978 for Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Variety or Music Program, beating Dolly Parton for a Cher special, Bea Arthur for the short-lived Laugh-In revival, Bernadette Peters for The Muppet Show, and castmate Jane Curtin from SNL.

Tomorrow on Battle of the Network Shows...

 

Fame Game #6 Video Playlist is now live!

 After listening to this week's installment of our Fame Game series of bonus episodes, click below to enjoy our official video playlist on YouTube.  You'll see game shows, dancing, glamour, and Larry Wilcox for Turtle Wax! See Jerry Seinfeld doing standup! Betty Buckley singing Memories! And Ah-nuld! All this and more when you click below:

And remember, you can see curated playlists like this one, as well as the podcast episodes themselves, right here at our official YouTube channel!

Show Notes: Fame Game #6

 *Remember to listen to our latest Fame Game bonus episode before reading this if you want to play along and not be spoiled!

*Previous Fame Games can be found in the archives.

ADDITIONAL SPOILER SPACE

*Our Fame Game subject this week, Merv Griffin (1925-2007) was born in San Mateo, California, and lived most his life in the Golden State.

*Before we get a stream of letters, we do not actually have a surplus of Turtle Wax to give away.

*Play Your Hunch lasted 1958-1963, with Gene Rayburn and Robert Q.Lewis succeeding Griffin after he started his daytime talk show. The game show was on all 3 broadcast networks.

*Merv hosted a daytime chat show on NBC (1962-63) before starting his famous syndicated show, which aired in various time slots around the country.

*Griffin took a shot at opposing Johnny Carson with a late-night show in 1969, but he left that unsuccessful program to launch another syndicated show in 1972, and that version lasted till he retired in 1986.

*Joan Rivers was actually 8 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and was thus ineligible for military service during World War II.

*Arnold Schwarzenegger's first appearance on Griffin's show was in 1974. The actor attended Merv's funeral in 2007.

*Dance Fever aired weekly in first-run syndication from 1979 to 1987.

Tomorrow on Battle of the Network Shows...

Fame Game #5 You Tube playlist is now live!

This week we celebrate our Fame Game subject with a list of commercials, clips. and more! In addition to our Famer, you'll see Raquel Welch! The Muppets! Dean martin! Multiple cartoons! And finally, The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour makes its triumphant debut in the BOTNS playlists! Click below!

And remember, for all of our past podcasts and episode-specific playlists for each one, head to our official YouTube channel!

Show Notes: Fame Game #5

Remember, if you want to play along with us, listen to this week's bonus episode BEFORE reading these show notes and before watching this week's YouTube playlist!

*Our Famer was born July 24, 1936.

*Granny Goodwitch was in Sugar Crisps cereal ads and on Linus the Lionhearted.

*The Pound Puppies cartoon, based on the toy line by Tonka, aired as a special in October 1985, then as a regular series on ABC 1986-1989.  A 2010 revival on Hub lasted several more seasons.

*Paw Paws is a syndicated 1985-1986 Hanna Barbera series.

*Henry's wife Chloe appeared on only one episode of Alice: Season 5's Henry's Bitter Half.

*Our Famer did NOT kill the rest of the participants in the Dean Martin Roast of Frank Sinatra.

*One role we did not mention but that we have discussed on the podcast: Aunt Minerva from Legends of the Superheroes: The Roast.

*The Love Boat episode with our Famer as herself is one of the post-main-run movies, 1987's Who Killed Maxwell Thorn? in which she appears along with other BOTNS faves like Alan Thicke, Bert Convy, The Bos, Charo, Gordon Jump...the list goes on and on. Robert Reed and Florence Henderson play Mike and Carol Brady!

You can see the opening to the episode in this week's video playlist on our official YouTube channel.

*Our Famer, as we mention, is active on Twitter and is also on Cameo.

Tomorrow on Battle of the Network Shows...

Video playlist for Fame Game #4

Remember, please listen to this week's bonus episode, our fourth installment of the Fame Game, before watching this playlist if you don't want to spoil the game.

Once you do, though, click below to enjoy a young Julia Louis-Dreyfus on stage, Ray Combs, Secret Deodorant, the trailer for Trouble Man, and more!

Tomorrow on Battle of the Network Shows...

The YouTube playlist for our new Fame Game episode is live!

Remember to make sure you listen to our Fame Game episode this week if you don't want the identity of the mystery BOTNS figure revealed!



When you're ready, check out the above YouTube playlist for glimpses of the mystery guest, plus Sonny, Cher, and Phyllis Diller!

Show Notes: Fame Game #3

Remember, if you want to play along as Mike tries to deduce the identity of the subject in this installment of the Fame Game, please do NOT read this or check out our YouTube playlist until after hearing this week's mini episode!

We hope that Bobby will be back next time in his customary spot leading the Battle of the Network Shows orchestra, but we couldn't deprive him of a lucrative gig in Tahoe.

Just a few notes for this bonus episode:

*Our subject this week is Daphne Blake, whose most prominent voice was the actress Heather North. According to Mark Evanier, she is based on Thalia from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and the other teens are inspired by others from that series.

*Daphne co-starred with Don Adams in The Exterminator from the second season of The New Scooby-Doo Movies; Phyllis Diller in A Good Medium is Rare from the first season (I like that title) , and Sonny and Cher in The Secret of Shark Island, also in the first season.

*Fred's last name is Jones; Shaggy's is Rogers; Velma's is Dinkley.

Tomorrow on Battle of the Network Shows...

Video Playlist for Fame Game #2 is now available!

Once again, Mike is in the hot seat on The Fame Game this week, and after you listen to see how he does, you can check out the newest playlist on our official YouTube channel. Remember, though, this playlist reveals the identity of ???, so if  you don't want to have the game spoiled, make sure you listen to the latest bonus episode before checking out these clips relating to ???

Tomorrow on Battle of the Network Shows...