Sunday, November 2, 2014

Game show end credits on the Internet

This post is about game show end credits on YouTube and other websites that have full episodes of game shows. A credits sequence varies from episode to episode.

Jim Perry's nighttime syndicated version of Sale of the Century had a full credit roll for most of the first season. GSN airings of the episodes aired from February 6 through early May 1985 went straight to the list of sponsors after the final commercial break. In October 2014, the network resumed showing a full credit roll after the final commercial break on GSN airings of nighttime Sale. I have a compilation of credits sequences from nighttime Sale which first aired from January 7-25, 1985 and January 29-February 1, 1985, all in one video, with absolutely no intent of copyright infringement.

On the GSN airings of the January 7-25, 1985 episodes of nighttime Sale, after the copyright card, the network leaves in the contestant and ticket plugs before the full credit roll. All nighttime Sale episodes that first aired on the aforementioned dates had no fee plugs before the credits. On GSN airings of nighttime Sale episodes that first aired in most of February, March, and April 1985, after Jim signs off, the fee plugs (from reruns in the summer of 1985) are replaced by a commercial break, since the episodes that first aired in those three months of 1985 are the rerun versions from the summer of that year, because there had only been fee plugs in the summer reruns.

Most credits sequences end before the credit crunch, but on a GSN airing of the January 29, 1985 episode, the credits were fully uncrunched. GSN skipped the January 28, 1985 episode. Here's a link to the compilation.

Nighttime Sale of the Century credits compilation from January 7-25 and January 29-February 1, 1985

Some Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! credits sequences that I have were originally on YouTube but I relocated them to Dailymotion to avoid copyright trouble by Sony, which controlled Jeopardy! almost exclusively in a summer 2014 purge, according to a comment by David Downs in my video about copyright trouble by Sony.




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