I don't remember seeing this one very often, and it looks like its in pretty nice shape...Shenanigans board game, at only $8 right now.
Some kind of promotional poster for a seminar that Mark Goodson created/hosted. Includes a caricature-like drawing of Goodson; autographed as well.
More Americana crap comes up every auction...Chuck Woolery autograph, and a Wink Martindale "Jersey" AND autographed card.
Interesting 1976 photo/article promoting The Gong Show.
Ticket to the 1983 pilot of Jeopardy!, as well as an older ticket to On Your Account.

Re: the Gong Show ad. That looks like a John Barbour pic on which NBC grafted Chuck's head.

That seminar for what was at the time still called the Museum of Broadcasting is available for viewing (in several parts) at the Paley Centers on both coasts. It's basically just Goodson sitting, reminiscing and answering questions from the (unseen) audience. As I recall, there are a few clips, including overseas versions of some Goodson shows, but it's mostly just Goodson riffing on what makes a good game show.

And for anybody who thought rabid game show fandom was a product of the internet, there is an audience member or two who's clearly there to show off how much minutiae they know about Goodson shows rather than to hear what Goodson has to say.

The MB issued a monograph from those seminars (there were three) that still makes for fascinating reading, even if Goodson's memory is faulty now and then. Referring to Dr. Richard Hoffman, he says, "We dropped our psychiatrist the first week." Close, but not quite. He also talks briefly about the "witch hunt" that forced out Louis Untermeyer, upon which he'd elaborate more in his New York Times article five years later.

Crap? It's better than most sports card products out there, but that's an argument for another board.

This might be a good opportunity for collectors to snag some memorabilia. The game show host cards don't sell as well on eBay compared to other autographs from the set, even no-name celebrities who were on The Gilmore Girls or The OC. Additionally, most of the swatch, shirt, and combination cards have smaller print runs than similar cards from no-namers like freakin' Keiko Agena.

I think the thing for me is that these cut-up-articles-of-clothing cards are just rather silly on their face as collectibles. Hey, it's a 1" piece of Joe Nedney's jersey. Yay. With my luck, it's the one he blew his nose on.

Clearly there are people who like them, because there is a market for them, but that's my reaction to them.

From the same guy selling the Jeopardy! ticket, we have:

Let's Make a Deal (1985),
To Tell the Truth (1981),
50 Grand Slam (1976),
and
$128,000 Question (1977)

Who is this guy, the "Ticket Empresario of Atlanta"?
/David Cross bit

oh.. and
Just Men (1982) and
Beat the Clock (1979)

;)

Ya got a wrong link----Here's that 128KQ ticket...

and then we have this lovely "Newlywed home game autographed by Bob Eubanks from a Smoke-free home" haha

the last thing I need is a smoky Newlywed home game .. nicotine usage of the seller is a deal-breaker!

herruh

/comic sans, ugh

Not 'Atlanta', but otherwise, yeah, pretty much. And a member here, by the way.

It makes a difference. Stuff that spent any time at all in smoking homes absolutely REEK of the crap. And some people have allergies, and others simply don't want their own homes smelling like cancer sticks.

I've actually got this poster, although it's not in great shape (and not signed). The artist is the famous Al Hirschfeld, if that means anything.

Interesting that Dawson's caricature made the sketch, but not Barker's. Another can o' worms opened, I guess.

OK, that makes two of us who know about Al Hirschfeld and don't classify his work as "Americana crap".

Except I believe Mark is specifically referring to "Americana crap," as in the trading-card series, and not a catchall for nostalgia. :)

An oft-pondered topic around the office, considering it was our core business.

More valuable than Goodson's signature was that of Howard F. Todman, vice president of business affairs ;-)

You would be correct, sir.

Well, when there's smoke, there's whoopee...

Our first question to the ladies is, "What will your husband say is the smokiest place you've ever made whoopee?"

Joe: "I'd say Rusty's Bar ... 3rd pooltable on the left"
Darlene: *smacks Joe with card* "I said 'our own bedroom' because you smoke four packs a day!"

In the cigarette butts, Bob.

*ducks*

Congratulations! You've won the Merv Griffin "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH" award for the day.

Enlarge 1955 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES BOARD GAME!JUST TRY TO FIND
ANOTHER ONE LIKE THIS! SERIOUS COLLECTORS ONLY! BUYNOW!
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$3,500.00
Buy It Now - $1,000,000.00
Shipping - Free
8d 15h 22m

Talk about an ebay dreamer! I had no idea some of us could retire by putting our copies on eBay. Let's toss in our copies of Your Surprise Package and first ed. Lowell Beat The Clock for a paltry $3 mil! You'll also love the seller's pitch.

( it's herruh if anyone wants to see ) --

I like how shipping is free.. how kind of them to pay shipping out of their own pocket when they're expecting $1m :D ..

This is something you'd expect from an ebay newbie, but this guy has 373 sales under his belt, you'd think he'd know better.. Plus.. any item whose listing is written completely in Comic Sans can't be worth more than $50 .. =p

Starting bid $3,500.00 -- and there's a reserve.

Thing is, I looked at his feedback and some of his other items. He doesn't appear to be a nut. He has just grossly overestimated what old board games go for.

I want to slap this man in the face with a bag of frozen tilapia fillets.

$800K for my copy of Diamond Head? I'm not greedy.

Yeah, but the highest priced item he's sold in a year is a truck for $2500
So I guess maybe now he thinks he's ready for the seven-digit big time..
Perhaps the game board is lined with platinum.. however his listing also says "IF YOU ARE A TRUE BOARD GAME COLLECTOR YOU WILL KNOW WHAT IT IS WORTH. THE BOX IS ROUGH AND THERE MIGHT BE A PART MISSING" .. Think he'll take off a little for the missing part? Maybe a couple thousand?

I'd love to see the lavish dinner party where the host breaks out the home version of ToC and says "please go easy on the spinner, you know I paid a million for this.."

HAHHAHHAH
I wrote him and asked if the $1,000,000 "buy it now" was simply a typo or not, and here was his response:
(platinum comment made previous = pure coincidence!) ..

"hello there Not a typo honestly the game is not worth its just made of some
cardboard and plastic
if it were made of platinum I would be asking twice
as much. Now lets say you were about 10yr old in 1955 when this game came
out and you really wanted it but were too poor to have anything nice like a
new board game much like my parents were as children back then. Every day
you dreamed of having and playing this game. Now 50 years later you have
became sucessful and welthy and have a chance to buy the game you so
wanted. In a unplayed condition thats the chance of a lifetime. thats the
auction that this games new owner is for. If thats you send a offer on what
its worth to you thanks scott

-wizzard2076"

heelarious.. and.. wow.
at least he's honest (?)

/those poor poor children who long to own the home-game of their favorite game shows.. is there not a charity set up for them??

I'm just hoping wizzard2076 isn't someone here.

If it is: Holy good gosh freaking wow.

I'll gladly sell my Fleming Jeopardy! board game for (what looks to be) the bargain price of $100,000!

It's a mere $999,990 if you Buy It Now with the new eBay Mastercard.

Hey, again, the guy's clearly not insane. It costs him four bucks to list something with that high a starting price. There are plenty of people out there who have more money than they could ever spend in their lives. If ONE of those people remembers the original ToC fondly and wants to send the guy $3,500 for his copy, he wins. If not, he's out four bucks.

Consider this: Somebody puts up a copy of the Lowell The Price is Right game for $5000. Drew Carey sees it, doesn't have it. Thinks it would be cool to have in his dressing room. Don't you think he'd be the sort who'd say, "Sure, send the guy five thousand. I want that game." Same concept here. All it takes is one.

The million dollar "buy it now" price is fantasyland, of course, and even the $3500 is absurdly unlikely. But again, it costs him very little for a shot.

Only if it comes with real diamonds.

/taking a pass on "or if it comes with real head".

That better be damn good head for $800K.

/oh yeah
//I went there

And had you not, 'I' would have been right there, picking up the missed moment.

And to add to his array of tickets, a 1982 pilot for a "People Are Funny" revival.

Interesting in that the actual series with the "People Are Funny" title that aired in 1982 wasn't a studio audience participation game show, but a prank show produced entirely on location with canned audience response, hosted by Flip Wilson.

An update to two items mentioned here earlier this month...

First, the Truth or Consequences game with a Buy It Now of $1,000,000 was lowered to an initial bid of $35 with a BIN of $100. It didn't sell, possibly in small part to the almost $30 the guy was charging for shipping from Arkansas to here.

Second, the current issue Beckett Sports Card Monthly has the initial pricing for the Americana series. The Bob Eubanks autograph card books at $25, while each of the other three host autographs (Martindale, Marshall, and Woolery) check in at $15 apiece. Each non-autographed host swatch card books at $8. The Eubanks auto/swatch combo books at $20, while the Martindale and Woolery versions are a mere $15. The common base cards for most everybody in the set is $1.