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New Season 12 J! episode uploaded

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Here is the newly-uploaded Season 12 J! episode but one of you guys, animfan, MarkBarrett, or Robert K S, or maybe even Jay Fisher(if he's available in this new forum) can help us with the air date/Game # to this episode but here are the embed links so far:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyPCS8NprpY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waJylb1wPeY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93s_aLgk3Yk

And BTW, we narrowed it down to Game #2530, #2550 and #2565. Game #2570 had a champion who had to wait 3 weeks before competing again, who was the last champion before the 1995 Celebrity Tournament and the ToC?
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MNF and college football on Saturdays played havoc with the viewing schedule back then, so I cannot pinpoint the airdate.

My notebook shows:

Mark/Bill/Carol Ann 11801 new champ
Carol Ann 26002 total/June/Rudy 11001 new champ
Rudy/Lynn 13401 new champ/Rock
Lynn/Jack 9500 new champ/Barbara
Jack/Len 12200 new champ/Mimi
Len 14799 win #2/Ann/John
Len 10199 win #3/Carol/Bill
Len 6201 win #4/Steve/Scott
Len/Herb/Albina 11800 new champ
Albina 12000 win #2/Richard/Wilson
Albina 13100 win #3/Marie/Nancy
Albina/Keith 13100 new champ/Nick
Keith 16900 win #2/Kevin/Ann
Linda 12601 win #3 with 2-day total 28,402/Dotty/Peg
Linda 9401 win #4/Ray/John
Gordon returning with 19100/Jeanne/Mark
Gordon returning with 30,100 wins again with 10200/Al/Carole
Gordon 4595/Madeline/John
Chuck returning with 15,599/Holly/Les 11401 new champ
Les/Rob 5700 new champ/Maureen
Paul returning with 20,000 wins again with 23,600/Suzanne/John
Paul 10600/Patrick/Allen
Paul 17799 = 72199 5xer/Sara/Dennis
Three newbies Jeff/Reita 18700 new champ/Jerry
Mary returning with 16601/Alan/Dennis Jones 11801 new champ
Tom returning with 14212 wins again with 13200/Jeffrey/Lori
Jonathan returning with 12000 wins again with 21000/Steve/Melanie
Marty returning with 11000 wins again with 17100/Raymund/Barbara

That is what I have for September and October 1995 in order with multiple games missing here and there. That should be enough to eliminate 9/8/95 as a possible, but I can't eliminate the other two possible dates.
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So the episode with "The Game Show Network" category is from Game #2554, October 12, 1995 and Paul Thompson's run began on the next show and Gordon Wean's run is from September 29-October 5, 1995 which lead me that this newly-uploaded Season 12 J! show is from 10/6/95 and Paul Thompson was the first 5x champion of Season 12 and Gordon Wean got the final spot for the coming ToC the next month. Didn't the Monday and/or Friday episodes back then got pre-empted from your ABC affiliated station Mark?
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So with the game numbers all being multiples of 5, does that mean you know it is a Friday show? Did Alex mention it being the end of the week, or did you figure that out some other way?

Also, to MarkBarrett, why did Saturday college football affect the J! viewing schedule? Would they air the shows pre-empted by Monday Night Football on Saturdays, but not at a consistent time because of college football games, or did you just mean that you didn't always watch the show regularly when it conflicted with football?
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jeff6286 wrote:So with the game numbers all being multiples of 5, does that mean you know it is a Friday show? Did Alex mention it being the end of the week, or did you figure that out some other way?
The game numbers with multiples of 5 means the end of the week shows.
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jeff6286 wrote:So with the game numbers all being multiples of 5, does that mean you know it is a Friday show? Did Alex mention it being the end of the week, or did you figure that out some other way?
I can't watch YouTube here at work, but I assume at the end of the episode, Alex says "We'll see you on Monday," or something similar.
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MinnesotaMyron wrote:
jeff6286 wrote:So with the game numbers all being multiples of 5, does that mean you know it is a Friday show? Did Alex mention it being the end of the week, or did you figure that out some other way?
I can't watch YouTube here at work, but I assume at the end of the episode, Alex says "We'll see you on Monday," or something similar.
He did say at the end to have a good weekend, so this is a Friday game.

A little digging shows Boeing workers went on strike in Portland on September 2, 1995. I'm guessing that's who is picketing at the start of the video.

The strike ended on September 29.
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Mark, here are the airdates for all the Sep. and Oct. 1995 eps. you asked about:

Mark/Bill/Carol Ann 11801 new champ - 9/5/95
Carol Ann 26002 total/June/Rudy 11001 new champ - 9/7/95
Rudy/Lynn 13401 new champ/Rock - 9/8/95
Lynn/Jack 9500 new champ/Barbara - 9/11/95
Jack/Len 12200 new champ/Mimi - 9/12/95
Len 14799 win #2/Ann/John - 9/13/95
Len 10199 win #3/Carol/Bill - 9/14/95
Len 6201 win #4/Steve/Scott - 9/15/95
Len/Herb/Albina 11800 new champ - 9/18/95
Albina 12000 win #2/Richard/Wilson - 9/19/95
Albina 13100 win #3/Marie/Nancy - 9/20/95
Albina/Keith 13100 new champ/Nick - 9/21/95
Keith 16900 win #2/Kevin/Ann - 9/22/95
Linda 12601 win #3 with 2-day total 28,402/Dotty/Peg - 9/27/95
Linda 9401 win #4/Ray/John - 9/28/95
Gordon returning with 19100/Jeanne/Mark - 10/2/95
Gordon returning with 30,100 wins again with 10200/Al/Carole - 10/3/95
Gordon 4595/Madeline/John - 10/4/95
Chuck returning with 15,599/Holly/Les 11401 new champ - 10/11/95
Les/Rob 5700 new champ/Maureen - 10/12/95
Paul returning with 20,000 wins again with 23,600/Suzanne/John - 10/17/95
Paul 10600/Patrick/Allen - 10/18/95
Paul 17799 = 72199 5xer/Sara/Dennis - 10/19/95
Three newbies Jeff/Reita 18700 new champ/Jerry - 10/20/95
Mary returning with 16601/Alan/Dennis Jones 11801 new champ - 10/24/95
Tom returning with 14212 wins again with 13200/Jeffrey/Lori - 10/27/95
Jonathan returning with 12000 wins again with 21000/Steve/Melanie - Sorry, I don't have this episode, and I have no clue where this goes
Marty returning with 11000 wins again with 17100/Raymund/Barbara - 10/31/95
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It's amazing to me that while the set, the music, and the look have all had many facelifts, the show retains its exact rhythm.
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It is from 10/6/1995. Two people have told me that.
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To the Jeffs: Thanks for the airdates. I'll get those marked on my scoresheets.

Back then the pattern was MNF to start the week with a local post game show to follow. The football game had to be in the 3-hour range to get any of J! aired at all. It didn't happen often. On Tuesday either the Monday game would air or it would never be shown at all and the Tuesday game would be on. On Saturday there was college football and J! would only come on when the game was done in three hours. If J! came on it at all was joined in progress as a full show didn't happen often. That would be the Friday game in almost all cases. Very rarely J! would also air on Sunday afternoon to try to get the week mostly aired.

Many times there was only time for one of the game shows and WOF got the nod more frequently. The other thing that caused confusion on having the dates was being such a numbskull that I would write down the date on my scoresheet that I was seeing the game and not the actual date to match a normal M-F airing. It's much better now with little other than the NBA finals on weekdays causing shows not to air. And when those don't air there are more ways to catch up thanks to modern technology that beat the old VHS trading circuit like I had to do to complete my KJ set.
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I can't remember if KGO aired this episode because they also had a baseball playoff game that aired at 4:30 PT.
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Also J! and Wheel got preempted on 9/26-9/27/95 due to the OJ Simpson trial coverage that aired until 8 pm PT.
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Well, I found out some info based on the SF Chronicle newspaper listings from 10/6-10/7/95: ABC was airing a baseball playoff game between the LA Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds on Friday 10/6. The Reds would sweep the divisional series 3-0. Then the following night, ABC aired another baseball playoff game, this time between the Seattle Mariners and N.Y. Yankees. The Mariners beat the Yankees, forcing a decisive Game 5. Since that game started at 4 pm PT, it should have ended by 7 pm, since the SF station (KGO) had an hour unscheduled for regular programming, followed by J! at 8, then a 2 1/2 hour movie at 8:30. Well the Mariners beat the Yankees 11-8, but the total time was at least 4 hours. So since the game started at 4:07 pm PT, the game would have ended at 8:15 pm PT, thus only 15 minutes to air J!, since they had a movie, which they couldn't push back due to news at 11 pm. So I think they would have preempted J! due to a post game report.
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whltquan wrote:So I think they would have preempted J! due to a post game report.
If ABC signed off before 8:30 PT, KGO joining J! in progress would actually have been more likely than them doing some kind of local postgame report (especially since neither team was local).
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