Go - December 9, 1983

[@kokoken1]

NBC never gave this show a proper chance. It's a fantastic game. When my best friend from college and his wife -- two superb game players -- invited me to their home in California one time, I made up cards to play this game, and they kept asking to play it every time I visited. A lot of laughs and a lot of fun! Thanks, Bob Stewart, R.I.P.

[@GCBlues45]

At fun job 18Univeral Stuidos(Disney18)brung back GO & its a hit been going on now for 5 years now. Jackpot of $25,000 clean sweep teams play for whole $25,000 but if not winning team gets to play for $15,000 & other team plays for $10,000. Its very fun.

[@drummingdanny84]

NBC could've had this and "Hot Potato" in '84. 🥔 The "Match/Squares" hour could've done us a favor.

[@dimitriberozny3729]

If FOX were in existence,FOX would have bought this from NBC.

[@Kepley100]

What a fun episode! This is only the second episode I've seen where $20,000 was won (the first time I saw it happen was with Shelley Smith), and what a great team too! GO is one of the most underrated game shows in history!

[@newl0bstr]

Thank you for uploading this episode of The Go Show!

[@yaphettvazquez9796]

YAY!!!!!!

[@yaphettvazquez9796]

$10,000 And $20,000!!!!!

[@marchoffman6017]

I liked this show.

[@cyanmanta]

There's something very aesthetically pleasing about the phrase "stop the clock." It's another reason I love that British show, The Chase.

[@nflfan85]

I agree, I loved it as well

[@newstarcadefan]

Wow, this definately was a pressure-filled game. Bob Stewart knew exactly what he was doing when he made this game (born from the first bonus round of Chain Reaction).

[@michaelholman517minKC]

Why this show didn't last is beyond me. This was a great game.

[@jamesthedragon2344]

Michael Holman Sadly, poor ratings resulted in its cancellation... Because it aired in a “death time slot” (12:00 Noon)

[@wschmrdr]

If Get Rich Quick couldn't last past a pilot, I can see why this was a 13 weeker.

[@nextbarker2702]

@@wschmrdr Hot Potato replaced it on NBC, which lasted 6mos, than later came Super Password.

[@ManekiNeko1972]

I remember one time someone overloaded the clock. The buzzer went off once the clock hit 99 seconds.

[@NEPatriot]

By the way, host Kevin O'Connell was a weatherman in LA at the time he did GO. He still does the weather for WGRZ-TV in his hometown of Buffalo, NY.

[@watson956]

@NEPatriot - you probably know this, but everyone else Kevin STILL does the weather in Buffalo.

[@nextbarker2702]

@@watson956 Well, I don't know that, cause I don't live in Buffalo, I live in Staten Island

[@pjwilldexter1762]

i was so sick when i saw the timeslot that this show was given, even in Los Angeles. It was pre-empted SO many times, it's no wonder it was canceled. It was too bad, too, because the theme song is catchy and the game is fast and creative -- and i loved Kevin O'Connell in this before he ended up moving to Buffalo. Miss you Kevin!!

[@yaphettvazquez9796]

Aired On NBC Daytime In 1983.

[@bduddy55555]

The real challenge - count how many Gos are on the set...

[@Jack21Spades]

30!

[@jmiller297]

@@Jack21Spades Dang it, I've been out-geeked!! Lol...

[@Jack21Spades]

@@jmiller297 NO. I'm wrong. 34! The BIG GO, top center 4 upper left, 4 upper right 4 lower left, 4 lower right 3 lights in the Desk (Dais?) 4 with a Contestant behind each letter 2 under the Board 8 on the Board, holding Packets

[@Jack21Spades]

@@jmiller297 Dammit I forgot one- the Bonus Round Responding Contestant sits behind it. It's both Red and Blue. 35!

[@KiddBloo86]

I'm sorry, what's the name of this show? 🤓

[@BlackwoodCompany]

That 29 seconds has to be a record for a round.

[@gpgbball]

Whoa!! The blue team was rolling in this game man!!

[@salvadordipaling7451]

I sure wish more contestants (O crimey ANY)on the mid-00s Chain Reaction could GET the concept of doing what they did on this show. Seriously.

[@markschildberg1667]

Every contestant but maybe 2 on that show was illiterate

[@poppopw5305]

Four words: BRING THIS GAME BACK!

[@GCBlues45]

It is back at my fun job on tv at 18Univeral Studios(Disney18). Been 5 years now its going good. A chance to win $25,000 now. Just like before a sweep the team plays 2 bonus rounds,but if not the other team plays for $10,000 winners play for $15,000. In a sweep play for $10,000 first then $15,000 but you got 45 seconds to it in.

[@cicholdebannan]

Thank goodness the questions don't have to make sense, be grammatically correct, or even be correct at all.

[@MewtwoStruckBack]

Compared to shows where even adding or removing a "the" from a title or phrase is enough to disqualify an answer...I like the Go method way better.

[@AllRequired]

Up until KZbin, some of us _never_ had the chance to see it.

[@namk19]

That is one massive set to turn around

[@cyanmanta]

It reminds me of Three-Headed Broadway Star from Whose Line, but with money on the line.

[@yaphettvazquez9796]

$20,000!!!!!

[@PREGO1966]

It went well before it's time. I used to hope they would have a special week with 8 college aged students. 4 guys on the blue team, 4 girls on the red. Each girl on the red squad being a sister of a member of the blue. And for the captains, staying with their teams all week instead of rotating, Nancy Mckeon on the red, Phil Mckeon on the blue. Now that would have been something.

[@SamHodkin23]

In fact it was against neither of them, it actually suffered a worse fate than that - being placed in the 12 noon death slot, leading to a torrent of pre-emptions for local news.

[@tnawcwvictoria]

Fact: Richard Gilliland is married to Jean Smart who once co-starred with the late Lynn Redgrave on the NBC Comedy Teachers Only Produced by Johnny Carson's Carson Productions and was Videotaped at NBC Studios Burbank, CA the home to GO, Chain Reaction, Wheel of Fortune, Amen, Santa Barbara, Days of Our Lives, The Tonight Show with Carson and Leno and the Final 3 Seasons of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with Daphne Maxwell Reid as The NEW Aunt Viv

[@LeotheTiger1234]

Kevin O'Connell's one and only game show that actually hit the airwaves. ("Keynotes" was distributed internationally, but did not attempt a version in the United States. Not so sure how "Money in the Blank" would have done, though.)

[@sshuffield70]

The third round was 27.

[@yaphettvazquez9796]

$37,500!!!!!

[@tnawcwvictoria]

Round 1 was a REAL Nail-Biter

[@markschildberg1667]

Another brilliant Bob Stewart game that got a bad time slot

[@paulcarter1280]

The clock sound effect sounds just like the Pyramid Game Show.

[@eyehatefarcebook11]

Channel 4 in Detroit never aired this back in the day, you had to tune in to ch. 13 in Toledo to pick it up. Reruns were seen on CBN and USA network thru the mid to late 80's however. I liked how the whole set changed sides for the bonus round.

[@tnawcwvictoria]

USA Network never aired GO in reruns, but CBN did

[@666Brago]

I don't remember this show at all. Looks like a lot of fun though.

[@robertr.funderburkejr.9674]

High Rollers (Alex Trebek), Battlestars (Alex Trebek) and Go(!) (Kevin O'connell).

[@666Brago]

Robert R. Funderburke Jr. I remember High Rollers but I think Wink Martindale hosted that one.

[@robertr.funderburkejr.9674]

No, it didn't...

[@MewtwoStruckBack]

They really let them get away with murder on some of the questions that weren't considered invalid. But they knew what they were allowed to do apparently, and boy did they get paid!

[@lobstertexas]

At the end Kevin says to Mike (Elliott) “Good luck in the Olympics!” .. but upon Googling, the Mike Elliott Olympiad that comes up is way older than this kid. I wonder if he ever made it to the Olympics and what sport he played…

[@nealgordon3712]

Like another version of Hot Potato, the one that Bill Cullen hosted.

[@jamesthedragon2344]

18:45 I’ll take Apple.

[@devares2006]

MarcelloSilva1982 you mean Family Feud, not Wheel Of Fortune, which was on the same network as Go.

[@niathorne6072]

SAVANNAHTANNY 10:04 PM I think this game show has a single heart with a double one embedded on the front of the single one! sweet!

[@MarcelloSilva1982]

Problem was Go was up aaginst two powerhouse game shows....."Wheel of Fortune" and "Price is Right".

[@chrislang9442]

marcello silva um... no, “Go” and “Wheel of Fortune” were on the same network.

[@drummingdanny84]

"Family Feud" was the other competitor and "Go" was seen at 12 noon on most NBC stations.

[@tnawcwvictoria]

Correction GO was given the dreaded Noon Time Slot, unless if you're KPLC-TV 7 Lake Charles/Lafayette, LA which was at 11:00 AM and it was up agaist abc's Family Feud with the late Richard Dawson and CBS' Daytime Emmy Award Winning Series The Young and the Restless which is still goin' on today

[@Rlotpir1972]

Family Feud wasn't an NBC game show, although some syndicated channels carried Family Feud when ABC had scheduling conflicts in its final two seasons. Sale of the Century, Dream House, and Wheel of Fortune were the powerhouse daytime game shows of NBC during 1983.

[@robertr.funderburkejr.9674]

but, High Rollers (Alex Trebek), Battlestars (Alex Trebek) and Go(!) (Kevin O'connell) are the powerhouse game shows.

[@eyehatefarcebook11]

Robert R. Funderburke Jr. High Rollers was off in '80.

[@zachhoran]

Richard Gilliland died on 3/18

[@VahanNisanian]

Richard Gilliland also appeared on $25K Pyramid with Didi Conn during Thanksgiving week. I believe he was billed as being from "Just Our Luck" during that week as well. This was, of course, before he had a recurring role on "Designing Women".

[@jmiller297]

Richard Gilliland did a week of *"The New $25,000 Pyramid"* in late 1983, alongside *"Benson's"* Didi Conn. :-)

[@jeffeastwood15]

He was such a good-looking man and if memory serves, dated Jean Smart!

[@tnawcwvictoria]

@@jeffeastwood15 He's still married to Jean Smart since 1987, in fact, Jean Smart co-starred with Lynn Redgrave in the short-lived NBC Comedy Teachers Only Produced by Johnny Carson's Carson Productions

[@excuseyou77]

Designing Women! heh, wow, I knew this guy looked familiar to me.

[@danbarker3846]

I wonder what BOZOs HAIR was when he DYED IT.

[@andyleal6982]

here's what aired in primetime: ABC: Benson (repeat), Webster (repeat), Lottery! (Boston: False Illusion), Matt Houston (repeat) CBS: The Dukes of Hazzard (High Flyin' Dukes), Dallas (The Buck Stops Here), Falcon Crest (The Betrayal) NBC: The Smurfs (repeat), A Chipmunk Christmas (repeat), NBC Monday Night at the Movies (1980 film Seems Like Old Times) In late night: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (Charles Grodin, Bob and Ray, Mike Rozier)

[@Nickrj3]

I thought Bozo had red hair.

[@paullarue2010]

Hot Lips Houlihan?!

[@marchoffman6878]

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[@loutenore33]

it aslo ripped off anthoer pliot of theres tisters

[@Jack21Spades]

Twisters?

[@marchoffman6017]

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[@millenniumman75]

This theme song is annoying - it's almost as bad as All-Star Blitz.

[@flipitgood2]

But it works great as an alarm clock mp3 for your phone :)

[@Jack21Spades]

Oh, yeah? NO. But if you can write a better theme, or ANYTHING people remember or want to hear 38 YEARS after first use, GO for it.

[@markwmcneil]

I love the theme song.

[@marchoffman6017]

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