Episode 68--The Game Show Finales of June 20, 1980 and The David Letterman Show
It Was a Thing on TV: An Anthology on Forgotten Television
English - June 18, 2020 04:00 - 54 minutes - 50.4 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsTV Reviews TV & Film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week 40 years ago saw the temporary ends of three game shows, each of which would return to TV by 1987. That week also saw the birth of a legend, though he made his mark in late night. We look at the three NBC game show finales of June 20, 1980 and their replacement, The David Letterman Show in this timely installment of the podcast.