More than 40 years after Quiz Kids made its debut on radio, producers Peter Guber & Jon Peters obtained the rights to revive the series, partnering with Columbia Pictures Television (Sony) to create Quiz Kids Challenge, a weekday game show aimed at the after-school crowd. Actor Jonathan Prince (ex-Throb) was the series host.
Unfortunately, this final incarnation of Quiz Kids lasted one season. One reason why it failed might've been the fact it wasn't cleared in as many markets as, say for example, Jeopardy!, which would've been a perfect companion piece. In fact, Jeopardy! announcer Johnny Gilbert, still going strong today in his 90's, has those chores here.
This sample was posted by an actual adult contestant, Joe Walton:
Prince's attempts at humor seem forced, and that may be another reason why this flopped.
Rating: B-.
2 comments:
@Hobbyfan: in reading some old Broadcasting Magazines online, I thought I saw that this series was originally meant for weekly syndication, which actually would have been better, as this would have been a good post Saturday Morning cartoon series...
Not only the show not being cleared in a lot of markets didn't help it, but the timeslots it it did get, didn't help it either; for example, in my market(Seattle-Tacoma), I recall from reading TV listings of the time that it aired on the ABC affiliate locally at either 12:30 or 1:00... AM...
ACK!!! This show got Rodney'd! (Lack of respect, you know)
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