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Saturday, September 27, 2014
WAGA-TV High-Q (1968)
Regional television is my new fetish. Camp classics waiting rediscovery.
I discovered this one a sometime last week. The title alone reminded of this famous SCTV skit, of which I thought spoofed a similar show I'll get to later, but in reality it was mocking a popular CBC program of the time called "Reach for the Top", one of its hosts was a young Alex Trebek. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=infNf6mMds4
WAGA's parent company, Storer Broadcasting, also operated a station in my hometown (WSPD, later WTVG) which also carried a similar quiz show as well that lasted into the 1990's.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3C_MsGPkEQ
I discovered this one a sometime last week. The title alone reminded of this famous SCTV skit, of which I thought spoofed a similar show I'll get to later, but in reality it was mocking a popular CBC program of the time called "Reach for the Top", one of its hosts was a young Alex Trebek.
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WAGA's parent company, Storer Broadcasting, also operated a station in my hometown (WSPD, later WTVG) which also carried a similar quiz show as well that lasted into the 1990's....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3C_MsGPkEQ
Wow, Dave Michaels was Phil Hartman before Phil Hartman!
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