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...obnoxious blare of a strike on "Family Feud," the whammies dancing across the screen in "Press Your Luck," the frenetic gesticulations of contests on the "$25,000 Pyramid:" all are permanently imprinted in the minds of many in our generation. Possibly Harvard's "Game Show Guru," Mandel N. Ilagan '99 admits that his first memories of television came in the form of game shows...
Many, though, still miss old favorites, like "Match Game," "Scrabble," "Card Sharks," "Sale of the Century" and "Password." Ilagan predicts, "Within the next few years there will be a bunch of new shows and revivals. TV runs in cycles, and it's a transition period for daytime programming...
When asked why game shows are irresistible to millions of viewers, Ilagan is eager to philosophize. "It's one of those unique forms of TV that really hooks the audience in," he says. "You're talking the average Joe and putting him on TV, creating a closer link between audience and show." Or perhaps it's simply the undefinable thrill of watching Evelyn from Tulsa drop her "Plinko" chip and following its bouncing descent towards the $5,000 slot...
Meanwhile, I inadvertently joined Harvard-Radcliffe Television (HRTV) and found that I loved making television as much as I loved watching it. One fine October day during my sophomore year, my HRTV cohort Mandel Ilagan, game show guru, told me about a new MTV game show in development that was looking for contestants (no, not "Singled Out"). It was a quiz show called "Idiot Savants," which tested players' academic and pop culture knowledge in exchange for valuable merchandise (no cash prizes, unfortunately). The opportunity to benefit from the sheer mass of the junk I had stuffed into my head over...
...only was their involvement useful for their futures, but it was also "a blast" in Ilagan's words and "a thrill" in Fertik...