So I’m working down in my office and Kath calls. “Turn on Channel 88, the Gameshow network,” she tells me. Kath, as it so happens, loves watching those old game shows from the 1970s and 80s, and in this case she had on Match Game. Usually Match Game serves as a time capsule nostalgia trip, featuring such staples as Brett Sommers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ðìçk Martin, and Jamie Lee Curtis.
But today’s point of interest was none of the aforementioned. Instead it was the newly arrived contestant, a young woman who had just moved to Los Angeles from the midwest and was, presumably, hoping to embark upon a career as an actress.
Her name?
Kirstie Alley.
She was only there for a brief shot before the episode ended. We presume the next show with her will be at either 2:30 today or tomorrow morning at 11 AM.
I wonder whatever happened to her?
PAD
UPDATE: Okay, it wasn’t the 2:30, so if they follow the air order, it’ll be on tomorrow at 11 AM. I tried watching it on Youtube but it kept taking forever to load.
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Speaking of “not funny” and “Kirstie Alley”, The Futon Critic has a look at her failed pilot for The Minister of Devine (based on the BBC’s The Vicar of Dibley”).
Details at http://www.thefutoncritic.com/rant.aspx?id=20070806
I guess when the characters are British, as in the original, it is more funny, where when you make the same character into a rural american, it is just creepy.
Lee
“Bowling alley” was my first thought, then “Dead End Alley”
Dave
My first thought was “some guy urinating in an alley.”
What can I say? I was just in NYC a couple of weeks ago.
I can’t be sure, but I think it was Mayor Bloomberg.
Dear Peter:
Considering that my local cable company does NOT deem the Game Show Network “worthy” of carrying, how did Kirstie Alley do on Match Game?
If they really wanted to have someone betray the Federation and make it a gut-punch to the viewer, then it should have been Scotty, Chekov, Sulu or Uhura. Not just someone we knew, but someone we loved!
A rather esoteric trivia question:
Q: What do Kirstie Alley and George Lazenby have in common?
A: They both did one movie in a popular series and then listened to agents who told them they were now Big Stars and they should either Demand More Money and/or do a Guaranteed Hit Project instead of the next installment of the series.
Crime Alley.
Because Kirstie Alley is, to me, an obscure leftover from the eighties who had a brief REAL TV comeback in the nineties before being forever relegated to the tabloids and cable television.
And to be honest… if the answer to “Complete the phrase” on a game show was “Kirstie” instead of “Bowling” Alley I’d stop watching the dámņ show.