The Game Show Pilot Light

149 Pilots Sliced, Diced and Analyzed

The Game Show Pilot Light is a site where the idea of the game show is celebrated if not its execution. Every year, many pilots are made whose makers are hoping will make it to the air and bring in the steady profits that a game show can make. A good number of these pilots never make it for one reason or another — the game is too much like another game, the concept could not work day in/day out, the game is too dull or the audience for the game would be too limited.

Jim McKrell, the patron saint of the game show pilot.

• Purchase from a video clearinghouse such as Shokus Video
• The "trading circuit", which means a tape or a DVD of the episode has been traded amongst collectors and can be acquired from them. Searching for the particular show on Google will yield people from which you can obtain a copy of the show.
• Additionally, many of these "circuit" shows are now showing up on YouTube or various other video sites. I have placed links where available.
• The UCLA Film and Television Archive has viewing abilities for some shows as long as arrangements are made ahead of time. You simply can't walk in and watch an episode.
• The Paley Center in both New York City and Beverly Hills have viewing stations available for a small donation to watch some shows.
• Some private collectors who wish to keep their collections private have provided me opportunities to view portions of their collections. They have not allowed me permission to reveal who they are. Hence "private".

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