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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (George Jetson)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Old Game Shows
Message-ID: <578@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 08:13:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 08:13:32 1985
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Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
In article <50@cornell.UUCP> cde@cornell.UUCP (Carl Eichenlaub) writes:
>Speaking of old game shows, does anybody remember "Video Village"
>from about 1966 or so?  It was on Saturday mornings, I think, and
>was sort of a live board game...

Sure!  It was more like '64, though.  Remember the "Village Bus"?  At the 
end of the show, the host would drive the contestants around the set in
this weird overgrown golf cart!

>At around the same time there
>was a very similar show with a slightly different layout.  This second
>show may have been played exclusively by children.  Does anybody remember
>the name of this lookalike show, or any details of the small sub-games?

That was "Shenanigans", which indeed *was* just for kids.  I actually
applied to be on it!  I don't remember any of the games, though.

>...Anyone who can remember the television theme songs to either must be a true
>trivia phenomenon.

I remember some of the VV theme (or at least what they sang at the end):

"Climb aboard the Village Bus, the kooky Village Bus
 ... so come along with us...

 ... so much fun to ride the Village Bus
 The Villllllllaaaaaaaggggggee  Bus!"