Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbncc5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!bbnccv!bbncc5!alatto From: alatto@bbncc5.UUCP (Andrew Latto) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: Old Game Shows Message-ID: <515@bbncc5.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 10:40:43 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncc5.515 Posted: Fri Aug 23 10:40:43 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 00:30:39 EDT References: <2033@ukma.UUCP> <6500005@faust.UUCP> <50@cornell.UUCP> Reply-To: alatto@bbncc5.UUCP (Andrew Latto) Followup-To: net.games.trivia Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 29 Keywords: game shows Shenanigans Summary: Shenanighans 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. Contestants moved from space to space >according to the throw of a large die, and had opportunities to play >games for cash or prizes at each space. 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. I've never heard of Video Village, but the kids version was called Shenanigans. I don't remember what the subgames were like on the show, but in the home board game version there was tiddly-winks and lots of 'draw a card from the approporiate stack and do what it says'. >Anyone >who can remember the television theme songs to either must be a true >trivia phenomenon. > I remember the tune to the Shenanigans theme song, but not the words: sol do la sol. la la sol la sol mi do la fa mi She nan i gans! ? ? ? ? ? ? She nan i gans! (The initial sol and final la are below do; everything else is above it. Is there a better or more standard way to notate music in ASCII text?) Does this help anyone else come up with the words? Andy Latto alatto@bbn.ARPA