Starcade - "Discs of TRON / LadyBug / Dig Dug / Dragon's Lair" (Complete Broadcast, 5/11/1985) 📺 🕹️

Описание: Here's another complete broadcast of a repeat of an edition of the "video arcade game show" Starcade, hosted by Geoff Edwards and shown over WTNH Channel 8 in New Haven / Hartford, CT.

The contestants on this show, one per team (S04E30, original air date February 6th 1984), are Eric Lee, 14, of Pleasanton, who attends Foothill High School and plays the piano (classical music) as well as video games; and Tom Amon who owns a Porsche repair shop in Campbell, and in his non-video-game spare time races Porsches (the business he started is still in operation: https://mobileworkswest.com/ ).

The games announced as being played in this installment are Dig Dug, LadyBug, Discs of TRON, Angler Dangler and Dragon's Lair, with the Grand Prize being the hugely awesome video arcade game MegaZone.

Show voiceovers by Kevin McMahan.

Includes:

Station ID / Muppet Hour promo (with Statler and Waldorf)

Show open, introduction of contestants, lineup of "games to be zapped," and Mystery Game revealed to studio audience while Geoff asks question about Time Pilot, then each team gets a 50-second shot with Discs of TRON after a description of what it's about

Commercials for:

New Haven Symphony, Greater Bridgeport Symphony and Eastern Connecticut Symphony - "Part of Your Life"

YMCA (exercise program) - "Don't Put It Off"

After plug for Alta Mira Hotel in Sausalito, comes a description for today's Grand Prize, initial tabulation of each team's scores, a question posed to them relating to Star Wars, then winner chooses the Mystery Game - LadyBug - to play, followed by plug for Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man watches and clocks (by Paxxon); after description of the game, each team plays for 50 seconds, and after another tabulation of teams' scores, winner then plays the Name of the Game Board (after plugs for the Bionic Chair and White's Coinmaster metal detector); at end of segment, a question and answer about Centipede

Commercial: Bubble O'Bill ice cream with bubble gum ball (from Good Humor) - "The Nose That Won the West" (posted separately here:    • Bubble O'Bill Ice Cream from Good Humor - ...   )

Promos for:
Wheel of Fortune (with Pat Sajak and Vanna White)
General Hospital, Name That Tune, Jeopardy! and The People's Court [backing music: "In the Mood" by Henhouse Five Plus Too (Ray Stevens)]

PSA from Yale-New Haven Hospital and New Haven Ambulance on kite safety (with Geoff Fox)

Starcade Hotline about buying reusable video game cartridges for a fraction of what they sell for new cartridges, to put new games in or take old ones out (as play resumes, lower-third ID is shown at 18:34); a question is posed to the team about Motorace USA, and then the teams get a 40-second shot at DigDug after the purpose of the game is described, after which a final score tabulation for each and the winner's prize, "intelligent robot" RB5X home appliance from RB Corporation of Golden, CO

Commercial: Speed Riders (from LJN)

Promos for:
The Muppet Hour (with guests Florence Henderson and Linda Lavin) (voiceover by Ray Marlin)
Action News (with John Lindsey encountered by two kids)

PSA from Yale-New Haven Hospital and New Haven Ambulance on baseball safety (with Dr. Leonard S. Krassner, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital)

Winning team chooses Dragon's Lair over Angler Dangler to play for 30 seconds, following description of the former, en route to Grand Prize; after it's over, recording cuts off as Geoff congratulates him

"I suppose if you win, you're a front Porsche, and if you lose, you're the back Porsche."

This aired on local New Haven / Hartford TV, likely on Saturday, May 11th 1985, during the 7am to 7:30am (Eastern) time frame.

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