More game shows I miss...

The 80's definitely had the best game shows, but there were some good ones in the other decades too. Here's three that I miss...

Monopoly: It ran for only 13 episodes in 1990. Every episode was rushed as the gameplay took every last second of each episode to complete (I'm sure there was some editing involved to help this happen). I remember reading that the host was originally supposed to be Peter Tomarken (from Press Your Luck). But for whatever reason, they ended up going with Mike Reilly (a former Jeopardy contestant). He did a great job and it's too bad the show didn't last.

Second Chance: This was the original version of the 80's classic Press Your Luck. It was produced by the same company and was very similar to its predecessor. Jim Peck was the host of this one and the whammies weren't in it - it was devils instead. It aired in the spring of 1977 on ABC.

Greed: A Chuck Woolery hosted game from 1999. I auditioned to be on this one, but didn't make it. I was asked two questions in the course of the audition. One I got right - the other, definitely not. They wanted to know what Telly Savalas kept putting in his mouth on Kojak. I had no idea. Knowing the show was on FOX, I answered with something edgy. The answer was something very un-edgy - a lollipop. Oh well. I still loved the game show and even went to a couple tapings (the set was just as scary looking in person as it seems on TV). The Terminator segments were sometimes uncomfortable to watch, but that was Greed.