Sunday, June 5, 2011

Game show graveyard

Rambling through the Google news cache, I found this answer to a question about a long ago game show called Treasure Isle (ABC 1967-68). I honestly don't remember this short-lived effort, but the web never forgets. Google produced more than anybody could want to know about Treasure Isle from the cybernetic mausoleum.

The premise: couples had to complete puzzles and then row a boat to an island to search for buried treasure. Shot in Palm Beach County, the show mainly existed to promote Florida tourism. At least this lively memoir from producer Sherman Adler says the show's super-rich financier John D. MacArthur wanted to lure tourists to his Colonnades Hotel and golf courses.

John Batholomew Tucker was the host, as seen with a couple babes in the attached publicity photo. There was also an off-screen narrator called "The Sage", played by Bill Templeton. You can even get the lyrics of the show's theme song from sites on the web, though I'm not sure why you would want to. A few episodes still exist, according to the infallible(?) Internet.

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