It Was a Thing on TV: Episodes 419 & 420 - Child’s Play (1982 CBS Game Show)/Invitation to Hell

This week on It Was a Thing on TV we celebrate Halloween like only we can.

 

First, while not spooky in any way, Child's Play shares its name with a well-known horror movie franchise from later in the 80s.  Besides being Bill Cullen's last show with Mark Goodson, it may be better known for being replaced by the game which typified the 80s, Press Your Luck.

 

Then, in 1984, the same year horror master Wes Craven gave us "A Nightmare on Elm Street" he directed this ABC TV Movie starring Robert Urich, Joanna Cassidy, and Erica Kane herself Susan Lucci.

 

In this made-for, Susan plays a devilish dame who tries to tempt ol' Spenser for Hire with power if he can just join this hot country club that just about everyone at his company works for. Join us on an Invitation to Hell!

 

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Timestamps

0:36 - Child’s Play (1982 CBS Game Show)

40:40 - Invitation to Hell