THEME: TEL

PUB DATE	WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	THEMES	LINKS TO THIS CONTEST	WINNER	LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later)
August 29, 1993	26	CASTING ABOUT FOR AN IDEA	Name a political person (past or present) and the TV or movie role in which he or she could have been cast.	MOV POL TEL	Text file | Contest image
February 27, 2000	338 (V)	WHO WANTS TO WIN A TOILET?	Propose even greater depths of shameless, tasteless sleaze to which Fox TV is likely to sink after the noisome debacle of "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?"	TEL	Text file | Contest image
November 12, 2000	375 (XLII)	Show Us Up	Combine the names of two existing TV shows (past or present) to make an entirely new show. Then, describe the show.	TEL	Text file | Contest image
November 25, 2001	429 (XCVI)	Shark Instruments	Tell us what would be a sign that any current institution--TV show, newspaper feature, magazine, business, etc.--has jumped the shark.	TEL CUL BUS	Text file | Contest image
July 14, 2002	462 (CXXIX)	Cast Away	Come up with a terrible bit of miscasting in a movie or TV show, past or present, real or imagined.	MOV TEL	Text file | Contest image
June 15, 2003	510	Universal Embarrassment	What would you like to see Miss Universe Pageant contestants asked live, on national TV?	TEL	Text file
September 26, 2004	577	Teledubbies	Slightly change the title of a TV show, past or present, and describe it.	TEL WOR	Text file
May 15, 2005	610	MASH	Find two well-known movies, plays, or TV shows whose title have a significant word in common, combine their titles, and describe the hybrid.	MOV LIT TEL WOR	Text file
November 27, 2005	638	The Little Bummer Boy	Come up with an idea (and title, if you like) for an original Christmas movie or TV special that provides an antidote to all the sap, and give us a brief synopsis.	MOV TEL	Text file
February 2, 2008	751	Strike Gold	Slightly change the name of an existing or former TV show to create a program that can scab the writers' strike.	TEL	Text file | Post e-version
January 31, 2009	802	Dreck TV	Suggest a new cable TV channel, with a description or example of its programming.	TEL	Text file | Post e-version
February 27, 2011	908	Recast away	Fire an actor or actress from a movie or TV show, past or present, and offer a replacement for the role.	MOV TEL	Text file | Post e-version
July 24, 2011	929	Now sit right back ...	Write a funny song introducing a TV show, past or present.	MUS TEL	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 19, 2012	959	Out of network	Move a current or former TV program (or type of programming) to a different network and explain what would change.	TEL	Text file | Contest image
June 3, 2012	974	Eat our dust!	Write a limerick humorously describing a book, play, movie, or TV show.	LIM LIT TEL MOV POE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Chris Doyle	Text file | Contest image (pub 7-1-12) Text file (pub 8-19-12)
October 14, 2012	992	Mittsterpiece Theatre	Suppose public-TV shows, past or present, were turned out onto the open market to make a living on commercial TV. Tell us what would happen.	BUS TEL	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
October 20, 2013	1043	Rechanneling celebrity	Describe a TV reality show featuring a celebrity pursuing some unlikely endeavor.	TEL	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 21, 2014	1103	Themes good enough for us	Suggest an existing song to be used as the theme for a TV series or program for comic effect. (Conversational text)	MUS TEL	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
June 7, 2015	1127	From the creators of …	Think up a spinoff of a real TV series, past or present, and furnish a description or bit of dialogue. (Conversational text)	CUL TEL	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
September 27, 2020	1403	Who was that masked man?	Current a short listing for a current or past TV show that has a coronavirus story line, or one reflecting some other issue in the news right now. (Conversational text)	CUL TEL	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
October 17, 2021	1458	Do adjust your set: TV anagrams+	Use all the letters of any TV show (including streamed ones), past or present, to create new show; or it can be an episode of the original.	LET TEL	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
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