Shark Bytes

I saw this show once as a young child in the 70's. The game involved ordinary women, not celebreties, standing shirtless behind a wooden screen that had the chest area cut out. Then the men tried to guess whose breasts were whose. My mother finally noticed what I was watching and turned it off. That was the only time I saw it. Can you believe that was on TV? Not at prime time though. I was up late that night at a party.

"Almost Anything Goes" fell into one of the wackier categories on television, that of "trash sports coverage." There are too many people who think trash sports are shark-food. Even Henry Winkler, when he and Ron Howard were asked to participate in the celebrity version, was willing to participate in it--but Howard refused and discouraged Winkler from such involvement, insisting that Winkler's character of Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli was no buffoon, even though his own character of Richard Cunningham could be one.

AAG never jumped. What an awesome show! I remember it was broadcast during the summer of '75 (I was 11). This is when they had ordinary people do stunts. My favorites were the loaf of bread across the greased pole & a bunch of people were in an upsidedown bag & trying to walk across a field. My best friend & I tried to imitate this show. We took a canvas tarp & stretched it over a fence. We then hosed it with water & tried to carry things while walking across it. We wound up ripping the tarp & making his mother furious. Oh well, chalk it up to innocent childhood.

For the past 7 YEARS I have been searching for the theme music from this show!! My fondest memories are of such celebrities as Gabe Kaplan, Joyce DeWitt, and others from the ABC Network teams square off against each other, which resembled another show called Battle of the Network Stars! But it is the music during the end credits that bring a tear to my eye! Does anyone remember the lyrics?

I would have SWORN that show was on Saturday nights.....but any how AAG was hilarious....the competition was fierce, the combatants amateurish but the entertainment factor was huge. I was easily amused at 10 yrs old. This was one of my favorite shows because of the variety of the competitions. I liked that they had teams from certain cities......loved that part.

The best episode of this show had the contest for the Best Bar Bouncer. IF I remember correctly, this is where America first saw Mr. T. He won the contest by exploding through a wooden door instead of opening it.

I seem to recall that only the last round mattered. The team that won the first round got 5 points. The team that won the second ound got 10 points. But the team that won the last round got 25 points. In other words, the first two rounds didn't count. Seemed terribly inequitable to me at the time--and I was 11 years old when this show aired.

I seem to remember this being a Friday show, too. Curt Alliaume has a great web page on it (Google it). To muddy things up, he says it was on Thursdays in its summer run and returned on Saturdays the beginning of '76, which I definitely don't remember. I guess It's no surprise we can't remember which it was after 28 years. Memory's the first to go. Sure was fun while it lasted, though, and so was the Junior version.

Okay, I thought the title was "All-Star Anything Goes", and I thought it was on in the late70's. I used to watch this almost every week, and remember thinking that the push-the-bread-across-the-greased-log-over-the-pool-and-put-it-in-the-basket-at-the-other-end was about the hardest thing God could ever have celebrity monkeys do...I think I saw them score points only once or twice.

I think the title says it all. "Almost" is not enough. Should have taken the next step. Then it would have been Fear Factor.

This show was hysterically funny to me as a ten-year-old. I guess it was seeing adults do silly stunts that made me laugh, but I have very fond memories of AAG. There always seemed to be something that involved sliding "mugs" of "beer" down the top of a "bar" and having someone catch them; and something that involved a blindfolded person driving a golf cart while a teammate gave them directions. Bisbee, Nogales, Douglas. Havre de Grace. What were some of the other towns? Why isn't this available for purchase on DVD?

I remember this being on during the summer and thinking it was the coolest show ever! ( I was about 12 or thirteen) The precursor to crap like "American Gladiators" and the original ABC primetime game show hosted by Regis Philbin!

This is my first recollection of TV when I was 5. I never missed an episode. I almost wet my pants from laughter every time this show came on. It was short lived but I have very fond memories of bolting across the house when my Dad yelled it was Almost Anything Goes time. The antics and the humiliation of the contestants was too much to bear during those crazy obstacle courses.

I think the Junior version Jumped, because the irony and sense of fun (i.e., seeing a grown man from Canton, Illinois, dressed like George Washington, trying to shimmy up a greased flagpole to capture a flag, or two people dressed like clowns on the back of a motorbike in a game called Circus maximus) that was appealing to me as a ten-year-old was lacking from the Junior version. Plus, Soupy Sales was the host and his rug was co-host. The prime-time version was mine and my brothers' favorite show, and when it was canceled we cried long and loud. No kidding. We loved the show. I remember sneaking away from a kids' birthday party to watch the episode that had the B-Hill Runners from Bisbee, Arizona. That's loyalty, I think.

I *loved* AAG, but I was an early teen at the time. I'd surely ignore it now. The scary part is that I know who won the championship in the second (and final) season. It was my mom's hometown, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.