DefunctTV: The History of Legends of the Hidden Temple - Summary

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The text is a transcript of a video about Legends of the Hidden Temple, a children's game show that aired on Nickelodeon in the 1990s. The video explains the history, format, and popularity of the show, which involved teams of kids competing in physical and mental challenges based on historical or fictional legends. The video also mentions the 2016 TV movie adaptation of the show and its references to the original. The video ends with a humorous clip of a contestant struggling to assemble a puzzle in the final round of the show.

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1. On April 22nd 1993, the US Congress announced its plans to increase the oversight of the Federal Communications Commission, the regulator of television programming, due to concerns over violence seen by children on network TV.
2. A year prior, the American Psychological Association had released a report estimating that a child would witness 100,000 acts of violence and 8,000 murders on television by the age of 10.
3. Nickelodeon was the first cable channel dedicated to children's programming, and it became the most popular children's television network by 1993, with game shows accounting for a large portion of its productions.
4. On September 11th 1993, Nickelodeon began airing Legends of the Hidden Temple, a game show that combined Indiana Jones, Jeopardy and American Gladiators elements, and let kids live out legendary adventures.
5. The game show had four parts: the moat, the steps of knowledge, the temple games and the temple run. The teams competed for pendants of life, which they could use to avoid being captured by temple guards in the final round.
6. The show was hosted by Kirk Fogg and a talking stone head named Olmec, voiced and puppeteered by Dee Bradley Baker.
7. The show was shot at Nickelodeon studios in Universal Studios Florida, and the contestants were chosen through auditions from in and around Orlando Florida.
8. The show was very difficult to win, and only 26.7% of teams that attempted the temple run succeeded. The show had 15 different temple layouts and nearly 50 different rooms throughout its run.
9. The show produced a total of 120 episodes in three seasons from 1993 to 1995. It was canceled due to indifference from executives and the channel's standard practice of only producing shows for a few seasons.
10. The show continued to air in reruns on various Nickelodeon channels until 2016, when a television film based on the show was produced and premiered on Nickelodeon.