NTN Encore Question of March 8th, 2008.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Simon & Simon
  2. Moonlighting
  3. Hill Street Blues
  4. Miami Vice
  5. Magnum, P.I.

Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX, with Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA and Phil PLBAAB.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/7...my two boards win with COSMO, METLCA, and CHATZ with 5000.
...........LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/7...I don't need any guessing this week.
OnBeat...ROCKET...12000/14000...3rd/7...PLBAAB and CHATZ win round with 8 right and 1 wrong.
..........LITBOX...12000/14000...3rd/7...Rob got me one question.  Phil called out the Miley Cyrus adding a middle 
name question but we thought he was kidding so they went with my choice of "Hannah" instead of "Ray". CHATZ has
lead with 13000 and PLBAAB has 12500.  7 right and 2 wrong used to make me happy until a few months ago but 
now that the questions are less obscure, I'm a bit disappointed.
JukeBox...ROCKET...17854/20000...3rd/7...COSMO wins round and is at 18000.  CHATZ still holds lead at 18037.
...........LITBOX...17854/20000...3rd/7.
We sweep through this round pretty well with easy enough questions.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...24464/28000...2nd/7...COSMO wins round and takes lead.
...........LITBOX...24398/28000...3rd/7...I took only one -250 scores this round and they guys gave me the right choice
but I didn't change.  I got help on some other questions for good scores.  I finally pass whoever CHATZ was.

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Now the Encore answers come up. Television shows. This could be anything but I'm thinking right now of the most musical of these police/detective shows.

Encore Question:...What show featured Glenn Frey's "You Belong To The City" and "Smuggler's Blues"?

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Sean says the answer first but it's another easy one as we all know it. This question or similar worded ones have appeared in other Playback games in other rounds or in the television-themed games over the past years. I have the soundtrack on CD.

Correct Answer:....4. Miami Vice

[NTN Extra Fact:...Both songs are on the Miami Vice soundtrack and Frey had a recurring role on the show.]

I'm right and stay in 2nd with ROCKET at 36696. There were problems with our connection to the network so I ranked 10000th in all North America. The bar was 26th in North America as we were in all six games I played tonight. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 18000. COSMO wins with 38868 and takes 1st on this bar's Hall of Fame.
(ntn.com places our location at 22nd out of 1905 bars with a 36866 average).

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
COSMO	25912		38868	 9999	  92	
ROCKET	24464		36696	10000	 211
LITBOX	24398		36597	10001	 217
CHATZ	24209		36313	10002	 240
METLCA	23904		35856	10003	 283 
PLBAAB	23580		35370	10004	 334
POOHED	 7500	x	 3750	10005	6308
(ntn.com listed 9383 players)

I got here by taking the subway tonight. I felt if I had any strength left instead of walking I'd spend the time shovelling snow. Another storm (the worst of the season) made enough effort just trudging to the station instead of walking the whole way. Next morning I was throwing the snow as high as myself as the previous snows haven't melted yet. Also Daylight Savings Time was starting overnight so there'd be another hour lost.

Other games:...I started the evening with ROCKET at 3,897,000 and LITBOX at 1,598,500 Player's Plus points.
7:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...3901/15000...3rd/6...500+ points...I'm 5501st in NA...COSMO wins.
...........LITBOX...3901/15000...3rd/6...500+ points...I'm 5501st in NA...the bar is 26th in NA.
I was signed by about the halfway point in this game.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...9978/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 5501st in NA...the bar is 26th in NA.
.........LITBOX...9958/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 5502nd in NA...I got about four questions wrong.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...13329/15000...1st/8...I'm 1st in North America...the bar is 26th in NA (again)! so I doubt my personal ranking.
...........LITBOX...13309/15000...2nd/8...I'm 2nd in North America...no bar rankings were actually posted the whole night.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...8584/15000...1st/5...500+ points...I'm 9458th in NA...bar is 26th in NA!!
...........LITBOX...8584/15000...1st/5...500+ points...I'm 9458th in NA...we couldn't meet the 9000 point standard to get our 1000+ despite me guessing right on Simpson's question.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...14046/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 42nd in NA.
.............LITBOX...14045/15000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 43rd in NA...bar is 26rd in NA (ho-hum).
COSMO wins with 14984 and is 3rd in NA although other bar stats aren't given.

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