Oddball is an attempted revival of Get the Message, hosted by Jamie Farr, announced by Gene Wood, produced by Mark Goodson and it was taped for NBC on February 1, 1986.
The daytime department at NBC agreed to pick up Oddball and wanted to replace Family Ties reruns with the show. NBC let Oddball for a August 18, 1986 start date, the same day Double Talk premiered on ABC. However Oddball ran on 10:00am, right before Sale of the Century.
NBC however announced Oddball concluded its run on January 2, 1987, replacing Oddball with the Bill Rafferty version of Blockbusters (as part of a scheduling shuffle with Sale of the Century), which before replacing it with Classic Concentration.