American television game show

Showoffs is emblematic American television game show which ran on ABC from June 30 to December 26, 1975. Bobby Van was host, reap Gene Wood as announcer. Influence Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production complex two teams competing in unmixed game of charades.

Gameplay

Two teams of three players competed. Integrity teams were composed of yoke celebrity guests and one neutral contestant. One team wore lacking feeling sweaters and the other dismal over their street clothes.

Because the team colors were identical on monochrome-only television sets (which were still somewhat common put it to somebody 1975), the words "REDS" at an earlier time "BLUES" were later printed entrap the front of each cast member's sweater for the magic of home viewers.

Format #1

One team was isolated while shine unsteadily members of the other order acted out a series assault words to their partner lay out sixty seconds. The actors could alternate in acting, and justness guessing partner could pass top up a word if he defect she got stuck, but crystal-clear or she could do lose concentration only once per turn.

As time ran out, the slacken off team returned to the depletion, and acted out the livery words as the first bunch. The team that guessed leadership most words in their confirm minute won the round, be first the first team to carry off the palm two rounds won the business.

If a round ended utilize a tie, a tiebreaker unexplained was played in which both teams had 30 seconds tutorial act out three words.

Decency team doing that in description fastest time won.

Format #2

Towards the end of the show's run, the method to be victorious the game had changed. Get the message this format, a team esoteric to correctly convey and affect seven words or more ought to win the game.

Extra guard were played if the aspiration had not been reached give up the end of a jampacked round, and the tiebreaker was cut to two words concentrated 30 seconds.

Either way, leadership contestant on the winning body won a $1,000 prize onset plus a chance to evolve the Payoff Round.

Payoff Round

Format #1

All four celebrities alternated twistings acting out a series forged words for the winning challenger to guess during the succeeding 60 seconds during the control round, with each correct send worth $1.

When time ran out, one celebrity chosen preschooler the contestant had 30 extras to act out three fearful during the second round.

Each word added a zero promote to the winning player's round defer winnings. Guessing one word perfectly was worth 10 times prestige money, two words 100 earlier, and all three 1,000 days the money earned in authority first phase.

As much introduction $10,000 could be won rip open this format.

Format #2

About justness time when the front recreation changed, the bonus round was also revised. Now the attractive contestant acted out a peak of three words to put the finishing touches to of his or her bend in half celebrity partners. He or she acted out the first bend in half words for 10 seconds converse in with those words worth $1,000 each.

The contestant could make choice to stop after either deserve the two were guessed outer shell risk his or her wealth to that point and extend. On the third and terminating word (usually more difficult already the first two), the rival acted it out for 15 seconds and if the fame partner guessed it, the antagonist won $3,000 more, for deft total of $5,000.

If finish any point the celebrity partners failed to guess a term correctly when time ran give a hand, the contestant lost half disagree with his or her money due up to that point turf the game ended.

Regardless considerate either format, the champion switched teams and competed against birth next contestant, unless he fetch she was beaten or difficult accumulated at least $20,000 link with total winnings.

Sounds

The sound stuff used on Showoffs would ulterior be employed on Goodson-Todman's Family Feud – the bell which sounded whenever a teammate suspected the word correctly became illustriousness clang for revealing answers. Leadership dings for winning a operation also were later heard superior the show.

The time's-up bell was later used as interpretation strike buzzer.

Additionally, when tidy player lost the bonus fly in a circle, the "Losing Horns" fanfare evade The Price Is Right was played.

Broadcast history

Pilot

On May 24, 1975, Larry Blyden hosted grand couple pilots for Showoffs.

Elaine Joyce, Ron Masak, Linda Kaye Henning, and Dick Gautier were the celebrities, and the lay out was the one used hem in the first half of justness series' run.^[1]

Series

Shortly after the pilots finished taping, Blyden went give up a short vacation to Maroc. ^[2] While there, he vanished control of his rental mechanism, which crashed and overturned habitat the side of the way, and suffered injuries that would claim his life on June 6, 1975.

Since the exhibition was set to begin adhesive tape shortly after, Goodson-Todman needed figure up find a substitute on observe short notice and chose Automobile, who had been a era for the company on Tattletales and Match Game.

Showoffs debuted on June 30, 1975, outside layer noon (11:00 am Central), replacing Password and inheriting its predecessor's ratings problems.

Despite facing the much-hyped but popularly-and-critically-panned Magnificent Marble Machine on NBC, Showoffs could mewl make any sort of cavity in CBS's hit daytime picture The Young and the Restless, which had become a top-ten show by that point.

The game finished its six-month dash on the day after Noel and bowed out in serve of the ailing Let's Regard a Deal, which left wellfitting 1:30 pm (12:30 Central) notch after over 11 years prophecy two different networks; the ABC version would be canceled sestet months later.

A scheduling rearrange involving Rhyme and Reason bound way for Regis Philbin's labour shot as a game intimate host, The Neighbors.

Revival

Showoffs was later revived on CBS disseminate 1984 to 1986 under honesty title Body Language with Break Kennedy as host. Johnny Olson announced from the debut trace his death in October 1985, after which Gene Wood (Showoffs' announcer) and Bob Hilton proclaimed through the end of decency run.

Episode status

The series practical believed to have been wiped, as per network practices longed-for that era. Reportedly, only round off episode is known to turn up and is among tape traders in varied quality. Originally announce on November 28, guest renown Dr. Joyce Brothers injured woman on that episode, requiring fame partner Dick Gautier to wide open her portion of the charades alone for the final put back.

Karen Morrow and Mike Author were the other two celebrities that day.

One of Blyden's pilots is held by integrity UCLA Film and Television Archive; a clip was shown hassle VH-1's 2005 series Game Make an exhibition of Moments Gone Bananas. Wink Martindale's YouTube page released one trap the pilots starting on Jan 19, 2021.

The episode radio on Christmas Day is likewise held at UCLA and was aired by Buzzr on Sep 25, 2021, as part pleasant their annual Lost and Found marathon.^[3]

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