Double Talk (Part 1 of 4) 

Happy 94th Birthday to Mr. Johnny Gilbert God Bless You

It was a reboot of the 1977 game Shoot for the Stars. The difference between Shoot for the Stars and Double Talk is the first one where both teams alternate turns playing for cash in the regular game as they had 24 boxes with different cash value and 4 boxes has a star hidden to risk any or all of their cash with a bankroll starting at $100 and Double Talk is both teams plays each two rounds to score points.

I was actually on this Game Show with Clifton Davis and Ilene Graff--they were both very kind and gracious people. Henry Polic was a total crack up. I had a ball and won a $1000 and some really good prizes. Nothing huge but I'm glad I did it.

RIP Henry Polic II, one of the greatest character actors ever!

I was on this show back in the day and beat the 5 day champion. What memories.

They need to bring this back as a kid's game show! Haha

Henry Polic II just sadly passed away at the young age of 68. RIP Henry. :(

Yes, I concur. You also can't help but wonder if they were trying to be like Pyramid in many ways.

@markofly76 Henry actually spent several years in the 1990's voicing Scarecrow on "Batman: The Animated Series"

I love Henry polic II

The host also played Dracula on the one season run of "The Monster Squad" on NBC.

He was just so-so as a host, though he was very friendly. And I don't blame Bob Stewart Productions for giving him a shot at hosting this show, since Bill Cullen was no longer available.

Yep, and during the 1985-86 season, Mr. Belvedere acted as the gatekeeper between "Diff'rent Strokes" (which during its 8th and final season at the time, defected over from NBC to ABC) and Webster.

Double Talk was short lived.

i saw this show.

Didn't Henry Polic II host a pilot for a revival of Eye Guess called Eye Q?

Yep, b/c this was one of the 1st episodes to employ the "stop from further scoring" rule as well as lowering the number of puzzles to play for the Jackpot Puzzle from 4 to 3.

Could someone post the finale?

Johnny Gilbert announced this, too?

The set looks similar to Pyramid (1980's).

Ironically both Henry Polic II's and Howard Morton's sitcoms in "Webster" and "Gimme a Break!" aired back-to-back weekdays in my local area in Chicago from 2006-fall 2008.

Here's a Double Talk of my own: Your position has been terminated is Double Talk for You're Fired!

This is one show I'd love to see GSN pull out of the mothballs.

I'm surprised they didn't allow the winning team the chance to get three puzzles to try to win the $1K jackpot in the maingame.

whoops, I meant to say that this was one of the 1st episodes to change the rules from allowing the opoosing team to "stop from further scoring and ending the round" to just "stealing 5 points and forfeiting a team the chance at the Jackpot Puzzle" rule.

With the exception of Christine Tudor from the ABC soap opera Loving, all the celebrities on Double Talk have been guests on the '80s version of Pyramid. And I don't think that some of the soap stars who appeared on the Battle of the ABC Soaps weeks (which was the forerunner to the Battle of the CBS Soaps on the $25,000 Pyramid) appeared on Pyramid before that either.

Shoot for the Stars was better, because the gameplay was faster and smoother, plus Geoff Edwards was a better host. Double Talk is quite dull.

Bob Hilton announced the premiere episode that Thewhammy83 put up at his RU-vid page the other day(taped off GSN)

Too easy.....ROAD HOG!

yep, he sure did.

double talk

Bozo?!

This game show sucked! Whatever happened to the no-name host?

i never liked this show.