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Despite its low budget, this was a fun show...lots of suspense and excitement, great hosting/announcing by Pierre and Nick, the mini-games were enjoyable and it had some cool sound effects (the duck call when a penalty square was hit, the "Change Places" warble, etc). Wish there was more out there, but am glad that about three dozen episodes still exist!
I remember those mini dash questions and how easy they were, even when I was only 12 years old at the time! $50 was a lot of money to me back then! One of the easiest questions I ever heard on a game show was this one: 2 or 3. How many sides does a triangle have? I thought, wow, those are *really* hard, LOL
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Indeed it does. Looks like it ran on CTV from 1978 to 1981. Also, looking at a documentary about Canadian game shows when they talked about this show, it mentioned a version of this show that aired on a TV network in Poland for a couple of years in the late 90s.
@@pbatommyand with the Goodson-Todman library being handled by Fremantle I think it would be a good idea they negotiate with Sidney Cohen to get the rights for the USA to do the show here.
@@christophercotton9048 Thanks for explaining I don;t think we got a chance to see this show in the US ,though we did get Beat the Clock which was tapped in Montreal for about 4 or 5 years .
People who lived in a few states by the border were able to pick up the signal of the CTV station that was closest to them at the time, so some Americans did see it.
@@christophercotton9048 This show was revived in a later year, but nowhere in North America. In Poland, they produced a version of this show under the title "Duety do Mety". It was like this, except it had a bigger budget in terms of both the set and prizes. It aired from 1998 to 2000.
More likely it would've been done at ABC Television Center in Hollywood. Goodson-Todman would've done it stateside. Nick Hollenrache announced for Goodson-Todman in the past.
Well, in the first ten minutes he made sexist jokes, heterosexist assumptions, condescended when wrong answers were given, and got the contestants' names wrong as he swept them off stage. So... yeah, you're right, he's still better than Alex Trebek.
