[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Sep 13 2003, 10:44 PM\']
The Miami PBS station combined with British and Australian TV for a show called "Top of the World" in 1982.
Nifty "2001" style opening, as well, with dramatic electronic music and floating planets behind satellite dishes.
I also recall the opening also featuring exterior shots of the studios the show originated in -- WPBT ch.2 in Miami, the Australian ABC studios in Sydney, and of course, Thames Television (where the main show originated; hence, the Thames "skyline" logo at the start and end).
They produced one boring dry in the eighties that I can't remember the name
This was probably the one -- the rules are that in the first round, each contestant answers 12 questions worth one point each, each containing 4 questions from the US, Britain and Australia. Round two was 2 minutes of questions based on the subject of the contestant's choice, worth 2 points apiece. Round 3 was questions in world knowledge, worth 3 points if right or -3 points if wrong. The top winner from each country returns later on for their tournament of champions, where the top winner wins a 1924 Rolls Royce.
The host was Eamonn Andrews, who was a famed radio and TV presenter in Ireland and Britain (but an unknown in the US and Australia); he died in 1987. This wasn't the first time he participated in an intercontinental Tv series -- there was also "The Dick Cavett / Eamonn Andrews Satellite Specials", which was co-produced in the 1970s by (W)WOR and Thames. [/quote]
Eammon Andrews was also host of the British Version of What's My Line and guested on the American version as a panelist several times and substituted for John Charles Daly at least once so he is not entirely unknown in the US.
Tim Lones
