[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Nov 11 2003, 08:20 AM\']
On the short-lived Musical Chairs ... (Does anyone besides me and Curt Alliaume even remember this show?)
Oh, yes! I remember it, though not particularly fondly. I preferred my games more serious than Chairs.
I remember it well. I used to watch it every day after school, and was disappointed when it was cancelled on Halloween 1975. Adam Wade appeared on several talk shows back then being touted as the first black game show host.
I like the fact that the contestants had to be one of the first to ring in to answer a question, it led to some funny responses. Contestants had to choose between A, B and C. I remember one episode where one of the choices for C was "Tony and Orlando". That drew big laughs. The only thing I can't remember is exactly how the bonus game worked. I think this was a good show - too bad only one episode is around. Unfortunatly the bonus isn't played on that episode.[/quote]
There were three different bonuses. Here is my best recollection of them:
1) One of the guest singers sings the first lines of ten different songs. I think the contestant got $100 for each song whose next line he could provide, doubling to $2,000 if he got all ten. (There was a time limit, which I don't remember, but it was probably 60 seconds.)
2) No bonus, but the winnings doubled
3) The contestant was given ten lines of a song and had (probably) 60 seconds to put them in order. If I recall the workings correctly, he had to keep trying to get the first line till he got it, then the second,
etc. If the payout wasn't identical to the same one, it was similar. (That is, whatever you got for all ten lines was doubled.)
(Posted by Neumms)[T]he removal of the losing contestants, while the only reason to watch, didn't happen frequently enough or with enough velocity to really entertain.
If you watched it at the beginning and thought it took too long to remove someone, the producers may have agreed with you. Late in the show's run, they changed it from
50x3, 50x2, 50x1
75x3, 75x2, 75x1
100x3 and eliminate
100x2 and eliminate
100x1 and eliminate
to (I think)
50x3, 75x3, 100x3 and eliminate
50x2, 75x2, 100x2 and eliminate
50x1, 75x1, 100x1 and eliminate, so you got to see an eliminition every few minutes.
The first time I ever saw Dionne Warwicke* or the Spinners was on
Musical Chairs.
* This was during the brief time in her life when, on advice of either a psychic or an astrologer, she spelled her name with an "e" at the end.