Thanks also for the additional tidbits concerning Nicholson-Muir games and the couples/poker references. I have a home copy of N-M's Definition, a long-running Canadian show. I think I have a tape of it coming from another collector. The cover, however, shows, what looks like a man-woman (husband-wife?) team playing against a team of two young women. Did N-M use married couples and family pairs on that show as well? I hope to heaven buried somewhere in my closet is a tape with a Nicholson-Muir show I've never heard anyone else talk about. I was watching an early local cable channel that picked up programs from various sources, and they ran a program called The Shopping Game. Art James was the host, and it was one of the earliest shop-at-home tie-in games I had ever seen. A few times during the game, Art would read questions (true/false?) to the four contestants worth $100 or 100 points each - perhaps four questions in a round. Only the players who chose the right answer won the money, and the amount each player had was kept secret from the other players. Then Art would show and describe some kind of prize - a nice watch, artwork, an appliance. After the description and the invitation for viewers to call a toll-free number to buy the item for themselves, the players then would bid on the item, just like the original Price Is Right. High bid would win the item - and the thing is, like poker, you could bid more money than you had and win with a bluff if nobody challenged you. Art never revealed the amount of money any player had, so you could win a couple of prizes by bluffing. A player could challenge an opponent's bid - and the player in the wrong would be out of that round. The memory is a bit fuzzy as to the end - if whether it was the player with the highest value in prizes won, or whether it was who had the most in total cash/points and prizes at the end won. I called N-M and talked to the secretary about the game, and she was delighted someone watched it. I don't remember seeing any reference to the show in any book. Anyone else ever see it? Probably early 80s.
