[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Dec 18 2004, 11:37 PM\']Ah, Travis, you're talking about one of my favorite shows ever.
Boy, did it get bounced around like a pinball in many cities because of time period changes. WCMH-TV in Columbus debuted it at 7pm and moved it to 2am in January 1991. WJW-TV in Cleveland gave it the ol' switcheroo multiple times until it finally died at 5am.
The dollar values of the questions were lowered in late November or early December 1990 with the elimination of the Ultimate Challenge progressive bonus some weeks later. A couple of months after that, the $10000 final Ultimate Challenge question was eliminated. Whoever won The Final Challenge returned for the next show with no bonuses available.
Great thing about this show besides the hosting of Dick Clark {
get well soon!!!}, the announcing of Don Morrow, the kick-ass theme music and a dynamite current events questioning base: Win or lose, you kept the money you made.
And, oh yes, I hear the warm-up guy was pretty good, too. Randolph East or something like that.
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I thought they went back to the UC progressive bonus after they ditched the $10K version?