| "ONE HALF-HOUR FROM NOW, YOU'LL KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT (two topics for the day) TO WIN $10,000 IN CASH IF YOU WERE A CONTESTANT ON..." |
| A Jay Wolpert Production in association with Metromedia Video Enterprises air dates: 1/3-4/1/83 on NBC daytime host: Peter Tomarken announcer: Rod Roddy HOW TO PLAY: Three new players would compete for the first part of the show. After the players viewed a 3-minute clip about one particular subject, the players would answer questions about that particular subject. After a question is read, only one player would be allowed to buzz in and answer it. If (s)he answered incorrectly, (s)he would be disqualified from the next question. The first two players to each answer 5 questions correctly would face the returning champion during the Championship Round. The first player to advance earned $300 and the next player to advance would be paid $200. For the Championship Round, the returning champion would start with 7 "hit men", the $300 winner from the first round was given 4 "hit men", and the $200 winner was given 3 "hit men". After a 3-minute clip about another subject was shown, the $300 winner decided who would face the champion first. A question would be posed to the champion and a challenger. If one player buzzed in with a correct answer, the other player lost a "hit man". Buzzing in with a wrong answer, however, would cost that player a "hit man". If the champ lost a "hit man", another question was asked to both players. If the challenger lost one, the other challenger played against the champ until losing a "hit man". The champ won by knocking out all seven of the challengers' "hit men". If either challenger was successful at knocking out the champ's last "hit man", that player won the game. Whoever won the game became the champion and played Triple Crown. In the Triple Crown round, the champ was given 60 seconds to fill 3 out of 8 columns with green "money men". The player faced away from the board which would display in random order eight columns with varying numbers of spaces. One column would contain one space, two each contained two spaces, two columns with 3 spaces each, 2 with 4 spaces each, and one column contained 5 spaces. The number of spaces in each column represented the number of questions that must be answered correctly in order to capture that column. The player selected a column and began answering questions about both subjects from the first two rounds. An incorrect answer tossed that column out of play and required the player to select another column. A correct answer filled one of the spaces in the selected coumn with a "money man". If the player filled one column full of money men, (s)he earned $1,000. If two were filled, (s)he won $2,000. If the champ managed to fill three columns with "money men", (s)he won $10,000! OTHER TIDBITS: A mere five months after Hit Man went to its reward, Peter Tomarken and Rod Roddy both found greater success with Press Your Luck which managed to air for 3 years on CBS. The Hit Man finale became known for Rod Roddy's contestant plug, "If you would like to be a contestant on Hit Man, forget it!" Future game show announcer Randy West became the champion on that last show and won $1,000 playing Triple Crown. Back to my game show joint or my homepage. |
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