| "EVERY MEMBER OF THE STUDIO AUDIENCE HAS WRITTEN DOWN THE LAST FOUR DIGITS OF THEIR PHONE NUMBER. IF YOU WANT TO SHARE IN THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, WRITE DOWN YOURS, BECAUSE EVERY DAY, SOMEONE AT HOME WINS ON..." YOUR NUMBER'S UP A Sande Stewart Production air dates: 9/23-12/20/85 on NBC daytime host: Nipsey Russell announcers: Gene Wood, John Harlan HOW TO PLAY: Three on-stage contestants were each given one point for starters. In front of the contestants' podiums was an electronic wheel with numbers 0-9, blank spaces, and a "car" symbol. After the wheel stopped, a blank space would always stop in front of one of the players, with a digit or "car space stopping in front of each of the other two players. That player was shown two first halves of two phrases, each with an acronym to be filled in. The "blank" player selected one of the two first halves and Nipsey read the rest of the selected phrase. The first player to buzz in and fill in the acronym correctly scored one point. An incorrect answer lost one point. If neither opponent guessed correctly, the player who selected the riddle won $50. Each time a player solved a riddle and had a digit in front of them on the wheel, that number was put on a board. Any studio audience member whose last 4 digits of their phone number matched any numbers on the board would come up on stage and predict which contestant would be the first to score 6 points. A correct prediction would win that audience member a trip. Incidentally, if one of the contestant's pointers landed on the "car" symbol, (s)he would guess which number was hidden under a question mark on the car's license plate. A correct guess won that player the car. An incorrect guess eliminated that number and the next player to go for the car picked from one of the remaining digits. The first player to score 6 points played the bonus round. The winner would draw a postcard sent in by a home viewer. The player then had one minute to reveal the last four digits of that home viewer's phone #. The contestant selected a digit 0-9 from a board which resembled a touch-tone phone keypad. An acronym was shown and a clue was read. If the contestant was correct and that digit was in the phone number, that digit was revealed as many times it appeared in the home viewer's #. Revealing all 4 digits within 60 seconds split $5,000 between the contestant and home viewer. OTHER TIDBITS: Nipsey Russell was better known as the "Poet Laureate of TV" and even recited a funny poem on virtually every game on which he appeared. Nipsey died from stomach cancer in October 2005 at age 82. The show's hostess, Lee Menning, landed her first game show duties as the card dealer on Las Vegas Gambit. In '83, she replaced Sally Julian as Jim Perry's co-host on $ale of the Century and was replaced the following year by Summer Bartholomew. Creator/producer Sande Stewart is indeed the son of game show producer Bob Stewart. Back to my game show joint or my homepage. |