Your Number's Up
| Your Number's Up | |
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| Genre | Game show |
| Created by | Sande Stewart |
| Presented by |
Nipsey Russell with Lee Menning |
| Narrated by |
Gene Wood John Harlan Johnny Haymer (substitute) Johnny Gilbert (substitute) |
| Theme music composer | Bob Cobert |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 65 |
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| Producer(s) | Sande Stewart |
| Running time | approx. 26 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Sande Stewart Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 23 – December 20, 1985 |
Your Number's Up is a game show that aired on NBC from September 23 to December 20, 1985. The show was hosted by Nipsey Russell with Lee Menning as co-host. Announcing duties were handled by Gene Wood for the first month and John Harlan for the rest of the run, with Johnny Haymer and Johnny Gilbert as substitutes.
This show was the first series produced by Sande Stewart, son of game show producer Bob Stewart. Your Number's Up was put up against the elder Stewart's The $25,000 Pyramid on CBS at 10:00 AM Eastern. Most of the staff from Bob Stewart Productions also worked in the production of this series.
Three on-stage contestants, two new challengers and one returning champion, were each given one point at the outset of the game, indicated by diamonds on the front of their podiums. Encircling the contestants' podiums was an electronic wheel with digits 0–9, blank spaces, and a car symbol. The digits and symbols were spaced so that when the wheel stopped, two contestants would have a digit or car symbol in front of them while the third had a blank. Contestants spun the wheel by pulling a lever. After each spin, the contestant whose space was blank was shown the first halves of two riddle-type phrases, each with an acronym to be filled in. An example of these would be as follows:
"When T.O. speaks..."
"As predicted, the I.O.M...."
After the contestant selected one of the two phrases, the host read its second half to the other two contestants (example: after selecting the first phrase above, the host read "...all of the House listens." Answer: Tip O'Neill). The first contestant to buzz-in and fill in the acronym correctly scored one point and spun the wheel for the next turn; incorrect guesses deducted one point, but scores could never go below zero. If neither opponent guessed correctly, the contestant who selected the riddle won $50 and spun the wheel, but did not score any points. The first contestant to score six points won the game and $500.
If the car symbol appeared under a contestant's pointer, that contestant attempted to guess which digit was hidden under a question mark on a car's license plate. The first three weeks of the series used a new plate for each attempt. Later, a single plate was used, with previous incorrect digits automatically eliminated from each subsequent attempt. Guessing correctly won the contestant the car regardless of the game's outcome.
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