I like watching "Double Dare" as it was such a beautiful game show to watch. I especially like the beautiful set alongside the isolation booths that the contestants sit in when they compete against each other & I liked when the curtains close. I especially like the beautiful theme song which was used for the 1978 NBC game show "Card Sharks" a year after CBS cancelled it. I especially like when the contestants go against the spoilers in the bonus round & when they (the spoilers) guessed wrong on things, a buzzer sound effect would make. I even got the words "No Answer" from this show when I heard a spoiler say it when they were unable to make the right guess for the answer of a question. This show was also very underrated & I'm glad that I watched reruns of it on Buzzr back when I was a teenager.
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The perfect storm of game show failure
LCShackley15 June 2020
I was a game show junkie, beginning in grade school in the 1960s and continuing through the 70s and 80s. I've even been ON two game shows. But somehow I missed this show, which apparently lasted only a few weeks. Alex Trebek does his level best to make sense of the mess, but every aspect of the show is poorly conceived and/or executed.
The graphics and set design are ugly. The contestants are in soundproof booths - but the lighting designers couldn't figure out how to light the inside of the booth properly. Everyone has ghoulish shadows. The game play itself, with its dares and double-dares, is clunky and time-consuming. The electronic music score, and sound effects, are grating. (Supposedly the music was resurrected for another game a few years later, since clearly nobody would remember it.) The funniest bit of all is the bonus round. It's not worth your time to describe the whole process, but the player is pitted against three "PhDs" (we're never told exactly who they are or what their areas of expertise might be) who try to guess the answer from a series of clues selected by the contestant. The three guys are the dumpiest, most stereotypical "academics" they could find, and like the contestants, they are poorly lit in their little glass booths.
If you're a game show junkie, you need to watch one episode to see what can happen when a production crew makes all the wrong decisions.
The graphics and set design are ugly. The contestants are in soundproof booths - but the lighting designers couldn't figure out how to light the inside of the booth properly. Everyone has ghoulish shadows. The game play itself, with its dares and double-dares, is clunky and time-consuming. The electronic music score, and sound effects, are grating. (Supposedly the music was resurrected for another game a few years later, since clearly nobody would remember it.) The funniest bit of all is the bonus round. It's not worth your time to describe the whole process, but the player is pitted against three "PhDs" (we're never told exactly who they are or what their areas of expertise might be) who try to guess the answer from a series of clues selected by the contestant. The three guys are the dumpiest, most stereotypical "academics" they could find, and like the contestants, they are poorly lit in their little glass booths.
If you're a game show junkie, you need to watch one episode to see what can happen when a production crew makes all the wrong decisions.
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