Hot Potato

1984

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Released: 23 January 1984 Ended
Producted By: National Broadcasting Company
Country: United States of America
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Hot Potato was a television game show broadcast on NBC in the United States from January 23 to June 29, 1984. Bill Cullen was the show's host and Charlie O'Donnell was the announcer. The series was produced by Barry & Enright Productions, its only post-scandal series produced by NBC under the Barry & Enright logo. It was also the last network game produced by the company, the last Barry-Enright game before Jack Barry's death and the last network game show hosted by Bill Cullen.

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CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!
Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
S.R. Dipaling Back in the dark ages of those Go-getter 1980s,Game shows were mighty populous on network television. The Barry-Enright production team,comfortably re-established in syndication with shows like "Tic Tac Dough" and "The Joker's Wild" decided to try their luck in territory owned more by the likes of Goodson-Todman and Reg Grundy with this half-hour show where teams of three contestants--at first,it was differing occupations,later it was merely single contestants flanked by two B-list celebs--to try to either solve a list question(much like ones presented on the much,much,much more successful "FAmily Feud")survey of the top seven answers or knock out each opposing team's players with wrong answers. They played a best of three game,with the winner of two rounds going on to play a 50/50 bonus question for cash prize amounting in $5,000 increments(e.g. base prize is five grand,with the bonus raised by that amount if the winner either fails to complete the round or takes the smaller amount and in case of their successful defense of their title). The show's less-than-scintillating pacing would prove to be less-than-inspiring to both audiences and the network (in this instance,NBC) and the show was canceled in six months,less than a month before a much more ambitious network effort,"The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour" would also be clicked by the same network. To me,this was a harmless,even sometimes interesting half-hour game show,whose value was greatly added by the legendary Bill Cullen as its host. I have no idea how this show could be viewed now,but maybe if we'rte lucky,GSN will dust this off some vault floor and replay it,assuming they haven't already.