The Reel to Reel Picture Show
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The Reel-to-Reel Picture Show (also known as Reel-to-Reel) is a game show that aired on PAX from August 31 to October 2, 1998. Peter Marshall
was the host and Bill Armstrong
announced. It was the network's first game show, debuting the day the network launched.
The show was based on a Canadian board game, and the show was developed as a marketing tool to help sell it. Before the bonus round, Marshall showed the game to the home audience and gave a toll-free number to order it from.
Some of the questions were special "Take Two" questions. If the team got the first question right, they were then asked a second question related to the first for double the point value. If they were wrong, they lost the value of the first question.
The round ended with each team getting three questions worth 300 points apiece, with the third question being a true/false question about the opposing team's celebrity. After this, the team in the lead got a small prize.
Round 2 was called the "Director's Chair". Six categories were given, and the trailing team selected one. They were then asked six questions in that category (increasing in worth from 100 to 200, 400, 800, 1,000, and 2,000 points). The process was repeated with the second team. The team in the lead after this won the game, received a bonus prize, and advanced to the bonus round.
Peter Marshall (game show host)
Peter Marshall is an American television and radio personality, singer, and actor.He was the original host of The Hollywood Squares, from 1966 to 1981. He has almost fifty television, movie, and Broadway credits...
was the host and Bill Armstrong
Bill Armstrong (announcer)
Bill Armstrong is an American television producer and announcer whose work is in the field of game shows. Armstrong was the producer of The Hollywood Squares for several years, and worked with Squares host Peter Marshall in their own production company.Armstrong also co-produced and announced on...
announced. It was the network's first game show, debuting the day the network launched.
The show was based on a Canadian board game, and the show was developed as a marketing tool to help sell it. Before the bonus round, Marshall showed the game to the home audience and gave a toll-free number to order it from.
Main Game
Two teams, consisting of one civilian and one celebrity, competed. The civilian on the first team pushed a button, which randomly selected one of six categories and a point value (either 100, 250, or 500 depending on difficulty). Marshall would ask them a question in that category; getting it right won the points, while getting it wrong meant nothing happened. The second team repeated the process.Some of the questions were special "Take Two" questions. If the team got the first question right, they were then asked a second question related to the first for double the point value. If they were wrong, they lost the value of the first question.
The round ended with each team getting three questions worth 300 points apiece, with the third question being a true/false question about the opposing team's celebrity. After this, the team in the lead got a small prize.
Round 2 was called the "Director's Chair". Six categories were given, and the trailing team selected one. They were then asked six questions in that category (increasing in worth from 100 to 200, 400, 800, 1,000, and 2,000 points). The process was repeated with the second team. The team in the lead after this won the game, received a bonus prize, and advanced to the bonus round.