I'm Telling!
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I'm Telling! was an American television game show, which ran from September 12, 1987 to September 10, 1988 on NBC and was hosted by Laurie Faso with Dean Goss announcing. It was essentially a children's version of The Newlywed Game with contestants, instead, being pre-teen siblings. The show was produced by Saban Entertainment and DiC Entertainment.
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[edit] Gameplay
[edit] Front game
[edit] Round 1
Three teams competed, each consisting of a brother and sister. The front game was played in two rounds. In Round 1, the brothers were, using special effects and a video edit, "teleported" to the "Isolation Zone" (or "Iso. Zone" for short) (i.e., taken off stage to a soundproof room). One of three pun-styled categories was chosen at random by hitting a plunger, and Faso read a question loosely based on the chosen category. This was done three times, with each sister choosing one category.
After each of the questions were played and the sister's answers recorded, the brothers were brought back and asked the same questions. If the brother's response matched with his sister's, the team won points (25 for the first question, 50 points for the second and 75 points for the third). If the responses disagreed, no points were awarded, and the siblings began arguing and Faso would take sides, use one's words against the other, etc.
[edit] Round 2
In Round 2, the sisters went offstage while the brothers answered their three questions, now worth 50, 75 and 150 points. The sisters then returned and tried to match their brothers.
The team in the lead after two rounds won a $1,000 savings bond and advanced to the "Pick-A-Prize Arcade" for a chance to win bonus prizes. If the leading team amassed a score that was mathematically impossible for their opponents to catch up to or beat with the remaining questions, the round and the game automatically ended.
A tie-breaking question was used if two or all three teams tied after the second round (e.g., "How many apples were in the basket?"). This only occured twice (once on the first Sister's Day); there was never a three-way tie.
The best possible score would be 425 points, which was accomplished three times (two of those times on both Brother's Day episodes).
[edit] Pick-A-Prize Arcade
At the end of the game, the set was rotated 180 degrees to reveal the Pick-A-Prize Arcade. Before the round was played, the team was shown the 20 prizes available in the arcade. Both the boy and the girl on the team were asked before the show to list 6 prizes they thought their sibling would most like to have. The brother's prizes sat on yellow pedestals while the sister's prizes sat on pink pedestals.
After the home audience was shown what prizes the brother chose for his sister, the girl was turned loose in the arcade and hit a plunger next to each of the six prizes on the pink platforms she would like to have. If the sibling agreed, the plunger lit up, a siren sounded, and the prize was won. If the sibling didn't agree, a buzzer sounded and the player moved on to another prize. After she was finished, the home audience was shown what prizes she chose for her brother, and he hit his six plungers.
If the boy and the girl amassed a total of 10 matches between them (out of 12 total guesses), the pair won all 20 prizes. If they got less than 10 matches, they only won the prizes that were matched.
[edit] Special shows
While most shows featured brother-sister teams, others featured sibling teams consisting of younger and older pairs of all brothers and all sisters. Youthful stars of NBC's prime-time shows also played with their real-life siblings for charity on two episodes. There was also one episode where all the teams were twins.
[edit] Notes
- Reruns were seen on The Family Channel during the 1989-1990 season and again from 1994 to 1996.
- The way the Pick-a-Prize Arcade was structured allowed each player to win at least two prizes (four prizes per team).
