Test Pattern (TV series)

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Test Pattern was a game show on the Canadian television channel MuchMusic in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It featured Canadian musicians who were prominent at the time. Dan Gallagher hosted the program and it was produced and directed by Sidney M. Cohen.

The show was a point-based contest in which the grand prize was a small appliance such as a toaster.

There was a wide variety of contests featured on the program, chosen in random fashion by spinning a large floor-mounted wheel. A contestant would be strapped on to the wheel and their head would end up pointing to the next contest.

The contests included Pablo's Hands, in which Pablo would emerge with his hands dripping in some foul substance. Contestants would be blindfolded and have to identify the offensive slime by smell, touch and taste.

Another contest involved The Hairy Back Brothers, a pair of hirsute men.